Finally, I have got a lot less things to do in St John Ambulance Brigade and as for ELDDS Drama Society, I'm not so sure whether I have officially stepped down as a member or not. Today was no doubt pleasant right from the start of the day.
Something strange happened to me this morning on the way to school. I somehow managed to get the feel of my legs being restless. With that alone, I seemed to accelerate very quickly, and went beyond my top speed within seconds? After that, I overtook almost everyone on the way, and an ambulance passed by... I sort of got carried away from it, and before I knew it, I was heading for the busstop outside the the school. Stange,ain't it?I entered the school the traditional way. However, I did not see the "advertisement" at the bus stop this morning. maybe it was taken down by someone?For more, visit Damien's post.
Biology, don't wish to talk about this. next, English lesson. We went to the computer laboratory to do some essay assignment, with the title "River Swimming", and the situation as while you were swimming in a river, something shiny caught your attention...Damien finished it even before the lesson started, as he finished it at home. During recess, Mr Liew came and asked Augustine and I to help with the stapling of 45 past year Mid-year Additional Mathematics papers. As I was holding my new,unstapled Biology paper, I felt that I could use the stapler as a service charge.Now, let's head to the time when it's after school(the main course).
I arranged the tables as soon as everyone left the classroom, which is like, solo work?It was definitely a one-man show back there, but as I liked to kill time by arranging tables and chairs to perfection, I did not mind that at all,even at the cost of having to rearrange them again a few hours later(hope Siang Lin sees this). I went back to class to help one of Andy's secondary 1 student to write a letter (err, Andy, what was her name again?). Another area of my interest, and soon, I was so engrossed in it that I sort of exagerated a little?
Finished the two-page write-out in twenty minutes, and headed down to the parade square to watch the 4E1 netball team own the whole inter-class games. We pawned most of the upper secondaryclasses!Went back to class after it started raining, and that was where all the drama tok place. A small group of three were studying, and that area accumulated after some time. Well, the others were playing a short game of Monkey when Siang Lin finally came in, and exploded?Semed that way to the secondary ones, but after that, she was smiling behind their backs...Well, they sort of got shocked, as Andy and I felt that it was perfectly fine to stay in the classroom, which did not seem to be the case, as priority goes to anyone who was studying in class. We packed up, and went to Jurong Point after that. As today was suppossed to be Sara's, Xu Wei's ,Darren's and my last day at the St John Meeting in Yuan Ching Corps, we were prepared for 3.30, however, that timne never came as no one assembled at the study corner...Or was it, suppossed to be next friday? Maybe let's just wait for further news for now, yea.
Went to Jurong Point to celebrate my Last CCA day? notreally, we went there to relieve our stress, four secondary one students(Sorry, but I seemed to have forgotten your names),Zhong Rong,Andy and I. Stayed there till 5.50 before heading home, to prepare for tuition at 7.30pm. Now's already 11.05, and I am here posting, after a day of hard work.
These four years in St John has been a great one, howver, I was not ableto help the corps to break free from the bronze barrier, but we actually did not break the 3-year chain of bronze awards. Although my time in Drama was a pathetic two years, I managed to find committment n the CCA and did my best in acting as well. That Secondary one student, looked so much like her when she was Primary 6...please, don't tell me that I am going to sccumb to the same fate andoutcome I faced four years ago???
Friday, April 27, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
The day when More comes to light...
The title's said it. Todays the day when another outcome of the choice I made four years back has come to light. It dates back to the day when the PSLE results were posted in 2003. The were expected, at 214, but we were prepared. Right away, we set off. Visiting schools that meet my requirement. There was this school. It was old. Though it was, there was this clitch about this school. The staff in the compound were kind and friendly, and most of all, the more we went back, the more I felt that it had to be the one.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, a newspaper article today prompted me to write this down. The title of the article "'Ganster School' Fights Back" speaks a thousand words about Yuan Ching Secondary. 29 years old, it is progressing at an amazing rate. Though there is much to say, I believe, that they should be said at a later date... Anyway, I can feel that I had made the right choice, which was choice no.2 on the list.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, a newspaper article today prompted me to write this down. The title of the article "'Ganster School' Fights Back" speaks a thousand words about Yuan Ching Secondary. 29 years old, it is progressing at an amazing rate. Though there is much to say, I believe, that they should be said at a later date... Anyway, I can feel that I had made the right choice, which was choice no.2 on the list.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Yuan Ching Class Quest???
