posted by 07A13 at 10:23 PM

Good morning everyone((:
the following will be for the lit ppl only so the majority of the class pls bear with me ok =)
Just a reminder to the lit ppl, the research thing for MS heng is due very soon, i think.
cos i dont actually rmb her stating an actual deadline.
just like after cny or sth.
but anyway, i know everyone has forgotten what they're supposed to do,
so i'll post it here.

We're supposed to research on the background of "she stoops to conquer"
(pls pls pls tell me if i'm not correct)

1) Town And Countryside - Jessamin
2) Dress / Costumes - HongLing
3) Manners / Behaviour - Joshua
4) Travel Habits - Calvin & Qinsheng
5) Leisure - ShuoHan
6) Beliefs about family - SimChun

ok that's all.
please dont study too hard for maths assignment(:

posted by jaydabest at 11:13 AM

I read Miss Liew's entry and I have to say, thanks Miss Liew for helping us to reflect on our views on CIP!

Hmm. Just thought I'll share about my own CIP experiences? (To me at least that's a change for the better from my usual brainless blabbering)

The organisations I have been involved in fall generally under two loose groups - children/youths and the elderly.

Lion Befrienders and Touch Community
I believe all the NY girls would know about them, since these were the main organisations NY worked with. I've been on visits to nursing homes twice, and both times left me feeling guilty for my lack of fluency in dialects. It was really sad, because the aunties and uncles were so appreciative even though all we did was to sing songs and make small talk with them. It reflected on how lonely and emotionally neglected they were.

Peer tutoring in p5/6
It really humbled me because our peers were so eager to learn, and very sincere and grateful. And we were really, really proud of them because they did quite well for the PSLE Science papers. (which I recall were tricky) One of the guys got an A, even though he sprained his wrist on the morning of the exam.

Service Project: Bridging World Musical
Some of us then-sec2s worked with a group of Down Syndrome youths who had talent in the arts (mostly theatre and singing) and two visually handicapped and EXTREMELY talented musicians, Wai Yee and Jafar. We really learnt a lot through interacting with them and the youths' highly supportive parents. It was quite sad that because that the musical didn't work out because the director was a very busy man and he couldn't fork out enough time to see it through.

Guides
I had a lot of opportunities to volunteer with my guides. For one, we adopted a child, Beth, under World Vision's scheme to help poor children worldwide have a good education and find a warm foster home. I'm glad to see she's getting healthier and improving at her studies. We've worked with PUB and Manjusri Sec Sch to do household chores and install water saving devices for some old folks over a couple of weeks.

We also work a lot with the organisation APEX, which caters to a big range of beneficiaries. The most recent activity was planning an islandwide Flag Day with them early this year. Most of my batch and some of my seniors went back to help.

Which brings me to a point I brought up before, but since no one responded, I will nag AGAIN. APEX is once again holding a funfair for children with special needs, mostly likely in the middle of the year. The aim is to let the children really have fun, without the usual scrutiny/eyeballing/gawking they face in public. Ok, I admit I haven't done my research to find out the details of the event yet, but based on my experience when in NYGG, it is a small scaled event, with about max 80 children. There would be about 10 stalls, consisting of food, games, face painting and the like.

The reason why I would help out with this event is because it REALLY is very rewarding to see the children's faces light up, to know that at least for a few hours, you brought them joy and laughter. (Yes I love kids though I'm not that good with them)

So. Where do we come in? We can volunteer to set up some stalls, or work as escorts for the children, bringing small groups of them around and looking out for their safety and other needs.

Coming up the proposal isn't too much of a problem, if you all are interested, I will definitely come up with it. (of course after much discussion with you guys and APEX) If you all are afraid that there isn't enough manpower, we can rope in our sister class/senior class/other ARES classes. OR if you all don't mind, we can work with my Guides juniors.

Yea so people please tag in response to the CIP suggestion okay? BIG THANKS!!

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 7:24 PM

Friday, February 23, 2007

ct session today was pretty packed. content wise. and i must say that some of the things that were brought up were pretty thought provoking. saw many of you nodding... but not in agreement i suppose. ha :)

anyway, this really brings back memories!

when i was in secondary school, there was compulsory CIP (as is the case today) and basically, we went to various children's/old folks' homes. the thing about these visits is that we only went to each home once. it was pretty much touch and go. my deepest memory was a children's home we visited. we put up a skit for the children and we had a whale of a time preparing for it. it was the story of the "3 little pigs", and all of us who acted were really camping it up and enjoying the process. i guess for us then, it's probably another one of those "official" events which gave us a legitimate excuse to just fool around... the children enjoyed it of course and it bonded us as a class.

in jc, i joined interact club in my second year. i remember that we went to this hospice to visit the sickly elderly. we had programme lined up for them and it was basically to sing chinese oldies like "yue liang dai biao wo de xin". so we went, a whole busload of us, waiting to execute the activities we had planned, like the bright-eyed task driven perfect over-achievers that we were. when we began singing the songs we had prepared (preparations meaning last minute revision on the bus-ride to the place), one of the residents told us to stop singing. we were pretty shocked because, like hello? do we sound that bad? are the windows breaking? but more so because, well, we knew at the bottom of our hearts that we didn't have anything else planned... and worse of all, most of us could not speak dialect. in terms of the ability to hold a decent conversation, many of us were inadequate. i can speak hakka but most elderly understand only teochew or hokkien, of which i speak nor even understand neither. upon hindsight, it must be really annoying for the people at the hospice (or any other homes for that matter) to have different groups of students swarm in on them every other day, insisting on singing the same old songs, with the same old uncertainty. the awkward silences. never moving beyond "have you eaten". never seeing the same face again. what is the point of such visits? really. who are we helping? are we merely assuaging our conscience? telling ourselves that, hey, i am a good person. i do cip...?

