VJC 09S64 (:

You Guys are Awesum

2012-01-04T03:26:00.001+08:00

hi 09s64 :) happy 2012!

class outing on new year's day was great, with scandalous discussions over pool, playing raving rabbids on wii, and kinect sports at st games, with a few of us playing rock band (with our allstar jiajie belting out living on a prayer like a pro, and mellifluous sandra singing maroon 5 songs). Followed that with dinner (sorry i didn't go so i can't elaborate. but if you can and want to add it in, you can edit the post!) CNY gathering again soon! :) anyone can volunteer their house/function room as a venue? 24th/25th/28th/29th january.

♥ Carol

Whee

2011-08-12T02:20:00.003+08:00

Hello! this video was shown during one of my lectures, and i thought that it was quite true! How's school and NS everyoneeeee!
♥ Carol

Chill Pill

2011-06-24T17:43:00.003+08:00

(via 9GAG)

(via 9GAG)

yups so these are just silly photos to laugh at, take a chill pill and enjoy this break while you can! i'm telling you, starting school again is damn sian! oh by the way, class outing tomorrow! P.s. first one's from a game called Portal or Portal 2. :)

♥ Carol

Differing Opinions

2011-05-26T17:58:00.003+08:00

hello, our class blog is so dead! :( anyways i was just going to time-wasting sites like i-am-bored.com and i stumbled upon this! just some food for thought :) i hope everyone's uni applications have come to a good closure, and we've all found a place somewhere (& we're happy with what we've got)! class gathering soon please! :)

♥ Carol

lady: ...my sister's giving birth in my head...

2010-10-29T22:54:00.002+08:00

take a break, have a good laugh (:

Longest Run

2010-10-23T01:59:00.000+08:00

Hi 64! :) it's been really long since anyone posted here, so i've decided to revive the blog, hopefully you all haven't given up on it already! (P.s. do feel free to blog, check your vjmail for the user and pass i sent it long long long ago LOL) So the A levels are in 2 weeks' time, and i know some of us (okay fine, me too) aren't doing too well, and we've got quite a lot to catch up on. So to these people, jiayou and don't give up, give it your best shot aye? yup and to those people who're doing relatively alright/scoring damn well, keep improving! :) It's the very last lap (like scarily finally), WE CAN DO THIS. i know we're in an S6 class, and people don't really expect us to do well... but let's prove those people wrong, alright? JIAYOUXZXZX!

♥Carol

Take a break from all that studying!

2010-07-20T18:28:00.005+08:00

1. Q: What has many keys but can't open any doors?
.

The teacher speaking to a student said, "John, name two pronouns."
John who suddenly woke up, said, "Who, me?"

Teacher: Today, we're going to talk about the tenses. Now, if I say "I am beautiful," which tense is it?
Student: Obviously it is the past tense.

Ways to grade the Final Exam

Dept of Statistics:: All grades are plotted along the normal bell curve.
Dept of Psychology:: Students are asked to blot ink in their exam books, close them and turn them in. The professor opens the books and assigns the first grade that comes to mind.
Dept of History:: All students get the same grade they got last year.
Dept of Religion:: Grade is determined by God.
Dept of Philosophy:: What is a grade?
Law school:: Students are asked to defend their position of why they should receive an A.
Dept of Logic:: If and only if the student is present for the final and the student has accumulated a passing grade then the student will receive an A else the student will not receive an A.
Dept of Computer Science:: Random number generator determines grade.
Music Department:: Each student must figure out his grade by listening to the instructor play the corresponding note (+ and - would be sharp and flat respectively).
Dept of Physical Education:: Everybody gets an A.; Answers: 1.: A piano

Spot The Teacher's Name

2010-07-17T18:29:00.002+08:00

School is celebrating Racial Harmony Day this coming Tuesday, 20th July. Lets all wear ethnic costumes. It'll be fun, if we all do it together. We might even win some award if the whole class dresses up. Plus our teachers might get so fascinated and distracted by our costumes that they Kan't conduct their lessons. Dont you Ting that would great? Maybe? Maybe not?

We're going to have our last PE lesson this coming week. I'll miss PE. Especially the last PE session, i heard it was a lot of fun playing badminton. I remember walking around the hall picking up shuttleKwoks for people (That part wasn't so fun though).

Study hard everyone, but dont forget to have fun too. There's a Limit to studying ;)

-Jolyn

CT2s are over!!! :)

2010-07-02T01:50:00.002+08:00

Hey guys!

