Piala Perdana Menteri (PPM) Begins Today in KT-Terengganu.

UPDATE 7 @ 26/5 (5PM):
Semi-Finals is over. It's anybody's guess.
Results will only Be announced during the Closing ceremony tomorrow.

Note: It was the same in 1987, officially we'd to wait for the Official announcement during the Closing ceremony in SMTSP. Unofficially, we knew we'd won...and in the process being the Most successful PPM team ever by winning the Basketball and English Debate Event whilst the BM Debate team made It to the QF.

UPDATE 6 @ 26/5 (12Noon):
Quarter-Finals Results - WON against Sekolah Alam Shah, Putrajaya.

The Semi-Finals, they'll Be up against SDAR-Seremban.


UPDATE 5 @ 25/5 (7PM):
In the afternoon octos Round against Sekolah Menengah Sains Seri Puteri(SESERI), the team WON.
Hence,  team qualifies for the Quarter- Finals tomorrow.

Waiting to debate in the Quarter-Finals tomorrow will Be SAS from Putrajaya.

UPDATE 4 @ 25/5 (lunch)
The motion for the morning Round is:-
" THW Implement Fat Tax."

As the opposition, the team WON against SEMASYUR.

UPDATE 3 @ 24/5:
The team received a Bye for the afternoon Rounds. All teams will received 1 Bye in the preliminary Rounds.

Team won the morning Debate.

UPDATE 2 @ 23/5 (Evening):
Debate ended after 6PM.
Again as the opposition, the team Won the 2nd Round afternoon Debate against a Kuching school.

Motion: " THBT Teachers Should not Engage Students via the Social Media ".

Eldest adopted the "sarcastic" debater approach for this Round.

UPDATE 1:
As the opposition, Won the 1st Round morning Debate.

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The National level Finals of the PPM begins Today in Kuala Terengganu.

Representatives from the respective zones have been chosen earlier in the zonals.
Competition for the Southern Zone was held in Melaka (Read March BlogPOST ).

As a comparison, in the 1980s there were NO zonals Competition with less than 40 residential schools/colleges in Malaysia.

PIALA PERDANA MENTERI - South Zone Finals @MOZAC, Melaka

UPDATE 2

UPDATE 1 @04/03:
In a team reshuffle, Eldest will now be the 3rd Speaker. Iman will be 1st Speaker whilst Marina will be 2nd Speaker. PPM will start on Thursday.
Yet to get my lodgings. Can't wait to go to Anjung Batu for the Ikan Bakar+++ Sorry Doc!
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Received a call from Eldest.

Finally, after lots of hardwork and breaking twice consecutively at 9th Swinburne in Kuching-SSIDC(Asian Style) & LKW IDC in Cyberjaya(British Parliamentarian Style) eldest was selected to represent the College in the Piala Perdana Menteri (PPM) - South Zone Finals. Tentatively, event will be held from Wednesday/Thursday to Sunday next week. Opportunity to Balik Kampung despite being in the midst of Season 4 TTP Shoot.

It seems nowadays, due to the number of residential schools - the PPM is divided into zones and only the best teams goes to the Finals proper.  In the 80s, there were no such zoning and I started going to the PPM for the first time in 1984 at SMSS...TKC, NS (1985)...SMS Kelantan (1986) and SMTSP, Perlis (1987).

After the chess debacle of not being in the college team despite being one of only 2 students from the college representing Seremban at the State Finals held in Rembau last year am hopeful her team qualifies as one of the Southern Zone representative for the National-level Prime Minister's Trophy(PPM). As a comparison, she's a year behind in representing the College team compared to me...as such the Kampung Player still got some bragging rights, WaQAQA!

Debate Team Selections for PPM

Whilst the whole nation were gripped with GE13, Amira took part in the selections for the PPM to be held during the upcoming May-June school holidays.

Results, will only be known next week.