Update

I will be sleepin' now. bye

btw i just got my new specs

Update

Actually i blogged in school today, but my post was deleted for no reason, probably of the internet connection - it suddenly went bonkers. In this post, i shall continue the class testimonial...

#6 -- Jerrold

He is part of the class CMC. As the class treasurer, he collects money. WHEEE!!. Quite responsible but i can't really judge him yet. I duno why also. Often hangs out with Cavin and Nel and Swee Kiat, if im not wrong. Cheerful all the time.

#7 -- Xuan Cheng

The Wu Shu guy. Skilled in both studies and martial arts, he wields the sacred dagger and strikes randomly. Ok, I duno whether he learn dagger or not. Getting along quite well with the shark recently, and from shark's blog I get to know that they are quite good friends. A nice person to talk to, especially if you don't talk crap (which i do all the time). Friendly and responsible too.

#8 -- Hong Nan

I must agree with shark that he has evolved into a walking encyclopedia... Randomly mutters some science facts of interesting stuff that he has encountered in the day. If you can initiate a conversation, you'll find him quite nice to talk to actually. Although being known as the science nerd in class, he is also friendly and takes responsible in his work. Known as the Science Rep.

#9 -- Kai Li

My IRS member. I find that he has improved in his speech. He improved a lot from last year, when sengwp asked us to introduce ourselfs for 3 min (omg i still remembered). Kiwi, as he is now commonly known, improved greatly and is more outspoken now. Well, he has evolved into a more confident person definitely. I guess about 1 and a half year of shaping really helps. Quite responsible in doing work too, from what I know during IRS sessions. One thing I noticed about him is that everytime school ends at 1.30pm he will rush back home o.O. I guess that's his preference.

#10 -- Dah Wei

Widely known as bigtail. Assiociated with a squirrel. He is cheerful and do quite well acadamically too. Very sociable and friendly, but much of a spammer nowadays. If im not wrong, he spammed me about twice on msn. Also, he's from my former school (Nanyang Primany School) which is nearby. Maybe that's why I know him quite well ever since start of school. He looks familiar at first, but I noticed that he's also from nanyang pri when i went back and looked at the P6 photos. zzz. A soccer pro also.

#11 -- Kah Hong

I visit his blog everyday. Some of my classmates have nicknames. Just like shark. chairshark. That's him. Quite a humourous and cheerful person, about the same as Jay's entertainment level. As our class chairman, i guess that he has many responsibility to play. Also the first classmate that I met when i came HCI. He is generally active in any class activities and enjoys blogging. Gets along well with people.

update

I have no inspiration to continue writing the class testimonial now, so I will blog about what happened today. I will continue another day.

Ok, I admit that this is rather late, but WELCOME BACK Bowie. Hmmm. never see him for quite a while, for about 1 year. And he's back! Looks about the same as I remembered him though, except that he grew a little taller.

In the morning there was Science. To be precise, Physics. Personally I find Mr. Tan's lessons a little boring. He always speaks in the same tone and there are no exciting parts in his lessons. Also, he never jokes, and looks just as serious as a ladybug. The concepts are quite easy to grasp too, well but so far we only studied the Brownian motion and the movement of particles in solids, liquids and gases, so im not encountering any difficulty yet. Though I have a sense of foreboding, but nvm.

After a period of Physics there was Mathematics. Im ok with maths =). We have covered the algebraic equations and the identities. They are interesting. The only setback during maths lessons is that I can't really see the board well. To be precise, the writings on the board. Some people's handwriting are tiny and so small that it looks like a mess of scribbles from where im seating. Guess I have to change my glasses soon. Today we have to go through the tedious "crossnomial" puzzle. It is a bit hard to understand at first though.

Recess I went down to the canteen and bought a plate of spagetti. (is this how we spell it?)

Anyway, during assembly, we have with us a distinguished guest, His Excellency, Pro. Duong. Well, he has a weird accent, probably as he is from Vietnam, but very knowledgable. I guess that Mr. Hon had went through a lot of trouble to bring a Vietnam professor to talk to us. His speech is a little lengthy, with a few pauses in between, but overall it went well. Being a GOH must be a tough job. Well, after the GOH left of refreshments in the library, we watched a drama by the Singapore Playhouse. The title was "am i in love". I find that the actors are well organised and they have put up a good play. The content is enriching and humourous at times.

Next was 2 periods of Chinese. I was looking forward to it actually. Mdm. Shieh went through the term 2 paper with us.


