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During Civic today, all the CIP reps and SPLs went to LT 3 to learn about the handling of wheelchair to prepare us for the Community Service Day. The speaker was from HWA (Handicapped Welfare Association) first introduced us to the different types of wheelchair and their functions. Then there is a demo on what we are supposed to do My friends Mingxian and Wangyi were called down to be demonstrators. The speaker told us that we should have some friendly talking with the elderly like "Ah pek, hou bo" (how are u) before asking him whether we can lift him to the wheelchair. He and Wangyi then demonstrate the correct way to lift an elderly (Mingxian) to the wheelchair. Mingxian felt uncomfortable sitting in a wheelchair that he stand up a short while after being placed in a wheelchair. The speaker then reminded him that he is the ah pek, who couldn't stand up on his own and told him to sit down. Haha! But he let Mingxian off soon and let Wangyi sit on the wheelchair so that he can demonstrate how to go up an obstacle like a step. Then, without warning, he tilted the wheelchair. Wangyi was obviously shocked when his legs went up and he quickly opened his arms to balance himself. His expression was so funny and the LT is laughing their head off.. The speaker then told us that we should inform the elderly before tilting the wheelchair. Wangyi and Mingxian receive a cute bear each for the demonstration. I personally felt that the speaker is a very good one who kept using humour to teach us what we should and should not do. When he taught us how to open up the wheelchair, he told us to be careful of our fingers or else we will join his society... It 's like these things can be remembered more clearly after the laughter. After his talk, I am confident of handling an elderly in wheelchair now...
Yesterday channel 8 also screened the finale of tiao zhan zhuang yan bang (scholar of scholars) with my uncle and dad in it. My dad was too defensive this time round and didn't manage to qualify for the 3rd round. But his overall performance was still commendable. Well done dad!
Ah bing || Wednesday, July 27, 2005
After waiting for so long, Harry Potter 6 was finally released yesterday. I went to Pasir Ris for river-keeping and bought my book there at 8am. The entire White Sand shopping centre was opened so early just because of the popular bookshop. I reached there at 8am, 1hr after official release at 7.02am and was too late to get the bunger king's breakfast which was for 1st 50 customers per bookshop. But I was given a $12 voucher though. I spent the rest of the day from 3 to 8 after river-keeping to finish that book. Ha, I just can't put down that book after I started reading. I even finish my dinner in 10 mins so that I can go back to read that book. It is definitely better than book 5 but I don't like the ending when Dumbledore died. It let me feel worry for Harry and wonders how he can handle Voldemort alone in book 7...Anyway, the river-keeping was not very good. Firstly, the turnout is bad. 4 J1 and 4 J2 in total. And the J2s are all pulled along by me with 2 non-greenlink members. Wonder how they can manage with 4 people if I don't go? Huimin was also another Harry Potter fan. She bought her book earlier than me and read on train while travelling here. The weather was very bad. It kept raining and at a point of time, we had to stop as the rain was too heavy. While waiting in a shelter, an ant colony dropped from a tree. We were quite excited and curious about it. I said that I have never seen a queen ant before and challenged the people there to go and break the colony. To our surprise, Chengyang accepted the challenge. He said that he was also curious to see the queen ant. He found a branch and used it to break the colony open. Hundreds of red ants rushed out. I thought I saw the queen ant when I saw an ant, 3 times the size of others and has wings. But others quickly pointed out that queen ant don't have wings and we spotted another 6 other same type of ant later. In the end, we still didn't get to see the queen ant. I wonder, what is the job of that type of ant in the colony??? We continued river-keeping when the rain is lighter. A park officer praised us that we are doing a good job when he passes and another curious group of people (which I supposed are foreign as they don't know what is CCA) asked about what we are doing and I spent some time explaining to them. They felt that what we are doing is meaningful after I explained to them. The J2s are far more efficient than the J1s as we picked 17 out of the 24 bags of litters...
Regarding the NKF incident, I felt sad that Durai and all the board members have resigned. It is a big loss to NKF I felt after what he have done for NKF. Personally, I felt that the straits time is rather biased in its report as there are no articles to show about how Durai built up NKF. Instead, it kept focusing on Durai's salary and the luxury items in NKF. Those people protesting about Durai's salary are people I felt totally don't know about the world outside, jing di zi wa (frog in a well), only know how to ren yun yu yun (follows what others are saying). Even SM's wife Mrs Goh also felt that the salary is acceptable. However, I also opposed the way Durai wasted money on luxury items and also not be transparent. "This court case was also the greatest joke of the year," Vincent told me and I agreed. He sued others, gained nothing but lost a lot of things instead...
