This is my story of my first half of my upper secondary life... I'll try to be as honest as possible. Or should I say, 'ATTEMPT to include as many private parts as possible'...

PART ONE

Long pants. The sign of professionalism and absence of carefree fun.

It was probably time to emulate the true Gentleman, Professional and Sportsman. With my success of becoming a Redshirt (promoted Junior Leader) from the school leadership camp, VELOCI-T, I was ready and confident to tackle the challenges of upper secondary; my previous password to Facebook was 'veloci-tchangedmylife:)'. Well on my way to meet the Vision of the school: the ideal Victorian.

We (i.e. most of the Redshirts) did not start off upper sec like how the rest did; we were busy helping out at the Sec 1 Orientation camp. I wasn't supposed to be there (really, my leadership skills were not good back then), but since Jing Wen (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011) had a volleyball competition to train for, I replaced him in the camp to be in charge of Class 1C, my PSL class, alongside Bryan Ong (VS 2I 2009, 4D 2011). It was hard to forget the times I spent there. I never knew I could lead a class so easily. Or maybe it was their ability to bond together quickly... I remember on the first night of the camp they started to call me unusual, totally irrelevant names. Thank goodness I forgot what they called me. At least they still had the decency to still address me as 'PSL' most of the time. But there was one thing, though. They were always moving so slowly from one place to another!

Being able to lead a PSL class was a confidence booster for me, and I was determined to lead this AVERAGE class along with Bryan, Jing Wen and Hariz to the best of our abilities over the next two years.

And so I thought.

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And so finally I started off in the 9-subject combination class of 3D, on the 4th day of school, with me and Bryan Ong as the only two from our Sec 2 class, 2I. Yeah, Bryan again! But Bryan fell ill the next day and so I was the only one from my lower secondary class in this new smart class. Not that it actually mattered much to me:

On the 4th day of school, I stepped into the classroom through the back door and found a new classmate seated at the back of the class. For some reason, we could tell that we just returned to school from the Sec 1 Orientation Camp, and started a conversation as soon as we noticed each other. So this is the Isaac Chia people were talking about. 6th in level in Sec 2. Ah good, I have a smart person to sit with in class, I thought. Someone to compete with.

Soon enough, this familiar looking, boisterous guy entered the class and I recognised him at once. Pritesh. Expectedly, he started making the most amount of noise in the classroom. Talking to people around him, talking with himself, laughing at others, laughing at his own jokes... Yup, I remember MY first day of school alright. Soon, since Pritesh was seated close to us, still noisy, and there were more of our classmates entering the classroom, Isaac and I decided to move around the class to get to know more peeps. Not just to prevent ourselves from feeling left out, but to socialise and feel comfortable. But since most of the class was from 2 top classes of the previous year, 2A and 2D (Isaac from 2D), I had much 'social work' to do.

And so I thought.

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Melvin Chua is, still, by far, the most random person I have met on Facebook and the closest random person I got to know in my secondary school life. It all started off with him commenting and 'arguing' a lot on Athanasius' status updates and me doing the same. Coincidentally, but not directly, the comments merged to go against Athanasius' and so I went to add him as a friend on Facebook. And naturally there came this thing about wanting to know each other more, doing so by continually going against AK :P Here's one example:

That was an introduction. And it had it's purpose, for I found him in my class. And it was odd to begin with though, after much communication online and very minimal face-to-face communication. But given our previous background and the current situation, I found myself having to chat with this 2A dude a lot to not feel like an outsider while I increased my social circle in the class. As I got to know more people in the class, and having gotten to know Melvin better, I was satisfied with the way things were.

And so I thought.

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Before I forget to mention, there was one group that enabled me to blend into the 3D scene well. Our co-form teacher, Mdm Ow, put us into groups and called them 'English groups'. Yeah what a name. Since we Sec 1 Camp people (Dev, Bryan, Isaac and I) were the last to be put into groups, we were 'thrown' into the remaining groups with vacancies. I was quick to know my fellow group members (Shabab, Melvin Ng, Nicholas (Lee), Nicholas (Yuen) {During that introductory period I only knew them as the two Nicholases and me would be the eventual third}, Vietnamese scholar Loi... that's about it). I recall Nicholas Lee calling me what, 'Beyonce voice', after I was called up to present and was awarded 'extra points' for having a 'nice-sounding' voice with my opening sentence? Oh the memories... I was a major contributing team player then, and I would say openly that by the end of Sec 4, I was merely someone giving support to the them. Yeah, I became a mugger. AGAIN.

Alright back to the point. No digressing. (Oh right, Mdm Ow says that during each of her lessons!) And so our first main 'project' was to contribute to the class. We chose the quick way out, which was to create a Class Blog. And so the group placed Nicholas (Yuen) and I to man the blog and include updates of homework, announcements and whatnot. Little did we know that by the end of February, the blog would be very dead. I don't know what made me not do my best to save the blog from drowning with Nicholas, but I guess Nicholas was too busy with his NPCC Campcraft Competition training and me with BB. And trying to figure out why the heck I was struggling with my academics so soon! So here's what he posted on the now-already-dead 3D'10 Facebook Class Group:

And I'm sure you'd want to see what he posted ABOUT the now-already-dead 3D'10 Facebook Class Group xD:

That first image you see there signified that our two-month long teamwork on this 'project' has come to end. We were to busy with our own busy-ness. If only I could get to see that class blog again!

Little did I know that it was only the beginning of a great friendship...

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The Class of 1C was crazy! The moment I stepped into the classroom for our first PSL session in the classroom, they started chanting the nickname I made for me for no apparent reason, and clapping and screaming as if I was some idol or something. So I decided to let them down, and chose to ignore them. Just not continue with the lesson until Bryan, Jing Wen or Hariz arrived, since I was the first PSL there.

It was amazing to see them just change from a quiet, soft-spoken group of people to a noisy class of Victorians in just one week. Not gentlemanly Victorians. It was a tough time to get them to quiet down and SHUT UP AND LISTEN, and I'm glad Bryan was able to captivate the class with his spooky stories that would make them go 'woo...' and 'woah...'. Jing Wen was good in making important information known to the ENTIRE class, and I was fine in pushing the progress of the lesson forward. And Hariz was... well, the best person to move around the class and tell people to not do their homework... and... SHUT UP AND LISTEN! :D

This class eventually became the top class for CA1. Here's their acknowledgement:

I've got to thank VELOCI-T once again. With the leadership skills and knowledge I've acquired, I have actually seen myself getting more and more comfortable with my peers, especially my new classmates. In a week, I already knew all my classmates! Despite the fact that many of them seemed to congregate in their cliques.

One significant one was the jokers. Led by the all-famous Pritesh Armani, laughing all the time! Then another clique was named by Mr KKY as The Smurfs. Which was odd because most of them looked 'smurfy' but did not act 'smurfy'. They were not popular in class but talked a lot to one another, and were from 2A. The other 2A peeps were later known as the Soccer Dudes. And I was comfortably seated in the group known as 'The Rest'.

Well this success was also partly due to the fact that I used Facebook much, and to a very suitable extent. Communicating with them, the online style. Time management was on the problem then, not to worry, though yeah, I didn't have much time. Then something on Facebook hinted to me that I was using it too much. It seemed to tell me that I am a Facebook addict:

By Mid-March, Melvin thought that I was stalking him, and he informed me in a way that made himself look big. As if he liked the attention he was getting from people and yet bragging about it. And I was 'oh c'mon are you that childish to jump to conclusions like that?' And of course, that made our friendship weaker. We were awesome friends, we were. Then again, looking back at it, I was quite not-so-mature as well.