That's about all for today.

Class Rating

Hmm. I am going to rate the class in this post. To be precise, just 5 ppl. I can't stand typing for long.. =.=

#1 -- Andric Aw Wen Hao

Quite a nice person to get along with. Almost got into the exco for iCouncil with the pink shirt campaign. Always hanging out with the goat and sometimes shark. Overall he is good in his studies. One change I noticed is that I seldom see him goes online on MSN nowadays..

#2 -- Benjy

A very enthu person who is both rather short and small sized. Can get quite violent sometimes like the other day in class. Assiociated with a little rabbit. Get along quite well with him too :). Responsible and cheerful. When he goes mad he have a weird accent though.

#3 -- Bowie

Away in the USA, thus we dont hear much of him nowadays. However he came back and will be joining us in school when the school reopens after the June holidays. He will have to work extra hard to catch up with what we're taught in school I think, catching up with the ACE and everything. I hope he've enjoyed his stay in the states.

#4 -- Lester

Everyone calls him big sized but i dunno why. QUite a cheerful and responsible person. Did some projects with him last time. Well, he is efficient in getting work done and doing ACE, but the bad side is that he insist to do his own way and do not listen to others. Which is...erm. not so good. An accurate air rifle guy.

#5 -- Jay

A cheerful person. Ever heard of the curse of the Seetow family? If u nvr just ask Mr Kevin Cheng. I think he will be the first teacher to teach all 3 brothers of the Seetow family. Somehow Mr Cheng finds it horrific. o.O Not responsible sometimes, and likes to crack jokes in class. The entertainer in well, especially Malay classes. Good side: always tell jokes and cheer ppl up. Bad side: always tell jokes and becomes a little irrating.

Update

There's almost nothing to blog about in the holidays.

If you count badminton trainings, I have them 3 times a week (Mon, Wed Fri) same time same place.

If you count playing Maple Story, I play them.

If you count slacking at home, I slack quite a lot at home

If you count reading storybooks from the library, I read quite a lot. (Yesterday I went to the nearest library - Queenstown Library near my house and read the whole afternoon)

If you count staring into space, I stone quite a lot.

If you count doing homework, I don't do homework.

M0ral of the st0ry?????

- Holidays boring (i sort of look forward to school)
- Do homework.
- play maple.

To prepare for tomorrow's test, I have to ge bi.
That's all for now... Bye!

Update

I am sure that SLC was an enriching experience for all of us.

We made new friends ( i actually added everyone of them on MSN - except 1 whose msn address i coudn't read due to my horrible handwriting). We learned from each other. Well, in my group there is someone from China I learned loads from her =). Hmm, stuff like China is big o.O

The first day was orientation day. We had some talks in the morning and in the afternoon it was the amazing race. My group went to City Hall and I had lunch at a kopitiam. Actually ate chicken rice =). Then still hungry and bought an apple pie. After lunch, our group met up and the amazing race offically begun. The first clue was "the march in of the British". Answer was the city hall. We went up there and saw Terence with a hula hoop. Found out that we are supposed to put the hoop down without lifting our finger off. Our group took 10 minutes o.O
Overall the amazing race was tiring and my group did not complete all 15 stations, returning to Farrer Park with only 10 stations completed. Next was waterbombs. Already quite tired out so I only prepared 3 water bombs. When the game started, I threw the first water bomb up high and landed on some random grass patch. Ok, time for the second one. For the 2nd one I threw it and hit someone accidentally =S. Ouch. For teh 3rd I forgot what i did with it, probably using it to wet Terence.

The third day was a formal day. We are supposed to wear council uniform and I bought it last minute from the shop in Beauty World Center. The shop owner (a middle-aged man) told me that a lot of people came that night to buy the same thing - white long sleeve shirt and long pants. Erps. I came to school a little late unfortunately. In the afternoon it was the conglomerate meeting. It was reallly formal. some random quote... "All in favour of this, please say i. All not in favour of this, please say neh....". It started to get quite boring so someone sitting beside me (right) started to shock people with static electricity. I got shocked for duno how many times then another person sitting beside me (left) got it and....

