~a lion heart soul~

Sunday, July 22, 2007

investiture ended last wednesday. seems like im 1 of the slowest to blog about invest. nvm. been taking time off to rest. after 1 year of hard work as a councillor, finally there is really enough time for me to rest well.

a year ago, we were invested on 12/7/06.

last wed, we pass out on 18/07/07

my journey as a councillor has ended. its a journey filled with laughter and work

the experience is something so rare that i dun wan to step down. i have grown attached to council work so much. well surely stepping down as a councillor will mean more time for myself now. no longer my wed n fri will be occupied. im free to study already. and it also meant that my shoulder is now more at ease. a heavy load off:)

no longer i have the council room to use. we all felt lost when we gave the council room away. we used to sit outside the council room in the morning to slack around. its probably one of the quietest place in sch. everytime for pe, i will always put my stuff inside. now? i have to carry around. kind of hard to adjust initially. guess i have to settle down fast:)

well in council, the frens made are so special. the jokes, laughter and everything are just some of the things that make life more enjoyable and fun. i think those are what i will really miss alot.

to 7th: i love u all

to 8th: keep working harder. you guys are v gd alr

now for a few pictures.

my pigeon hole in SC room:)

Council Room:)

Council Room door:)

7th & 8th MEXCO. Gd luck 8th MEXCO:)

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

its the end of my council term. end of 7th council term. had our birthday just now.
investiture was a huge success. congrats 7th and 8th council
will blog more again tml:)

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

common tests are over. got back all my results already. did quite ok with the exception of GP. sigh. really have no idea y i will keep failing gp when i actually passed gp last time. i guess thats what i get from not listening to gp lessons all the time. retribution? maybe. but i swear im going to work hard for gp.

well time pass so fast. that day during maths lecture, the lecturer was telling us that there is 18 weeks left to Maths Paper 1 of A levels. 18 weeks seems long. but in no time it will be gone. prelims is coming. and im v sure its going to be damn hard. really feeling the heat now. been making lots of plans to study this and that. Especially for physics and chem. for chem i was just too complacent, which ended up in me dropping 2 grades down. from B to D. i still rmb v clearly that i studied 3 or 4 hrs for chem only. i really think im complacent. and that is the fact that i think y Mr Tan(chem) is disappointed about. For physics, blah. i always disappoint Mr Tan(phy). always nv study much for phy. when i told him that my paper 3 sure die. he also say wah nt gd leh lidat. lol. so i managed to study for the paper 1 and 2. lucky me. managed to pass with a D. so quite ok about it. i guess my plan is that i should nv be complacent again. i always have this habit of being complacent. guess that is what is blocking my path to As. blah.
done for studies. now to life
great singapore sale been going on now. but i bought nothing. yes nothing. coz i just cant bear to spend money on myself. really need to save money. blah.
investiture is coming soon. got to start writing farewell messages and all that soon. hope that investiture will just go well. and after that i can start studying full steam:)

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

today i just achieved something that is one of my best accomplishments:)

i learnt to cycle within abt 30mins:):) but with much thanks to weiilin gal as well:)

went to east coast park today. cycle, eat fried oyster+chicken wings, go vivocity walk+eat long john den go hm:) good relax day b4 chiong-ing for mye again
yup i guess learning to cycle makes me feel more useful. been wanting to learn for a long long time. nv had the chance though. but its never too late to learn:) yup

photos up soon:)

with ur support, i can go on and on for a long long time:)

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Thursday, June 07, 2007

back n refreshed

back from elects camp. my last ever project. nw that 7th SC is about to step down soon, i got a weird feeling inside me that tells me i wan to organise more events. its like the councillor thing is deep inside me already. Like what Mr Tong once said: "Once a councillor, Always a councillor". Yup, it has never been that true before. will miss the times when im busy planning parts of the events and having fun with the councillors be it outside work or during work. Thats why it was a hugely enriching journey as a councillor.

to summarise elects camp: Just Great
seeing the energy level of 8th SC is really satisfying. It is really the new energy that keeps everybody going strong. well we did teach the 8th SC a few learning lessons so hopefully they get all of that into their head. if any of the 8th SC is reading this, i only got a few things to say: always be yourself and put in your very best ALWAYS.
that is probably the only way u will learn something out of council.
in elects camp my group was group 2. but i tink i just talk about my amazing race group 3 since i interact with them more. yup no doubt im hugely impressed by them. they are pamela, jian lin, shan, pei qi and zhong ri. their winning mentality helped them to go from 5th place to 3rd place. although they din win, i felt that they already won in my heart. because it is really that winning mentality that keeps u going in council. like i said put in ur very best always and in the AR, they did that. and i can say well done. not only in that group, other groups also display this mentality. thats well 8th SC, Well Done:)
Well i would love to pass down my experience as a councillor but i guess theres not much time for me to do so.
Monday had our exco selection. all the excos were all capable leaders. although others did not get in, i think its still ok. because u do not have to be an exco to be a leader. once u are in council, u r a leader.
oh n lucky me, i got a male successor as HGS: Preben, female is Janice.
lol. i have high hopes for both of them:). Jiayou!

anyway, mid yr exam is coming. time really flies. because holiday is going to end in a week (at least for PJC). blah.gotta study hard again. boohoo

ytd went for my NS medical checkup. overall is temporarily pes D for 1 month.
everything pes A except 1 thing. the person there told me that my xray showed that my heart is abnormal in 1 way or another, i dun quite rmb what he said alr. he said that he will ask a specialist to take a look at it and will get back to me within a month. so yah. god knws wad happen. im really hoping that nothing is wrong with my heart. heart is too big a thing to play with. blah. the checkup was extremely boring. the last part is a vocational test. wah. test u on english, maths and physics. it really take up alot of ur brain juice. got number patterns and patterns so on. total sian-ness. well i got it over and done with alr. so nw awaiting for further review