Little did I know that the worsening did not just stop right there...

Stayed tuned for part 2.

Labels: Nostalgia, School

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"Here are my Top 50 Most Played Songs from May to December 2011.
This is the most odd-looking Top Played Playlist I’ve ever seen:
Notice how high the frequency is of the songs from a particular artist…"

This was what I wrote for my 23rd post on my Tumblr blog. Yup, I recently made it just 2 days ago, and didn't take me long for me to get really used to blogging and reblogging on it.

Yeah I probably had nothing to do, since I can't walk for now.

In the 2 days, I got myself 21 notes (reblogs and likes, 4 of them for THIS post), found 14 people to follow, and gained ZERO FOLLOWERS. Haha mind the caps, I guess things like this just need a little patience. I'm blogging without much focus anyway...

My upper sec school life blog post will have to wait~ xD

Labels: Music, Relax, Short Updates

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Yeah, here I am, back here again after 684 days of busy-ness. Hope you like the new template design of the blog, I decided to add a bit more colour.

I'm afraid I would have to start off with a not-so-good incident that happened yesterday (Thursday). It was actually a last-minute arranged trip with my parents' friends (part of their tai-chi gang) to tour just some parts of Malaysia for just one day. The first stop was the Kota Tinggi Waterfall Resort, which enabled us to swim and relax around some fishes (many ugly ones who only wanted to take a bite at your feet) and rocks (large, slippery ones).

As I was leaving the natural pool of water, I stepped on a rock that seemed to not allow anyone to make contact with it from the top; you would slip and fall regardless of how carefully you stepped on that rock. Argh, algae... Suddenly, I felt a sharp, unusual pain in my left foot. Since my bum was rested nicely on that rock (I suppose the rock prefers by bum to my feet), I immediately lifted my left foot, only to notice a neat slice in my feet. A rock, did that? And what, I could open my feet up? And then,

Blood gushing out. Ok, something is terribly wrong. Instinctively, I closed that eerie gap and called for help. My dad bought along some tissue paper while his tai-chi teacher scrambled to find some leaves that could help. One of them searched for a plaster. Others just looked in a state of shock and confusion.

My brother, who was behind me, was obviously freaked out. Initially he simply said, 'Shit! That's an incision!' (wow he was using what he learnt in his First Aid Course from CCA) and later on, 'Oh I'm leaving, that's so much blood! Oh, oh...'. By now, I was ignoring all of that. At that point, telling myself to calm down and stop the bleeding was the most important thing on my mind.

Then came the tissue paper, leaves and plaster. We had a first aid team in our midst, wow. Soon I was being piggy-backed to the nearest first aid station by both my father and his tai-chi teacher. They unwillingly took turns actually, for my father was quite 'pai-seh' to rely on someone else while the highly-respected teacher was always willing to lend a helping hand to others. While I knew I was unable to walk for the next few days (I could hop, though), I seemed to enjoy their arguments to piggy-back me. A subtle smile emerged on my face.

So from then on, I had travel around my being carried or hopping around like a joke. Thankfully, the rest of the trip was quite enjoyable. I remember one of the aunties amongst us letting out a scream during dinner when a cat went between her legs. Twice. Later, lightning came right above us such that deafening thunder came at exactly the same time, which instantaneously caused the fruit stall we were visiting to black out in darkness. And did I forget to mention the same auntie letting out another scream when a dog walked towards her quickly. TWICE AGAIN. We were so amused...

On the way back to Singapore on a mini-tourbus, while I listened to music from my iPod nano, I realised that I had to cancel many of the activites that I had lined up for me. That meant not going for my awesome friend's, Nicholas Nanoduckie Yuen's, birthday party the next day (which is today, 16 Dec). That meant not going for the BB Share-a-Gift day that I was supposed to help out. That meant cancelling all the upcoming outings. That meant spending the rest of December in my room.

Well, at least that would also mean more blogging. Hopefully, entertaining, interesting stuff. I'm still thinking if I should start using Tumblr...

I just came back from a polyclinic not long ago (that surgical procedure was so damn painful), and here is evidence of my injured feet and myself in a wheelchair.

Oh wells. I guess it was meant to be. As always. Every single thing that happens to you (and doesn't happen to you) has a role to play in your life. A purpose: probably to find your life's purpose.

I shall attempt to summarise my upper secondary life in my next post. Stay tuned!

Labels: Holiday

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It has been one month. One month of change.

Made many new friends in my class. The class is quite adaptable although Bryan and I are the only two in the class from 2I.

I have banned my computer from Facebook for one week. Because I have been commenting on all my good friends' status updates. So much that one of them thinks I am stalking him. In fact, I seem to be stalking everyone on Facebook. Interfering with my school work.

Cannot allow that to happen. So would avoid Facebook for one week and Face by Books instead. Things will change. Positively or Negatively? We'll see...

Must concentrate more on my work.

I have been missing my full mark for Maths Tests for often than last year. Not something I like. Physics and Chemistry not scoring high enough. English debate and argumentative essay not performing exceptionally well. Haiz.

My expectations may be to high. But it helps me to concentrate. If not my results will drop, I'm not letting that happen.

I'm starting to become surprised that two of my friends actually know each other. But it's actually nothing to be surprised of. As both of them have went to the same class.

Lee Jiang is such a good friend. I can talk to him about practically anything without feeling awkward. Lol.

Anyway... Higher Chinese CA1 (Part 1) is coming up... in two days! oh no! I have to study for it. Have got 40 idioms to memorise, learning to write new Chinese characters, summarising long passages, comprehending essays... Should have done more of it during the holidays.

Never mind. I believe I would do well enough. Must aim for A1... although I'm not confident of getting it this time.

Can only use MSN to communicate now. No Facebook. It's only 1 week... it's survivable.

Back to studying... Goodbye. :D

Labels: School, Study

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From the last blog post until now, my life has underwent yet another major change.
I will post about the change when I have the time, most probably the next post.

Anyway only Bryan and I are in Sec. 3D. Yes... our class is quiet at first, because our class is made up of part of last year's 2A, part of last year's 2D, and smaller parts of every other class.

We just needed time to bond together. We did, but the only thing that we deprived of was the enthusiasm to answer questions every time the teacher posed one.

Will talk more in my next post.
Now I want to sleep.

Tomorrow I have something to train for again.
Something called Adventure Quest.
A competition in my CCA that involves the competitors physically and mentally.
Anyway the training for this is getting strenuous as the weeks progress, so I would want to sleep more, or suffer tomorrow. Lol.

Labels: Short Updates

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Was super late on Tuesday due to an unreasonable reason. Not gonna tell you, but I guess I was the last one that entered the school premises, as seen by the emptiness of the zebra crossing right in front of the school.

I should not be relying on my parents' car so much these days. Usually it seems to be them holding me back. Since three weeks ago, I have realised that I have not been talking to David much, then I noticed that I have been taking the same bus as him to school for a long long time. And David has been complaining about my increase in dependence.

Nervousness grew as I approached the classroom. To be more specific, the Higher Chinese paper. I was not sure if I could survive it, as it was Higher Chinese that killed me. Refer to this post I made previously: Down (Jay Sean song). The killer subject for me. Don't want to screw it up.

I managed to plan my time well and the paper was quite okay, not very difficult. But I hope I do well this time, I was unsure for a few comprehension questions.

I wasn't really enthusiastic when Mr Lee's voice "Alright class, you... are... dismissed!" marked the end of exams for the year. Half the class were shouting cheers that overpowered the Secondary Ones' cheers when they were dismissed thirty minutes earlier. Madness.

