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Whoops, sorry people, haven't been blogging for 2 weeks!!! I have been going home late for 2 weeks already, and I can't see any change for the days to come. I am already in 2 CCAs, air rifle and bowling, and am also studying French. Let me lay out my schedule: Monday, French. Tuesday, Bowling. Wednesday, Air Rifle. Thursday, Bowling. Friday, French. Saturday, Air Rifle. That leaves me with only Sunday to revise my homework and enjoy life. Goodness, I wish I was in IP with the VS schedule, at least I can go back home early. Sigh. Well, anyway, formal lessons finally started after 3 weeks of workshops and lectures and talks and blah blah blah. First lesson was Chinese. The teacher wanted us to order Lianhe Zaobao on Wednesdays for the 'Popcorn' section. Its actually a teenager thing where teenager reporters would go round Singapore interview Singaporean teens on a certain topic. Wasn't that bad anyway. Then came Physics. Our principal announced this morning that this Physics teacher of ours has actually proposed to his fiancee and getting ready to be married, so we went to 'kacheow' him during lesson and told us to give us 'ang pow' now that Chinese New Year is so close, but he kept telling us that he hasn't done the proposing yet. Don't know if he is lying...........well, then came Chemistry. Nothing much to talk about, it's just like secondary school Chemistry. Then came Biology. The teacher's Powerpoint was full of pictures, it was very difficult to take notes from it and had to hang on to every word she said in order to get hints. Woah, IP life is so demanding....................but I will endure. Then it was dismissal. My father came to the college and fetched me all the way to MOELC to hand in my withdrawal form from MOELC, as I am now studying French in VJC. The administrator didn't look too happy when I gave her the form. Perhaps she thought it was irresponsible for me to drop the subject halfway. Sigh............went back to VJC just in time and had the first French lesson of the year. The teacher's name was Mr Bruno, and it made be laugh, because the name Bruno made me think of bulls, but he didn't look like one. Goodness, my French was way too rusty!!! I need to buck up in the coming days. There was this cheese tasting session at the end of the lesson. I was like, woah............but the cheese just didn't suit me. I had to use water to wash off the strong lingering taste after the session. Hmm, got to go do a project now.........

Yeah, this is the 2nd week of a fresh year. First up today at VJC, assembly time, what else? Yup, today is gonna be wet, because the entire school is moving to East Coast Park for the the Sea Regatta Games, which meant sand and seawater for us all. Stuffed all my valuables in my bag and left it in the hall, which they said will be locked up, and proceeded to East Coast Park with my new-found friends (old friends, I haven't forgotten you yet, don't worry) . Talked lame jokes on the way, and the girls were like laughing hysterically? Never mind. Got there in 10 minutes and the MCs told us which part of the park held games and told us not to get ourselves injured and blah blah blah. yeah, and my group and I moved to play Daddy-Long-Legs first. We were assigned numbers and the gamemasters would call out a number and the people would have to run a distance and fetch a water bomb and do anything with it. Pity me, because I wasn't called. Sad case.........oh well. What next? Oh yeah, I was dunked into the sea by a JC1 student (who was an ex-VS student, dammit!!!) and I got all wet. Darn. I also sustained several scratches along my leg as I rubbed my leg far too hard against the sand and ending being injured. Moved of to the first-aid post and received some ointment. Pity they didn't have waterproof plasters, or I would have continued playing water games. As seawater would cause wounds to become more painful due to the salt, I was advised to stay away from the sea as long as possible and not play anything concerning seawater. Sad case...........but I didn't care about the pain though, and continued playing wet games like Tug Of War in the sea and rolling in watery mud. Yeeps. Yep, and just before we were about to play Captain's Ball, it started raining like crazy!!! Made our way back to VJC in the stupid rain, so all of us were wet like hell and freezing. Orders were given to us to change immediately and report back to the hall for mass dancing at 12.30pm. Yup, how nice was it to change back into good-old dry clothes? Yup, went to the hall, in which the floor was wet like crazy. And it was mass dance time!! Danced all 6 dances consecutively. yeah, I kind of perfected my moves slightly. Haha. then my group moved off to Singpost at Paya Lebar for lunch. Had pig's organ soup and a McDonald's ice-cream. Yep, and it was 4.15pm. Moved back to Tampines to borrow Jay Chou's 'November's Chopin' as my sister wanted it. yeah, well, my dinner's coming soon, so I had best be off now. See you all.

