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Saturday, January 29, 2005
This post was inspired by over-exposure =) to st. john in the past two days... Dedicated to the members and instructors of a very special competition team.
AC2 2002, 2003, AA2 2004 March, AA6 2004 June
My team, unique in the sense that every year we gained one new members, and lost another.
It started in 2002, the original team being myself, Wei Lun, Zhi Ren and Boon Chao. Wei Lun, whom I had already known for a long time (and with whom I was beginning to share telepathy with after BHN in June) became the team leader and I his number 2. Boon Chao and Zhi Ren were numbers 3 and 4 respectively.
Training progressed. We learned more first aid than we had ever learnt in our lives. But when it came to the crunch during mock competition, the cracks that came because of a inter-squad team showed up like an ugly stain. Members did not attend. The team split up, a rift opened by anger, disappointment and a feeling of betrayal. For with only four members, every person counted. If not, then there would be no way for the team to be as effective, no way for it to exploit its full potential.
Soon members left. New ones came in. We were not the only team breaking up. Other teams fragmentated too. And from one of these teams came Wei Quan, another friend from the start of the year (relative to the others anyway). And he became a new and reliable number 4, integrating quickly into the team and proving himself a capable team mate. But then again, he always was.
But the blow that the team had taken was too great. No way could we go for competition for that year. Not with my handicapping my team with third lang, not with all of us committing the odd silly mistake... once wei lun directed wei quan to do CPR on a sofa for instance....
So the next year, we started training with this team. With one new addition. A new number 3. Xuan Cheng, from Sec. 1 HP group. And with his arrival Boon Chao left the team.
So AC2 was complete. 4 different members, forming a new team with a potential to perform and to hold its own with the rest of the division's teams. And hold it we did. Proven ourselves we have. With the mock competition of 2003, zone competition and national competition of 2004, we proved our footdrill unrivaled by any other team in the division until today.
What can I say to describe our team? Its like we share a special bond that no other will have with us. We've worked together, suffered together. Won together, lost together. We've been through so much, and to me, its as though we could almost trust implicitly in each other to carry out our own tasks in a stressful situation to the best of our capabilities. We know that the others would cover our backs and watch out for us, and they know that we will do the same for them. Its this trust in each other that allows us to coordinate and work well together.
3 of the best friends that I have to today, they come from this team. And in the same way, the different instructors that have trained us we remember them too. If it weren't for them we would not have been able to acheive what we have (not to mention the telepathic communication I now have with my number 1).
Friends usually come about because we work together for a common goal, no matter who we are. In this way, working towards being a service to other people, we have fufilled this in a most satisfying way. The bonds that we share will now be difficult to sever.
Even now, I've moved to Victoria, and when I see my team mates, wei quan now carries the green pin of Temasek, while wei lun and xuan cheng bear the silver insignia of Meridien. But even when we are spread away from each other, we will always be in contact, and we will always be team mates. Its hard to imagine living without them around, for they have influenced me in many ways, whether it is or is not st. john related.
To wei lun, xuan cheng and wei quan: Thanks for being such great team mates! Really felt compelled to write this thing while I'm stilll under SJ influence.
Yup! Thats it for my team! Thanks for reading =)
AC2 2002, 2003, AA2 2004 March, AA6 2004 June
My team, unique in the sense that every year we gained one new members, and lost another.
It started in 2002, the original team being myself, Wei Lun, Zhi Ren and Boon Chao. Wei Lun, whom I had already known for a long time (and with whom I was beginning to share telepathy with after BHN in June) became the team leader and I his number 2. Boon Chao and Zhi Ren were numbers 3 and 4 respectively.
Training progressed. We learned more first aid than we had ever learnt in our lives. But when it came to the crunch during mock competition, the cracks that came because of a inter-squad team showed up like an ugly stain. Members did not attend. The team split up, a rift opened by anger, disappointment and a feeling of betrayal. For with only four members, every person counted. If not, then there would be no way for the team to be as effective, no way for it to exploit its full potential.
Soon members left. New ones came in. We were not the only team breaking up. Other teams fragmentated too. And from one of these teams came Wei Quan, another friend from the start of the year (relative to the others anyway). And he became a new and reliable number 4, integrating quickly into the team and proving himself a capable team mate. But then again, he always was.
But the blow that the team had taken was too great. No way could we go for competition for that year. Not with my handicapping my team with third lang, not with all of us committing the odd silly mistake... once wei lun directed wei quan to do CPR on a sofa for instance....
So the next year, we started training with this team. With one new addition. A new number 3. Xuan Cheng, from Sec. 1 HP group. And with his arrival Boon Chao left the team.
So AC2 was complete. 4 different members, forming a new team with a potential to perform and to hold its own with the rest of the division's teams. And hold it we did. Proven ourselves we have. With the mock competition of 2003, zone competition and national competition of 2004, we proved our footdrill unrivaled by any other team in the division until today.
What can I say to describe our team? Its like we share a special bond that no other will have with us. We've worked together, suffered together. Won together, lost together. We've been through so much, and to me, its as though we could almost trust implicitly in each other to carry out our own tasks in a stressful situation to the best of our capabilities. We know that the others would cover our backs and watch out for us, and they know that we will do the same for them. Its this trust in each other that allows us to coordinate and work well together.
3 of the best friends that I have to today, they come from this team. And in the same way, the different instructors that have trained us we remember them too. If it weren't for them we would not have been able to acheive what we have (not to mention the telepathic communication I now have with my number 1).
Friends usually come about because we work together for a common goal, no matter who we are. In this way, working towards being a service to other people, we have fufilled this in a most satisfying way. The bonds that we share will now be difficult to sever.
Even now, I've moved to Victoria, and when I see my team mates, wei quan now carries the green pin of Temasek, while wei lun and xuan cheng bear the silver insignia of Meridien. But even when we are spread away from each other, we will always be in contact, and we will always be team mates. Its hard to imagine living without them around, for they have influenced me in many ways, whether it is or is not st. john related.
To wei lun, xuan cheng and wei quan: Thanks for being such great team mates! Really felt compelled to write this thing while I'm stilll under SJ influence.
Yup! Thats it for my team! Thanks for reading =)
~JcZw~ at 1:52 pm
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Hahahahaha...
Today was such a fun day. Cos of many different things.
One was that GP was fun =) Mr Teo is a very good teacher.... n my compo also did not too badly... although I think I really need to brush up on expository-type compos before I can go back to my sec. school standard.
Bio was fun. Mr Chong is really a very good teacher for a new person. Today he was using various coloured wires to illustrate alpha helices and beta sheets, tertiary structure blahblah.... I really really think that if his explanations continue to be clear like that my bio should be able to maintain a certain semblance of a average grade at least.
PHYSICS was so amusing man! Mr CHAD GOH is our new lecturer on temperature. His own temperature is around -273 deg celcius (or however you spell it). He had us (me at least), shaking in our shoes with frigid jokes as well as with laughter. His level of coldness is so high that you won't even be able to retain it within the stratosphere of this planet anyway. Oh yar. He is the funny kind of cold, unlike me, who is probably the irritating kind of cold (y'know, like a mild drizzle on your face that keeps you cold and uncomfortable and cannot be swatted away). Hopefully I won't get swatted away after JAE anyway, whether to TJ, MJ or to simply S4. Anyway, he is so funny that I think thursday physics lecture will become from the most boring lecture to the most entertaining.
Oh yeah, thanks to cK, geraldine n all the people that reassured me about the bio thingy. And also thanks to gerald small for lending me your bio notes =)
Then after school... OSSIS went out to eat at parkway. Burger King. I discovered that I am getting kind of financially constrained. haha.. After lunch then we were sitting around telling lame jokes. And we laughed a lot and made a lot of noise... but we were virtually the only people at that section of BK anyway.
At 4+ we went back to school and every one spread out to their CCAs except for the few of us... Then they asked me n Gerald S. to go buy paint.
Thus started a very romantic date between the two of us... We went all the way to siglap and hunted around. No paint. The only ones was the large tins of emulsion paint sold by a big-time paint retailer. Talk about a fire hazard, one match in the shop and I think the whole neighbourhood would go up, there were tins of paint everywhere. Anyway. Seeing that we couldn't find anything, and after calling back the VJ ppl repeatedly, we decided to make our way to Marine Parade, where we combed popular from top to bottom (of the shelves. the ceiling was too high). We finally located it and returned to VJ at 6.30.
We continued slacking about cos 2 of our 3 artists were not around. Desmond was maintaining the banner. Dawn was at hockey while Po Ying had judo. So we were just painting the stems of the cherry blossoms and the VJ sign.
Dawn, Xun Ai and Po Ying finally came at around 6.45 to 7 (can't really remember). Then the work really started...
Desmond, Dawn and Po Ying. Our three class artists. Haha.... I really admire people whose art are good... like them, my father, sister, brother. My art is limited to drawing fuzzballs and fencing equipment in various usually low temperature scenarios (in other words, lame). I think that to draw, or to do other forms of art like to sing, to dance, play an instrument, is as worthy of respect as someone who plays a sport, for instance.
The banner really turned out very well... We did it until about 9.30, by which time we had finished clearing up and all that, and everyone was admiring the piece.... My contribution was mainly to paint more branches in the cherry blossoms. Besides that I didn't do much. My art is chao lousy. Stella, Dawn, Desmond, Dorinda (who was working harder than me I think, even though she was sick? =S), Lionel, Derek, Xun Ai, PoYing were all there. I think if our class wins anything the credit really should go to them, they did a really massive job.
Just watching Desmond and Dawn painting and repainting the chickens (fine, roosters) makes you feel happy and proud that you have such great classmates.
Watching Stella coming back from CCA to help when it was already super late and the sun was going down is also a boost to the morale.
Just watching everyone staying back until so late, even though they are so far from home... well... I don't know how to describe that emotion. Haha.... Derek lives at Ang Mo Kio, Dawn at Jurong West, Stella at Macpherson, Dorinda at Yio Chu Kang etc. If they can stay back I think almost everyone can stay back. For me who lives just at kembangan, I think it should be okay... I shall try to be more enthu and less cold.
Oh yeah, thanks to our seniors who stayed behind to help us paint and climb over the gate etc today. =)
We climbed over the school gate on the way out and I almost fell down again when Stella looked in my direction. Oh man, just like clarice, whenever I'm near her something will happen to me... hahahaha....
Yar. went home. then i wrote this.
I guess thats all for now... too many things to write about today anyway....
May have even more tml! Going Back to ST. JoHN! haha
G'night.
