Welcome to my T. Uh so first of all I
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would like to clarify I'm no world
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champion. I'm just Asian champion and
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EFL category. So just for the
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clarification purpose. Okay. So today I
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will be talking about my journey and
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what I have gone through and what I have
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seen in the last 10 years. I've been
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waiting for almost 10 years now and like
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uh the ups and downs of it and the
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journey to overcome the language barrier
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because most of us here like talk in
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Bangla is our primary language then you
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have to go for and English in order to
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win. So I'll talk us through all the
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possible things. So it all started back
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in 2016 when I was studying in the
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classroom. I was very nerdy back then
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and then suddenly some people came into
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the class and asked if I want to join
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debate club or not. Uh I was like okay
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let's give it a shot. Uh I don't know
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what it is. I don't know how it feels
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but let's try to go there and see what
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happens. Uh I joined the debate club. I
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went to the first uh round of the
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tournament the infra tournament that
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happens in between there. And when I sit
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there uh the first speech that I was
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supposed to give, I got very nervous
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because understandably I forgot the
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motion. Uh I don't know how it happened
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but I forgot the motion. So I got stood
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up there for a minute then I just got
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the flow and gave somehow speech. But
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what it made me feel like is that okay I
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can talk I can talk fine and probably I
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can convince people that what I'm trying
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to say. That made me interested into
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continue debating. So I basically
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started debating in national level
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competitions from 2017. Uh in 2017 uh I
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did my first national competition in my
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school finance. I got knocked out from
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the second round. Uh very unfortunate
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but I think it was fair enough.
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Afterwards moving forward uh then I move
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forward and I made it to the
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quarterfinal in my second tournament
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which is quite a big deal back at the
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time and everyone was so happy. Oh my
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god, class 7 kids have made it to the
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quarterfinals. And that gave me quite a
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lot of motivation. Oh we are good
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probably. So I can probably make it
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happen and I can probably win some
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tournaments for my club. But the problem
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out there is that often often times good
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things takes time and we believe that
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whatever we'll do will happen
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immediately. But whenever
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uh whenever you want to do anything
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there are good things which happens and
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that takes a reverse time. From 2017 to
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2019 I lost quarterfinal semi-final of
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13 competitions uh no 13 and I didn't
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make it to the final of one single
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competition and we were devastated as a
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team that oh whatever we're doing we are
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not being able to make it to the final
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but then in 2019 December I remember I
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did a competition in Samsan school that
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is like the in the other part of back in
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Dra And we won the competition and that
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was quite a big deal for us like my
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teammate was crying because
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understandably we at least made it
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happen. After when we won the tournament
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that gave us the flow that we needed
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that gave us the trigger that we needed
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and then we almost won 10 trophies for
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the club in 13 40 tournaments in between
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next. What it does is that it says if
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you often times good things happens but
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it requires some time and eventually in
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those situations we move forward and we
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did well but the thing is that the
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problem about debtors are that they're
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often times so much hungry when they win
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national competition they want to do
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well in English competition then they
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want to do well in international
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competition so just as like other
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debtors I wanted to do well in English
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debate competition as
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But as I said I am from a very average
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Bangla medium school and my school is
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topnotch though most common school
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though but we all understand Bangla
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there so there is no English debating
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understandably there's no debating
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circuit there so what we had to do uh
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like in order to shift to English
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debating was really tough for me because
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when I first give my English speech I
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could only speak for one minute and I
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don't know what I said uh because all I
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said didn't make any sense in English?
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Uh I'm quite sure. Then what I had to do
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is that I had to go through a lot to
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make sure that I can actually talk in
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English. Uh for everyone's purpose, I
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also got into an English coaching center
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where they teach you how to talk in
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English. Obviously, that didn't help
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because uh we all know that how to speak
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in English work doesn't help you. But
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understandably, I tried a lot. I made my
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dream a passion with me and a routine of
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mine. I saw movies that are in English.