in university, i joined mentoring. basically we had secondary school students as our mentees, and we were supposed to help them in their studies and to counsel them. it was a weekly affair for a year. through this, i formed fast friends with the mentors assigned to the same school. after my year of mentoring ended, the bunch of us still helped out with planning the programme for year-end camps for a few more years. through the constant interaction with these youths, i have learnt patience and to never give up. when you really care for someone, your actions will naturally speak of this concern. the hope that the person will fulfill his/her potential, not for anyone/anything, but solely for him/herself. because he/she is capable of it. it is important to constantly care becaue, i believe, when you start to care less, one tends to become careless with one's words and actions...

an amazing thing (cliched as it is) about helping others is that in the end, you are the one who benefits the most. not in a condescending oh-my-gawd-i'm-helping-the-less-fortunate-i-should-be-so-glad-i'm-not-them way, but in the way that because of the interaction, you see yourself more clearly, you see others more clearly, you learn about life around you, beyond you...

i'm sure many among you have actively volunteered at some point in your life. so, keep up the good work! :) those who are interested should sign up for the citibank-ymca youths 4 causes. if not, you can always be a part of the various activities cip has lined up for the school :)

hope everyone has a good weekend! rest well and see you on monday! :)

posted by iliep at 10:17 PM

猜猜我是谁？？？
哈哈！这可是我第一次博客哟！！！ ^_^

paiseh..shall change to singlish now...eh....yar.i have nothing much to say anyway; blogging for e sake of blogging...Huang cheng ppl must jiayou!!!!! :) and Ares has 205points!! :) not bad not bad!! *有志者事竟成；我们一定会东山再起的！！！！当然，分数并不代表一切；大家一起同甘共苦，费尽心血为ares取得胜利的过程才是最最重要的！！！！(*o*)

ok...shall stop acting cheem.....but its still from e bottom of my heart k??!!! ^_^ and well..to say the truth...there's still a burning qn in my heart....but it's damn dumb...but still i can't help but not know the answer...so hopeless right? ok...the qn is...cos i noticed tt e class blog's bckgrd colour is black...so if i dont change the colour of the text of my post, what you all will see would be all black isit???? (>_<) *i cant help but imagine you guys laughing n rolling on e floor...but cant blame me!! cos i have NVR blogged b4 in my whole life.* >_<
[HAHAA! missymumu just saved my life by telling me the ans to my qn! muahahahahaahah! (*o*) ]

really sorry for so much crap.but really happy too cos i m finally posting! :) yay! and everyone must jiayou jiayou for the very FUN & EXCITING CSC LECTURES, math assignment on AP n GP, Quek's essay qn, Teh's test, econs ILP presentation blah blah blah.......sounds so tremendously enjoyable and delightful isnt it???!!! yea!!! tt's why 加油加油加油！！！！:)

and really really sorry about the class jacket...cos never update you guys about what's happening...basically, yinghao n i would be meeting the manufacturer on the coming monday after school. (if anyone wants to come along you r EXTREMELY WELCOME too!!!!) yup. so would tell you all more details after the meeting. :) thanks for all your patience!!!! :)

hope tt all of u would have a very nice weekend!!!! :)

木-啊 哈 哈 哈！！！

posted by jesslyn at 9:19 PM

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Yo people... whee... listening to Lifehouse's "You and Me" gets me shamelessly sappy and romantic... Add to the fact that I'm tired. Therefore the rest of the entry is not going to make sense =(

Haha... Today is Thinking Day!! Or for the Scouts, it's Founder's Day. I'm sure all those from NY would remember NYGG's delicious fundraising items (it's funny how the nanyang guides are always remembered for being motherly, and always ready with yummy food) It sounds vaguely sadistic but I do miss footdrill and parades... all the sweat, blood (yes some of us do bleed from blisters) and all that bonding... And whoever thinks that footdrill is "just walking only mah" would get socked in the face by moi. Try marching out there in the freaking hot sun in full uniform and black boots that feel like they're burning your feet off for a couple of hours and you'll be enlightened.

I want to sneak back and watch the parade on Friday morning! And skip flagraising. But I suppose it's not a good idea ><><>

Hope no one else is falling sick... Take good care of your voices everyone! I'm trying to follow the "huang cheng diet" of no fried stuff for the next two days to save my voice but it really feels like ling2 shi2 bao4 fo2 jiao3.

[Disclaimer for the skit during CT session] Whatever happens. No matter how lame. No matter how much you feel like wringing your hands and throwing rotten tomatoes at the 8 of us. Please watch the skit and do not lynch me when you next see me!! Overlook everything and listen to the underlying message okay.

Blah I think I'm gonna get nerves... ELDDFS acting debut in front of 1000 people *cringe*

To end off, interesting food for thought: I've been in touch with a lot of other ARES c1 classes. And it seems. We're like the only class which does not have blatant fan clubs and perving sessions at our two Fac Heads ><>

Okay. Really not making sense now. See you guys tomorrow!

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 3:06 PM

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Hey hey.

Just in case you don't know:

We'll be having math assignment next Tuesday, on tutorial 1C.

Reminder: Please do 1D for this Friday's tutorial. Don't forget the graphic calculator ws.

