It started with lighting KW's cake candle..
Somehow, JR look like golem from LOTR...or some Japanese tourist (who speaks korean)....especially when she started to take out her handphone to take pictures of the esplanade..
Jia He look like some poster boy...
3/4-way through the game...
1-way through the game... Yup..this is the snatch-bone game that we all like most..:)
These are mini-crab holes. Jian Dong lives in them.
Jian Dong is angry I made fun of him...
Me, Zoe and Jia He belong to the cool cap gang.
This is before Zoe got wet.
Never knew Chee Hao smelt so nice..one can be so happy sitting beside him.
The sea is white coz Zeng Wei vomitted in it.Heys, we have a long weekend this week so do all of you want to go out for a class outing on saturday? Considering some of you might only be released on friday itself, let go out on saturday instead of friday. Now, to choose the venue:
1. Singapore Zoo- entrance fee is $18. We can spend a whole day there coz it closes at 6pm, and we can have lunch there also. Haven't gone there since P3...
How to get to the zoo:
(By Bus)
From the City, take bus service 171 to Mandai Road, then alight at the first bus stop and transfer to bus service 927 or 926 (operates only on Sundays and Public Holidays).
2. Jurong East Swimming complex- dunno how much time we can spend here, they've got a wave pool, a river where we can float along, slides and all. Entrance fee is $2. As for how to get there, we'll find out more later.
3. Escape Theme Park- yeal...same old games, but trying them again once in a while and as a class may be a different experience. Entrance fee is around $17.70. Easy to get there.
4. Pulau Ubin- go there for a short cycle, enjoy the short boat ride and drink coconut water. :) Nice to be outdoors.
Now, take your pick. Do sms me your choice, or any other place you're thinking of going that are not listed here. Hm...can tell me by thursday? thanks.
Made by Mun Yee. =)
I'm trying to post this video again. Shd be able to watch now. ^^
Don't miss it coz the hamsters are really cute! Haheho...
HOHO!!!
Guys, must watch ah!!!!
Mun yee and I spent the whole day making this video. =P
Enjoy watching! ^^ Watch it in full screen! Nicer...
Our beautiful memories~~~
Heys..want to go become usher for the NDP together? it'll be fun:
We are pleased to inform you that Heartware will be assisting NDP 09 EXCO in training and managing the volunteer ushers for the parades and we like to invite you to be part of this annual event.
We are currently accepting application for Volunteer Ushers. Please refer to the attached factsheet for more information. You can sign up for the activity "Volunteer Ushers for NDP 09" on Youth Bank (www.bank4u.org) and the Youth Planning Committee will follow up with the necessary procedures shortly. Application closes on 3rd May 2009.
DUTIES
Heartware volunteers have to take on several different duties over the 5 parades. Their
assigned duties will be dependent on the requirements upon execution.
Their duties include:
· Checking of tickets
· Ushering ticketed spectators from City Hall area to the seats in the seating gallery
· Interacting with the audience and provide assistance whenever necessary
· Going to (and returning from) primary schools to accompany the Primary 5 students to
the seating gallery during NE shows
PRE-REQUISITES
We are looking for youth volunteers who are:
1. Aged 16 years and above
2. Able to work independently
3. Willing to learn new skills and meet new people
4. Able to commit for all the training sessions and the 6 shows
(Please refer to Page 2 for the tentative schedule)
Note: Applications from Non Singaporeans/PR will be considered on a case-by-case basis, subject to approval from NDP EXCO
APPLICATION PERIOD
Interested volunteers can sign up for the activity “Volunteer Ushers for National Day Parade
2009” on Youth Bank (www.bank4u.org). Application closes on 3rd May 2009 (Sunday).
TRAINING SCHEDULE
All Volunteer Ushers are required to attend the training sessions and to assist in all NE Shows,
Preview and Parades.