Ah bing || Sunday, July 17, 2005
_Design a Maths Game Competition- PLATINUM
Today during FM lecture, Ms Ng announced the result for the Design a Maths Game Competition. My team and the other team from my class were awarded platinum. There are a total of 2 platinum, 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze being awarded. The prize of platinum award is a $150 Borders Bookshop voucher that comes in form of a card with no expire date. We have the mini prize presentation in the LT since almost all the teams are from FM. Some people might said that the judging is biased since the organiser of the competition is my maths tutor, but I would say it's not. My team did not do things last minute and was always ahead all the other groups. Mr Neo, our mentor, informed us that other teams still haven't come up with their game when our group was already working on the game strategy. I would say Mr Neo is a good mentor. He is close to us as he was our math tutor last year and is rather good at game. He suggested to us to add wild cards to increase the wild element.Our math game titled SUM21
There are 3 stalks of cards namely big, medium and small.
Big stalk consists of 7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10 and a X card. Medium consists of 4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7 and a X card. Small consists of 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4. So all together of 26 cards.
This is a vs game. Each player has 2 rows and each row consists of 4 max slots. After the player can draw from any stalk, then put it in either rows. The objective of this game is to form 21. When a row add up to 21, it is cleared, a new row is added and the player scores 1 point. A player wins 1)when opponent cannot put any more card (the card draw will cause the row to exceed or when that card has to be placed in the 4th slot and that row add up to less than 21) or 2)when all the cards are used up and he got more points than opponent. Both players drew when all the cards are used up and both players got same number of points. The X card allowed you to multiply any number to any card or placed in an empty row but the number to be multiplied by is to be specified.
This game requires the intense usage of probability to decide which stalk to draw the card from. There is also a few strategies to kill off the opponent...
It's good to win competition. It gives me more confident to take part in more competition in the future...
Ah bing || Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Today, I claimed my last 2 subjects result (excluding GP though) and they cause my 4 subjects' grade to become ABCD (for maths, chem, phy, FM respectively). Err, the grades are easy to remember but I was not pleased at all. Analysing my mistakes for those papers, I realised that I am lacking behind in examination technique. A person can mug very hard but if he lacks examination technique, he will lose a lot of marks for bad presentation or lacking of some important points in his answer. I am not saying that I mug very hard but I lost a lot of marks in this area. This is quite worrying as content can be studied but the way of answering qns cannot be learnt in a short time. Err, maybe I should start studying answer key now and try to learn the correct way of answering qns before prelims. I also realised I m getting very careless. I threw away 3 marks for MC and 4 marks for FM just for wrong final answer due to keying in of calculator. This should not be happening at all. Dropping a grade just for mistake in keying calculator is totally unforgivable. Err, maybe I should key in double times before writing down the answer next time.The Singapore Poly Chess competition has ended. We sent 2 teams consisting of all J1s. Team A won 4 out of 7 rounds. I didn't find out the result of team B but I know they lost all 3 rounds on 1st day. The team A even lost to secondary school Cheung Cheng on the 1st day. This is unforgivable. To get top 4, the team can't afford to draw with, not even to say, lose to a weaker team. This is quite worrying. Raffles Cup champion school losing to a secondary school which I don't think is even in the top few in secondary school category. Can't imagine how they will be able to defend the cup next year! Hope they will train alot harder from now on...
Ah bing || Monday, July 11, 2005
Today is my NS medical check-up. There I met a few of my old secondary school friends. All of them are also in top JCs like VJC, TJC and RJC now. There are around hundreds of people when I arrived at 9 and I had to wait for quite a long time. The medical check-up isn't as bad as I had thought. For those who are interested, I was put under pest A. But the test after the medical check up is alot worse. It is like the psychometric test except this one is done on computer and they got more qns and more types of qns. Like the psychometric test, it was timed and we got like on average 20 s to do each qns. The types of qns tested includes shape IQ, Maths, shape orientation, response (pressing the no. 3 times as quick as possible when it flashed), instruction (eg find the smallest no, take the 3rd number from left, multiply by 2 and key in the answer), physics and also number sequence IQ. Didn't manage to complete all the qns but I felt that I did better this time as I got experience this time. I was also very tired after the test but then still need to do a survey with hundreds of qns inside. It was like 3 pm when I finished with everything and I was darn hungry by then. I am aiming for OCS so I hope I did good for the test...Ah bing || Friday, July 08, 2005
Today, the school had a fire drill. It was during Chemistry lecture when Mrs Cheng announced through the PA system that there is an emergency and that we are to proceed to the assembly area immediately. This is a very bad fire drill as we took a total of 15 mins to get there, even though the timing to meet is like-3 mins (quite impossible to meet la, NJC though not very big is not small either) Mrs Cheng promised us another fire drill in the near future. Ha, we did things that we shouldn't be doing, like bringing our bags along. But it will be convenient as we can move straight to our next venue. And I believe that most of the J2 will agree that in case of real fire, you wouldn't want to leave all the precious notes to burn in the fire right? Ha!London had a series of terrorist attack yesterday, killing and injuring thousand. This attack seems to be a protest against the G-8 meeting. I was wondering if this attack came a day earlier, will London still stand the chance of winning the 2012 Olympic bid? The London team will be accused of not able to deal with terrorist attack and maybe Paris would have won...