I love OSSIS. I love my class
Jia you everyone
Jia you SJers =)
Today was such a fun day. Cos of many different things.
One was that GP was fun =) Mr Teo is a very good teacher.... n my compo also did not too badly... although I think I really need to brush up on expository-type compos before I can go back to my sec. school standard.
Bio was fun. Mr Chong is really a very good teacher for a new person. Today he was using various coloured wires to illustrate alpha helices and beta sheets, tertiary structure blahblah.... I really really think that if his explanations continue to be clear like that my bio should be able to maintain a certain semblance of a average grade at least.
PHYSICS was so amusing man! Mr CHAD GOH is our new lecturer on temperature. His own temperature is around -273 deg celcius (or however you spell it). He had us (me at least), shaking in our shoes with frigid jokes as well as with laughter. His level of coldness is so high that you won't even be able to retain it within the stratosphere of this planet anyway. Oh yar. He is the funny kind of cold, unlike me, who is probably the irritating kind of cold (y'know, like a mild drizzle on your face that keeps you cold and uncomfortable and cannot be swatted away). Hopefully I won't get swatted away after JAE anyway, whether to TJ, MJ or to simply S4. Anyway, he is so funny that I think thursday physics lecture will become from the most boring lecture to the most entertaining.
Oh yeah, thanks to cK, geraldine n all the people that reassured me about the bio thingy. And also thanks to gerald small for lending me your bio notes =)
Then after school... OSSIS went out to eat at parkway. Burger King. I discovered that I am getting kind of financially constrained. haha.. After lunch then we were sitting around telling lame jokes. And we laughed a lot and made a lot of noise... but we were virtually the only people at that section of BK anyway.
At 4+ we went back to school and every one spread out to their CCAs except for the few of us... Then they asked me n Gerald S. to go buy paint.
Thus started a very romantic date between the two of us... We went all the way to siglap and hunted around. No paint. The only ones was the large tins of emulsion paint sold by a big-time paint retailer. Talk about a fire hazard, one match in the shop and I think the whole neighbourhood would go up, there were tins of paint everywhere. Anyway. Seeing that we couldn't find anything, and after calling back the VJ ppl repeatedly, we decided to make our way to Marine Parade, where we combed popular from top to bottom (of the shelves. the ceiling was too high). We finally located it and returned to VJ at 6.30.
We continued slacking about cos 2 of our 3 artists were not around. Desmond was maintaining the banner. Dawn was at hockey while Po Ying had judo. So we were just painting the stems of the cherry blossoms and the VJ sign.
Dawn, Xun Ai and Po Ying finally came at around 6.45 to 7 (can't really remember). Then the work really started...
Desmond, Dawn and Po Ying. Our three class artists. Haha.... I really admire people whose art are good... like them, my father, sister, brother. My art is limited to drawing fuzzballs and fencing equipment in various usually low temperature scenarios (in other words, lame). I think that to draw, or to do other forms of art like to sing, to dance, play an instrument, is as worthy of respect as someone who plays a sport, for instance.
The banner really turned out very well... We did it until about 9.30, by which time we had finished clearing up and all that, and everyone was admiring the piece.... My contribution was mainly to paint more branches in the cherry blossoms. Besides that I didn't do much. My art is chao lousy. Stella, Dawn, Desmond, Dorinda (who was working harder than me I think, even though she was sick? =S), Lionel, Derek, Xun Ai, PoYing were all there. I think if our class wins anything the credit really should go to them, they did a really massive job.
Just watching Desmond and Dawn painting and repainting the chickens (fine, roosters) makes you feel happy and proud that you have such great classmates.
Watching Stella coming back from CCA to help when it was already super late and the sun was going down is also a boost to the morale.
Just watching everyone staying back until so late, even though they are so far from home... well... I don't know how to describe that emotion. Haha.... Derek lives at Ang Mo Kio, Dawn at Jurong West, Stella at Macpherson, Dorinda at Yio Chu Kang etc. If they can stay back I think almost everyone can stay back. For me who lives just at kembangan, I think it should be okay... I shall try to be more enthu and less cold.
Oh yeah, thanks to our seniors who stayed behind to help us paint and climb over the gate etc today. =)
We climbed over the school gate on the way out and I almost fell down again when Stella looked in my direction. Oh man, just like clarice, whenever I'm near her something will happen to me... hahahaha....
Yar. went home. then i wrote this.
I guess thats all for now... too many things to write about today anyway....
May have even more tml! Going Back to ST. JoHN! haha
G'night.
I love OSSIS. I love my class
Jia you everyone
Jia you SJers =)
~JcZw~ at 10:56 pm
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Ok. I am darn irritated again. At fencing yeah can you believe it?
When I think I have to survive a few more mths with such a cca i really feel like conducting violent and destructive motions with my body.
Fine, let me explain why.
Today's training was very cracked up. No warmup, hence giving people leg cramps (I was not the only one lor). And they told us it was "normal". What the *bleep* if every week people go home with leg cramps then what for continue in fencing lar.
Then during the sparring sessions. I'm supposed to be like the most experienced fencer among the year 1s. But happens that epee is different from foil. Foil you must calculate attacks and counter attacks, defence and what not. Epee, the more inelegant kind, is simply to hit others before you yourself get hit.
And it happens that I'm short. I was beaten by a first a guy whos arm is 5 cm longer than me, then a guy who's arm was 10 cm longer than me and a left hander to boot (The only thing I could do was stop hit and fleche, cos with the rubber swords you cannot parry anyway).
Thats still okay. They beat me fair and square. Their hits were good and well calculated, and I was not used to using such a flexible sword nor to guard such a large target area.
BUT
1. The seniors regard the point of the sword TOUCHING the skin as a hit. It has been proven that you need 7.5N of force to compress the electric switch at the tip of the blade to discharge the electrical signal using real weapons. If we had been using electrocal scoring the blade would have been brushing the jacket and no points would have been awarded.
2. The seniors don't recognize flick attacks as a conceivable form of attack. True, they don't work as well for epee as for foil, but believe me, they do occur. Watch olympics semi finals with the china guy against the russian guy... the first or second or third point. When I did that they calle it a "slash" and told me not to use that.
3. The last match I was fencing against a girl. So I should have won. Thats not to say that girls should not win. If they can hit then they deserve to, and this girl did hit. We managed to simultaneous hit until the score was 4-4 or something.
The final vital point I was retreating, and by virture of a longer arm, I hit her, parried her attack, hit her, parried, hit, parried, and having hit her 3 times (I distinctly saw the sword's blade bend as it touched her). So I stopped. She hit me. The point went to her. She won.
I was like "WHAT THE ******!!!". Then I told the refree (who, incidentally, was standing on the girl's side. Which if you notice, is such that he can see her point hit me, but not my point hit her) that it was at least a simultaneous hit. He didn't even say "yes" or "no". He just said "whats a loss to your team anyway, its just a game"
That got me mad. I didn't lose my temper, oh no. But I was really angry. What kind of refree are you that you don't position yourself properly and then you avoid the queries of the competitors. I was totally mad when I went back to my team and I was just sitting there shaking my head as I watched the other pairs duel.
In general I acted generally AP during the rest of the practise. But boy, my temper (which I haven't lost since sec. 2) was just under the surface. I HIT HER 3 TIMES lor. Do you want me to fleche, flick her back for you to see or something.
I don't know whether I would be able to stand this if practise is always like that. Maybe I should just quit and go back to foil with Coach Jeff at Fencing Masters. Huh. The only thing that prevents me from leaving the club right away is for him (the coach) as well as for my own want to do something useful in the competitions for the school, whether as a foil or epee fencer.
And the worst. I neglected other ccas like hockey, air rifle, blahblah cos I wanted to take up fencing.
Now it turns out like this. What could be worst. When all the trials are over and all that. What can I join now anyway? First Aid? Yeah. Then I don't need points for representation and Achievements anymore.
Anyway thats what I feel about the whole system of the fencing club in VJC. There is a nice senior there though... Benjamin, who was talking to me about it afterwards. The years 1s are also quite nice people.
But how can there be any fun if the game is not played properly?
When I think I have to survive a few more mths with such a cca i really feel like conducting violent and destructive motions with my body.
Fine, let me explain why.
Today's training was very cracked up. No warmup, hence giving people leg cramps (I was not the only one lor). And they told us it was "normal". What the *bleep* if every week people go home with leg cramps then what for continue in fencing lar.
Then during the sparring sessions. I'm supposed to be like the most experienced fencer among the year 1s. But happens that epee is different from foil. Foil you must calculate attacks and counter attacks, defence and what not. Epee, the more inelegant kind, is simply to hit others before you yourself get hit.
And it happens that I'm short. I was beaten by a first a guy whos arm is 5 cm longer than me, then a guy who's arm was 10 cm longer than me and a left hander to boot (The only thing I could do was stop hit and fleche, cos with the rubber swords you cannot parry anyway).
Thats still okay. They beat me fair and square. Their hits were good and well calculated, and I was not used to using such a flexible sword nor to guard such a large target area.
BUT
1. The seniors regard the point of the sword TOUCHING the skin as a hit. It has been proven that you need 7.5N of force to compress the electric switch at the tip of the blade to discharge the electrical signal using real weapons. If we had been using electrocal scoring the blade would have been brushing the jacket and no points would have been awarded.
2. The seniors don't recognize flick attacks as a conceivable form of attack. True, they don't work as well for epee as for foil, but believe me, they do occur. Watch olympics semi finals with the china guy against the russian guy... the first or second or third point. When I did that they calle it a "slash" and told me not to use that.
3. The last match I was fencing against a girl. So I should have won. Thats not to say that girls should not win. If they can hit then they deserve to, and this girl did hit. We managed to simultaneous hit until the score was 4-4 or something.
The final vital point I was retreating, and by virture of a longer arm, I hit her, parried her attack, hit her, parried, hit, parried, and having hit her 3 times (I distinctly saw the sword's blade bend as it touched her). So I stopped. She hit me. The point went to her. She won.
I was like "WHAT THE ******!!!". Then I told the refree (who, incidentally, was standing on the girl's side. Which if you notice, is such that he can see her point hit me, but not my point hit her) that it was at least a simultaneous hit. He didn't even say "yes" or "no". He just said "whats a loss to your team anyway, its just a game"
That got me mad. I didn't lose my temper, oh no. But I was really angry. What kind of refree are you that you don't position yourself properly and then you avoid the queries of the competitors. I was totally mad when I went back to my team and I was just sitting there shaking my head as I watched the other pairs duel.
