Bright.Roving.Annoying.Teens

i sent in my self-description essay to The Star R.AGE around February this year to join the Star BRATs Young Journalist Workshop and i totally forgot about it until i got a notification email from The Star earlier in August. i was AWESTRUCK. i mean, i never thought i would get chosen for the BRATs workshop in Malacca by my not-so-good essay. i'm just super lucky, i guess. :D

i arrived in Malacca in the morning that day only to find there are 41 youths out there(not all of them, but still) who share the same aspiration as me: to become a journalist. awesome much? please proceed to the entire post.

as usual as any of the camps/workshop would have done, we started off with ice-breaking sessions conducted by 2 of the senior BRATs: Amy and Chien Teng. (Amy was my roomie, btw :D)
there's nothing better than playing lame games when it comes to ice-breaking, trust me.

we have Niki Cheong, Sharmila, Nasa, Melody and Jason facilitated us throughout the entire workshop. we all are pretty well fed throughout the 4 days. haha. SNACKS. loads and loads of them. name it and you have it.

assignments are given to us and 3 groups are formed among the 42 of us. we need to do photo-essays, articles, sound slides and video for the interviews we have done during the 4 days. i've met both the craziest 16 years-old during the workshop and had spent most of my time back to living as a 16-years old for the 4 days, so the other BRATs always find me going hyper or hysterical with the both of them. HAHA. people actually came to me and asked: "you guys knew each other before this?", "are you same school with them?", "what? you're in college and you're 18?".

you have no idea. *wink*

lame games session. 

the hypers. Leeynesh and Sue Een. before leaving, Leeynesh said: "i think the 3 of us will be BFF." AWWW. 

being forced by Sue Een to camwhore with her in the restroom. -.-

with Shamila and Nasa. 

ladies and gentlemen, i present you the Youthspire! :D we're awesome like that. 

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my workshop has officially over by 1.30pm and the rest of my family came to pick me up and spend the following night in Malacca as our family trip. we paid another visit to Jonker Street later that evening.

love birds. aren't they adorable? 

BBQ cockles.

oyster omelette. 

old-record selling stall. 

Wan Tan Mee for breakfast at Gajah Behrang. 

 

after swimming. 

there's much more to write about. so please stay tune for part 2. off to dinner now. byeeeee. :)