woohoo

i realise i havent been blogging lately...
not sure why, maybe cuz i've been rather sick lately, i always feel tired after school. i sleep much earlier than what i usually did last year. Last year, sleeping at 1130 was nothing much... but now im sleepy at 10 liao... SIAN. that means much less time to revise stuff. But I guess I'm still doing well in school. I have yet to screw anything too badly. so that's well done to me! (:

hmm... let's write about recent times...

1. CO!
Sat went for CO prac. RGdaji was there to return scores and help us out for march 1st concert but in the end they were doing homework cuz we didnt practice the hard songs... >< im really wondering how we can ever perform 1.5 hrs on 1/3 given our current standards... MORE DAZU IS NEEDED! tomorrow is prac again so hmm... problem is rjdaji's using the room for dazu. need to find another place! sighhhh... shall try to suggest to renyan. if we can practice in a squash court, i dont see why we cant practice somewhere else...

skipped weiqi and jiang cuz was rather sick...

2. ERP
sun was doing of ERP project at Kenneth's place. His house is really cool! he just renovated it and there are actually cushioned benches near the windows which i completely love! RARH! and of course, the toilets but nvm... Renovation is indeed tortorous cuz my neighbours are renovating currently and i can't stand the noise... SIGH!

hmm... anyway ERP was ok. Did an average amount of work... not as much as last time cuz maybe this time ying xiang's apple com proved to be a distration... need to ask ying xiang for his pics mannn... lol. but the main idea is there liao bah. i always think that the outline of the project, the logical flow of stuff... Once it's there, the others is just sai kang. (: and of course creativity! (: i want to train my leadership, creativity, innovation and i guess much more... but all these should turn useful in the future...

3. Random
I'm proud to smile! (((: Cui Cheng said the other day that I looked weird performing with my smile and Leonard said that it was hard to imagine a Patrick who didn't smile! YEAH! haha. so happy! hmm... im not sure but i dont smile that often at home or when alone i think... friends just make me smile i guess... haha.

4. CCT
today's chi cct was totally crap. 60 marks in 45 mins. I and many others wrote the summary in 5 mins! >< but i guess i won't do toooo badly cuz everyone faced problems. Even the china scholars were cursing the paper. haha.

5. Assembly
Today's assembly was OIP. Cytam and Eugene presented for ChangChun. haha. it completely brought me back to the "good old times". the REALLY REALLY FUN times we all had together in changchun. i can still remember the walk to the museum, the karoke performance, the lessons we taught... woah. it made me want to go for oip this year. So sad we went last year. This year there's Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Korea and UAE added. haha. rather weird but completely fun. if only i could go for oip every year... if possible, (though i don't think it is), i want to go to taiwan again! or maybe korea! or dubai! haha... AND the air costs this time are subsidized not by $200 but by 50% which means we only pay $500. wth. I WANT TO GO!!!! this reminds me of taiwan. The $300 was sooooo worth it. RARH. ChangChun was a bit more expensive but it was also longer and i experienced SNOW! haha. and much more. haix. just hope i can go!

6. YES! 93.3
Yes 93.3 is a totally rocking radio station. I'm completely addicted to it now. I listen to it while going to school, while coming home, while I'm doing my homework, while I'm blogging right now. haha. The DJs' voice are nice, a lot of songs they play are also my favourites and they introduce many nice songs to me. Then, the jokes they say, even the ads are funny. remember - "学会podcast，你肯定比羊来得强"! or "harm jim beng"! haha. funny!!!! sigh. and the things they say before programmes. like the traffic one is "不管你是一辆飞快的跑车，还是一辆普通的脚踏车，遇到交通阻塞，你就是不能动的车". haha. and a lot more luh... just can't remember. haha. so start listening! here's the web:

http://www.yes933.sg/webradio

woah. <3! wonder when i'll start writing in... haha. haven't tried b4 and don't really know how to.

7. lesson
Physics lessons are starting to become a bit irritating. think i'm not suited to ms. kek's teaching style. but i still get the stuff through some self-studying i guess... luckily it's not for chem cuz that would spell trouble to me. At least my physics is still rather ok. I'm one of the 3 on 10 marks for quiz 1. (: yay!

8. random
I'm drunk. ok. i mean I'm drinking green tea.

9. math
hmm. math is going rather well for me! (: yay! i understand the concepts and my test results are rather good (till now). trigo is getting hard so i guess it will take practice and some revision but that's not going to be anytime now cuz there's no big test for math coming up. the thing coming up is AMC. unfortunately, it's on the day of bio test, which practically means no mugging time for AMC. unlike last year in which i did 2-3 AMC papers, I'm going to go there totally unprepared this time. woah. last year i got 108. wonder how much i'll get this year. haha.

10. others
Bio is going fine. stable. after much mugging that is. but haven't started memorizing yet so i guess i need to start soon. history is totally screwed up for me cuz i haven't read the notes yet. read 1 yesterday, going to continue today. Shall try to complete all bah and start coming up with concept maps. Chem is ok just that i haven't memorised all the anion, cation and gas tests which are tested in week 10 which means more mugging on week 9 weekend. (: ENG and CHI are ok i guess...

11. Piano
Completely love the piano.

12. Chemistry matters
Yes it does. trust me.

13. BYE!

Patrick

start of the DEATH WEEKS.

woah. it's the start of the DEATH WEEKS again!

starting from last thursday with chem oba which was quite well done except for a careless mistake in maybe copper (2) sulphate and the bonus question...

Last friday was bio.... it was ok luh. quite easy so i guess quite well done also. shldn't fare too bad.

Today was math cct. I think i did quite ok bah. no hope for full marks but hoping for a 26 or 27...

coming up later this week is tomorrow's chi cct and thursday's history test...

Before week 9, which is the REAL DEATH WEEK...

and of course ending with week 10 monday's chem prac (which i guess is quite slack)...

but this means much mugging to be done. haha...

shall go mug history bah... chinese nothing much to do...

学会podcast,你肯定比羊来得强。。。

haha. funny. k bye,.

Patrick

rarh.

today was chem oba. it was rather simple except i think i misunderstood the bonus question. nevermind though... still hope i can get full marks! (:

many things coming up soon... Projects: ERP, Philo, SS... Tests: Bio prac (tml), Eng, Chi, Math, Hist, Bio CCT, SS test, History test... omg... ><

just wanna take it one by one bah. i think i've mugged quite a lot of bio already (at least i hope so... haha.)... well, anyway, math is the next thing... but sunday is gonna be ERP project so i'll only spend a bit of time to study math cct. I hope i can do well in it just like i've done so well for the previous 2 TAs. After that, there will be chinese cct which will be quite impromptu cuz there's nothing to mug... hist test is coming up too so i guess after math test, i'll need to mug for history. After that, mugging for SS. RARH. and finishing up SS project. haix. it's getting hectic. AND, there's zuowen to do. SIGH.

k nvm. just do well for bio prac tml...

rarh... tml got interact club dinner performance. hope i can do well...

and hope i can recover from this stupid headache + stomach ache. SIAN...

Patrick

imba.

haven't been blogging for quite a while... Hmm...

chinese new year has just passed, so i guess it's time for some new year resolutions again. lol.

mm... just read Mingjun and Yetao's imba compos. I think the China scholars are damn pro.

hmm.. anyway, for this year... would like to achieve the following...
1. more service
2. ricoperc!
3. results as good as last year

lol.. it's the same stuff luh. anyway, chinese new year was quite fun.

Cultural night was nice as usual, just that it was a bit short cuz we left early. anyway, my composition did get quite a positive feedback. yay! haha. hmm. music totally rocks i guess.

Then, went to friend's house to play on the 2nd day. haha. stayed there for the whole day. playing mahjong, Wii and dogs... lol. fun!

Then, Mrs. Gan's house... erm nothing much there just that the food was nice. haha.

quite a short new year for me. but anyway, went to visit Sam's hostel and studio the other day. Oh my gosh. I just can't wait for university life. The kind of projects they do remind me of the times in Taiwan. It's what I like to call fun hardship. or maybe tiredness that one actually enjoys. I guess that's what friends give to you. that's why i love doing projects. (: hostel life seems rather interesting too. not sure whether i'll get to live in a hostel. might want to try! haha. can get a friend and try? hmm... anyway, architecture seems so fun too! haha i just love subjects which require no mugging at all, more of logic and creativity! YAY! that's why i like drawing.

I like to walk randomly into the popular bookstore and look at stuff with no aims whatsoever. I like to think "what can i do with this thing if i bought it?". That's how I've become a little more creative this past year i think and that's also why my drawing and handwriting is actually getting better unlike in the past where it was totally horrid.