In general I acted generally AP during the rest of the practise. But boy, my temper (which I haven't lost since sec. 2) was just under the surface. I HIT HER 3 TIMES lor. Do you want me to fleche, flick her back for you to see or something.
I don't know whether I would be able to stand this if practise is always like that. Maybe I should just quit and go back to foil with Coach Jeff at Fencing Masters. Huh. The only thing that prevents me from leaving the club right away is for him (the coach) as well as for my own want to do something useful in the competitions for the school, whether as a foil or epee fencer.
And the worst. I neglected other ccas like hockey, air rifle, blahblah cos I wanted to take up fencing.
Now it turns out like this. What could be worst. When all the trials are over and all that. What can I join now anyway? First Aid? Yeah. Then I don't need points for representation and Achievements anymore.
Anyway thats what I feel about the whole system of the fencing club in VJC. There is a nice senior there though... Benjamin, who was talking to me about it afterwards. The years 1s are also quite nice people.
But how can there be any fun if the game is not played properly?
~JcZw~ at 10:46 pm
Monday, January 24, 2005
Today got summoned to the HOD of science Mrs Foo since I hadn't taken bio in sec. school. Yow. How sad. Apparently I seem discouraged to take bio cos first I got "no background" and because my physics prelim was B4.
Well. Considering that the average mark for my class was about c5 and the level average was around c5 to B4 I guess its still not too bad. Too me. Physics and HCL (Higher Chinese, not hydrogen chloride) were the only subjects which I didn't get 1 for anyway. Prelims are not accurate anyway... thats why they are dropping it next year. If I had said that I think she would have slung me into S4 faster than I could have said "But...".
Unfortunately Mrs Foo is not me. Unfortunately I am unfortunate. Whatever. Anyway she was like telling me that it will be difficult for me to manage and all that. Don't get me wrong, although she was kinda fierce she also put it as nicely as possible without downplaying the negative effects of doing taking S1 (which included failing mid years etc).
Well. To me anyway... I can still manage, and I'm willing to show them the physics paper we took. At the moment. At the moment... I'm getting help from friends (Gerald n his notes, Wei quan and his TYS, maybe), siblings (older sister) and probably teachers too (Mr Jonathan Chong). As for my physics... I'd be willing to bet that I would do better for the real Os. If yo looked at my report book, my physics is still not too bad... until the prelim (On the other hand my L1R5 was not that good until prelim). Really
Anyway, although she's still quite okay, she's not exactly what I would call encouraging. I got the impression that "one slip-up and you're out". I think they would boot me to S4 if my L1R5 is 8 or 9. Pah. Its up to God I guess. If I'm intended to do bio, he will give me a place, as well as the ability to cope with it.
Because its not only dropping bio that worries me.
To leave 05S15 at this juncture would be unthinkable. Just changing my class would be too painful to think about. To leave them after a couple of weeks is already bad enough.
On a happier note, today during chem prac Gerald Small n I were having a very interesting time. First time I saw someone turn so red so fast before! Hahaha.... I think I should cut down on the lame jokes (although I don't find them lame... merely descriptive) before I freeze someone to death one day... like LT5 is not cold enough at the moment. N must learn how to laugh silently. Today I nearly killed myself suppressing laughter. Vibrated about in my seat without making audible noises for about 2 minutes before I could suppress it.
Yeah. Anyway thats all for now.
I will do well in Bio
I will do well in PE
I will do well in Physics
I don't guarantee my results. But whatever they are, it will have been my best shot. I'll do all I can to remain with my class.
I'd rather not think of what it would be like if I can't
Well. Considering that the average mark for my class was about c5 and the level average was around c5 to B4 I guess its still not too bad. Too me. Physics and HCL (Higher Chinese, not hydrogen chloride) were the only subjects which I didn't get 1 for anyway. Prelims are not accurate anyway... thats why they are dropping it next year. If I had said that I think she would have slung me into S4 faster than I could have said "But...".
Unfortunately Mrs Foo is not me. Unfortunately I am unfortunate. Whatever. Anyway she was like telling me that it will be difficult for me to manage and all that. Don't get me wrong, although she was kinda fierce she also put it as nicely as possible without downplaying the negative effects of doing taking S1 (which included failing mid years etc).
Well. To me anyway... I can still manage, and I'm willing to show them the physics paper we took. At the moment. At the moment... I'm getting help from friends (Gerald n his notes, Wei quan and his TYS, maybe), siblings (older sister) and probably teachers too (Mr Jonathan Chong). As for my physics... I'd be willing to bet that I would do better for the real Os. If yo looked at my report book, my physics is still not too bad... until the prelim (On the other hand my L1R5 was not that good until prelim). Really
Anyway, although she's still quite okay, she's not exactly what I would call encouraging. I got the impression that "one slip-up and you're out". I think they would boot me to S4 if my L1R5 is 8 or 9. Pah. Its up to God I guess. If I'm intended to do bio, he will give me a place, as well as the ability to cope with it.
Because its not only dropping bio that worries me.
To leave 05S15 at this juncture would be unthinkable. Just changing my class would be too painful to think about. To leave them after a couple of weeks is already bad enough.
On a happier note, today during chem prac Gerald Small n I were having a very interesting time. First time I saw someone turn so red so fast before! Hahaha.... I think I should cut down on the lame jokes (although I don't find them lame... merely descriptive) before I freeze someone to death one day... like LT5 is not cold enough at the moment. N must learn how to laugh silently. Today I nearly killed myself suppressing laughter. Vibrated about in my seat without making audible noises for about 2 minutes before I could suppress it.
Yeah. Anyway thats all for now.
I will do well in Bio
I will do well in PE
I will do well in Physics
I don't guarantee my results. But whatever they are, it will have been my best shot. I'll do all I can to remain with my class.
I'd rather not think of what it would be like if I can't
~JcZw~ at 9:26 pm
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Gerald small
Gerald big
Jia min
Alvin
Alon
Jonathan ChuaH
Po Ying
Nelson
Lionel
Xun Ai
Dawn
Geraldine
Derek
TinYao
Stella
Kenneth
Dorinda
Li Ling
Keefe
Vibha
Hui Ping
Farah
Pei En
Trina
Desmond
Me
05S15 (ossis)
26 people making up the best class I've had maybe since primary six. And one whole post and 3 hours to rave about it. Haha
I really wouldn't have thought it possible that our class would have been able to bond so quickly. To tell the truth, the first time I saw them I thought that it would be a pain to leave Trojan/Teaton and come into this class... Boy, was I wrong, and am I glad that I was wrong... haha...
The first monday already had several people coming out with ideas for class shirts, bbqs and class blogs. By the third day we had already gone out for class outing. How much faster can a class bond than that then? I think even nitrogen atoms never became N2 so quickly (okay, fine, bad pun).
Maybe its because our class is small? Yeah. Its like everyone in the class is unique in his / her own way. Without one of them 05S15 wouldn't be what it is now.
Just take friday's bbq for instance. Organized by Dory and Stella (with a lot of help from Geraldine and her house). Everyone in the class, both those that had and didn't have cca all played a part in it, whether it was buying stuff, bringing stuff, carrying stuff (eating stuff?).
Oh boy.... it was so fun. At least I had fun, resuscitating the fire (maybe contributed to killing it by being too cold).... Sorry to all the people the blew the ash into... Oh yar, and I threw a marshmallow into the fire by accident. So stupid.... cos i was waving it around too violently. Nearly tested Gerald Big's thoery of "marshmallows are a good source of fuel". Then we sang songs for the seniors ( i didn't know how to sing... ooops.) then we gave them some souvenirs.... Mass dance....
I don't know how to describe it.... just the feeling of actually belonging to a community of people I guess. Its like... our whole class is one big clique, instead of a few different cliques. Really hope it will stay that way... haha.... even in st. john I've never seen such a big group of good friends. I don't know how to describe the feeling... It just feels extremely good... thats all... haha.... Reallyreallyreally hope we can stay together after JAE... because even if its not yourself that gets kicked out, the feeling of watching your classmates leave could be equally painful =S
Yeah... I guess I don't have much words to use to rave enough about ossis.... maybe I'll rave more later on... sorry dory, didn't make it that long... haha.... yeah.....
Sago rulez
Cats rulez
Fuzzballs rulez
05S15 rulez
St. John rulez
Haha.
(I really took 3 hours... its just that I found it difficult to express what I really feel. And I had no inspiration to be cold. sighz)
I love 05S15!
Gerald big
Jia min
Alvin
Alon
Jonathan ChuaH
Po Ying
Nelson
Lionel
Xun Ai
Dawn
Geraldine
Derek
TinYao
Stella
Kenneth
Dorinda
Li Ling
Keefe
Vibha
Hui Ping
Farah
Pei En
Trina
Desmond
Me
05S15 (ossis)
26 people making up the best class I've had maybe since primary six. And one whole post and 3 hours to rave about it. Haha
I really wouldn't have thought it possible that our class would have been able to bond so quickly. To tell the truth, the first time I saw them I thought that it would be a pain to leave Trojan/Teaton and come into this class... Boy, was I wrong, and am I glad that I was wrong... haha...
The first monday already had several people coming out with ideas for class shirts, bbqs and class blogs. By the third day we had already gone out for class outing. How much faster can a class bond than that then? I think even nitrogen atoms never became N2 so quickly (okay, fine, bad pun).
Maybe its because our class is small? Yeah. Its like everyone in the class is unique in his / her own way. Without one of them 05S15 wouldn't be what it is now.
Just take friday's bbq for instance. Organized by Dory and Stella (with a lot of help from Geraldine and her house). Everyone in the class, both those that had and didn't have cca all played a part in it, whether it was buying stuff, bringing stuff, carrying stuff (eating stuff?).
Oh boy.... it was so fun. At least I had fun, resuscitating the fire (maybe contributed to killing it by being too cold).... Sorry to all the people the blew the ash into... Oh yar, and I threw a marshmallow into the fire by accident. So stupid.... cos i was waving it around too violently. Nearly tested Gerald Big's thoery of "marshmallows are a good source of fuel". Then we sang songs for the seniors ( i didn't know how to sing... ooops.) then we gave them some souvenirs.... Mass dance....
I don't know how to describe it.... just the feeling of actually belonging to a community of people I guess. Its like... our whole class is one big clique, instead of a few different cliques. Really hope it will stay that way... haha.... even in st. john I've never seen such a big group of good friends. I don't know how to describe the feeling... It just feels extremely good... thats all... haha.... Reallyreallyreally hope we can stay together after JAE... because even if its not yourself that gets kicked out, the feeling of watching your classmates leave could be equally painful =S
Yeah... I guess I don't have much words to use to rave enough about ossis.... maybe I'll rave more later on... sorry dory, didn't make it that long... haha.... yeah.....