Wanted to eat something at school before going home, but since Daniel, Joshua, Lee Jiang, Yogesh, John were going to Changi Airport for either Swensen's or McDonald's, I decided to follow them. When we arrived, we went to Starbucks (if I'm not mistaken) first. As the drinks were expensive, I decided not to buy and waited for Joshua, Lee Jiang and Yogesh to finish their drinks. As usual, John struggles with someone and someone else attempts to take a picture.

We went to McDonald's instead of Swensens' later on. We waiting for noon to come by talking and playing portable consoles (I don't have one). John seemed to be anti-social, and his best friend at the time seemed to be his iPod and earphones. Soon all of us bought our meals and ate. John was trying to demonstrate his "profound" chinese speaking skills, but it sounded like a British accent. Lee Jiang and I then talked back at him with idioms and the correct tone. Explains why his oral was that bad.

While I was eating, I noticed two Secondary One students who happened to be from my CCA. I chatted with them for half a minute before heading to the MRT station along with the rest.

I wanted to go home and alight from Aljunied station, but since I had nothing to do at home, I followed Daniel to Funan IT Mall, only to realise that our presence at the mall served no purpose. So Daniel's parents came to fetch him while I went home taking buses 197 and 100.

I spent my time at home packing up my messy room. The exam period has transformed the neat and tidy room that I last packed a month ago into the state it is now. Below my bed lie many unneeded items that I always wanted to place somewhere else. It made my room look ugly. And the table is unsuitable for study, papers found everywhere.

While packing my room, I wanted to rest, so went to the attic to use my laptop. Ever since the attic was built, I was able to utilise a free wireless network, although it's slightly slow. Then I noticed the large unused space at a corner of the attic. I then decided to place all these items in the attic. Storage area.

Had a game of badminton for one hour with my father's ex-classmate's son whose age was about the same as mine. I thought that my badminton skills has already deteriorated as I have not played for... four months? Apparently not. I seemed to be improving instead. Both of us were equally good, only that I seemed to be breathing more heavily than him, probably because he made me run about the court and the soles of my shoes have worn out.

I remember two years ago that I could not last playing badminton for twenty minutes without a muscle cramp. This time, with efficient warm-ups and cool-downs, I managed to prevent muscle cramps from surfacing.

Had a late dinner at 10 p.m. before going of the internet for fun like making changes to this blog and facebooking until 12:00, when I remember AK calling me a "weirdo". Differing sleeping times...

I met up with Athanasius at Kovan station and Daniel at Potong Pasir (actually Daniel and I was supposed to meet AK on the train, but because of my "bo-liao" decision). Then we headed straight to Vivocity and caught up with Joshua, Yogesh, Lee Jiang, John and Dominic. To watch that movie called Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. We ate lunch at BK and Dinner at KFC. I remember Lunch at McDonald's yesterday... Man I've been eating too much fast food... Better stop.

Don't really want to list down the things we did there at Vivocity, but on the whole, all of us had fun. I did not get to study today because I was out from 10:45 to 08:30. And I wanted to update this dead blog. And revamp this blog. Time flew and I slept at 0100 hours the next day.

And the next day is today. I have that desire to start playing like how I did in the June Holidays. I think that I will not get addicted to play. Or in case I get addicted, I would have to go back to schedule planning...

Still, I'm gonna have to do some Secondary Three Elementary Mathematics and not slack off. Some New Perspective to life.

Labels: Relax

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The exams ended yesterday, but its a little late compared to other schools. Still, without the extension of a week to study, I might have scored worse. The disadvantage is that we have less time to relax. After spamming studies appropriately (hint: recall last year's failed spamming of studies), I am gonna relax for good during the last two weeks of the school year.

However, something that I cannot relax about is the exam results. I am satisfied with the performance of all the papers that I have taken, but something is bringing my hopes of attaining high marks down.

Or might it be someone?

Mr David Lee has a problem. I remember right before the History exam, he was in class, but as he still had a little time with us. So he went on to talk about the Mathematics results. "Do you know that I have marked your Maths Paper 1, and none of you have got a full mark," his loud voice got the attention of the class yet again.

I stared blankly into space before getting back to my senses. You think its so easy to score full marks? I thought to myself. The Anax of Awesome pretended to be surprised that even The Legacy did not do so and expressed his view with his voice.

Mr Lee heard it and asked if I actually wanted to score full marks, which he obviously knew that I wanted to do so. I nodded. And he goes on saying "you have some mistakes and, looking at the mistakes in the paper here and there, you can't score full marks any more," he continued to blabber. I managed a grin and maintained my composure.

The bell rang and he left. I was still thinking if I had heard him wrongly as my classmates went to put their bags outside the class. I eventually went out, only to get pissed again by Nathanael and Philip. Their laughter of me unable to score full marks made me slightly enraged.

I wanted to raise my voice in front of them, but I practiced tolerance and ignored them. If I continue thinking this way, can I do well for the History exam that is about to start? Come on, do well for History, forget your Maths paper. It's over.

Every one knows that it is really hard to score full marks for Elementary Maths in Upper Secondary. So I cannot attain a full mark for Maths forever I guess.

Maybe its Not Meant To Be.

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This is my story of my first half of my upper secondary life... I'll try to be as honest as possible. Or should I say, 'ATTEMPT to include as many private parts as possible'...

PART ONE

Long pants. The sign of professionalism and absence of carefree fun.

It was probably time to emulate the true Gentleman, Professional and Sportsman. With my success of becoming a Redshirt (promoted Junior Leader) from the school leadership camp, VELOCI-T, I was ready and confident to tackle the challenges of upper secondary; my previous password to Facebook was 'veloci-tchangedmylife:)'. Well on my way to meet the Vision of the school: the ideal Victorian.

We (i.e. most of the Redshirts) did not start off upper sec like how the rest did; we were busy helping out at the Sec 1 Orientation camp. I wasn't supposed to be there (really, my leadership skills were not good back then), but since Jing Wen (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011) had a volleyball competition to train for, I replaced him in the camp to be in charge of Class 1C, my PSL class, alongside Bryan Ong (VS 2I 2009, 4D 2011). It was hard to forget the times I spent there. I never knew I could lead a class so easily. Or maybe it was their ability to bond together quickly... I remember on the first night of the camp they started to call me unusual, totally irrelevant names. Thank goodness I forgot what they called me. At least they still had the decency to still address me as 'PSL' most of the time. But there was one thing, though. They were always moving so slowly from one place to another!

Being able to lead a PSL class was a confidence booster for me, and I was determined to lead this AVERAGE class along with Bryan, Jing Wen and Hariz to the best of our abilities over the next two years.

And so I thought.

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And so finally I started off in the 9-subject combination class of 3D, on the 4th day of school, with me and Bryan Ong as the only two from our Sec 2 class, 2I. Yeah, Bryan again! But Bryan fell ill the next day and so I was the only one from my lower secondary class in this new smart class. Not that it actually mattered much to me:

On the 4th day of school, I stepped into the classroom through the back door and found a new classmate seated at the back of the class. For some reason, we could tell that we just returned to school from the Sec 1 Orientation Camp, and started a conversation as soon as we noticed each other. So this is the Isaac Chia people were talking about. 6th in level in Sec 2. Ah good, I have a smart person to sit with in class, I thought. Someone to compete with.

Soon enough, this familiar looking, boisterous guy entered the class and I recognised him at once. Pritesh. Expectedly, he started making the most amount of noise in the classroom. Talking to people around him, talking with himself, laughing at others, laughing at his own jokes... Yup, I remember MY first day of school alright. Soon, since Pritesh was seated close to us, still noisy, and there were more of our classmates entering the classroom, Isaac and I decided to move around the class to get to know more peeps. Not just to prevent ourselves from feeling left out, but to socialise and feel comfortable. But since most of the class was from 2 top classes of the previous year, 2A and 2D (Isaac from 2D), I had much 'social work' to do.