Hmm... i've been asked a few times what i'd like to do in the future. I haven't thought of the main job but i'd love to consider architecture although i know my drawing sucks...

but i'd love to do some things as hobbies!
1. I'd love to continue with weiqi! just love it! i've been told during the chinese new year that i used to beg my family to play board games with me, starting from easy ones like jumping aeroplanes to better ones like xiang4 qi2. haha. no wonder i love weiqi too.
2. I'd love to continue with music as my hobby too! mike's doing street-singing and sam's composing lots of piano songs and musicals. Hmm. hope to be able to be something like them. would really really love to finally pick up guitar. haha. (:
3. I'd love to start drawing and continue going for CO. and maybe writing essays too! guess these are things i enjoy doing...

anyway, many things have been happening recently...

psgms, co performances, co pracs... they've all been enjoyable...

hmm. that's all bah. still think china scholars are pro.

Patrick

The approach to the end of term 1

It's nearing the end of term 1 and the deadlines are nearing. Here they are:

PROJECTS:
ERP1: week 9
Philo: T2W1
SS project: week 9

CCTs:
CHI: week 8
MATH: week 8
Eng: week 9
Hist: week 9
Bio: week 9

and bio practical and chem next thur.


Chinese project: T2W8
Bio personal reflection: T2

so... the plan...
today: finished zuo wen. shall finish chem notes
sun: morning: finish phy notes, afternoon: SS project, evening: finish math notes
mon: read through bio stuff
tue: do bio notes
wed: study bio and chem test
thur: do bio notes (again)
fri: SLACK TIME! woohoo!
sat: read through notes
sun: read through notes + ERP + SS

that's all for now. HAIX. mugging time again. BYE!

孤单

老师，同学们：
大家好。今天，我要跟大家讨论一个很有趣的话题 -- 孤单。

在座的各位一定经历过孤单的生活。你可能在遇难的时候感到孤单。那时的你会是多么的无助，多么的悲伤，多么的痛苦。你可能在失恋的时候感到孤单。那时的你会是多么的悲哀，多么的辛酸。你可能在噩梦中感到孤单。那时的你会是多么的急躁，多么的郁闷。你甚至还在睡梦中开始拳打脚踢，以为自己正在独自一人跟恶鬼决一死战。是啊！孤单的生活是多么的悲惨！

但是，当我们面对孤单时，我们应该怎么去对付它呢？我们是否应该自暴自弃，放弃一切，在孤单的面前举起白旗表示投降呢？不应该这么做吗？那么我们又是否应该拿起武器，奋勇前进，跟孤单斗争到底呢？其实，我觉得这两种做法都是错误的。

也许你会很好奇，为什么我们不应该跟孤单斗争。是的。我们要坚持到底。我们不能轻易放弃。但是，我觉得跟孤单斗争并不是最佳的选择。因为这只会使我们疲劳，花费我们宝贵的精力。这样一来，我们又怎么好好地生活呢？其实，我本身觉得，应付孤单的最佳方法就是跟孤单做朋友。

跟孤单做朋友？孤单不就是独自一人，没有朋友陪着你的意思吗？怎么可以跟孤单做朋友呢？答案其实很简单。跟孤单做朋友，就是跟自己做朋友。自由不就是我们所追求的吗？当你跟孤单做朋友时，自由就会变成你的朋友。我们不是很喜欢发泄脾气吗？当你跟孤单做朋友时，你就可以任意在孤单上发泄脾气，快乐就会变成你的朋友。其实，还有很多很多。当你跟孤单做朋友时，你会在悲伤中找到舒适，你会在辛酸中找到兴奋，你会在郁闷时找到欢欣。

你会发现，有时人群之中，孤单会给你一 份清净，
你会发现，创作的时候，孤单会给你深沉的思考，
你会发现，争吵之后，孤单会跟你沉着，冷静。

从今天开始跟孤单交朋友吧。你会发觉孤单其实是个很听话，很乖巧的小孩。它从来不会有一句怨言，也从来不会骂你一句。也许，在你下一次遇难，失恋或做噩梦时，孤单会伸出援手，帮助你渡过难关。

颂霆

The past few days.

The past few days have been ok.

Tuesday was CEC investiture. It was quite fun! haha. KC looked so cool. And anyway, Mark, Jie Liang and I were having a good time among ourselves. Got a few cheers for me (from my class and maybe 1Q) as I went up to get my badge. haha. It was very nice. Everyone was smiling and happy! I even shaked hands with 4A form teacher, Mr. Kwa! haha. YAY! ok lol. Cheered for Mark and KC as well...

Wednesday was CEC training. Quite slack luh. It started with icebreaker games which was quite fun. POLAR BEAR! lol. Then after that, the LT session came along. It was quite ok. Got to draw on paper so quite fun. Then after that, "experienced" CEC were supposed to share their experiences with the others. I was like "ERRRR"... cuz I was one of the "experienced" CEC. haha. ok... cuz i was treasurer second year running... >< ok. anyway, it went on quite well. Trained my public speaking skills and also thinking on the spot. haha. Used the normal technique of sitting in a circle and going round for comments. ok so after that, went to buy party stuff... den came back to prac with tanbo before going to RJCO room to grab scores and go home.

Thursday was the class party (previous post) and SMP meeting. SMP was quite dumb luh. Went there just to discuss the dates and some key words for research. Once again, I'm at a lost with what's happening. I think I just completely suck at bio. HAIX. All the recombinant protein stuff... HAIX. why can't it just be simple. like equations. boohoo... but anyway, doing project in SP which is humongous. lol. the staff rooms are cool too! Hope to take a photo next time.

Friday was busy day. First up, yan jiang! haha. thought I did rather well for something I prepared late at night the day before. I just love my yan jiang! woohoo! went halfway for PE before going to prepare for arts @ the atrium. That was rather screwed up... HAIX. nvm. shan't elaborate. will only make me sad. Hope CNY one will be better. Much better. After school, went to move CO instruments to hall. so dumb. so many people but so little people bother to move. haix. in the end i think danny and i moved the most. We even had to move the xylophone up and down 4 flights of stairs to avoid the rain. Took 20 min to move everything up the flight of stairs from GE room and made 3 trips to and fro hall to carry instruments there... AND, the worst thing was, in the end, we only practiced once through, before having to clear the stage again... ZZZ... ><>< After we finally finished, went off to chess club merit CCA trail. OH MY! haha. so lucky! just when i reached, 1Q reached the chess club section! YAY! haha. met my class again and had some fun with them. They were all wondering why i was so wet... haha. got thrashed by Zhi Xuan in chinese chess. LOL. TYCO! haha. After that, just helped up a bit with chess club and here I'm back at home.

ok. that's all for the week. BYE!

Patrick

class party 1 '08.

Class party 1 of 2008 has ended for 4B and it was totally FUN. haha. It was the largest-scale class party so far so good job to Jie Liang, Mark and of course me who generated this brilliant idea. (:

So preparation was done on Wed after CEC training (will talk about that later)... Mark, Jie Liang and I went off to NTUC to buy stuff and cakes... AND OF COURSE... the cute pooh bear (again. haha im sorry kenneth...)

So anyway, shall quickly move on to the actual thing. A lot of things were rather impromptu unlike the China people when we were there. But that somehow added to the fun cuz it made the event much more informal. ok. shall move on quickly to the pictures.


The whiteboard after CLE lesson on tuesday... FILLED with all our comments!


THE FOOD!


and of course THE PEOPLE!


AND OUR AUSTRALIAN FRIENDS!


AND OUR EMCEES - Jie Liang and Tony!


Shu Kiat speaking about his Australian Experience.


The Australians talking about their Singapore Experience. HAHA! COOL POSE!


Term 1 B'day celebrations! THE CAKE!


THE PEOPLE!


Xiong Wei and Gia close up.


Cutting the cake.

Then, it was the start of performances...


Bojian playing cantavina.


IMBA singers KC and Leonard together with Eugene playing guitar...


KC and Leonard again.


And LEONARD'S SOLO! woohoo! (:


everyone waving their hands!


Yetao acting as Mr. Joseph Wong. ><
Xiong Wei acting as Mrs. Kwa. haha damn funny. "HEY SHU KIAT, DON'T PLAY WITH THE APPARATUS..." LAUGHTER!


The cool pooh bear! (:


Pooh bear again! haha lumpy looking weird.

After that, it was English lesson. Took some photos as well...


LjS.


