Back to mainland, back to school.

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. Did not exactly go well><><><
Oh nvm.

Im glad Im back from Ubin. Though it was fun and interesting to spot vehicles there! Thanks to Jun You and John... All vehicles are in"PU" format, other than some special ones like the police vehicle. Cool right? Just some info if you want:

PU6J Ford Passenger Van
PU48M Passenger Van
PU100U Private passenger van under **** ****
PU101S Passenger Van
PU78? Lorry
PU81? Mercedes Passenger Van

This year's STC wasn't so nice. Probably because it was not well-planned, then everybody was very sian. Heard there weren't enough CIs, not sure. Also, there was sudden change in schedule, so that probably made the programme a bit screwed. Oh well, its over and its over. Throughout the course of the 3 days, from the start where I was in a bad mood about the camp till break camp where I regained the accent, I must say it just stays as a special memory.

Its just like the IRC, where I panicked, where I was afraid, where everything was like ahhhh. However, after completing the course, it was over. I have been telling some people this, so here's it again:
"Anything can be compared to life, just like the obstacle course. take the path as your journey in life, and your adventure begins. You dont realise you are taking risks everyday, and that the surrounding is dangerous. when you on it, and the things starts to shake, you may become afraid. However, this is all caused by your own self. If let's say something happens to the tree or the grass, like it falls down or something, it may not affect your path in life. In addition, despite all the tremors you may fear, life has to go on. It is only possible to stop momentarily, but you have to move on. Once you manage to accomplish something, you will feel gratified, happy, glad. All that was bad, would just have been a memory."
well, they built it in such a way that you could not land on the ground unless completing the course lah.... But, after completing, when I see it, I still have shocks. Oh well.

There was no morning PT, but DHSNPCC sort of had it. And there was no best camper. My group, I felt, being quite dead, could win best group... Wahs. But this time, we had 0 best campers from our unit. Haiz.

School. Huge major changes. WTH got so many lessons with double teachers. Wlao eh. My new seating place is real quiet. Is that corner of the class destined to be the quiet side? god. At Rowena's seat retains the quietness, Zhan Ning, and See Wang's seat Jovi. Oh well. I don't seem to be geared up for Term 3. I seem like im idling in gear 2... Why i am still blogging then? gah. ok, a few more words then.

Vettel on pole... Button! How could you! Please do well in Silverstone!

VO2x still running on 74... zzz lol. DDs on 163?45?

NUS-I am going! NP, screws and shizz? "Dun gimme that Hong Kong accent!"

Today, happiness and sadness. Laughter and anguish.

After the amazing 7-0 live watching yesterday, I stayed in momentum shocked. My father was like: You never watch so little goal. Once u watch, wah, 1 after another. LOLS.

Waked up so early to only see my dark eye rings. Reached school to see David's.

NCO Interview was like gah gah. Not supposed to say or else will be facing the same music as the Korean Players.

My father was saying that in North Korea, the poor people don't get live telecasts. Instead, they only know there is a match, probably they do not know the country, and will only be updated with their own number of goals. WOW. Its like so... Back to when things were so simple, children, where we simply cheered once we won...

"Then I started to talk in the Hong Kong-China accent, actually got Taiwan also, I live on Lantau Island... Im from Lantau. Hi. HAHA. Then it spread like unwild fire, not so wild, David follow, Si hui follow (unknowingly), and others a bit a bit affected, but they all too perfect in English, must talk in 'NO FUN' language, den understand de. Oh well, ended up switching back. Maybe when I see somebody on Friday, i may start talking like that again."

For the NUS one, it was after some hard consideration bah. TIME MANAGEMENT.

--You never know, so don't think that it is always the way you think it will be, expection is still awaited for--

IDMI. NCO Life. NUS

Just told by Clement that Orchard going to flood again soon. Poor 2 SBST tow trucks. 2 B9TLs failed on the other time. This time, hope all the bus change route fast enough, and the MRT dun GG. Oh well, whatever it is, I can't do much. LTA can't control rain.

After 2 days in NP and one day for chinese project, today went to school for IDMI and u know what planning. Its not easy, but with few people around, some squadmates together only were fun. I finally got a chance to step into shoes of a BC. Wah, Sv 1 really very poor business. Tight schedule? Got late departure and arrival a few times, in fact mostly. OK, I guess sometimes thing just don't get your way and you get easily frustrated.

Im starting to hate Y3 and NCO life. Its so unlike Y2 life. Its really very busy. And now, though got into the NUS Sci research thingy with CDAC, can go BNV spam MK3, but then lesser time for homework liao. Wah, feeling the pressure and heat man. My head is spinning.

Well, got onto Zaobao and ST. John is so gonna be famous. While I will just be having little little fame, since English is sure win chinese in singapore. If I get to scan the article, will upload here. If not can ask from me, as I will be bringing it most of the time with me, to show the security why I do certain things.

Mistakes made, lessons learnt, all after disaster happens?

Was watching "The day after tomorrow". The last time I watched it, didnt really learn much. But now, in a 14 year-old's perspective, it seems that there were many many learning points.

One of the most important, is that do humans really have to learn from their mistakes, only after the disaster had striked? Continuing from there, would we always get a second chance to amend it, or would it be the dead end when we realise it? It is similar to one of the things I thought about before, which is, 失去了才懂得珍惜吗？

We probably would have felt we were right before the warnings came. Some manage to think and realise before that. When warnings appear, some simply ignore, and use some other reasons. These are either cowards because they do not want to own up, or they are stubborn. Others manage to stop in time. But most of the time, they realise it only when disaster has happened. Oh well, I guess that's a learning process in humans. Indeed, when disaster has happened, the lessons learnt would have a stronger impact on what you do.

