Joshen Lim VS2C English Blog Project

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

~ 4:27 AM ~

Today was great, starting with Mr Low's anticipated speech during the morning assembly. It was because of the previous batch of Secondary 4s that helped us make Mr Low say those two words, "Full day!". We all cheered in excitement, but the day off was placed on Wednesday after the Chinese New Year Holidays, that means we have no school for 5 days in a row! Also, school would end at 1.50 pm today, and on next Monday, we had to come to school only at 9.30 am! I finally can sleep a few more hours before going to school. After assembly, we then proceeded on to our usual lessons, first starting with Mother Tongue. Our Chinese Teacher went through a new chapter quite quickly to even manage to teach the whole chapter. Thereafter, it was D&T lesson, which was held in class. The teachers gave us a briefing on the diorama project and started to give us worksheets and homework. We even had to do a lot of researching. Thankfully, I managed to complete a part of it at home. After that, it was recess. Our recess was much later, with the Secondary 3s and 4s, so the food stalls queues were also quite long. Then, we went on to our PE Theory class, which the teacher used the period to choose the house representatives. The final lesson was then Maths. The teacher taught us some new knowledge, which we had to listen inventively because we had to imply the methods he taught us into our TfU project, which was quite hard to do. After school, my Maths TfU group stayed back to discuss about the project. We had a hard time trying to find out the diameter of the school crest, the big one. We then found out a way, by logic though, but in the end, we still had no lead. At home, I discovered a website which gave a template to make your own paper trainers! After much struggle, I managed to complete one shoe, quite ugly too, because I used to much of sticky tape.

Well, thats all for this post, I am looking forward to the 5 day break!

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Monday, January 12, 2009

~ 3:52 AM ~

Today had been a fine day, starting off with assembly. Many people were called out for interview by MOE, but it was just the briefing today. It was more than half of the Secondary 2 cohort being asked out. Thereafter, the Secondary 1 and 2s were given a briefing on the same old English Reading Program, which the Secondary 1s got a new colour of their book, purple! After the the briefing, the Secondary 1s were then asked to stay back in the hall again for Mr Chia's disciplinary talk, and that sounded quite funny. We then went back to class to carry on with our Character Education period, which the topic was making responsible decisions. The teacher gave us a situation in which we had to think which decision was the best. After that, it was Maths which only lasted for 30 minutes. The teacher rushed through the TfU project briefing since there was lack of time and we managed to get a picture of the whole project. Then, it was recess, and after that was Chemistry lesson, which we thought we were going to have a test first then a lab lesson so we stayed in class, but after waiting for a moment, we decided to go to the Chemistry lab since the teacher did not come down. In the end, we got scolded for being late. We then had lab lessons first instead of the test. The teacher showed us a series of experiments which in turn, we had to take down notes for our Chemistry TfU project. It was a interesting period. Thereafter the test was given and only 15 mins allocated. I managed to complete the test, which was considerably easy. Finally the last period was Geography, which the principal made a last minute annoucement about letting all of us go at 1.40 pm. Obviously all of us cheered! After school, I went for my usual Chinese Orchestra practice and finally went home at 6.15pm. That concludes my day!

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

~ 5:53 AM ~

Today was another fun day. The morning started off with having my usual Chinese tuition from 11 .30 am to 1 pm. Thereafter, I little revision on the Literature book "Macbeth" by reading the first act from scene 1 to 7. Then, my parents went out for more of Chinese New Year shopping, while I stayed at home, playing my PSP and Wii. At 5pm, my parents came home, all hands filled with bags of things! I ran to them excitedly and had a glance at what they have bought. They had also bought a birthday cake for my brother as his birthday was tomorrow but since tomorrow was a Monday, we decided to celebrate it today. The cake had a very unique figure, it looked like a hamburger! Here's a picture of it:

It doesn't look like a cake at all! They also bought a plant with mini Mandarin oranges sprouting from it.

Soon, we all got ready to go out again for my brother's birthday dinner, which we ate at a small chinese restaurant. The food there was not only delicious, but also cheap. We ordered lots of food and also frog legs at my brother's request. After dinner, we were all stuffed. We then went to Kovan to have another view at the plants display. There were many interesting plants, and there were also lots of pitcher plants! After walking around and viewing all the stalls, we bought a small bamboo plant. Thereafter, it was getting late and we decided to go home to cut the cake. We sang a birthday song, and I congratulated him in reaching 18 years of age. Then, all of us had a piece of the cake and got ready to sleep. I can't believe that time is passing so fast, m brother is going to NS at year end and I'm going to miss him!

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Saturday, January 10, 2009

~ 6:48 AM ~

I had a great day today! Starting off with a nice morning with all my favourite cartoons and "okto" and channel 8. Soon after, i went off with my parents to Toa Payoh to look for some Chinese New Year plants. I scan through the array of different species of plants which mesmerized me for a second. The view was beautiful and the scene was filled with different colours of the flowers! I even spotted small pots of venus fly traps there too! They were very amazing, it was my first time ever seeing them with my eyes! Though we spent quite some time there, we did not manage to see any plant which caught our eye, so we left the place empty handed. Thereafter, we left for my Er Hu tuition at my tutors house, which was located at Geylang, the not "dirty" side. Surprisingly, I played very this lesson, and my teacher taught me a new song to practice as a reward. The lesson lasted for 45 minutes, thereafter, my parents brought me to Ang Mo Kio Hub to fetch my brother from his school activity and then later, shop around for Chinese New Year stuffs. We saw lots of Chinese New Year goodies which looked really delicious! After having a scan at the whole shopping mall, we bought altogether 4 bottles of fruit juice and 1 tin can of mini love letters (they are my favourite!) I also bought a white shirt which looked nice and also a shoe from 101 station. Here's a picture of the shoe:

Thereafter, as it was already quite late at night, we decided to go back home and thus ends the fun day! I might play golf in the morning tomorrow too, so I got to sleep early. Good night everyone!

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

~ 5:42 PM ~

Yesterday had been a tiring yet fun-filled day! The day started off with having chemistry lesson. Miss Gloria taught us about Solutions and Suspensions, in which I a lot more knowledge about the once irritating chemistry, which now seems more interesting. She explained lots of factors which affects the solutions and suspensions and what solvents are.
After the lesson, we went on to our PE lesson. As usual, we had our 2.4km trial fun at the nearby East Coast Park on every 1st lesson of PE of the year. The 2.4km run was very tiring, plus i was having a cough. Before the run, i had thought that the run consisted of 3 rounds, thus i had a walk on the second round, but during the run, i found out that it only consisted of 2. After all that running, i finished it with a final timing of 16.30 minutes, also saying that I failed the run.
Thereafter, we went for our recess, and I ate lots of food.
Then, the next few lessons were Literature, by Mr Tan, and English, by Mrs Rama.
After school had ended, i stayed back for a while to help out in decorating the classroom. It was quite a rush situation as i also had to attend my Chinese Orchestra practice, which I had to be present 30 minutes after school.
During Chinese Orchestra sectional practice, the secondary ones were having their CCA orientation at the same time too, but only the secondary fours and some secondary threes had to be present. The others went on to their practice. Although the practice was rather hard and stressful, due to the reason that we were learning new songs for our Chinese New Year Concert for the school, the instructor let the section go back to the Chinese Orchestra to "pull" in people into the CCA. He said something about propaganda and telling white lies to change the secondary ones conception of the CCA. After much work, we managed to pull in about 30 people. After having a slight celebration, we were then dismissed.
What a fun day it was! I hope that the following days would be just as fun!

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