Sago rulez
Cats rulez
Fuzzballs rulez
05S15 rulez
St. John rulez
Haha.
(I really took 3 hours... its just that I found it difficult to express what I really feel. And I had no inspiration to be cold. sighz)
I love 05S15!
~JcZw~ at 1:00 pm
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Yeah. Just some mundane stuff. About the past two days.
Nothing much actually... just some things that I like.
Like PE.
Circuit training we did yesterday (sounds like Yoda?).
Running one round, then do pumping, run, sit up, run, step ups, run, dips, run, half squat.
In fact, it was all quite alright and I'd found my pace pretty well until the last round after half squats. Maybe it was because all the other exercises were arm and stomach related, and half squat was the only one which was equivalent to extra running. Lost so much ground on the final round. I think half the people in the lesson overtook me or something.
Like fencing.
Following PE, some rest and evaporation, a 25- min walk home, more rest and digestion of a ham sandwich, bath, 15 - min walk to bus top, 10 - min wait for bus, and a 15- min journey to Ubi Avenue 4, I arrived for my fencing lesson.
If I still had my bike I would have been able to move much faster, but then some stupid nut, as mentioned before, had already pinched it.
Anyway... Trained a lot... accuracy improved... learned how to parry and counter attack fast, learned how to react to attacks coming from above and below. Quarte, Sixte, Octave, Septine. Whoa. But the pistol grip is really tiring to hold... if my sword breaks (which I hope it won't) then I will maybe change to a french grip? yeah.
Later on fenced with Joseph and Nico. Got thrashed by Joseph 15-4. Although my defence is better he is still more experienced lar. However fast I move he still can disengage and come at me from a different angle.
The duel with Nico... What can I say, I tired myself out too fast. In the first 13 points, I was leading 10-3, cos my arm was too long, defence too tight, and ripostes too fast for him to back away. Then I exhausted myself. Couldn't move (added to the fact I was still suffering the effects of PE). So he caught up, and boy did he catch up fast.... n I'll say something for him, his technique is superb! But in the end I still managed to win 15-13, after a tense final 5 points.
Yeah. as for today.... woke up aching all over, especially the left hand and collarbone where Nico had stabbed me very hard yesterday during the duel.
Nearly fell asleep during Bio tuitorial. Really must start to sleep earlier loh. Then today I was not supposed to suan someone... n really, honestly I was trying my best not to suan you loh... haha.... yar. Then Bio prac must rush rush rush... Sometimes feel really really disadvantaged during prac lor.... But Mr Jonathan Chong very nice one... wrote notes to everyone from the class... then he told me not to worry about bio cos he would help me... haha....
After school... they were designing the CNY banner... then Gerald, Xun Ai n I were telling lame jokes.. I managed to freeze myself in the process. Seriously, these jokes are so "not" funny, and they waste a lot of saliva =) Lucky the reaction to them wasn't as explosive as during the OG BBQ... where the story-teller got shoes thrown at him.
Went for First Aid Club meeting. Wah, out of 19 applicants, 15 come from St. John or Red Cross. Scary. Then they showed us where everything was kept, the sick bay etc. But too many people had to leave at 3 - 3.30 because of other CCAs... dunno what time they are gonna set for regular meetings. Hope its not on friday or monday anyway....
After meeting went back to concourse. Geraldine, Stella, Dawn and Dorinda were still there talking. Gerald, Chua-H n the rest had gone for CCA....
Derek and Desmond joined us later... We really talked and talked and talked.... Talking about... RGS n TKGS aura? haha.... talking about the male psychology behind *ahem* certain methods of annual celebration of certain special days for certain people... AHS guys are WHAT? No lor... we are not lor... its just that we are diFfErent y'know =) Yeah, different.
As I told Stella, the problem about guys (this can be seen in Calvin and Hobbes), is that they dunno what girls feel about them, so they just follow by instinct to do what seems right. However, although it works for the more perceptive ones (eg Wei Quan), for others its simply the more they try the weirder they seem to get (eg Wei Lun? Hahahahah... jkjkjkjkjk! No offence... n maybe me, i dunno) haha... yar.
Oh. Sadly I inadverdantly suan-ed the person that I was not supposed to 3 times by accident. Yar.
Oh. I found out that Geraldine likes cATS! Good. The world can always use a few more cat lovers.
Yeah. Anyway we left after that... I think Dawn was still there writing letters... lucky mortal n angel... haha...
Yup... anyway had a lot of fun today. Haven't looked forward to going to school since the two months after PSLE man... In sec. sch it also wasn't that fun cos I was not really close to my class compared to my SJ friends. But here, I think the unity within our class is almost akin to that within my squad.
Yes... thats all for now... Oh yeah, btw, all 05S15-ers are alos welcome to tag here if y'all wish... Don't get intimidated by the SJers =Pp... Haha... okok.... st. john ppl, just joking okay?
Nothing much actually... just some things that I like.
Like PE.
Circuit training we did yesterday (sounds like Yoda?).
Running one round, then do pumping, run, sit up, run, step ups, run, dips, run, half squat.
In fact, it was all quite alright and I'd found my pace pretty well until the last round after half squats. Maybe it was because all the other exercises were arm and stomach related, and half squat was the only one which was equivalent to extra running. Lost so much ground on the final round. I think half the people in the lesson overtook me or something.
Like fencing.
Following PE, some rest and evaporation, a 25- min walk home, more rest and digestion of a ham sandwich, bath, 15 - min walk to bus top, 10 - min wait for bus, and a 15- min journey to Ubi Avenue 4, I arrived for my fencing lesson.
If I still had my bike I would have been able to move much faster, but then some stupid nut, as mentioned before, had already pinched it.
Anyway... Trained a lot... accuracy improved... learned how to parry and counter attack fast, learned how to react to attacks coming from above and below. Quarte, Sixte, Octave, Septine. Whoa. But the pistol grip is really tiring to hold... if my sword breaks (which I hope it won't) then I will maybe change to a french grip? yeah.
Later on fenced with Joseph and Nico. Got thrashed by Joseph 15-4. Although my defence is better he is still more experienced lar. However fast I move he still can disengage and come at me from a different angle.
The duel with Nico... What can I say, I tired myself out too fast. In the first 13 points, I was leading 10-3, cos my arm was too long, defence too tight, and ripostes too fast for him to back away. Then I exhausted myself. Couldn't move (added to the fact I was still suffering the effects of PE). So he caught up, and boy did he catch up fast.... n I'll say something for him, his technique is superb! But in the end I still managed to win 15-13, after a tense final 5 points.
Yeah. as for today.... woke up aching all over, especially the left hand and collarbone where Nico had stabbed me very hard yesterday during the duel.
Nearly fell asleep during Bio tuitorial. Really must start to sleep earlier loh. Then today I was not supposed to suan someone... n really, honestly I was trying my best not to suan you loh... haha.... yar. Then Bio prac must rush rush rush... Sometimes feel really really disadvantaged during prac lor.... But Mr Jonathan Chong very nice one... wrote notes to everyone from the class... then he told me not to worry about bio cos he would help me... haha....
After school... they were designing the CNY banner... then Gerald, Xun Ai n I were telling lame jokes.. I managed to freeze myself in the process. Seriously, these jokes are so "not" funny, and they waste a lot of saliva =) Lucky the reaction to them wasn't as explosive as during the OG BBQ... where the story-teller got shoes thrown at him.
Went for First Aid Club meeting. Wah, out of 19 applicants, 15 come from St. John or Red Cross. Scary. Then they showed us where everything was kept, the sick bay etc. But too many people had to leave at 3 - 3.30 because of other CCAs... dunno what time they are gonna set for regular meetings. Hope its not on friday or monday anyway....
After meeting went back to concourse. Geraldine, Stella, Dawn and Dorinda were still there talking. Gerald, Chua-H n the rest had gone for CCA....
Derek and Desmond joined us later... We really talked and talked and talked.... Talking about... RGS n TKGS aura? haha.... talking about the male psychology behind *ahem* certain methods of annual celebration of certain special days for certain people... AHS guys are WHAT? No lor... we are not lor... its just that we are diFfErent y'know =) Yeah, different.
As I told Stella, the problem about guys (this can be seen in Calvin and Hobbes), is that they dunno what girls feel about them, so they just follow by instinct to do what seems right. However, although it works for the more perceptive ones (eg Wei Quan), for others its simply the more they try the weirder they seem to get (eg Wei Lun? Hahahahah... jkjkjkjkjk! No offence... n maybe me, i dunno) haha... yar.
Oh. Sadly I inadverdantly suan-ed the person that I was not supposed to 3 times by accident. Yar.
Oh. I found out that Geraldine likes cATS! Good. The world can always use a few more cat lovers.
Yeah. Anyway we left after that... I think Dawn was still there writing letters... lucky mortal n angel... haha...
Yup... anyway had a lot of fun today. Haven't looked forward to going to school since the two months after PSLE man... In sec. sch it also wasn't that fun cos I was not really close to my class compared to my SJ friends. But here, I think the unity within our class is almost akin to that within my squad.
Yes... thats all for now... Oh yeah, btw, all 05S15-ers are alos welcome to tag here if y'all wish... Don't get intimidated by the SJers =Pp... Haha... okok.... st. john ppl, just joking okay?
~JcZw~ at 7:21 pm
Monday, January 17, 2005
What a day indeed. Started with cycling in the morning to school... with my new helmet.
The old white one I had discarded after whacking a sheet metal sign with it that damaged it somewhat.
So now I got a beautiful black one... which makes me look less like a mushroom.
Okay, got to school, without attracting too many stares. Sorry hor, after my helmet saved my head I feel inclined to wear them. Parked my bike. Assembly.
DISCOVERED FENCING PRAC WAS CANCELLED! I'm so not used to having a slack cca. Anyway decided to go back to st. john later on anyway.
PE at 9.10. 05S15 was early! haha.... but then had block nose... running with a block nose is a pain in the... well, nose, and lungs. Can do 7 chin-ups... still the same as NAPFA in sec. 4. Unfortunately Mr Goh, who is obsessed with physical fitness, expects us to do 20! Whatever... I will improve slowly. My hydrogen bonds are too strong, so my density higher (does that make sense? no. shoot me. I'm a lousy bio student. heh).
