Friday, December 1

Didn't blog yesterday because i was extremely tired and in no mood to blog. Reason enough? Anyway i doubt any of you are a tad interested in what i will blog about - THIMUN conference. My life now revolves around bus 242, the mrt, bus 154, Hwa Chong Institution, bus 174 and home. Very sad larh, 2 days passed in the debating session and i have not spoken a single word during the conference. Ohwells.

YESTERDAY

Reached Hwa Chong late again because i overslept and the buses around here are all so freaking full at the time =x Then ntered GA 5 for debates session on resolutions. First was the resolution submitted by the delegate of pakistan for the Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission of in Timor Leste. We debated for about 3 and a half hours on this resolution, one amendment made. Resolution was passed.

Lunch was alright. Li rui never fails to amuse me with his giant appetite. He eats two servings of lunch everyday with desmond lim's lunch ticket. Haha, he is my greatest source of entertainment while i was in that very boring LT for debates session.

After lunch was the continued debate of the first resolution. Then a 10min recess and then proceeded on to the second resolution of the day. Submitted by the delegates of DR Congo and Lithuania on Strengthening the "Ten Stories the World Should Hear More About" project. debated until 5pm with 5 amendments made to the resolution. It passed as well. Debates session dismissed.

I kept complaining to bryan tan that i didn't want to miss training for this because i only sit in the General Assembly doing nothing. Guess i complained too much, he drew me aside for a private thought. You knw i really hate these kind of one-on-one talks teachers like to give. It was unacceptable to miss training for this larh. But whatever, i was forced to stay on.

Going home yesterday started raining very heavily. And my hp chose this time to battery flat. So i had to walk one big round to the public phone to call home and then walk one big round back to the bus stop and wait for my brother. I was ankle deep in the shit water larh, and i'm still in court shoes. Then got bad blisters man, burst somemore. Went back hoem then had to go back to jp to buy my long black sleeved blouse specially for the conference today because i didn't have any. Costed me 26 bucks. -.-

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TODAY

Finally i'm not late today. Went into GA 5 again for roll call. They always have this funny thing of saying 'Present and Voting' when their countries are being called. Interesting. But as a Non-Goverenmental Organisation (NGO) I am not allowed any rights of voting. -.- First resolution was submitted by the delegateof The Russian Federation on the topic of Financing of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti. Debated for only about 2 hours on this topic. 10 amendments made to the resolution. Resolution passed.

Went for lunch again. this time alon with lirui because committees had different time slots for lunch. He ate two servings of lunch again today -.- Made some random joke then went back shortly to GA 5.

Second resolution of the day. Submitted by the delegate of Cuba on the topic of Review of the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the UN. This generally has nothing whatsoever to do with IMF at all. But i wanted to raise a point of information because the chair of GA said anyone who did not raise any point of information will be announced. But because of lirui who told me the question was a little offensive, i did not raise it. Debated for about 2 hours again for this resolution. 2 amendments, resolution passed.

Third resolution of the day, submitted by the delegate of Iraq on the 'Ten Stories' project. 2 amendments, resolution passed. Our committee is like the only one which passed all the resolutions. Resolution to be debated in the planary session tmr will bwe the one submitted by DR Congo and Lithuania.

After the whole thing, left with 30min. The chair started to read out any funny notes the delegates had passed and had been confiscated by th Hwa Chong admin staff. Delegate from Chad, also someone from Hwa Chong, spammed about 6 or 7 rubbish notes alone. Haha. And then were some interesting superlatives like best dressed delegate, most spaced out delegate etc. sad case, i should be most spaced out. And the hardcore delegates of new Zealand, Lithuania topped the GA in raising 23 points of information/speeches. Totally freakish. Followed by that delegae from pakistan who is equally enthusiastic.

Okay, i've done my daily reflections -.- As if i could submit this to desmond lim. Ahh, tmr is the last day!

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