Yea, that's all. Happy mugging!

posted by xxx at 2:54 PM

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Sigh, once again I am neglecting my homework to do more important things, like post on the class blog. Oh yay. Someone tell me how to do GP and Econs.

Okay anyway... For those of you who didn't come, here's some pics from our fun! and exciting! outing today :)



Marilyn and I sat around stoning and taking stupid pictures while the rest played Bridge with her cards, which had super un-hot guys on them. And then we played Daidee, and I pwned everybody with my mad rad skillz. :) BOW TO KING YANAN. Yeah baby.



Our ugly bowling shoes. Pro Yiyuan was first! Marilyn was second, and I was third. :) I know, we are so awesome.

And then... we headed over to play frisbee and Daidee in the grass, and I pwned everyone again. :)



Marilyn and her $4 Frisbee That Cannot Fly.

(Wah why do I keep talking about Marilyn??)

Finally, we went to PS for dinner + dessert + arcade. So fun.




Yuxuan and his cool umbrella, yo.



Jasmine! (Okay so I'm an idiot and can't focus properly.)



Generous and chivalrous Dijie offers Jasmine his dessert. (Hahaha look at her expression.)

Okay that's all! Sorry I am damn sian now. Arrrrrgh. We've been cheated of one day of holiday! Life is so tragic it sucks. In the meantime, I leave you with a video of Yiyuan getting tricked by Kelly at Burger King (re-enactment only). This is my first time uploading videos on Youtube leh! What a milestone in my life as a loser.



Alright, byebye my friends :) Take care those who aren't feeling well! <3

posted by Jens Frühling at 11:00 PM

Monday, February 19, 2007

HELLO!

ok I got sth v impt to say. I DREAMT TT I RAN FIRST FOR X-COUNTRY last nite! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. o man. ok nvm. but this wun happen la, unless the whole world decided to walk. I've spent this cny sleeping! I sleep till like 1 in the afternoon den cont slping again from 3 to 9. den wake up for dinner, slp again... till i feel a little dehydrated now.

Rachel is our new classmate. Super fair. She's a nice gal like me. likes to pon PE like me. slps like a pig like me. but she doesn't eat a lot :( all in all, rachel is a nice gal (just like me) welcome raCh ;P

. Thanks guys for the great job for our cny stall! I think in future we can have a more efficient manpower delegation system so u guys dun have to drain urselves yea. BUT THANKS A MILLION for the sweat n blood (if any) tt u guys put in. hahaha it was certainly heartwarming to see our class pple forcing n coercing (ok la only me) pple to buy. HAHA. tts class spirit :) haha. n also, Ms Liew who came down to help us clean up the stall.

yea we've known one another for 3/2 months. And i think u guys had been a great bunch of pple. I really would like to spend the rest of these 2 yrs getting to know u all more n building deeper frenships. In case anyone of u become zeng4hu4 when u grow up, den i will benefit also la.. jk jk, pls dun sue me for any political inaccuracies.

ok tml we gonna have steamboat rite?! so exCIIIIItingggggggg. see u guys :)
-Kelly

posted by 07A13 at 6:41 PM

haha... I can see our class is super enthu about blogging! Don't come for slightly about two days and there's an explosion of new posts...

I'm just going to talk abt whatever comes to mind. So I'm sorry if this is not in any coherent order whatsoever.

Rachel! TAKE YOUR HP NO OFF THE BLOG. I mean seriously. It's not safe. Unless our blog is password protected like the snr's one, which it is not.

YAY. Thanks Jasmine for once again not putting up my photos. I love her man, she takes my photos but they always look too unglam to be put up. MUCH LOVE DEAR

Thanks Yanan for the compliment! Even though actually I can't quite dance to save my life. I guess Supermassive Black Hole is an aphrodisiac for dance ;) and I can help minimally with the coding if you send it over... I learnt a little abt using others' codes and adapting them because I can't understand html for nuts.

Eh SC's house damn far from Sheng Shiong leh. Even with the LRT and all. Ten mile junction is super out of the way for practically everyone. But I guess they probably had dirt cheap prices due to its ulu-ness? The last time I went there was a couple of years back ><

Haha... I agree that we si chan lan da/ employed "mei ren ji" to get people to buy our stuff... I recalled I had the last 4 ice pops on hand and since no wanted to buy it, I paid for it and gave it out for free. I can't remember who took the first 2 from me, but thank you Yee Kai for taking the last two. Yea our seniors class was really supportive of us!! Thank you dear seniors!!

Hmm... it just occured to me that CNY in HC is actually quite diff from back in NY... The atmosphere here is defintiely higher, what with Fac Dance and CNY stalls, but I also miss the traditional things we used to do like (attempting to) write chun lian while (doing our best to) keep our hong zi clean... [Gossip: the new principal can't speak chinese for nuts even with han yu pin yin written for her. argh. What's happening to our preservation of Chinese culture?]

Yea even though this is the class blog, the next part is dedicated to my angel, since I can't get into theirs: JUN HONG YOUR PERFORMANCE DURING CNY ROCKS!! [I'm sure Eileen thinks so too ;)] Ok I started off biased already because I LOVE THE SONG THEY USED. Explosive by Bond.

Anyone knows how much Fac points we earn for everything? Like Dramafeste and Faculty Dance. I know the score board as of mid january was ARES 40, APOLLO 45 (they won filmfest and got 15 more), ARTEMIS 60 and ATHENA 100. CAN SOME KIND SOUL UPDATE ALL FACULTIES I'M SURE WE ALL WANT TO KNOW THANKS.