Kenneth.


Ying Xiang and me.


Jerald HAN!


Keng Chee admiring my work. muahaha.


KC's grp presenting...


Blow looking cool.


IVAN!


me! haha.


Leonard resting. lol.


CLASS PHOTO 1!


CLASS PHOTO 2!

yeah! (:

ok that's all for now! bye!

Patrick

JANUARY!

hihi!

Hmm... the past few days have been ok...

Friday was SMP opening ceremony. Spent a fun time with Yingjie, Aaron and Nigel. haha. Yingjie and I were laughing atw (all the way). haha. it was damn funny. one of the lecturers were SUPER FUNNY!

*start of presentation* (1st slide, a funny picture of a scientist)

"Hello guys. I'd like to stand in front to talk to you all because i like to stare at myself..." haha ego!

Powerpoint slides: What ARE wrong here? (with picture of someone not wearing safety goggles)
NUS student: GRAMMAR!

LOL! laughter.

Next slide: What ARE wrong here again?

more laughter...

haha. we just couldn't stop laughing luh... haha. later on, went home with Aaron and Ying Jie...

woohoo. Saturday was ok. Dazu was screwed up... haha but i expected it to be anyway. It would take some time for it not to be... But sectionals turned out ok. I really hope we can do it...

Weiqi was nice! haha. was losing very early in the game but opponent didn't grab any of the few chances that she could kill the game off. In the end, she made some careless mistakes and I ate 2 large pieces of land. woohoo! haha. i thought my mid game was rather good! yeah! so it's 3/3 games won for me in the DAN research class now. yeah yeah!

haha. jiang was ok luh. quite boring topic cuz it was comprehension.

oh. and i just love duzhe... woohoo. so interesting.

oh. and i just briefly revised sec3 chem. yeah!

Next up, phy pressure revision. sighhhh... and then chem salt preparation revision. and of course read bio notes (by thur)...

hope thursday's class party will be a success... (:

the opening to the new year has been quite a good one. I've done loads of things already so I'm glad. From first day, orientation camp, jric, psgm, interact club help-out, LjS bdae, sports profiling, ushering for "parenting with confidence". and of course, lots of stuff are coming up... Kenneth's house-warming party, class party for CLE lesson, CEC investiture, 4 CO performances in 5 weeks... It's going to be exciting! WOOHOO!

okok. i guess that's all for now! BYE!

Patrick

PHOTOS!

Just wanted to put some photos...


Here's the card and the hand that we bought for JUN SHNEG!


INSIDE THE CARD! woohoo!


AND THE LAST ONE! haha. the back of the card with HAPPY B'DAE JUN SHNEG and all our signatures... yeah!


haha. just saw this photo...

ok that's all... lol.

Patrick

the year so far.

i know it's a little early to think back on the year cuz it's only 18 days into the year. But I thought I'd just recap the big events that've happened so far!

1. Orientation CAMP!
2. JRIC
3. JUN SHNEG's B'day!

haha. it's been wonderful!

ok this is my 4th post of the day already. I'd better go do something.

house warming party coming up! (:

Patrick

HAPPY B'DAY JUN SHENG!

Happy B'day LjS! Have a great year ahead with 4B and Go6P! (:

4B Teachers!

Just saw someone post on 4B teachers so I guess I'll do that too! haha.

Math: Mr. Kwa Beng Hong
The proest Math teacher around in my opinion. haha. Although his lessons may not be as interesting as those of Mrs. Ng, you can really see that he cares that you learn and he always emphasizes on important stuff which is great esp. when RA makes you mess up lots of stuff. Great teacher!

Phy: Ms. Kek
Although I prefer Mr. Andrew Lim's teaching style, I must say Ms. Kek does make class seem much more lively and stuff. So basically, it's the only period where we can slack a bit. haha. Not too sure yet but I think she'll make a good teacher too!

Chem: Mrs. Kua
LOVE! haha. BEST CHEM TEACHER! woohoo! She rocks at teaching Chem. haha. The way she teaches, treats students, makes people make fun of her but certainly respect her at all times. No wonder she's head of chem. Brilliant teacher to say the very least. My Chem has improved loads under her.

Bio: Mrs. Low
wooohooo! haha. very nice teacher who never raises her voice but still commands the attention of students. If she teaches another subject, I may come to like her more but since I hate bio... sigh... But anyway, she was our brilliant FT last year so it's wonderful to have her again this year. and she's also my RE mentor this year too! haha.

Hist: Mrs. Matthews
Interesting teacher whose powerpoint slides and interacting means are very nice. haha. makes history more interesting. But heard she's very strict in marking. WHOO! this may mean that I'll never get a 4.0 for history in my life. 79 in sec 2 and 3... boohoo.

SS: Mr. Wong
LOVE AGAIN! haha! Although he digresses a lot and may not be able to cover the syllabus, I honestly don't mind. Cuz I think I learn more things this way! Brilliant teacher who always has lots of jokes up his sleeves which makes me look forward to his lessons. WOOHOO! Mr. Wong for the win! (:

Eng: Ms. Tang
Haha. Same teacher as last year. Though I still think that "although" cannot be used with "but" in the same sentence, I think Ms. Tang's been a good teacher for us.

Chi: Mrs. Yong Chai May
WOOHOO! HAHA! Her lessons are totally FUN! lol. ok it can seem murderous or fun at the same time. But if you look on the bright side, and take the suannings lightly, I think she makes a brilliant teacher. She gets her point across, makes lots of funny comments which makes classes interesting and I think our chinese will improve tremondously under her.

Other teachers for PHilo, PE and CLE are all quite all right. So won't elaborate.

haha. I think I've got really really nice teachers this year! YAY! 4B for the win!

Patrick

whoooooo!

Hi!

haha today was really nice!

First up was Chinese. Rather slack though I was having a bit of headache during lesson. not sure why.

Next was PE! haha. FUN! soccer for 50 min. woohoo. So Kenneth, Jerald, Jun Sheng, KC, Dennis, Shu Jian, me and new addition Gia (who replaced Leonard) faced Barry, Lumpy, Huiyao, Shu Kiat, Brian, Ivan, Jie Liang and Long. haha. Basically, the only people who could really play soccer were Long and Gia. All the rest of us 混. haha. But it was damn FUN! haha. After maybe around 10 mins or less, our team found ourselves 2-0 down. LOL. Barry and SHU KIAT scored. haha. Shu Kiat's one was really funny. KC tried a long kick but miscued the ball and the ball landed with Shu Kiat who managed to slot it between KC's legs. Jerald who was on the line tripped over himself and "saved" himself from scoring an own goal. haha. But anyway, after that JUN SHENG SCORED! Or rather JUN SHNEG! haha. damn funny. So we were 2-1 down. After that, I SCORED! WOOHOO! Gia passed a great ball to me and facing only Lumpy (keeper), I slotted it to the far post and SCORED! WOOHOO! haha. so we were level on 2-2. After that, we had a few chances of getting ahead. I (woohoo) did some good work on the left to trick Ivan before passing the ball back into the penalty box only for the ball to be cleared (probably cuz I anyhow pass the ball into the box). haha. whoops. But guess what! After that, Gia and I came up with this strategy or whatever you call it. I'd just stand at the front and he would take the goal kicks and kick it long to me. And hell did it work. haha. I SCORED AGAIN! His long balls were simply brilliant, most were pin point. The only problem I had was controlling the ball, sometimes hitting it too far for my reach. BUT once, I managed to control it and with Ivan up attacking, I just ran towards the goal before lobbing a ball pass Shu Kiat. WHOO! it was damn nice. Shu Kiat ran out of his goal line to narrow the angle and I managed to lob the ball over him! YEAH! haha. first time I've ever done something like that. It felt great. haha. But of course credit to Gia for his brilliant passes. And of course I was helped by the fact that the ball was bouncing. I still can't lift a ball high up into the air with it on the ground. So it was 3-2 to us. WOOHOO! After that, Gia, Jun Sheng and I were all up front passing to each other, making Ivan (their only defender or so it seemed) run around in circles. And guess what! Soon enough, I scored my 3rd, a goal similar to the first. haha. it was soooo nice! haha PATRICK HAT TRICK! woohoo. lol. ><>< so it was 4-2. After that, Huiyao's team put us on quite a bit of pressure and managed to pull one goal back through Long. haha. It was one of the rare occasions when Jerald and Kenneth didn't manage to clear the ball in time and Long got hold of the ball. Facing only KC, he coolly slotted it to the far corner, haha. a bit like my 1st goal again! So anyway, it was 4-3. After that, we were under even larger pressure cuz time was running out for them for an equalizer. And Mr. Chng shouted "last ball". But we needn't worry cuz Jun Sheng's pass at midline was blocked by Ivan only for me to chest it down for Gia. haha. And Gia did some great dribbling before putting a shot past Ivan for a 5th goal. Credit to Gia cuz I thought he deserved a goal. haha. So the game ended. It was soooo nice! haha. Our team was totally brilliant. KC was brilliant in goal, blocking some vital shots. Kenneth and Jerald were solid at the back with great clearances. Shu Jian and Dennis were great in the middle, running back to help out in defence on countless occasions. Jun Sheng, Gia and I were DEADLY at the front with lots of great shots and passes. haha. Last lesson, our team lost 3-1 cuz Gia wasn't in our team and he scored 2 late IMBA long shot goals. boohoo! so it seems like Gia makes a lot of difference. if not for him, i wouldn't even be able to score one. haha of course credit goes to the other team too. Especially Brian and Ivan whom I thought were brilliant. OH! Shu Kiat did a hat trick too! Hat trick of hand balls. HAHA. so funny. or maybe even 4. I'm not sure... But it was a nice game. haha.

