Saturday, January 21, 2006
Well I went to see some sort of International Debate Championships, hosted at Serangoon Junior College. It was Semi-finals. Pakistan against New Zealand & the other one was Singapore against Australia. New Zealand & Australia are going to meet each other in the Finals now, which is hosted at Anglo-Chinese Junior College.
The debate was indeed interesting, although I had little knowledge on the topic of content. The motion of the debate was something like "This house would refuse to trade arms with non-democratic countries". Honestly when I first saw this motion written on the board, my mind went blank. I was like WTH!?? The debate had alreday started when we reached SRJC and as i tried to keep up with the speakers, I slowly started comprehending bits and pieces of the big picture. The most amazing thing was, this debate was kind-of impromptu in the sense that each debate team had only one hour beforehand to prepare for the debate. So in other words, they weren't aware of the motion! So it was actually all based on their general knowledge. And Oh Man! With the masterpiece they came up with, it's indeed admirable. Well anyway they represent their countries, so i bet they are professional debaters! So yea, its kind of expected of them to be good!! The one we saw was Pakistan against New Zealand.
The Pakis were GOOD man! Real good! And the most amazing thing was, they actually managed to reach out to us. They even managed to make me understand the gist of what it was all about! Their tone was perfect! They were expressive. And yea, they were the Proposition team. Their main argument was around these lines: Democratic countries have shown themselves to have a tendency to make the right decisions. And that democracy is a yardstick to judge whether a country should be allowed to trade arms with.
The main argument of the New Zealand team was....well, quite the opposite of the paki team. That democracy was NOT the only criteria. But as far as what we heard, we don't remember them listing the other criteria specifically. Well honestly some of them just didn't manage to capture my attention for more than 3 mins straight at most, so my thoughts kept drifting off mid-way. Yea maybe that's why when we all thought that the Pakis were clear-cut winners, they actually lost. =( am seriously depressed!Anyway regardless of the verdict, they did an awesome job. No denying that. And they even praised India! *grins* No seriously they did! Heeeheeheee =D
I actually wanted to keep this post short,really! But ahh look at the outcome. I always end up writing loads! But i will get going now. Have to deal with GP drama. And how can i forget my lovely set of tutorials anyway!??
Homework--- here i come :)
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