Ok, enjoy CNY! And don't get flu (like me ><) Will miss you all!

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 7:32 AM

Saturday, February 17, 2007

qinsheng says:

Hey y'all homies (:

Firstly, I'd like to congratulate our class for making a huge profit during yesterday's CNY celebrations!

Secondly, CONGRATULATIONS TO ARES FOR WINNING THE CNY FAC DANCE COMPETITION! Ares rocks yeah <3.

Anyway, this was how the day/night went for the icepop delivery crew (:

Thanks dijie and simchun for making a trip down to ten mile to get the icepops at 6 cents per stick! I can imagine how difficult it is for two people to carry 6 X 9 kg of icepops back. And dijie you perv, looking at simlin ><.

Then at 10pm, me calv yiyuan and yuxuan went to simchun's house to get the icepops. But then we realised. THERE WASN'T ENOUGH SPACE FOR 500 ICEPOPS. Luckily lynn's mum was able to go around and finally find a place at the 7-11 near coro to store our icepops. Thanks a lot :D

After that really busy period, we went to calv's house to slack, while simchun had to squat at home cause his father didn't allow him to :(. His house is so neat and organised and spacious not to mention a whole load of trophies in his room and a cute brother (: heh. Headed to cineleisure kbox to meet some a13 seniors + shiuyuen. Honestly, it was a pretty wasted trip. We wasted 22 bucks on the cab fare (due to some dumb fat driver who apparently doesnt know where he's going and was trying to keep awake all along) and then 8 bucks on kbox, in which we pretty much stoned (i was dozing off) for around 30 mins except for yuxuan, who was really into singing zhangxueyou canton songs.

calv, yuxuan and me (obviously sleeping)

We then wanted to go pool together, but kpool closes at 3:45, and we didnt want to waste an hour's pool money on 25 mins of playing. So in the end we joined the seniors at youth park. Had a pretty good guy-to-guy talk while seniors were practising fac dance at the road side.

in the midst of emptiness;

After that we just cabbed to calv's home (wasting another arnd, 14 bucks?) to take a lil rest, before leaving for school. Now that explains why the four of us were looking like zombies yesterday.

Ahhhh. I guess I should stop here now. I wasn't feeling really well physically and emotionally yesterday. So see y'all on wednesday and have a HAPPY chinese new year! :)

posted by qinsheng at 5:30 PM

HAHA today is 除夕 and i just wanna wish everyone a happy Chinese new year. Phew everyone...good job on the sale of Ice Pops and Michale Jackson, it was hard work, but we manage to earn quite a bit and this money is surely going into the welfare fund for great uses.



Sim Chun and i had a hard time trying to transport the Ice pops to his house...haha...his muscles were aching by then. I saw Sim chun sister, now i can visualize how Sim Chun would look like if he was a girl (no offense, your sister is quite pretty)






Hmm...what do you all think? What are we going to do for our JTS? lets give some ideas guyz...everyone shud blog...not just the usual people.

posted by 07A13 at 4:19 PM

Hello all!

i'm just helping yuxuan to post now cause he's outside and marilyn told him to ask everyone if it's possible to have a bowling outing this coming tuesday (chu san). we're gonna use our bowling vouchers.

everyone, please message yuxuan to inform him whether you can make it.

thanksssss(:

ps eileen i had no sian face partnering you okay!

goodjob for fac dance all((((((((((((:
<3<3

posted by jaydabest at 3:53 PM

Lolx...i've been thoroughly tired at nite these few days...(4 no reason la) so hadn't blogged since AGESSSSSS...yay!but it's HOLIDAYS! n things r different! ha-ha..hyper now. only a few days since i visited our blog n wow...so many new posts! yay!N A TAGBOARD!clap clap clap.

Ok,start w e funny posts of drma fest! lolx...senior class guobin super funny...i was like laughing cum diaoing while watching...LOLX. yay!!!

ARES drama fest rox!!!!!

ok,continue...welcome RACHEL! haha...we didn't mention u in blog coz we already treat u as part of us mahz!that's y lo. hehe...(sounds like lame excuse)but happy to haf u in A13! but u juz missed CNY today!!!aiya...nvm,lots more happy funky activities coming up i guess...like STJ/JTS nxt wk rite?!clap clap clap!

what else?!ohhh,yinghan's post struck me that we already know pple in our class for 1 n a half month le! mmm...wahh... cant imagine it's been that long.lolx!well...still long way to go i hope=D.we shall grow be closer as a class! yay!

haha...e cross country quite funny...SC dun haf cross country de...(unless u volunterily sign up,which i nv did)...so kinda cool experience...gd way to grow close to nature.jessamin n i were sooooo consistent! WE BRISK WALKED THROUGHOUT!...haha...muz learn from us to be consistent pple...lolx.haha!lame. oH, n that day was valentine's day! lolx...i wanted write short notes 4 all e pple i know...then end up do e class one only then super late like 4a.m. le...this is e problem of slow worker.lolx.but at least i finished e class one la...or else we got 4 galx share give 1 ferero rocher to each person in e class kinda pathetic. hehe...

finally.....CNY FAC DANCE N OUR CLASS STALL!yay...ok,start in chronological order...class stall!!!!!! AMAZING...haha...was kinda surprised to know how much profit we earned! scary ehx...i guess many of us were practically begging/persuading/si3 chan2 lan4 da3 want pple buy e extremely overpriced icepop n e grass jelly when there r so many other stalls w drinks too...but yay!!!!we earned so much!!!!!clap clap clap!gd job ehx. of course,