AND THEN, during recess, KC, Dennis, Shu Jian, Jerald, Edward and I went to the spare room beside our class to do THE CARD! haha. It was really nice! I'm starting to like designing. I used to suck at art. haha. I still do of course but a bit better. I like going into popular bookstore and look at the things around, thinking of what I could use each for. I like designing cards for people and it was the perfect opportunity this time around cuz I didn't need to use another construction paper which can't really be used creatively (maybe it can! shall try next time), but rather a BIG card which is i think size of 4 A4 on one page. So ya. it's gigantic. haha. I love the paint picture that I made! Of course, the idea of pasting photos was KC's and Jerald's "NOT that he drew on the board after I wrote Patrick Rocks also inspired me about the design. AND IT JUST ROCKS! I love the card! haha. how i wish I could keep it. But anyway, it was nice designing by me, very good cutting and pasting skills by Shu Jian, KC and Jerald. And who can forget Kenneth who bought the card and was tasked to hold LjS back. haha. A BIG THANK YOU for that. haha. So later on during bio lesson, Mrs. Low (former FT) gave the presents to Jun Sheng.

The presents this time were:
1. THE BIG CARD
2. The usual small card
3. A REALLY CUTE white HAND! haha. I think it's very cute. (i chose it ok).

Later on, it was weiqi. learnt a thing or two so yeah to me.

haha and now im back home. LOVE IT! haha tomorrow's CO, WEIQI and TUITION again. Gonna be exciting! haha.

k bye.

Patrick

PS: LjS, take photos of the presents and send us can? We wanna see!

sat, sun, mon, tue.

sian... so much homework. RARH.

Anyway, just a short recap of what happened the past few days...

Sat was ok. It started with CO. First hour = clean up which was quite nice cuz the CO room was totally in a mess after our concert. After that, we prac-ed chuan deng! it was really nice! as in not the way we played but it was like back in the "good old times". haha. it wasn't too long ago that we performed it in SCH and totally rocked at it! haha. Anyway, this time it's RIpercs only so we'll see how we do. But I was pleased with myself cuz I picked out the important parts of each instrument for glock solo, snare for the fast part and of course timp solo at the last part to play. haha. it's sooooo nice! With the return of Lexus and a few others, we'll see what we can do...

After that, it was LUNCH! oh, before that, I tried out the suona. No wonder it's so hard to play! >< walao. My face was red cuz I couldn't blow hard enough. haha. anyway, wanna learn a bit of each instrument in CO before I actually leave RICO cuz there's a chance I won't join RJCO. So this could be my last year touching CO instrments (definitely not perc though)... all right. so lunch was at this ulu place or so we called it... haha. didn't know there was this la mian shop... so anyway, we were playing the lame games that Kenneth Yong taught me... haha. IT WAS SO FUN! haha... Hmm... Kah Khang, Renyan, Cytam, Hong Bo, Jeremy Sia, me, Jason and another RJC girl who lives very near me (i know cuz she takes 410 from the same bus stop as me) went... and we discussed RAFFLES INTERACTION after that. haha. think it would be quite fun! Had fun talking about 小组小组小组小组小组大组大组大组大大组... bla bla bla... haha. After that, it was weiqi. I was quite tired during lesson so I (almost) slept. After that, played with an jie. Omg. He's still the same person after around 2 years of knowing him? He played the very unusual way again but this time it actually sortta worked cuz he played 高目 and I've totally forgotten about the 定式s. But somehow, during a 对杀, he made two mistakes and I capitalized on it! haha. It was very nice cuz although he made two mistakes, it still seemed like my seeds were about to die. But somehow, I played some amazing move which I would never thought of playing (I thought for quite a long time) and I rescued myself! haha. After that, it was quite easy cuz he started getting desperate and playing random moves which were too easy to counter.

Then, jiang. haha. finally back to tuition again. It's good to see tuition friends again! haha. Anyway, some additions to the class although I don't know whether they came for replacement or what but nvm. The class still rocks. Hmm... lesson went fairly well. OH! WELCOME BACK, GILBERT! haha.

Sunday was ultra boring cuz I just stoned at home doing homework. BUT! MAN U 6 - 0 NEWCASTLE! WOOHOO! haha. I remember Man U thrashed Newcastle 6-2 a few seasons back but this time it's even better! haha. and all 6 in the second half. omg... haha.

Monday was ok. PE was rather dumb though cuz we were playing soccer but there was an extra rule! - 3 passes were to be made before a shot could be taken! lol... so we made not much progress until Gia finally put two great shots into the back of the net. haix. haha. History was ok. Chem was not too well cuz the class was quite noisy (me included) haha. Too tired I think and I couldn't really understand. Nevermind. Mrs. Kwa said she'll go through in class again next lesson. YEAH. haha anyway, the labs aren't really a good place to carry out lessons... >< Phy was all right. I still have a few doubts on pressure but Hmm... nvm.

SS! omg. SS lessons totally rocked. I love the way Mr. Wong teaches. Although we don't really cover much on the topic itself, we venture into lots of very interesting areas! woohoo! very very fun! oh and the latest joke.

Mr. Wong to Xiong Wei: I want a person to answer this question. You look very intelligent. Prove us wrong.

(after a while)

Mr. Wong to Eugene: I want a person to answer this question. You look very unintelligent. Prove us right.

haha. oh and shu jian!

Mr. Wong looking at a "fake" Shu Jian homework: WOO! WORDS OF WISDOM! GREAT ANSWER! bla bla... even though the paper is blank.

haha. ok nvm people who aren't in 4B may not understand...

Math went all right too. not much to say there.

Then, I followed 1Q for class profiling. 1Q1 to be exact cuz the class was divided into two. It was quite fun but quite tiring at the same time luh... I love 1Q! haha. They're so nice to me (although they spam our phones...) oh and matthew is sooooo funny... ><

Today was boring. Nothing much to say. didn't do well for english diagnostic oral cuz my script was out of point. Mainly cuz I didn't read carefully. haha. but nvm. what matters more was the delivery and I think I did well there. Chinese was the usual suanning again. haha. Today was about 阴阳上去... haha.

History = free period. yeah.

Math = ok. still coping well.

Assembly was PSGM again. haha. I didn't really participate much cuz I thought that this kind of sessions were better held by Biquan and Michael who really had to cope with lots of stuff cuz their CCAs are much more intensive than mine. Guess it was ok...

All right. boring post. let's end and go to sleep.

bye.

Patrick

JRIC day.

all right just a quick post before i head off to sleep.

today's lesson were fairly interesting.

Philo was ok. Kristie Chen. I guess she teaches rather ok and commands respect for us. haha. so that's that. but other than that, nothing much was done today...

Math was the usual going through of examples. We're starting on a LONG topic of trigo now. woah. haha. luckily today was all the revision so i understood what was going on...

THEN, CHINESE! haha. lots of suanning once again. I think she was in a good mood today so no. 9 didn't get called. haha. 卢鹰翔 wasn't called as well. haha... her jokes today were:

1. SE vs. GE *massive suanning of GE people*
2. going through 作文, she said 我不要你们写成这样：我是周经伟，今年十六岁。我是莱佛士书院的学生， 。。。 ，我喜欢读华文，当然，要加冒号。。。”

lol. total suannage. lots more actually. but errr i can only remember or actually understand fully these two

Hmm... den bio was the usual stuff again. tried to read the bio tb to not much avail. ):

AND THEN, PSGM. haha won't talk so much about it here cuz i'll leave it for the orientation posts but i must say that 1Q ROCKS! haha. 1 week after the camp, they still seem so HIGH and ENTHU. lol.

and of course JRIC which we took so long to prepare...

today was rather special for me. Lots of first-times once again from PSGM to candle handler to badge passer... haha.

i wanna take picture with Darren! haha.

oh and JRIC video. shall put it here.



k enjoy!

n bye! haha...

