The Year in Review: 2010 Part 1 - They call it Spring.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Uncle O' dropped by @10:41 PM
January 2010:1. Orientation X 2010 - 28th Jan 2010 to 5th Feb 2010
This could perhaps be one of most memorable event I've experienced in TJC. Being a facilitator, or an Orientation Group Leader (OGL) instead of an Orientation Group Member (OGM), how cool is that! This year's orientation is the longest throughout TJC's history and I believe it is the first time they allowed water games during orientation. Its nice to have taken part in those mass dances, games and stuff. Plus, the most awesome thing is that you don't play the game, the OGMs do. Haha I believe I have been rather slack as an OGL since I don't really have much responsibilities other than having to cheer at the Auditorium and helping those freshmen to bond. Oh, and my House's name during Orientation was X.ON and I was in OG4, which was selected to perform for the House during Orientation Night! Alright, as you can see, this event was like 11 months ago and with my 2GB mind, I don't think I'm able to recount that much you know. But overall, being an OGL was awesome and I'm happy to be able to contribute something to Delta House before leaving the school this year.
X.ON!
OG4 OGLs!
Babooscary!
With other OGLs
Mass Dance @ Suntec!
With other OGLs!
O'Night!
This event could be defined as an outreach to the community by TJC, where members of TJC help to raise donations through collection of newspapers, etc. Plus, this event was in conjunction with Orientation X 2010 but I wasn't selected to go with my OG but with my class, which was still fun! Let me recall, other than the 豆浆油条
(i.e. dough sticks with soya bean millk) that I ate together with Johan and Lee Ying, what we did was to go house-to-house and ask for recyclables. A portion of my classmates were not around given that they were members of the LEO Club, the so-called "reach club" as defined in other JCs, which organised Go Green Day. While I don't really remember having to do much work, overall, my only Go Green Day in TJC was well spent. =)
3. Friendship Week - 10th Feb 2010 to 19th Feb 2010The main feature of this event is mainly part of the very effort to bond the school community together, like what they always say. So yup, remember the Angels & Mortals game? Being an angel and a mortal, I gave an Hi-Chew to my mortal and I received a lollipop from my angel. There's actually nothing much to this game personally, perhaps it's just the thrill that it gives when you wonder who your angel is and when you act as a mysterious person who dropped from the sky or something. Haha.
4. Road Run And Chinese New Year Celebration 2010 - 12th Feb 2010Both events on a single day! My 1st CNY celebration in TJC was more or less cliche I guess but the nice thing was the Road Run! Actually, during P.E. lessons on Thursday afternoons weeks before the road run, we had to run the Road Run route, excluding the 1st 400m around the track. But oh gosh, on the actual Road Run, I didn't run as well as I did during those P.E. lessons. But its okay, at the very least, I managed to covered around 5km and I believe that's something that I can be proud of for an unfit person like me haha.
A BIG Thank You to the photographer! This is like awesome!
5. Term 1 Swimming Lessons for P.E.TJC has this tradition where J1s from non-sports PDPs have to attend compulsory swimming lessons for a term. However, something went wrong during my first year so I didn't manage to attend swimming lessons in year 1. Instead, I had swimming lessons for Term 1 in my second year. Sigh, I still cannot swim! Its like "argh" but oh well, it looks like I'm fated to be a non-swimmer. Nonetheless, swimming lessons were fun overall, as in having to travel to Bedok Swimming Complex instead of TJC (although it is still Bedok =.=) on Tuesday mornings, skipping those usual P.E runs, still reek of chlorine after P.E. and being able to buy food from outside for breakfast after swimming lessons when your other classmates have to buy the same old food from the school's cafeteria. These experiences are something that the general population from Team Temasek (i.e. the sportsmen and sportswomen from TJC) are unable to have.and lucky me, being able to savage each and every single moment.
March 2010
6. Release of A'level Results (Chinese) - 3rd March 2010And finally on the fateful day - 3/3/10, my 12 years of education in the Chinese language has completed. Chinese lessons over the past 12 years was fun I guess, While Chinese can be a pain in the neck sometimes, I would say that its been fun overall, being able to expose myself to writing argumentative and narratives for my national exams. I can tell you that both my argumentative essay during the O's and my narrative during the A's were perhaps the best Chinese essays (for each type of texts) I have ever written in my life. And I'm proud of it. =)
Plus, its been great to learn under each and every Chinese teacher I've meet in these 12 years, be it whether they taught well or they didn't and be it whether they were friendly, fierce, slack, or always smiling. And till today, I still do admire you teachers, because Chinese has never been an easy subject to teach. While I don't write much Chinese characters this year other than the craps between Zong Yang and I during class, I still do speak Chinese right here right now, since I come from a Chinese-speaking family. Ask me to write my Chinese name and it is still perfectly fine yo! Just one thing to note, my handwriting is ugly, for now, since I don't write much and I don't have to nowadays. All in all, like what Lian Ping told me some few months ago, no more Chinese FTW!
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