OUR FAC DANCE!!! YAY! ARES WON! :)

haha...first thanks to sc,my dance partner(though u look abit sian being that)...but, u dance always v v v funny/hyperactive...lolx.nvm.back to ARES!haha, see Aresians like put in so much effort dance e day b4 so i was praying super hard e day b4 n b4 results were out that we'll win...yay!n Our spirit was e highest today la!n our dance superb too...thx to fac comm Dance IC n e Aresianx!YIPEEEEEE...haha!e song v catchy too...lol.haha...wo wo wo wo!

kaez!!!!!yay pple! CNY means HOLIDAYS! yay! all e way till tues...super happy...(gonna see when to fit in e hmwk)take care drink H20 while eating heaty food or will turn out to haf sore throat like me!!! ahhh,less goodies to eat le:( oh well...have a great yr ahead pple!

A13 ROXXXXXXXX!

posted by Anonymous at 12:04 AM

Friday, February 16, 2007

ARES TOTALLY PWNED FAC DANCE MAN! YEAH YEAH YEAH :DDD Wow I was so afraid Apollo would win 'cause their dance does look cool, but I guess we were really organised and ENTHU! Yeah man. Dance ICs rock! :)

Mm Supermassive Black Hole is a damn sexy song.

Also.. thank you Hong Ling for always standing in front of me during fac dance sessions so I can copy your moves! I think you dance really well <3

posted by Jens Frühling at 10:41 PM

AHAHAHAHA ARES WON THE FAC DANCE COMPETITION! *squees incoherently*

Thank you Dijie for bearing with the fact that I can't dance to save my life :)

Haha thanks to Ying Han I finally know how my head looks from the back! LOL ok no that's not the point. We where got pray that the ice will melt?! XDXDXD Actually, we were praying that the ice will turn into solid gold so that we can expand class fund we can sell all our stuff successfully and most importantly, win fac dance!

We had class lunch today at KAP, and ever since I've decided that one of my favourite hobbies will be photographing Yan An. Just look at that gorgeous expression full of attitude! (In other words, she's quite the pimp XD)

Happy Chinese New Year to all! Rest well~

posted by Anonymous at 9:49 PM

HEYHEY! :)

first of all, thank you hongling!! : ) im okk today. HAHAHA! today was really.. ahem.. um.. hmm.. hahahaha i couldnt wake up :( was busy helping my mom bake cookies and pineapple tarts ytd nite, ended up like sleeping till 9! :( and ya. yups.

AND AND AND what did i miss out again!! ARGGHHH!! TELL ME TELL MEEE! :( what did i miss out! :(

hmm.. looks like you guys had a fun thing again. YUPS. it should be fine for me next weekends! :) i dont mind any potluck and stuffs! i can bake brownies! HAHAHA>

ANYWAYs. yes. you guys dont have my number! okk. my number is 97683599 okk! :)

yups yups!! cya guys!! happy chinese new year! :)

posted by *米西mumu* at 8:57 PM

praying the ice will melt

Post the others some day bah.

Happy new year!

posted by ~ying han~ at 8:46 PM

YO!

So WE DID DONG SHAN ZAI QI and BROUGHT THE HOUSE (in this case central plaza) DOWN!! Great job everyone on the enthusiasm and sexy grooving. And thanks Ying Han for being my dance partner! Haha... there were so many people we didn't have enough space for some of the moves...

And thanks everyone who was so hardworking and enthu about the stall! The guys for the ice pops/ice, the girls for the chin chow! I hope everyone had (very sticky) fun despite all that chaos and ice pop liquid squirting everywhere. How much did we earn?

Rachel! How come you didn't come? I hope you were well... Hmm I just realised that you have our contact list, but we don't have your number!!

By the way, the seniors want to STJ next Fri evening at someone's house, but we told them about the huang cheng people, so maybe they may push it to the weekends... Do you all want to do a pot luck for JTS?

ok, have a great new year break!! gotta go!

love,
hong ling

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 3:14 PM

posted by *米西mumu* at 12:03 AM

heyhey everyone!

Tomorrow is CNY! Haha. So we are having fac dance competition. Everyone must go dance k! Haha. I haven't learnt it well la. Crap.

And our CNY stall! Haha. I think we should be able to earn quite a sum lor. So we must go all out and show our prowress. Haha.

Yah yah, everyone should bring their camera! I'm gonna bring mine tmr. Haha. It will be super fun tmr I guess, selling stuff with everyone. :)

CNY coming, everyone do take care. Don't indulge in all the new year goodies until fall sick. :P

BB.

posted by ~ying han~ at 9:26 PM

Hello! Hope you all had a fun and exciting Valentine's with your hot and sexy dates ;) ;) Thank you for all the lovely notes and candy and stuff! Haha, and thanks Yinghao for the present! :) I agree with Rachel, that was real nice of the guys. Sorry I'm quite a loser and didn't do anything for you all. :/ Well, hope you enjoyed V'day anyway! A13 is so much love. <3

By the way, I think Blogger really sucks. I can't get the bloody layout up 'cause the codes are so cheem. Arghhh. Then again I'm probably just an IT noob.

Why do we keep mugging during our breaks? It's really depressing man! Relax! Save the homework for Econs lectures!

