Artemis Faculty CIP

Hello :)

Havent blogged for a very long time. Today's fac cip was really fun... here's the details.

before 8.30am: we were waiting outside the audi for the buses... everyone grew bored after a while... (esp. DK since Xin Yi (09s6k), Zhe Wei and Jia Jun were playing with his cubes) So the wonderful welfare rep decided to play GAMES!!! wanted to play tuki-tuki initially but then Zhao Dan introduced this new di-didi-di-di, di-di finger game. played for 1 or 2 rounds only and the buses came...

11.30am: 08s6k and 09s6k met up for LUNCH at blk 211!!! sadly our A/CT rep had to leave for his H3 lessons and didnt join us... Continued playing the finger game... Took more class photos during lunch, even more photos of JJ and Xin Yi cubing. Coincidentally, Joel was photographed taking more food as they were cubing (JL, upload the pics!!!) and Joel's facial expression in the class photo was rather hilarious.

Profiling: We had 3 grps in the morning, but left with only 2 after JH left... Yuting did join us later in the afternoon though. Profiling wasnt as difficult as i had expected. The main problem was probably trying to communicate with the elderly or the non-Chinese who dont speak English. I encountered this Malay couple who could speak a bit of English and Hokkien... and I ended up asking them questions in broken English, Malay and Hokkien, really like rojak. Fortunately, they found the interaction rather humourous and were laughing while answering..

Hui Min and Joel also met this elderly woman who could only speak Hokkien... in the end, the entire group of us went to look for the woman after we're done with the other units to try and converse with her in Hokkien. Found it really weird to speak Hokkien when I'm actually a Teochew. Not much difference, but some words really dont sound similar and I just have to guess what they're trying to say. Of course, thankfully, there's Zhe Wei who can understand the dialects but cant speak them.

Got kinda tired after lunch, but we suddenly chanced upon 3 primary sch boys who injected lots of fun and joy into today's CIP. JJ was doing profiling when he came across the kids. I have absolutely no idea how he hit it off so well with the kids... So the 3 very energetic kids became our little tour guides and tagged along with us for the rest of our cip, giving us directions to the various blks we had to go to. Most of the time, they just stick to Jia Jun gor gor, which they call affectionately. It started raining, and we wanted to share our umbrellas with them. But they only wanted Jia Jun gor gor to shelter them... so all 4 of them shared 1 umbrella -_-" It was quite a hilarious sight.. 1 of them (i cant rmb their names) held tightly onto JJ's shirt, and the other 2 boys stood beside the boy. So they were standing in a line (think polymer chain) and trying to cross the road with only 1 umbrella. Of course, Jia Jun gor gor decided to sacrifice himself and shelter the kids... Ok as a matter of fact, the rain wasnt that heavy, so they werent very wet.

3pm: We finished combing the area and decided to go McDonalds for a quick bite... the kids tagged along too. Hui Min bought fries but in the end, she ended up treating the kids to fries. So here are some pics:

The very nice Jia Jun gor gor even helped to carry their bags!! I think they were quite sad when they found out that Jia Jun gor gor is not going on Sunday. Anyway, we brought them home after that, and went over to find our juniors.. Helped them clear up... and in the process, JJ dirtied his pants and I had paint all over my hands :(

Overall, fac cip was quite fun this year.. and you really get to know that the economic crisis is indeed something real which has affected some Singaporeans. Personally, I gain a lot from today's experience. Sometimes we really ought to reflect and be grateful for whatever we have.

All right, jia you for Blocks everyone!!! (sorry for the sudden random change in topic :p )

Mui

The Curse of the AMC

And so, the curse of the AMC strikes yet again ... somehow I just lack a certain affinity with AMC, or rather, more than that: more like 八字不合that sort of thing...

Two years ago, I screwed up my AMC-10 'cause I unluckily fell ill on that day. Two years on, I ended up falling ill the day before AMC-12 (yes, yesterday, if anyone was wondering why i seemed so sluggish), which undoubtedly managed to reduce my cognitive ability significantly. Thankfully, chem SPA didn't require much thinking, so it hopefully wasn't affected that badly. The same does not hold for AMC-12 though. Twas' only after the paper did I realise that I had made at least 3 SILLY CARELESS mistakes. And so poof goes 18 marks for no good reason, and my final chance at qualifying for AIME as well =(

Sigh...

