Monday, July 28, 2008

name of cip centre

i was googling it and yups. for all those who need it, the centres we volunteered at this year is

Presbyterian Community Services Jurong East/ Bukit Batok (:


sam.

anti-climax

sorry to bring up the topic of updating your CAAL portfolio whilst everyone is posting happy/disturbing posts. (referring to joel's beautiful hair post)

I was talking to Mdm Khoo Bee Chan today (the one in charge of scholarship applications) and I clarified with her regarding how much we need to "reflect" on every single thing we had done in school /: basically, she told me (and gave me the permission to spread the word around) that the reflections are not going to be published in your leaving cert/portfolio/whereever, thus it is not that impt. So please don't tear your hair apart if you can't force yourself to squeeze out 2000words (: yups. According to Mdm Khoo, reflections are only important if you decide to put the achievement in your leaving cert (:

Hope that helps and you guys can get more sleep because of it! (:

sam.

ps: zhirong. pls stop acting gay in front of me. it's really traumatising /:

wild adventure (where everyone's happy)!



SPLASH! <33

c'mon people, it's happy time. if you still ain't loosening up, why don't you just try imagine zhirong topless under that big big faucet. don't that just give you a warm fuzzy feeling.

so c'mon 04, let's quit the yellin' and cut each other some slack. remember, it's only okay to make a splash if you're not wetting someone else's socks. chill out!

-johnson retains the secret of the location of joel's g-spot.

hello ppl! anyway, seeing as how we need more stupid stuff in our blog cus we're stressd from stress, here's a nice pic of a waterfall cus ppl say water is calming..yay!anyway this absolutely random post here is to say im reli quite shocked that time has passed so quickly and exams are coming =( pooey. anyway, if u lk back, its hard to rmb, but we've reli bn thru quite alot tgt n im reli grateful to everyon for making me after-sec-skl life so uberly fun .. reli.. whn i dunt cme to skl i feel quite utterly lkin fwd to skl. u guys make skl so much more bearable. with our idiosyncracies that are so lame sumtimes it always puts a smile on my face n i start smiling idiotically to myself. ROFL. so yup.mbe its me but i think our class is quite bonded.despite sme stuff here n there. ultimately i think we'd stand up for each othr which is i guess kinda cool.thx for the comraderie.i feel lucky. btw the new song by jason mraz called lucky.is so relaxing.so meditate-table. anyhooz. jiayou to everyone for mugging! even tho it sucks. we've only got a while more to do it, and we DO want to own the world ryte? or at least not drown in it rofl.
okae.in the midst of stress, if u nd a drink to chillax, den drink... *drumroll. honeydew green pearl milk tea. it tastes lyk flowers n stars n rainbows.im not kidding. its the prettiest tasting thing n leaves u feeling so happy =) ok random but its reli nice. plus our paopao cha stall is reli good
isit me or does the caal thing have so many screwups.
hate that ip1 n 2 stuff arent included.
love that cus it means less stuff to key in
restructured timetable.. rofl...
we must dress up for prom okae? we shud get a theme. altho making mr teo cruella devil dusnt reli work out. rofl. i dunt want to be spotted lyk a dalmation..
OK HERE"S TO 04 AND OUR MANY YEARS TOGETHER, OUR LAST IN SKL TGT, AND TO A FRIENDSHIP THT"LL LAST TILL WE"RE OLD N CRINKLY

Sunday, July 27, 2008

such an irony...

just when i mentioned that our class blog was the most happening amongst the ip level. Haha! guys... i think we would be quite a joke to our people if they were to chance upon our blog and see those stuff about CIP.

come on! i think we can definitely have more interesting stuff to blog about rather than just the CIP saga. SOOOOO.... Well done Joel for that short comic relief. hope we can have more of that in time to come!


Yours dearly,
MUACKS

Saturday, July 26, 2008

hey guys, circle around yo...

yup, thats the way! with some bagpipes in the background, feel the groove.


and pose =).
yo 04 buds, how ya'll doing. prelims are coming, i dont feel ready,but hey, take a step back,look at your notes, and SMILE =). thats what i do,i grin at my notes. we've been through a lot, we're talkin' a lot, let's show 'em what we got. (who am i kidding, prelims =DD). anyway, lets appreciate the finer things in life, like dancing around in circles, caterwauling and singing away. and affirm one another in this period of time when we need one another the most!

here's a photo i took in 2006, when my hair was beautiful like a girl's and i was/AM handsome. my hair's still nice, btw.

cheers, damsels and gentlemen. joel out.

