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Mr yee also gets us to read abt human rights articles and also book com lab for 2 lessons for us to research abt all the human right organisations and how they operate. A few of them encourage pple to write to the country's gov and provide the format of the letter and the gov's email, fax and mailing address. Quite scary. Imagine the president open his mailbox the next day to find it bombarded with those letters... Now, i understand abt these issues and starts to like reading newsweeks which i attempt to read last year but couldn't understand and gave up. I actually wonder if his method of teaching will really help students in GP exam at the end of the year. But life is not abt exams right? At least i am more knowlegeable and more able to analyse things now which i think is more beneficial to me for the rest of my life.
Talking abt knowlegeable, my uncle had entered the "tiao zhan zhuang yan bang"(a tv show that start screening next week) and got bang yan (2nd). He won himself $900. My dad also went for the selection but so far no reply yet. Still got chance though as his selection was later than my uncle and there is another round in may. Hope he gets in...
Today i went for swimming again. Actually i want to swim yesterday one but the weather don't permit. Today i swam 50 laps with 10 of them rather fast speed and only a break in the 20th lap. Rather enjoy the swim except it is filled with many pple again. Can't help as it is saturday. Made my mind now to swim every weekend from now on...
Ah bing || Saturday, April 30, 2005
A series of good new continue to come with the angklung and the guitar groups getting gold for SYF. I have quite a few classmates in these cca and I am quite happy for them. Talking abt the angklung, I hear them playing just a few classrooms away from my chess training classroom. I heard them playing repeatedly again and again that i can even hum some of their tune now. They really put in a lot effort and i am quite happy for them.Now for the guitar. They were practising in class almost everyday when i am doing tutorials. They also put in a lot of time and effort in practising. Joseph even sacrifices his track trainings for guitar though he likes running very much. So, it's nice to know that their efforts have paid well.
All the best to choir and band next week!
Ah bing || Friday, April 29, 2005
This week is earth week. On mon, we gathered in the oasis very early in the morning. We then went to atrium to set up an exhibition.During the assembly, we had an opening ceremony. The first thing is a pub stunt. At e beginning, we had a flower man. The story is very simple abt the flower dying and then an investigater goes to investigate the flower. However, the flower man is really very funny. The entire school was laughing at him but he didn't seem to mind and even waved to the school. This pub stunt is so far the best one by greenlink. A successful pub stunt is one that is able to attract the attention of the crowd and this one indeed did. The principal then threw the different colour balloons to the crowd in which the crowd is supposed to support for us by hitting the balloons to the back. But the wind is so strong that all the balloons were blown towards the left. People at the back also don't want the playing of balloons to end by hitting them back to the front. It's only until the command for school song was given before we stopped.
After that, we went to witness the planting of a small tree by Mrs Cheng at the science block. The plant is provided by our ex-ex-senior. They made it as if it's a big event and have a few photographers taking photos of the event. Students having practicals in the first period were all witnessing the event too from the 2nd, 3rd, 4th storey of the science block. The tree was not looking good after it was planted. And when I went to look at it on wed, it looked as if it was dying. Hmm, maybe the plant is not adapting well to the new environment. That's what happen to my chilli plants at first. After a chilli was used for cooking, my mum threw the seeds into a flower pot. And all of them survived. Imagine 24 seedlings in a flower pot of radius 8 cm. It's super overcrowding and we decided to transplant them in the spice garden. All of them looked like they were dying after a week. However, they survived after a month and now they were bearing flowers, so we can expect chilli fruits soon. Let's hope that the tree will survive too...
Other activities include second-hand book sale and the fashion parade. Ha, for the fashion parade, thomas got sabo by me. There is no one to wear the design done by our group during the greenlink camp's fashion parade. And then, zhi xiu wanted me to wear. When i came up with a few excuses (that even i found them not valid), thomas was forced to wear. Then, I helped to dress him up (ha, i am so bad). He had to wear a skirt made from magazines and a crown made from wire and flowers. He told me that he regretted wearing it after zhi xiu and i finished dressing him (he did not know how the design looked like beforehand). Peiling shifted the venue to the canteen and all the students in the canteen saw the parade. It's even more pai seh for thomas when his friends noticed him and came forward to talk to him. A round of applause for thomas for his sacrifice for greenlink.
