Thursday, September 30, 2004

Random Test



o_O What do YOU guys think? Except Michael because it'll be inaccurate.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Random Thoughts

First Sam Chan (Brother of Russell) gets infected with lymphoma.
Then Darrell whacks himself in the nape.
Then there's this rumour going around that there's something wrong with the small swimming pool as Group C of Fabriz's class is down with fever.

Geez, ACS is getting bad feng shui these days.

Oh well, at least people are helping Russell and Darrell. Nice fellas. I woulda helped Russell if I could fold paper stars, but oh well.

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Bible study was absolutely weird. Michael went there, and that made all the difference. Michael Wee has the ability to change every single normal thing wrong some way or another. First the piano, then Superstar (Which is deabatable), then Catholics. Oh well, blame his passion. Mike's too similar to me in some ways; he may very well be a reflection of me.

There was Mike, defending every single accusation by Mr. Johnaton Ng against the Catholics. Both have their valid points, but I think I'll side with Mr. Johnaton Ng on this one for now. I am after all rather biased against the Catholics, especially regarding the Sacrements (Which IIRC is another coined term by the Catholics, like the Baptism of Desire. Meh, even if wrong, don't correct me. I live in my world, you live in yours. Sucks to you if my world doesn't like you.). Meh, going into ramblings now.

So, Mike decided to go after school to the CF Room to look for Mr. Johnaton Ng. Now he has a letter 6 pages long addressed to Mr. Johnaton Ng. I concur with Demel. it's just too long. (I hope you all know who Demel is. If you don't, sucks to you. If you know, don't tell anyone else. He wanted us to keep his identity.)

Anyway, the next bible study will be very interesting. I just hope the insensitive 4 mainstreamers won't be around. They ruined the mood. And Michael did seem to have a rush of emotions then. Dunno why, but I sensed pretty strong energy from him. Oh well, I guess I'm not good at these kinda stuff. I found it interesting how his hands were always trembling, and raised so suddenly. It's passion.

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Some food for thought:

Now, the moment people reach 13 (Note: 13 the unlucky number), everyone goes all vulgar, hip, cool and stuff. Now many watch porn, many act all vulgar, many think that socks above 5cm are gay, etc. Is this a natural change? Wait, is that even possible? Guess so. I find it hard to adapt to such a world where everyone has changed and I'm one of the few left on the counter. Yu Min? Went vulgar. Gid? Went semi-vulgar and semi-punk. Jarrel? Immune to changes. (Well, maybe he did, but that's not the point.) Isaac? Went perverted. Kevin? Went perverted. Me? I dunno.

I find it interesting that what used to be something people thought as taboo is now part and parcel of life. Surely teenager life is not like that. Oh well, I'll stay at the checkout counter for a while more.

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Meh. I only got 30 1/2 for my Jap Test. Sheryl got 34, ZQ got 39 1/2, and Gideon refuses to tell me his marks. He only told me he got lower than me, and Sheryl said that I beat him by a bit, so I'm assuming 28-30. Then again, Sheryl doesn't know, so I'm assuming he got less than 25. Argh, my test is really bad compared to my usual tests. Which are 40-42/50, which is alot better than 30.5/40. Meh....

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Thursday, September 09, 2004

ACS Prefect's Camp

ACS Prefect's camp was tough, but Kev, Nev, Gov, Dan, Isa, Jos, Hen, Rus and I made it through! Along with 70 other mainstream people who were nice people.

The council (A sec 4 Group. Leader is Clarence Hui) was extremely tough, but the entire council only came around two times: Once for soccer and once to teach us the need for unity in the form of a "game".

The Trans-Council (A sec 3 group. I don't know who's the leader.) was just as tough, and they were with us for the most of it. They led us in cheering for all the sessions, making it very serious. They turn out to be very nice people during Vespers, but that's because it's Vespers: Worshipping God. They went from shouting about how horrendous we were (Day 1) to how we need to maintain our standard (Day 3). Nice chage, if you ask me.

Sec 2 Prefects were very nice to us, dunno why. Maybe because they're our evaluators.

Mr. Ivan Sim led us partially for the cheering sessions on the 2nd and 3rd day, after we were all beaten up and pumping-positioned alot. He sure knew how to make cheering fun, because our standards of cheering suddenly shot up. Also, he does corporal punishment and is a really fun person to be with.