And so I thought.

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Melvin Chua is, still, by far, the most random person I have met on Facebook and the closest random person I got to know in my secondary school life. It all started off with him commenting and 'arguing' a lot on Athanasius' status updates and me doing the same. Coincidentally, but not directly, the comments merged to go against Athanasius' and so I went to add him as a friend on Facebook. And naturally there came this thing about wanting to know each other more, doing so by continually going against AK :P Here's one example:

That was an introduction. And it had it's purpose, for I found him in my class. And it was odd to begin with though, after much communication online and very minimal face-to-face communication. But given our previous background and the current situation, I found myself having to chat with this 2A dude a lot to not feel like an outsider while I increased my social circle in the class. As I got to know more people in the class, and having gotten to know Melvin better, I was satisfied with the way things were.

And so I thought.

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Before I forget to mention, there was one group that enabled me to blend into the 3D scene well. Our co-form teacher, Mdm Ow, put us into groups and called them 'English groups'. Yeah what a name. Since we Sec 1 Camp people (Dev, Bryan, Isaac and I) were the last to be put into groups, we were 'thrown' into the remaining groups with vacancies. I was quick to know my fellow group members (Shabab, Melvin Ng, Nicholas (Lee), Nicholas (Yuen) {During that introductory period I only knew them as the two Nicholases and me would be the eventual third}, Vietnamese scholar Loi... that's about it). I recall Nicholas Lee calling me what, 'Beyonce voice', after I was called up to present and was awarded 'extra points' for having a 'nice-sounding' voice with my opening sentence? Oh the memories... I was a major contributing team player then, and I would say openly that by the end of Sec 4, I was merely someone giving support to the them. Yeah, I became a mugger. AGAIN.

Alright back to the point. No digressing. (Oh right, Mdm Ow says that during each of her lessons!) And so our first main 'project' was to contribute to the class. We chose the quick way out, which was to create a Class Blog. And so the group placed Nicholas (Yuen) and I to man the blog and include updates of homework, announcements and whatnot. Little did we know that by the end of February, the blog would be very dead. I don't know what made me not do my best to save the blog from drowning with Nicholas, but I guess Nicholas was too busy with his NPCC Campcraft Competition training and me with BB. And trying to figure out why the heck I was struggling with my academics so soon! So here's what he posted on the now-already-dead 3D'10 Facebook Class Group:

And I'm sure you'd want to see what he posted ABOUT the now-already-dead 3D'10 Facebook Class Group xD:

That first image you see there signified that our two-month long teamwork on this 'project' has come to end. We were to busy with our own busy-ness. If only I could get to see that class blog again!

Little did I know that it was only the beginning of a great friendship...

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The Class of 1C was crazy! The moment I stepped into the classroom for our first PSL session in the classroom, they started chanting the nickname I made for me for no apparent reason, and clapping and screaming as if I was some idol or something. So I decided to let them down, and chose to ignore them. Just not continue with the lesson until Bryan, Jing Wen or Hariz arrived, since I was the first PSL there.

It was amazing to see them just change from a quiet, soft-spoken group of people to a noisy class of Victorians in just one week. Not gentlemanly Victorians. It was a tough time to get them to quiet down and SHUT UP AND LISTEN, and I'm glad Bryan was able to captivate the class with his spooky stories that would make them go 'woo...' and 'woah...'. Jing Wen was good in making important information known to the ENTIRE class, and I was fine in pushing the progress of the lesson forward. And Hariz was... well, the best person to move around the class and tell people to not do their homework... and... SHUT UP AND LISTEN! :D

This class eventually became the top class for CA1. Here's their acknowledgement:

I've got to thank VELOCI-T once again. With the leadership skills and knowledge I've acquired, I have actually seen myself getting more and more comfortable with my peers, especially my new classmates. In a week, I already knew all my classmates! Despite the fact that many of them seemed to congregate in their cliques.

One significant one was the jokers. Led by the all-famous Pritesh Armani, laughing all the time! Then another clique was named by Mr KKY as The Smurfs. Which was odd because most of them looked 'smurfy' but did not act 'smurfy'. They were not popular in class but talked a lot to one another, and were from 2A. The other 2A peeps were later known as the Soccer Dudes. And I was comfortably seated in the group known as 'The Rest'.

Well this success was also partly due to the fact that I used Facebook much, and to a very suitable extent. Communicating with them, the online style. Time management was on the problem then, not to worry, though yeah, I didn't have much time. Then something on Facebook hinted to me that I was using it too much. It seemed to tell me that I am a Facebook addict:

By Mid-March, Melvin thought that I was stalking him, and he informed me in a way that made himself look big. As if he liked the attention he was getting from people and yet bragging about it. And I was 'oh c'mon are you that childish to jump to conclusions like that?' And of course, that made our friendship weaker. We were awesome friends, we were. Then again, looking back at it, I was quite not-so-mature as well.

Little did I know that the worsening did not just stop right there...

Stayed tuned for part 2.

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"Here are my Top 50 Most Played Songs from May to December 2011.
This is the most odd-looking Top Played Playlist I’ve ever seen:
Notice how high the frequency is of the songs from a particular artist…"

This was what I wrote for my 23rd post on my Tumblr blog. Yup, I recently made it just 2 days ago, and didn't take me long for me to get really used to blogging and reblogging on it.

Yeah I probably had nothing to do, since I can't walk for now.

In the 2 days, I got myself 21 notes (reblogs and likes, 4 of them for THIS post), found 14 people to follow, and gained ZERO FOLLOWERS. Haha mind the caps, I guess things like this just need a little patience. I'm blogging without much focus anyway...

My upper sec school life blog post will have to wait~ xD

Labels: Music, Relax, Short Updates

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Yeah, here I am, back here again after 684 days of busy-ness. Hope you like the new template design of the blog, I decided to add a bit more colour.

I'm afraid I would have to start off with a not-so-good incident that happened yesterday (Thursday). It was actually a last-minute arranged trip with my parents' friends (part of their tai-chi gang) to tour just some parts of Malaysia for just one day. The first stop was the Kota Tinggi Waterfall Resort, which enabled us to swim and relax around some fishes (many ugly ones who only wanted to take a bite at your feet) and rocks (large, slippery ones).

As I was leaving the natural pool of water, I stepped on a rock that seemed to not allow anyone to make contact with it from the top; you would slip and fall regardless of how carefully you stepped on that rock. Argh, algae... Suddenly, I felt a sharp, unusual pain in my left foot. Since my bum was rested nicely on that rock (I suppose the rock prefers by bum to my feet), I immediately lifted my left foot, only to notice a neat slice in my feet. A rock, did that? And what, I could open my feet up? And then,

Blood gushing out. Ok, something is terribly wrong. Instinctively, I closed that eerie gap and called for help. My dad bought along some tissue paper while his tai-chi teacher scrambled to find some leaves that could help. One of them searched for a plaster. Others just looked in a state of shock and confusion.

My brother, who was behind me, was obviously freaked out. Initially he simply said, 'Shit! That's an incision!' (wow he was using what he learnt in his First Aid Course from CCA) and later on, 'Oh I'm leaving, that's so much blood! Oh, oh...'. By now, I was ignoring all of that. At that point, telling myself to calm down and stop the bleeding was the most important thing on my mind.