The earthweek finally came to an end today with all the giving out of prizes.
Ah bing || Friday, April 29, 2005
Just have a 8.5km run continuously today in the woodlands town garden besides my house. For the first 2km, my timing is around 8mins, second and third 2 km timing 10 mins and last 2.5 km timing 14 min. It's my longest distance run so far and I felt that my stamina has improved by quite a large amount. Should be able to get B comfortably for 2.4 now. Hope to be able to run as fast as joseph soon...Ah bing || Sunday, April 24, 2005
Just have a swim today. Swim a total of 40 laps with last 26 laps continuous. Weekend swimming is really very bad experience. There are just so many pple in the pool that I can't really sprint. Have to swim in a zip-zap pattern and it's really irritating. Nevertheless, I still have fun chasing and overtaking the pple in front. The best one is when I am start swimming my 32th lap, I saw this man swimming freestyle at quite a fast speed a quarter lap in front of me. I decided to overtake him using breaststroke and I did it with just 2 metre before reaching the wall on the opp end. Feeling quite refreshed now after the swim...Ah bing || Saturday, April 23, 2005
A big praying mantis get into my room last night. And mind u, I live on 9th storey. Give me a fright when I saw it on the window, besides where i m sitting. Dad tried to use bare hand to catch it. Didn't expected the praying mantis's pinchers can be extended to its back and gave my dad a HARD pinch. In the end he used a plastic bag to catch it and put it on the plant outside. It disappeared the next day...Ah bing || Friday, April 22, 2005
Congrat to our beloved greenlink president Peiling for being selected to be 1 of the 5 green ambassador. She is so shy that she didn't went up during assembly when she is supposed to. "Pang sair" Ms Koh alone to present the green lotus award to the school. She is in the lian he zao bao today. With the award, she will be going to India to study their environmental activities...Ah bing || Wednesday, April 20, 2005
The council election this year is so boring. We have many elects having around the same way of speech and it became a torture towards the end of the speech. The few types are as following, 1)say how they will be the bridge between the students and admin, 2) say how it's boring to sit there all day and promised to keep their speech short, 3) the singing or rap type. The only interesting part is hou fei shotting qns during Q n A. He attacked type 1 by saying that many elects wanting to be in the feedback unit but how abt other units. He also attacked type 3 by saying that they are very talented but how we do we know whether they have the leadership quality to be a councillor. His first few qns are very good and the entire LT is expecting him to ask qns during every QnA. When he did, the entire LT clapped for him. But he went a little overfire later by directing qns at the J2 councillors asking whether do they find the election effective. But I think that he got a point there. This year's election even included a group performance for them to perform eg skit, song which i find it very stupid. But so what if they have the talent in it. They should join the talentine instead. What I think will be useful is that these elects be given a few opportunity to organise activities and from these, we pple will be more able to judge these elects' abilities. Letting these elects organise the orientation camp is a good start but more such opportunities should be given so that the J2 can also observe their abilities too...Ah bing || Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Poor Kenny! I saw how the councillors treat their president on his birthday. He was smashed with cream on his face a few times. And 1 of the culprits was YUMAN. Ai yo! Don't know she is so wicked one! Cream was all over his face and shirt lor. And he was smashed again after he washed them off. What I admired abt him is that he is not angry at all and even thanked the councillors for all their efforts. He is a person who got da liang. Hmm, maybe that's why he is able to become president of the councillors...Ah bing || Tuesday, April 19, 2005
The government finally announced the result of the casino issue. What surprised us is that they approved 2 casino proposals! It's like many pple are already not happy with the gov for favouring the building of casino right at the start and yet the gov approved not 1 but 2 casino proposals. While I am not exactly approved of the setting up of casino, I felt that it's a reality that we must face. Look at Sentosa. I believe that most people will agree with me that it's not successful. But look at Genting Highland. When I went there last dec, the outdoor theme park is badly maintained but yet why so many tourists went there? It's mainly because of the casinos. I know there is at least 1 in each hotel there. For such integrated resort, it is able to attract alot of pple b'cause adults can gamble at the casinos while teenagers, children can have fun at the theme park (which what my family did at genting). Besides, the earning from casinos is rather high so it is able to cover up for other attractions that are not earning money. Looking at Sentosa, how many tourists are actually attracted by the so called "attractions" like wondergolf, fort siloso... So I think that with the integrated resorts built maybe we can attract more tourists esp Chinese gamblers(which fill the genting casinos, opps).These are some of my views and thoughts while I read the newspaper today. Feel free to comment.
