Went to a Chinese Talk ytd at ACS (Barker Road). It was actually a follow up of the "You Jing" workshop held sometime ago. It was quite an enriching and insightful trip though. Most Chinese writers from Singapore attended the talk and some even shared their experiences on writing. There was also a song writer who came up to share too and a fisherman who shared about the dolphins and whales from the sea. I loved that one best. That guy actually had the experience of being around dolphins and whales which is quite amazing, don' t you think? Most of the other writers shared about plants mostly.
One shared about her experience with "tan hua" and another shared his experience with a caterpillar turning into a butterfly on his plant. Quite amazing eh?
The talk ended with a Q n A session where some students from other schools asked some very interesting questions such as how to make more use of plants and nature in our writing. All in all, I would say this talk will be very helpful in my writing in the future.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
PEs' KILLING ME!!!
Had PE lesson again ytd just like every other thursday. Mr Yap was again not around and so as usual a relieve teacher took over. And again we did Circuits, four rounds each within three minutes. That really drained all of my energy. Having PE consecutively on Wednesday and Thursday is seriously much too tiring. There is no break in between! But then again, might be that I'm just not fit enough?
On another note, I finally managed to find the Tic for Pioneer Panorama and has finally settled the arrangements for this Sat. I have literally asked every single one of S13 but all had given me a negative response. Thankfully Ming Yang kindly agreed to take my place. Thanks hellots!
Had a chinese test after school at 4.oo ytd as well. Despite the draining PE lesson, think I did fairly well. Hope to get good grades.
On another note, I finally managed to find the Tic for Pioneer Panorama and has finally settled the arrangements for this Sat. I have literally asked every single one of S13 but all had given me a negative response. Thankfully Ming Yang kindly agreed to take my place. Thanks hellots!
Had a chinese test after school at 4.oo ytd as well. Despite the draining PE lesson, think I did fairly well. Hope to get good grades.
Monday, April 19, 2010
HSK Grade 6 exam
Went for HSK grade 6 exam two days ago on Sat 17/04 in the afternoon at St Joseph's Institution. Went out with my parents and they dropped me at the venue at about 1.30 so I was well ahead of time. I had sat for a similiar test like this, dun noe what grade, about 2 years back so was not too nervous. The test started at about 2.00 with listening compre first. About halfway into the listening compre, the system cocked up and we moved on to complete the second part first. The second part, "li jie", was not too tough I felt, though it was still a little rushed towards the end, probably due to poor time planning. After which, it was time for "shu xie" which we were to read a passage and then the passage will be taken away and we have to summarise it in 400 words. Quite interesting I would say, and I think I did pretty okay. The test ended about 4.45pm and we were told to wait while the examiners count the papers. However, some guys from dun noe what school kept making lots of noise at the back and this really infuriated the examiner. After that just went back home le lols. Hope I get good results for this test.
On a separate note, Pioneer Panorama has finally been settled on the 24th April, next Thursday, in the afternoon where we will be under another teacher. However, as I will be going for a chinese talk that afternoon, I still dun think I'll be able to attend. Haiz...
Class 10S13's chinese oral practice schedule has also finally been completed and updated. As of now, oral practices are on Fridays, starting from week 5.
On a separate note, Pioneer Panorama has finally been settled on the 24th April, next Thursday, in the afternoon where we will be under another teacher. However, as I will be going for a chinese talk that afternoon, I still dun think I'll be able to attend. Haiz...
Class 10S13's chinese oral practice schedule has also finally been completed and updated. As of now, oral practices are on Fridays, starting from week 5.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Going for GC competition
Went for a GC designing workshop today. This is due to me having signed up for a GC designing competition from the school. Apparently winners of the competition may be chosen by the school to represent the school in a GC competition by VJC. Learnt quite alot from the workshop today and don't think I remembered everything, rofl. Basically its just using equations to form pictures.