I think we should take more pictures to post on our class blog! Then it'll be more exciting with lots of eyecandy for everyone. Hurhur. I shall bring my camera someday.

posted by Jens Frühling at 11:01 PM

HEY HO! : )

i <3 A13!!! :) anyway, 谢谢大家的关心！！

yes, im feeling so much better now! :( AND I MISSED OUT ON GP, FIREDRILL & CROSS COUNTRY!!! :( ARRGHHH!!! omg. im not gonna miss out on any other fun! YES YES YES!! :)

everyone drink more water, and sleep sleep sleep. dont be like me, fell sick AT THIS TIME. no way! cny is coming.. :) btw, gotta thank the guys for giving the girls gift! :)

a13 rocksss! :)

anw, shheesshh. i tink the pillows at the sickbay stinks!:( and its really warm there.lolz!

posted by *米西mumu* at 10:48 PM

YO MY PRECIOUS A13 DARLINGS! (Including all seniors, and grand seniors e.g. our marvellous CT!)

Ok, first off: HEY RACHEL! I hope you're feeling much, much, MUCH better by the time you read this... Take lots of rest, k?

And to A13: THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!

Wow. I have never ever celebrated Valentine's to this extent before... crazy running around, exchanging gifts, hugs, thank yous, everything...

ANYWAY. So thank you EVERYONE once again, for all your gifts and love notes k! I don't think I need to list; you guys know who you are!

Yea and thanks guys for making the effort to buy the hairbands! (Though I kind of felt traitor-ish wearing the blue one ><) However my favourite is still the bunny ears ;)

Oh and um, I'm REALLY SORRY if I made anybody cry during GP okay? I didn't meant to! I mean yes, the story was sad, but I thought it would only affect me... Anyway, as I said, TREASURE YOUR LOVED ONES EVERYDAY. (Remember Ronan Keating's If Tomorrow Never Comes and the irony of the lines "Finally a chance/To say hey, I love you" from You Light Up My Life)

So. Ares didn't do well for Cross Country. BUT THAT'S ALRIGHT. WE WILL DONG SHAN ZAI QI! Show them who's boss during FAC DANCE COMPETITION K! (It'll be the biggest fac event till CSM) Anyone who wants to learn the fac dance do ask fac comm, or anyone else who knows, or I could help you limitedly, seeing that I know the dance, but I'm not a good dancer...

Hope everyone isn't overly burned out from this afternoon... drink lots of water k! And if you get muscle cramps [Read: the muscle contraction kind, aka labour pains in a different part of the body] stretch and unstretch the muscles slowly!! It hurts like hell, but yes, do it. It'll help lots, as I've found out on numerous occasions... Whatever you do, DON'T TENSE UP!

much love,
hong ling

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 10:23 PM

Haha. Hey guys. First time I'm blogging here. Apparently, because there's no huang cheng today so I'm not reaching home that late lor.

Since it's the first time I'm blogging here (I know it's quite late...), I must say 07a13 rocks! haha.

Today was valentines. Hope everyone had their own share of fun, with your angel/mortal, your batchmates and classmates! Today everyone was sort of in a crazy mood?

And today's fire drill was sort of screwed?

Then it was cross country. Haha. I guess today quite a lot of people walked? Haha. 爱情长跑！

Hope everyone had a nice valentine, whether you are attached or not. :)

CNY coming soon, get into the festive mood!

Nitez.

posted by ~ying han~ at 9:43 PM

Hi people. Writing Valentine's Day notes/doing gifts are driving me nuts ><>

Okay. Randomness prevails. We've brought this up many times before, but in the light of cross country, I am extremely tempted to talk about it again =) *gives in to temptation* So. WHY DIDN'T WE WIN CAMPFIRE ITEM?! Considering how often people have been talking about ai qing chang pao in recent days... We need to copyright the phrase man...

Yea anyway. Hope whoever went for Fac Dance had TREMENDOUS FUN! Besides the fact that we were probably dead tired towards the end, good job everyone for the enthu-ness in learning the dance! And and and whatever you do grab a partner for Friday k? Any random ARES person will do! (You'll know what I mean if you experienced being paired up randomly like yours truly did today)

Okok. Enough nonsense. You can see I'm cracking under the pressure of trying to finish my remaining 20 plus notes... Don't worry! I FINISHED 07A13's ones liao! Woots!

Ok. Love you people! See you tomorrow!

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 1:07 AM

Monday, February 12, 2007

yay here are the videos as promised! i finally figured out how the get the embed video to show up. never underestimate the power of the html tag, haha.

firstly though, allow me to introduce you all to a strange creature known as guo bin, whose self-proclaimed favourite hobby of all time begins with the letter w, or m, for that matter. he will be in charge of traumatizing you all for the rest of the post. enjoy :)

guo bin is attempting to imitate akon. "attempting", being the keyword here.

the LT falls prey to his antics part deux: in which he gets no love despite emoing

actually, he also gets no love even when he's not emoing.

qin sheng, sim chun, ezra and yuxuan show us red hot ARES <3

my math tutorials ate up the first 1/3 of the video, gomen. XD WE LOVE FAC DANCE!

oh btw qin sheng, may you get more sleep! unless you want to permanently MOG yourself. XD

EDIT: AARGH the videos are slanted to one side for some reason. If you want to see them in the correct dimension, you can go here: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=onestopheaven

posted by Anonymous at 9:34 PM

Sunday, February 11, 2007

YAY! :) heyhey, im rachel :) the new student.
LOL! :( im so sad, nobody mentioned in the class blog about my arrival :( *sobs* okk, fine. YES YES.. whatever me la!

