Erm, I don't think I will talk too much today. Feel like sleeping early to do more things tomorrow. And anyone involved directly or indirectly in the APMOPS, please do not be offended by the following content because I wrote in with sarcasm to release my anger. Sorry.

Ok, basically today is APMOPS. APMOPS is quite successful. It was an extremely pleasant experience for most people but terrible for me. This I will explain later. I met Kai Yao in the bus when I arrived in school at 7.00a.m. Somehow, I think I was a little too late as most of the Organizing Team, CHS helpers and NYGH helpers were already in Kah Kee Hall by the time I arrived.

Finally, the registration started at about 7.30a.m (or earlier) and people started streaming in. Because I was taken off my post by Yuan Chang due to a very unpleasant unforseen circumstance, I did not have ANY department to work for. Thus, I did not have ANY official duties to carry out at all except being an EXTRA and also errand boy. And Therefore, I the most extra person in the WHOLE APMOPS. Even ushers have the PREVILEGE of being busy and have duties to CARRY OUT. So during registration, I could not do anything but congregrate with other OT members at the information counter to provide assistance to anyone. The only work that I was assigned to was to find out the number of boys and girls in each group by going to each classmate to ask the people in charge of each group to count. Honestly, this period of time up to about 8.30a.m was the most and ONLY eventful time that I get to do something.

The next few hours up to 1.00p.m, basically, me and Bao Chen (Bao Chen volunteerly helped out in the event) went around doing NOTHING USEFUL. I kept going back and forth to all other departments like usher and food to give help if needed. Finally, after a very long wait, I helped lead the participants to the HCJC auditorium, where the prize presentation is held. There, all councillors are supposed to usher the parents and teachers. As you can see, throughout the whole experience, I was unable to contribute at all thanks to some reasons that was partly my fault, since I was not proactive enough in clarifying what i have to do. So this event is indeed very memorable. Yes, very very memorable. If you want, you can view Chong Chen's blog to see his experience in comparision to mine. Clearly, I am useless today.

But nevermind lor. I can only blame myself actually. For the happy part: my primary school, St, Anthony's Pri (SAPS) bagged many awards this year! Yeah!! The awards include one platinium, two gold, one silver and two bronze. SAPS was one of the top schools in terms of team total score. Besides, the person who won platinium, Lim Kah Hong also obtained an Honourable Mention Award for the top 5 Non-SAP School pupil. Mrs Wong, my Pri 3 Maths teacher accompanied them. Sadly, she was unable to recognise me at all. To access the results of SMOPS (not APMOPS), you can go to the below web address:

http://www.chs.edu.sg/aphelion/results.xls

After APMOPS, I was supposed to go home, but I ended up at Jurong East Interchange when I slept on the bus service 66 again. This time, it was embarrassing as I was awoken by the bus driver himself. I was very blur when I woke up to find the bus empty. So I decided to take 66 back. That was about 6.30p.m. So I boarded the bus, and the next thing I knew... I found myself "somewhere in Singapore". The sky was pitch black, and the bus was full. After some time of looking at road signs, I realized I was somewhere nearing Tekka market, Serangoon area. I really should knock myself. Imagine me sleeping all the way from Jurong East to Serangoon. Eventually, I found my way to Little India MRT station and went home.

What a weird and unusual day. Haiz.

posted by Gimmicker at 9:24 PM

Hi, everyone. Some rather exciting things happened today. So I hope today's content will not be so boring and monotonous.

Firstly, I will talk about what happened at the start of the day. During our RP session and at about 7.55a.m, Yuan Chang was hosting the discussion when suddenly, Ms Sim ran into the classroom and told us to go to the window to see an unusual and exotic bird. So everyone was crowding around that side of the classroom to catch a glimpse of it. The bird was about half the height of a human being, and the general structure looked somewhat like those vulture birds except that it did not seem to be a bird of prey. Expectedly, this stirred up an enormous commotion among the four Aphelion Sec 2 classes, 2A-2D, and everyone ran out of class to catch a close-up view of the bird. It was perched on the railings of the exterior wall of the building, and seemed to be slightly afraid of the large crowd of people. The funny thing was that when Law Chun Yin of 2A was coming up the stairs(beside the railing), he was like surprised to see everyone looking in the direction of him. Then he was totally stunned when he turned around to see that huge bird. After a few minutes, the bird hopped away from view (the distance between us and the bird was just mere metres) to another side and everyone went back since lesson has started. Interesting.

In Chinese lesson today, I waas hopping mad at Jian Ting. Just for today, I'll call him by his nickname, Dragonfly (or DF) to release my anger. Anyway, Chiu lao shi asked us to create a short story using words from the list of sheng1 zi4. This was supposed to be fun, but than DF messed it all up. Since he had a story in mind, the whole group asked him to write it down in point form quickly as time is extremely limited. But he purposely took his time to write a few words "you3 yi4 tian1,... ...", and said that he did not know what to write. What kind of attitude is that? He took the whole thing as a joke. The worst thing is that he dragged on time right till the time when we had to send a representative to tell the whole class our story. The time given to do was really short, yet he still took his time to do nothing. So when it was our group's turn to present, we had no story at all, but naturally Chiu lao shi would not allow us to discuss anymore. Eventually, I had to resort to on-the-spot speaking (worse than ji2 xi2 yan2 jiang3 when you had a minute or two to at least organize your thoughts). So I spoke of a very wu liao, extremely fei4 story on the spot, making a fool of myself ALL BECAUSE OF HIM. Feel like murdering him then. Luckily it somehow worked out and I don't think anyone else knew of the situation. Frustrating!

And we received our Term Progress Report today. As expected, my IH was 69 (after calculation yesterday), a mark away from A2. Thus my overall MSG became 1.33, and lost to Yuan Chang (1.00) and Alvin Kuk (1.28 because of additional subject AEP). Despite being quite pleased with this unexpected result, I will still work harder to obtain even better results in Term 3. But Hun Sheng was somehow upset with his relatively excellent result of 1.6 and keeps harping on how "so many" people won him.

Today was the Preparation Day of the APMOPS. I was initially supposed to be the Prize Presentation I/C in the HCJC Auditorium. However, there was a breakdown in communication between Yuan Chang and Mrs Chai. So instead, Kangjie replaced me in giving out the prize on stage. Thus, eventually, I'm only the I/C in name, but I do not know anything going on in the prize department at all. Grrr. Nevermind, its ok with me, and Yuan Chang has assigned a new job for me. But I still feel very extra. Anyway, everyone involved in this event ran about for a few hours to settle many things. Ran back and forth from CHS and HCJC and also constantly around CHS. Eventually, I returned home at about 8.00p.m, exhausted but contented. So tomorrow will be the actual day of APMOPS and I'm looking forward to it. So that's all, bye!

posted by Gimmicker at 10:36 PM