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OK... since this place seems deader than our juniors' blog (cos we somehow all diffuse there and talk SMTP)... And friday seemed a bit more interesting... I shall blog! =)

8am: PE... Playing in field is not a fun thing, I get all the grass flying into my socks and shoes... And sigh i prefer throwing a ball around rather than a frisbee... Nevertheless it's better than running rounds and rounds around the school, it feels so aimless and dumb... And yea, for the not-so-sporty people, a few tips to help you play better (in all sports in general) and enjoy the games:

1) Keep an eye on people who are in dangerous positions.
2) If someone is unmarked, please start marking him. Especially those in dangerous positions.
3) Marking = Keeping an eye on the person ALL THE TIME and following wherever he/she goes (during the game that is, please don't do this when the person is going home lest he/she phones the police instead).
4) Effective marking = Reducing the chance of the person in possession from passing to whoever you are marking (usually by attempting to get in between the 2 of them). At least that's what I feel la.
5) If your team is the 1 in possession, please do everything you can so that whoever is doing 1) to 4) on you can't do it properly. This includes darting away from your marker into clear positions where others can pass to you.

Easy peasy! The art of harassing the hell out of people without playing dirty, hope you derive pleasure from doing it... Please don't overdo it though (like kicking or pushing people), in case you incur the ire of your opponent, and I assure you, it won't be nice if you play rough on me...

10am: The biggest shock of the day. Guess what? Miss How stepped in!!! OMG and I hadn't finished my tutorial... Ok I shan't say anymore in case my big mouth gets me into trouble that I sorta escaped from temporarily...

1.30pm: Poor Mr Wong, seeing so many people depart from his lesson just like that... and poor me, carrying 10 copies of the same GP worksheet home... See? Sai-gang king of 6K, I'm so nice to you all...

3.20pm: OOPS, I didn't know MOP started so early, and I stepped into a class of 15+ PRCs, 1 Vietnamese and... 1 Singaporean! Yes, it's the LWZ whoz in National team! And oops again, we sorta kept finding flaws in the trainer's/Mr Ho's/Professor Ho's/Dr Ho's/Jun Wei's (OMG what the hell am I supposed to address him as) solutions, and he praised us! For being SHARP!!! I guess that's natural for us, after all we were nurtured for 1 year to have SHARP eyes and SHARP ears=)

4.30pm: Went to MAC for a while, since we're gonna welcome the J1s! And guess what I saw? 1 Malaysian (Junior Peng Hui that is), and EVEN MORE PRCs!!! Like 30+ of them!!! Not trying to widen the international gap la, but it feels really bad and lonely for me... like I'm overseas!!! Wonder where did all those 09S6Kers who said they wanted to join MAC went... oh heck, I won't be really needed anyway, CO needs me more, so lalala off to MPH...

4.45pm: I'm supposed to check on the rest and make sure they play properly... ok... I've been intending to do it anyway, I just didn't have the heart to... So I started clapping the tempo... again... and again... and again... and again... for almost 2 hours... looks like the 1st law of thermodynamics is really true: You don't need to supply heat energy to heat an object (in this case my hands la) up...

6.30pm: Finally going home! The end of a horrifyingly hectic week... To prepare for an even more hectic week. Tons of homework, AMC-12, chem SPA, H3 test, MAC training, compounded exponentially with never-ending nagging, and an urge to keep sleeping on and on and on until someone comes to kiss me before I wake up... Life is hell man (except for the kissing bit la=P)...

DK

La Magnifique

In case you still have doubts about our ability to do things as a class or think that your contribution is insignificant or both... I hope this helps convince you otherwise...

What are you guys still waiting for? Sign up and practice now! Soon you'll be like me...

In case you guys still don't realize the importance of your contributions (if you contribute that is), assuming you answer 30 qns per minute (after some practice, and yes it's certainly not out of the way), coupled with *ahem* my slightly more phenomenal question-answering rate (yes yes, i'm ego-ing, i know it, allow me to do that please, for the sake of persuading you all), we could answer 750 questions a minute at a more pessimistic estimation... that's about 15 times of what I do a minute... and for more information, the current leader in high sch classes category has answered about 130k qns, so if we all play for about an hour a day we could overtake them in 3 or 4 days' time... Yes it's true, if you don't believe me try it yourself... after all, 25 brains work better than 1=)

Yes, the real thing begins only on 3rd March 9pm, but this is just an eye-opener to show you what we can do as one 08S6K (sorry juniors, can't include you guys and girls). if you really wish to graduate with something about this class (other than the class photos) start contributing now! For your information, the top 50 classes in each Age group (Elementary, Middle, High) will receive a printed certificate Gold Award sent by post, and the Top 10 Classes in each of age group will receive a specially engraved World Math Day Trophy! So start now! We can do this man=)

DK

(Un)Eventful Week

Appears that I've had my fair share of unluckiness / uneventfulness this week, possibly due to Friday the 13th ( water bomb attack was lots of fun though :) ) or well perhaps simply a lack of sleep (slack too much, then have to stay up to finish work, aye...).