Mel's right but I feel like someone's got to defend clar. clar has nothing to apologize for. She was harsh but she said what really happened and it wasn't mean. She wasn't trying to push responsibility, wasn't deliberately trying to make a fuss. She was just worried that if mr teo asks to see the Jurong cip records, there would be none. And she would get the blame, which has happened before. So please try to understand that mr teo has been harsh on her for this whole cip thing, and she was voicing her unhappiness because the class seems half-hearted about the class cip,not just because someone didn't want to get the records.

And to the anoynymous 'bystander', I thought you sounded mean with the "dearly beloved" and "it's really funny..."if you want to say these things please say who you are. And I feel that it is not clar's obligation as a rep to do everything personally herself. She has already done her duty by assigning the job of getting the records to someone.

Not to point fingers but I feel like some people in class do not take ownership of the cip even though it is class cip. I'm not clar so I wouldn't know how she feels. But I think this is part of the reason why she was annoyed. Like since the person(s) clar asked didn't want to get the records, it makes clar feel like people in class don't even care about their own hours. The issue here is not so much whether our not the jurong records are needed(sorry gladys), but 04's general attitude to cip. There was a time when clar asked some people in class to do things for cip and the things were not done on time. I don't think clar herself minded this much, she would have just given them more time. But mr teo blames her for these things when she did already assign them to people. you may say that it is her job to ensure the things were done on time, but i feel like there shouldn't be a need for a pressurizing class cip experience where clar has to constantly make sure that people do the things they were asked to do. I don't think anyone wants that...we want to enjoy class cip as much as possible. AND we have been a class for nearly 4 years so I think clar trusted us to do things we were asked to do without her chasing us.

Sorry to bring up all these old touchy issues. I just feel like if I do, people will understand clar's position more. To gladys and those hurt, I really hope you'll understand that clar was not deliberately to hurt anyone. She just needed to voice her unhappiness about our attitude to cip and this records thing was the most convenient example. please don't take it as a personal attack. And the thing about mr teo blaming clar when things are not done is not imaginary, I can vouch for it because i have seen and heard the way he talks to her. Because of class cip, he thinks clar is a "l (i don't need to say it because we all heard it in class) leader". I don't think this would have happened if we were more cooperative with clar. clar shouldn't have to take a "strong-leadership" approach in managing class cip when we have been a class for nearly 4 years.


I know we're all busy so this time i don't think its anyone's fault. But imagine yourself in clar's position. When you ask someone more than once to get the records and they don't want to, you feel like you're very alone in this whole cip thing. I think whoever was asked thought that clar would ask someone else, but to clar the person's refusing to go, even though heshe stays nearest to the centre, was not an encouraging sign that others who live even further from the centre would agree to go. And the fact that the person says they can't go and don't try to ask other jurong people after the 2nd time being asked makes clar think that people don't care about their records. I know its not heshe's responsibility to ask others but since this is class cip, maybe we take more ownership of it. Not blaming you, cos if i was asked and couldn't go i wouldn't think to ask others either.

yihoong

Calamity on Class Blog!

CHILLAX WILL YA?

Can everyone stop being angst-y because I personally feel that we're making a mountain out of a molehill. I mean, yeah, opinions stated, stuff said. Let's keep it that way. I don't see why we need to keep tagging and putting up posts about this issue.

I know we want to justify our actions, and that there maybe people in the wrong, but let's face it, its getting a tad bit childish? Let's stop it. We're 18, not 14 or 13. There has been about 5 posts, more than 15 tags about this issue and I think its enough.

This is a class blog. I don't see a reason why we should use this as a medium to judge people's actions. In fact, I don't see a reason why we have to keep harping on this issue. I know there are angry parties out there, but I think we have to deal with this as professionally as possible. In other words, do this face to face. Not this way. So no more online anonymity, personal attacks and all that.

When Darius and I created this blog, our 1st blog post was something like IP 04 Rocks/Keep up the class spirit/04 OEI! (click link if you don't believe me) I know I'm some lameass peacemaker, but I really believe there is no need for such harsh opinions or criticisms on an online portal. In fact, there is no need for people to become over emotional over our CIP.