Patrick

today IN SCHOOL.

All right, just a quick post before I head off to my bed.

Completed quite a bit of work today...
1. Did the 3 chem wksts.
2. Did the chang wen suo duan
3. Did the tian xie han zi which I missed on thur for PSL
4. Read SS notes
5. Did Eng speech on MANIA

All right. So now, I guess I'll just read a bit of Chem and Phy tb before I head off to sleep. I badly need time to revise. RARH.

Today was triple science. Woah.

oh ya. our physics teacher is a new but rather cool teacher called Ms. Kek. haha. She seems like a tomboy to me though. When the plastic bag for an experiment tore, she wanted to use the dustbin plastic bag! >< Luckily the dustbin plastic bags also had holes so she didn't use it... haha. but ya quite cool. Looks like physics lessons will be fun. They are always fun aren't they?

Oh had my first bio lesson today too! OH NO! we were spammed with content. lol. luckily i did some reading up yesterday if not i would have been at a complete loss today. Hmm.

There's Chinese tomorrow. Wonder whose turn it will be to get suanned. HAHA. (:

all right. that's all for now. BYE!

oh and i still can't do pull ups. oh no.... must do at least 1 or 2 in 4 months time! ):

and 1Q ROCKS! haha.

Patrick

First day of SCHOOLING not EDUCATION

Today was totally funny. HAHA.

First we had Chem! haha. Mrs. Kwa's our teacher again and yes I'm sooooo happy! haha. She taught very well last year and I'm sure she'll do the same for this year! Anyway, I've forgot most of my Chem from last year so I need to take time off to restudy it. >< haix. but that should be done quite quickly given my ownage notes! haha. But anyway, shall love chem lessons from now on! (: Just love the way Mrs. Kwa teaches!

Next up! MATH! haha. Mr. Kua AGAIN! YAY! lol. quite expected though cuz RA. oh and today was super funny during math lessons cuz these random RJ people (i suppose his former students) came to our class and shouted random math things like BINOMIAL THEOREM! and whatever! haha. Then Mr. Kua was quite funny too! haha. he was tooooo nice to scold his former student so he went away scot-free! lol. But Mr. Kua's nice luh so haha good to have him again.

THEN! DOUBLE ENGLISH! ): oh my gosh. 2 hours of continious English. No wonder I felt brain-dead for the English grammar diagnostic test. Well, sec 3 teacher teaching us again! Ms. TANG! haha. ok luh. Just hope lessons become more interesting cuz 2 hours can be killer.

CHINESE came next! HAHA. WE HAVE THE MOST OWNAGE CHINESE TEACHER EVER! >< Mdm. Yong Chai May! HAHA. oh my gosh. we were laughing all the way during the lesson. Just like someone (forgot who) said, she's the EXTREME version of Mrs. Kwa or even the EXTREME version of Mrs. Ng! haha. But anyway, we all had fun! IMMENSE FUN! haha. Almost everyone who got called up was suanned. Ying Xiang, who was already suanned on the first lesson, got it from her once again because he didn't know the story of 马谡! haha. Then, Ivan got suanned cuz he didn't know his 籍贯 so the teacher suanned him that he was 孙悟空的兄弟... lol... and lots more luh. I got suanned too cuz I didn't know what 接踵 meant and I immediately said 不知道 when she asked me. So she suanned me that I was 知之为知之，不知为不知，是知也. haha all right not very direct suanning but if u hear her say it, u just can't stop laughing. haha. Anyway, i think i'll learn much from her! haha. Almost half the class got suanned in one lesson! =O

THEN, SS! RARH! haha. No more Mr. Shahrom ):, but MR. JOSEPH WONG ROCKS TOO! haha. He's totally funny! He took the whole period to introduce himself and we were laughing all the way. LOL from the joke of AHEM (cannot say. if not will 死. 4B will know!) to that of his and Mr. Joseph Chong being opposites to Xiong Wei's funny question on "IF YOU HAVE SONS, did you send them to RI"! haha. Mr. Wong immediately said "Why do you say IF YOU HAVE SONS, are you doubting my capability?" LOL. And Shu Kiat. haha cuz Mr. Wong answered that question and said his son was in RI and that he had 2 children. After that Shu Kiat asked, "Are you married..." LOL. EVERYONE BURST OUT LAUGHING. lol. and Mr. Wong wrote on the board... 不好! haha. of course Shu Kiat didn't mean that. he meant to ask whether he was married to a former RI teacher and sure enough he was (last year's teachers day!). haha. But anyway, the board became very funny cuz it read "Mr. Joseph Wong (he wrote it to introduce himself) 不好死". LOL. Of course, he made it a point for the lesson to be meaningful... Hmm quote:

"I went to school. Schooling interrupted my education" - George B. Shaw

WOAH. lol. haha so he was basically asking what was the difference between schooling and education. Schooling is a way to get an education but not necessarily the only way or even the best way. HMM. haha. and he also talked about why study Social Studies. He mentioned it was the only course that was compulsory in most university which surprised me cuz i certainly didn't know that... Basically he says that education is for the society to become a better place and social studies is basically a study of the society so that you at least know what you need to do to make it a better place. Good enough answer... oh and i love the way he wrote his J and W for his name.

Haha. Anyway, I think my teachers totally rock. Tomorrow, I'll be having triple science + PE + Assembly. Bio teacher is Mrs. Low. Wonder who's my physics teacher... HMM...

So here are my teachers!
Math - Mr. Kua (RA)
Phy - ?
Chem - Mrs. Kwa (Head of chem)
Bio - Mrs. Low (2nd Head of Science)
Hist - ?
SS - Mr Joseph Wong (Head of Humanities)
Eng - Ms. Tang
Chi - Mdm. Yong Chai May (Head of MT)
Philo - ?

haha expecting a fun year ahead. Great suanning ahead! ><

oh and anyway, lots of homework already! ):
1. Chinese 长文缩短
2. Chinese 填写汉字
3. Chinese go through crossword
4. Math study Circular Measure
5. Math restudy Angle Properties of Circle
6. Math restudy PROBABILITY
7. Chem revision wkst x3
8. Bio read tb on NERVOUS SYSTEM
9. Eng prepare 1 min speech on MANIA (HUH?) ><
10. SS wkst
11. SS read through notes
12. Prepare SS BLACK file
13. Collect $13 for BBQ, $3 for KS Bull, $27.90 for sandcastle! >< so much to collect already!
14. Follow 1Q for sports profiling (when?)
15. PSGM + JRIC on friday

WOAH! omg. sigh... looks like sec 4 is indeed a tough year. k. i need to do 8 at least by today and hopefully a few others b4 i go sleep. Shall do tomorrow again...

The new Raffles Handbook totally rocks. Love the design! (:

Patrick

Orientation '08 - Part TWO

OOOOH! YAY TO PSLs! YAY TO SEC 1s! YAY TO 1Q!~

Finally, after months of planning, the 3D2N orientation camp for the 185th batch of sec 1s is over. Planned by the 182nd batch of RI students, it was simply perfect. Everyone did their best, put in their all, and it was a great success! Looking back, I must say that it's yet another great experience and opportunity that RI has provided me with.

Day 1:

First up, bag check! Bag check didn't really go that well. Reason being it was held in the Junior Block Atrium which had a lack of space and bad acoustics, making it very hard for the Camp OICs to give instructions. So in the end, we just collected what we had to collect without really checking the sec 1's bags. Well, at least we can say that we are testing the sec 1s integrity! (: haha. but anyway, there could be much to improve there. It was only the beginning...

So after that, the great 1Q PSLs led 1Q to the hall for OPENING CEREMONY! Anyway, we wanted to start it with a BANG with CHEERS! We did Mat Rock xD, Raffles JAM <3!!, Unite WOOHOO!, and spirit!. haha. i thot that it was quite well done except that we were quite uncoordinated (upper floor couldn't see the leading people downstairs) and it was quite short (the bag check took too much time). But I thought that the sec 1s were still rather impressed. This was followed by a welcome address by Year Head 1, MRS. MAAS and the revealing of the storyline by JIAN XIONG! haha. Well, those went quite well. The only thing that I can complain about is that for orientation camp this time, the theme didn't really get through to the sec 1s unlike the star wars theme when we were sec 1. That time, all the activities REALLY did seem to link together and had some form of relation to star wars like the light sticks as light sabers. But still, I guess it was rather good.