Grew by 2 cm in 1 year. Wei lun is now 7 cm taller than me. Bah
Nearly fell asleep during physics
Disillusioned during bio. Everyone knows the answers except me. Gerald small gonna lend me his bio notes. My goodness, don't even know what higher animals are... Most people seem like higher animals to me, cos i'm short.
The rest of the day past without event, besides the fact that I discovered that the iced-jelly in VJ quite nice.... cos of the limey taste... haha...
Cycled back to kembangan. Locked my bike. Took train to tanah merah
Went back to st. john. Trained. The problem in the past post has been sort of resolved I think. I don't think I have any "right" to be angry with them. Its not a "right". Its sort of, to let others learn from their mistakes, not to spite them or anything. They will learn lar... just a matter of when.
THEN. My bike got stolen. When I returned to the station, I discovered that all that was left of my bike was the severed chain. Some nut had used some instrument to cut through the wires and rubber in one fell stroke.
Pro man
Pro or not if i meet that feller on the way to fencing tml I'm gonna hit him with my foil. If not, I think I will strangle him, resuscitate him, then repeat step one as many times until I shuang. My goodness man... i've had that bike for 6 years since primary 5 lor... sad sad... never mind, as charlene said, I will find a more worthy life partner... what was that supposed to mean anyway... haha...
Went to report. A nice staff sergeant by the name of Jason something took my report... very friendly feller... I love the police... haha.... he asked me how long have I been cycling. I told him that it was my first day n he was like "awww... hard luck". Yar, anyway gave me my report and some advice. I'm to call 999 if i see my bike again. Maybe i'll hit the person riding the bike first? no lar... won't one, just joking... i'm too kind to do that.
So now i have a couple of halogen lamps, a helmet, attachments a broken chain and no bicycle.
Oh. I lost my black pen. It got slung into the first aid kit. So now i'm back to my blue pen.
So thats it for the day I guess....
N to the people I was angry with, forget about the incident lar... just don't do it again... hope you all sort out everything okay.. jia you!
The old white one I had discarded after whacking a sheet metal sign with it that damaged it somewhat.
So now I got a beautiful black one... which makes me look less like a mushroom.
Okay, got to school, without attracting too many stares. Sorry hor, after my helmet saved my head I feel inclined to wear them. Parked my bike. Assembly.
DISCOVERED FENCING PRAC WAS CANCELLED! I'm so not used to having a slack cca. Anyway decided to go back to st. john later on anyway.
PE at 9.10. 05S15 was early! haha.... but then had block nose... running with a block nose is a pain in the... well, nose, and lungs. Can do 7 chin-ups... still the same as NAPFA in sec. 4. Unfortunately Mr Goh, who is obsessed with physical fitness, expects us to do 20! Whatever... I will improve slowly. My hydrogen bonds are too strong, so my density higher (does that make sense? no. shoot me. I'm a lousy bio student. heh).
Grew by 2 cm in 1 year. Wei lun is now 7 cm taller than me. Bah
Nearly fell asleep during physics
Disillusioned during bio. Everyone knows the answers except me. Gerald small gonna lend me his bio notes. My goodness, don't even know what higher animals are... Most people seem like higher animals to me, cos i'm short.
The rest of the day past without event, besides the fact that I discovered that the iced-jelly in VJ quite nice.... cos of the limey taste... haha...
Cycled back to kembangan. Locked my bike. Took train to tanah merah
Went back to st. john. Trained. The problem in the past post has been sort of resolved I think. I don't think I have any "right" to be angry with them. Its not a "right". Its sort of, to let others learn from their mistakes, not to spite them or anything. They will learn lar... just a matter of when.
THEN. My bike got stolen. When I returned to the station, I discovered that all that was left of my bike was the severed chain. Some nut had used some instrument to cut through the wires and rubber in one fell stroke.
Pro man
Pro or not if i meet that feller on the way to fencing tml I'm gonna hit him with my foil. If not, I think I will strangle him, resuscitate him, then repeat step one as many times until I shuang. My goodness man... i've had that bike for 6 years since primary 5 lor... sad sad... never mind, as charlene said, I will find a more worthy life partner... what was that supposed to mean anyway... haha...
Went to report. A nice staff sergeant by the name of Jason something took my report... very friendly feller... I love the police... haha.... he asked me how long have I been cycling. I told him that it was my first day n he was like "awww... hard luck". Yar, anyway gave me my report and some advice. I'm to call 999 if i see my bike again. Maybe i'll hit the person riding the bike first? no lar... won't one, just joking... i'm too kind to do that.
So now i have a couple of halogen lamps, a helmet, attachments a broken chain and no bicycle.
Oh. I lost my black pen. It got slung into the first aid kit. So now i'm back to my blue pen.
So thats it for the day I guess....
N to the people I was angry with, forget about the incident lar... just don't do it again... hope you all sort out everything okay.. jia you!
~JcZw~ at 10:55 pm
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Okay! Today was a bad good day.
Which means it was predominantly good okay!
First, was cos i'm in 05S15, which (as i've said before) is ververververy fun class to be in. Just yesterday we went for our FIRST class outing. N certain people were coming out with *ahem* couples for our class at a rate of 1 every two minutes, or so the Jonathans counted (that is, JCZW n JCHF). Then after lunch I n XunAi n Dawn went to support Gerald Big at his dance practise... whoohoo... he has a lort of guts to go and take part I think... sure confirm worthy of respect... haha...
Back to today anyway. Okay. FOR THE FIRST TIME I STAYED AWAKE DURING PHYSICS LECTURE! ShhHHhh..... yeah, cos half the lesson the teacher was digressing anyway, but it was very fun... haha...
After school today we met the TJ ppl... joanne they all, coming to visit us since they ended early today.... Then Joanne n Kia boon went to go buy VJ collar pin from our bookshop... haha....
After that I went back to AH for what I thought was a mentoring talk, but it turned out to be the START of the mentoring programme... okay, i admit that when i discovered I was not supposed to be there I dived out of the class faster than I've ever moved in SJ.... (okay, mebbe i'm exaggerating).
But what might have seemed like a wasted trip to AH turned out to be VERY fruitful! I met the SJers doing noticeboard... after that then stayed n helped wlt n clarice with their homec... yar. then walked to the MRT with clarice, n tried to explain about infra-red sensors (clarice, the explanation very unclear hor?)
Then in accordance with tradition =X (okay, just joking... just that it always happens... you are VERY powerful) something bad happened to me. Walking along the side of kembangan I had the most serious nosebleed I can recall happening to me. Basically my first impression was that my superior vena cava had been somehow severed. Within seconds, before my hand could even reach my tissue my hands were covered with my precious bodily fluid, n my white (of all colours!) uniform got hit many times. And not just speckles either. Big blotches. My goodness. I think what my squadmates saw of my nosebleeding was really nothing compared to just now... haha....
Anyway i walked back hugging my file over my chest to avoid ppl staring at me, but they did anyway cos my face n hands were all streaked.... Thought i got beaten up or something. One boy nearly fell off his bike when he saw me loh... i think...
Yeah... anyway today was fun! haha... hope that it will continue to be so! 05S15 n SJ rulez!
Which means it was predominantly good okay!
First, was cos i'm in 05S15, which (as i've said before) is ververververy fun class to be in. Just yesterday we went for our FIRST class outing. N certain people were coming out with *ahem* couples for our class at a rate of 1 every two minutes, or so the Jonathans counted (that is, JCZW n JCHF). Then after lunch I n XunAi n Dawn went to support Gerald Big at his dance practise... whoohoo... he has a lort of guts to go and take part I think... sure confirm worthy of respect... haha...
Back to today anyway. Okay. FOR THE FIRST TIME I STAYED AWAKE DURING PHYSICS LECTURE! ShhHHhh..... yeah, cos half the lesson the teacher was digressing anyway, but it was very fun... haha...
After school today we met the TJ ppl... joanne they all, coming to visit us since they ended early today.... Then Joanne n Kia boon went to go buy VJ collar pin from our bookshop... haha....
After that I went back to AH for what I thought was a mentoring talk, but it turned out to be the START of the mentoring programme... okay, i admit that when i discovered I was not supposed to be there I dived out of the class faster than I've ever moved in SJ.... (okay, mebbe i'm exaggerating).
But what might have seemed like a wasted trip to AH turned out to be VERY fruitful! I met the SJers doing noticeboard... after that then stayed n helped wlt n clarice with their homec... yar. then walked to the MRT with clarice, n tried to explain about infra-red sensors (clarice, the explanation very unclear hor?)
Then in accordance with tradition =X (okay, just joking... just that it always happens... you are VERY powerful) something bad happened to me. Walking along the side of kembangan I had the most serious nosebleed I can recall happening to me. Basically my first impression was that my superior vena cava had been somehow severed. Within seconds, before my hand could even reach my tissue my hands were covered with my precious bodily fluid, n my white (of all colours!) uniform got hit many times. And not just speckles either. Big blotches. My goodness. I think what my squadmates saw of my nosebleeding was really nothing compared to just now... haha....
Anyway i walked back hugging my file over my chest to avoid ppl staring at me, but they did anyway cos my face n hands were all streaked.... Thought i got beaten up or something. One boy nearly fell off his bike when he saw me loh... i think...
Yeah... anyway today was fun! haha... hope that it will continue to be so! 05S15 n SJ rulez!
~JcZw~ at 9:58 pm
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Okay. Since I got nothing to rave about, except that 05S15 is a really really really totally chao super unimaginably fun class to be in, I shall talk about my JC cca, fencing.
Fencing, or, in the layman's term, sword-fighting, is the sport in which two competitors dressed in protective suits, and/or scoring jackets and try to hit each other with swords, to put it crudely. Basically, there are three types of weapons: FOIL, SABRE and EPEE.
The foil is my favourite weapon, target area being the torso and the back only. Fencers wear an electronic scoring jacket made of silver wires over their suits to record hits.
Foil is the most elegant of the three weapons, and blade movements are small and finely executed with the action of wrist and fingers. More spectacular are the flick hits which can be executed with the foil's flexible blade, such that the blade whips past the opponents guard and hits before a parry can be used. Generally regarded as the most graceful weapon.
Sabre is unique in the sense that it can be used as both a thrusting and cutting weapon. Instead of an electric switch, the whole blade is a conductor. Target area is the upper body, including the head. Sabrists have to wear a scoring jacket as well as a steel mask to record hits. Sabre bouts are fast, furious, and don't last for more than 10 sec usually. The most aggressive of the three weapons, sabre is also quite spectacular to watch.