Then came the tissue paper, leaves and plaster. We had a first aid team in our midst, wow. Soon I was being piggy-backed to the nearest first aid station by both my father and his tai-chi teacher. They unwillingly took turns actually, for my father was quite 'pai-seh' to rely on someone else while the highly-respected teacher was always willing to lend a helping hand to others. While I knew I was unable to walk for the next few days (I could hop, though), I seemed to enjoy their arguments to piggy-back me. A subtle smile emerged on my face.

So from then on, I had travel around my being carried or hopping around like a joke. Thankfully, the rest of the trip was quite enjoyable. I remember one of the aunties amongst us letting out a scream during dinner when a cat went between her legs. Twice. Later, lightning came right above us such that deafening thunder came at exactly the same time, which instantaneously caused the fruit stall we were visiting to black out in darkness. And did I forget to mention the same auntie letting out another scream when a dog walked towards her quickly. TWICE AGAIN. We were so amused...

On the way back to Singapore on a mini-tourbus, while I listened to music from my iPod nano, I realised that I had to cancel many of the activites that I had lined up for me. That meant not going for my awesome friend's, Nicholas Nanoduckie Yuen's, birthday party the next day (which is today, 16 Dec). That meant not going for the BB Share-a-Gift day that I was supposed to help out. That meant cancelling all the upcoming outings. That meant spending the rest of December in my room.

Well, at least that would also mean more blogging. Hopefully, entertaining, interesting stuff. I'm still thinking if I should start using Tumblr...

I just came back from a polyclinic not long ago (that surgical procedure was so damn painful), and here is evidence of my injured feet and myself in a wheelchair.

Oh wells. I guess it was meant to be. As always. Every single thing that happens to you (and doesn't happen to you) has a role to play in your life. A purpose: probably to find your life's purpose.

I shall attempt to summarise my upper secondary life in my next post. Stay tuned!

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It has been one month. One month of change.

Made many new friends in my class. The class is quite adaptable although Bryan and I are the only two in the class from 2I.

I have banned my computer from Facebook for one week. Because I have been commenting on all my good friends' status updates. So much that one of them thinks I am stalking him. In fact, I seem to be stalking everyone on Facebook. Interfering with my school work.

Cannot allow that to happen. So would avoid Facebook for one week and Face by Books instead. Things will change. Positively or Negatively? We'll see...

Must concentrate more on my work.

I have been missing my full mark for Maths Tests for often than last year. Not something I like. Physics and Chemistry not scoring high enough. English debate and argumentative essay not performing exceptionally well. Haiz.

My expectations may be to high. But it helps me to concentrate. If not my results will drop, I'm not letting that happen.

I'm starting to become surprised that two of my friends actually know each other. But it's actually nothing to be surprised of. As both of them have went to the same class.

Lee Jiang is such a good friend. I can talk to him about practically anything without feeling awkward. Lol.

Anyway... Higher Chinese CA1 (Part 1) is coming up... in two days! oh no! I have to study for it. Have got 40 idioms to memorise, learning to write new Chinese characters, summarising long passages, comprehending essays... Should have done more of it during the holidays.

Never mind. I believe I would do well enough. Must aim for A1... although I'm not confident of getting it this time.

Can only use MSN to communicate now. No Facebook. It's only 1 week... it's survivable.

Back to studying... Goodbye. :D

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From the last blog post until now, my life has underwent yet another major change.
I will post about the change when I have the time, most probably the next post.

Anyway only Bryan and I are in Sec. 3D. Yes... our class is quiet at first, because our class is made up of part of last year's 2A, part of last year's 2D, and smaller parts of every other class.

We just needed time to bond together. We did, but the only thing that we deprived of was the enthusiasm to answer questions every time the teacher posed one.

Will talk more in my next post.
Now I want to sleep.

Tomorrow I have something to train for again.
Something called Adventure Quest.
A competition in my CCA that involves the competitors physically and mentally.
Anyway the training for this is getting strenuous as the weeks progress, so I would want to sleep more, or suffer tomorrow. Lol.

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Was super late on Tuesday due to an unreasonable reason. Not gonna tell you, but I guess I was the last one that entered the school premises, as seen by the emptiness of the zebra crossing right in front of the school.

I should not be relying on my parents' car so much these days. Usually it seems to be them holding me back. Since three weeks ago, I have realised that I have not been talking to David much, then I noticed that I have been taking the same bus as him to school for a long long time. And David has been complaining about my increase in dependence.

Nervousness grew as I approached the classroom. To be more specific, the Higher Chinese paper. I was not sure if I could survive it, as it was Higher Chinese that killed me. Refer to this post I made previously: Down (Jay Sean song). The killer subject for me. Don't want to screw it up.

I managed to plan my time well and the paper was quite okay, not very difficult. But I hope I do well this time, I was unsure for a few comprehension questions.

I wasn't really enthusiastic when Mr Lee's voice "Alright class, you... are... dismissed!" marked the end of exams for the year. Half the class were shouting cheers that overpowered the Secondary Ones' cheers when they were dismissed thirty minutes earlier. Madness.

Wanted to eat something at school before going home, but since Daniel, Joshua, Lee Jiang, Yogesh, John were going to Changi Airport for either Swensen's or McDonald's, I decided to follow them. When we arrived, we went to Starbucks (if I'm not mistaken) first. As the drinks were expensive, I decided not to buy and waited for Joshua, Lee Jiang and Yogesh to finish their drinks. As usual, John struggles with someone and someone else attempts to take a picture.

We went to McDonald's instead of Swensens' later on. We waiting for noon to come by talking and playing portable consoles (I don't have one). John seemed to be anti-social, and his best friend at the time seemed to be his iPod and earphones. Soon all of us bought our meals and ate. John was trying to demonstrate his "profound" chinese speaking skills, but it sounded like a British accent. Lee Jiang and I then talked back at him with idioms and the correct tone. Explains why his oral was that bad.

While I was eating, I noticed two Secondary One students who happened to be from my CCA. I chatted with them for half a minute before heading to the MRT station along with the rest.

I wanted to go home and alight from Aljunied station, but since I had nothing to do at home, I followed Daniel to Funan IT Mall, only to realise that our presence at the mall served no purpose. So Daniel's parents came to fetch him while I went home taking buses 197 and 100.

I spent my time at home packing up my messy room. The exam period has transformed the neat and tidy room that I last packed a month ago into the state it is now. Below my bed lie many unneeded items that I always wanted to place somewhere else. It made my room look ugly. And the table is unsuitable for study, papers found everywhere.

While packing my room, I wanted to rest, so went to the attic to use my laptop. Ever since the attic was built, I was able to utilise a free wireless network, although it's slightly slow. Then I noticed the large unused space at a corner of the attic. I then decided to place all these items in the attic. Storage area.

Had a game of badminton for one hour with my father's ex-classmate's son whose age was about the same as mine. I thought that my badminton skills has already deteriorated as I have not played for... four months? Apparently not. I seemed to be improving instead. Both of us were equally good, only that I seemed to be breathing more heavily than him, probably because he made me run about the court and the soles of my shoes have worn out.

I remember two years ago that I could not last playing badminton for twenty minutes without a muscle cramp. This time, with efficient warm-ups and cool-downs, I managed to prevent muscle cramps from surfacing.

Had a late dinner at 10 p.m. before going of the internet for fun like making changes to this blog and facebooking until 12:00, when I remember AK calling me a "weirdo". Differing sleeping times...

I met up with Athanasius at Kovan station and Daniel at Potong Pasir (actually Daniel and I was supposed to meet AK on the train, but because of my "bo-liao" decision). Then we headed straight to Vivocity and caught up with Joshua, Yogesh, Lee Jiang, John and Dominic. To watch that movie called Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs. We ate lunch at BK and Dinner at KFC. I remember Lunch at McDonald's yesterday... Man I've been eating too much fast food... Better stop.