Ah bing || Tuesday, April 19, 2005
The NAFRA test is not very well done. I got 2A, 1B, 2C and 1E?!? The E is from the standing broad jump. Stupid la! Drag me down from gold to bronze. However, I am not feeling sad though I got to go for PE "remedial". It's actually considered an improvement from last year's 2A, 1B, 1D and 2E. This shows that my own training for arm strength and stamina is going well, at least I can do 6 pull-up compared to 2 (very unstandard one) last year and timing for 2.4 also improved slightly. Hope to get C for standing broad jump and gold for NAFRA after the remedial...Ah bing || Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Ah... Finally, my blog has been reconstructed. Quite satisfied with the new blog outlook. Not bad! I learnt quite a lot. I learnt how to change skin, add tagboard and music. Actually I learnt from other pple's blog. Just see what they have, then select view source and then copy. Ha, now I can let others know my blog address already... :)Ah bing || Monday, April 18, 2005
Things that happens this week:1) Our group has almost completed the design a game project, leaving only the oral presentation. Great! We r quite fast compared to other group.
2) Principal leadership talk. The 4 steps of the FISH philosophy: 1) Play 2) Make Their Day 3)Be Present 4) Choose Your Attitude.
3) Grade 2 for PW. The releasing of PW result was quite a shock. The school suddenly announce at 11+am through the PA system for all J2 to go to the hall at 1.20pm to get the PW grade. It's like no mental preparation before that. The result is expected as my group is not outstanding and I did not perform well in OP QnA. All my group members got grade 2. Only Charmaine, Caleb, Dax and Bai Fan from the class got grade 1. Junjing's group(slackest group) saw 4 out of 5 of the members getting grade 3.
4) This week also saw Ms Vignesh been very harsh to the class, when the VP presented a list of latecomers of the class to her and 5 of the classmates been "excorted" to the assembly area by Mr Gelbert Lee for staying in the classroom during morning assembly. Now she wants attendance marked at 7.40 sharp every morning in the assembly area. Students with pub stunts or other reasons must inform Charmaine or Mark beforehand. Hai...actually doesn't affect me much since I reach school at 6.50 every morning and always the 1st few to get into the row. But it is sad that such policy has to be implemented which shows that Ms Vignesh had totally lost trust in us...
5) The dance groups have been doing very well with the Indian, Malay, Chinese dance all getting gold with honour. And the best part is that our dances didn't get gold with honour before and suddenly we got 3. Now the pressure is on the western dance group. Hope they get it too...
