Duane
18 November 1992
Aljunied, Singapore
Katong Presbyterian Church
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Check
So the first week of proper lessons has gone past. We're all more or less settling down into our new classes for the next 2 years. People are starting to open up towards one another. My class has elected a class committee, and for the first time we're a class. Some disagreement over the vice-chairman. There's still some preference to go back to old friends though.
Curriculum time: way too long. 4.40pm dismissal on monday, tuesday and thursday. 2.40pm on wednesday. 1pm on fridays. Why so long??? Everyone's asking that question. No idea.
The real tough school week hasn't actually started per se, but I can sense the impending doom coming. :S That's all for now.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Auld Lang Syne
After about 4 months of holliday and orientation, school is finally going to start in actuality. No! These past 4 months have been very enjoyable, I think the most of all my hols in my life. But I think orientation was the best of the best.
Even though the activities we had was not as fun as other JCs, it still enabled us to get to know each other better and do some crazy things together. Example was the "psst" game and the hand game. Shiok!
Granted, my OG was not the most lively or the closest of them. There were very enthu and close OGs like 16 and 18. Mine was 8. But still, we managed to get along quite well, and some laughter was made at each other's expense (a good sign that the friendship had progressed to a stage where it was possible).
All the things we did together...I will forever treasure it. (I know it sounds corny but ya it's true. lol) Let's continue to maintain this friendship we've built, my friends. :)
One word to describe orientation: Unforgettable.
Monday, February 09, 2009
Snails and time crawl
Second week of orientation/bridging programme has started and it seems as if this past week has been going on for longer than usual. I wonder whether it's because of the longer hours in school and the 4-hour lectures everyday, or whether it's because I don't know. Hmmm...
School's starting to get more fun each day, with friendships getting more firmly established within my OG. Problem is, the subjects we're taking are mostly different from each other, so once again we'll be uprooted and put into new classes with nobody we know again. Sigh.
Handed in the Subject Option Form today. Hope that my class will be a good one. I'm gonna spend the next 2 years with them, so hopefully it will be good. :)
Tomorrow will be the last day of bridging (FINALLY). Then Wednesday to Friday will be orientation again, and finish! Then it's school routine. Ugh.
Anyway, no point worrying about then until then.
Monday, February 02, 2009
OG 8
The first real day of orientation has ended. It was fun!
In the morning when I went to school, there were many new faces around. Most were the O-level girls who had come in only today, same as the ones who went to JC. As expected, being surrounded by boys caused them to stick to each other. Can't blame them right?
And so we went to chapel with some quite awkward silences from normally noisy classes. The girls has been split up into about an average of 6-7 girls per class, and they were sitting among the 18 different classes.
First 3 hours of the day were taken up by briefings. Snore. The 1-and-a-half hour briefing by Dr. Ong was the most draggy and long-winded. Happily we could have a break about an hour after that too (after contact time).
The Orientation Group is still not close, with all of us preferring to stick to our own previous classes or schools. We watched a heritage tour of ACS. Very funny stuff. Then we had a talk by the Director and Student Council President.
Then it was icebreakers. The usual games played -- dog and bone, chicken to rooster, ping pong, thumbs up, that kind of thing. But fun.
Another break.
Telematches. Blow a pea through a straw and it had to break the paper held about 50cm in front of it. Of course, it didn't but they let us continue. Haha.
Then you had to balance a tennis ball on a plastic soup spoon. No hands allowed, but then you know.
Then there was the limbo where you had to bend backwards in order to go under it. Needless to say, some people crawled under instead. In fact, my OG had a councillor who actually lifted the tape for one girl. :O No names will be mentioned of course. (Thank me :P)
The OG sort of loosened up a little by the time of the telematches, so it was more interesting. I just hope they will continue to do so. ;)
Wow this is like the longest post in years I think. Bye!