(Hello, CIP?!?!?! Its like secondary! Brotherhood comes first?) Come on, we have spent 3 1/2 years together. There is only like less than 100 days to A levels, and about 5 more months before we go our different ways. And now, we're arguing over something small like CIP. A bit silly right?

Please stop it before it becomes some nuclear bomb.

in favor of peace,
mel.
Dearly beloved clar,

It's really funny how you capitalise 'someone' and then say it wasn't directed at anyone. Clearly, you're pissed off. Anyway, two points to make.


Firstly, convenience aside. You're the CIP rep and there's nothing arguable about that. Being appointed, you are definitely more obligated then anyone of us, assuming it is not inconvenient for you. You can't simply say you "really don't care" just because someone else fails to do a job you're more responsible for. Note: I'm not saying that it is compulsory for you but rather that you're more obliged to as compared to the rest of us.

Secondly, I'm pretty sure we all know inconvenient it is. Therefore, I don't think anyone in class would blame you for such an issue. But the fact that you're asked a favour from SOMEONE, got refused and then became pissed (a very obvious emotion that screamed itself to me while I read your post) made me feel unjustified for that SOMEONE. I don't think that "nobody wants or cares about their records" but rather, it is simply as inconvenient for them as well. As much as you can and wish to accomplish in your one and a half hour, they similarly can and wish to do as much in their half and hour.


yours truly,
bystander



so what we're saying is that it's not that we don't appreciate what you're doing, but when you make such a huge commotion over this and say that you 'already tried your best to get it but you really can't', we don't see how that criteria was accomplished.

this is how i see it.

if i happened to be the cip rep, and it wasnt convenient for me to get it, i'll (like you) request someone else to help me do it. but if they (unable or unwilling) cant make it, i will be rather irritated with the situation but i would still go down to get it myself, seeing that i am the cip rep so it's my responsibility to do so.


clar, im not going against you but i just want you to know that this is how a few of us perceive this issue.


tis (the above was written by a bystander who's not from our class but wanted to get his/her point across)

Friday, July 25, 2008

The CIP/CCA thing is under Student Centre> My Profile> View Details> CAAL

And there is no need to create a new CIP form because the CIP thing is under Class Home Adoption Programme.
Gee. I guess it wasn't very obvious but let me clarify something. Whatever I said wasn't pointed at anyone, nor was it meant to hurt anyone. I was just trying to give an example and that was the most convenient one. So if you feel hurt, SORRY. I am NOT pissed off at a specific person, contrary to popular belief so stop saying I am. The truth is when the 2 people whom i asked to go get the records said no, i didn't have very much feeling because i guess if nobody wants or cares about their records then why should i tear my hair out trying to think of ways to go down to get it? I did not blame anyone. I just said that there will be no records for the jurong people because there is no way to get the records because no one can (or is willing to) go down. Or at least that is what I was trying to get across.

I was just trying to do things systematically and trying to get the records so all those who actually did a lot of hours will be duly awarded the hours. But I guess I shouldn't have done the right thing. I should just have forgotten about everything and then just tell you all to write whatever you want. Yeah. And I guess I was wrong in trying to be considerate too because it seems as if you guys don't really want your hours very much. I should have just said that there are no records and thus, no one has any hours. Right. I also find it really funny how one group of people at the bukit batok centre can conscientiously clock their times while the other cannot. The most funny thing is how I'm trying to get it for the very people who are not very grateful.

So forget the chop and forget the hours. Just pretend I didn't say anything, ok?

from the other CIP rep

OK. Yes clar, you are angry. We know. No one is going to ask you if you are because you have obviously shown your wrath.
However, there was NO NEED to upset everyone and hurt people in the process. I hate to have to use your way to do this but i really have to get this off my chest because it's making everyone unhappy.

Let me address a few issues.

1. Recording of CIP hours clocked in.
For the Jurong people, there was confusion because different groups of people went down each week. As a result,no proper records were kept. However, each of us should have a rough idea of how many hours we went down for. To be honest, that one.. it's our individual responsibility. NO one is that hard up four hours. NO ONE is going to cheat on the hours. Therefore guys, just key in what you can remember onto KM first.
What actually is REQUIRED is a CIP feedback form stamped and signed by the centre. The person in contact with the centre, means our CIP rep, clar, is responsible in obtaining it from the person. EVEN IF the princpal is too busy, she can fax it over to the school. If for some reason they don't even have a fax machine, come on, i think Mr Teo or who ever is going to verify our hours will understand that since it is so last minute, and all of us are sitting in our prelims in 3 weeks, worse come to worse don't get signiture. WORSE COME TO WORSE FORFEIT OUR HOURS.

