GEP Open House

Today I went to school at 7.00 for the GEP Open house.
All councillors must go so early.

So bad!
:( :(

Never mind. Anyway, I was so lucky.
I did not even know that the time was 7. I thought it was 7.30!

But told you, I was so lucky today. I woke up early and reached school at 6.45! I thought I would be the only one in school. But I was wrong. Many people were already there!

But..............................

Luck slipped away from me when it came to the jobs.

There were several booths to register the parents.
Everyone rushed.
I did not get any booth.
I was jobless.

So together with Yongzhi, Li Ki, kenneth, Chong Jiat and a sec 2 iCMG, we were supposed to wait outside the clock tower and direct the parents to the correct booths for registration.

I thought it wasn't so bad.

Kenneth got the six sense.
He seemed to know what will happen and escaped for a new job, photograhing, just in time.

Chong Jiat, on the other hand, disappeared to nowhere.
He simply vanished.
So slack.

The parents started streaming in at about 9.10am.
Yong Zhi also vanished. What the hell!!!!

I later found out that he went to help to direct the parents coming in from the back of the registration booths.

I sort of believed, but now I still doubt the truth.
The ordeal for me started at 9.30am. Its not the problem with more and more parents coming in.
The problem is..................
The sun.

It shone mercilessly at me, scorching my poor skin. Within minutes. I was drenched.
I could hardly force a smile, or even... open my eyes. But that Zachary told me. Maintain your 'smile'. OMG.

Even my loyal Li Ki slacked for some time by disappearing into thin air. At least he returned quick enough.
Yong Zhi finally returned.
Slacker Kenneth continued with his pointless photographing.
Even Chong Jiat returned, with his pants completely wet and unable to face the parents.
What in Hwa Chong had he done!

After about one more hour, the terrible ordeal ended.
Oh, I forgot one thing.
While I was welcoming the parents, I saw Porky and Markers (both nicknames) strolling in. They looked so relaxed while I was dieing........................

After the torture ended, I went back to Oops room with my friends for a rest.

At about 11+, our job started again.
The parents were having their refreshments.
Our job was to usher the parents who had finished their food to either the school tour or the student sharing session.

This was the rather chaotic and messy situation. Many parents could not find their children.
The situation was simply out of control.

I approached several parents to ask them to go to the student sharing session or schoo tour but most of them turned down my offer with various reasons. Most of them wanted to go home.

Can be understood.
I remember when I came for DSA exercise last year, the most I want was to return home.

So, the whole thing ended at 1.30.
I took a bun and a drink and went home.

Home sweet home!
:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Creative

My friend, Alvin, sent me quite an interesting email today.
So, I have decided to share in on my blog. You can also try it out.

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question.
You have to answer them instantly. You can't take your time, answer all of them immediately.

OK?

Let's find out just how clever you really are....

Ready? GO!!!




(scroll down)First Question:You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

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Answer: If you answered that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second!Try not to screw up next time.

Now answer the second question, but don't take as much time as you took for the first question, OK?

Second Question:If you overtake the last person, then you are...? (scroll down)










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Answer: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST Person?You're not very good at this, are you?



Third Question:Very tricky arithmetic! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000 . Now add 30. Add another1000. Now add 20. Now add another 1000 Now add 10. What is the total? Scroll down for answer.....










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Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100. If you don't believe it, check it with a calculator! Today is definitelynot your day, is it?Maybe you'll get the last question right........Maybe.




Fourth Question:Mary's father has five daughters: 1. Nana, 2. Nene, 3. Nini, 4. Nono.What is the name of the fifth daughter?










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Did you Answer Nunu?NO! Of course it isn't.Her name is Mary. Read the question again!



Okay, now the bonus round:A mute person goes into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth he successfully expresses himself to theshopkeeper and! the purchase is done.Next, a blind man comes into the shop who wants to buy a pair ofsunglasses; how does HE indicate what he wants?










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He just has to open his mouth and ask...It's really very simple....

Unique Day

Today, we had a total of two tests, which is the maximum number of tests we could have in a day. Anyway, it is the unlucky day for me as the tests were my weakest subjects, english and literature. :(

Never mind, lets talk about something else first.

Our Mathematics lesson was especially unique today. We did not have lessons! :)
Instead, we played a game!
The game is the one that will be played during math week, the set game.

??????????? Set game??????????

You might not know what that is. That was what happened to me when I heard of it. ??????

But too bad, the set game challenge fell on a Thursday which we will have our chinese common test.
But Mr. Lee promised us he would try to make Miss Gwee to change the date. I hope he succeeds.
In that case, I already 'booked' our math wiz, the samurai Javan!