In the movie, it seems that the person arranging for the chain of events, what some call god, made it possible for them to realise their mistake and react, make amendments and continue on with life. However, in real life, it is not always so good from what I see. The cruel society outside is not that forgiving towards some things you do, like crimes. When young, it seems that this kind of things were possible, but that is because you were protected by your parents from the evil that came. But, as we all grow up, we come to know we have to face things ourself.

Just like today, going to the Kampong for IDMI filming. Of course the girls were complaining of the mosquito bites and all, but the tourist that came definitely came "prepared", so probably she didnt feel anything. But she was asking about whether it will be gone, so I told her the URA hasnt announced anything yet. Well, there is nothing to do with that plot of land for now anyway, or rather, its considered private housing. She heaved a sigh of relief then. There were definitely a lot of people that came in. Well, it just seemed like a whole different world inside there, everything so compact, so close to each other. Felt very special.

And then, came craziness at Hougang. Wah. cleared 590P, 74 Vo2x, 643X, 738G, and got some rare things though no photos, like 113 strider. WOOOO. I need more!

NCO.

FINALLY. AFTER APPROX 3 YEARS, Its time.

Its quite cool to keep MOI-ing. Moi-ing. Me-ing. OK STOp. I must say I have learned quite a lot throughout the course of these 2 days. Definitely I am somehow happy, but this holiday does not give me a lot of time. And I am still blogging here. Oh well.

Im not dreading POP planning. Im not. Im not dreading PKHFS. It could be interesting I guess. But I really really dread STC. The only possible fun part is like, Jetty Jump? And there's the stupid obstacle course, 3 storeys high I think. GAH. Will we get to explore Ubin again? I dont know. Who will be my group members? I dont know. Will I get all the slackish people? I dont know and I dont want to.

More questions are starting to arise. What post would I get? Would I be faced with many difficulties? What will the juniors think of us? Would we be hated by them? All questions reveal an answer in time to come. Oh well.

For the past few paragraphs, I dont know what I have been saying. Anw, woke up late ytd. Made it in time! Firstly, I want to thank Jun You for sms-ing me at 6.39 am. THANKS A LOT. Next, I want to thank my mum for telling me to buy bread so I ate a few mouths of it, and also topping up my ez-link card. Then, I want to thank my legs that knew the situation and walked super fast, and ran. I would also like to thank LTA for building Circle Line and North East Line, so I could made it in time. Then I want to thank SBS Transit and SMRT for operatin and running these 2 lines, so I really did make it on time. Finally, I want to thank the school for building a hostel and hostel gate so I didnt have to walk all the way to Tanjong Rhu Road. Also thank the government for not listening to the Cambridge people in 1980s about a full bus network. IT WAS DEFINITELY RIGHT! (Since we have the money)
This shows that sometimes, even the professionals may not get a correct idea of what should be done. Basically, what can be learnt here is that people from different counrtries may have different ideas as things are done differently, so when its comes in such a situation, then they may give a different perception.

Managed to get a 93 Vo2x. Phew! But no 74 ones. Mk3 very little progress, but Leylands got a few more. I NEED to go to Bukit Merah! Clementi! Kranji Again! Buona Vista! Appear in front of me, 74 Vo2x! I need you before you go! Hopefully can see 1 and take photo of 1 later.

BP. Please do something about your oil spill. You can spend money on advertising, saying sorry, I'd rather you pay people money to stop the oil spill or compensate the people living on the Gulf. -President Obama (with edits)

The Legend of MYYS

Since the start of school there has been many comments made about all the teachers that are teaching us. So typical of children right, students isnt it? There is one particular teacher that is continuously mentioned in class and also by one particular person. HAHAHA. Nothing lah.

Yes, if you guessed it, its him that I want to talk about. Happened to be pondering about it mah, not on purpose though.

"For many years, the school has always given me 2 types of classes. The first one is the type where, I don't need to teach the basics, they all know already. I only have to teach them those very hard things. The second time, is when I step into class, they just tell me: "Mr Yap, fail us lah." So, I do not know why the school has always been giving me such an arrangement, ... ..."

The reason why I do not continue on, is because that it what I would like to talk about. Why?

If you do notice, especially in my class, he somehow has the special ability to make many people improve in Math, improve in grades, probably interest? That was something he hoped for. From what I can see, it is not easy for one teacher to make mass improvements, because different students and children have different learning abilities, capacities and modes of learning. Some prefer to just listen to the teacher talk, or prefer to have more interaction, and others more of hands-on. So, to be able to make improvements on students in masses, it is not easy for just one teacher to do it, because at the same time, different teachers have different teaching styles. In a way, he does try to go up to that individual level and help them, but he is able to make quite some changes in just one working manner.

I used to ask him why he did not make use of ICT in his lessons. The answer is not so much important, but somehow it made me think he is a very free person. Yes, no doubt he is very carefree, but of course deep down he has problems to deal with definitely. Recently I realised, it does not mean that when ICT is used frequently, a person is then considered busy. He is the guy who prefers paper, pen, markers and words.

He very obviously has a fun side, especially towards those that are highly inclined in Mathematics. I probably do not want to elaborate on that because some might find differences or biasedness. I don't know.

But most importantly, he is under the Knowledge Skills Programme. Meaning? A branch of the SBGE. This is where the differences come in. Apart from being able to help those who are poor, he is at the same time able to make those who are good excel even further. Not many teachers are able to do both very well. He is one of them that manages to do it quite well. I must say, apart from all the things about it that are not so related to the question that help him, this is the one that probably makes the most difference. And the answer is all revealed. A talent indeed, to the school, therefore he is given such a task. The only time I remember a similar saying by someone else was from Mrs Lee already. And according to her, it was definitely no easy at all. Furthermore thats P6. Y3? Wow.