A fresh start.

Assalamu'alaikum.

Alhamdulillah, the new officers for Newsletter Club have been elected a month ago. I am the Junior President and I will now announce that we will be re-activating this blog again for a fresh start. Along with all the officers and members, we will try our best in keeping all the PTEK's students updated with the current events, and not to forget, all arts, stories, literature, you name it, from all my respective friends in PTEK :) As for the copies of PULSE, we cannot promise yet but Insya Allah, we will start working on our very first edition, as the juniors.

Do not hesitate to send us your short stories, poems, arts or anything to us to pulse.of.katok@gmail.com or editors.pulse@live.com . Everyone is welcomed to send any original works.

Last but not least, thank you for your support, especially for those who bought the previous PULSE editions or buy our tickets for the movie days. Thank you very much.

With love,
The Chief Editor

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Debate 3.

The Ultimate Victory!

by Michael Fung.

All eyes were on the chairperson that day. It was May the 4^th. “It’s hard to tell who’s going to win,” said Arafat who was sitting beside me, “I think that Sayyidina Othman put up a good fight.” However, I don’t think so. As the debate came to a close, everyone wanted to see the champions of Brunei’s 13^th Interschool English Debate Competition. Our team was triumphant this time while SMSO made a great finish. To the judges, they were going to make a hard decision.

Then the winner was announced… PTEK WON! If you were present at that moment, you would see how stimulated and wild the supporters went at the time. It was practically legendary. This was only the 1^st year in the new school of Katok and we have achieved something already. Every single one of us was thrilled. Huge smiles were on the debate’s team faces.

Before that happened, the team did a good preparation, the topic was “This house believes that health coverage should be the individual’s responsibility” with our team as the opposition – again! Health coverage is basically like health insurance. The Team thought it was an easier topic and did good preparations for it. They dedicated their free – sometimes not so free – time, researching and practicing. They were really well prepared for it.

After the 2^nd semi-finals – the one after ours – we were quite surprised that MD was beaten by SMSO because MD was clearly a better team than the latter – according to sources. Their team – SMSO – consisted of Musa, Helmi and Hayati whom I would say, quite an interesting bunch of people.

We came to RTB like the other day, this time; there were spectators from quite a number of other schools including MD. Ours came a little late. There were clearly more people than before. Even the ministry of health came to witness! I assumed that they came to get some ideas from the younger generation.

The permanent secretary of MOH did his speech and then the debate began. It was the most interesting debate I’ve ever seen before. Musa was the 1^st speaker but then stayed quiet for the rest of the debate. Helmi was LOUD and Hayati likes making hand gestures, movements and that entire sort when she talks. She was REALLY hilarious resulting to the sound of giggling coming from the audience. But no matter how terrible they did, Helmi made an outstanding finish, “You don’t go into the surgery ward so you can cut yourself up and suddenly find that there’s actually nothing wrong with you.”

Our team was great, Yusuf made a wonderful start, Julius did great and Jarrod made history. It was no wonder he had also won the “Best Speaker Award”. What these guys did was superb magic. They turned the tide on top of the opposing team.

Later that day, SMSA, the host school did a presentation. Personally, I don’t find it very entertaining – no offense.

To sum it all up, I think that the whole debate club and the English department are the real winners and deserve as much respect as the debating team. Without them, they team wouldn’t be what they are now. They have given their fullest support. That huge trophy is probably resting neatly somewhere in the school’s cabinet.

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Debate 2.

Another Step to Victory!

by Michael Fung.

Yes! They did it! After the prelims, the knockers debate team were going to be against PTE Meragang’s during the semi-finals. Their topic was going to be “This house believes that the media abuses its power” with our team as the opposition! At first, the team hated it because they felt as if it was against them but then, Mr Bobby came up with a brilliant plan.

After hours of dedication and practice, the team along with its supporters left school early in the morning of april the 28^th to RTB in Bandar. Our school was actually pretty psyched up about the whole thing. When we arrived, we sat in the Dewan raya where the debate was actually held. The supporters sat in an audience like manner on one side of the hall. The other side was meant for the supporters of PTE Meragang who were apparently later than we are. Once they arrived, we were told that the debate was going to start in a few moments time. We waited anticipately.

This was going to be filmed by RTB too. You could also see some of the supporters from both sides doing some filming of their own.

The teams from both sides were sited. Our team consisted of six people with Jarrod Sim BE 8, Julius Hong BE 7 and Yusof Fadli AE 24 as the main team and Azeemah AE 3, Izzati BE 7 and Arafat BE 19 as the reserves.

Our opponents consisted of three people who were Jordin Maxim, Haziqah and Angelie Chu. They were quite formidable, really.

During the debate, Jordin, 1^st speaker of the proposition gave her speech. For an opening, she did quite well. Yusuf then went on giving his team’s opinion about the topic. At first, the opponents were quite fierce and aggressive but eventually showed obvious weaknesses such as inability to argue with a logical reason. They became nervous. Our team had simply obliterated them. Finally, the debate ended with Jarrod gave an incredible rebuttal of all their points.