Anyway, on with what happened during the camp, and not just the people.

Day 1: Entered camp, and went to clean classroom which we were sleeping in. After that, went for Chinese Supplementary Lessons until 12 while other Prefectees were in pumping position. Joined 1/2way through cheering to go pushups.

After that, ate lunch and went for team building games *Tiring but fun*. Then, went for cheering session no.2 with Ex-PB (Prefectorial Board) members Instructor Haikel and Instructor Toh. Instructor Haikel has a weird sense of humour and takes 'Knock it down' in a trigger-happy manner. Ended after lots of 'Knock it down's.

After cheering, we headed for dinner. Proceeded for vespers *Really fun and relaxing* and went for night games no.1 *Water guns, SERIOUSLY disorganized*. Proceeded to sleep at 12 after eating a Chinese Herbal Cough Drop or whatever you call it, Thanks to the nice fella who gave some around the people sleeping in 4.10 Samuel.

Day 2: Woke up at 6 and went for PT *Physical Training* at 7. Rhythm Run and Cheering at the same time? Way too tough. We ended up with lots of scoldings, lots of push-up positions and lots of squats. Breakfast was really good, considering how much we longed for it while in pushup position. After that was a talk with the council *Not trans-council* and we had a game.

The game: Everyone was in a line -------------------- and in pushup position. Three people at the end of the line ran to the IAN *Start of the line was at the bus bay* and back to the start of the line into pushup position. After people ran off, we moved while in pushup position *IOW no recovery* to the end of the line to make space at the start. In the end, the entire game took 11 1/2 minutes total.

Cheering session again, so tough. My voice would've been completely gone if not for that Chinese Herbal Cough Drop and lots of water. I suddenly appreciate water coolers alot. Lunch was pretty nice, after cheering. Then again, it's after cheering, so it SHOULD be nice. After that was a soccer game for 3 hours. Council Member Russell (Or Instructor Russell) came in halfway and made everyone go into pushup position for not cheering well. And that was in the middle of my group's game against Henry's group. Highlights were the game between the Prefectee's 7 best and the Council. After that, went for Cheering session no.2 with Mr. Ivan Sim. Was fun, especially during the 36-in-a-row cheers between the middle staircase (Echo) and the flagpoles (Call) at the ampitheatre. The trans-council commended our determination and courage. Then, DINNER!!! ^_^

After Dinner, we had another vespers, and the 2nd night games. We were supposed to get clues from prefects by guessing whether they were predators or aliens (The theme of the 2nd nightgames was AvP and The Village.), then finding the locations stated in the clue to get lightsticks. After that, find the key-holder, trade the lightsticks for the key, and find a door and win the game. Mr.Francis Soo went around being the chocolate-bearer who gave chocolates to people who could answer this riddle of his.

If we guessed wrongly whether the prefects were aliens or predators, we had to do a forfeit. The forfeits were weird, from listening to a story and answering a question, all while in pushup position; to singing songs for 2 minutes to entertain prefects (I ended up being a sheep for the song Baa Baa Black Sheep), and running around at random. Ended up my group got 2 lightsticks out of a total of 10, with the highest group (Group 10) getting 5. We had 5 clues in total, and I'm not sure how many clues Group 10 got. Oh well. Headed for sleep after taking Strepsils (I love Group 8, and it's not just because I'm in Group 8. It's because of Chinese Herbal Cough Drops and Strepsils. XD)

3rd Day: Woke up for PT, but my legs were in too much pain so I had to sit out of it. The prefectees were doing things like run-cheers (People in Side A and Side B. Some people run to side B to cheer, then some people run to side A to cheer. Rinse and Repeat.). Then they did some slow running, and quite some pushups. We cheered with them, but I doubt they could hear us. After PT was breakfast (I felt bad because I didn't take part in PT, so it was a guilty breakfast kinda.) . We ate fries and sausages, the best breakfast ever during camp (Then again, there's only one other breakfast we ate during camp, so it doesn't say alot.).

After that B-R-E-A-K
Went to the T-R-A-C-K
Gonna cheer at the track, get our voices hoarse,
Else get pumping all the more.

