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Scrabble (n) : a board game in which players build up words from small
lettered squares or tiles. (concise oxford dictionary)
For me scrabble is one of interesting game that we can play together
with friends or family. My first experience in playing it was taught by my
grandfather who used to be a great teacher. At that time my cousins and I were
still in elementary school. We played in bahasa Indonesia and tried to make
simple words from those scramble letters. I was so confused at first because of
the rules and the scores. It was more complicated than playing monopoly, I
thought, because we must count every letter we arrange. Every letter has its own
score, but after more practices I did it. I was really happy when my Mom bought
me magnetic scrabble. Wohooo.. I love it! Unfortunately, now I couldn’t play it
anymore. It’s broken and the letters disappears somewhere else. Maybe, we can
buy again, Mom? Hehe
Sometimes I won, sometimes I lost. It’s normal, it’s just a game. To be
the winner, you should have strategy. We never know what scramble letters will
be caught by our hands. Sometimes we get more consonants, more vowels or maybe
more blank letters (Oh I love blank letters so much!) haha. Blank letters use
for alternative letter as you want. With limited letters we should get more
points, so we should know the scores on the board, whether our words pass ‘magic
square’ which counts (double, triple letter) scores or (double, triple word)
scores. Arrange your words wisely and beautifully! LOL
Got Z and Q which has the biggest point (10) each letter? It will be
your luck or maybe your disaster in the end of game. Why? Because if you can arrange
word with those letters, you will get high scores moreover if your word passes
the ‘magic square’, but if you can’t use it in your word till the game is over,
your score will cut with the accumulation of unused letter. It’s really dangerous.
:p
This hobby was not just a hobby when I participated in English scrabble
competition for Junior High School student. This competition was held by
Pioneer Conversation Club (PCC) of SMAN 1 Malang. Beside that, there are also
quiz contest and storytelling contest. My friends who are expert in English participated
in those contests. I was so happy together with them as a team from SMPN 1
Malang.
I still remembered the moment, at first round I against a student from
other school. Alhamdulillah I won that round. In that round there were three
judges, one as a counter, a timer and one who check the word in dictionary.
They are students of SMAN 1 Malang. They are so kind and smart. I wanted to be
like them. I said I want to go to this school after my graduation and they were
so happy. “I wished you can be our junior and you should join us in this extracurricular,
PCC,” said Mbak Fara, one of the judges. The other judges are guys, a handsome
tall guy with glasses, just like Harry Potter and I named him ‘mas Harry Potter’
and also a guy with Chinese look. Unfortunately I didn’t know their names. Those
two guys are also kind and funny. Since that time, I was the fans of mas harry
potter and I promised myself to struggle hard on my final exam so that I can be
the student of this school and join PCC and of course meet him again. LOL
The second day, I went to semifinal round. Oh my God.. I was so little
upset. I had to play with my classmate. I wished we can meet in final round to
get double trophy. Unfortunately, our chance to get the trophy is just for one
place, it will be me or him. In this moment, I fell into dilemma. We promised
to have fair play. Whoever the winner, both of us is the winner because we are
one team. I played my best. Do you know?
I got ‘Z’ at the beginning. I was so worried and tried to find the chance to
use it. And in the middle of game finally…. I got that chance. M-A-Z-E and
triple word score! Whohooo… I felt so happy and little guilty though. Hihihi. I
won that round and went to final round. Yippiiiee..
Shortly, I played with two students from other school; it seemed from favorite
private school. I didn’t know why the pressure was lower than before. Actually
they are smarter and in the end of game I got third place. Not bad! At least I
could bring the trophy and prize for my school. (It was my last winning in the
competition in school life =p)
Life sometimes is too hard to understand, and have you ever
heard the phrase of Paulo Coelho in Alchemist? “And, when you want something, all the
universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
4 months later, I officially accepted as new student of SMAN 1 Malang,
being part of Mitreka Satata big family and I did my promise to choose PCC as
my extracurricular activity. It was the prize for me. Actually my desire to
come in this school is because of language program of this school. Yes that
program is the best in my town (proud of it :p). I will choose language class
as my path in the future. And….of course It is also because my Mom is one of
the alumni of this school. Hehehe… and the last reason is, because of my mas
harry potter though I couldn’t meet him again in this school because he
graduated in the same year I entered. *sigh*
I wished I can meet him in the annual inauguration ceremony of PCC. The
alumni are invited on that occasion, but I never found him. Lately I knew that
he was not the PCC member, he just helped his friends as a committee. Hmmm..
But…friends, life always gives us more surprises than we expected. Who
knows if in my second year of joining PCC, I was being president of PCC (hey
that was my first experience become a chief of an organization) and also the committee
of the same competition as I participated before. So..you should be more
careful if you want something. You will never know what surprises that wait for
you in the future. I choose to dream and follow my path though I found it’s not
as smooth as we plan. Still, God knows the best.
Man proposes, God disposes.
(It has been long time no write in English and I felt so awkward. Hihihi.
After this I promised myself to write more regularly ^^v)
Malang, July 15th 2015