went to Nanyang Poly open house today with Qian Hui.

at first there wasn't really anything much, we were jus wondering around looking for the free ice-cream.

Until we visit the School of Design.
the designs were really cool. i mean. SUPER COOL.
you'll think that they all come from world-class designers.
it's jus hard to describe in words.
i took a few pictures. will post it up as soon as i can.

Next was the School of Interactive Media.
it consisted of cool stuff like animation, games design, etc.
they use really high-tech softwares and iMacs,
but the best thing is, you get to work in a studio!
I mean, u work in a studio in comfort while the rest of the ppl your age are cramped up in their smal desk in sch.
how cool's tat?

they really inspired me to take up design/interactive media.
i was thinking of taking art as a a-level sub, simply cos i love art, jus out of interest.
However, i think that if i do, i'll most likely fail. :(

it's really cool lor. i mean this 2 schs.
i really dun mind going to poly u know.
but i'm like STUCK. haiz.
think i shld have taken o-levels?
but i dun think i'm ready for it.
i mean like it's cos i'm not taking o-lvl that i have free time to do the stuff that really interest me isn't it?
if not for DHP, i wont even have taken art in the 1st place.

oh well.
i was thinking tat i would jus follow the paved out path for the time being. and bear with it till my a-levels are over.
i'll then be free to follow my interest and take a part-time art diploma.

as they say, gd stuff are worth waiting for, right?
(:

The Campsite

The Kitchen Dresser

The Revolving Exit

BAD NEWS: I dun think the DHS ppl can make it back to HWS on CNY celebration. os i think we got sch. yup. our sch dun celebrate on CNY eve u see. it's our tradition to celebrate on the 3rd day of CNY. which means that we got sch (and even CCA) on 16 Feb. Yup. so sadd. i really wanna meet up with all the HWS ppl! esp those who couldn't make it to the bbq.

Miss ya!~

ATTENTION ALL DHS PPL:

BEWARE: the person in the picture above have been spotted at Dunman High.
For those who had been to NTUC Used Textbook Project, she should not be unfamiliar to you.
Yes, she’s the one who came with her family of 4, armed with numerous bags to grab sall the nice looking textbks and resource book she could see.

She and her husband and their 2 children first made their appearance at UTP last year. She grabbed a lot s of book s and went to sort it out. She then came back later giving us the pile of books she discarded and said that she DONATE it to us. TYRING TO ACT NICE, even aft she greedily took everything regardless she needed them or not.

Her first appearance this year was also at UTP where her whole family was seen at our UTP rubbish dump, where they climbed into the rubbish container, and rummaged through the huge pile of books that we threw away. They were equipped with numerous plastic bags and trolleys to transport the books to their car nearby. YES THEY HAVE A CAR.

Not surprisingly, they appeared at UTP again. This time they RUSHED into the distribution room, and grabbed everything they saw. They emptied a whole box of resource books within minutes and went on to the next! To put it, simply, they were just like scavengers grabbing everything they see. NO KIDDING. There was a rule that you cannot bring out more than 2 bags of books or smth, but despite all our warnings, they insisted on bringing out the HOUMOUS pile of books.

Recently, a neighbour told my mum that she met her somewhere. They knew each other cos we were ex-neighbours or smth. She said that she asked her for her daughter’s old Bendemeer Sec sch blouse cos her daughter’s going to DHS and needed a white blouse and she doesn’t like to wear new ones but like to wear old and seasoned ones. -.-

To sum it up, I really don’t like her due to various reasons that are needless to mention.

I dun usually scold ppl one lor. This must be one extreme case.

FINAL WARNING: STAY AT LEAST 10m AWAY FROM HER.

It’s THE DAY we’ve all been preparing intensively for… UG CCA Orientation 2007 is FINALLY here!!