The game is like this.

Twelve card, I think would first be laid out on the table and each team would try to find a set.

To find a set, it determins on four simple variables: colour, filling, shape and number.
To make a set, the variable must be all different all different or any of them is all same.
example.
three different shapes, three different colour, three different filling but three same number makes a set.

The game ends when neither of the pairs could form any sets any more.

Lets come back to talk about the tests.
In conculsion, the tests were easier than I thought, especially english, which was much better than or usual RGS GEP ones. Those RGS comprehensions are tough like siao.
I only got one A1.

However, I am a little nervous about the literature.
I some sort of 'forgot' who Benjamin was in Animal Farm.

I hope I will improve on these two from the previous term. My msg last term was horrifying. 2.7! Below average.
I must work harder.

Thats it, I will end typing today.
I still need to prepare for my RP tommorow against Ernest.

P.S.
We had an interesting fight in class today. It was between the allied forces of our samurai Javan and sumo wrestler Chunqi against Jit Woon. I might write an entry about this next time, preferbally by next week. Look out fot the post!

A good Deed

Last Friday, we got back our math test results. I was depressed! I only got a B3!

I was very, very sad.
But to my surprise, someone was even in a better mood than me.

The person was no other than Yi Chao. Yi Chao, if you are reading this, have you felt better?
Never mind, Yi Chao could not control his anger that day and offended many of our classmates and our teacher.I don't understand why.

He got an A1! He told me he was angry because many people did better than him and his score was below average.

I tried to calm him down, but to no avail.

I cracked my brain to think of a solution.

Finally, I got an idea that may work. I thought of his favourite action- stamping. Ya, he does not dare to stamp during lessons. You are very considerate, Yi Chao, thats good.

So, I thought about it and after class when nearly everyone had left, I told him, "If you are angry, just stamp.you can vent your anger this way. " Thus, I stamped with him and we started a 'stamping parade'. I realised even I myself felt better after that.

When Yi Chao left, he also looked more cheerful. I had a sense of satisfactory.
I made him cheered up! I also cheered up myself. This is 'yi4 ju3 liang3 de2' in mandarin.

So, a message to people who are reading this blog: if you are feeling down, do something to vent your anger, don't keep it to yourself or vent it on other people.

Both Yi Chao and I commited this mistake.
I tried to keep it to myself and nearly cried(embarrassed now), while Yi Chao vented it on others.
Our similar way of venting anger was to stamp feet. So fun!

An essay of a battle

Hem, today I saw one of the most exciting fights goin on in 1M. It is so exciting that I had decided to write an essay on it.(Mr Quek, do not take the fight too seriously as I will be exaggerating a lot of times)

It is between our Samurai- Javan Lee Tze han and his arch enemy, the small sized Brolin Wong Ching Wei!
Small-sized doesn't prove anything. His power could clearly be shown from his agility and speed. He is not an easy opponent. He is also well known for his ability to cheat to win the fight.

Sadly, I did not had the chance to watch the complete show. :-(
But never mind, I got the climax! :-D

It started like this...
I had just finshed my bowl of noodles in the canteen, licking my kips in satisfactory, still savouring the wonderful taste in my mouth.

As I walked near the classroom, I heard cheers and roars. I was shocked. Could it be.........
I dashed with all my energy towards the classroom, not bothering of my cramp in my stomach. I just wanted to see what happened.

I reached the classroom.

The first thing I saw was everyone cheering. I rushed ahead, just in time to see Javan lunge his Samurai attack on Brolin. Suddenly somebody pulled me back. It was our cute boy, Tan Wei Xiang, with a baby face which our chinese teacher remarked that he looked like our campus superstar, Chee Yang!

Anyway, he pulled me back, and said that I was standing in the battling arena. He did not want me to get injured.

Anyway, I was distracted again by yet another roar. Now I noticed that Javan and Brolin were playing some sort of 'fencing' . They were holding shuttlecock containers and slashing here and there.

To my surprise, I found out that our aggresive javan was quite passive today, most of the time defending against Brolin's attack.

But I was wrong. I soon found out that Javan was actually waiting for chance for attack. No wonder, he is one of the cleverest boy in our class. Javan's attack caused another roar by the class.

He suddenly lift his 'sword' high into the sky, and WHAM! Down it went. That blow would definitely be deadly fatal. Brolin was fortunate that he managed to block it.
After the blow, Brolin seemed to lose his confidence and started stop attacking. That gave Javan the chance he was waiting for, for his ultimate attack. He charged, swinging his 'sword' with lightning speed. Brolin seemed not able to withstand any longer.