Ah bing || Thursday, July 07, 2005
This is my 1st week of lesson after holiday and things is not going very smooth for me. And I kept forgetting things. This week is so far bad for me, hopes it will turn better soon...Firstly, I saw my FM result when Ms Ng was about to show the top scorers. I got 54, worse than my CT1. It is not really unexpected. I only spent 2 days studying FM and didn't have enough practice. Besides, there are some answer that I knew is off, but just can't figure out where I went wrong.
Secondly, I am not going for this weekend Singapore Poly Chess Competition. It is because our chess captain didn't want to fight for this competition, so the J1 excos decided to let J1 gains experience as well as try out the new J1 formation. Singapore Poly is more difficult with many additional poly teams around but we should still be able to get a 3rd if we really fight for it. But since the captain didn't want to play, they decided to put him in team A reserve and put me in team B reserve. But as reserve, I wouldn't get the chance to play so I am not going at all this weekend. Hai, thought we can still get 1 more trophy before we retire. So today will be unofficially my last training. Still got 1 more hand-over ceremony and then I will officially retire.
Just watched the IOC live from my room TV. London won by 54-50. Quite unexpected. I actually support Paris one. Hai, life is full of unexpectation. Underdogs will sometimes win. So the favourite must not be over-confident and the lousier teams shouldn't lose hope at all. It is a lesson I learnt from the Raffles Cup...
Ah bing || Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Yesterday, my family went to the zheng ban qiao celebration at the marina south. There are a exhibition and a festive village. We didn't went into the exhibition because it was so expensive, 20 bucks per person. So we visited the festive village. The festive village contains many different houses by different people from different part of the world. There are pple from china, malaya, iran and africa. We also stayed to watch the festive show. It was quite an interesting performance, especially the performance brought up by the yun nan group. They performed playing of various instruments and dances. 1 of their man is able to play around ten kinds of their unique instruments. Coordinated with the dance, it has a good effect that capture the attention of all the audience there. They also performed 2 of their folk dances. During the watching of the show, we also have additional "air performance" from the National Day rehearsal. Beside the helicoptors carrying the flag, we also saw many other planes flying above our head. Hmm, not bad. Managed to see so many performance for free...Today, we went to Guang Ming Shan temple. Today is 27 of the month in lunar calender. So the temple is providing free food and also have a flea market. My dad decided to bring the family there to experience the mood there as we didn't go there on 27 before. The temple was obviously different on that day from other day because once we reached there, we have difficulty even getting a parking slot compared to have many many empty slots when we went there on other days. The big canteen was also crowded. Just inside the canteen, there should be at least a thousand people. We waited for a while before getting a table. The food was very nice. There are noodles, curry veggies, spring rolls, soup... a total of 7 dishes for each table. Though it was vegetarian, it was the best vegetarian food I had ever eaten. After lunch, we went to the flea market there. I saw an Indian having Russian binoculars for sale on his booth. I asked him the price and he told me $18. BINGO! I had finally solved the problem of the birdwatching com not having any binoculars. Because a pair of good binoculars costs at least $100 but Russian binoculars are cheap as there are alot of them left behind after World War 2. I got his contact number and will be informing the teacher and the new birdwatching head about it...
Ah bing || Sunday, July 03, 2005
_Just completed all my common test 2 papers
Phew! Finally all my papers have ended with Maths S paper as the last paper today. Overall, I felt that I have not done very well. 2 weeks of my holidays have been spent on chess competition and quite a lot of activities for me over the holiday. And I find that the content needs to be study this time is really quite a lot. 2 weeks are just enough to cover them but not enough time to do practise. My chemistry should be the subject that I improved the most this time since I can answer most of the qns. Subjects that I did not very well includes GP (have too many words that I don't know and can't explain them later), physics (way of thought wrong for some qns) and Maths S (mind not at the right freq). Hai! Anyway, it's over and no use crying over spilled milk. Have to work harder for the prelim. Now have to start doing all the tutorials that are going through next week. Seems to forget most of them since they are not tested for the exam. Have to restudy them all over again. Luckily there is a youth day next monday for me to do them. =)Ah bing || Friday, July 01, 2005