*phew* I’m really glad that the orientation’s finally over. We’ve slogged really hard ever since the end of Dec till now, reaching home at 10plus everyday. I’m like lacking sleep almost everyday and hecking my homework all this while. (Which means that I’ll have to chiong finish 2 jian bao + 1 calendar by today! AGGRH!) But it’s all worth it la. I feel super satisfied to see that our half of the field is attracting the most attention with the structure and all. (:

It’s the first Orientation that has been in the field ever since the 2004 orientation, where we were still sec 1s. Well, this is wat I’ll call a proper orientation. I mean, what’s a proper UG orientation where it’s not in the field? Yup, so as usual, it’s a combine activity with scouts. Ventures were the overall IC, with Cam & GuoXiang being the Sec 4 IC. There were various sub IC for diff sections also – I was the one for Deco.

As the theme was “Hippies Scouts and Guides; aware of the Hip and Happening” (thought by guiders), and the scouts dun wan any girl deco, so we were in charge of the decoration of the whole campsite. In addition to the poster and stuff we got to make, we had to make signboards for each section, 10plu s in total. (Initially I was against making the signs at first, cos I don’t think anyone will look at the signs, but since they wanted it, so be it.) and also 400 scorecards (lucky I had a lot of help with that one.) Anyway, most of the things we did turned out to be quite wasted, cos there simply wasn’t enough time to hang up all the decorations, even though we reach sch at 6plus, and some scouts even stayed overnight! That’s why I suggest that put less ppl in Deco next year, so that there’ll be more ppl to help for other sections. I mean, come on la, who will go look at the signs when they only have 20 min to finish looking at everything else?

Other sections didn’t have a nice time too, esp ppl at Post-man Walk, campcook, boundary and stuff. Yup, but I wont elaborate on that.

Besides that we were super rush, the orientation went on fine. It was the best orientation we had in the past few years! It's all thanks to the seniors who cameThere was a gate (although it suppose to be a bridge) where we hung up the huge ‘Guides & Scouts’ banner and life-size model of guide and scout), Viking Ship (which was the one of the most fun things that can be ever built), Gladiator (which can be quite funny, esp when ZiYing’s on top), Catapult (shoot water bombs really high!), Archery Range (bows and arrows made of bamboo), there was even a campsite built, along with a mini gate, 2 tents, 2 kitchen shed for campcook, all the gadgets, and even an exit that resembles the revolving gate at hotels! Super cool right! Even some of the Sec 1s I brought ard say so. Yup, some of them quite enthu la, they tried all the games lor! Jus wat I did when I was Sec 1. haha.

Building the stuff was sure tough, of course we didn’t forget to have some fun ourselves! We played all the chances we get, and during the intermission, we had quite a lot of laughs at the Gladiator with the scout VS guide matches. Haha.

Orientation 2007 was really a major event that everyone put in a lot of effort in. Let’s hope we’ll get some good and enthu Sec 1s to join guides!
Aft the thingy they even played water bomb leh. SO FUN, I ALSO WANNA PLAY! But Ching, Esther and I signed up to volunteer for the a-cappella society for the Real Group Concert. We bathed at the sch toilet b4 going. (:

Though we were very tired, very thirsty, very sleepy, I enjoyed it. It was quite a gd experience la, although there was nothing much to do and therefore a bit boring in that sense, it’s not everyday or anybody can go to the Esplanade backstage! It’s quite cool to have a official tag that has ur name on it too. (: Although we felt a bit upset cos of SOME PPL, but it was truly a gd experience. Everything was worth it to get to watch the Real Group perform. They were from Sweden, and they were great! The audience loved them! I can tell that they enjoy performing here too. They encored 2 times lor! (:

Yup, that was my whole full tiring day. Very tired but happy.
And BURNT too! (Almost all the UG ppl were burnt.) Haha.

Today was quite a fun day; the Year 4s had DHS Extreme.
It’s a telematch organised with the aim of class-bonding.

For my class 4E, we had to work out our station with a clue from a voice recording. We couldn’t really make it out at first, it was only after clues from facilitators that we managed to sum up the voice recording: Ever shot is a power shot. Which means it’s the tennis court.

It started out with a game of using your leg to draw stuff on a piece of paper on the wall with the rest trying to guess the cheng2 yu3 you are trying to draw. We lost the match to 4F (cos they have so many PRCs), but nevertheless we completed the game and had fun. The guys weren’t sporting enough to volunteer though, so it was mostly us girls who did. Haiz.