Unfortunately, I still do not have any ideas as of now. Will try to come up with an interesting picture soon. Ultimately, winners are still decided by votes anyways.
Unfortunately, I still do not have any ideas as of now. Will try to come up with an interesting picture soon. Ultimately, winners are still decided by votes anyways.
Pioneer Panorama = STRESS!!
Had lots of problems settling the dates and times of Pioneer Panorama duty for my class. Why was I so stupid to volunteer as the leader? Should have known there would be so many problems. Hahas.
The duty of our class was on 17th originally, a Saturday. However, that clashes with the HSK chinese proficiency test which is to be held on the same day at about the same time. So I made a request for the teacher in charge of our class to change it. In the end, the date was changed to 24th, also a Saturday. However, that is the date of our chinese Week 5 test, again about the same time.
I then spoke to the chinese teacher yesterday and he said he will settle it. Hope it is settled soon and we get to go for the Pioneer Panorama. It sure sounds like fun!
The duty of our class was on 17th originally, a Saturday. However, that clashes with the HSK chinese proficiency test which is to be held on the same day at about the same time. So I made a request for the teacher in charge of our class to change it. In the end, the date was changed to 24th, also a Saturday. However, that is the date of our chinese Week 5 test, again about the same time.
I then spoke to the chinese teacher yesterday and he said he will settle it. Hope it is settled soon and we get to go for the Pioneer Panorama. It sure sounds like fun!
Friday, April 9, 2010
T2Wk1 = SCIENCE WEEK!!
Wow, time really flies, its already T2Wk1. Lots have happened this week.
On Monday, got back PI draft 1 and went through it. There is much to ammend and the ideas have definitely got to be refined. Got an AE for it but wasn't too bad, there is still room for improvement. Got to hand in draft 2 by next Thursday.
Come tuesday, I had to do a NewsRoom presentation for GP which is graded. I was supposedly to be the last to do the presentation as my name was last on the class list but someone sabotaged me and ended up, I was the first to present. Zzz... But it did go quite well I would say. Mrs Fadzlin felt it was well done. Apparently I was to set an example for the class. All in all, quite a decent first( and last) attempt. We're only allowed to give the presentation once lols.
The highlight of the week was wednesday. This week was Science/Humanities Week and activities have been going on for the last two days of the week such as inter-class competitions, quizzes and other stuff. However, these didn't involve me, not until Wednesday that is. Of course, the Alchemist Club was in charge of the planning of activities for the Science Week and we were each given roles for the main activities which were to be held after school at about 3pm. The Astronomy Club and Eco Club also participated in the Science Week with displays of their own. Due to the Humanities Week having taken up much of the concourse for their activities, we therefore had only a little part of the concourse for displays. So what did we display? Hmm... science experiments of course! We had finalised on 10 experiments to showcase and it was really lots of fun. However, as most of the students had CCAs, I don't know why because CCAs were only supposed to start at 4.30, there were not many people who came to view the booths set up. This didn't dampen our spirits though. We still had lots of fun playing around with the experiments, especially the dry ice which one of the seniors had bought. Literally, we spent all time there playing with the dry ice and soap bubbles. Oh yes, the Alchemist Club also screened episodes of the "Brainiac" on the TVs around the school throughout the week which was very well received.
When the whole session ended that day, we were given a debrief and headed off upstairs to the room where we kept our bags to celebrate, enjoying some food there. Apparently Alchemist Club will be kind of slack from now on until the seniors step down and the new committee is formed.
I also succeeded in swinging a bottle round and round at least five times while practising for the demonstrations and also to make water "boil at room temperature".
Recently, lots of money have been spent on getting notes and money really does seem to be flowing away like running water, which is really irritating. Lols, Jie Xin just asked me this morning if I wanted to go to AJ's concert at Esplanade and I've agreed. Hais, that's another $16. Poof! Gone.
On Monday, got back PI draft 1 and went through it. There is much to ammend and the ideas have definitely got to be refined. Got an AE for it but wasn't too bad, there is still room for improvement. Got to hand in draft 2 by next Thursday.