CT2s are over!! Haha yup so cool then we get to have 4 days off from school! 5 days for computing peeps (yay) and 3 days for music students but it's ok don't be sad :)

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
--Bernard Meltzer

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
-- Woodrow Wilson

Thank you all for being such great friends :)

Anyway I was feeling really bored today, I decided to go youtube and search for a video I watched last time. It's pretty old, I don't know if you have seen it before, but it's okay I think it's quite funny you can go see it if you haven't seen it before!

Haha its quite late now, like 2AM in the morning. I can't believe I took so long to figure out how to post the stupid video inside the blog post. Haha ok I shall sleep now. Goodnight! :) Enjoy your breaks! Remember to do your T3As too!

-Zoey

Context of Talent

2010-05-09T03:43:00.003+08:00

HE SITUATION - In Washington , DC , at a Metro Station, on a cold January morning in 2007, this man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.
After about 3 minutes, a middle-aged man noticed that there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds, and then he hurried on to meet his schedule.

About 4 minutes later:
The violinist received his first dollar. A woman threw money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.

At 6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.

At 10 minutes:
A 3-year old boy stopped, but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head the whole time. This action was repeated by several other children, but every parent - without exception - forced their children to move on quickly.

At 45 minutes: The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while.
About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.

After 1 hour:
He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed and no one applauded. There was no recognition at all.

No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before, Joshua Bell sold-out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100 each to sit and listen to him play the same music.

This is a true story. Joshua Bell, playing incognito in the D.C. Metro Station, was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people’s priorities.

This experiment raised several questions:
*In a common-place environment, at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
*If so, do we stop to appreciate it?

*Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this:
If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made …
How many other things are we missing as we rush through life?

Click here to see the footage

(via pamilya ; plantsvsangeli ; lostinthepast ; bananatwo)

I saw this on my friend's blog, and thought it was really interesting. :) just some food for thought! HI PEOPLE, KEEP THIS BLOG ALIVE. announcements, or whatever!
♥ Carol

To The Mapril Babies

2010-04-03T23:11:00.002+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR MARCH AND APRIL CLASSMATES :) so sorry for the late/early wishes, haven't had the time to use the computer to do any updates recently. but well, hope that you all have/had a swell birthday! :) 09S64 Loves You just as much as we love every single member of the class! (P.s. i know you all can't see the time for this blog post, but EH IT'S 1111 :D means someone's thinking of 09s64 heehee!)

Advertising

2010-04-03T21:42:00.004+08:00

HELLO! :)
In conjunction with our GP topic, mass media (okay, it's changed to arts already :x haha i'm abit slow, but here we go!), here's smt i felt was rather amusing. whatever's mentioned below's directly taken from the site :D

"Commercials are duplicitous. They are designed to elicit the same response from us as a burning fire; our interest level is minimal at best yet we can't tear ourselves from a constantly shifting image. Advertisers do this to protect the absurdity in every commercial, encouraging viewers to watch, but not too intently that reason might step in and say, "What the fuck is going on here?" And ordinarily, we accept it without argument the same way we accept blue raspberry as a legitimate flavor.

This Cracked writer humbly cries bullshit. Commercials have gotten away with this ridiculousness for too long. Their history of deceit is responsible for an entire alternate reality specific only to advertising, one where your friends know more than doctors and pollen genuinely wants to hurt you. The following six are the most egregious.

#6.

Only Women Eat Yogurt

In a shocking display of arrogance, yogurt companies determined at some point that half the population on the planet was no longer a suitable audience for their product. In the commercial universe, men don't eat yogurt, and in some cases, can't even see it.

"I don't understand! Where is food?"

Take a look at this.

Women on the other hand, use the curdled milk as an excuse to get together in the afternoons wearing their hooded sweatshirts and cardigans to talk about how much they fucking love yogurt. They eat it partially because it tastes like Boston cream pie and apple turnovers, and mostly because it makes them shit.

In fact, it turns out women can't defecate without yogurt. The yellow digestion balls in every woman's stomach is directionless before the cultures organize them into an arrow pointing toward the ass.

The yellow balls tasked with shit regulation have forgotten evolution! Does poop escape through the pores?

Oh, right, the butt. Thanks, Activia.

Women literally need yogurt to live.

#5.

One Car on the Road Per Night

At some point auto manufacturers realized that most cars look kick-ass at night. They also must have realized that showing any other cars on the road in a commercial would only confuse the viewer, because we are, after all, retarded. The solution: pretending only one car can exist on the road at a time.