We were then given a clue, school map with a highlighted part. We were suppose to go there and look for smth round, which is our next clue. Smart LiBing guessed that it was a basketball rightaway, thus our next station is the basketball court. Saved us the trouble of going one big round. Therefore we reach there super earlier and while waiting for the next class, we came up with a ‘original’ cheer, actually improvised from the Year 1 orientation cheer. Haha.

When 4B finally came, we played the game of burning each other’s raffia sting. Each class had to send representatives to play the game. We came up with a strategy, with people taking turns to defend and attack. It was a violet game, with lots of screams and cheater-bugs, even the facilitators cheated!!! How unfair! Anyway, we still won in the end. We had ONE LAST STRING left when we burnt finished all of theirs.

For this years Orientation, we have 2 mascots, if we catch them they’ll give us smth to do and if we complete it we’ll gain bonus points! We caught the lobster and she got us to give her 20 shoelaces and 15 heads on the floor. The girls contributed shoelaces while guys lay on the ground. (:

Yup, then they gave us HALLS sweet – which means hall in other words. In there we waited super long for the other class, 4H. In the hall, we played the game where we sent out 8 reps to be blindfolded, the rest of us had to be on the 2nd level, giving them instructions on how to go into the maze and to find the jigsaw pieces. Wah, it was so chaotic lor. Everyone was shouting and no one could hear each other. But it was quite fun la. We shouted their names together aft the count of 3, so easy for them to hear. In the end, we finished the puzzle earlier than 4H.

Our next clue was to run around the track for our next station. We knew the answer after running and seeing ‘d’ & ‘i’, but nevertheless we had to finish the whole round. The next activity was the 4-legged football race where 3 ppl had to be tied together. Only 18 rep from each class to play th4 game. The rest of us sat at the grand stand cheering them on, it was quite fun watching them practising walking and ended up hopping around. We realise that the 3 scouts stationed at the goal-post dunno how to guard at all. They let all of 4D’s strike in! Whereas the 3 guides guarding their goalpost didn’t even let a single goal in. Watching them from afar, we can tell that it’s really not easy walking when 3 ppl are tied together, the raffia sting was cutting their leg and it was so muddy. A lot of ppl fell down, whole leg covered in mud. In end we lost, 4-0 to 4D.

The last game we played b4 lunch was at the foyer. We had to solve this riddle abt a piano to know we had to proceed to the foyer. It’s the traditional game of ppl standing on a mat and had to overturn it with the ppl still standing on top. Not everyone had to go up, so we got some ppl to support us from the outside. Some of us had experience playing it cause we did it for the Chua Choo Kang station of DHS explore, so Fan Di volunteered to flip the mat while the rest of us cooperate by squeezing, balancing and jumping when she needs us to. 4J finished it b4 us, and Jerome was there trying to tickle me with MeiXian’s hair, but at last we accomplished it. The facilitator said that we’re the only 2 classes to complete the thing without cheating! So happy.

Following that was lunch, I ate chicken rice again, cos yesterday thinking that the chilli doesn’t look hot, I put a lot of chilli. It was only after eating that I realise that it’s super hot! So in the end I didn’t really taste the chicken rice at all, and ended up drinking 5-6 cups of the free milo at the Milo van. I went back to our classroom at the LT, where they were telling ghost stories. The air-con was super shuang! I think I’m beginning to like my classroom. (: It was so shuang that some guys said they wanna pon the thing and jus in class and sleep, but they ended up coming anyway.

This year’s theme was ‘Atlantis’, so we were given this bubble blowing thing and whistles and party-poppers. So super fun lor! We were playing quite happily and even singing to the Pokemon song they were playing. We really looked as if we got no childhood. Haha.

We started off with the ‘Atlantis Challenge’, where each class had to send out 10 rep. No one volunteered in the beginning, so me and LiBing went. Aft much persuasion, we finally got 10 ppl to participate.
It was a obstacle race in the field, which means full of mud. The rest were watching in the grandstand. It started off with 10 spins on a gadget wood, then ping-pong ball on spoon walk zig-zag round the cones, then using chopsticks to pick up soap to the next part, where u have to eat cereal covered in flour, then duckwalk on benches and crawl under the table, to a pail. Using a cut with holes, transport water back to the starting point to fill a bottle. I was quite scared at first but it became really fun when everyone started to cheer for each other and even those who weren’t playing came down to support. It was super funny too, with ppl crossing over to the wrong lanes and ppl going in the wrong direction aft the spinning. Roy fell back after spinning 10 rounds; he would really fall flat on his back if not for the people catching him!