Update

this post will cover 2 things
- EOTA
- Holidays

(Idea taken from Xuan Cheng a.k.a DarkDementor)

----EOTA----

EOTA was a success, though it was sometime back, my computer crashed because I deleted something from C: so Im using my sister's computer to blog now. Back to EOTA. Early in the morning (actually not very early) we left in a luxurious coach and headed towards the wonderful Kallang Water Sports Centre. The trip there took sometime time, and by the time we reached there, it is around 11am (If im not wrong of course). We had to wait for teh SJI people to clear off and finish with their prise giving session. Instead of just stoning around, we (sailor pnghy) managed to catch some games on taylor's mobile. Now it is time...

Excited as a brick, we queued up and realised that the boat can only take 20 people at the most. So Lester had to go to the other boat. Hmm.... Took our life jackets and the paddle. Then climbed in the boat. Then we're off!!!

Lalala. I must admit that my muscle ached so much within the first few minutes that I slacked a little =). Sat next to Taylor (he took the left side since he was a left hander). I remembered someone splashed water on everyone behind him, thought it was Jay. Well, we rowed on.

Row row row the boat. No, not down the stream. Its up (sigh). Halfway the instructors saw that we were generally scared that the boat was going to capsize that he decided to rock the boat. He assured us that the boat is not going to capsize and asked for someone to volunteer himself to test the lifejackets. lol. Jay volunteered (did he?).

Splash! Down Jay goes. The instuctors showed us how to assist someone to climb back into the boat. the method was qutie simple - just wait for him to hook his legs to the edge of the boat and then 2 people pull hard on the life jacket. In the end, we all jumped into the salty water. :S It was quite fun actually. Like a swimming pool, expect that it was much deeper and saltier. I floated around, waiting to be 'rescued' by someone on the boat. Ok, im quite heavy, but 2 people (i forgotten who) managed to pull me up.

There was a race between the 3 dragon boats and we won.

----Holidays----

The long awaited June holidays started badly. Found that I will be quite busy in the holidays, not enough time to do ACE, not enough time to study, not enough time to play, not enough time to slack, not enough time to go for EP3, not enough time to do almost anything....

On Friday I played pokemon crystal for about 6 hours till my computer went bonkers and crashed (unfortunately). So there was nothing else to do, just banging on the piano and going to sleep about 2 hours later. Saturday I woke up early and drummed on the piano, then ate lunch and went to my piano lesson, then bought some bread from Delifrance in NTUC in Coronation Plaza, then went to my grandmother's house. Sounds boring. I guess on Sunday i have to finish the zuo wen that I was supposed to hand in on Friday but didn't. Oh no...

Dreaded Assessments

Next week there will be 2 tests.

Science and Mathematics seems easier this year compared to last year. Maybe its only Science? Last year I failed Bio but this year I passed =). Ok, I guess Maths is harder, but Mdm Tham made it easier by focusing on quadratic equations for the coming Maths test.

Today there is nothing much. From morning till now I have been revising the two subjects and its starting to get a little boring. I think my MSG for this term is going to go up again as usual. Hmmm... A bad sign.

Bad day

Today is a bad day, so that's why I blog to destress.

Firstly the day started badly. We (sailorp pnghy) chatted a while before flag raising (ok I admit I wasn't usually that early and today I did not reach school that early). Then HY went for his sabbatical and me and Taylor went for our sabbatical, which is the Mage, the Prophet and the Nuclear B0mb. Hmmmm. Now I shall give comments about this sabbatical.

The sabbatical IS fun. Though intellectually taxing as Mr Quek has said, I find that I am able to cope with what the co-trainers taught me. It deals with Literature and the fun part is that everyday we're going to watch a movie, then analyse it. So part of it u can slack. The co-trainers are Jerrold, Benjy, Andre and Yi Yong. They learnt the topic very well and their speech during the sabbatical was good. Overall I think the others enjoyed it too. Today we watched "Contact". Tmr according to Andre it will be Terminator 3000 or Terminator 300 or Terminator 3. Something like that.

During the 40 min break I went to the library. To my suprise (well actually not really) I realised that HY wanted to interview taylor and me. For his sabbaticals perhaps. HY asked us about some racial harmony stuff and we answered, with taylor going first. He filmed it down. lol. :S

After the sabbatical (we're dismiised at 1.30) I went to eat lunch, then rushed back up to the library for the IRS which I later found that HY cancelled the IRS session. So I stayed in the library for a while more before HY went and eat his lunch. I went for badminton training.

Went back home at 6.30 after a looong and tirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring training (especially physical training, u know the usual - pumping, running, blah blah).

Wah! I heard we all now got big big debate. They say future of proper English is at stake.