After that it was teaching of dance! haha. I started to love the dance during the camp cuz it was really fun! haha. I'm starting to love dancing although I'm horrible at it. RARH. haix. Anyway, it was very fun because I stood among the 1Q people and started to joke with them when we were practicing. It was VERY FUN to be interacting with the sec 1s, especially those of 1Q who were SOOOOO nice and cute! haha. Anyway, we were all laughing at ourselves at our horrible dancing and we just practiced together. Hmm. 1 thing to learn here! When you do stupid things together, it doesn't look stupid anymore! A point that a PSL from 2 years ago told us. Yup, it was used here. Though we looked stupid dancing, when we all did it together, it actually turned out to be VERY FUN! HOORAY to US! haha.

Then, after that it was time to teach cheers! YAY! I was very excited to this cuz I just LOVE the Raffles cheers. 3 years after first learning the cheers, I'm still fascinated by them. Anyway, it was very fun to perform cheers with other PSLs with the sec 1s. I was standing beside Marc and Zhi Xuan and we were talking crap along the way. I thought the sec 1s did a wonderful job for a first try on cheers. In fact, I was really surprised by the number of people who stood out and started the cheers with their "5,6,7,8" or their putting up of a hand sign of the number of times before they stopped. Even till now, I've never really started a cheer before and it was only during the camp did I start to take initiative and put up hand signs. Well, congrats to those who dared to try cuz it's the spirit like these that will take them far in this school. It took me too long to recognize that opportunites were abundant in RI and that grabbing it was when the time came was key. It made me miss out on lots of things like RV (although this may be a good thing cuz RICO ROCKS!) and MM. But anyway, the sec 1s did a great job. Spirit and Kemama were good. North-South-East-West was good too except for some mistakes in clapping. ICHIBAN was FANTASTIC probably because it's an easy cheer. I'm starting to think that easy cheers are really the ones which make the impact (cuz everyone can do it). I love the ichiban cheer and the MOOR WE WANT MORE cheer although I'm in Hullett and love Hullett.

Anyway, that was that. After that it was Silly Songs Sing-a-long conducted by EUGENE GAN! haha... Oh yes i still remember the dumb songs that MRS. LIM (ahem.) taught us during the camp... well, I wasn't sure what happened cuz class-based PSLs were having meetings outside. We came back just in time for the final parts of Carrot Juice and I AM COW (which we didn't learn but I found ultra DUMB but FUNNY!)... haha.

All right. After that it was time for Class Cheers Session. I always thought that this would be the part we would screw up the worst cuz it was the first time that the sec 1s have learnt cheers and who would dare to make one for their class! This was especially the case when we were behind schedule and we only had 15 mins to make it. I realised I was wrong when 1Q came up with not 1, not 2, but THREE GREAT CHEERS! The bom-bom-bom one was the best but it was too hard so they decided to abandon it. Good idea too cuz as I said, Cheers should be easy. But guess what the other cheers are! One uses the idea from SPONGEBOB SQUARE PANTS with the "ARE YOU READY" "AIYAI CAPTAIN" "I CAN'T HEAR YOU" "AIYAI CAPTAIN" which I found really interesting cuz my name is PATRICK and I've been related to this amazingly popular (though I don't really watch it) cartoon. And the other one was the "We will we will rock you" theme which was really close to me as well cuz Hullett had that cheer when I was in sec 2. haha. But anyway, I totally loved that cheer that they made. It went "We will we will Q you, cuz we are 1Q. We will we will quack you, cuz we are 1Q. I thought it was totally amazing. The cheers they made were amazing. The people who stepped up to present their ideas were amazing. Matthew was totally amazing. I think he will make a great leader. Illyas too seems rather mature to me and all the other 1Q PSLs. haha. I think he will make the next Said. haha. The class cheered together on the field and they sounded great. All the brilliant 1Q PSLs were very impressed cuz all of us thought that they made cheers better than those we had when we were sec 1s. Anyway, lunch followed. haha. Bombings were natural. I thought 1Q were a bit stone during first day lunch. It was a rather quiet class. Many people were rather quiet. haha. but they were all very nice people. Issac, Nicholas (still think you look like someone I've seen before... Huiyao or his friend. ><) haha. and many others. very nice people!

But anyway, STATION GAMES followed. It was great! haha. Once again, Matthew led the class, this time with a few others who also stepped up. The first station which was the ORA office was ok. The clue which was "even alumnis have their place in RI" was quite a hard one for sec 1s who don't even know there's this thing called an ORA office... But somehow, the sec 1s knew and ta-da. they were there. haha. the activity was quite stupid. haha. building bridges with ice-cream sticks. haha. It was actually very simple, I figured out in a minute but of course, when you work in a group, it's always harder. But 1Q still figured it out rather quickly and we were off to our next station - ASTROTURF. It was the hardest station. Supposed to bounce pingpong balls while crossing obstacles. haha. but i thought we did quite well once again. Next up - Raja Block FOYER where I met Kenneth Yong, the station master. haha. Anyway, it was quite funny cuz it was memory chain and the paragraph they were supposed to memorise and pass on was part of the Rafflesian Principle of Honour. Hmmm... haha. well, it was a bit screwed up cuz "In personal conduct, I shall regard individuals, groups and the community with kindness and respect" became "In personal regard, I will treat my peers with respect" or something like that. Still, a great effort by the class. Had some fun time playing with the CUTE and FUNNY Darren and the others. haha. I'm so sorry that I can't remember all your names. I'll try to do that in the PSGM sessions. After that, RAFFLES SQUARE! haha. I thought our class did an ok job. We managed to complete the easier ones but for the harder ones, we couldn't complete it in time. The idea was there, but there was no time to execute it. So, TO THE FIELD. haha. the field one was really fun. The class held hands and ran across the breadth of the field, cheering. PSLs like ZhiXuan, Biquan, Eric and me were running in front of them, asking them to cheer. haha. It was very fun! The cheers were average. Could have been better but I guess it was very tiring so it was very hard. Even I felt a little tired. Next up, AUDITORIUM FOYER. haha. Jaryl Lim was the ever-so-funny station master. The way he shouted was sooooo funny! LOL. Anyway, 1Q did a good job. The back people pushed the front people (which I thought was the whole point of the game, like the one we played around the field, and we got 2nd. Thought the other class cheated so they got 1st (their chain broke) but we won't be sore losers will we? (: haha. anyway, great job to 1Q. Thought that was really well done by us. The atmosphere was really great too with everyone cheering especially the PSLs for their own classes. haha. The d&T came next. It was quite simple. the hoola hoop game. Quite easy for the sec 1s cuz they were quite small and the hoola hoop could easily pass through them. Still, it was a great job by us. And then, the atrium. I thought they did fantastic. They memorised a whole passage AS A CLASS in 5 minutes. They thought of a good idea too! There was a teacher (classmate) who read out the passage to the class and the class echoed it out. Rather organized given that they were only given one piece of paper. Well, so we completed the activity and were soon back in the hall. But guess what! WE CAME BACK FIRST! OH YEAH! haha. I thought the movement of our class was quite slow so I was very surprised that we were actually the fastest class! haha. The sprits of the class and the PSLs immediately heightened and everyone turned enthu. OH YEAH. It was a great job by 1Q!

After a short briefing on JRIC and a short meeting for PSLs conducted by Yuda at the stadium steps with many people being distracted by the tracknfield people on the field (LOL), it was time for dinner. haha. Dinner went well. Although the bombing sessions were still started by me for the class, more people were doing it and we were cheering as a batch very loudly in the canteen. HOORAY to us!