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Thursday, May 31, 2007

today was just touring around singapore and briefing for camp thats all. nth much. just walking and opening ears big to listen to the briefing. yup another camp. elects camp
elects camp will be this friday to this sunday. another camp but it will be the last event that 7th SC will be organising. so fast and 1 year marks the end of our council term. it is coming soon. 1 year of pure fun and work. shan't blog about this now. talk abt council the next term when we are nearer to investiture:)
yup so this friday is elects camp. hoping to get much fun and laughter frm it. probably wun have much time to be crazy together as a council anymore. time flies:)
well i guess friday to sunday, my blog will be stagnant again (yes again!!). boohoo. but at least i changed my blogskin. ah although its not very nice but at least its different now. blah..hope to play soccer soon as well. haven played soccer for like a month already. its time to play soccer next saturday where i shldnt have anything on in the morng already. finally:)

you know im always happy with u around supporting me:)

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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Pre University Seminar 2007

1 month since i last blog. been really very busy for this whole month. with council stuffs, with pre u seminar.
yup. Pre University Seminar 2007 is officially over last friday, 25/5/07. It was one hell of an experience. A once in a lifetime experience. About a month ago, i was made a cluster leader along with Weiliang, Shee Kwang, Weilin and Izzah. We were all set for a role that we have not tried before. It is different. Way different from a clan master in orientation. Initially, all of us thought that cluster leader was a slack role and we have nothing much to do. Well, i guess we were wrong. We were not only busy from day 1 but from day 0(sunday), we were busy already. Just when we thought that we as cluster leaders were quite redundant, as days passed, we became more and more involved in the set up of Pre-U seminar. It is different in a sense that this is a major nationwide event. Instead of running the show ourselves and leading a group of new pioneers, all of the SLOs became the backstage crew and we were leading a group of 601 strong students from all jcs, ip schools, poly and MI. Its really a whole new experience. SLOs were the backstage crew as we were all ensuring that the Pre-U Seminar runs smoothly. In fact, all of us including the teachers play a major role as the backstage crew. The two leading teachers Mr David Chia and Ms Ng May Ling + Cluster Leaders all slept late and woke up earliest as well. Life's been quite tough for these short 5 days.

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With all the organising + briefing for participants in day 1 started it off pretty alright. Just that my loud voice sent out the wrong messages to the participants as they thought that im v fierce when im shouting. lol. actually im not fierce. its just tat im giving instructions to alot of people and i really need to project my voice. but still it is not gd enough ya. so after the 1st day, we all sat down and discuss a system for the next few days onwards. Yup and well done, because the system really work and i dun even have to shout at all, which was a really good thing. I still remember the 1st day when the participants came back from their learning journey. For my side at canteen 13, me and shee kwang kept on giving briefing instead of briefing the slos and let them brief. Weilin and Izzah at canteen 14 do the opposite of us and let slos brief which was in a sense better. well i guess different people have different working style. And it is gd that we have different working style and yet we can still work well with each other. It is really another way for us to work as well. It is how we apply different working style to adapt to the situation. Each of us (CLs) provide a different view to the situations and through this we can find a better solution.

As the 2nd day came, i have to shout again. which is in the morning and i received a few negative feedbacks. yup so aft that a system was in place and no longer were there negative feedbacks. All were happy once again:). Im glad that all this solutions were thought of asap by the teachers and CLs. For the next few days its all fun and work. Though we CLs gave the slos some timely reminders on the program schedules, i guess we were all glad that the slos respond very very well from the 3rd day onwards. Everything was very smooth and they were having fun as well.

We were all learning. Learning something different. We all learnt from each other. Be it SLOs, CLs or Teachers, we were all teaching each other new things that some of us had never heard of and done before. That is wads so amazing about pre u seminar. I still remember that the meetings between CLs and Teachers were all so fun and memorable. I will never forget those few meetings. Tired we all are yet we still managed to have fun. Especially during the pre-u seminar, the CLs will always have Izzah the "bimbo" to cheer us up coz she is just so funny. Then we have weiliang, shee kwang and weilin to play and crap with. CLs life though may be bored at certain parts of the pre-u sem but we will never forget the bonds we forged among CLs and among our own clusters. Then we have the SLC teachers to play and crap with as well. Surely the two teacher that were always around with CLs were Mr Chia and Ms Ng. Other teachers that joined us like Ms Leong, Mr Tong, Mdm Shafa, Ms Lim Yian, Ms Xiao, Ms Nura and many others, we all had fun together. Even though we only know each other for a short while but yet we still had fun. Ms Ng also taught us many things. It is really a learning journey for all of us

well many knows that Mr Chia is leaving PJC. Pre-U sem is the last event for him in PJC. Yes Mr Chia is a great teacher. Not only does he teach maths well but he also lead well. You can really learn alot from him. And i learnt alot from him. We gave him a farewell party on the last day of pre u sem(friday). It was really an emotional 1. I cried when Mr Chia came to give some farewell speech. He is really one of the best teacher i have ever met. To me he really got the passion and committment to whatever he does. Passion to teach and lead. This is the kind of gd example all shld be following. And im glad that im in pre-u sem to learn leading and organisation skills from him. Furthermore, he is kind and understanding. It is really a pity that he is leaving PJC. Well i hereby wish Mr Chia all the best in the next school he goes to.
Mr Chia thought many of us this line: "Look at what u want, Look at what u have"
It is really a line that not only apply to maths but to many other things in life as well.

Thanks Mr Chia for all the things u have done for us so far:)

Thanks Teachers and Cluster Leaders

Finally, Thank You To Everybody for making Pre-University Seminar 2007 a huge success:)

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