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!