hello! i am sorry for not being able to update so often these days! i've been busy going out, watching shows and chatting to friends on msn and yahoo! messenger recently. i promise i will post something soon! now i just want to say one thing: one tree hill rocks! okay thats all. bye! i should go before my brother gets mad at me for stealing his comp for like more than twelve hours a day!
~phuONg~
It's such a long time anyone updated our blog
Ya, as what's written on the title of this entry, we are all at home now.
Okay, let's reflect a bit on the past year of J1. We were and are living happily in the ACS family, namely ACJC and ACS(IB). There have been good and bad memories, fun and sad times, yet we have all survived, all done our best, and all lived our J1 life to the fullest.
1. It was great the 3 of us came to ACJC together and lived in the same hostel for the first 3 months. Yup, first 3 months were GREAT, we all had a good time with Orientation, getting used to JC life, and having lots of new friends. Trang came along to NUS High after moving to ACS IB from VJ and we four stayed together like we used to in OH
2. Term 2 came with tests, like real tests, so different from our slack life during first 3 months. We came to know how it's like to get an A (which is not very common) and how it's like to fail as badly as with a U.
Some of us were busy with our CCAs, some were still jumping from CCAs to CCAs, trying out new sports, new clubs... Bonds were also formed within our classes, some liked their classes, some didn't... Still we enjoyed our life in various ways with various groups of people.
3. Term 3 with the horrible Term exam, the first serious exam we ever had in JC. Some didn't do well, some did pretty well, but all of us shared the determination to own Promos. There were still lots of tests, CCA trainings or practices, outings with classes, CCAs, friends, even OGs...
ASEAN dance was in August and we had a great time... dressing up, cam-whoring and meeting up with our old friends
Hostel life was still as crazy as it always is. School life was busy yet we enjoyed it..
4. Promos was a nightmare with a lot of stress. Ya, as usual, some scored well, some didn't and that's why we would try our best to put in more effort next year
Life was so damn fun and also busy after promos with OP (yucks), outings, trainings, shopping, blah blah blah... And then Trang and Ha left on the 5th, while PHuong and I left on the 16th of Nov, which officially marked an end to our J1 year.
One year is just so fast that whenever I look back, I see myself looking completely lost yet excited wearing my secondary school uniform sitting in a circle and listening to our OGLs on the 1st day in ACJC. We're going to be a J2 soon... So for whatever you wish to do but haven't done during your first year, hurry and do it, cos soon you would graduate.
Okay, let's talk a bit about our holiday at home. It's supposed to be WINTER now!!!! But what's going on??? The weather's so weird!!! Rarrr!!!! Maybe what annoys the most is that I can still actually wear my nice summer clothes but I bring only like 2 sets back. And I also cannot wear my winter clothes yet cos it's still.. pretty hot. Rarr....
We're having a gathering in Trang's house tomorrow for lunch, yay, then maybe we would go somewhere after that. We're staying over at my house, yay!!! It's gonna be fun man!!!!
-Quynh-
i've been going out every single day since the holiday started! yay! im so happy! omg life's great! i have so many plans for the holiday that i dont seem to have time to finish all of them! argh! lets see what are some of the things that i must do before going home:
- class dinner/ sleep-over
- go escape with darlings
- go out with juniors
- sakae sushi with 3-year+++ friends
- meet up with sc dearies
- sentosa [maybe]
- go oldham to visit
- lifeguard chalet
- coffee bean with quynh
- ecp with batchmates [if we're all free]
- shop for mom's things
- go sc to visit and collect school mag
- etc
omg this is so exciting! i cant wait for tomorrow to come, so that i can go out again! but weirdly, i do miss school at certain times!
i miss sitting in the hall during morning assemblies with 1sb4.
i miss going for lectures and tutorials with 1sb4.
i miss having meals in the void deck with 1sb4.
i miss playing frisbee with 1sb4.
i miss camwhoring with 1sb4.
but its okay. im gonna meet my darlings soon soon soon! (:
PW is finally over. It is now time to reflect back on this memorable seven-month long journey.
23 March: we all gathered in the hall to listen to a boring talk given by mrs choong - the first pw talk of the year. the question paper was distributed to us, and that was the first A'Level paper that I received.
April came. and we met a new tutor named MR FORREST LIM. my first impression of him was A WEIRDO. he told us that we had to finish something called PI by the first week of April, while we actually still had no idea what PW was all about yet.
5 April: the first annoucement of PW groupings. there were 5 people in my group: Maureen, Shiyun, Veluri, Alvin and me. At that time, I only knew Maureen. I didnt even talk to the other three at all in class, if i remember correctly.
12 April: Shiyun left for PJ. The class was re-arranged [one group was broken up]. The new member of my group was Shiyi. I was overjoyed, 'cos she was from my first three month class, so at least i knew her a bit better than all the rest.
18 April: Maureen left. This time, the class was not re-arranged anymore. So the members of my group were Alvin, Hari [by this time, i already knew that Veluri was his sirname], Shiyi and me. AC117 was born! After three rounds of drawing lots in room A4.08, Alvin was chosen to be the group leader, and I was the secretary.
After several heated arguments, we decided to choose Laurie Baker as our groundbreaker. We somehow managed to rush through GPP drafts and submit the final copy on time.
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EoM came next. We anyhow designed a survey which consisted of ten questions, and went to Somerset MRT station together to distribute those useless pieces of paper to random passers-by. However, the survey we carried out was an utter failure. As a consequence, we struggled to choose sources for our EoMs. In the end, all four of us ended up using articles we found from the Internet.
Then came WR. Having seen a sample of one of last year's WR in the library months before that, i seriously doubted if we could produce something which would be of the same standard. We went online to discuss how to do WR several times, as we were all too lazy to meet up. On realising that we didnt do anything for our project at all, we decided to construct a house model [which was a complete failure as well, just like the survey].
Continuous stress and pressure! emo day came after emo day. numerous evenings were spent in front of the computer screen. complained, whined and cried both in school and at home! but thanks to Alvin's and my classmates' encouragement, i overcame those emo moments. and yay! WR was submitted and re-submitted, and OP slides were finally done after several times of editting.
31 October: OP day! i wasnt nervous at all initially. Alvin made me nervous when he kept behaving weirdly while Sock's group was presenting. as usual, Hari told us "why are you so f---ing nervous? just anyhow whack la!". haha but what was actually more worrying was that i was damn high before our presentation! :D
i kind of screwed up q&a, as they all laughed at me when i answered the stupid question! but never mind!
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i am happy that pw is finally over. but somehow im missing those days when we rushed through WR together, the OP practice sessions and everything else. AC117 has gradually become something very familiar to me. if given a choice, i dont know if i would mind doing pw again! haha :D
Alvin told me the other day after OP when we [Hari, Alvin and me] were eating lunch together that it would be the last time he talked to us. and he also said there would be nothing to talk about after pw, since pw was our most frequently discussed topic, and we seemingly only talked about pw everytime. Hari also told me that he enjoyed working in the same group as me, but he was more than happy that he didnt have to anymore! haha isnt it saddening? argh x(
anyways, i'd want to thank all three of you for the past months. although we really sucked, we made it through as a group! you all love AC117, dont you? and dont you all agree that Laurie Baker rocks? yes, he obviously does! haha hope we'll manage to get Cs for pw! haha :D
[AC117 secretary]
