This is an extension to the blu-tac post I posted last year. I finally found a picture of the blu-tac figure! Courtesy of Hong Aik. Hahaha.




Anyway, I didn't go online on Monday at all. I had choir practice after school, and I was feeling nauseous at that time so I didn't really sing. I reached home at around 8pm, and without showering nor eating dinner, I fell asleep on the sofa. Woke up at 6.15am the next morning before preparing to go to school. What an interesting night!

There are a few people I want to thank.

First of all, Mr Pang, my form teacher, who taught me the 2 maths subjects plus CME. I didn't just learn to "sing the anthem" aloud, I also learnt valuable life lessons from him. He's a person who would share a lot of things with us, other than just on academics.

Mr Ee, assistant form teacher and also english teacher, who will go through every step thoroughly on how to write letters. I will definitely not forget his "hands by your side, let's wish each other. 1, 2, 3, good morning class!"

Mrs Setho, physics teacher, who always tells us to do things "happily". Not only that, she also wants us to remind Jun Ren not to call her too often because that would disrupt lessons.

Mr Wong WL and Ms Yeo, both chemistry teachers with some chemistry between them, for encouraging us to do well for chemistry so that they can treat us to pizza hut. So far still no treat huh. Yes now I know must always write down "key words"! And notice that I thank them together ;) Wish both of you the best for your future haha.

Mrs Nabilah, who somehow made me not hate biology, probably because she rushed through the topic on sexual reproduction in PLANTS so that she could start on sexual reproduction in MEN. But no, the main reason is because I am weird as compared to the rest of the class. Many people in my class prefer Mr Gabriel's lessons because he teaches more interesting stuffs outside syllabus. But I prefer to learn only those which are inside syllabus. So Mdm Nabilah, you have a supporter.

Mrs Lee HP, who introduced the 12-mark social studies essay question which caused so much headache. And her laptop wallpaper is "hp computer". It so fits her name. Yeah but promoted to master teacher already, so that brings me to thank...

... Mrs Bala, who never fails to make lessons interesting. Even though social studies is a suject most people hate, she forces us to love it. And quite sad to say, it didn't really work. And the one who recommended us to study tourism for geography elective when 90% wanted to study environment. In the end environment was very difficult lah! Haha sorry for not heeding your advice of studying tourism and got myself an A2 for combined humanities, Mrs Bala!

Ms Lim, lower sec maths teacher, who loves to find faults in those who got full marks and try to deduct marks, but on the other hand, find where she can help those with 40+ marks pass the paper. No but seriously, one of those rare lower sec teachers who can actually teach, frankly speaking.

Gabriel Chee, my 4A classmate, for encouraging me to just study for Biology. Who knows maybe I can get A1 for it right? And so I did.

Tan Wei Liang, from 4A also, who kept trying to refresh my memory on stuffs, all because I didn't listen in class. Refresh as in ask me questions in PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, and MATHS which he could not do. He is supposed to be very imba in those subjects anyway, and he is still imba.

All 4A classmates, wow I have never felt a stronger class spirit than 4A. And I need to thank all of you for achieving a mean L1R5 of 7.6! OMG that's even better than previous year's 4A (theirs was 7.8). At least now got something to show off. And chemistry MSG 1.4, A-maths 1.2, E-maths 1.0.

All VSchoir members, present and past, thank you for creating an enjoyable environment for me. I treat every choir practice as a break from all the academic work. Yup so to all present VSchoir members, continue to work hard!

Family members, for not stressing me up at all. They just gave me much freedom and I believe that is one of the most crucial factors in deciding how well I did for 'O' levels.

So because of all of you people (and others as well whom I have not mentioned), I have obtained a wonderful score of 7 for 'O' levels.

Rarrh I need to rant!

2 days ago when I boarded the bus, I noticed that when I tapped my EZ-link card, there was only 1 beep rather than 2 beeps for concession. Feeling strange, when I alighted the bus I tapped again, only realizing that I was charged the adult fare (90+ cents I think) rather than the normal 45 cents.

Hence yesterday, I thought I can make a trip to Bedok Interchange before going to school to find out why my card is so weird. Maybe because I have not renewed my card yet. I boarded service 222 and paid cash (55c). Why would I want to pay the adult fare just for the trip right?

So what happened was that the bus driver asked me to show him my EZ-link card to prove that I was a student. I thought, hey, I was in VJC uniform (actually, VS uniform with the VJC collar pin), it was rather obvious that I was a student. Nonetheless I showed him my card. He then asked me to tap my card onto the reader. I was feeling quite surprised because I thought my card was enough to prove that I was a student. I even explained to him that I would be charged the adult fare and I was about to go to Bedok Interchange to renew it (or at least find out why my card did not automatically renew itself). Despite my explanation, he told me to tap it anyway and reassured me that he would cancel the deduction.

And so I did.

And he confiscated my card!

At first I didn't know what was happening. I tapped my card and he immediately cancelled the deduction. But he took my card and wrote some stuffs on a piece of paper, and later handed to me a receipt saying that my card has been confiscated. I was shocked! I explained to him again that I was on my way to the interchange to renew my card but he refused to listen. What frustrated me the most was that he refused to offer any explanations on why he retained my card!