Nothing interesting happened so far except for that, and although there was another incident yesterday, well, it might not be good to include that in here...Now, allow me to take you back to the annual NAPFA Test of Yuan Ching Secondary held on Thursday, 19th April,2007.
3pm. Everyone gathered in the hall for a short briefing. Andy sure was a little satisfied, since this was the first time 30 or so Chinese Dance members were relocated out of the hall for the sake of 9 classes of secondary four and five students. But since Randall was telling me some facts of the sharinean guild quest(MapleSEA), I thought of typing a walkthrough of the NAPFA test in the same format.We had entered the hall after taking our attendence(registration).Anyway, we were given our Station(stage) order after that, and the first was the standing board jump.A test of the classmates' leg strength and jump distance(haste, scrolled for jump equipment and teleport strictly not allowed).There were 18 boys today, as 4 were down for intensive practice for SYF. I made my attempt, with my final score at 226(second attempt).
Second stage:Sit and Reach. A test of the classmates' flexibility.Here, one must sit on a board with a metre that has a metal slide in front of him, while he is supported on the back by another board and a belt preventing him from bending his knees. I wasalways the last to attempt, so I could have gotten the upper hand. I think that I had gotten the highest for the class, at 50cm. CLEAR! We move on to the next stage.
Stage 3: Pull Ups. A test of the classmates' arm strength.Here, one must hang on a 2-metre high pole before lifting himslef up to the rod, thus having only his chin above it. Once done, it is counted as one, and he must get down again, straightening his elbows before going on the next attemptand so on. For this, the top scorers are Andy, at 11 pull ups,Kamal at 9 pull ups and the others who did 5 and got a "C" grade. Many classmates "died" at this stage.CLEAR! We moved on to the next stage.If I was not wrong, this was a "boss" stage, but since it was not the second last stage, it think it cannot be considered to be one.
Stage 4:Shuttle Run. A test of the classmates' agility(Haste and scrolled for speed equipment strictly not allowed). kamal broke the record of another class by hitting 9.78 seconds on the clock. I got another "D"grade by clocking 10.77 seconds. CLEAR! We moved on to the next station.
Height and Weight. A checklist of the classmates' height and mass. Well, this is simply to kill time, and also to restock a little on our lost liquid intake. Well, it was certainly a joke to have my height read as 136.5cm(humilating, eh?).Ont he second attempt again, it seemed better, but I think I had shrunk by a centimeter, from 170 to 169.No CLEAR, as it was more like a transition than a stage.We simply moved on to the next stage.
Stage 5:Boss stage for class 4E1, boys' group. Sit-ups. A test of the classmates' endurance and stomach strength(if that is what they call it). This one'sa though one. No one got killed here, though it was the most tiring after the pull up station. I did 41, and Randall did 43. Just one more, and I could have gotten an "A" grade! CLEAR! We moved on to the Bonus stage.
BONUS Stage: classmates get to re-attempt any one station he did not do so well in. Randall and I returned to the first stage, the standing board jump station, and we got slightlymore satisfying results.
Caualty count(injuries): 3. Gabriel who experienced a bit of thoigh preoblems before his attempt at the standing board jump station, Andy who crammed his left leg at the sit-up station and me, for a crammed thigh at the sit and reach station.
Casualty count(failed attempts of classmates): i did not pay so much attention for this, although I know that about less than 10 failed their pull ups.
First aider(Cleric): Me,of course... :P
I'm finally out of the bronze barrier after 7 years,but a silver's not good enough for me...
3pm. Everyone gathered in the hall for a short briefing. Andy sure was a little satisfied, since this was the first time 30 or so Chinese Dance members were relocated out of the hall for the sake of 9 classes of secondary four and five students. But since Randall was telling me some facts of the sharinean guild quest(MapleSEA), I thought of typing a walkthrough of the NAPFA test in the same format.We had entered the hall after taking our attendence(registration).Anyway, we were given our Station(stage) order after that, and the first was the standing board jump.A test of the classmates' leg strength and jump distance(haste, scrolled for jump equipment and teleport strictly not allowed).There were 18 boys today, as 4 were down for intensive practice for SYF. I made my attempt, with my final score at 226(second attempt).