Don't really want to list down the things we did there at Vivocity, but on the whole, all of us had fun. I did not get to study today because I was out from 10:45 to 08:30. And I wanted to update this dead blog. And revamp this blog. Time flew and I slept at 0100 hours the next day.

And the next day is today. I have that desire to start playing like how I did in the June Holidays. I think that I will not get addicted to play. Or in case I get addicted, I would have to go back to schedule planning...

Still, I'm gonna have to do some Secondary Three Elementary Mathematics and not slack off. Some New Perspective to life.

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The exams ended yesterday, but its a little late compared to other schools. Still, without the extension of a week to study, I might have scored worse. The disadvantage is that we have less time to relax. After spamming studies appropriately (hint: recall last year's failed spamming of studies), I am gonna relax for good during the last two weeks of the school year.

However, something that I cannot relax about is the exam results. I am satisfied with the performance of all the papers that I have taken, but something is bringing my hopes of attaining high marks down.

Or might it be someone?

Mr David Lee has a problem. I remember right before the History exam, he was in class, but as he still had a little time with us. So he went on to talk about the Mathematics results. "Do you know that I have marked your Maths Paper 1, and none of you have got a full mark," his loud voice got the attention of the class yet again.

I stared blankly into space before getting back to my senses. You think its so easy to score full marks? I thought to myself. The Anax of Awesome pretended to be surprised that even The Legacy did not do so and expressed his view with his voice.

Mr Lee heard it and asked if I actually wanted to score full marks, which he obviously knew that I wanted to do so. I nodded. And he goes on saying "you have some mistakes and, looking at the mistakes in the paper here and there, you can't score full marks any more," he continued to blabber. I managed a grin and maintained my composure.

The bell rang and he left. I was still thinking if I had heard him wrongly as my classmates went to put their bags outside the class. I eventually went out, only to get pissed again by Nathanael and Philip. Their laughter of me unable to score full marks made me slightly enraged.

I wanted to raise my voice in front of them, but I practiced tolerance and ignored them. If I continue thinking this way, can I do well for the History exam that is about to start? Come on, do well for History, forget your Maths paper. It's over.

Every one knows that it is really hard to score full marks for Elementary Maths in Upper Secondary. So I cannot attain a full mark for Maths forever I guess.

Maybe its Not Meant To Be.

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This tab has been specially created to gratefully thank each and every one of my fellow Victorians for shaping the way I have experienced, developed, grown and emerged as a true blue Victorian. I extracted the lists from Facebook, so I didn't really spend so much time on this. So once again, THANK YOU VICTORIA. I am proud to be in the Victorian family..... Our Victorian family. VICTORIA SCHOOL: where oridnary lives are transformed.

In order of date I started to know the group, and then increasing priority for final three-

1. Class 2I 2009:

Aditya Kulkarni
Adli Ihsan Kent
Andy Loke
Anurag Dalvi
Athanasius Koh
Bryan Ong Wen Xi
Daniel Lau
Darius New
Darren Ho Shu Kai
David Lee
Derek Wong
Goh Jun Jie
Hamzah Omar Yaacob
Hui Han Chan
Jing Wen
John Tay
Joshua Benjamin Ho
Jurgen Lee
Justin Goh
Keeve Tan
Lee Jiang
Mohamed Suhair
Muhd Syafie
Nathanael Kyzer Neo
Nicholas Lau
Nicky Phua
Nirmolak Singh Bajaj
Philip Chuah
Ryan Chee
Saravanan Rajendran
Shen Hao
Sherman Lee
Syahid Piyehs
Tan Jian Wen
Theodore Tan
Wang Kai
Yogesh Tulsi
Yong Jie Ng
Zong Ren Ong

2. VS JLs of VELOCI-T 2009:

Abdul Hannan
Ang EmoSad Kang Jie
Bryan Ong Wen Xi
Bryan Yong
Darren Hernandez Tan
Darren Ho Shu Kai
David Lee
Deon Sim
Derek Kaxere Lian
Dev Anand
Douglas Chan
Elrond Choa
Ernest Teh
Eugene Merci Mok
Eugene Tan
Ezra Taliv Mo
Faris Adam
Ganesh Muthupalani
Hariz Hybrid
Haziq Shahrin
Ignatius Tan
Isaac Chia
Iskandar Original
Ivan Ting
Jonah Aw Kailer
Jonathan Hoong
Jonathan Lim
Justin Goh
Khairul Anuar
Lee Jiang
Li Ming Ren
Lim Supeng
Marcus Goh
Marcus Tong
Matthew Chan
Maximillian Chia
Melvin Ng
Ming En Chong
Mohamad Hadi
Muhammad Hafiz
Muhammad Nurhadi Taha
Muhd Afiq
Mustaqim Mohamed
Nicholas Lau
Nicholas Lim
Nur Zhafirin
Nurdin Chittrapark Nashrullah
Preshant Dayan Achuthan
Pua Zhao Chen
Ryan Chee
S Bharath Sp
Sanjeev Menon
Sean Christopher Leo
Terence Yeo
Theodore Tan
Thiyaghessan Poongundranar
Wei Quan
Yee Zong Yew
Yorisan Kho

3. Class 2C 2011:

Arijit Joshi
Benedict Snsdftw Choong
Bharat S. Punjabi
Bryan Tai
Damian Tan
Daniel Ong Wen Tao
Ding Young
Egmont Loh
Gary Ng
Gerrell Chee
Hendrick Lhj
Iliyas Juanda
James Lee
Jared Chiang
Jason Wong
Jerry Lim
Jerry Truffles Yan
Jie Yang
Jordan Tay
Justin Lai
Justin Lie Gyun Yu
Kah Weng
Keith Lau
Khairi Adam
Lim Kai Zhi
Marcus Cheu
Mohamed Haneefa Jamaludeen
Mohamed Hasif
Nawfal Marican
Ng Felix
Ngeow Chee Fong
Patric Ching
Royston Wong
Sean Hö
Shaun Lee
Shee Pish
Shinichi Koh Shenyi
Toh Chin Howe
Wen Jie Lim
Zachary Goh Han Wei
迋偉傑

4. Class 4D 2011:

Åmøs Låw
Bryan Chia
Bryan Ong Wen Xi
Chan Rongsheng Luke
Cheh Yek Teng
Daniel Lock
Daniel Pongy Chin
Darius Iskandar Reduan
Dev Anand
Hansel Konstantin Tantohari
Isaac Chia
Jerry Ng
Jervyz Smileys
Joseph Wong
Kiet Baka Pham
Kiet Pham
Kiran Nico G
Kokul Siddharth
Lai Cheng Yu
Lam Waln
Lie Wen
Lim Zi Yi
Lionel Lim
Low Zhihao
Matthew Lee Tze Ren
Melvin Chua
Melvin Ng
Nguyễn Dũng
Nguyen Thai Hung
Nicholas Lee
Nicholas Nanoduckie Yuen
Pham Thang Loi
Pritesh Kamani
Shabab Chow
Shaun Sim
Thanh Pham Khac
Trần Mạnh Tú
Trần Tiến Đạt
Yue Yao Chong

5. Sec 4 GEOG Class 2011:

Anurag Dalvi
Darren Tan Pei Kun
Goh Jun Jie
Goh Xun Yi
Harri Stinsfire Vishnu
Nikhil Senan
Reuben Moey
Suresh Viswanath

