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I would say that there are a lot of people who turned up for this event, around a few hundreds (that's quite a lot considering only males taking up 4 A & 2 S will get the invitation card). The high turnout was unexpected for the organiser as they have to add a lot more chairs last min to accomodate all the pple. First, there is the defence secretary giving a speech, followed by a video screening about 3 SAFOS scholars' story. Next, there is a sharing session by another 3 SAFOS scholars which 1 of them is Lieutenant colonel now. They told us about their life, from the time they gotten the SAFOS to now. The LTC even showed us his family now. Wow, their live ahead is like well-planned for them already lor. The scholars will go to study in university in August in the first year of army. Financial all cared for, from tuition fee to computer and book allowance and even full salary during study. They get 2nd Lieutenant after completing the OCS, promoted to 1st lieutenant after 1 year of study and promoted to captain 1 year after completing their study. That's quite attractive...
Lastly, there is a Q&A session. 5 officers went onto the stage and 1 of them happened to got 3 stars on his shoulders (that's the highest post in S'pore army and there is only 1 in S'pore for ur information). From NJC, Alvin and Keith asked qns. After that, there is the tea reception. Wow, (maybe I am suaku or what) I found it to be very high class. There are a wide variety of food (ard 20 types) and they are very delicious. The tea or coffee can be obtained from a table (with a waiter pouring for you), the milk and sugar can be obtained from a few glass tables. There are also waiters carrying a tray to collect the plates and cups when you are finished. There are also a few ex-SAFOS scholars walking around and talking to pple. The atmosphere is very good and it is an eye-opener for me. I also get a lot of goodies walking around the exhibition. The (rich) Navy one especially, giving goodie bag consisting of a towel, notebook, pen, navy map and a badge. Suo Huo Bu Qian leh!
Ah bing || Sunday, August 14, 2005
Today is Community Service Day. As a CIP rep, I was rather busy. Yesterday, I went to Causeway Point to shop for the gifts for the children. The CIP reps of the 4 classes discussed and decided that every class will buy gift for all the 30 children to ensure that every kids get the same quality of present. S08 prepared their gifts on Friday which is a goodie bag with notebook and a lot of goodies inside. Don't want to lose out to them and yet need to keep the cost low. Luckily I managed to find what I want in the Value Shop. The pencil cases is selling at 2 for $1.05. I bought pencils and eraser too, spending only $23 for 30 stationary sets, so average 67cents a set.Anyway, today Mingxian and I went all the way down to Yishun Childcare together with Mr Whitby and another teacher to fetch the children. Our class Cip reps were selected to go down 'cause our class appear on the top of the list- 04SO2 * . The 4 of us took a cab there. The kids were quite young, 4 to 6. They loved singing and were singing while walking and on the bus. They sang QUITE loudly but can't really heard what they were singing. The activities for the children are quite boring I felt for the children. The 1st activity is drawing competition and 2nd activity is watching a show in LT 5. The ratio of students to children is far too large at 3:1. Esp at the drawing station where 4 kids shared 1 table. Imagine 12 students crowding around a table. Can't breath lor. The children also seemed very bored watching the show consisting of anklung and dances. Would children know to appreciate Arts? I felt that they should have students dressed in cartoon characters instead lor... The only reason why the children are happy is only because they have gotten so many presents that my civic tutor even has to find plastic bags for them to contain... NJC should seriously review this Community Service Day and a lot of improvement needs to be done if they want to continue this next year.
Ah bing || Monday, August 08, 2005
On Saturday, Chess and Bridge Club celebrated the Chess and Bridge Day cum Senior Farewell with a BBQ party at West Coast Park. This is the first time this club organises a club outing. Though this outing is not well organised but it's a start to club bonding. For our batch, we concentrated a lot on training for competition. We did very well for competition but the club is not well bond. People from different sections don't really know one another, though I m an exception as I always go to other sections to play their game too during training. Just hope that they will not neglect training while having more bonding. The club booked pit number 15 in West Coast. If u go there for BBQ before, you will know that pit 15 is a very deserted area, around 600m away from the Macdonales and other game stations with lots of mosquitoes and ants. The food for BBQ is only hotdog, chicken wings, corn and sweet potato. Not enough for everyone too as each person can only get 2 hotdog and 2 chicken wings. There is no beehoon too. I have to go home to eat my dinner lor. As for the games, we played 15 mins of frisbee and rest of the time playing bridge (chess and BRIDGE club wat). Ong joined in too in playing floating bridge, telling us that he is not our teacher now outside school. There is also a prize presentation when the new presidents present to the seniors each a small gift. They purposely disturbed the old presidents a leaf with their names written on it and said that they originally want to prepare them a special gift but didn't as the fund run out. They then asked the old presidents to perform something and they chose "Twinkle twinkle little star". How boring! The new pres then present the actual gifts to them.I m officially retire from Chess and Bridge Club already. Personally, I m glad that I join this CCA. In Secondary school, I join NCC and I felt that I achieved nothing in my 4 years there. I was a 1st sergeant but holds no post, the type that is redundant. Now, at least I got contribution in winning a silver and a gold for the school. Days without chess training is tough to get by as I used to look forward to these training sessions. Now, though I can stop attending all the trainings, my amount of free time didn't increase. In fact, it decreases. There are tonnes of homework to do daily. Couldn't afford to sleep at 10+ nowaday. I forced myself to sleep at midnight so that more homework can be done. Sigh! I guessed that's J2 life. Especially when prelim and A level is coming soon...
Ah bing || Monday, August 01, 2005