ANYWAYS, im gonna blog for the first time! whee, like after so many failed attempts, i finally got to blog here! *CLAP CLAP* yay! yay!

first of all, CONGRATS CONGRATS to everyone, anyone out there. ( hmt and Olevels and dramafeste).its damn sad that i didnt get to watch! :( hais hais hais. but anyways, CSc is so dead. I haven touched my notes and looks like im not gonna do anything about it, cuz its boring! and im gonna drop it! whos dropping it?

:( China studies rock!

posted by 07A13 at 9:44 PM

HELLO guys!!

Hey, seriously, the Ares play was fantastic! n good job to Simchun, Yuxuan, Qinsheng, Lynn, Hong Ling, Jasmine, Yan An for such a great job done! :) Mar n I brought our China buddies there and my buddy liked our Ares play!! :):):) hehehehe she said "hen you yi si!". so, congrats once again.

AND hehehe BIG CONGRATS to Eileen, Calvin n Keith who did exceptionally well for the O levels :). hehehe I think I will flunk if I take Os.

ok tts all for now, gotta go study for the CSC test. Alamak. God bless those who are taking the test tml :):) BYE BYe

posted by kelspy at 4:06 PM

oh my god. CSC test. _l_ sian i think im gonna eat bread and then sleep during the test la. theres like one whole freakin stack of notes to read?? Feel like giving it to my neighbour's dog to eat.

Anyway here's a quiz!

1) How old do you wish you were? [18]
2) Where were you when 911 happened? [at home. watching plane crash building on tv.]
3) What do you do when vending machines steal your money? [er...point finger?]
4) Do you count yourself kind? [nope=D]
5) If you had to get a tattoo, where would it be? [my back]
6) If you could be fluent in any other language, what would it be? [korean]
7) Do you know your neighbours? [nope. not very well. know the dog counted as well or not?]
8) What do you consider a vacation? [a period of time where i get to think about nothing at all]
9) Do you follow your horoscope? [NOO]
12) Dream job? [an artist/e]
13) Favorite channel(s)? [channel 62]
14) Favorite place to go on weekends? [toapayoh]
15) Showers or Baths? [showers]
16) Do you paint your nails? [nope]
19) Do you want kids? [I want. But i cannot produce leh.]
20) Do you keep a handwritten journal? [nope]
22) Who makes you feel warm and fuzzy? [someone who left me]
23) Heavy or light sleeper? [5000kg sleeper.]
24) Are you paranoid? [yah]
25) Are you impatient? [no. im a patient person.]
27) What's your favorite pick-up line? [leave *insert guys name here* and all that unhappiness. Come with me. ]
28) What's your main ringtone on your mobile? [*vibrates* always in silent mode]
29) What were you doing at midnight last night? [eating roti prata]
31) Whose bed did you sleep in last night? [MY BED LA.]
32) What color shirt are you wearing? [white tee]
33) Name three things you have on you at all times? [dignity,belief, clothing]
34) What color are your bed sheets? [greenish blue with teddy bears]
35) How much cash do you have on you right now? [kosong]
36) What is your favorite part of the chicken? [the tui.]
37) What's your favorite town/city? [tokyo]
38) I can't wait till..? [nothin i cant wait til.]
39) What did you have for dinner last night? [canadian pizzaaaa]
40) Do you own a gun? [what a question, yes, toy gun.]
41) What do you prefer to drink in the morning? [honey]
43) Last thing you ate? [chips? lays]
44) What songs do you sing in the shower? [many many]
45) Last thing that made you laugh? [simchun said something funny on msn]
46) Worst injury you've ever had? [whenever some close to me leaves me.]
47) What's your favorite candy? [chocolate counted as candy or not?]
48) What song do you want played at your funeral? [chao kuai gan.]
49) Ten random people to do this? [CLASS PEOPLE. SENIORS. ANYONE]
50) Say 'Goodbye' to yourself? [ .... ]

posted by -[[ yuxuan_ ]]- at 1:26 AM

Hello people, yuxuan here and im posting for the first time. Dramafeste people who brought cameras can you all please post e pics? I didnt bring my cam!! > <

Ares brought the house down and everyone knows it : )

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, must make/buy stuffs for you angels and mortals k! And for whoever else you wanna give it to.

AND THEN HOR, we should have a JTS SOON!! ANY IDEAS?? Some of the guys thought of doing JTS and STJ together at e same time by going for a chalet. In that sense where seniors treat juniors for e accomodation and juniors treat seniors back for e food. Or the other way round. Some of us suggested it shuld be soon, during a weekend, meaning fri,sat,sun. Some of us thought that we should have a JTS outing FIRST. THen after that do the chalet idea, during march hols or sth. But march hols we'll be missing out some of the OAC seniors. Hm..

How does it sound? : )

posted by -[[ yuxuan_ ]]- at 1:01 AM

First of all, welcome Miss Liew to our class blog!!! =) Glad to read the entry!

Okay I checked with my Glutton (guides) batchmates and the what the funky black people of Artemis won was the Best Supporting Actress award. But I guess what the judges really meant was the Best Chorale award. They spooked me out on Thursday (even though I watched the rehearsal) and it took some (of my chicken) guts to go out of the LT alone to continue with my ushering/bouncer duty.

For the NY girls, in case you all didn't know: Mr GARY TANG came and watched Dramafeste on Friday!!! Kind of miss having him around... drama's not the same without him, I guess.