Second stage:Sit and Reach. A test of the classmates' flexibility.Here, one must sit on a board with a metre that has a metal slide in front of him, while he is supported on the back by another board and a belt preventing him from bending his knees. I wasalways the last to attempt, so I could have gotten the upper hand. I think that I had gotten the highest for the class, at 50cm. CLEAR! We move on to the next stage.
Stage 3: Pull Ups. A test of the classmates' arm strength.Here, one must hang on a 2-metre high pole before lifting himslef up to the rod, thus having only his chin above it. Once done, it is counted as one, and he must get down again, straightening his elbows before going on the next attemptand so on. For this, the top scorers are Andy, at 11 pull ups,Kamal at 9 pull ups and the others who did 5 and got a "C" grade. Many classmates "died" at this stage.CLEAR! We moved on to the next stage.If I was not wrong, this was a "boss" stage, but since it was not the second last stage, it think it cannot be considered to be one.
Stage 4:Shuttle Run. A test of the classmates' agility(Haste and scrolled for speed equipment strictly not allowed). kamal broke the record of another class by hitting 9.78 seconds on the clock. I got another "D"grade by clocking 10.77 seconds. CLEAR! We moved on to the next station.
Height and Weight. A checklist of the classmates' height and mass. Well, this is simply to kill time, and also to restock a little on our lost liquid intake. Well, it was certainly a joke to have my height read as 136.5cm(humilating, eh?).Ont he second attempt again, it seemed better, but I think I had shrunk by a centimeter, from 170 to 169.No CLEAR, as it was more like a transition than a stage.We simply moved on to the next stage.
Stage 5:Boss stage for class 4E1, boys' group. Sit-ups. A test of the classmates' endurance and stomach strength(if that is what they call it). This one'sa though one. No one got killed here, though it was the most tiring after the pull up station. I did 41, and Randall did 43. Just one more, and I could have gotten an "A" grade! CLEAR! We moved on to the Bonus stage.
BONUS Stage: classmates get to re-attempt any one station he did not do so well in. Randall and I returned to the first stage, the standing board jump station, and we got slightlymore satisfying results.
Caualty count(injuries): 3. Gabriel who experienced a bit of thoigh preoblems before his attempt at the standing board jump station, Andy who crammed his left leg at the sit-up station and me, for a crammed thigh at the sit and reach station.
Casualty count(failed attempts of classmates): i did not pay so much attention for this, although I know that about less than 10 failed their pull ups.
First aider(Cleric): Me,of course... :P
I'm finally out of the bronze barrier after 7 years,but a silver's not good enough for me...
Monday, April 16, 2007
SPCA Flag Day
This might seem a little outdated, but i have just only found time to write about it tonight. Anyway, I woke up at 4am in the morning to catch up with my maplesea account...Strange eh? I would not have anymore time for that once it hits daybreak. For your information, I am a ludibrium-based level 44 cleric in the world of Delphinus of MapleSEA. My IGN is RY91D. Soon, I will be creating a new character. Anyway, back to topic. Ended at 6.30 to prepare for the Flag Day. I reached Jurong Point at 8am, as it was the reporting time. The people from SPCA came late, at around 8.25am. Andy,Randall and I formed a team, collected our can and flags(not stickers) and headed out to on our quest to "beg" for donations.
First stage, Jurong East MRT Station. As we travelled by MRT, we were among the first to arrive. Weselected the first spot, the traffic crossing. It was extremely fast, though, within less than an hour out of the 2hours and 30 minutes allocated to us, Randall had already completed our first page of flags! However, as time passed, so did more groups pass by. Time to change our collecting location.
Next stop, Jurong West Market. We headed back to Lakeside MRT STation, rehydrated ourselves before heading there by bus 187. Sadly, we hardly sold more than 10 flags there. 3 groups of 2 had already taken that spot. So we moved on to the third stage at our final location, Ghim Moh Shopping Centre. We rehydrated ourselves again before taking bus 99.On the way there, guess what? Yong Chuan(pardon my spelling),together with a few others was playing basketball at a nearby basketball court!Wow!There they were,slacking away while having a job to do. Think about this, someone having 2hours and 30 minutes added into his CIP hour bank for playing basketball??? Anyways,back to the scene.Andy did a little while outside the shopping centre. By then, our can was already three quarters full. I took over after that, and completed our 100th flag before going off for a lunch break at 11am. We went back at 11.35pm to fill the last quarter. I managed to get out of my shell this time, ask anyone who came our way to collect a coin or two.There were kind ones, morale boosters and also, those who would not like to make a donation or they had already made one. That, was in fact the hard reality of society.
