FunOrama!

It was a blast! Wonderful! Perhaps the most tiring 2 days but yet most meaningful experience i will ever have in ACJC. Simply great!

Started off with preparation day. Had MRC duties in the morning. Very sorry to the class for not being able to help out. Waited till 10+ for everyone to assemble in MR room before we began our massive project of making sound audible from every angle of the school. Took crank stand and horns and hundreds of meters of cables to setup. Somehow my group was one of the faster one this time round. Did more than what i was supposed to setup. Laying of cables was fun and i figured out that perhaps i have wronged someone for a long long time. Finished setting up all the speakers at around 1pm. By that time all of us were famished. Seriously. Ran quick checks on the system before energising it. Pretty successful i must say. No glitches.

I guess we were too loud cause this teacher from the dunking booth complained to us that their loudspeakers could barely be heard over our system. She complained complained complained and kao bei kao bei to all the teachers in the school. Then that class's chairman came over and talked to us like he wanted to pick up a fight. He used all sorts of vulgarities until i think he has finished using up all of them found in the dictionary of vulgarities. Seriously that class is pretty rubbish cause from what i can see, all their planning were last minute stuff and their teacher was seriously pretty screwed up. Compared to my class form teacher, i realised that my class actually got a very very amazing form tutor.

The system was officially ready by around 2pm. Went over to my class to setup the gun. Had no choice at first but to only use batteries and an inverter. Got done with it. Haha had quite some fun with it shotting cans. I was quite shocked to find out that people actually found the gun fun. LOL. I heard that Mr Sim who went into the MR room on Friday saw the gun on the table and went " WAH! Really look like carbine!" LOL!!! Must really take my hats off to Jin Zhe who made the effort to search high and low for the toy gun replica of the carbine. I must say that I'm sorry for losing my temper on you on Wednesday but let that be a lesson to both of us. (: Oh have to also thank Mr Chew who was so understanding to me and gave the games stall a power point which we did not apply for. So in the end we ran from power supply off the wall instead of a inverter. Finally, I must also thank my father for always willing to listen to me and help me out with the testing and advising me on the safety aspects of the gun.

Night came and 8 of us stayed over in school. By then all of us were pretty angry with the way the school pushing us around. Reported to the discipline committee for staying over in school. Went out at around 9pm for dinner. Yes most of use skipped lunch and only got to eat at around 9. All of us were like hungry ghost. LOL. We RAN from school to the JUMBO coffeehouse. 7 of us ate. Shu Teng eaten already so he just drank tea. 7 of us and 12 plates of rice :D

Went back to school walking very slowly cause we were like so full. Went to our temporary Command Control Centre and lazed around there. Waited till 12 midnight then we began our disrupting the water supply and food plan, as ordered by the OM -_-. Went around the whole school to remove the fuse and turn off the water supply of the water cooler and vending machines. Came back and went to bathe. Had to use the girls toilet cause the guys toilet was filled with gas cylinders. Yellow is a nice colour for a toilet. By then, my phone died-_-

At around 2am, this group of guys came down with a calf and prepared it for a roasting session. Wah its like the first time i see such a thing, very very cool.

Went back to CCC and i knocked out. Slept till 7am cause was seriously damn tired. Woke up and tried turning my phone. got like 1% of battery left. Then received SMS from vivian asking for my apron. AHHH!!!! I forgot to bring... Very sorry about it. I kept reminding myself to bring on Firday morning but then i forgot... Very sorry. Went to our system and began re-energising the whole system. Successful.

FunOrama! I was involved with 4 things, fruits stall as helper, games stall as troubleshooter, MRC, and Roving DV. Wah 4 things to cope with, how to juggle? And i had $50 waiting for me to spend. Plus my phone was dying. ZZZ.

Fortunately everything went on quite smoothly with a little bit of problem here and there with the games booth. It was very crowded in school. Like alot of people and it rained quite heavily. Spent more time at the games booth and i found it really fun and fulfilling to see people having fun with the gun that i built with Jin Zhe, although our gun went over the budget. There was this small boy who was so cute. He was like holding the gun and when i started the count down, he went "tan tan tan" which meant wait wait wait in hokkien. So cute la. haha. The top prize was won by this girl who just managed to hit 2000 points. Very pro.

So sad. FunOrama had to end. Pack up began and only managed to clear everything at 8pm. Sat in MR room and used XJ's charger to charge my phone. Turned it on and omg. Alot of voice call alerts. Very sorry to all the people who called me especially Shi Yi. I promise to charge my phone to 100% and bring my charger along the next time i am having another stay over anywhere.

Learned alot of things during FunOrama. Really a great experience!

FunOrama

YAY!!! 2 more days to FunOrama! Woots! Love the atmosphere around. Although its really busy ad hectic toget ready for FunOrama, i still think that its worth every single moment of it. Can really feel the class coming together and bonding with each other as FunOrama approaches. Even the usually quiet ones start to speak up! So exciting la!

I bet our class games stall would be like the coolest around cause the machine is made by Jinzhe and Me, so of course will be darn cool. Bwahahahaha. LOL! Hopefully the gun won't fail me on the actual day and alot alot of people can come and have fun at our booth. Really look forward to it.