Monday: After Maths lecture, I was exiting the LT, when I saw that the door was closing. Like what I routinely do, I proceeded to push (kick) the door open and 'slide' out in a single fluid action. Alas, something awry occurred with my judgement. I ended up smashing my shoulder - hard - onto the doorframe (?) (that was the cause of that huge reverberating bang, if any of you are wondering lol), which yielded a cut and bruised shoulder :(

Tuesday: Lunchtime. Nearing the high school canteen, I almost slipped while climbing some stairs ( thanks to Jia Guang for his help :) ), which is an exceedingly rare occurence, given my experience with stairs.

Wednesday: Chemistry Practical. In an instance of clumsiness, while attempting to pour FA1 into the measuring cylinder, I somehow managed to pour it all over my hand. Thankfully 0.5 mol/dm3 HCl is relatively harmless, or so it feels on my skin (like just water).

Thursday: Not exactly an accident of sorts, but somewhere into the day, sometime just felt strange and odd with my mind, as though something had just disappeared or gone missing from it. Till now, the same feeling ensues, and I remain at a loss as to what had transpired. o.0

Friday: Moments before the water bomb attack, I was wandering around the tennis court while our juniors were performing the 6K cheer. Somehow I ended up colliding with the edge of the net. Thinking nothing of it, it was only when I reached home that I discovered that that seemingly innocuous impact had left me with another bruise-cut, this time on my thigh :(

Hopefully, everything will be back to normal next week....sigh...

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Water Bomb Attack!!!

Hi everyone,

Thanks for making the post campfire activity so exciting... Haha, we need WATER to douse the FIRE!!! hee hee :)

Special thanks to Jian Hua, Jeremy and Yuqun for coordinating the attack and sweet talking to the juniors. Thanks Jia Guang, Langston, Hui Min, Joel, Zhi Hui, Shi Zhi, Zhe Wei, Xin Rong for helping to tie the water bombs.. Sorry that you all had to have dinner so late. Thanks Yongquan for bringing the pail (it's with Shi Zhi now)

Also special mention to the entire class who turned up for the attack!!! Esp the PRCs who were very aggressive in the attack haha!

Last but not least, special thanks to 09S6K for making the "last day of our lives" (in Jia Guang's words) so fun and memorable. Thanks for being so COOPERATIVE and making our lives so easy by not trying to escape :p Well done!!! Do remember to continue the culture next year :)

All right, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY everyone!!! (though it's quite late already).

Ok... something random... and I think the first smiley is cuter :) though my mum thinks otherwise...

Have fun :)

Mui

And we climb higher again...

Ta da... and thanks to all who helped with it=)

World Math Day game again

It makes you wonder how high a position we can potentially get if more people in 6K start playing... instead of myself answering so many questions... and zhe wei and mui suan as well... Just imagine, everyone else plays like 30 minutes, answers 25 qns per game, and we'll be up by about 10 places already... C'mon 6K, we can do this!

D"K"

S6k Cheer

Our wonderful juniors found the following cheer on our seniors blog:

Sine Sine Cosine Sine, Three Point One Four One Five Nine
Avogadro R T P, Six Point O Two Ten Two Three
V Square U Square Two A S, Increase G And Shift A E
S M T P Got Sam Lee, Six K Six K All The Way

(dont get the part abt increasing g and shifting ae... is it econs?)

haha... our juniors are pretty resourceful :)

sigh... still in sch now :( can only go home at 10.30pm... => reach home at 11.30pm... 5.30am must wake up and go sch... sigh :(

Mui Suan
PS. welfare rep is learning how to defend her welfare...

World Math Day's game 070209

This just gets BETTER and BETTER!!!

C1 Welcome Nightmare Test: call for questions!

Hi, all,

I am in the process of setting the test. So far, I have received contributions from YQ (of the Lu variety), LWZ, and myself (duh).

If any of you want to put questions inside the test that (in your opinion) are best suited to torturing our gullible juniors with the intent of preparing them for the savagery of SMTP's academic rigour, feel free to send me an email this weekend (preferably by Monday) so that I can finish setting it before Tuesday (so that I can print it beforehand).

Thanks!

N.B. Answer schemes for questions are welcome, but not necessary. Unless you want to go through the test with them, but I strongly doubt we'll have time for that.

World Math Day's game ROCKS

Hi guys... and girls... as usual...

"See, I told ya it was fun..."

Honour for the country!!! And for the owner of this account la... LALALA no prizes for guessing whose it is =)

And this... could this possibly be 1 of the LYQs in our class? Aka the SMOPS champ or the Chem O champ...

Bridge

Just to liven things up lol:(incidentally, that was self-built)

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OMG IT'S FEBRUARY

onoez