6. Class 2H 2011 from my brother:

Ashley Ho
Azriel Chee
Benjamin Ong
Chua Damien
Eddiemama Kum
Finian Lupus Fzy
Leonard Tay
Lim Yu Jie
Muhammad Danish
Sylvester Siew

7. VS SLs of VELOCI-T 2010:

Bryan Ong Wen Xi
Bryan Yong
Darren Hernandez Tan
David Lee
Dev Anand
Eugene Tan
Ganesh Muthupalani
Isaac Chia
Iskandar Original
Justin Goh
Lee Jiang
Mohamad Hadi
Nur Zhafirin
Preshant Dayan Achuthan
Ryan Chee

8. VS JLs of VELOCI-T 2010:

Abrisam Durrani Mahathir
Andre Orlulu
Benson Choo
Bradley Gan
Brandon Ho
Brandon Nodnarb Tan
Chan Hui Dhar
Darryl Lim
Darryl Sim
Deriik Toh Zhi Jie
Ding Lin Chng
Dion Tan
Dominique Chan
Eric Low Wei Ee
Ervin Dongdong Yap
Firdaus Asri
Frederick Lee
Gabriel Lee
Gerald Loh
Hamizan Ismail
HanChing Yong
Hong Wenyang
Hwy Kim
Ian Kiat Ng
Jerrell Lee
Joel Fun Wei Xuan
Joel Ngiam Kee Yong
Joshua GohMez
Julson Oh
Justin Oh
Kennedy Wong
Kevin Lim
Lee Yao Chen
Lee Zhi Peng
Lloyd Teo
Logesh Waran
Mark Chia
Matthew Cheng
Muhammad Ariff
Nicholas Chicharito
Phng Gary
Praveen Luvsladygaga
Samuel Judah Lim
Sean Teng
Shaun Tian Jun
Stanley Low
Steven Liu Yu
Tan Peng Sheng
Tan Rui Shuen
Teng Wei Hao
Tengku Sharil

Tim Seow
Tin Yat
Wei Jie Dongdong Lee
WeiAn Yoonique
Yilong Wu
ZongSien Ho

9. Random people in VS that I eventually got to know:

Abdul Hakim
Ahmad Hatziq
Ahmad Syafiq
Allelujah Tan Zhen Kai
Benjamin Chua
Billy Moh
Bijaya
Brendan Han
Brian Tan
Casey Tay
Chong Yong Xiang
Christopher Tan
Darren Wong
Daryl Koo
Dhiraj Chainani
Dominic See
Fabian Ang
Francis Neo
Gerome Goh
Glen Loy
Gordon Chua
Heng ZhenHong
Ho Cheng-An
Jacob Wee
Jonathan Ong
Jönathan ت Ang
Joshua Chan XR
Kenneth Kennedicut Chiang
Kian Siang
Loh Ming Jie
Melvin Chua
Mohamed Solihin
Muhammad Syahmi
Nicholas Khor
Oliver Cheok
Pandiyan Pannirselvam
Patrick Seet Wei Han
Ren Jie
Ryen Ho
Shawn Rooney
Siddarth Ramesh
Spencer Phua
Syafiq Tom Nobodyz
Syahrul Syafiq
Tan XianXun
Teo Chin Wei
Terence Phua
Tomus Yong
Wei Zheng
Yilong Wu
Yong Kai
Zac Ravon
Zeren Sun
Zi Xiang Teo

10. BB 2nd Coy Sec 2s:

Benedict Snsdftw Choong
Bryan Tai
Jorim Jireh Sim
Joshua Ong
Joshua Tan Yi Jie
Lester Ye Ge
Lie Yisien
Lim Tzer Shyun
Lim Yu Jie
Lyndon Leow
Sean Lee
Toh Chin Howe
Wen Jie Lim
Zachary Goh Han Wei

11. BB 2nd Coy Sec 3s:

'Soh Jun Hong'
Ajey Ashok
Ben Benji Benjamin Teo
Benjamin Leow
Brandon Ho Jun En
Brandon Ho Wei Zheng
David Mah
Dominique Chan
Jack Ng
Jason Prasad
Justin Koo
Lemuel Lok
Matthias Lim
Noel Chia
Poh Cai Min
Reneesh Norris Reji
Ryan Teo
Shaun Tian Jun

12. BB 2nd Coy Sec 1s:

Lucas Tai
Edmund Wong
Jones Lim
Joseph Tong
Lin Yaohua
Luke Chegne
Roy Chua
Ryan Liverpoolam Jing An
Ryan See
Shih Ern Chiang
Sim Shaun

13. Class 2B 2011 from Sec 2 Camp:

Aleem Siddique
Azri Rostam
Benedict Liew
Cao Bing Quan
Daryl Chan
Desmond Tan
Dexter Loh
Glen Choo
Izzul Amirullah
Jacques Liew
Jonathan Tan
Keith Wo
Lee Yan Cheng
Leo WenZhe
Lim Jing Jie
Oreo Steve
Rui Yang
Shawn Lee Shao Shiong
Wilbert Loh
Wen Qing
Zaki Iscander
Zeph Ng

14. BB 2nd Coy Seniors:

Alwin Low
Primer Benedict Lee from BB YLC 2010
Squad Leader BokChong Tay
Dude Cai Longkuan
Caleb Mah
CSM Casper Chua
Chairman Colin Foong
Squad Leader Daniel Dlee
David Bin
Primer and Chairman Davis Gay
Officer Ernest Koh
Primer Foo Jie Han
Officer Gordon Oei
CSM Ian Ang
Ian Leong
Ian Tan Yen How
Squad Leader Ivan Ng
Officer Jian Ming Kwan
Officer Jiang Wei Benedict Sim
Jonathan Sam
Joseph Ng Zhi Wei
Julian Yap
PT IC Kiang Wen Wei
Officer Marcus Seng
Nathanael Is-Vertically Long
Primer Qian Hao Tham
Activities IC Sebastian Ow
Shawn Lim Shi Xian
Sun Hao Kang
Squad Leader Tan Jek-Kai
Teacher IC Tay Yi Jun Kara
Officer Timothy Cheng
Chairman Timotty Tay
Teacher IC Wuay Boon
Captain Yong Chee Yee

16. JLs I know from Facebook from VELOCI-T 2011:

Amir Zeb
Ang Zhen Yi
Anthony Kwa
Benedict Liew
Brandon Adam
Braxton Sheum
Bryan Tai
Chua Damien
Damian Tan
Dexter Loh
Finian Lupus Fzy
Glen Choo
Hari Aran Krishnan
Iliyas Juanda
Jonas Chow
Jonathan Tan
Joshua Tan Yi Jie
Kenneth Seah
Leo WenZhe
Lie Yisien
Lim Yu Jie
Lyndon Leow
Marcus Lee
Mohamed Haneefa Jamaludeen
Mohamed Mahathir
Muhammad Syakir
Nawfal Marican
Oreo Steve
Patric Ching
Rui Yang
Shadốw-x Rố'y
Shao Qi
Shinichi Koh Shenyi
Sylvester Siew
Timothy Lupus TimoBird
Viknesh Kumar
Zhao Ming

15. BB 2nd Coy NCO Council 2010/11:

Ben Ben Low
Bryan Seah Yun Da
Daniel Ng
Darren Tan Jian Kai
Ernest Teh
Hung Jing Xiang
Joel Lee
Jonas Ho
Jonathan Beibei Bei
Jonathan Lim
Joseph Wong
Joshua Ng
Marc Tan
Maximillian Chia
Nicholas Chan
Rayson Lim Jun Kai
Steven Sing
Theodore Tan
Wesley Ler Yi Xiang
Wind Neo Weihang

