New SYF song 2013 coming up!!!

My life is going to be busier than ever again. Starting from next Monday, 16th April 2012, CO will be learning the NEW Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) song for 2013. This SYF is a competition for performing arts from the various schools in Singapore and it is held every 2 years eg. I did my SYF in Secondary 2 in 2011 and now        I will learning the new SYF song for 2013 when I will be secondary 4. So we will take about a year to fully grasp the tune and rhythm of the song as now I am secondary 3, coming to 15 years old this year! The song piece is called Ode to Peace The third movement: The Sorrow of the River 和平颂之第三乐章： 江怨. 

It sounds like a sad song to me so I have a feeling that it is a sad song. I hoped it is G major so that I can play it better as I am better in G major than the others like F major, C major, D major, etc. Anyway, I was suppose to start learning this new song on Monday but I have councillor meeting at 3.35pm and Chinese Oral Examination at 2pm on the Same Monday, 16th April 2012. So I was suppose to start learning it on the next practice after Monday, but I cannot go too as my class 3E2 and class 3E1 will be going to Mount Bintan to climb the mountain which is at Indonesia. So I will be going with my classmates and 3E1 people to Mount Bintan for Community Involvement Programme (CIP). We will go by ferry and bus. Yipee!!! I can't wait to start learning the new SYF song 2013 and to go Bintan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Student Investiture 2012

This Student Investture which was held on the 30th of March 2012 in the school hall was a very magnificient change to my secondary school life. As I am appointed to be the Head of Discipline (An EXCO) of the Council Board when I did not even go for the EXCO elections so other people think that the teachers were biased and I was a bootlicker but I did not even want this in the first place, I was just helping and greeting the teachers as a fellow student and as a councillor. Just because they don't help their teachers who are struggling to carry their books back to the staff room does not mean that I cannot help them. Just because they are so rude and not respectful to their teachers that they do not greet their teachers when they meet along the corridor in school does not mean that I cannot do so, I was doing this out of courtesy and respect. What do their parents teach them nowadays? Luckily, I have parents that teach me proper manners and I would not be a disgrace to them and to the country. They don't even have basic manners and can't even follow basic rules eg. Not suppose to alter skirts/pants (they did it), Not suppose to bring food & drinks to class (they did it), Not suppose to use handphone in class (they did it again).

Anyway, back to the main point, the student investiture is a event held every year to acknowledge the class leaders, cca leaders, councillors and to appoint the new Council Board batch. This year, 2012, I was given 2 batches, I was appointed the Head of Discipline (2 days before the actual event) and the Vice-President of Chinese Orchestra (CO). These were 2 very important positions that I will have to put my heart, body and soul in it. Although I cannot guarantee that I will be commited in this but I promise to try my best. This year as I am sec 3, I am also starting to prepare for the GCE 'O' levels Examination. So this means that I will be busy like crazy, you will never meet another more busy secondary small school girl that is so busy till I think I will cry, be stressed out and I think I will get scolded many times in the next few months for not handing in homework on time as I have bad time management and I will surely have no time as I will also have to plan camps for both the Council Board, my CCA- Chinese Orchestra so luckily the Mount Bintan trip came earlier in April 2012 so that I will have lesser things to thing about. I think my results will dropped drastically!!! That would be so pathetic and I would freaked out and stressed out more.. sigh~~ I am happy that I am so lucky and that I was given this 2 heavy responsibilty positions but maybe I feel that this is too much. Hoped that I get through this year so that next year, 2013, I will be less busy as I would badge the next set of Council Board members [The New 2013 EXCOs] and relieve my duties of being a EXCO and a councillor.

Advanced Elective Module (AEM)

Advanced Elective Module [AEM]


Adventure Experimental Programme:Planning Outdoor Experimental Programmes 
 This was an 5 day course during the March Holidays and was held at Republic Polytechnic (RP) for straight 5 days- Monday to Friday, 8.30am - 5.30pm. (Like working hours~). There was only about 20 students who could participate in this course, and it is such an expensive course. I paid $75 using edusave account and luckily MOE subsides from $400 to $75. There was councillors and Outdoor Activities Club (OAC) members in this course and thankfully, we knew each other from Sec 1, starting from the year 2010. People in AEM: Me, Addison, Trevor, Yi Chien, Sonya, Joyce, Tessa, Kamilla, Rebecca Thng, Rebecca Chua, Daniel Yap, Madelyn (Drama Club person, neither a councillor or an OAC member, Don't know how she managed to be in this course), Shahidah and many others.....

I still remember on the first day, there was this lecturer (teacher) named Mr Andrew, he asked us to self-intro - Say 3 things about yourself but one thing must be a lie and this was to test how much your friends know about you. I said that I like orange, I like my CCA and I like Addison (My classmate in school). The lie was obviously the 'I like Addison' part. But all of them were like laughing and thinking that it was true and that I was making a confession..., Addison was blushing and his face was as red as a cherry.

Anyway, this course was to teach us on how to plan outdoor camps well so as to allow students to learn something from it and Mr Andrew also taught us how to facilitate a game, did tests everyday on the last 30 minutes of the lesson, how to do a good lesson plan for the games that we were facilitating so that the students will be focus, learn something from it, be safe and have fun instead of boredom. I chose the game Blow Wind Blow but I modified it. So instead of one person moving around, they have to get a partner then the other games rules are still the same. And they will then learn about Teamwork, Cooperation & Observant.

AEM, this course made me gain 2 Kilograms(Kg), as there will at least 4 breaks and every break, there will be delicious and mouth-watering food to eat. I ate alot and the drinks were all the same everyday, it was Lemon Barley. I am now 29 Kilograms but still severely underweight. The school suddenly said one day that they wanted to help the underweight and severely underweight people to be healthy so they introduced a program that will make 80 students in the school to be healthy by making them eat cereal, egg, milk powder and one packet of milo. I hoped that I am not in this course but when I told my mother about it, she said she would sponsor this program if I am not in this program as she wants me to eat more... I eat alot already...

Anyway, I love this 5 day course that was Tiring and exhausting but it was Very Fun as we get to play a lot of games and I think the activity that I like most is the Tunnel Cave. The Tunnel Cave is made up of 6 containers with the installed Cave-like look in it. It is totally pitch dark in there and you can't even see your own friends or fingers. I was so scared and desperate that I begged and pleaded Mr Andrew to give the group a lightstick then when he came with it, he turned his head and talked to someone else but was still holding the lightstick. I took the lightstick in a desperate moment and I knew I was rude, he said I was rude but I was scared, terrified and Desperate. It was my first time in that cave, first time in such a pitch dark corner with holes in it that I 'know whether I will fall and drop inside anytime, first time I was so desperate for a LightStick. You know what they say "Desperate moments cause for desperate measures". But after I finished the activity with my group members that we took about 30 minutes, I was happy that I took a step forward to overcome my fear instead of pulling out, and although no one knew that I was scared as I was acting brave and not showing my fear, I am proud of myself. I learned a lot of things from this camp and I know that I will surely put all these things that I learnt from AEM into good use for my CCA as I am now the Vice-President of Chinese Orchestra (CO). Amazing, right? I can't believe too when my teacher announced it.