John Mayer - Daughters

I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world
She's just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can
To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands
Now I'm starting to see
Maybe it's got nothing to do with me

Fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Oh, you see that skin?
It's the same she's been standing in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now she's left
Cleaning up the mess he made

Fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Boys, you can break
You'll find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong
And boys soldier on
But boys would be gone without warmth from
A woman's good, good heart

On behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world

So fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
So mothers be good to your daughters, too
So mothers be good to your daughters, too

Sick...

ZZZ... Sick on good Friday, what perfect timing man...

Couldn't sleep well at all last night, just tossed and turned on the bed. Wasn't even sure of what was going through my head. It was like total confusion. Semi conscious about my surrounding and not even sure if am i in a dream or not.

Woke up at around 10. Was still in a kind of semi-conscious state, unsure of what am i supposed to do. Took some time to stabalise my thoughts before going to wash up.

Now my whole body is aching and my throat hurts. Breathing in hurts a lot already. I want to go sleep and try to recover but the moment i try to sleep, the weird semi conscious, confused state will get back to me and i will end up tossing and turning around on the bed again.

Hais, hope that i will recover soon...

Chemistry

Every time it comes to chemistry lessons, I always have a very reluctant feeling in me. One side of me tells me that I want to learn Chemistry but the other side of me tells me that I had enough with Chemistry.

When JC1 started off, i was quite enthusiastic with Chemistry. It was like the lesson that i most looked forward to. Partly due to me liking Chemistry and partly due to the wonderful tutor that my class had. I still remember after PAE when there was a reshuffling of teachers and classmates, i was super happy when i saw her walk down the corridor for our first Chemistry lesson. Happiness was an understatement at that time.

But now, its a totally different story. In my honest opinion, she is now just a purely results orientated teacher. I try not to think so much about it but it really is very hard to ignore that feeling in me. Yes it is our fault to write the wrong stuff in the test papers, yes we failed you, yes we disappointed you but is it really purely our fault? Our fault to make this mistakes? I mean there is always this factor of human error and something things that go wrong will go wrong. Its not like we students want to purposely write the wrong stuff in the test papers, in fact we don't want to. Who doesn't want to get high scores for whatever tests they take, whatever examinations they take? All of us feel happy when we eventually get good results but we too feel sad, disappointed with ourselves when we fail or make silly mistakes that put us at a disadvantage.

It feels horrible to realise that a mistake has been made. Just terrible. Is rubbing it in really necessary? Perhaps it will leave a deep impression in us but then again where is the humane side of doing such a thing? Maybe such a "rubbing it in" session will help us in the future when we take our papers in the next few months, by then i would be thanking you all the way till there are no more other means but then again, are there really no other methods to make us understand and learn from our mistakes other than having a "rubbing it in" real hard session? Maths was something that i totally hated. Totally. I took maths tutorials and lectures for granted and just ignored Miss Kuah and Mr Tan during lectures and tutorials. But when she took over our class in J2, I realised that she was a tutor and lecturer that did not just care about our results, our grades, but also someone who cared about the welfare and wellness of her students. This was a motivating factor that led me to at least pick up my pencil and give maths a try. From then on, i got so hooked onto it that it really became an enjoyment whenever i could solve a maths question. For that, i really respect her.

Perhaps it has been proven that scolding sessions work the best in obtaining results that are satisfiable but does that mean that without scolding, satisfiable results are unattainable? I agree to the act of scolding but only at appropriate situations. That is my believe, which is why i don't lose my temper easily at anyone unless that person is pushing my limits. In my honest opinion, excessive reprimanding sessions are harmful, and I'm beginning to feel the effects of it. It has been getting too common nowadays, so much so that I'm beginning to lose interest in it. In the past when I did Chemistry tutorials, I did it with a thinking in my mind that its for me cause I'm actually enriching myself with information but now when i pick up that stack of paper, my mood dampens. Its as if I'm studying Chemistry to satisfy her demand for our good grades.

Oh well, this is just purely my opinion and i seriously don't mean any harm. I just want to let the steam of anger out of me so that i will feel better. It may be a very biased opinion but this is truly what i think about it.

MahJong!

Woots! Went to Vivian's place to play mahjong on Friday. Started off with 3 people and we were watching Kung Fu dunk while playing it. So hard to concentrate la and 3 people mahjong seriously quite hard to play cause cant really count with 3 people. Then when the show ended, Bernard joined us and we had 4 people. Yay! He did not know how to play so we taught him how to play. He is a fast learner! So in no time, we were playing at a fast speed. the 4 of us played from 3+ till 6 and Jin Zhe sat at a corner to mug from 3 to 6. -_-"'

I was like on a winning spree, kept winning for consecutive 4-5 rounds and i was the dealer so the dice got stuck at my place. haha. Guess i was lucky. All the tiles that i needed just came up to me. After that i lost the winning luck and lost for a few rounds. Then at the last round, i was feeling lucky again and won it! Yay!

Went down to the coffeshop to have dinner. Ate Yu Pian Mee Fen for dinner. Not bad.