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I saw series that are in English. I read
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English articles. I read English
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newspapers. All of the things just to be
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sure that I can speak in English. And
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then somewhat after some time in a year
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or two, I could actually uh like speak 7
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minutes or 8 minutes in English. That
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was like quite a fine deal for me back
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then. But after when I made it to the
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like the level that where I can take it
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still like speak in English then my
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purpose was to go forward and do well in
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debates as well implement that in
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debates and eventually do something that
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can make sure that I can like I'm doing
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well for the country and uh just like
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every debater in Bangladesh it was my
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dream to represent team Bangladesh in
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world school diving championship uh but
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the problem is that often times how hard
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you work it doesn't work out for you and
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I think it's fine because often time
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hard work doesn't guarantee success
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right I worked quite hard for making it
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to team Bangladesh but the in my first
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attempt I made it to the national camp
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and then I got knocked out because
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understandably my SC exam was going on
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and I priorized my over getting
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Bangladesh in the second attempt I
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didn't even make it to the national camp
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uh this was a true that happened in 2021
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since I degree was I my team and I did
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perform really bad or like whatever
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happened we don't know but we didn't
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even make it to the uh I didn't even
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make it to the national and it was quite
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a heartbreak for me because I used to be
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a good debtor back then well like fine
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debator who can actually made it through
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the top 15 of the country or top 20 of
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the country like the top 25 debtors were
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taken out of the tournament and I was
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not in the top 25 list And that made
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like that broke my heart quite badly and
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I was like okay probably it is not
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happening for me probably I'm not good
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enough probably it's not working out for
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me. Uh but the problem often time that
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is around us is that we always focus on
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the negative things. So don't focus on
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the positive things. Uh if I look back
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into my college debating journey I won
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five national tournaments back to back
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and which is quite a big deal for that
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time. But the problem is that I didn't
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care because all of my passion was
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related to getting into Bangladesh. And
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when I didn't make it to uh it was like
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quite heartbreaking for me. Then I
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decided okay problem is not happening.
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Let's take a pause. Let's restart. I
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took a pause from debating. I didn't
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debate for almost a year or half because
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I was preparing for my admission. I had
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other priorities in my life and I
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thought that probably focusing on those
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things makes more sense. When I got into
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university, I got into beauty. Uh where
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all the like luckily there are a lot of
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good debtors in beauty. So we have a
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good bunch of debtors out there in when
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I got into beauty. Uh luckily again
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everything started to pick up. I started
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winning competition. We won multiple IV
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tournaments consecutively. We won, we
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won B, we won. All the tournaments
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before and I was like okay probably
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speaking again for me and probably I'm
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going fine. then the tournament uh uh
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and obviously when you're debator and we
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international debtor we know that when
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the majors are coming and when the like
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main tournaments of the Asia main
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tournaments of the world are coming and
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when we saw the date of like UAC we were
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like okay let's give it a shot and let's
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try what we can do in the international
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level as well before UADC for the last
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two months before UADC we prepped so
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hard we did like almost 40 spurs we did
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take so many sessions we did all the
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possible drills that we can do and we
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put all of our efforts in the UAC and we
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are like okay let's give it a try I'm
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going abroad for the first time in my
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life probably if I don't make it to the
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final or probably if I don't win the
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competition that's fine I can just go
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abroad and have fun but uh sometimes the
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stars align sometimes your luck works
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for you right and in the competition we
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somehow managed to become the champion
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of Asia that's quite a big deal because
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understandably For me, I was able to
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hold my flag and hold and represent my
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country in the biggest stage of Asia and
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always it was my dream to actually
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represent my nation at the biggest stage
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of world. I couldn't make it in the WC
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but I made it in the QC. The thing that
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I want to say is that uh it's just the
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beginning. I won but I want to win more
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and I think the hunger actually keeps
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you much more awake. Uh dream often time
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hurts but this is what makes us human.
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This is what makes us live our life
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right. So I probably want to win most
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probably I'll be able to probably I
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don't want to be able to but the moment
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in time that you pause your hunger is
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the moment you actually stop working for
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it and you stop like achieving it. One
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thing I would like to say last uh as I'm
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a big Nova Chocab fan as I follow
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tennis. Uh what can you say after a game
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uh in a postmatch commentary?
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