After that it was WAR GAMES. haha. the starting briefing was rather boring cuz it took very long for all the details to be clarified cuz it was the first time we were doing it in DOTA style. But good job! cuz it was totally brilliant. haha. very fun! Firstly, the sec 1s got to interact with more of their batchmates rather than just their classmates as they attacked and defended as a team. Also, they could practice teamwork once again with the interlocking of hands. Haha. It must have been fun for the sec 1s going around together but even more fun for the PSLs. HAHA. It was truly amazing. We just roamed about everywhere, looking for any chain that broke off or any shirt which had been pulled off, or any rough play or just about anything before we would shout at the top of our voices "OK! GO TO HAPPY HAPPY LAND!". haha. not that we were evil or anything cuz happy happy land was indeed quite fun. haha. it was very fun in the holy alter too where PSLs were cheering "free life. *clap clap clap* free life. *clap clap clap*..." or even "happy meal. *clap clap clap* happy meal. *clap clap clap*..." cuz none of the sec 1s dared to go near it to get another life. haha but in the end, some did manage to get it by forcing their way through. haha. it was very funny. For most of the times, I was at the Raffles Square cuz that was the base of my 1Q class. So I was cheering them on and making sure that they had a line of defence. Basically, we had the strategical advantage cuz the only way for the people from the field or the astroturf to get to the raffles square is by the ramp down. They couldn't take the canteen way or the large steps down cuz it was dangerous. The field was too open for attacks and the astroturf was vulnerable at the back cuz it was assessable from where happy happy land was. haha. that was how illyas and team managed to get the banner from the astroturf folks. I did go to happy happy land as well to see people doing half squats on the legs of the person beside him. There was also cheering activities or hopping one-legged. But it was very fun. In Raffles Square, I kept shouting "All right guys, you all broke off, go to happy happy land". haha. anyway, it was very fun for the sec 1s and the PSLs alike and in the end, 1Q, together with the other 4 classes in the Raffles Square came out tops with 2 banners and 2 flags. We actually had 5 flags but the PSLs asked the other teams to attack us when we were OWNING. haha. But anyway, we still won. YAY!

After that it was class debrief, supper and wash up. haha. Wash up was rather fun cuz Biquan, Dixon and Michael were sharing their funny or scary stories or even lame jokes. haha. I've learnt a new doraemon joke! Why does hello kitty always win doraemon in scissors paper stone? Cuz doraemon can only put stone but hello kitty can put paper! ><>< ><||| Why did the chicken cross the road? So that the farmer would not catch it. (OH NO LAME)... and Dixon even said "we'll tell you purple passion if we have time". LOL. I'm glad we didn't cuz it would be ultra lame. Anyway, the stories were rather interesting and Biquan showed how his stomach could be retracted so much. LOL. ><

So that was it for the first day. lol. fun day. Overall, thought that 1Q did really well cuz we OWNed in STATION GAMES and WAR GAMES. haha. YEAH.

ok so after that it was some debriefing before we went off to sleep in our classrooms. haha slept on a table cuz i found it much more comfortable there. BUT, the air con damn cold... lol. quite a good sleep though.

Day 2:

ok so day 2 came along fast enough and before we knew it it was time for physical training. I sortta forgot what our PT we had to do in sec 1 was, but this one seemed much less tough. Maybe cuz im in sec 4 now. but all we had to do were squats and jumping jacks. haha. it was supposed to be some scolding session so that the sec 1s would get more disciplined. worked out fine in the end haha had fun doing PT with them...

ok. den after that, it was dance again! haha. damn damn fun! we started learning a part in which i never learnt before and yeah! dance is fun man! haha. ok so i got to speak to a lot of 1Q people again and dance in the midst of them (and getting bullied by them at the same time). haha. i think i managed to get them involved by being enthusiastic about the dance itself. Like at first they were thinking omg so stupid dance to please don't stop the music. haha. but in the end, we were all having fun, telling jokes, saying how each one of us danced so lousily and stuff haha. very fun! (: in fact, this is the very activity that sparked my interest in dance and i really want to learn it now!

ok. so after that it was batch cheers teaching. haha. quite fun once again. everyone were working hard trying to remember the batch cheers... hmm quite a lot of sec 1s led again. (:

oh and the next section was WATER GAMES! >< LOL!!! ok so it all started out fine, briefing and stuff... it was supposed to be something like each class would be called for a period of 30seconds and each class had a specific number of water bombs. so, we were all wondering who would be so unlucky to get first when it came out... 1Q! hahaha. so 1Q would be bombed first. LOL. so we got owned pretty badly. everyone just kept throwing bombs at wenrui and he was all wet. so sad. hmmmzzz.. lol. ok but anyway, it turned into a free-for-all after long with people just running all around the field trying to revenge on people who had thrown water bombs at them. AND, people started refilling the water bombs. HAHA. the PSLs joint in the fun by creating water bombs and it became a total mess. i personally ran around with one bomb chasing people like dennis and KC... (: damn funny. haha in the end i didn't throw at anyone luh cuz i too nice. (:

hmm so after that it was time for BISHAN HIKE! ok. so i was supposed to be a station master at RJC. haha. with some other guy. so we went over there. waited, and waited, and waited before the 1st class came over. haha it was supposed to be 1Q haha. ok so they sortta erm missed us and walked right past us. they didn't know where they had to go until michael told them to stop and turn back lol. ok so in the end my partner decided he would follow 1Q so i was left alone to become station master. really wanted to follow 1Q but no choice luh. in the end, only 3 classes came to my station. i was quite lenient lol, gave them all full marks if i'm not wrong. haha. and i got so bored waiting for people that i started drawing on the vanguard sheets that were provided for the station. i'm really glad i'm a class-based PSL man... i can't stand being a station master... >< ok so that was that. it started raining, stopping, raining, stopping and everyone came back drenched (except me cuz i was at RJC haha). heard that 1Q did very well once again! YEAH 1Q let's GO!

ok so after that it was dinner time! HAHA FUN TIME! once again bombing everywhere. and this time, 1Q didn't need me to lead them in bombing and they started bombing just about everyone. haha. most enthu class in bombing seh. (: and i got bombed by them, omg... lol. so i had to shout by myself over the mass of people in the canteen. haha. but quite fun luh. (: i bombed zhi xuan i think. LOL. haha. or was it 1P forgot. but anyway, i won! (: yay... haha of course, shan zhi was the guy who was bombed the most once again and lol some other people like theodore, kieran and others... hmm. not bad. anyway, dinner was talk cock with zhi xuan and a few other 1Q people. haha. zhi xuan damn crap luh keep telling what secret. haix. before long, i'll know all his secrets. and zhi xuan and i were trying to tell some sec 1 why zhi xuan (for me) and patrick (for him) was dumb. LOL. so persuasion skills came into play. haha quite funny. after that, it was going to be debrief and stuff. that went not bad.

AND THEN, FRIGHT NIGHT! hahahahaha. very funny. ok so i was supposed to be stationed at LT2 watching incredible tales. quite sian luh the stories. lol. some a bit scary but the sec 1s covered my fear cuz they were all screaming like nobody's business haha. anyway, eventually, i became the toilet man. haha i think people want to urinate when they get scared. omg. i didn't get another chance to watch the videos cuz everytime i brought 5 or 6 people to toilet, after i come back, there would be another 5 or 6. LOL. funny. but anyway, caught some time to go for the walk with zhi xuan. haha. the science labs were the scariest i guess. lol. AND LUWEI! lol. damn scary face. haha. he thought zhi xuan and me were like sec 1s and scared us from behind. lolll... ok. but after that, not much bah. quite an enjoyable trip though haha.

ok. so after that it was wash up, supper and debrief. haha. funny biquan, dixon and michael were on hand with their jokes. haha. i was secretly laughing at them hahahaha... and biquan's stomach is omg. flexible? haha. not bad. ok so bla wash up and stuff. before, i had to do SENTRY DUTY. lol. luckily mine is from 1230 to 130 so not bad luh. haha. by the time i came back from bathing and debrief it was 1 already so only had to do for 30 mins. ended up dancing "please don't stop the music" on stage with light sticks with people like ying jie, jerald and renyong. hahahahaha. wonder whether any sec 1s saw us ritarded people lol. okok... and den slept in the hall haha. not bad.

Day 3:

ok so finally came the last day of the camp. started off with walk of initiation. HMM. quite fun haha. it was all about sabo-ing people and sabo we did lol. i actually made them walk in a circle! (: lol how cruel. and a lot more stuff luh. biquan used some handphone charger wire and made them crawl below it. Then, had to crawl under some net of a goal post. haha damn sad man... >< but quite fun bah... (: the sec 1s were all cursing after that but i believe they had a great time. xD

ok so after that was all the briefings and raffles trail. haha raffles trail quite fun. followed 1Q for a while before going to manage CO booth. hmm... yeah, had fun.