*Ahem.*

At the track, I saw Jun Yi while we were cheering. We did so horrendously that the Trans-Council walked away in disappointment. Instructor Toh and Instructor Russell took over and gave us 5 minutes to discuss how to cheer better. After that, we tried gradual distance cheering (Get slightly further with each cheer), starting from the center of the rugby field, and we eventually screwed up when everyone was at the 4 corners of the rugby field. Instructor Haikel made us go into pumping position. After a while more of trying to cheer from the 4 corners, Instructor Haikel and Instructor Toh had to leave and decided to end their prefect camp helping with a Yam-Seng.

The Trans-Council came back while we were Yam-Senging and told us to go to the ampitheatre, since we did our 36 cheers there. There, two other JC Ex-PB members took over. We split up into our groups, went around parts of the school and cheered from there. The furthest group from us *Basement area directly below 1.13/1.14 staircase* was at the Green Level Central Staircase *Where the elevator is*. We cheered hard but it was not satisfactory to the Instructors. So, Mr. Ivan Sim took over. After lots of cheering and a few water parades, we ended by cheering Fight! 8 times and Thunderation 16 times. It was truly fun (:

Then, we ate lunch, the best we ever had during the camp (There's 3 lunches this time, so it says a bit more.). This was the only time I wanted seconds XD. After that, we had debriefing at the Lecture Theater (Also where we had Vespers and Night Games Briefing). Group 10 was given the Award *It actually looks quite nice, except that the words were written by marker lol*. Besides that, Mr. Ivan Sim received the award. Big contrast, eh. An Instructor (I forgot his name) and Instructor Arthur decided to 'dedicate' a song to us. He snapped his fingers along with us while Instructor Arthur played the guitar. It went something like this (Definitely not the original version, as I can't remember the exact lyrics now.):

There was a boy. His name was Joe.
Joe. He had a stubbed toe.
He lived on a hill.
And he had a girl. Her name was Jill.
*Some other random stuff, ended up with the Instructors shouting HIT IT! THUNDERATION! and we cheered.*

Then we headed to the space frame to do 10 squats and shouted 'Hip Hip Hurray' for the prefects. Overall, tough but fun (:

"Without passion there is no life, without compassion there is no learning." some book Mr. Francis Soo read long ago.

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

ACS Cheers

ACS Cheers:

Wailo:
Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! X2
Everywhere we go! X2
People want to know/kay poh! X2
Who we are! X2
Where we come from! X2
So we tell them! X2
We come from ACS! X2
Mighty, mighty ACS! X2
One and only ACS! X2
Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! Wailo! X2

AC Kemak Kemak:
AC Kemak-mak! (Ole Ole Ah Ah!) X2
Shake it up! (Yeah!) x2
Eeeeeiba!

Chinese Cheer:
Ying Hua Ying Hua Di Yi Ming! X2
Ying Hua Ying Hua Yang Yang Xing! X2
Di Yi Ming! X2
Yang Yang Xing! X2
Ying Hua Ying Hua Moh Tak Ting! X2

AC Dynamite:
TNT! Dynamite! X3
Boom!
AC Dynamite, don’t mess with dynamite! *3 claps* X3
Boom!

Car Wash:
A! C! S~S!AC AC S~S!
North! South! East, West!
North, South, East, West, who’s the best?
AC, AC, it’s the best!
*11 claps* AC! X3

Brave and Bold:
You don’t know what you’ve been told! X2
ACS is brave and bold! X2
Fight our way until the top! X2
ACS will never stop! X2
For the best is yet to be! X2
We will win; just wait and see! X2
Sound of 1, 2!
Sound of 3, 4!
Break it up! 1, 2, 3, 4,
1, 2, AC!


Fight:
We’re gonna F-I-G-H-T!
We’re gonna S-C-O-R-E!
We’re gonna fight, score, and win today!
AC, AC, all the way! *repeat*

Thunderation:
Thunder!
Thunderation! We’re from ACS!
Dedication! When we fight with!
Determination! We create a!

Sensation!
*repeat*
TUHNDER!

ACS Will Rock You *Partially to the tune of We Will Rock You. SURPRISE!*
We will, we will, Rock you!
ACS will rock you!

ACS is walking down the street! X2
Left, right, left, right, to the beat! X2
We look cool and we look hip! X2
We've got a spirit that you can't beat! X2
Sound of! (One, two!)
Sound of! (Three, four!)
Break it up! One, two, three, four,
One, two, A, C! Because

We will, we will rock you!
ACS will rock you!!!