Epee. The last, heaviest weapon. Used by Victoria Junior College's fencing team, the epee is based on the old dueling sword, and thus the whole body is the target. The weapon is wired such that a hit would pulse electricity back down the blade to score the hit, rather than passing into an opponent's scoring jacket. As such, epee fencers only require one layer of clothing (the protective jacket). Epee is the most inelegant of the three weapons, and control is not as fine because a hit anywhere on the body with the point of the blade would be a hit. Epeeists are probably the most accurate, trained to hit exposed arms, legs or even fingers.
If you compared the three weapons to racquet sports, foil would be badminton, sabre would be tennis, and epee.... well... i dunno... squash? haha.... yeah. I would still prefer the light elegant foil to the epee which I might use in the near future, but I don't mind learning new stuff I guess. The only thing else that I could hope for was that fencing was more competitive n more established. Well... if I took a sport like hockey I definitely would not be able to guarantee that I can go back to St. John anyway.
I hope fencing becomes more widely known to more JCs, more people... It is a sport worth learning alright... although the price puts many people off, the equipment is quite worth it as it can be used for the rest of your life. Just consider that you would like to take fencing long term before you do anything
Yeah, well, enough for one post... I bet this is boring enough to many people anyway... Join fencing! Its fun!
Fencing, or, in the layman's term, sword-fighting, is the sport in which two competitors dressed in protective suits, and/or scoring jackets and try to hit each other with swords, to put it crudely. Basically, there are three types of weapons: FOIL, SABRE and EPEE.
The foil is my favourite weapon, target area being the torso and the back only. Fencers wear an electronic scoring jacket made of silver wires over their suits to record hits.
Foil is the most elegant of the three weapons, and blade movements are small and finely executed with the action of wrist and fingers. More spectacular are the flick hits which can be executed with the foil's flexible blade, such that the blade whips past the opponents guard and hits before a parry can be used. Generally regarded as the most graceful weapon.
Sabre is unique in the sense that it can be used as both a thrusting and cutting weapon. Instead of an electric switch, the whole blade is a conductor. Target area is the upper body, including the head. Sabrists have to wear a scoring jacket as well as a steel mask to record hits. Sabre bouts are fast, furious, and don't last for more than 10 sec usually. The most aggressive of the three weapons, sabre is also quite spectacular to watch.
Epee. The last, heaviest weapon. Used by Victoria Junior College's fencing team, the epee is based on the old dueling sword, and thus the whole body is the target. The weapon is wired such that a hit would pulse electricity back down the blade to score the hit, rather than passing into an opponent's scoring jacket. As such, epee fencers only require one layer of clothing (the protective jacket). Epee is the most inelegant of the three weapons, and control is not as fine because a hit anywhere on the body with the point of the blade would be a hit. Epeeists are probably the most accurate, trained to hit exposed arms, legs or even fingers.
If you compared the three weapons to racquet sports, foil would be badminton, sabre would be tennis, and epee.... well... i dunno... squash? haha.... yeah. I would still prefer the light elegant foil to the epee which I might use in the near future, but I don't mind learning new stuff I guess. The only thing else that I could hope for was that fencing was more competitive n more established. Well... if I took a sport like hockey I definitely would not be able to guarantee that I can go back to St. John anyway.
I hope fencing becomes more widely known to more JCs, more people... It is a sport worth learning alright... although the price puts many people off, the equipment is quite worth it as it can be used for the rest of your life. Just consider that you would like to take fencing long term before you do anything
Yeah, well, enough for one post... I bet this is boring enough to many people anyway... Join fencing! Its fun!
~JcZw~ at 7:51 pm
Sunday, January 09, 2005
3 fires? Namely, St. John Ambulance Brigade (Sec. sch CCA), Fencing (JC CCA), and OG stuff (JC-related. duh). Oh man, oh man. How to start?
Last time I thought that I would choose St. John without heasitation. After all, all my friends are there. But apparently VJC has a kind of aura that makes you make new friends super-quickly. So now I'm kind of equally divided.
Add the fact that VJC is the precise distance such that it takes about 1/2 to 1 hour to reach AH from there depending on bus 31's fickle timing.
Okay. Start from the beginning. I've had a certain affinity for fencing since last year when I started taking it up with my family members. At the moment I duel foil at the fencing school every tuesday.
By coincidence the coach there was the same one of the VJC fencing team. He told me that if I got into VJC, then he encouraged me to join fencing. Naturally I did, since I found it more facinating than others. I also chose it because the training date was on monday, which I happily thought would not clash with St. John, because on monday I knew for a fact that several members had third language, and would so be avoided by the CCA leaders.
Okay. I forgot about the teachers. St. John training fell on monday anyway. Tomorrow. Ends at 5.45. My sch ends at 3. My fencing is at 5.15. Look carefully and you would see that I have no chance of going back to St. John unless 31 arrived the precise moment I reached the bus stop. Otherwise I can go back to AH, train for 15 min, then come back.
Pathetic? AC2 how lor. What the *bleep*. Wei Lun arh... I think they will have to rely on you more... although I can still come back on friday. But unless fencing changes, or training changes, neither of which is likely to happen.
One sentence. I shot myself in the foot. After all that planning to come back its gone in a flash.
If I had joined temasek then I could have run back in 20 min, but NoooooooOO.....
Which brings me to my second point.
This friday I may (high possibility may) have OG BBQ. As can be concluded from previous posts, I am coming to know my OG members more, and therefore, it would be indeed be difficult to pass up a chance to meet them again.
The thing is that St. John again happens to fall on next friday, also training. The only solution I can think of now is to rush back n forth between the two schools. Go back for training then come back for BBQ.
Okay... talked enough for one post. SJers... just so that you know... if I don't come back it doesn't mean I've forgotten you all, okay? I will come back as and when I can. Hopefully after the schedule has settled down for fencing then it will become better.
All the best for your training.
Last time I thought that I would choose St. John without heasitation. After all, all my friends are there. But apparently VJC has a kind of aura that makes you make new friends super-quickly. So now I'm kind of equally divided.
Add the fact that VJC is the precise distance such that it takes about 1/2 to 1 hour to reach AH from there depending on bus 31's fickle timing.
Okay. Start from the beginning. I've had a certain affinity for fencing since last year when I started taking it up with my family members. At the moment I duel foil at the fencing school every tuesday.
By coincidence the coach there was the same one of the VJC fencing team. He told me that if I got into VJC, then he encouraged me to join fencing. Naturally I did, since I found it more facinating than others. I also chose it because the training date was on monday, which I happily thought would not clash with St. John, because on monday I knew for a fact that several members had third language, and would so be avoided by the CCA leaders.
Okay. I forgot about the teachers. St. John training fell on monday anyway. Tomorrow. Ends at 5.45. My sch ends at 3. My fencing is at 5.15. Look carefully and you would see that I have no chance of going back to St. John unless 31 arrived the precise moment I reached the bus stop. Otherwise I can go back to AH, train for 15 min, then come back.
Pathetic? AC2 how lor. What the *bleep*. Wei Lun arh... I think they will have to rely on you more... although I can still come back on friday. But unless fencing changes, or training changes, neither of which is likely to happen.
One sentence. I shot myself in the foot. After all that planning to come back its gone in a flash.
If I had joined temasek then I could have run back in 20 min, but NoooooooOO.....
Which brings me to my second point.
This friday I may (high possibility may) have OG BBQ. As can be concluded from previous posts, I am coming to know my OG members more, and therefore, it would be indeed be difficult to pass up a chance to meet them again.
The thing is that St. John again happens to fall on next friday, also training. The only solution I can think of now is to rush back n forth between the two schools. Go back for training then come back for BBQ.
Okay... talked enough for one post. SJers... just so that you know... if I don't come back it doesn't mean I've forgotten you all, okay? I will come back as and when I can. Hopefully after the schedule has settled down for fencing then it will become better.
All the best for your training.
~JcZw~ at 7:57 pm
Thursday, January 06, 2005
How is orientation like NCO course? Let me explain
1. You get seperated from the people you know
2. You must listen to a lot of people talk
3. There is a lot of shouting
4. The food is.... erm... hehe....
5. You must think of a performance within a short time
6. YOU MAKE A LOT OF NEW FRIENDS!
7. SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES GIVE RUSHES OF BLOOD TO THE BRAIN!
8. ITS FUN!
Fine. NCO course is not fun. But you know what I mean...
Anyway, the first impression of VJ orientation as you can tell wasn't very good.... But.. hehe... I've changed my mind!!!
Second day was better
Third day even more so
Today was the BEST! Hahaha...
Spent too much time grousing... must explain about orientation....
There are 8 grps... each one based on a film:
V-ader based on Star Wars
I-ndigoo based on Austin Powers
C-osair based on Pirates of the Carribean
T-rojan based on Troy
O-rion based on James Bond
R-odeo based on Wild Wild West
I-ingole based on LOTR
A-ranna based on Tarzan? I think
I'm in trojan. Trojan rulez. Cos its good. Hehehehehe... Cos we are enthu. Mostly. Well....
So many things happened... but like st. john, and much more than Anglican, you really can feel the Victoria Spirit in VJ... Today the games were darn fun! haha... trojan rulez! teaton rulez also! We kept a clean sheet today... won every single game haha... Then we had performance... only started preparing yesterday, so today's performance not bad.... Although vader's one quite funny... heheh... then after that ended at 7.45 pm.... danced n danced n danced... the dances all very fun... although I only know one of them well... The other four I don't know them that well... Just follow the OGLs and 50% foul up rate... hahah...
Speaking about mass dance....Whoa... that day got the friendship dance.... a guy n girl must dance together... then i was the only guy who had a taller female partner! Shades of Kong Hwa days! arrggHHH! Haha...
Then went OG dinner.... Made so many new friends these few days... Met many more old ones from Kong Hwa.... Haha... So far i've run into clarence, jun da (I saw him, he never see me), Hui Yi (At the fencing booth today!!! We might go to the same cca!)... Then so far the person I've met the most (two times), Jessie... Almost couldn't recognize her! And she's still taller than me!! Haha...