THEN, IT WAS CAMP FINALE! lol. it was a really great atmosphere. The air con was freezing cold lol, it was all dark save the campfire in the middle and the word LASAIR in the middle of the hall made by lightsticks. ok. so all the performances were great. the talks were great. the emcees were great. haha XD performed! (: damn nice. FLAME ON composed by EUGENE GAN! yeah. haha okok. den, there was prize giving. we were supposed to give prizes to our classes. supposed to be for SPSL but michael wasn't free... so i went up! haha. i gave the most inspiring speech (lol). actly no luh. but many people were surprised by how loud i spoke. i didn't realize. i think i became a much more open person during the camp and all the shouting over the sec 1s, bombing and cheering contributed to me becoming so much louder. lol. but it was great.

Me: 1Q!
1Q: OWNS YOU!

haha. created by dixon. (: it's these simple things that make 1Q so special and so close to my heart.

and so it all ended. institution anthem, batch song, unite, spirit...

But it wasn't to be...

After everything had ended, we congratulated each other for doing a good job, before realizing that one sec 1 was missing. lol. sparked some commotion and searched everywhere for him. ran to RJC with lots of friends, calling out the sec 1's name. in the end, it was all a scare and he had actually gone home on his own.

and so ended the secondary one orientation main camp.

It was a great experience. I think I learnt much more than the sec 1s through this camp.

I learnt the skills of mentoring. To be able to teach someone requires a need to firstly gain respect and friendship from him. That was something I found out through the camp. Before the camp, Mrs. Maas suggessted to us to be brotherly figures to the sec 1s. I tried to do that and I think I did it very well! (: I just tried to be just another of the sec 1s and not a superior. I tried to do whatever they had to do and that somehow allowed me to gain respect from them. They realized that I wasn't just someone with power who ordered people around but somoene who actually cared for them and "emphatized" with them in a way. A friendly tone helped too and I spoke to them just like I would speak to any peer. To my surprise, I became a rather popular PSL in my class, even with 3 ruggers around. lol. and not just within 1Q. I have no idea but somehow, people from other classes recognized me as well. haha. many were saying "hi patrick" to me. didn't really know most of them so i just said "hi" back. haha. so that was a job well done and a lesson well learnt.

I made lots of friends, sec 1s as well as sec 4s. Renyong, Biquan, Dixon, Zhi Xuan, Michael... Matthew, Darren and many others. they were all wonderful to me and im really thankful that i've got so much friends during the camp.

I learnt how to think on the spot, a skill I've taken a long time to learn. During debrief and a lot of stuff. It was all thinking on the spot. I found not panicking and having a normal mindset helpful. I just took it like i was speaking to some friend and it helped a lot. During debrief, I thought I spoke a lot of good stuff hahaha... not bad seh. (: used it during PSGM later as well.

I tried out lots of new stuff too like dancing, batch cheering (not new, but at least now i was teaching) and bombing by one person. Not really amazing but i guess it's always great to try out new stuff.

Of course, it was also important to have fun and i had loads of fun with 1Q. they are a really nice class! (: haha really love chatting with them.

and it's been a full circle, like Mrs. Maas said. We were the sec 1s then. We are the sec 4 PSLs now. During the camp, I got to witness how the sec 1s were and compared with myself. I kept asking myself, was i like them last time? How have I developed in RI over these 4 years? And I realized that I have developed a lot. No longer are studies the only important thing. I realize that a lot of other skills are important as well. Creativity and innovation taught by yingjie and implemented in sec 3 and sec 4, service through interact, taiwan and many others, friendship in 2H and 4B and much more. I found these very important and these were stuff that i learnt. I learnt to be independent, to better communicate with people, to take challenges as they come along in OBS, to always have an open mind... All these have made me come a long way. And it's just great. Orientation '08 has given me yet another chance to develop myself. Mentoring and thinking on the spot, having an open mind, forgiving and forgetting, care and concern... These are just some of the many things that I've learnt.

And so it ends. But the journey does not end. The journey to further develop myself so that i become a better person. i really hope that these opportunities keep coming. i just love them!

Lastly, here's wishing 1Q the best of luck in their upcoming years. (:

Lasair - Flame On.

Patrick

Orientation '08 - Part ONE

Orientation '08. A great success. Everyone worked hard to make it such a great one. From Mrs. Maas, Mrs. Chua, Main Camp Comm, First Day Comm, Registration Comm, Finale Comm and of course class-based PSLs. It's not finished yet. There's still JRIC, PSGMs and these are all important. But for now, we have done a fantastic job. Especially for the camp! WE HAVE BEEN BRILLIANT! And I'm glad to say that I've done my best. All the preparation sessions, the staying back in school during holidays to oil out the details, it was all worth it.

REGISTRATION DAY:
Totally brilliant. Everyone was full of praise for us. There may have been a few hiccups here and there like the student who went home (shall not say why...), but that wasn't our fault so I guess it's a great job to REGISTRATION COMM! HOORAY for them! haha. My job was rather simple. Situated at the side gate together with Kenneth, we were supposed to be the first few to invite them to school. Small job, but I guess it was rather important because it was the first impression. So there we were, Kenneth and I, welcoming the parents and the students into the school. It reminded me of my P4 prefect job of "THIS WAY TO THE PARADE SQUARE" cuz this time I was saying "THIS WAY TO REGISTRATION". haha. Well, at least I wasn't doing it the whole year... But it was fun! haha. Especially with Kenneth to crap with. Most of the parents were very nice to us. We were also there to direct the cars into the carpark. So we made handsigns to direct them and many parents very nice to wave at us! (: YAY! haha. I guess the parents were quite happy! And then, it was time to go to the hall. I wasn't in the hall so I don't know what happened but I guess it must have been fine cuz there were no complains. Then Kenneth and I and Jie Liang directed the AEP, MEP parents to the D&T centre. haha. no problems there as well. The registration process was also very good cuz there were no long queues like the ones we had when we were sec 1s so that was a GREAT IMPROVEMENT! YAY! haha. the only point for improvement may have been the buying of uniforms because stocks ran out very fast but that was once again inavoidable and out of our control. So, once again GREAT JOB TO REGISTRATION!

ORIENTATION PACKAGE:
We stayed back on the 19th to get the folders for registration day done up and we were very efficient with everyone working hard together. Orientation package was a great job as well! We got a file, towel, shirt and stress ball for our sec 1 orientation package which was already rather good. But I thought that this year's was THE BEST! We got a bag, a pencil box and a shirt. It was totally brilliant cuz the bag was very nice and of very good quality. Of course, so was the pencil box and the shirt. Good job to Yiwei, Biquan and Yuda and all others involved in the designing process. (: YAY!

FIRST DAY:
First day was a good job too! It was very hard to plan for first day because it was very hard to imagine how the sec 1s would react to RI at first. But I thought we did a great job. We came to school early to welcome the sec 1s (i was late.. oops). haha. but anyway, after that, it was assembly followed by headmaster's assembly which was GREAT! I remember vividly in sec 1 how awed I was by headmaster's assembly when the teacher's marched in, the headmaster talked, the Unite Cheer and of course the institution anthem. We did a brilliant unite and spirit cheer and the sec 1s must have been very impressed. Then it was school rules before recess. There was form teacher interaction before class games like whacko, blanket game and flag making. Flag making was important because it was going to be the first thing that the class would be doing together. For 1Q, it was great because 1 guy volunteered to be a leader and the class came up with "Quest for Quality" which I thought was quite good. And so the class made their flag together. Though there were a few people who were left out, I thought it was still a rather good effort for a first attempt especially cuz lots of people were talking which was unusual for a group of new students who just came together as a class. Anyway, after that, it was time for a tour around the school. We brought our class around to the different places in the school and we played the jump frog game at the Raja Block foyer. 1Q didnt complete the activity although they were about to get the hang of it before we had to move on. Douglas did a great debrief for our class. Think he makes a great talker cuz he sounds great when he's serious or when he's joking. haha. all right. anyway, so after that, we set off for year head assembly which was quite slack cuz we got to stay at 2nd level and look down at the sec 1s. There was a debrief after that. Tried to cheer the sec 1s up cuz they sounded rather dead. Quite successful I guess. haha. I realise that that method of cheering a large group of people up is very powerful. So when I said "Do you think you guys can be the best for the camp", the whole class went "QUACK!" haha. so cute! but anyway, i guess that was all for first day. The class was still quiet and undisciplined but I knew that for a start, we were doing well...

haha shall end here. ORIENTATION CAMP '08 post shall be coming soon...

Patrick

BOO!

Hi guys. A quick post here before I go sleep. lol.

GUESS WHAT! OIP POST IS DONE!

but u'll have to click on archives on nov 2007 to read it. It's super long so happy reading.

and a happy new year to those whom I've not wished yet!

yup. first post of the year.

BYE!

Patrick