DATE DAY NO. OF HOURS PROGRAMME
6th June 09 Saturday 8 hours Training for Leaders ONLY
13th June 09 Saturday 8 hours Ice Breaking and Team Building for ALL volunteers
20th June 09 Saturday 4 hours 1st Training session –
Service Learning & Scenario Based Learning
27th June 09 Saturday 4 hours 2nd Training session – Operational Briefing
4th July 09 Saturday 12 hours NE Show 0
11th July 09 Saturday 12 hours NE Show 1
18th July 09 Saturday 12 hours NE Show 2
25th July 09 Saturday 12 hours NE Show 3 (TBC)
1st August 09 Saturday 12 hours Preview
9th August 09 Sunday 12 hours Parade
If you are interested to join us in Making A Difference, please follow the procedures below to
apply:
*Heartware’s office: 9 Bishan Place Junction 8 Office Tower #05-01 Singapore 579837
Tel: 6259 4414
http://www.heartware.org/index.php?option=com_contact<emid=3
1.Sign up for the activity “Volunteer Ushers for National Day Parade
2009” on Youth Bank (www.bank4u.org)
2.An application form and more detailed information will be emailed to
you
3.Submit your completed application form via email to
ndp09@heartware-network.org before the closing date
4.Shortlisted volunteers will be contacted to attend an interview @
Heartware’s office* or other venue (to be advised)
5.Volunteers will be notified of the selection outcome via email
http://www.imeem.com/jingrong/video/Gely-OFj/bbq-gzs-hse-cum-his-bd-celebration-21mar2009-shortfilm/
Woah~ finally. Spent one hr plus uploading the video.
Hope u all enjoy watching it! ^^
Heyhey, this is a poem (about the significance in the seemingly insignificant dash) a teacher showed when I was in primary school. I find it meaningful..... so somehow, I still remember the essence of it and like it a lot ^^ Hope all of us have meaningful "dashes" :)
Enjoy!
LIFE BETWEEN THE “DASH”
I read of a man who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
from the beginning...to the end.
He noted that first came her date of birth
and spoke the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all
was the “dash” between those years. (1934 -1998)
For that dash represents all the time
that she spent alive on earth...
and now only those who loved her
know what that little line is worth.
For it matters not, how much we own;
the cars...the house...the cash,
what matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our “dash”.
So think about this long and hard...
are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left,
that can still be rearranged.
If we could just slow down enough
to consider what's true and real
,and always try to understand
the way other people feel.
And be less quick to anger,
and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives
like we've never loved before.
If we treat each other with respect,
and more often wear a smile...
remembering that this special “dash”
might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy's being read
with your life's actions to rehash...
would you be proud of the things they say
about how you spent your “dash”?
Copyright by Linda Ellis
Hi all, Zoe asks if you all want to become a facilitator for an overnight cyclethon. Pls tell her asap(best by tonight) if you want to take part in it, since I think it's most probably our first time cycling overnight and that most of us are having holidays now. :)
Details:
There will be 2 facilitators attached to every group of around 8 participants. Currently, we have around 130 participants who have signed up. We will be cycling from ECP to VivoCity, going to places like Bedok 85, Geylang, Lau Pa Sat etc to stop for supper. Total distance is around 70km.
Recce dates are 20 Mar and 4 Apr, from 8pm to 8am. It is compulsory for all facilitators to attend both recces. CIP hours will be given if requested and facilitators need not pay for anything. You will be given a Certificate of Participation and T-shirt. Costs of bicycle rental will be borne by us.
Details of NYEC Enviro-cyclethon 2009
Date of Event: 10 April 2009Time: 8pm to 8am
Start point: East Coast Park
End point: VivoCityParticipants needed: 8 pax per team, no limits to number of teams per school/institution
Deadline of registration: 15 March 2009
BTW, what courses are all of you applying for?
eh ppl...this friday evening/night got time? wan come my house gather for abit + celebrate my bday???need de count of ppl need start preparing...send me an sms to confirm plz...:)
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Release of 2008 GCE A-Level Examination Results on 6 March 2009
1The results of the 2008 Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level Examination will be released on Friday, 6 March 2009.
2School candidates may obtain their result slips from their respective schools from 2.30 pm on 6 March 2009.
3Private candidates will be able to obtain their results through the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board website from 2.30 pm on 6 March 2009. They will also be notified of their results by post.