12.10pm, I sold the 150th flag that filled our can to the brim(RECORD BROKEN!!!) 5minutes before time. We took a bus straight back to the end point, Jurong Point Shopping Centre. We were praised by the collectors at the collection point, for achieving a grest collection that filled the can. That day was the second time this year that I participated in a flag day. The last time was two weeks ago when St John Ambulance Brigade had one, but I did not have to "beg", as I had Mathematics remedial that day. Now, what comes after each party quest in MapleSEA is completed? The BONUS Stage, of course! We got a certificate of participation and a bottle of water for the hard work.
I headed back to Jurong East after that to buy some paint and brushes for my model set, which is already nearing its completion, due at the end of term 2. Headed home for lunch and to get ready for tuition at 2.30pm(that's why I could not make it to the school's Chinese Dance troupe's full-dress reharsal at 3.30pm)...Tuition ended at 4.30pm, and I prepared for the next one at 6.15pm, at Bukit Panjang... Finally, at dusk, I reached home at 7.30pm,had my dinner, completed somerevision before participating in Azure Sanctum(my MapleSEA guild)'s next attempt at the new Sharinean Guild Contest and guild quest...
For now, maybe its back to a little more training before i reach level 50 and help the guild once again...
First stage, Jurong East MRT Station. As we travelled by MRT, we were among the first to arrive. Weselected the first spot, the traffic crossing. It was extremely fast, though, within less than an hour out of the 2hours and 30 minutes allocated to us, Randall had already completed our first page of flags! However, as time passed, so did more groups pass by. Time to change our collecting location.
Next stop, Jurong West Market. We headed back to Lakeside MRT STation, rehydrated ourselves before heading there by bus 187. Sadly, we hardly sold more than 10 flags there. 3 groups of 2 had already taken that spot. So we moved on to the third stage at our final location, Ghim Moh Shopping Centre. We rehydrated ourselves again before taking bus 99.On the way there, guess what? Yong Chuan(pardon my spelling),together with a few others was playing basketball at a nearby basketball court!Wow!There they were,slacking away while having a job to do. Think about this, someone having 2hours and 30 minutes added into his CIP hour bank for playing basketball??? Anyways,back to the scene.Andy did a little while outside the shopping centre. By then, our can was already three quarters full. I took over after that, and completed our 100th flag before going off for a lunch break at 11am. We went back at 11.35pm to fill the last quarter. I managed to get out of my shell this time, ask anyone who came our way to collect a coin or two.There were kind ones, morale boosters and also, those who would not like to make a donation or they had already made one. That, was in fact the hard reality of society.
12.10pm, I sold the 150th flag that filled our can to the brim(RECORD BROKEN!!!) 5minutes before time. We took a bus straight back to the end point, Jurong Point Shopping Centre. We were praised by the collectors at the collection point, for achieving a grest collection that filled the can. That day was the second time this year that I participated in a flag day. The last time was two weeks ago when St John Ambulance Brigade had one, but I did not have to "beg", as I had Mathematics remedial that day. Now, what comes after each party quest in MapleSEA is completed? The BONUS Stage, of course! We got a certificate of participation and a bottle of water for the hard work.
I headed back to Jurong East after that to buy some paint and brushes for my model set, which is already nearing its completion, due at the end of term 2. Headed home for lunch and to get ready for tuition at 2.30pm(that's why I could not make it to the school's Chinese Dance troupe's full-dress reharsal at 3.30pm)...Tuition ended at 4.30pm, and I prepared for the next one at 6.15pm, at Bukit Panjang... Finally, at dusk, I reached home at 7.30pm,had my dinner, completed somerevision before participating in Azure Sanctum(my MapleSEA guild)'s next attempt at the new Sharinean Guild Contest and guild quest...
For now, maybe its back to a little more training before i reach level 50 and help the guild once again...