The consequence is darker than advertisers may have anticipated. The only time I drive completely empty city streets is at 4:00 in the morning after a night of bad decisions. These commercials unintentionally beg the question, why are these people up?

"'Let's meet at 4am,' you said. 'I'll be the one sitting in a parking lot, alone, doing the robot. Also there are no more cars.' And I thought you were crazy."

Logic would suggest alcohol was involved and they certainly display some of the classic symptoms, like stopping in the middle of a bridge and impulsively opening every door on the car.

Nothing weird about this.

You see it everywhere.

There's a general hint of unhappiness in every one of these ads, some aspect of these drivers' lives is still lacking and each of them is trying to fill the void with a night of driving around aimlessly. Yet they continue to make these commercials. Thanks Cadillac, but I've already got plenty of sadness saved up, I don't need to purchase yours.

#4.

Dog and Cat Food Is Delicious

Fancy Feast saves you the shame of serving your cat the same chili on a paper plate you'll be eating for dinner. Cats are fickle and refuse to eat meals that don't include at least three types of slow roasted animals. In fact, advertisers want you to know that you're kind of a jackass for not eating cat food too. There's even garnish in the meal. Garnish. A cat would be more thrilled by a severed bird head accenting the dish.

Based on the ad, I would order Fancy Feast at a restaurant if they would serve it to me. And cat food isn't the only one playing this bizarre game. Wet dog food looks like it's just some corn and carrots shy of the best stew you've ever had.

I don't want to brag, but I've seen a lot of dogs eat shit, enough to know they don't care what it looks like. Advertisers are just hoping you're stupid enough to think your pet wants to eat what you want to eat, or maybe that you're desperate enough to eat dog food. Either way, they are developing food for some weird hybrid between human and animal that doesn't exist yet.

Sick of your dog's unrefined tastes and dog-like behavior? Feed it Alpo and he'll learn to walk upright and dance like an almost-human.

Case in point:

#3.

Cosmetics and Candy Are the Same

After a meal of pet food, there's nothing sweeter than washing it down with a bottle of lotion. For some inexplicable reason, cosmetics are marketed as candy. While it likely appeals to a feminine aspiration toward sweetness, its real-world conclusion can't be anything short of a man eating a woman's face. In advertisers' quest to market makeup as dessert, chocolate and foundation are the worst culprits. They maintain identical properties in commercials...

Well, they both look delicious.

...both defying gravity while flowing in aimless streams, both only existing in front of non-descript backgrounds with no horizon.

The correlation between cosmetics and dessert is so long standing it's deserving of a whole new article, or at the very least, a quiz. So here's a quiz, it is literally the least I could do:

Play: Makeup or Candy?

#2.

Your Feet Are Haunted

Ads want to warn you that at some point in your life, your feet will fuck you. Everyone will inevitably get athlete's foot or foot fungus and it's literally crippling. Your symptoms will parallel those of Regan from The Exorcist: they will spew green liquid...

...deadly gas will emanate from everything they touch...

...and sometimes they will spontaneously burst into flames.

It gets worse. On a microscopic level your feet already look like the surface of hell. Fungus is actually just a bunch of tiny, hideous demons that love it there, prying open your toenails and scratching at the soft skin underneath with no foreseeable gain on their end.

The commercials offer solutions but the symptoms they've manufactured are so horrifying that it seems impossible that some spray or a pill could ever work. You need a priest. Or you need to quit standing on Indian burial grounds. It's not clear why commercials are set on scaring the hell out of us when it comes to feet, maybe because they know most of us already have an uneasy relationship with that part of our body and it's easy to attack, or maybe they are trying to curb foot fetishists from producing nightmares like this:

#1.

Your Body Is Filled With Windshield Wiper Fluid

By far the most baffling commercial pretense is the one surrounding bodily fluids. There are likely hundreds of little girls across the country with both network television and bashful mothers who have no idea their first period won't be the color and consistency of mouthwash. I'm sympathetic to an advertiser's squeamishness around showing a pad actually at work, but the fact that they've apparently settled on Windex as the stand in for all nasty bodily fluids is more than a little odd.

It extends further than just periods too, diaper commercials have hopped on board with the conceit that leaking blue anything is OK for any living creature.

So why stop there? Why don't commercials show the durability of Kleenex by blowing blue fluid through facial tissues? Or the power of condoms by shooting blue water into the reservoir tip? What do the Adventure Golf putt-putt courses smell like in the diaper ad universe? Then again, if ads insist that blue is the all-encompassing color of human secretion, I hate to think what flavor blue raspberry is actually supposed to be."