Saw Mr Kayden Lim on the way out of the coffeshop and all of us were like stun. Haha. We quickly walked off.

Reached the MRT station and we walked off in different directions.

Argh school's gonna start again and the hectic life of school will hit me again. Roar!

MRC Camp

Woo Hoo! It was fun!

Learnt a lot from the J1s from the way they behaved and interacted. It sort of reminded me of me during the march camp last year. Ah, how quickly time passes.

It was very tiring for all of us cause we were like dozing off whenever possible throughout the second day. LOL. I dozed through the end of camp briefing... alamak. haha

But overall, it made me realise a lot of things in MRC that i once could not make sense off and i got to know the J1s more. They are a fun bunch of people and i really do hope that they will stay on in the CCA.

MRC Recruitment Video

WooHoo! But this one is without the effects, so its not the actual one shown during assembly today...

Terms

Two word: Quite Screwed...

My Guzheng Story

A story about me and my Guzheng.

Secondary 1, I was somehow posted to enter Guzheng Ensemble. Everyone in my class was kind of in awe cause i could get in. It was considered as a CCA that was really good considering that they only picked the best few suitable people to join it. 11 people managed to get into Guzheng Ensemble for my batch. Practices were once per week, every Wednesday.

I was one out of the 2 boys in Guzheng. People tend to relate me to being "sissy" cause i was in Guzheng. They had the impression that Guzheng was for girls. Well, i had that impression too but then when i saw my senior Wei Long, i was taken aback. I realised that there is a violent side to Guzheng. Haha. He could play the Guzheng with anger but yet at the same time with grace, something that is pretty rare nowadays i would say.

Soon i had to get my own Guzheng cause i had to practice at home. At that point in time, i had the feeling as if I'm going to stick to Guzheng as a CCA for the rest of my education but who knew, i would get tired and sick of it after some time? I got one, one expensive one. It cost my parents $880 plus the cloth to cover it which cost $50, it was really expensive. Price wise it is expensive, but what was more worth is that this Guzheng was specially selected for me by my trainer, Yin Qun. She even placed a sticker with my name on it on the Guzheng.

I was one of the most promising player in Guzheng Ensemble. I picked up the skill very fast and i could play songs that most did not know how to. The only problem with me was that i was too violent. I had little expressions in my music.

The first outing i had with Guzheng was on a Saturday during Sec 1. It was like a exchange thing among different Guzheng Ensembles from different schools. It was held at Fuhua Secondary School. At that time, the Chairman of Guzheng was this pretty girl. She was very talented, graceful and responsible. She would think of all the possible problems that may arise and solve them even before they arise. I can remember that she wanted all the performers for that day to re-tune their instruments cause she was worried that the change in temperature from air conditioned surroundings to room temperature will affect the sound. What she did was very smart. Something that left a impact in me.

It was the year of SYF too. Out of all the people in my batch, i was selected to go with them to support them. I guess i was kind of important? They won a gold, which was the highest possible at that time.

Secondary 2 came. We shifted our venue cause we had a new school compound. The new room was around the same size as the old room but there was a GIGANTIC mirror that went across the room. Something like a dance studio.

Secondary 3 came. SYF year. I was part of it. Pressure was super duper high. All of us wanted to get Gold With Honor, but honestly, deep inside me, i was pretty sure we couldn't make it. Everyone was super encouraging to each other telling each other that gold with honor was ours. Oh well. We practiced very very very hard everyday, EVERYDAY.

That day came. We were excused for the whole day to allow us to practice in the morning and get ready for the competition. Everything just happened so quickly. In no time we were in the tuning room inside SCH. Everything went on smoothly until we got to go on stage. OH MY! Someone's support toppled. This was bad. My chairman was thinking of what she should do but she decided to fake on and not change the instrument for a spare one. I agreed but i guess it was a wrong move. All of us were so happy when it was over.

We went inside to listen to the whole thing and when the whole thing was over, the results were announced. We lost it. We did not get Gold with Honors.

It was a sad thing. All of us wanted to get GOH, but we failed. Everyone was crying. Everyone. Our grand-seniors were there to cheer us on but all we could do was cry...

Sec 4 came. I took over as the Chairman. I was rather unhappy with the results of the committee cause i really didn't want to be Chairman cause i knew i would screw the whole thing up. And yes i did. Some of the teachers were screwed too to start with.

That year was a hard one for me. I didn't really know what to do. All i was looking forward to was to step down during July. Hais. Come to think of it, i am really very irresponsible. Performances were not the main thing in my head. Oh well. But i have to thank my 2 good friends i had in Guzheng. They continuously pushed me on but i continuously failed them. Hais.

As time passed, i picked up another hobby and my guzheng was left at a corner, never touched. It must have felt lonely. It came to a point when my father decided to put it back into its casing cause i wasn't even using it.

Today. It would be most certain the last day i would ever see it again. Kind of sad but i know that it would be put to better use with a new master. I decided to give it away, for the sake of music. Someone who genuinely wants it and would use it. Just really hope that the new master would put it to good use.

Goodbye my Guzheng...