After the ‘Atlantis Challenge’ was ‘Tug-of-War’. Us students only won the 1st match, female students VS female teachers. Cos Mr Jeremy Lim was the anchorman in the rest of the matches, given his large physical mass and the strength of 10 men, the students stand no chance even if given handicap or if Mr Sng joins them. The MC joked that Mr Sng should sack the teachers if they won him. (: It was really fun! It’s a pity us UG ppl had to leave b4 the whole thing ends.

Yup, next was orientation prep again, with us Deco ppl busy at work with the banners and the rest busy with the Mini Games/Campsite. I was quite upset cos we were quite short handed actually, cos the Year 2s wasn’t here for some reason. So the rest of us had to work extra hard. It’s all HER fault.

Anyway we finished at 8 plus, went to eat KFC at Bugis. Sat with Selina, Esther & Ching, dunno why started talking abt Taiwan shows & songs and not surprisingly Esther didn’t understand wat we were talking abt. Haha. aft tat. We left. reach home abt 10 plus.

today is the 1st day sch, and i haven’t finish my homework yet. Still left all the Chinese, sad.

i was so scared i'll be late for sch.
(cos of the move, our sch starts later than most schs, then since it was the 1st day i wasn't very sure when's flag rising)
I met Ching & Cam and we took bus 92 together. I would have preferred walking but oh well, yup. Anyway, there was the usual morning jam, where buses were slower than waling. The jam got worse nearer to school, cos it was single lane and there were a lot of parents driving their kids to sch. The teacher even had to act as traffic controllers to make sure that we cross the road safely and do not obstruct traffic.
Thankfully, i was in time, still early in fact. (:

We had a BIG welcome. There was lion dance, welcoming us to the new (or shld i say old?) campus, welcome sec 1s, welcome new teachers, welcome the pioneer batch of Year 5s, even welcome the PRCs. A suprising number of parents turned up. i wonder why. I don’t recall many parents turning up last year or even the year before. Well, perhaps this years Year 1 parents are more kiasu than the rest of the parents are.
(They even looked at the orientation games results and are concerned with which is the leading class!)

Our class 4E is sharing classroom with 3E. Well, it’s not even a classroom in the 1st place, it’s a lecture theatre to be exact. Anyway, that place is zhao dusty and the fan would blow dust out when on. It doesn’t even have space for tables, only those flip-up make-shift tables. We even have to squeeze in and out, needless to say there’s no place for books and bags. The white board is so small, air-con super cold. I wonder how are we going to survive there?

Then we went for DHS Explore 2007, the concept was Monopoly cum Amazing Race. This time we’re split within the level. We started out quite slow cos we were one of the last teams to finish the puzzle, but we managed to catch up. We turned out to be one of the first few grps to reach! Cos we ran all the way back. We went around a lot of places, mostly travelled by MRT and took lots of pictures, completed lots of tasks. A lot of time was spent on ‘Yield’ though, and we had to wait a very long time for almost every MRT. There was one station I almost got shut out! So scary!

Although we didn’t win in the end, but I enjoyed the Explore. The most important thing is we have fun right? I certainly think we did. My grp was nice, everyone was cooperative and were actively participating throughout. There was even once where we drop the marble in the drain and had to pick it up!

Many thanks for the people we made the Explore happen, including teachers and facilitators who helped. Special thanks to our 2 Team 10 facilitators for running with us all this while and even telling us the best way to get points! Thank for pretending to be injured so that we could use it as an excuse. (:.

Thanks KC for offering to send us the photos! I’ll post them up. ^_^

We went to watch DeathNote 2 at Tiong Bahru aft that. It toatally ROCKED. L is so cute lor! He sacrificed himself leh, so wei ta hor. Must watch k? even u have to borrow money from ur friends. (: