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'elo lovahs! Alright, so i woke up at 6.30 on saturday for the HELP Law Olympiad 2012. Remember how i mentioned in one of my previous posts that I was scurrying to join any competition that existed? Yeah, this was one of those aforementioned competitions. Ok, so i woke up pretty early as I told my team members to arrive at my house at 7. Well, guess what? no one came on time. Not that i'm begrudging them or anything (they're awesome) but if they had informed me beforehand that they were going to be late, I would've woken up later. Anyway, we then made our journey to HELP accompanied by a big fat book of proverbs and quotes which later turned out to be quite useless. I barely even touched the book as I thought there's absolutely no chance for us to win so why bother? It's not being defeatist, it's a little something called realism. I mean, I read that the SECOND PLACED winners last year did months of preparation and yet failed to emerge champions. What about us? we treated it as if we were going for a vacation minus the last minute said flip through fat useless book. The only form of preparation that we did was scheme to act dumb so the other competitors would not be wary of us and then we would strike like a ninja. So, we arrived and we joked, laughed and fooled around till the point that one of the marshals actually came to our table and shushed us. I bet that no one, least of all ourselves, expected us to win anything. I'm not going to explain the challenges as you can read it on Esther's or Zhi hao's blog so it would be redundant for me to do so. Plus, I'm just plain lazy so sue me. After lunch-which was nasi lemak-the Law Department presented a mock trial to us in a moot court. I think it was more of a comedy show than a serious legal case but I suppose that providing humour was their original intent. Did it make me laugh? Yes. Did it inspire me to become a lawyer? No. I'd rather be a stripper than a lawyer. Not that I've the looks or the body for it but it's just a comparison. But I digress. Back to the competition, we thought that maybe we had an outside chance of placing 10th or 9th but when they reached the top 3 without announcing our team, we were pretty deflated. Great, we'll just be failures then. Serves us right for being indifferent to the whole thing. Then, when they announced us as the champion, we were completely taken by surprise. I've no idea how many profanities flew out of my mouth as we walked up. Then, it hit me. They must have made a mistake, they announced the wrong team. Commence humiliation. But as they took pictures of us with our crazy smiles and unruly hair, no one came to take back our medals. If they were though, I would have shot out of the building, gripping my medal tightly to my chest whilst shouting "It's mine, it's mine!". So, I guess it just proves that the impossible does happen. When I went home, my momma said that this victory should make up for not winning the essay competition. By the way, the guy who won the essay thing came for the Olympiad too. it's like a whole "I join all competitions" circuit. Freaky. Returning to my original point, although winning the essay comp would be more of a personal achievement, I'm gladder that I won this together with the bunch of crazies that I went with. Crap, this means my parents are going to force me to do law. NOOO!!!