(via cracked.com)

HAHAHA I THOUGHT THE THING ABOUT WORSHIPPING THAT GIRL'S FEET WAS ERRRR.... WEIRD. abit scary don't you think? :/
♥ Carol!

MusicFest MV

2010-03-25T22:06:00.004+08:00

HELLO :) here's a quick update on musicfest MV. this will be the song we're using:
Believe Me by Fort Minor

Students: Zhang Qian, Grace and Yaxing
Teachers: Enzon and Jiayin

First filming: Tomorrow, Friday (26th March 2010) after chemistry lesson at C21.
Agenda: Film opening scene (Involves whole class), scenes involving teachers (and extra people), as well as ending scene (involving all teachers and students).
Things to Bring: VJ Hoodie, Teachers' outfit, camera (whatever's applicable to your role)

THANKS SO MUCH FOR YOUR COOPERATION :D
♥ Carol

2010-03-16T21:48:00.004+08:00

HEY 64 PEEPS :D

Haha hello I'm blogging now cause I'm feeling random.

How's your march hols going along? Probably alot of CCA activities right, carol and I just came back from harmoc camp, and we saw quite a few of 64 ppl in school like sandra jolyn jiayin engmeng anthoni jianfeng kiawee jiajie and more(:

Thats a good thing seeing people in school for CCA cause it means at least we aren't spending all our our hols time studying until our heads explodes :\

[ohyar goodluck anthoni and engmeng for your untaken CT papers]

Ohyar, to anyone who's reading, I wanna tell you all about this cool event!

Can go google on the sports and then go for the event! It sounds fun to me :D

Okay lah I go sleep alr, very tired after harmoc camp. Byebye goodnight! (:

-Zoey

MusicFest

2010-03-06T11:18:00.000+08:00

we're changing the song to be WHADDYA WANT FROM ME by ADAM LAMBERT. :)

One and One and One

2010-03-05T03:18:00.000+08:00

Hello! I hope everyone's been alright preparing for CTs! We've all been super duper tired (constantly falling asleep). The going's tough, but jiayou okay people! I thought this was really funny and the guy really sounds like elmo! Destress abit and watch it k :D

Oh yes, class outing after CT1s? :) Please leave a tag on the tagboard if you got any suggestions as to what to do! Oh, and respond if you're interested also okay!

We need to find a time to video our MV for MusicFest! :) If you still don't know, we're going to do a MV for the song 如果我有一百万. (If I Had a Million Dollars) It's a hokkien song!
♥ Carol

Rare Double Occasions

2010-02-14T05:18:00.002+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR AND VALENTINE'S DAY ALL YOU AWESUM' PEOPLE :)
in case you're wondering, yes these pictures are from mousehunt!
♥ carol

Celebrations and Jubilations

2010-01-09T02:29:00.001+08:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL YOU JANUARY BABIES :) hope you all have a blast/had a blast on your birthdays! So in order, here's wishing

LIAO SHUANG!

the ever-smiling, occasionally sleeping, "aiya don't do tutorials, can do it when the teacher's going through". It's been really cool having you as a classmate. Thanks for all the help you've rendered to us! :)

YI YANG!

the dancer in class, with super awesum' hip hop moves as part of daily motion. seemingly quiet, but you're a nice dude :) 64 appreciates you!

ANTHONI!

The Next President Scholar, physics pro, secret camwhore ("HAIZ CAMWHORE AGAIN" when you secretly wna join the photo right! :D) Constantly saying you're hot even if you're not(it rhymes!), you bring warmth and fun to our class!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, & HAVE A NICE DAY.

by the way, class outing after R papers on the 13th okay? Suggestions? (Most of you should have received a message informing you all of the existence of this outing)

Back To School

2010-01-07T20:49:00.003+08:00

HAPPY 2010 SIX FOUR :D
urgh i know, we're all not looking forward to the tons of tutorials and work to catch up on once school reopens. but here's some updates for those who don't check your vj mail! (PLUS OUR NEW TIMETABLE. it really sucks compared to last years'. we end so late this year!)

1) Lessons end at 12.10 pm from Mon 11/1 to Thur 14/1.
Lessons as usual from Fri 15/1.
ReAssessment will start at 2 pm from Mon 11/1 to Wed 13/1.

2) Attendance-taking
CT Reps: collect Class List from table outside Office by 7.30 am daily for attendance-taking.
Class list returned to Office by 8.15 am daily.