17. VS Seniors who have groomed me, directly or indirectly:

SL Adrian Tan
PSB Alexander Tan
SL Amrit Singh Gill Victorian
SL Barry Tee
SL Benjamin Tan
SL Bryan Kwa
HCL Teacher Chen Jingwen
SL Clarence Ma
SL Darius Tan RongDe
LEAD and PHY Teacher Deng Huiru
Teacher of Class 2B 2011 Denny Aw Yong
CHEM Teacher Fel Yeo
CHEM Teacher Gloria Boey
SL Goh Meng Seng Ryan
Old VS Boy Haafiz Abdul Hameed II
SL Jaren Lim
SL Jason Kok
NPCC Jun Yang Lim
PSL Keith Tan
SS and HIST Teacher Khoo Kay Yong
SL Lakshman Muthiah
EM and FORM Teacher Lee David
SL Lee Jia Lok
SL Low Jun Yew
Marshall Tweem
HE Teacher Melissa Lim
Old VS Boy Muhammad Dzafir
PSL Narendra Kumar
GEOG Teacher Raksha Pamnani-Sajnani
LEAD Teacher Randell Siow
My 1st & forgotten best friend, SL Ryan Loy
Temporary Relief Teacher Seth Koh
Old VS Boy Sunny Paradise Sanjay
SL Tan Yuan Rong
EM, AM and BB Teacher Tay Yi Jun Kara
HIST Teacher Thirunavukarasu Thiru
HCL Teacher Virgil Chew
PSL of 2I Yun Sol

18. And last but not least:

Leaving Principal, Eng Teong Low
2005–2011

NIL SINE LABORE

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This random codename, 'the Legacy', was actually created by a random friend, Athanasius Koh (VS 2I 2009, 4E 2011), at a random time of mid-October 2009, nearing the Sec 2 end of year exams. He created a Facebook group and then a fan club of this codename. Here's something Derek Wong (VS 2I 2009, 4G 2011) wrote in that fan club...

There was once a boy, an ordinary boy. He studied and studied for years. Every year he studied, and while he did he sang. As he studied, the people around him all grew smarter, his aura of intelligence spread to everyone he met. Everytime he looked at someone, his stone face would ignite the spark of studies into that person. One day, he created a great note, "History Sucks!! (Part 1)", which shot out across the web of the internal net. Everyone that saw it tried to answer it, but no one could give an answer as perfect as his. Approximately a day and 2 hours later, he released yet another note of power, now called "Possible FACTUAL Science Questions.". A stream of energy shot out, once again, throughout the whole web of the internal net and almost everyone in the valley of Victoria's Secondary level of 2 gained the Scientific knowledge of a genius. After another 4 days, he added the final touches in his grand palace, the National Library of Singapore, for 8 whole hours. Together with the help of other muggers, the note evolved to the level of "Finalised Answers to Science Questions.". During the 4 days before he released the answers, he resided in his grand palace and invited a few of his classmates who wanted to follow him to study into the restricted area. With a quiet and cool environment, his classmates benefited, but were still unable to understand how he was so hard working. Was it because he was surrounded by tons and thousands of books in his palace? No one knew. This acts amazed even the likes of Box-Cat and Pootenagen. And the Anax of Awesome, Athanasius Koh, bestowed upon him the title only the greatest of teachers would gain, the title of "The Glorious One". To be continued....

Alright that's all you get to hear about the Legacy. Now let's move on to me.

This is me:


This blog was created for those who know me to understand me better through the feelings and thoughts of the little segments of my life. Things you don't always get to hear from me. NOT for you to get to know me. So in order for you to know just what kind of person I am, you've got to know me personally. For I don't like to describe myself... Anyway.

Having just graduated from Victoria School not long ago and finished up my 'O' levels recently, I'm currently spending my time well during the holidays while awaiting the results come 9-11 Jan 2012. I hope I did well...

In lower secondary, I was any ordinary Victorian. Never the outstanding one in the class nor the CCA (BB). But I was in the outstanding class of VS 1I 2008 and 2I 2009! Well, not for outstanding academics, but outstanding awesomeness. I was never the outspoken one in the school Boys' Brigade company; all I did was to follow instructions and try to enjoy myself in the CCA. The greatest I ever got in lower secondary was becoming a class monitor for one week. It wasn't my effort, though.

The turning point was the end-of-year holidays of Sec 1, when I thought I had to do something about this. We are Victorians, we are something more, right? So I prepared meticulously (not tediously) for my Sec 2 life during the holidays. Not DO, but prepare to DO. And it turned out great! A comparison of my results in Sec 1 and 2 will show that my results brought me from the level position of 231 at the end of Sec 1, to just 13 at the end of Sec 2. This was a major confidence booster for me.

Then I was selected to join this leadership training camp known as VELOCI-T Camp (Victoria Enhanced Leadership and Outdoor Camp Instructor Training Camp). With it came the advancement of my Victorian spirit and leadership opportunities that saw me grow as a leader I have never imagined myself. Eventually I discovered the word that really defined me: LEADER. Something that I still find hard to understand (I never spoke a word in kindergarten for I was too shy.) With opportunities came experience, and with commitment came legacies. So I became:

- Junior Leader (then Redshirt)
- Peer Support Leader
- One of the 5 Redshirts in Class 4D
- Chairman of VS Boys' Brigade Second Company
- Senior Leader

Well, I may not have performed as well as I have expected for both of my preliminary exams, with a very average level position of 171, but I realised that VS was training us for the 'A' levels, not the 'O's. And more importantly, a well-balanced Victorian life of being a Gentleman, Professional and Sportsman is what the school has aimed for each of us to be, not merely academic results. It has always been Our Vision.

Now, how did I start off so slowly, and still do all that? Allow me to humbly tell you why: It's because Victoria School is something more, and she has a magnificent motto.

NIL SINE LABORE.

Learn all the rest right here:

• The Legacy (VS 2I 2009, 4D 2011)
• Nicholas Nanoduckie Yuen (VS 2D 2009, 4D 2011)
• Melvin Ng (VS 2F 2009, 4D 2011)
• Lie Wen (VS 2A 2009, 4D 2011)
• Justin Goh (VS 2I 2009, 4A 2011)
• Athanasius Koh (VS 2I 2009, 4E 2011)
• The Leader Without a Title (VS 2I 2009, 4E 2011)
• Wang Kai (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011)
• Lee Jiang (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011)
• Dominic Phua (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011)
• John Tay (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011)
• Iskandar Billy Shah (VS 2H 2009, 4G 2011)
• Lim Jun An (VS 2I 2009, 4H 2011)
• Joshua Chan (VS 2C 2009, 4H 2011)
• Keeve Tan (VS 2I 2009, 4I 2011)
• Jonathan Lim (VS 2D 2009, 4J 2011)
• Ernest Teh (VS 2B 2009, 4J 2011)
• Ad'li Ihsan (VS 2I 2009)
• Jonathan Bei (VS 2B 2009, VJC IP)
• Rayson Lim (VS 2D 2009, VJC IP)
• Ng Yong Jie (VS 2I 2009, VJC IP)
• Daniel Lau (VS 2I 2009, TJC IP)
• Ryan Loy (VS 2H 2008, 4E 2010)

• Nicholas Nanoduckie Yuen (VS 2D 2009, 4D 2011)
• Lee Jiang (VS 2I 2009, 4F 2011)
• Ernest Teh (VS 2B 2009, 4J 2011)
• Melvin Ng (VS 2F 2009, 4D 2011)
• Iskandar Billy (VS 2H 2009, 4G 2011)

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