School Sports...

I think this is our Kejohanan Olahraga Ke-26. This was yesterday afternoon. Yup! We hold our sports in the crazy hot afternoon sun. My duty was to sit under the sun and make sure my team members catch the runners' positions as they finish the race. It wasn't something we enjoyed doing... the cos it was so 'burningly' hot. And after break, our big umbrella (in the pic below) at our station went missing. Hmmph!!!

The students, 'dolled-up' for the march past. Most of them didn't seem to mind the heat though. I guess I must've been like that also at that age.

One of the most popular uniformed bodies in school. The Kadet Bomba.. aspiring firemen! Yup! It's the uniform... colourful and striking... so every Wednesday which is our Co-Curricular Day, these students will wear their uniforms proudly for the whole day in school... Never mind that these uniforms are made of rather heavy material. 8)

The sports houses 'dolled-up' also. Every year we'll have a competition to see which house is the most nicely dolled-up one. Don't know which house won but the Blue House on the right had a kiddy pool with water in other colours except blue as one of its deco. Maybe to contrast the parched surrounding... LOL! BTW, the Sports Houses are still named after Proton Cars... Perdana, Satria, Wira, Tiara... so outdated and 'chapalan'. Cos Proton cars... so 'lau-ya'. Friend just got a new Perdana, first week not over, air con gone kaput. Take for repairs... tarak pakai still. And somehow, these days, most of the houses are decorated in the 'pelamin' style... again I fail to see the connection with sports. They are too frilly-frilly for my liking. Ha! Ha!

Prize giving ceremony... Notice the skirting that has been put up around the shelter... it has this bunga raya motif... Apparently cost RM1K for those pieces of cloth! I dunno how the school can spend that kind of money... *shaking head*

The highlight of an otherwise ordinary Sports Day. Because the Air Force Flight Training School and Army Camp are nearby, we can sometimes count on them to provide some 'entertainment'. These soldiers are tough. That's ice block on fire... that fler in the picture 'karated' through it. And they banged their head on tiles... saw one guy with a badly cut hand, all bloodied rushing to the first-aid station after the 'show'. He seemed quite cool though it must have hurt quite badly. Soldiers are trained to tahan pain, I supposed.

This was taken half way through the events... guess which one is my house??? Bottom up! It's been like this for many years... last 2 places usually. *sighs*

Well, the sky was blue, the sun shining brightly on us... we got baked and grilled but in the end, the students who came seemed to enjoy themselves. Attendance in the afternoon was not that great really cos every house would prepare food for all their members.... and at the end of the day, these packets of food became an indicator of how poor or good the attendance was. And we had lots of leftovers!