Yu Xuan, Sim Chun, Qin Sheng: YOU AWESOME PEOPLE! I guess you all have heard enough praises so let's not overdo it... Anyway kudos to Sim Chun for being brave and getting emo even though everyone else still can't (BUT REALLY OUGHT TO) get the gay Orientation Campfire image out of their heads.

Thanks especially to 07a13 crew - Yanan, Jasmine and Lynn - plus Edlyn and Jacq, for entertaining me when I was tired/sian! And Yanan and Jasmine and Ying Hao for running crazy errands for me, including getting standing tickets for Eileen and friend!

And thanks Miss Liew for your compliment =) We were after all supposed to be "walking decorations" for razzle dazzle!

JIA YOU CSC dudes! Don't let the CSC test kill you!!

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 12:05 AM

my hearty congratulations to all my bright sparks who took their 'o's! lucky 7! we got blackjack! hahha... lame, i know. well done eileen + keith + calvin; you rock! :) it's nice to know that everyone will still be together after the first 3 months! :)

for the rest who are considering changing subject combi, now is the time to give it serious thought. find out from your friends what the subject, that you're thinking of changing to, is like. look at the lecture notes and what your friends have done so far. it should be a pretty good guage of what you would be doing for the next 2 years and think about whether it is something that you would like doing. :) remember, passion goes a long way! even if you're not good in something, as long as you have the heart to try, you would eventually succeed :)

last night was the first time i watched dramafeste in hwa chong and i must say that i really enjoyed it! i loved ares' play! i know it sounds really dodgy and biased because we are *cough* from ares. but hand-over-heart, it was good! those who went to watch the play would agree i'm sure! :)

the night of drama began, rather appropriately, with some drama on our side. i'm glad kelly + marilyn + their china buddies managed to catch the play in spite of some *erm* slight hiccups at the beginning ;) thanks to eileen + jessamin + yiyuan for being so sweet and considerate! hope you managed to get a good view from where you were! it's really thoughtful :)

as hong ling (who looked really sweet and demure in her lbd) has already pointed out, ares was the biggest winner of the night! :) yeahhhh! even if we did not win some awards, it does not mean that we did not shine in those aspects! :)

yuxuan was really good! shedding real tears on stage is no mean feat man! :) and now that you guys have pointed out, qinsheng and yuxuan do share an uncanny likeness. no wonder rachel cannot tell you guys apart, yet. haha. :) and qinsheng is really scary as a ghost. i got such a fright when you stood behind me in your creepy make up! sim chun was really convincing as the emo kid. haha.. it's really not easy to be emotional without people laughing at you! so well done to our actors! :) i was really moved by the play and i must say it has a really enthralling plot that was captivating because of the finesse of your execution! :)

also!!!!! kudos to yan an who was part of the sound team, for crouching in the dark throughout the play, playing music at the appropriate places; jasmine as part of backstage, valiantly and efficiently running in and out with the props; and lynn as part of the lighting team, for the smooth transition of the lights that added to the suspense of the play! well done everyone!!!! :)

now that dramafeste is over, there is huang cheng to look forward to! :)

to everyone who is vvvvvv busy with rehearsals + training (of all sorts!!), i know it is tiring-physically, emotionally, mentally-and sometimes you just cannot fight persistent zhou gong who wants to schedule a meeting with you. but do try your best to keep up in whatever way you can yah? :) take care of yourselves! try to get enough rest and drink more water.

see you on monday! monday jams are pretty bad, so those who have a tendency to reach on the dot, try to set off earlier so that you can be on time in spite of the heavy traffic! :) in the meantime, enjoy your weekend!

posted by iliep at 2:08 PM

CLASS ACCOUNTS (JAN 2007)
Money collected for class fund:
$10 x 24 = $240

Item(s) Amt of $ paid Remarks
Cardboard $6.90 Props for campfire item
History notes $3.60 -
Printing card $2.50 Used for printing class contacts and timetable
History notes $18.00 -
GP notes $7.20 -
Econs notes $49.20 Series 2 – supply & demand
Deposit for CNY stall $20.00 -
Banner & paint $30.00 CNY banner
Math notes $16.80 Series 2 – P & C
Total expenditure $154.20 -
Amount left $85.80 -

A/N: Some of the subject representatives did not hand over their receipts for the notes they have collected. Please do so the next time you wish to collect from the class fund. Thank you.

Hey hey, is it possible for me to attach it somewhere so that everyone can download it w/o me mass e-mailing it?

posted by jp at 9:46 AM

YO! These are the results for Dramafest 07:

My memory is not working at this time of the day, so if I'm wrong anywhere, crew, cast and audience please correct me!

Best Play: The Virgin Suicides, Apollo
Best Ensemble: Ares
Best Director: (oops I forgot his name ><) Artemis
Best Actor: Rui An, Ares
Best Supporting Actors/Actresses: Ares
Best Actress: Claire, Apollo
Best (was it chorale?): The cool black people, Artemis

As you can see, we ARE the BIGGEST winner of the night! Thanks Cast and Crew for making us a success! Love you guys!

posted by ~ hongling ~ at 1:08 AM

WE ARE...

• 07A13
• Hwa Chong Institution
• Ares <3

Li Ping
Kelly
Xue Rong
Jasmine
Ruo Shuang
Jesslyn
Marilyn
Eileen
Lynn
Carolyn
Jolene
Jessamin
Hong Ling
Yan An
Rachel
Ling Huan
Ying Han
Calvin
Yuxuan
Qin Sheng
Keith
Ying Hao
Yiyuan
Sim Chun
Lincoln
Di Jie
Shuo Han
Ms Liew!

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