In the end I had to alight at Bedok Interchange and walk for one bus stop to take a bus to school (service 222 doesn't go VJC). That means I wasted one adult trip without doing anything meaningful (meaningful as in I would have renewed my card at Bedok).

That spoiled my mood for the whole day. In the receipt I was told to call them after 5 working days, which means for the whole of this week and part of next week, I have to use cash to pay for my fares. Good grief!

This is a picture of me in VJC PE shirt. Only.

A few months back, a friend told me that he did not really like to talk to me online because I was not cooperative enough in maintaining the conversation. Like I would usually just give an answer or a short comment after he asked me something, and not asking him questions or discussing with him issues.

Now I know what he really meant and how he really felt. Just recently I added everyone in my sub-OG and CT class. Because none of them actually started the conversation with me, I had to take the initiative. And for most of them, I really had to think of what to tell them or ask them because they never seem to try to continue talking to me. And if I do not continue the conversations, I think there's really no point adding each other to MSN.

So to those who are reading this blog, do try to talk to me if you see me online on MSN. Sometimes I may just give one-word reply or something like that, but I really do wish to continue talking.

Nice smell wah!
Nice smell wah!
Nice smell waaahh!!!
1, 2, 3, Theodore!

Orientation is over. Was so NOT looking forward to its closing. Yesterday was damn fun because our whole subgroup Thirant were all WET at East Coast Park. Nearly everyone got dumped into the sea. Our OGLs were the first haha. After that our whole subgroup tried to sneak into VS to shower but failed, so we ended up at Mandarin Gardens to do so and had our lunch at Thaipan.

Today we had our first day of lessons. The lectures today gave me both a good and bad impression. Bad impression: the air-con in LT1 broke down. There was only 1 fan and the lecturer used it to blow the heat away from the projector, apparently overheated, to try to make it function. In the end we had to make do with ZERO visual aids. And his lecture was so boring. I wanted to sleep but couldn't because it was too hot! Good impression: Geography lecture took place in this super cooling LT3 for around 20 minutes only, even though it was supposed to be for 70 minutes! And the lecturer was entertaining us with photos and everything.

Went back VS today after lessons. Saw all the sec 3s now in long pants haha. And the new sec 1s are so misbehaved, they were not paying attention when I told them stuffs. Oh and I tried out air rifle too... my first entry into the air rifle range.

The timetable for today is bad... I have all 4 subjects PCMG today, plus project work (not yet) and civics tutorial. Tomorrow is not so bad, because there is choir practice! Look forward to tomorrow.

First day officially as a student in VJC.

I think I may need some time to shift my mind from VS to VJC. For example, today after a few of us 4A people got our VJ PE shirt and shorts, we wanted to change outside the boys' toilet since the toilet was full and there were no girls around. In VS I think this is definitely possible, but in VJ, I think that isn't a really good idea.

Also, written in the school journal that was given today, I noticed a rule that was stated so explicitly that I don't think I can find it anywhere else in Singapore.

Student Behaviour:
Rough-housing games eg. Tau-poking, jacking and dunking into ponds are not allowed; for that matter, any form of games or antics that compromises safety is banned.

I am positive they got this from VS.

Anyway my OGLs from Theodore are very enthu. I think they sabo-ed a lot of us freshmen already. Pock Thong got sabo-ed twice to go lead a cheer in front of everyone. Hope I don't kena...

Happy new year!

The secondary three class allocation for VS just came out. Although I am not a sec three, and I am no longer in VS, I still went to download the excel file to take a look. When I opened the file, I noticed 6 things.

3B is a pure PE class. That means the whole of 3B takes PE. Also, nobody from other classes take PE. Coincidentally, everyone in 3B takes History Elective (HSS) as well. This probably means that taking Geography Elective (GSS) and PE together is not allowed.

3A and 3D are pure triple science + GSS and triple science + HSS classes respectively. Looks like 3A is going to be the best class yet again. The thing which shocked me the most was that there are only 22 people in this class according to the list. This means that there will be many scholars joining them next year, much much more than our class.

All the classes are allocated based on the combined humanities subject the students take. 3AEGIJ all take GSS and 3BCDFH all take HSS. This is unlike our batch where some GSS and HSS students are grouped into the same classes.

Nobody takes Pure History, Pure Literature and Literature Elective. Oh man no wonder the excel file seemed so empty. I wonder why... must be the literature teachers scare the crap out of the sec 2s last year. Probably something like: Quintal strikes back!

Those taking Pure Geography are in 3C. Well for our batch 3C happens to be one of the lous- Sorry, nothing.

Lastly, those not taking Biology are randomly scattered into all the classes (except 3ABCD). This means that it is now harder to find the lousiest class. Although it may seem like a good thing such that the weaker students are scattered all over the place, those average students suffer. This is rather unfair if you look at it this way, but considering that in order to rank secondary schools, you need to calculate the mean L1R5, and it is usually the weaker students that pull the whole cohort's L1R5 up (worse), it is therefore a good solution to group the students this way.

Ah well, all the best to the secondary threes.