2. The difference between half and hour and one and a half hours.
NOT MUCH. Honestly. Mr/ Miss half and hour said it was inconvenient. I think it was a valid excuse since he/her is really NOT responsible to do that. In addition, this is the period of remedials, extra lessons and low morales. I would think that you clar, didn't want to go down too because it was one and a half hours away and yes, VERY INCONVENIENT. We don't blame you for thinking that way too but wouldn't Mr/Miss half and hour feel indignant about being blamed for not DOING YOU A FAVOUR. To be honest, the form could have been signed on the last day of our painting since we knew that it was obviously going to be the last time. THAT ASIDE, NO ONE WILL BLAME YOUR FOR NOT GOING DOWN but the fact that you blamed another person.. is just upsetting since IT IS your responsibility. I'm sure that if you had tried and had not been able to get us our hours, all of us at jurong centre WOULD HAVE WILLLING FORFEITED OUR HOURS.

3. Screwing up CIP.
Honestly guys, our CIP is screwed and that is no one's fault. It's a combination of factors topped of by the fact that we are in our J2 YEAR!!! Mr Teo has never been angry that we have screwed up our CIP but more because there are periods of time whereby things get left untouched and no one inititiates a thing. ( correct me if I'm wrong). Even the last time round he got angry was because NO ONE was listening to clar when she spoke. That is quite different guys so clar, you don't have to feel stressed that Mr Teo blames your for our CIP screw ups because from my impression, it has never happened. I don't know where you go the idea from.

I am being very honest here because i, like many others feel upset and indignant for Mr/Miss half and hour.

Gladys
Ok, I was not trying to coerce anyone into going to get the records.

Don't ask me if I'm angry because I obviously am. Why do I care so much about YOUR records when YOU don't even care about it yourselves? Anyway, the whole matter is settled, sort of. The Jurong people didn't even record their hours down anyway, even when I gave them a list to, so there is no need to go collect the non existent records. There is no need for a chop from the centre because Mr Teo can verify that we HAVE been doing CIP (this is according to the 05ip05 people i asked). Besides, YOU have to get YOUR own chop if you want your CIP hours "proved" (although there is no need to), and not blame me that YOU didn't get the chop as it is not my responsibility to get the chop for YOU.

So the Jurong people, just key in as many hours as you want, I trust that you will be responsible and honest people.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Hi, here are the cip records for the bukit batok centre people.

YiHoong-16
Jade-13
Meltee-13
Sam-6
Jolynn-9
Shaodan-11
Johnson-6
Tony-2.5
Kien-2.5
Joanna-2.5
Nat-2.5
yingting-2.5

If your name is not here, you have no records. For the Jurong people, sorry your records are not here. SOMEONE thought it was (I quote,) "inconvenient" to go down to retrieve the records because he lives half an hour away, although it is not inconvenient for me to go get it, because i only live ONE AND A HALF hours away. Whatever, it is your records, i really don't care because i've already tried my best to get it but i really can't.

If I could choose to be CIP rep again, I would NEVER DO IT. You guys have no idea how hard it is to make things work with people who don't even cooperate, and then I'm the one who gets grilled because things were not done.

Whatever.

Monday, July 14, 2008

such an achievement!

hey guys did you all realise that our class blog is the only blog that's still kicking actively? congrats to 04! what a fantastic class this is!

MUACKS!
CT-rep

Thursday, July 03, 2008

cip pictures.

here's what i got, over my 18.5 hours (and 5 spent travelling)











totally spoiling the spoon.




itsy bitsy.. lol.










these kids never needed to do math remedial homework. ):




colin didn't have a brush, so his finger did the job.




all the king's.. uh. horses. right. vote humty dumty yo.










this cat couldn't resist the charm of our walls.




a very pleasant neighbourhood..




..with polite children and all.







getting all emotional too.























you gotta be kidding us. shrooms burgers -_-






baa baa baanglas.

















yepp! good job everyone.


-johnson