Stop digressing! Anyway, went out with my OG grp ppl.... my OG has 16 people, 4 of which are guys... the rest are girls? Yeah... haha... then came to know a few of them a bit i guess.... One of them... a tanjong katong girl called Stella is in my class, 05S15. Then got an extremely extrovert Yvonne from RGS? Yeah.... haha.... then got one Jia Ying from SCGS... Yar.... Still got.... Alvin and Reuben from Victoria, Zheng Hao from Anglican, and many others (Yelin, Shanelle, Shanice, Yi Jia, Sharifah, another Yvonne, from Xin Min, Hui Li, Fiona, Angelina)
And me
Then got 3 OGLs, Li Ping, Eunice and Su Yi. Yar... haha.... All of them very nice... and very helpful... Whoa... they must have put in a lot of effort for the orientation... Yupz...
Anyway tml got sea carnival... sounds tiring yeah? Gonna sleep early....g'night!
1. You get seperated from the people you know
2. You must listen to a lot of people talk
3. There is a lot of shouting
4. The food is.... erm... hehe....
5. You must think of a performance within a short time
6. YOU MAKE A LOT OF NEW FRIENDS!
7. SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES GIVE RUSHES OF BLOOD TO THE BRAIN!
8. ITS FUN!
Fine. NCO course is not fun. But you know what I mean...
Anyway, the first impression of VJ orientation as you can tell wasn't very good.... But.. hehe... I've changed my mind!!!
Second day was better
Third day even more so
Today was the BEST! Hahaha...
Spent too much time grousing... must explain about orientation....
There are 8 grps... each one based on a film:
V-ader based on Star Wars
I-ndigoo based on Austin Powers
C-osair based on Pirates of the Carribean
T-rojan based on Troy
O-rion based on James Bond
R-odeo based on Wild Wild West
I-ingole based on LOTR
A-ranna based on Tarzan? I think
I'm in trojan. Trojan rulez. Cos its good. Hehehehehe... Cos we are enthu. Mostly. Well....
So many things happened... but like st. john, and much more than Anglican, you really can feel the Victoria Spirit in VJ... Today the games were darn fun! haha... trojan rulez! teaton rulez also! We kept a clean sheet today... won every single game haha... Then we had performance... only started preparing yesterday, so today's performance not bad.... Although vader's one quite funny... heheh... then after that ended at 7.45 pm.... danced n danced n danced... the dances all very fun... although I only know one of them well... The other four I don't know them that well... Just follow the OGLs and 50% foul up rate... hahah...
Speaking about mass dance....Whoa... that day got the friendship dance.... a guy n girl must dance together... then i was the only guy who had a taller female partner! Shades of Kong Hwa days! arrggHHH! Haha...
Then went OG dinner.... Made so many new friends these few days... Met many more old ones from Kong Hwa.... Haha... So far i've run into clarence, jun da (I saw him, he never see me), Hui Yi (At the fencing booth today!!! We might go to the same cca!)... Then so far the person I've met the most (two times), Jessie... Almost couldn't recognize her! And she's still taller than me!! Haha...
Stop digressing! Anyway, went out with my OG grp ppl.... my OG has 16 people, 4 of which are guys... the rest are girls? Yeah... haha... then came to know a few of them a bit i guess.... One of them... a tanjong katong girl called Stella is in my class, 05S15. Then got an extremely extrovert Yvonne from RGS? Yeah.... haha.... then got one Jia Ying from SCGS... Yar.... Still got.... Alvin and Reuben from Victoria, Zheng Hao from Anglican, and many others (Yelin, Shanelle, Shanice, Yi Jia, Sharifah, another Yvonne, from Xin Min, Hui Li, Fiona, Angelina)
And me
Then got 3 OGLs, Li Ping, Eunice and Su Yi. Yar... haha.... All of them very nice... and very helpful... Whoa... they must have put in a lot of effort for the orientation... Yupz...
Anyway tml got sea carnival... sounds tiring yeah? Gonna sleep early....g'night!
~JcZw~ at 10:44 pm
Monday, January 03, 2005
I have come to one conclusion. At the moment, AHS fair beats VJC hollow. Not that VJ is a bad school or what... the feedback from the seniors there is very positive, and also cos my sister developed very well there... but certain elements of what I experienced today doesn't seem to apeeal very much.
Start from the morning
I was nearly late
Clarice was right man... 31 only comes once every 10-15 min... and the first bus to come was full to the bursting, so it didn't stop
Neither did the second one
And her words of "if you miss the bus then you may be late for school" or something to that effect almost made me panic.
Yeah... anyway just discovered I should have taken 197 or 196 from the interchange instead.
Okay. I was 4 min late... what a great start, I don't think... but nothing had happened yet, everyone was still hanging about in front of the registration area
Spent a long time registering, then they talked about subject combi... talk n talk n talk... Chose trip sci as primary combination.... Hope I can get in? Cos I never take O-level bio.
Then we play games... The games very stressful... cos the forfeits are so.... *eeks!* Then also kinda noisy n intimidating... cos I don't really like to make noise n all that... Will have to adapt anyway
Mass dance in the afternoon was very fun though... I think it was the only fun part? hehe...
I think I appeared very AP to my OG leaders leh... Cos I was like so.... quiet? or un-enthu? I dunno... I only feel like that in retrospect
Oh yeah, Zheng Hao in the same grp as me! haha... then I won't be so lonely. We were like counting "now they [AH ppl] just finished 1st recess"... "sec. 1s will have just dismissed"... "3rd lang starting now" blahblah.... my goodness, I miss AH a lot lor... or rather, the people there...
Anyway must wake up on time tml.... tml must have assembly with the J2s...
My sister just called from malaysia... told me that its normal to feel sian n intimidated... Yeah... hope I can bond better with my OG grp over the next few days... Made friends with the guys, but the girls haven't really got to know them yet... only know got one fiona n two yvonnes... which is kinda bad, since my group only 4 guys n mainly girls
Then Si Hui n Jin Hao also in the same main grp, although not sub-grp.
Yeah... after dismissal.... wah... 5.50 liao.... Meridian dismissed at 2.45 or something? then took me 45 min to get home... Then wei quan called me from TJ n I su ku to him... if wei lun comes online later I think we will su ku to each other again...
The whole week so busy, n all until very late leh... How to go back SJ? Sobz sobz..... haizzzzz unless I pon lar, but that is not very nice... N must learn all the mass dances. In VJ if you don't know the mass dances then you will die... cos they use every opportunity to mass dance yeah.
I want to go back SJ!
I want to go back AH!
Howhowhow?
I think I will be dreaming about SJ for the next 1 week... pah!
Start from the morning
I was nearly late
Clarice was right man... 31 only comes once every 10-15 min... and the first bus to come was full to the bursting, so it didn't stop
Neither did the second one
And her words of "if you miss the bus then you may be late for school" or something to that effect almost made me panic.
Yeah... anyway just discovered I should have taken 197 or 196 from the interchange instead.
Okay. I was 4 min late... what a great start, I don't think... but nothing had happened yet, everyone was still hanging about in front of the registration area
Spent a long time registering, then they talked about subject combi... talk n talk n talk... Chose trip sci as primary combination.... Hope I can get in? Cos I never take O-level bio.
Then we play games... The games very stressful... cos the forfeits are so.... *eeks!* Then also kinda noisy n intimidating... cos I don't really like to make noise n all that... Will have to adapt anyway
Mass dance in the afternoon was very fun though... I think it was the only fun part? hehe...
I think I appeared very AP to my OG leaders leh... Cos I was like so.... quiet? or un-enthu? I dunno... I only feel like that in retrospect
Oh yeah, Zheng Hao in the same grp as me! haha... then I won't be so lonely. We were like counting "now they [AH ppl] just finished 1st recess"... "sec. 1s will have just dismissed"... "3rd lang starting now" blahblah.... my goodness, I miss AH a lot lor... or rather, the people there...
Anyway must wake up on time tml.... tml must have assembly with the J2s...
My sister just called from malaysia... told me that its normal to feel sian n intimidated... Yeah... hope I can bond better with my OG grp over the next few days... Made friends with the guys, but the girls haven't really got to know them yet... only know got one fiona n two yvonnes... which is kinda bad, since my group only 4 guys n mainly girls
Then Si Hui n Jin Hao also in the same main grp, although not sub-grp.
Yeah... after dismissal.... wah... 5.50 liao.... Meridian dismissed at 2.45 or something? then took me 45 min to get home... Then wei quan called me from TJ n I su ku to him... if wei lun comes online later I think we will su ku to each other again...
The whole week so busy, n all until very late leh... How to go back SJ? Sobz sobz..... haizzzzz unless I pon lar, but that is not very nice... N must learn all the mass dances. In VJ if you don't know the mass dances then you will die... cos they use every opportunity to mass dance yeah.
I want to go back SJ!
I want to go back AH!
Howhowhow?
I think I will be dreaming about SJ for the next 1 week... pah!
~JcZw~ at 7:47 pm
Sunday, January 02, 2005
2004 has drawn to a close... So many things have happened last year... So many things have already happened in this.
4F? I guess I have become attached to several people in my class? We've gone through quite a bit together, especially o-levels yes? Remember every day staggering up dunno how many flights of stairs to reach the class in the morning... Remember our days in the hall plodding through our O-levels... Remember our joy at their completion (19th November... it was raining that day remember?) John and XiaoQuan, remember winning the inter-class debate? You guys were great, even when I couldn't think of a suitable riposte to Mao Rui... oh... 4E was great as well anyway =) 4F will definitely be a difficult class to remember... must keep in contact k?
SJ... my home away from home... An eventful year yes... commanding the division with the rest of the NCOs.... really have made so many friends since sec. 1... esp those in sq 4 '04... the weis n the xuans, evelyn, soo yee, blahblah... hope that we'll come back more often yeah... come back n see our juniors... who also have provided many a happy memory for us... Teaching Sq. 2 '04 in HP last last year at kia boon's house... bringing Sq. 1 '04 to buy uniform parts last year just to name a few... Just watching everyone growing n developing (still remember in sec. 2 HP... Jonathan, yuhan all towered over me, I was so darn short)... seeing my own squad, from teeny tiny sec. 1s into NCOs... So many friends... pity that we have to leave, especially when we were just getting to know some of them... Still can't listen to "upside down", "kuai le chong bai", "love love love" or "never be replaced" without seeing members dressed in white, pink, yellow or green dancing in my memories... Haha... Its true... vivid memories... St. John is the only group of friends in my entire sec. school life which I occasionally dream off... Told you all before.... I cannot express what I feel in st. john in words... if you mentioned "secondary school" to me the first thing I would think of is SJ, not O-levels, not my classes. Don't ask me whether I was happier to finish Os or sadder to leave the division. I don't know either. What I do know, is that i'll try n come back more often, if not for training, then at least to see the SJers.