The results came out soon and we won! It was also quite evident that PTEM was quite unhappy with the results – their team didn’t quite cheer as enthusiastic as we are.

We were then all told that PTEK was going to partake in the finals the following week. The team stayed for the photoshoot. I took the courage to talk with Jarrod and the rest of the team after the debate. After that, the team had to stay to watch the next debate that afternoon. In a way, we were already ready for the finals…

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Lite Edition!

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Happy New Year!

click to enlarge the picture. :)

I know I'm 21 days late but it's okay, right? :] Enjoy your 2010! Pulse's resolution is to bring the Newsletter Club to the next level. It's time to spice things up!

And for those who wish to send in their piece of article or art, we would love to post them up! :) just send your work to our e-mail address. editors.pulse@live.com

Best regards,
Zirah Aldani.
Editor-in-Chief.

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Debate Part 1

GOING THROUGH THE PRELIMINARY ROUND.

Katok Sixth Form Centre’s Debate team consists of:
The main team:
*Jarrod Sim BE 8,
*Julius Hong BE 7, and
*Yusof Fadli AE 24
The reserves:
*Azeemah AE 3,
*Izzati BE 7, and
*Arafat BE 19

On the 6th of April, the debate team left school ground at 9 a.m along with the teachers in-charge to go to Sayyidina Ali Secondary School in Kuala Belait. After going in for registration, the team stayed there until six in the evening going through a mock debate with each and every other schools’ debate team.

The debate teams were put into two groups;
group 1 consisted of debate team from PTE Meragang, SMSA B, Sekolah Menengah Arab Laki-Laki and Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Othman whereas PTEK, Maktab Duli, Maktab Sains and SMSA A presented group
2. Our debate team’s 1st debate was against Maktab Sains. PTEK as the opposition and won that round. PTEK, again as the opposition met Maktab Duli’s debate team in their

2nd round debating the topic “This house believes that reality Tv shows should be banned.” but alas PTEK lost.
Their 3rd round of debate was against SMSA A with the topic “This house believes that gossip is acceptable.”. PTEK held the role of opposition in this round too and won but apparently the debate between PTEK and SMSA A was put to a hold and continued the next day, which was on the 7th of April.

On that day, the team left school during break time and finished off their debate against SMSA A and waited for the announcement of which schools were going to the semi-finals -from Group 1, PTE Meragang and Sekolah Sayyidina Othman and from group 2 were Maktab Duli And PTEK.

To sum up the event that day, each debate team was given the knowledge of what topic they were going to debate on during the semi-final, who were they against and the venue of where the semi-final would be held. PTEK was going to go up against PTE Meragang and were given the role to oppose to the topic “This house believes that media abuses its power.”

Edited By:
Michael Y. Ming Fung

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Art Sketch

Done by:
Halimatul Hanisah bte. Hj Nasir
BE FIVE

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Always and Forever

Crying; as I was,
Heed the melody of your life,
Having the thought of you,
Felt like standing with a leg; as I was.

As the melody sways,
Between my heart and my mind,
I swerved afar to the golden skies,
And the thought of you came once again.

The golden skies I’m trying to reach,
The serenity I’m looking in,
This moment, one goal,
Yet, still in my mind to stay me alive.

Time has not given a single space,
An exploration of the nights and the skies could say,
Ending up nothing less like a rainbow,
But a thunder rain storms.

With the stars above,
Counting endlessly; faithfully,
For a better rainbowed space,
To end literal solitaries.

For I am here,
To never turn on your back,
For you are,
Always and forever here in my heart.

Written By:
Muizzah Khirul
AE TEN

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don't go away

Please don’t go away,
I couldn’t live another day,
Without you by my side,
To lock your arms around me tight.

Please don’t go,
I couldn’t bear the sight of being alone,
Without you to fly high,
To go beyond through the sky.

Please don’t go away,
I will be there always,
And forever I will,
To carry you to the highest hill.

Written by:
Muizzah Khirul
AE TEN

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Hope

Hope
When all about you is black with gloom,
And all you feel is pending doom,
When your bones are racked with grim despair,
When every breath is a gasp for air,
Keep on going, though you need to grope,
For around the bend is a ray of hope.

A ray of hope is perhaps all that’s left,
As your will to live has been bereft,
You’ve lost it all, it’s just no use!
You can end it all, you need no excuse,
But throw awaythat piece of rope,
And give yourself a chance of hope.

Just give yourself another day,
Brushing aside what your thoughts may say,
This is your life and you can make a new start,
By ignoring the brain- just follow the heart,
Taking baby steps in order to cope,
And minute by minute you’ll build on your hope.

Build on your hope, one day at a time,
Though the road be steep and hard to climb,
The hurt of the past- they should be dead,
The fears of the future are all in your head,
Just live in the present and refuse to mope,
Your life will sparkle for you’re living in hope.

Written by:
Noor Rafidah binti Tengah
BE NINE

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