The winner seemed to be confirmed.

But fate was not on our righteous Javan.

Brolin, who was losing, used his last resort. he kicked (omg) Javan's groin. Oh I hope Javan could withstand that. Brolin cheated!

I pointed that out but he said, " Just now you never say cannot kick what!".

I was speechless.

Poor Javan, he lost.
The samurai finally lost. He had defeated so many. Now he's down too.

Now the fight ended.
A piece of advice, never challenge the samurai to a fight.
Since he lost, he would train more to be invincible. Never, ever try him, if not, good luck.


Minority of what I had written is true.Don't take it seriously, Mr Quek.

But, enjoy, you can give me a grade too(Most Probably F9 if marked by Mr Quek)
My english standard "Rox".

Our Assembly this week

Yesterday, which is Monday, we had our usual assembly. But theres something special about this assembly.You wanna know what?Yes?

It's a consortium assembly!

I'm so lame. haha :)

Anyway, a consortium assembly IS SPECIAL in some ways.

One of it is because we had it with our sec 2 seniors. Another thing was that we must wear ties.(Special, but I don't like a single bit) I look so silly with it!

Also I don't know how to tie. In the end, I had to ask good boy Dion to tie it for me. I am such an idiot.
This is only the second consortium assembly since I first came into Hwa Chong. I wonder why. We have four months with only two consortium assemblies.

The main topic for the assembly is to discuss whether the school or consortium should organise CIP (Community Involvement Activities) for the students.

Miss Tey, our head of consortium, wanted to discuss about this because the CIP programme organised last week was a 'disaster'. It was to fold paper lotuses for a organisation. It was said that out of all the paper given out, only half of the paper lotuses were accepted.

OMG!

Miss Tey was especially unhappy because the students did not treat the activity serious.
One person pointed out that actually the students turned the activity into some sort of competition by trying to fold as many lotuses as possible, thus causing many lotuses to be in an unacceptable condition.

Actually, that is true because many of my classmates were doing that too. They keep asking me, "How many you have now?" although I did not compete with them.

When they saw that I had a lot less than them, they will jeer me and call me a 'noob'. When I had only 5 lotuses, they more than 10.

Some people suggested the school or consortium providing CIP activities that barely reach the minimum number of hours so that the people wanting to earn awards will need to work for extra CIP hours themselves.
I generally agree with this so that students would not completely rely on the school.

After the discussion, we learnt about malay culture- In a special way.

We ate Malay food in their traditional way, that is to eat with hands.

But before that, a Malay teacher came to talk to us about how to eat and about the food.

To bad, I cannot understand a single word because the talk was in Malay. I could only blindly look at the slides in front of me.
After the talk, we proceeded to the Boarding School for the food. =)

Once we reached the boarding school, everyone crowded around Chern Yuen, the Malaysian scholar in our class, to take us to his apartment as he live in the boarding school.

We had our food in somewhere like a multi-purpose hall. We had to wash our hand in a bowl of water in front of us. After the food, some people wash their hands in the bowl again, then it became a bowl of 'curry soup'.

Disgusting!

Anyway, the food was quite nice and many people took a second serving. WALAO SO GREEDY.

Thats all I got to say today, watch out for my next post!

Our Assembly today

Today, our assembly was mainly about the banning of students' iVLE accounts.

Ok, first if your not from Hwa Chong, iVLE would be an alien word to you. Let me first explain to you what it is.
It is the short form for Integrated Virtual Learning Environment.
iVLE is somewhere we can download notes or submit our homework. We can also chat with our friends and teachers or set up a forum.

The problem is, some of the students were caught playing computer games in the school computer lab and were caught. Thus, their accounts were suspended by the technicians.
To reactivate the account, they need to get their parents' letter and pay $10.

Many of the students were unhappy with this rule.
So we discussed about the possible ways to solve the problem.
At first I thought that one easy way was for the school to make some sort of firewall to block all the game websites. However, as someone voiced it out, it was understood that there were many students whose computer skills are good enough to continue to visit game websites.

Another way I thought was many peoples' opinion, that is to suspend the offenders' school account only and not the iVLE.
Then a teacher(I forgot his name. OOPs!) explained that the iVLE and school account were somewhat connected in a way. To separate them would make us have the need to remember more passwords. Good point.
But I also have my own point. We could just set the same password for all the accounts we have.........
So it seemed the only way was still the same way again. sign.......