Olympic Torch Relay, Malaysia

Recently, the Olympic Torch came to Kuala Lumpur as part of the Torch Run for the Beijing Olympic Games 2008. The Kuala Lumpur leg of the relay started after a short ceremony at Dataran Merdeka and 80 runners were involved in the whole 13.7 km run which ended at the Kuala Lumpur City Centre.

Fortunately, the Olympic Council of Malaysia HQ is just a few doors away from MBS. A few of our students managed to witness this historic event. Among them was sixth former Lim Wen Chean.

In her words:

I was completely clueless about what was happening today because I haven't been reading the newspapers for the past few days. How can I not know about the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay?!


Kent did invite me to join him yesterday to witness the relay after school but I couldn't because I had a meeting to attend and also I had to do my Reading Programme. =/ And I didn't bother asking much because I thought it was a movie at first. LOL! :D He said this, "I, Chen Ken Kent, invite you, Lim Wen Chean to watch the olympic relay". I guess I misinterpreted. x)


So, today I went to school and they were saying things like,
"Die lah! You cannot go home today, all the roads are block!"
"You parked at OCM some more! There confirm block!"
"Even if you wanna go home, you'll be stuck in traffic everywhere!"

Oh bummer. =/ I got so worried because I thought they would block the road at OCM cause that's where I park my car. But, anyhow, I didn't rush home right after school because Kent told me the relay started already and the roads would've probably been blocked by then. So, what's the point of rushing right? Besides, I have other things to do.


After completing RP with Janice, a lot of people who went to see the relay were telling us about how cool it was and stuff. This relay is like a once-in-a-lifetime-thingy and we missed it! Pfft. Janice didn't drive, so I walked to OCM by myself. I saw so many people waiting down the hill looking up at Stadium Merdeka. I was told earlier that the runners passed our school already and I was wondering why did people still bother waiting. When I was about to enter OCM, I noticed Kent, Hsien, Robson, Chee Kar and Lee Meng waiting too! They told me that the torch is about to be passed to another person soon. So, I joined them as well. Haha. :D We waited for about 15 minutes I think and I saw Lee Chong Wei (national badminton player) in one of the buses! :D


Hsien's camera died, so I ran to my car to grab my handphone which was the only device I could use to snap pictures eventhough its camera is 2.0 megapixel only. =/ Hsien snapped a couple of pictures for me. :)

We also took a picture with the torch! :D The man was kind enough to let us take a picture with the torch and we were like a bunch of jakuns. Haha. It was so abrupt especially when I didn't expect to witness all this. xD

See the torch?! :D

Hsien so cute. Haha.

I look quite crappy cause the Uncle was rushing.

The excited Kent! :D

In the next 50 years to come, I can tell my grandchildren about this! :D :D

Wen Chean

Excelsior is #1 in the country!

The MBS School Magazine, Excelsior, won the First Prize in the National School Magazine Competition 2007. Along the way, we beat SMK Puteri Cyberjaya (2nd) and Victoria Institution (3rd)

The Editor, Lau Shao Nian and School Senior Assistant, Pn. Phoon Yoke Meng receiving the prize

You can read more about it at Shao Nian's blog.

Two Methodites are top in the nation for STPM 2007

Once again, MBS has shone in the STPM examinations 2007. Two of our students are top in the nation. This is the third consecutive year that MBS has students among the top in the nation for STPM.

Lai Choon Keat and Mon Chee Cheong were among the top students in the country for Science and Arts streams respectively. Both of them achieved 5A and a perfect 4.00 CGPA.

The detailed analysis also show that the overall CGPA is 2.73, the best since 2003. All subjects show improvement except Economics and Mathematics S.

MBSSKL’s SPM results are also outstanding. Though MBSSKL did not achieve a 100% due to the failure of two students in Bahasa Malaysia, the overall grade was the best in history – 3.42. Also for the first time in history, a student scored 13As. Another four students scored 12As and another seventeen 11As. The results could have been better if not for two subjects which many students, unexpectedly, did not get As – Bahasa Malaysia and English Literature. A thorough post mortem will be conducted for these two subjects. All other subjects scored marked improvement. An outstanding result that need to be highlighted is that an astonishing 78% of the students scored As for English and out of this 74% are A1s.

The PMR results were also commendable with a pass of 96.95% the third highest in the history of MBSSKL. About a quarter of the students scored 7As and above.

The detailed analysis of the results can be downloaded from the official site, http://mbsskl.edu.my/

Mon Chee Cheong, Mr. Wong Chee Kheon and Lai Choon Keat at the national prize-giving ceremony

MBSSKL Science stream student, Jeremy Tong Wee Chieh, who obtained 4As and 1A-, said it is important to study smart, " It's important to spend time de-stressing," he said, adding that he plays computer games to do so.

Congratulations to all the STPM High Achievers 2007!

M.B.S. , M.B.S., Play Up! Play Up! Play Up!

*Special thanks to Ms. Yeoh Su Yu for the scans of the newspaper articles.

Apologies

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There have been some difficulties which we are still in the process of sorting out.

Please bear with us for the time being.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused.

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