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.

CIP, Hols, Turkish GP

I must say CIP was a bit of fail. I admit it. Faced with all the bad comments from the feedback form. Thank you classmates for giving me your most true feedback. I do thank you for that. I guess, with only two people doing the work is really not enough. Its over anyway.

Games part is quite fail lah. But I have to say I was never in charge of that. Then went to collect food from Macs with Mr Ng. Shant expose him here, so if you want to know what happened, you will never know unless I tell you or I manage to tell you or you manage to make me tell you. Anw, then came some glitches in the lunch, where the arrangement was poor and the venue was wrong. Mr Chia was so angry after that, hopefully Macs cooled him down. FREAKING SCARY!!!!!!! Then, there was some change in schedule, so school tour was last. During Karaoke, I cooped myself up in ctrl room. Then there were random ppl like Amanda, Eunice, Raphael and etc, but we were all trying to contribute to the karaoke. Raphael indeed, was funny. Kept on making fun of Eunice, but best part was:

Eunice: Why you never make fun of Amanda one?

Raphael: Its a man de, not a woman de...

BEST MAN! Mr Yap v.s. Raphael...

Then was peformance, school tour I dunno what happened, seemed fail but I think my objectives were met somewhere.

In anyway, I thank all who contributed to this CIP again. All the sorrow, boredom, anger, and more, I cannot take that away. CIP's objectives were never: fun, run smoothly, very fast, easy. It was purely learning to serve. Well, it could have been fun if all of you participated in the correct way, like some did, and objectives met. At the end of the day, you definitely learn something no matter how boring or how poor it is conducted. But the poor conducted thing, is really many pop-ups lah...

During School tour, was claening up the control room and settling all the stuff if you want to know. I love doing behind the scene's work :) Mr Chia was having lecture, this time Mr Chia Guo Hao, not Mr Chia Lee Kwang. CHIM CHIM PHYSICS, semiconductor, then proton and all that, talk about Quantum Physics, tutorials and etc etc. COULD NOT UNDERSTAND A SINGLE THING. But nvm. shun qi zi ran. Maybe I will next time.

Friday nothing much liao le... Only the practice results...

Photo taken during open hse.


Then ytd was Open Hse lor. Reach school early lor. Took fei ren's bus. Took pic too. then he waved. so friendly! haha. then was talking to jun for long time before open hse start. Talking about somebody I mentioned just now, yes.... But anw, open house was like zzz. I think UG is the least popular booth, so few parents came. Well, managed to explain for around 4 to 5 parents, then others. Only 1 or 2 were very interested, kept asking about CCA points, what we do, tough, enjoyable, courses like shooting and a lot more... Very determined sia. After that ate at KFC with jun.

preparing to go home, jun went pyl. Mum called at bartley, then say i can go out. so told her go for MRT stuff, then chiong to JUR for dunno what, cos was super early. but managed to leave early since i spotted trains, and catch 3920B on 66!!!!! Anw, no Herbalife for me liao :( but managed to see 101/102, which was modified. Also saw many adverts that I had no updates on for NSEW, and Clementi PSDs. Bukit Gombak also. 3920B was quite nice... Then went Kranji spam JB Mk3. spammed ard 15 Mk3 only... Somemore a lot of blur ones. So sad.
Even sadder now, cos Button starting from P4 and Webber in P1 again. Haiz. I hope he does not win, but with his super fast car, its likely he takes it all again, unless he got DNF-ed, or pit stop problem.


Fate sometimes is for you to resign to it? I dont think so. Though I do sometimes, but you will see the light at the end, leading you to the correct pathway. It really does make you enlightened sometimes, that things start to turn around, and become better. well, there is always another thing to look foward to when something does not appear. But will that still be the case when you're old? hmmm. anw, poor jeremy. "Pull harder! But dont spoil the door lah!" HAHA.