Ah bing || Friday, April 15, 2005
The greenlink camp was quite a good one. HA! Maybe I am biased as I was 1 of the organiser. I was mainly in charge of the treasure hunt which is the highlight for the 1st day. Things r not going well in the beginning as ji wei had gone home to eat dinner and only back in school at 5.50 and chengyang got maths trail. So there is no one to help me do the preparation works at first. It's not even done when all others arrived. I only got a little time to eat my dinner (nasi briyani delivered by my dad together with my bag) at 7pm. Then we went around pasting the clues. Then Ms Koh was late and we only get the classroom keys at 8.35 instead of 8. Jiwei, chengyang and I have to rush to do the haunted houses. Though having to rush, the haunted houses were rather good, all going well according my initial plans of the 2 houses. The treasure hunt eventually start at 9.40 instead of 9 as planned.In TA21, when people pulled open the door, they will hear chairs dragging inside. When they entered, they will see 2 candles and walking closer, a green figure was hanging there looking like praying was taking place. "Tan Xiang" was lighted to give the joss stick smell. A man with green face(chengyang) then came in from the window.
In TB33, when people opened the door, they will see blood, finger and a cockroach "eating" the finger. When they stepped in, something will pat their shoulder and when they turned they will see a green face man with pointed nose(jiwei) holding a "bloody hand". The room is in a mess and another blood with a nose can be found on the other table.
For me, I went to all 24 stations to ensure that all the clues and stickers are still there. On the way, I gave hints to every groups. Peiling also called me for help when a group couldn't solve "way in KL" which is an easy clue. While patrolling, I also heard a lot of screaming from the classrooms. HA! Qing Xiang also screamed in TB33. He is quite comical. He knew someone is hiding inside. He went up there together with 2 people. He then bang the window and so on to try to scare the J1. The J1 switched on the light and did not notice Jiwei. QX thought that the pple hiding inside went to toilet and stepped in too. Only shock to find a hand touching him. Haha! Serve him rite...
The treasure hunt took up lots of my time. I have to think of the clues, where to hide them, type them out and plan what clues to link to in each station. I also had to plan the haunted houses. Took me a long time too to find a shop selling horror stuffs. I discussed the treasure hunt with the participants and they gave me an expression of "Oooo" and "like that also can" when I reveal the answer or where the clues is hidden. But from their expression I can see that they have quite alot of fun. Fenella even sms me praising me for the treasure hunt. Things like these made me feel that all my efforts are not wasted.
For the 2nd day, we went to botanical garden to do the fashion parade thing. Our group used aluminium foils, magazines, leaf and flowers to design a J1 into "king of nature" After that, they have to parade, do a catwalk and a commentary abt the design. The botanical garden is crowded with people on Saturday and I really commented that J1, joyce and sabrina for having the courage to parade with so many pple watching. Joyce and sabrina even did dare to do sexy poses. Sabrina's group win in the end for using the most number of recycled material after all the groups draw.
The bbq food was rather nice. I set up one of the pit and only manage to bbq for 10 mins. Then I got no more space to bbq again when I came back after eating beehoon and pineapple rice. So I end up doing the job of poking the sticks into the hotdog, chicken wings,... to prepare them for bbq. And I had to leave earlier to prepare for the candle game.
The candle game is one having to burn all the ropes to go in to "rescue" the prisoner by burning the last rope which a waterbag will fall on the prisoner. Overall, it's not very successful as the game barely last 5 mins due to insufficient rope to do a complex maze. Ken was a bit disappointed as he is the one who planned this game. It's like after having to spend so much time planning and yet it's not very successful. It's understandable and I felt a bit sad too... I will be feeling very disappointed too if my treasure hunt did not work out well.
I left at 10.30 when my dad drove here to fetch me home...
Ah bing || Sunday, April 10, 2005
After PE today, I went to the vending machine to buy a drink as usual. As all my coins are used up, I borrow 40 cents from junjing. After inserting the coins, the light did not light up as usual. I hit the button for winter melon drink but nothing drop out. So I turn the coin returning lever and to my SURPRISE 80 cents drop out?!! So I insert 40 cents again and pressed winter melon again. Again to my SURPRISE, not only winter melon drop out, but also wheat grass?!! So end up me returning the money to junjing and also treat him to a wheat grass drink....Ah bing || Wednesday, April 06, 2005