Wednesday, September 01, 2004

Teacher's day yesterday was really weird. Mr. Daniel Tan told us about what his blog was for (Public self and private self etc), which was really interesting, since I was the one who initiated that reaction in him (I told him about how some of our students knew about his blog, etc.).

Then, during Geography, part of it was used up for taking a look at the Atlas (Supplied by Jeremy. Kong) And we found out that 0 degrees longitude and 0 degrees latitude (0,0) is somewhere off the African Coast of Cameroon. o_O Talk about useless information.

During Literature, we were filming so as to try and give a gift to Mr.Singh and Mr.Daniel Tan (We love you! Agape way of course) so Kev, Shaun, Sammy & I sang Anti-ACS Songs. It was fun (:. Then we sang All Stars, and Joshua was complaining that we should have sung He (not she) will be loved, and sing about Gideon. Lol, Josh has a sense of humour.

Teacher's Day Celebrations was quite boring. The 118 Prize-giving session took up a whole 45 minutes, but it was really cool how Lee Hao Yi (if you don't know, he's Lee Hsien Loong's son) managed to raise 5k for his 118 card when the target was 1k, but that's beside the point. It's even more cool how parents have donated 600k to 118, and so our total went from 900k to 1.5 mil, when we wanted to raise 1.18 mil. Whee, go ACSI~ *Patriotism, unlike the songs below, though they are really funny too, but STRICTLY PARODIES!*

*Bleh, dislike RI, now Jotham calls himself a gay and Yu Min's ultra-vulgar. Dunno about Brandon and Chuan Yaw, but Nicky and ChanKY have no changes I see. Good for them (:*

Life's suddenly come to a standstill as a holiday comes around. With terrorism comes trouble, with trouble comes war, with war comes peace, with peace comes freedom, with freedom comes boredom, with boredom comes curiosity, with curiosity comes dead cats, with dead cats comes sadism, with sadism comes hate, with hate comes the dark side, with the dark side comes terrorism... o_O

Anti-ACS Songs

*By Kevin Low, Samuel Ng and Watashi*


You can take a little trip around ACS (I)With the ACS GE Class,
To see Dr.Ong and Tan See Keng,
The Senior Admin. And, all of us!

Because in ACS, ACS,
The walks are big and wide, you’ll find
Because in ACS, ACS,
You find 118 on all our minds.

Let’s go down the classroom side,
It’s an unforgettable sight,
To see the students all sleeping,
And the teachers - not too bright.

Because in ACS, ACS,
They even take the teacher’s cash
Because in ACS, ACS,
It’s Dr.Ong we want to bash.

Ooo~

The campus is rising
All the way to the sky,
And ACS is expanding
As 118 goes by.

Because in ACS, ACS,
Our pocket money’s less and less,
Because in ACS, ACS,
You’ll find 118 saps all our cash.

Because in ACS, ACS,
You’ll find our wallets big and wide,
Because in ACS, ACS,
With 118, you cannot hide.

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*By Kevin Low, Shaun Lee and Watashi*

Remember the days, we set out together to raise?
Remember the times, so fine, when we thought that
Nothing could stand in our way?

Then things weren't the same, the life that we knew had to change
We've struggled through the darkest Ongs
We thought we couldn't pay

Together we've tried, as we stood side by side
I knew we'd build a new school
A school of cash for ever after.

Deep in my bank I just know,
Right from the start, it will go.
Look where we are, we've paid our cards
And there's still a long, long way to go.

With all of my cards, I will spend
I'll pay my part, I will share
With teachers and friends, together we'll stand
And in the end, cash in hand
We will get them…

So now we begin, working together to win
Believing in cash, it must
Be possible to overprice anything.

There's so much to do, there's so much we must contribute
By sharing just a little cash
We will start again anew

So why don't we try? If we stand side by side
I know we'll build a new school
A school of cash forever after.

Deep in my bank I just know,
Right from the start, it will go.
Look where we are, we've paid our cards
And there's still a long, long way to go.

With all of my cards, I will share
I'll pay my part, I will share
With teachers and friends, together we'll stand
And in the end, cash in hand
We will get them…