Last day of school

Tmr is CIP. and also return of report book. MK3 spammage on Monday was quite a success. only 2 bad things: 1) A random passer-by asked me and jun you if we were doing project. I just said yes, cos there was a MK3 cameo approaching. 2) Failed, rahter blurred shot of long-awaited 842M. Was on 89 somemore! wah... quite pissed.

today last day. then got gl by ms pear, say i use stone age stuff, and somemore say i pathetic. wlao eh. she nvr use before meh? zzz nvm lah, nvr good in drawings, thats me. Mrs Shu also scaring me. Coming back next term with Mrs Phua?!?! Then PC, chaos. Changed seats, and mined got changed after being changed. Though Chi test got a considerably high mark (but nt gd enough {dont see this **** ****}), and got nearer to (________), but I am sitting beside (<><><>). LA, okok, Kumaran left her phone in class this time round. "Have a pigeon hole in our class!" Srsly! Leave her laptop next lah... She was searching at the tables outside SR2: Where is it? Where is it?

Then disecting heart in bio. Got scolded, on his b'day somemore. REALLY SORRY!!!!! FORM CLASS SOMEMORE LEH. Wonder how Im gonna communicate with him tmr.. Especially if he is the one driving. In fact, he is the one likely to drive us down, since if not wrong mr tan dont drive, then mr koh i dun think he will, liu lao shi even lesser possiblity. liu lao shi drive honda fit, mr koh honda city, both i know liao. so left mr ng... anw, after was math. then chao came in. nvr da zhao hu, dunno if she rmb me but nvm. then end of math liao. how will tmr be? how will my gpa be? all a mystery.

"Do not go by a common path. Go on your own and create a trail"

PASAR MALAM DOWNSTAIRS

Almost typed Downstaris. LOL

PASAR MALAM PICS.... Guess which one has got my family inside!!! Haha.

Its been a long time since I went to one, and even longer time since one came to my house. Now Pasar Malam has gone up with technology, their machines can auto add points.

1) Usually you hear people shouting and promoting their products. For the first time, there was somebody using pre-recorded tape and it went: 走过路过，一定要看过！

2) The game stall is the one that has the machine thingy. They even record down your points to your card, like a manual timezone. They say: you can find us at other pasar malams, so its ok if u don't want to change now. The card has an email and website. MY GOD

Me: So high-tech

Daddy: They are going inter-national. Next time you can find them at Mumbai na, India!

Slacking now dunno why, going back to do work soon. Watched Dr Goh's farewell. A great contributor. But Mummy keeps saying that Ex-president Ong Teng Cheong got a poor farewell. She was saying that cos he did not follow the rules, then ... don't like him though the people like him. Anyway, ytd was SH EDS concert. Not bad lah... At least I could understand a bit though I did not read the book much, like 1-2 pages.

Anyway, I learnt from the arcade game something: Two heads are better than one, but are two people really better than one?

if you have 4 pairs of hands, the balls that go in has to be at correct timing. Some instances, they knock into each other, none go in. Others one, and sometimes, very few times, two. So, definitely we have to think about it. Certain things is good for teams, but all things? Im not so sure. Certain situations suit teams, others do not. Think about it.

Got Tao-ed by somebody. Damn sad? ok bah.

CO-OPERATION

I suddenly dawned upon this in the midst of LEVEL EXPERIENCE.
I used to wonder, what is the difference between Teamwork and Cooperation? Therefore I did not really give a huge fuss and ask for the change over the SCAR to STAR. Inevitably, STAR sounds nice (Thought CARS could be good from ACRS) compared to SCAR.

However, I just realised it may have been a mistake to do so. I would rather SCAR, or ACRS.

Co-operation has a vital part to play in all parts of our life. Teamwork is just present and needed in teams. Of course its important. For teamwork to work, you need cooperation. However, teamwork does not apply when you are to work with people you do not know for a short period of time.

Havoc comes when people do not cooperate. I tell you there are no more lots in the carpark, you do not cooperate and squeeze your way through. I tell you to quiet, you ignore and do not cooperate becos u do not know the importance of it. Imagine this: If the world is coming to an end, and somebody is to given an announcement about which direction to go, what to do, who does what. But the people do not cooperate. They simply say: I dont want to do this, let me die, or why is he able to do that while I have to do this. All these require cooperation to work, if not, we will all die in this situation.

When people do not cooperate, it can be very chaotic. For example, if u see in movies like "The Day After Tomorrow", you can see this large group of people walking of on their own, unwilligly to cooperate with the other smaller group which manages to survive in the end. Sometimes, listening and cooperating simply helps a lot.