2005 has started... major things have already happened. More will happen soon I guess. Victoria JC... hope I don't get kicked out after 3 mths... Many people say that I will stay... I think I cannot say for sure... it just makes me stressed... hehez... But go TJ or MJ... also not bad I guess... got a lot of friends there... Yeah... n hope the schedule doesn't include lessons on friday afternoon until very late? hehez =))
Yeah... so, take care everyone! Stay in contact! We'll be seeing each other again!
4F? I guess I have become attached to several people in my class? We've gone through quite a bit together, especially o-levels yes? Remember every day staggering up dunno how many flights of stairs to reach the class in the morning... Remember our days in the hall plodding through our O-levels... Remember our joy at their completion (19th November... it was raining that day remember?) John and XiaoQuan, remember winning the inter-class debate? You guys were great, even when I couldn't think of a suitable riposte to Mao Rui... oh... 4E was great as well anyway =) 4F will definitely be a difficult class to remember... must keep in contact k?
SJ... my home away from home... An eventful year yes... commanding the division with the rest of the NCOs.... really have made so many friends since sec. 1... esp those in sq 4 '04... the weis n the xuans, evelyn, soo yee, blahblah... hope that we'll come back more often yeah... come back n see our juniors... who also have provided many a happy memory for us... Teaching Sq. 2 '04 in HP last last year at kia boon's house... bringing Sq. 1 '04 to buy uniform parts last year just to name a few... Just watching everyone growing n developing (still remember in sec. 2 HP... Jonathan, yuhan all towered over me, I was so darn short)... seeing my own squad, from teeny tiny sec. 1s into NCOs... So many friends... pity that we have to leave, especially when we were just getting to know some of them... Still can't listen to "upside down", "kuai le chong bai", "love love love" or "never be replaced" without seeing members dressed in white, pink, yellow or green dancing in my memories... Haha... Its true... vivid memories... St. John is the only group of friends in my entire sec. school life which I occasionally dream off... Told you all before.... I cannot express what I feel in st. john in words... if you mentioned "secondary school" to me the first thing I would think of is SJ, not O-levels, not my classes. Don't ask me whether I was happier to finish Os or sadder to leave the division. I don't know either. What I do know, is that i'll try n come back more often, if not for training, then at least to see the SJers.
2005 has started... major things have already happened. More will happen soon I guess. Victoria JC... hope I don't get kicked out after 3 mths... Many people say that I will stay... I think I cannot say for sure... it just makes me stressed... hehez... But go TJ or MJ... also not bad I guess... got a lot of friends there... Yeah... n hope the schedule doesn't include lessons on friday afternoon until very late? hehez =))
Yeah... so, take care everyone! Stay in contact! We'll be seeing each other again!
~JcZw~ at 4:35 pm
Saturday, January 01, 2005
On 27th December 2001, a certain division of AHSJAB was having mock competition. One of these teams had 3 out of 4 members present, and were waiting for their fourth. They waited in vain. They went into competition with 3 members.
First Aid short case had 3 casualties, and was a domestic case. It required evacuating a casualty from a smoke filled room. The strength of the number 2 was not enough to do it. The efforts of both number 1, 2 and 3 came to naught too. In doing so, 1 and 3 deserted their casualties, penalizing the team heavily.
Footdrill was not much better. Untried and nervous, the team fouled up badly, with the number 3 turning in the wrong direction during the format. Neither was TOC, with an NCO substituing as number 4, which the former 3 members had not much form of communication with either.
Long Case was a disaster. 3 casualties, one with CPR. Number 1 cannot break free. Number 2 could not call ambulance. And such was the distribution of casualties such that one was on the 2nd floor, one further down the 2nd floor corridor, and one on the first floor of the classroom block.
The team got last in the whole division that day.
They only passed footdrill, failing overall.
Later inquiries showed that the reason the number 4 didn't come was because he didn't care. He didn't want to come.
After the competition, anger and tears flowed freely. For the first time, the members of the team came to realise that some people just didn't care. Nothing could have been more demoralizing for a first time comp team.
The number 2 of that team... saw the impact of such selfishness on his team mates. He felt the pain that was tangibly radiating from his team leader. That number 2 was me. The number 1, most readers would know.
____________________________________________________________________ Sadness.
I never wanted to feel such pain caused by the lack of results in competition again. It was not to be though. During the photo quiz 2003 my team did not even get into the top 3. N-comp 2004 my team missed out on 3rd by point-something marks.
Mock comp 2005. The team I trained... that I tried to train...
I don't understand. Every team that I was in. Every team that I trained. Never seems to be able to get any results. I don't understand. Anger? Disappointment? Frustration? I mentioned before, its not the result that counts. I didn't, I DON'T give a hoot about the result. But effort? I don't know. The effort that I put in, was it enough? I think I must have done something seriously wrong musn't I? Anger, disappointment, frustration... directed at myself? I feel darn confused. I don't know why every team I touch falls apart like this.
3 months left to the competition. Don't mention the competition. If my team had gone out into the streets today and encountered an FA situation... would they have saved the casualty? or killed him? and then, the fault would be on the person that trained them wouldn't it?
Why?
What went wrong?
What is it that other instructors have which I haven't been doing? Punishment? No. Practise? No. Attendance? Not really. Equipment? Definitely no.
I don't know. But I plan to find out. And if, when, I do, I hope I can do something about it. Or I might as well resign my senior status.
Maybe its not my fault. I'm just venting frustration. I will recover I guess.
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Happiness? NC3, calmly commanded by wong li ting, ably manned by yan ping and clarice, and led by yuhan, viki, wei ling and wei quan. My secondary team I guess. When my original team doesn't turn up I usually vector towards them. Thats not very obvious though... haven't come for many trainings cos of mount k.
Impressive! A 3-man team and best overall among squad 2 nursings. Much better than the team mentioned in the first part of the post. The news shook the seniors. Most of us, all of us, were highly impressed with their performance. Definitely a team with high potential yes =) But unless the attendance problem is solved, the other two teams WILL still catch up. Keep working on it NC3! You all can do it!
Well done! All of you deserve your congratulations!
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I saw others, unhappy with the results. I dunno what was the actually cause of the sadness... unfair? I guess you could say that. I wish I could understand. But pls, don't be so sad k? Its only a mock competition. As xuan ming said, you all aren't that used to competition styles yet. It will become better as you gain more experience. Maybe this is not that reassuring to you all, but I guess thats the best I can tell you? Please don't be so upset... its over already... just keep doing your best for subsequent activities yeah? =)
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I guess thats all I have to say about mock comp... Feeling weird tonight... cos tired n irritated at myself... Sorry to those that I snapped at today, especially wei lun n the other seniors... And thanks xuan ming, for talking to me. I really appreciated that..
G'night! Talk about new year later today.
First Aid short case had 3 casualties, and was a domestic case. It required evacuating a casualty from a smoke filled room. The strength of the number 2 was not enough to do it. The efforts of both number 1, 2 and 3 came to naught too. In doing so, 1 and 3 deserted their casualties, penalizing the team heavily.
Footdrill was not much better. Untried and nervous, the team fouled up badly, with the number 3 turning in the wrong direction during the format. Neither was TOC, with an NCO substituing as number 4, which the former 3 members had not much form of communication with either.
Long Case was a disaster. 3 casualties, one with CPR. Number 1 cannot break free. Number 2 could not call ambulance. And such was the distribution of casualties such that one was on the 2nd floor, one further down the 2nd floor corridor, and one on the first floor of the classroom block.
The team got last in the whole division that day.
They only passed footdrill, failing overall.
Later inquiries showed that the reason the number 4 didn't come was because he didn't care. He didn't want to come.
After the competition, anger and tears flowed freely. For the first time, the members of the team came to realise that some people just didn't care. Nothing could have been more demoralizing for a first time comp team.
The number 2 of that team... saw the impact of such selfishness on his team mates. He felt the pain that was tangibly radiating from his team leader. That number 2 was me. The number 1, most readers would know.
____________________________________________________________________ Sadness.
I never wanted to feel such pain caused by the lack of results in competition again. It was not to be though. During the photo quiz 2003 my team did not even get into the top 3. N-comp 2004 my team missed out on 3rd by point-something marks.
Mock comp 2005. The team I trained... that I tried to train...
I don't understand. Every team that I was in. Every team that I trained. Never seems to be able to get any results. I don't understand. Anger? Disappointment? Frustration? I mentioned before, its not the result that counts. I didn't, I DON'T give a hoot about the result. But effort? I don't know. The effort that I put in, was it enough? I think I must have done something seriously wrong musn't I? Anger, disappointment, frustration... directed at myself? I feel darn confused. I don't know why every team I touch falls apart like this.
3 months left to the competition. Don't mention the competition. If my team had gone out into the streets today and encountered an FA situation... would they have saved the casualty? or killed him? and then, the fault would be on the person that trained them wouldn't it?
Why?
What went wrong?
What is it that other instructors have which I haven't been doing? Punishment? No. Practise? No. Attendance? Not really. Equipment? Definitely no.
I don't know. But I plan to find out. And if, when, I do, I hope I can do something about it. Or I might as well resign my senior status.
Maybe its not my fault. I'm just venting frustration. I will recover I guess.
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Happiness? NC3, calmly commanded by wong li ting, ably manned by yan ping and clarice, and led by yuhan, viki, wei ling and wei quan. My secondary team I guess. When my original team doesn't turn up I usually vector towards them. Thats not very obvious though... haven't come for many trainings cos of mount k.
Impressive! A 3-man team and best overall among squad 2 nursings. Much better than the team mentioned in the first part of the post. The news shook the seniors. Most of us, all of us, were highly impressed with their performance. Definitely a team with high potential yes =) But unless the attendance problem is solved, the other two teams WILL still catch up. Keep working on it NC3! You all can do it!
Well done! All of you deserve your congratulations!
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I saw others, unhappy with the results. I dunno what was the actually cause of the sadness... unfair? I guess you could say that. I wish I could understand. But pls, don't be so sad k? Its only a mock competition. As xuan ming said, you all aren't that used to competition styles yet. It will become better as you gain more experience. Maybe this is not that reassuring to you all, but I guess thats the best I can tell you? Please don't be so upset... its over already... just keep doing your best for subsequent activities yeah? =)
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I guess thats all I have to say about mock comp... Feeling weird tonight... cos tired n irritated at myself... Sorry to those that I snapped at today, especially wei lun n the other seniors... And thanks xuan ming, for talking to me. I really appreciated that..
G'night! Talk about new year later today.
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