3) Temperature-taking on Tue 12 Jan.
Report to CT venue for temp-taking on 12 Jan.
Bring Oral Digital Thermometer.
No morning assembly.
Civics tutor/CT Rep collect Class list from table outside office by 7.30am
(for recording of temperature readings.)
Open the windows and turn off the aircon.
Latecomers will have their temperature taken at the Main gate.
Class list to be returned to office by 8.15 am.

P/S: if you have temperature above 37.6 degree celsius, please do not come to school.
You should see a doctor and keep the school informed (call Office at 6448-5011).

see you all 11 jan (or maybe tmr!) :) :) ♥Carol

HELLO CHICKEN

2009-12-31T05:00:00.001+08:00

HI JIANG MEI :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

WELCOME TO THE 17 CLUB (like finally, right?)

haha should start to tell people your name already, don't keep making us guess :D

heh, i koped the photo below from your fb cause it's so hard to find pictures with you alone. should take more photos with us :P TK SHIRT HEH HEH. (random but i realise you changed your specs from black to white for the span of the year!)

Anyway, it's been really cool having you as a classmate. 64 Loves YOU!

WE WISH YOU

2009-12-17T00:00:00.001+08:00

HELLO! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZOEY TEO! enjoy being 17 on the 17th of december! YAY.
thanks for doing up the blog layout, so the first birthday post shall be dedicated to you! ((: don't you feel so honored! heehee okay!

BBQ+nite cycling+star gazing+sending off on tue/wed

2009-11-23T23:20:00.000+08:00

hey ppl pleeeeeeeeeeeeees come down to ECP BBQ pit no. C21 on Tue around 6pm for your LAST class BBQ this year WITH Yaxing :)
the BBQ will last for quite long and we can have night cycling and/or star gazing after that if you can stay. pleeeeeeeees try your best to stay ok? it's gonna be your LAST night WITH Yaxing this year haha. Anw even you can't stay also pleeeeeeeeeeeeees come.
For those want to send me off (hope got some one), my flight is at 8am Wed. Drop by Changi Airport T1 if possible. Anw have a nice holiday ahead and see yall next year :)
happy hari raya christmas and new year...

love,
Yaxing

I Tell You

2009-11-12T21:12:00.000+08:00

PW's officially over! Aren't you all glad? :D Give yourselves a pat on your back for a job well done, people! Well, for all you people who didn't join us for the class outing (boo :( !), you missed out so much on good food and all the fun at Seoul Garden! FEEL JEALOUS. okay oops, i think i'm getting a little too random here. but yup, here's a video for you all to watch and chill! Not sure if you've seen it before, but yup i think it's very amusing!

see you all monday!
carol

Class outing, okay?

2009-11-06T20:57:00.003+08:00

Hey! Could we have a class outing after OP? (we can still do our I&R at night when we go home)

Some random suggestions :
cycling at ECP
bowling
movie
pool
oh go eat Seoul Garden buffet! there's like student price for lunch, quite affordable :D
OR LETS GO MIND CAFE OR SETTLERS CAFE to play board games haha

Let you see the Mind Cafe promotion. Looks quite affordable (: Although I don't know where the cafes are located I only know there's one at SAFRA tampines.

Priorities

2009-11-04T22:24:00.002+08:00

A little story i got from my training at National Community Leadership Institute

When things in life seems almost too much to handle, when 24 hours are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the coffee.

A professor stood in front of his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls (golf = Jun Jie? hahas). He then asked the class if the jar was filled. They agreed that it was.

So, the professor picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students replied with an unanimous "yes".

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under his table and poured the entire content into the jar., effectively filling the spaces between the sand. The students laughed.

The professor said, after the laughter had subsided, " I want you to recognise that this jar represent your life. The golf balls are the important things -your family, your health, your friends, your passion- things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life could still be full. The sand is everything else-the small stuffs.

"If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important for you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your goals, happiness and health. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matters Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hands and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled, "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show that no matter how full your life may seems, there's always room for a couple of room for a couple of coffee with a friend."

(c) NACLI

well, all the best for your PW OPs!

kia wee

Dare to Dream

2009-11-04T04:14:00.003+08:00

I'm pretty amused by the tags left at the tagboard. They're pretty hilarious. Anyway I haven't really done a first post on a class blog before, so i have a strong feeling that this might be damn shitty. :/ ohwell. Anyway, hope you all are doing fine with OP prep! Maybe the whole class can get A or smt haha. Here's smthing I thought was really meaningful (: Jiayou people, don't be uncool!
-carol