All because stupid singlish spoil the market, want to change now dunno whether too late.

Aiyoh! Ang mo hear us talk like that oso want to faint. Even our 'U' graduates speak like ah beng, ah seng.

Singlish is like rojak, everything throw inside anyhow mix. Got Malay, Idian, Chinese and English, can give and take.

When you dunno something is under the table or chair, you ask loud loud," Oi! Under where? Under where?"

When you see somebody behave very bad, you scold him," Aiyah! Why you so like that?"

When you ended up in a traffic jam, and got stuck, you complain," Today I Èû³µ kana very jia lat."

When you warn your kids to be careful all the way, you tell them," Careful har, you better dun pray-pray!"

When you see mooncakes with many egg yolks, you say," Wah! This type good to eat, very shiok!!

When your friend mistook your mother for your aunt, you disturb him," Alamak! Why you so blur one?"

You write like that in exam you sure die liao. Teacher mark your paper oso kee siao.

I dunno whether you agree with me or not. I just simply sharing with you my thoughts.

Singlish is like the garden weeds. You pull like mad still would not quit.

Sure got some ppl like and some ppl dun like. Singlish and English, they'll still live side by side.

Sekali our Singaporean identity oso lost until dunno go where. Even orang-utan ah meng start thinking like a polar bear.

But still muz go I.T.otherwise become swa koo, only smarter than Ah Meng at the Mandai Zoo.

Wait the whole world go I.T., we still blur as sotong, next time we all only qualified to sell laksa in Chai Chee.

( Adapted from "Megabest jokes Singapore")

(Carin's blog)

Update

Yesterday was a very hot day. It also happened to be the GEP open house that the iCouncil and the iCMG first organised together. The OSes were Yong Quan (iCouncil side) and Jia Wei (iCMG side, also happens to be my badminton senior o.O ).

I soon found out that I was an usher stationed at Blk B from Taylor after coming late for the briefing at 7.40 (I came to school at 7.20 and took several turns to find the ops room). So I positioned myself there with a never ending smile =). I must admit that it was quite early in the morning and no one came, so it was boring. Then after a while parents started filling in and I guess we all had a whale of our time trying to usher the parents.

Some of the parents were quite friendly, while a rare minority were quite unfriendly. However, it still went well and I even shook the hands of a parent. My role is to usher the parents to the clock tower then pass the time to Jay who is sort of stationed there.

After some time most of the parents came, so I returned to the Ops room to slack. Then someone suggested playing cards and so we started several games of Big 2. It was bad though - we are not supposed to be playing cards and returning to the Ops room at all. I found HY and we went to the poolside restaurant to grab some snacks, erm actually ice cream. Seems pointless to eleborate more, but I bought a cookie crumble flavoured ice cream and ate on the way up. We met Lester and he was busy spamming the vending machine, at the same time carrying many packets of Mamee noodles. He was actually buying for other people in the Ops room.

Nearing the end of the event Ushers were needed at the refreshments area - food =) . Taylor and I were the only ushers left in the Ops room. Our role is to inform the parents who are queueing at the students section to proceed to the adults section, and to inform the students who are queueing at the parents section to proceed to the students' section. It went well.

Soon, there were a shortage of parents to attend the Students' Sharing Session or the Parents' Tours. Everyone went to inform the parents of the events. Then I went back to the globe area and found a family of 3 looking lost. I approached them and ... they asked me where was the registration place and was there a talk in the Auditorium. Obviously they just came.

Oh no...

I duno what to tell them. So instead I just went back to the Ops room and rest.

After the debrief I ate with Ivan at poolside and went home shortly.

Update

I do not know what to blog about today.

Update

Today was quite good. I came to school early to sweep the floor? Ok, ok, I reached school at about 6.50 or 6.55 I forgot which, then I started SWEEPING. Why? To make up for Thursday - I forgot to do duty. Afraid to be fined. Ahh, Jay is getting more serious.

Lessons. We were taught about ionic bonds. Confusing, lucky to have a pro sitting beside me (Taylor) who clears my doubt. End of Science, next comes Mr Krison's period, wheee. We - oh crap I forgot what we did. Let's move on.

During recess I bought the usual chicken pie from the usual store in the usual canteen where we usually buy our food.

We went to LT3 during Chinese. Found out that there were students from nan shan sec school. Yay. I was sitting beside a nan shan sec school student o.O. I said hi. He also said hi. The students got ready some presentations and I was suprised that they did not have much of a special chinese slang for chinese students, just like Singaporeans. Their Chinese was good, speaking fluently and occasionally peering around.