If everyone can just cooperate, life would be much simpler for everyone else, especially the leaders, like in class, if u dont cooperate, then things can never be done. You have to learn to obey and just accept certain ways of doing things, and not be so fussed over little things. You can be unhappy over it, but if you could cooperate, there would at least be progress. "Would you like to make all the decisions instead?" "It is not easy you know? Simply just fulfilling everyone's needs, its clearly impossible, because no minds think the same. Even great minds think alike. Every great mind still has their own way of doing things.

I realise lesser and lesser cooperation can be seen in the world today. Be it lesser education, or yes there is education but lesser importance, I really dont know. I just hope that more people could see the importance of this, and CO-OPERATE.

Level Experience and these few days

Feeling the pressure. Not from the sand, but from the work. Next week has got 3 tests, and 1 pop quiz? haiz haiz.

From the level experience, I learnt quite a number of things that weren't in the objectives.

1) Low cost doesnt give good quality, risk the dirtiness and poor facilities.

2) There is a maximum point to a person's perserverance and will. This person was saying that we must win just a few days ago, then for another competition it was all lose. Well, unsure if it was a lie or what, but if it was true, then take the above sentence.

3) Fairness of life can never be the same. Sometimes you're lucky, or else u are just at the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people.
4) Learn to accept things the way they are, of course certain things are of importance to you, but you don't have to be so ???? about it

More another time? I love my avatar guess :)

Dr Goh Tribute; Life and Life

Dr Goh Keng Swee. Sad Sad. Though he did not contribute to much things recently, but if you do not realise, he actually did many things. If not for him, we may not be facing so much stress, but at the same time be in such a cool class, having awesome friends. If not for him, we would have lost many ministers in the parliament, and we would not have such a great transport system. Even the little things in life, like simply being able to live, we have to owe quite a part to him. "Mr Problem Solver" is definitely somebody that we should all know of and pass it on to the next generations. Speaking of which, tmr if u realise, the state flag will be half-risen. Gonna spend some time at the auditorium tmr.

Today was ok ok... A bit of fun, a bit of "wakening". Life is a complex thing, but we will live with it. After watching the show on Ch8 on monday night about the person that went through liver transplant, I really think I should cherish life, and whats in store for me. Though I really hate or dread certain things sometimes, or I just feel so bad and distressed about my life, but it is definitely amazinghow we all manage through our lives. I was so afraid that he would just pass away like this, though I know he likely lived, but I was really scared. Then I found out it was something normal, I was like... But it was dangerous. Yes, many things in our life are dangerous,but we do live on with risks. What I am facing now, I dunno how long more I have to face it, but I definitely hope I can have a new "life", just overcoming or having a change in certain things. To let go or to continue pursuing? I really don't know.

3ERP. Life now

Year 3 is Year 3. Everyone in class is getting above 3.4. Upstairs people leh? 4 lor. So busy that now I sledom update my transport Web and it is just like a Lost City. I wonder when I can touch it again.
As of today, I have got 77 Mk IIIs. Not a very good progress, with so many going to dereg soon. Leylands got 3 only, but nvm, theres a long way ahead. Level Experience??? O.O Class recently seems like a whole change. Everything just seems so unstable. My geog test was like ..... My geog essay was like...... I used to believe that Humans was just LA. But Ms Pear said no...
Recently, new bus interests surfaced from DHS. Hin Weng!!!! Though not very avid not ardent, but its good to know of such people, cos u don't really find people of such interests in IP schools. Also met AEW5001 by chance. A very nice guy that mixes Chi and Eng. Thanks for the 89e MK III !!!! Anw, 7888K started running.
Jenson at the top of driver's standings now. Later is the Monaco Grand Prix. One of the drivers once said this: "Racing in Monaco is just like riding a bicycle around your living room". True enough, thats the reason why Button isnt too optimistic about protecting his driver's standings, and Alonso isnt too as well since he is going to start from Pits.

"when the going gets tough, the tough gets going"
"tough times don't last, tough people do"
by people whom im unsure of.

was discussing this with my dad while my sis was playing in the arcade:
me:"how come there's no clock here ah? let me see your watch?"
dad:"mmmm"
me:"they want people to play with no time constraints in mind.. 让时间被遗忘."
dad:"so casino should not have clock also lor"
me:"good theory"

Its amazing how people just realise these things, make connections and find joy.