End of Term Event

Assalamu'alaikum everyone!

Today's post is about our most recent BruYork event, which falls on the last day of the term; our Brunei Social Night! Woot! For a small and humble society, it is a bit funny for us to do a social night in Yourspace. HAHAHAHAHA! But at least some of the furniture there helped with the games. HOHO!

So the social night started out with eating dinner brought by our lovely members (thanks guys! *kissus kissus*). Everyone was hungry and since a lot of people were running late, we decided to eat before playing the intro game.

Brunei Social Night just so happened to take place on our treasurer's birthday. So their housemates decided to surprise him with cake for the second time that day. HAHAHAHAHA! Happy Birthday Jason, hope you enjoyed the event as well :)

After that, we carried on as scheduled. The first game was designed by the committee members specifically so that the rest of the members can get to know each other better. So the game was a round of pass the bomb quiz. The piece of newspaper was passed around in circles and if the music stops,  the person holding the newspaper must answer the question or do the task in the newspaper wrap. Twas really fun.

Nora holding the newspaper wrap; the bomb to be passed around

Our VP got the second task

The relaxed face of someone who's out of the (slightly) nerve-wrecking game. HAHAHAHAHA!

Nora freaking out every time she receives the bomb. Lol

The first game ended with the last woman standing being Shereen! Although she too had to answer a question, so not much of a victory but then again the whole point of the game was so that evryone can get to know each other better, so everyone must answer a question :D So the second game is a classic game of musical chairs. It must've been quite a while since any one of us have played that game. LOL. Hopefully this will bring out the nostalgic feeling of attending birthday parties when we were kids. HAHAHAHA! 

Nora and Raihan being paranoid. HAHAHAHA!

The first struggle for chairs!

And Hanan was eliminated during the first round after battling for the seat with Nora. lol

After a few rounds, the birthday boy was eliminated as well. I love how everyone in this picture points to Jason. XD

So our MC's laptop was running out of battery so we used Hanan's phone to play the musci for musical chair and because we don't have a speaker, we had to make a makeshift speaker by placing the phone inside the plastic cup. To ensure that everyone can hear the music, she was placed in the middle of the chairs. HAHAHAHAHA!

We're down to top three, where Nora and Matin battle it out for the chair. Nora survived though

And, as with the many battles Nora have fought so far as shown in many pictures above, she was crowned as the  winner. Congrats Nora!

The third game is a fun game of smarties chopsticks relay race! The most anticipated game among the committee members. Lol. As the name suggests, it's a relay race where players need to move a smartie (is that the right singular version for smarties? HAHAHAHA!) to the next plate, for the next player to move. The smartie will be passed until it reaches its destination (goal). After the smartie is in the goalie, the starter can move another smartie from the bank of smarties and proceed towards thee goalie. At the end of the...was it 5 minutes or was it 10 minutes...the team with the most number of smarties in their goalie wins!

The smarties bank

The two teams. Lol Matin and Jason

Syafi, having a hard time using chopsticks use both hands to hold them

Now Jason's team is in the lead while Syafi struggles with the task

Finally, Syafi was able to move the smartie :D

In the end, Matin's team was able to catch up with Jason's team and managed to win by a difference of 1...I think...HAHAHAHA! But Matin's team for sure won. Lol. It wasn't until having to write up this post that it occurred to me that we forgot to take a group photo like we normally do! At least everyone's faces are in posts, well except for the photographer of course =.= Lol. So that was how we spent our last night of the autumn term. The committee hope that everyone had a great time even though they were just simple games. ^_^ 

Weekend at London

Assalamu'alaikum,

This time, two committee representatives were sent to London to attend the Inaugural Leaders' Conference! The vice-president and the secretary attended the event.

The conference was held at the senate library in UCL. The purpose of the conference was for society leaders to raise current issues and concerns that students may have about future employment or anything related to employment. The purpose of the conference was not, however, to propose solutions to problems then and there. Solutions to the issues raised generally require time for an effect to be seen. The Brunei High Commissioner and other representatives from different government sectors were present during that time.

Of course it was mentally exhausting to attend this conference, what with most of the society leaders arrived in london at midnight. Thankfully breakfast and lunch were served, so that makes up for the mental exhaustion :D hahahahaha!

These were taken before the event started, while we were served light food...for most us, that would be breakfast. HAHAHAHA!

Greeting the Brunei High Commissioner as he arrived. Look at our vice-president. The only one with a songkok. Biasa, BruYork kaliah

Stating the event with a prayer in hopes of getting Allah's blessing. Our representatives' seats! 'Twas awesome. Much sakai

This is what the representatives look like, 30 minutes in the conference. HAHAHAHAHAHA! That epic bored face doe XD

This is what the conference room looks like from our representative's view. The panelists on the left side of the picture. It looks very formal, but it was quite informal; we can speak up whenever we want  (basically) and we can speak in English, Malay, or just normal Brunei slang.

These were taken after the conference ended. It was nice to see familiar faces :)

Well, that's how the Saturday worked out for our representatives. Whether it was fun or not depends on whether or not there were a lot of exciting people or just people you used to know. Sort of became a catch-up session for some them I guess :) 

Sampai sini saja,

XOXO

The day of the tournament

Assalamu'alaikum!

On 22nd November, BrueniYork participated in the mini Dodgeball and Frisbee competition hosted by Brusheff. The girls participated in the Dodgeball tournament whereas the boys formed a union with the Bruhull and participated in the Frisbee tournament. The girls in particular had fun (not really sure about the boys, lol). Although both teams didn't win or even got top three, the point was to have fun since we didn't practise at all. XD So to all the BruYork members who participated, I hope that the money was worth it for you guys. Hopefully we'll participate again next year, Aamin!

So the secretary forgot to bring her camera again (this girl ah... =.=). Thankfully one of two suporters, Zati took pictures of the team in action. Some pictures were also taken by our increasingly reliable camerawoman, the president!

The tournament started off with Frisbee tournament, with HullYork Team vs BruNotts! It must be very nerve-wrecking to play the first match! >.< Sadly, the difference in frisbee skills (if that's what you'd call it) was so huge but the guys' performance did improve with each game. Proud of you guys nonetheless!

These two pictures were taken before the girls played their game. Well before their game, earlier on the day. HAHAHAHAHA! The girls also didn't win but I have to admit that we did a good job in some games :) Go Team! Sentiasa semangat!

At the train station, waiting for the train going back to York, after having dinner at Efes (sp?)

Group photo!

Because we could afford a better background than the previous group photo, we decided to take another one. HAHAHAHAHA!

For most of us, it has been a while since we exercised, so the next three days, we had muscle aches and sores. It was very painful. LOL! Some of us even experience muscle pain right after the games, that's the effect of not exercising for two years. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A lesson to be learnt. Lol.