Saturday, March 27, 2010
Sentosa/ VivoCIty Outing with 10S13
So went for a 10S13 class outing with my new JC frens today. Supposedly was going to Sentosa to spend the day there. However, only a few of us turned up for the outing and only spent a short period of time at the Siloso Beach. After a while we started playing some frisbee but only for a little while and then not long after it started to rain. LOLOL. So we sat in the shelter instead of at the beach. Not long after though, we decided to go to VivoCity to shop. So it was about an hour or two spent at Sentosa before we went to take a shower before making our way to VivoCity. Once there, the girls decided to go shop and I literally spent three whole hours walking through the Page One bookstore browsing through books. After that we went to catch a movie "The Lazy Bones" about a girl who died but still can't accept that she is dead and then had some compliations. Then went for dinner and after that we sat at the rooftop garden to chit chat for quite some time until almost 11pm. All in all was quite a good trip, although quite a waste of time hahas.
Friday, March 26, 2010
"You Jing" Writing Workshop
Right, so "You Jing's" Chinese Writing workshop just ended yesterday with a last lesson assessing the stories that we have written a couple of weeks ago.
All in all, the workshop has been a very fun one with much knowledge gained and more ideas to get inspirations for writing. Furthermore, I also made some new friends of course and learnt more about "You Jing". Just like most other good writers, she has also travelled around the world to many other places and has her fair share of experinces and insights in many different contexts.
Although my compo did not get selected to be published in the book by MOE, I was not really too disappointed. I didn't actually expect it to be chosen anyways coz just as usual, it was last minute work and really rushed despite having ample time to complete it. By this I mean about a week. How can a compo be good if its rushed? Seriously. I will do my best to change this habit of mine.
Finally, I think I really should read more chinese books to brush up on my Chinese.
I have also just got another "yuan" magazine yesterday for answering a question. That'll be two magazines so far, not too bad I feel.
All in all, the workshop has been a very fun one with much knowledge gained and more ideas to get inspirations for writing. Furthermore, I also made some new friends of course and learnt more about "You Jing". Just like most other good writers, she has also travelled around the world to many other places and has her fair share of experinces and insights in many different contexts.
Although my compo did not get selected to be published in the book by MOE, I was not really too disappointed. I didn't actually expect it to be chosen anyways coz just as usual, it was last minute work and really rushed despite having ample time to complete it. By this I mean about a week. How can a compo be good if its rushed? Seriously. I will do my best to change this habit of mine.
Finally, I think I really should read more chinese books to brush up on my Chinese.
I have also just got another "yuan" magazine yesterday for answering a question. That'll be two magazines so far, not too bad I feel.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Life in PJC is really fun and... hectic?
Yeah, that's what this post'll be about. My life at PJC from after the Orientation to now. So do expect it to be really really long. But it won't be a boring read.
Academic wise...
I'm a subject rep again, self- volunteered of course, but no longer a maths rep. I'm a chinese rep now. Thought it will be an easy job like last time, just collecting homework, but no, I still have to to take the initiative to go down to the boookshop to collect notes for the class and collect money for the notes as well. As I'm not really good with counting money, you can be sure I made a total blunder of the first notes collection and I had to collect the payment for the notes. Seriously, money was not in the job description when he asked for volunteers for CL rep. Now Mr So, chinese teacher, is just passing mssgs to the class through me by SMS.
I've also finally settled into the Alchemist club and started working on experiments for Science Week in April. Going to take part in a competition on Sat as well.
Slowly getting more used to lectures and tutorials though rushing from class to class still makes it kind of hectic. We aren't supposed to be late more than 5mins for lessons and that seldom is an easy feat. The classes can be so far away sometimes.
On another note, I have been hanging around with the only other guys in my class so far, Alan, Jordan, Ming Yang and Chee Koon, daily that is, moving from class to class and even during breaks. So at least I am still able to get to classes on time.
Academics aside, I just bought a shirt for cycling and some head and rear lights for my bike. So my bike is finally equipped to go night cycling.
Finally, with the holidays coming, I have also begun getting textbooks for all my subjects so as to do revision during the hols.
Kk, shall sign off here.
Academic wise...
I'm a subject rep again, self- volunteered of course, but no longer a maths rep. I'm a chinese rep now. Thought it will be an easy job like last time, just collecting homework, but no, I still have to to take the initiative to go down to the boookshop to collect notes for the class and collect money for the notes as well. As I'm not really good with counting money, you can be sure I made a total blunder of the first notes collection and I had to collect the payment for the notes. Seriously, money was not in the job description when he asked for volunteers for CL rep. Now Mr So, chinese teacher, is just passing mssgs to the class through me by SMS.
I've also finally settled into the Alchemist club and started working on experiments for Science Week in April. Going to take part in a competition on Sat as well.
Slowly getting more used to lectures and tutorials though rushing from class to class still makes it kind of hectic. We aren't supposed to be late more than 5mins for lessons and that seldom is an easy feat. The classes can be so far away sometimes.
On another note, I have been hanging around with the only other guys in my class so far, Alan, Jordan, Ming Yang and Chee Koon, daily that is, moving from class to class and even during breaks. So at least I am still able to get to classes on time.
Academics aside, I just bought a shirt for cycling and some head and rear lights for my bike. So my bike is finally equipped to go night cycling.
Finally, with the holidays coming, I have also begun getting textbooks for all my subjects so as to do revision during the hols.
Kk, shall sign off here.
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