Hmmm. Maths time! Think of Mdm Tham. Ok, today I think the rest of the ILP groups presented. Some were confusing like the Standard Deviation, guess I have to consult Mdm Tham or Benjy.

I rushed down to the canteen and bought a curry pie then quickly rushed up for Geography lesson. Ms Foo covered the water resources topic today. It was good and I followed her till someone cracked a joke somewhere. Then Ms Foo asked me what she said previously. Guess I will have to pay more attention in future. :(

Com studies time. We were told profusely by Mr Cheong about what will be tested. Study hard, do revision often. Nothing much after that, then we went to have lunch at the canteen with pnghy and taylor. I went for badminton shortly.

Update

This week is the IDS week, focusing on humanity. There were hardly any time for us to finish our project.Ahhh.

Update

Sorry for the long period of totally no updates.

Well today is Sunday so there's nothing much to blog about. Now I am stuck at revision for Science, revloving around the three topics.

Ok ok, on friday I just realised that badminton training is until 8 everyday. Crazy. 2pm to 8pm, that's about 6hrs everydaY? There wasn't much people left at training from 6 onwards, only about Nigel, our captain, the coach and some really enthu people like Alfred and others.

This links back to the Sec 2 Parents Symposium. I am an usher.
Halfway during badminton training when Zack and Zong Xian pulled me to LT3, and there's a nice meal waiting for me =).
After that Zack briefed all the helpers and we went to our respective venus to start ushering. Parents were filling in already. First I was at the path between poolside and the clocktower, but there wasn't really much parents walking by there so I went to the open air carpark. Benjy was there waiting for parents. Hmmm.
Next I went to the poolside area and met Wei Jing. It was getting late.

Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year!

Yesterday was Chu Xi. We had a most wonderful renunion dinner, starting at 6pm. I was playing maple from 1pm onwards, fooling around, then night came so I paused for a while. Then I played again till 1am, logging off at Florina Beach, killing Torties. I managed to get several Tortie shells. Someone threw this tortie shell really high, so I asked him how he did it.

Ok, so we have to jump and dorp the item in midair while descending make the Tortie shell go really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really high.

So I tried very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very vyer vyer vyer vyer very very very very veyr very vre yvery very vrey vrer yvery ver y hard. And I succeeded.

Today was the fist day according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, so I visited many of my relatives today, got several angbaos =). Then I went home and found that my other relatives were there too, and I wished them happy new year. THen more angbaos.

Now while I am posting my relatives are watching the television; loud music of the superstar (chen weilian) singing his songs is blaring from the speakers. Oops, sry now its some dual singing by 2 pro singers, with the superstar playing teh piano. And now my cousin passes me a oreo buscuit. =). They come in packs of 1 oreo cookie each --- waste of plastic resources. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa now the TV got nice music bye bye i go watch TV so i signing off.

Btw i heard blog cannot get ACE. ?!??!#$@#$@@@

Today

I took a ss with fireblare124 with cai shen in el narth today.

Science is hard with all teh DNA stuff and the RNA stuff and the amino acid stuff. Getting more confusing.
The CHinese teaher is a philosopher, according to pnhy, and she teaches us confucious or confusious sayings. gu zi yu ming ming de yu tian xia ze, xian zi qi guo, yu zi qi guo ze, xian xiu qi shen, xian xiu qi shen ze, ....
Ok today is a happy day

Updates

The holidays ended so fast?

1 Major event during the holidays is the Sec 1 Orientation. We were dismissed everyday at around 8+pm, and by the time we reach home it is around 9pm. It was quite tiring. I recognised some students from my former primary school. The events ran smoothly, and as the helper I stayed in the Logs and the Ops room almost all day. THe other day I was playing cards with the other helpers in the logs room to kill the boredom.

Threre was a AAR of the whole thing afterwards. Many of the buddies gave feedback on the event, and told Alfred about some of the things that happened. Like someone losing a shoe.

I am going to work harder in the new year, and get a MSG of 2 or lower (hopefully). Some of the former teachers still came to teach 2L.

Happy New Year!

Today

There's nothing much.
1L chalet was quite nice, but it was a bit tiring.

Today

the holidays are here. It is so boring. I signed up for several courses so I won't feel so bored. I will be missing badminton training on Friday.