YEEHAH!! Today is the final day of orientation!! So I suppose it will be jam-packed with loads of stuff. And I was right. Got into the hall for assembly and sang the national anthem and school song. I was really proud of my former school as it shared the identical school song with VJC, therefore a handful of new students really knew the lyrics (mind you, they were Victoria School guys, what were you thinking??) . Yeah, and we went back to the classrooms to mingle with our classmates and PSLs by playing some games involving a couple of plastic cups and paper. Don't ask me what the games were called. And we were supposed to change into our PE shirts for the wet games later on. Yeah, us guys wore the ordinary, down-to-earth yellow-and-white PE shirts, while them girls got a special privilege and wore black shirts, because they feared that when they got wet in the PE shirt, their undergarments would be exposed to everyone. Umm, ok, enough said. Games started at 10am and we played several dry games first, like Obstacle Course and Table Soccer. Finished first in both games, haha. We were happy with the results, but undoubtedly, heaven wasn't, because it started raining like crazy from 12 noon!! Gosh, lucky we haven't started our wet games yet!! Yep, the games were put on hold and we went for lunch. Paid $2 to receive a packet of what I always hated. Fried bee hoon. Goodness. Can't heaven be more just? Alright, let's skip that. Played Treasure Hunt after lunch. We were supposed to hunt for our own group bandanas and exchange them for puzzle pieces in order to guess something. There were 20 of them out there, but my group only found 5. Pro, ya? Didn't know what we were guessing, so I sat aside with several other group members and played games and talked and laughed. then, it was time to dance AGAIN!! Gosh, mass dances sure make you steam! Learnt the songs 'I Want You' and 'La Bamba'. I didn't know the steps too well, so you can expect some flimsy performance from me. Yep. the whole thing ended at 5pm, when the various groups were awarded with prizes according to their rankings based on their performance throughout the whole orientation. My group attained 2nd position!!!! That outta learn ya!! Yeah. Some bands played some songs for the finale. And it all ended on 6pm. Yeah, and we were scheduled to all move to Suntec City to mass dance around the Fountain Of Wealth!!! Now, that was going to be cool. Took bus 36 and ate dinner at Pizza Hut situated in Suntec City. Ahh, nothing like a decent dinner at the start of the year..............but the bill sucked!! $48!! Lucky there were 8 of us, so i would be $6 each. Phew.............yeah, and we gathered around the fountain at 8.45pm and started dancing like maniacs. Danced all the 6 dances we learnt, namely 'Whiney Whiney', 'Tribal Dance', 'La Bamba', Neutron', 'Friendship Dance' and 'Iwant You'. Mastered the basics through this. Haha. My parents called me before dinner and said they wanted to see me dance, and there they were, near where my bag was put, looking at me! Haha. I should expect more of this in the days to come.............

Yep, today was like yesterday, and today will be like tomorrow. What else can we do in orientation besides play games and cheer? That was what we did.We came to the hall at 7.45am and began assembly. Then we sat down in the hall and listened to some teachers talk about our code of conduct and the various CCAs VJC offered. Oh yeah, I missed the staff introduction in Powerpoint presentation. Then they showed us a film created by the students last year during Teacher's Day. It was really hilarious, with the part where our vice-principal killed a cockroach. With every step he took on the poor cockroach, some phrase in "Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne" would appear on the screen, like 'Mega Kill', 'Dominating', 'Ownage', 'Monster Kill', 'Wicked Sick' and 'Godlike' (DOTA players will know). Yup. Played a couple of games and it was lunchtime. There was the CCA walkabout during lunch, and I literally squeezed though the crowd to sign up for air rifle and bowling. Those are my aces in life. Gunshooting will always be top priority, so I place air rifle first. Ate western food at the canteen. It was nice but costly. $2.50!! God...............yup. We returned to the hall at 2.30pm to be taught cheers by the seniors and all that stuff. Played a couple of stupid lame games too. Yeah, and lastly, we learnt 2 mass dances, which were a cultural part of VJC. They were called 'Whiney Whiney' and 'Neutron'. Mixed up some parts of the dance during the actual thing. Well, experience counts, so you can't expect me to perform well on a first try. Well, yeah, tomorrow will come soon........................

Yup yup, today is the day where almost everyone dreads. It's the reopening of school! Yeah, kind of miss my former school, Victoria School. But no fears, because I am in Victoria Junior College now! Passing Victoria School in my father's car brought back many memories: secondary 1 life, NPCC trainings, my form teachers, doing my part for Speech Day as part of the Guard-Of-Honour contigent, and so on. But I have to come back to reality. I must face my destiny. I must realise my goals. So there I am, sitting in the front seat, wearing long pants for the first time in 2006, with a VJC badge pinned to my shirt collar, with my trusty 3-year old bag on my lap, ready to get off the car and walk into the college. And I did. There were so many new faces there, I didn't know who they were. Luckily a couple of Victoria School mates met up with me and together, we went up to our classroom. Yup. Roomier than my former one. And air-conditioned. Haha. So we put down our bags and went to the Electives Hub (some air-conditioned room again) for a talk by some of the teachers and the principal. Talked about their expectations in us and several leadership opportunities available. Yup. Then we moved into a lecture theatre to take some sort of personality test. I was one of the slowest to complete the test. Reason: Don't ask me why. After that we changed into our orientation shirt and PE shorts and moved off to the hall for some announcements and allocation to 1 of the 8 groups there in ths orientation. They were Valhala (some place in heaven where fallen heroes are brought up by valkyries to this realm) , Inferno (poor girl selling matchsticks on a snowy night and meeting a laksa-selling boy, who gave her some Magical Laksa, and they became people on fire) , Chronos (some manipulator of time) , Thor (lightning god with a hammer), Osmoze (water god and the only creature which has water in the 8), Razzle (manipulator of time), Icis ( some hero with a body temperature of -927854 degrees Celsius and owns a pet penguin) and Animagus ( I suppose you know who this is) . I was in Osmoze, and am so proud of it! Yup, after that, lunch! Paid $2 for some packet of wanton noodles. Didn't really taste good, but as long as it was edible, it's okay. Played some games, some which were really unusual, like an egg evolving into Chicken Little, Animal Farm, and blah blah blah. There was this fashion parade at the end of the whole thing, and my group chose Desmond Tan (NPCC cadets in Victoria School will know who he is) to be the 'model'. The girls in my group were in charge of dressing him up with given materials. In the end, after around 15 minutes, he was a trash bag for a sarong, a bandana, another bandana for a face mask. The girls, umm, made some kind of bra using a styrofoam box and large paper hearts on top of it and wanted Desmond to wear it, but the styrofoam box tore while fitting it on Desmond, so too bad. I was laughing my head off at the sight of it. Well, we didn't win anything for that. With that, we were dismissed. I just can't wait for tomorrow........................

HAPPY NEW YEAR PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, 2005 has faded into 2006, and as the past dies, a new future emerges. May us all welcome the new year with open arms, cherish and embrace it dearly, and pray for a new era. That's all for now. Let us work hard, study hard and play hard!!