Come tuesday, I had to do a NewsRoom presentation for GP which is graded. I was supposedly to be the last to do the presentation as my name was last on the class list but someone sabotaged me and ended up, I was the first to present. Zzz... But it did go quite well I would say. Mrs Fadzlin felt it was well done. Apparently I was to set an example for the class. All in all, quite a decent first( and last) attempt. We're only allowed to give the presentation once lols.
The highlight of the week was wednesday. This week was Science/Humanities Week and activities have been going on for the last two days of the week such as inter-class competitions, quizzes and other stuff. However, these didn't involve me, not until Wednesday that is. Of course, the Alchemist Club was in charge of the planning of activities for the Science Week and we were each given roles for the main activities which were to be held after school at about 3pm. The Astronomy Club and Eco Club also participated in the Science Week with displays of their own. Due to the Humanities Week having taken up much of the concourse for their activities, we therefore had only a little part of the concourse for displays. So what did we display? Hmm... science experiments of course! We had finalised on 10 experiments to showcase and it was really lots of fun. However, as most of the students had CCAs, I don't know why because CCAs were only supposed to start at 4.30, there were not many people who came to view the booths set up. This didn't dampen our spirits though. We still had lots of fun playing around with the experiments, especially the dry ice which one of the seniors had bought. Literally, we spent all time there playing with the dry ice and soap bubbles. Oh yes, the Alchemist Club also screened episodes of the "Brainiac" on the TVs around the school throughout the week which was very well received.
When the whole session ended that day, we were given a debrief and headed off upstairs to the room where we kept our bags to celebrate, enjoying some food there. Apparently Alchemist Club will be kind of slack from now on until the seniors step down and the new committee is formed.
I also succeeded in swinging a bottle round and round at least five times while practising for the demonstrations and also to make water "boil at room temperature".
Recently, lots of money have been spent on getting notes and money really does seem to be flowing away like running water, which is really irritating. Lols, Jie Xin just asked me this morning if I wanted to go to AJ's concert at Esplanade and I've agreed. Hais, that's another $16. Poof! Gone.
Friday, April 2, 2010
PI Draft 1
Going to talk a little about my PI draft 1 which I handed in just yesterday. It was really rushed though. The dateline was yesterday at 12noon and I finished it 5 hours before the dateline, at 7am before rushing off to school. Hahas... I am so proud of it. I was not late for school! Although it was not a perfect job, still for something that rushed, it was not too bad. Well at least I managed to get all the main points in.
Today is Good Friday though, so no school. But despite the long weekend, its still going to be quite busy.
Firstly, I need to revise my Econs which is really a problem for me at this point. Furthermore, my GP teacher has also requested for me to be the first to do the presentation for Newsweek, although I was supposed to be the last. So that means I'll be presenting next Tuesday and have to complete it over the weekend. Apparently she's expecting quality work from me as she is looking to me to set an example for the class.
And of course, there's the ever growing pile of homework to be completed as well.
Going to go cycling tomorrow morning to Jurong Point to get back my Breaking Dawn from Wei Ting. Not going very far.
Kayz... signing off.
Workload's piling up, though Physics is kind of slack.
Today is Good Friday though, so no school. But despite the long weekend, its still going to be quite busy.
Firstly, I need to revise my Econs which is really a problem for me at this point. Furthermore, my GP teacher has also requested for me to be the first to do the presentation for Newsweek, although I was supposed to be the last. So that means I'll be presenting next Tuesday and have to complete it over the weekend. Apparently she's expecting quality work from me as she is looking to me to set an example for the class.
And of course, there's the ever growing pile of homework to be completed as well.
Going to go cycling tomorrow morning to Jurong Point to get back my Breaking Dawn from Wei Ting. Not going very far.
Kayz... signing off.
Workload's piling up, though Physics is kind of slack.
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