MINing of Life

Sunday, 11 January 2009

1st week of schoolY

A week has finally passed and I'm already not having enough sleep.

For 2009, there will be supplementary lessons or remedial or test every afternoon... how strenuous is that! And now there isn't even an afternoon slot left for art, how fair is that?!

Talking about Art, the only teacher who is not following me through is Ms Tan, my art teacher. Hence Mrs Tan is taking over. It'll be really beneficial from me for I hope to learn more from such an experienced teacher having been through 20 years in the Art education of TK. She's got substance ... and this week, she allowed me to explore and play around with water, glue and spray paint. It's seriously fun!

There's also a change in my CCA teachers-in-charge; Mrs Tey, the unit captain is transfered to dance club and a new teacher, Ms Tan (not my art teacher) who was previously from ZhongHua guides is on board now. Ms Razie is also joining guides.

You may be surprised like me when I suddenly heard this from the teachers, that they offered me a position in guides: Assistant Company Leader (trainer). Many people wanted to get this post because being a trainer recognises one's capabilities and skills. (Actually because the other 2 are Treasurer- nobody wanted to count money- and Quater Mistress -nobody wanted to take charge of the guides room- oops xD... haha).

Ms Tan and Mrs Ang told me that they had a long discussion together with Mrs Tey as well about this and they hope that I'll take it up. But of course, Mrs Ang wanted me to update her on my academic performances. Then she put reality right in my face, like studies, Student Council, family and other aspects of life and threw me a question : Will I be able to manage?

Ms tan summed up everything and she said that from her observation, when they revealed to me about the decision, I sounded very keen, however when everything else was placed in front of me, it seemed like there were things holding me back. I was then given less than 24 hours to make up my decision.

Clarissa and Si Yuan wanted me to focus on whatever that I am doing now for they saw how much I struggled last year. Everyone knew that I can't wait to get a position in guides. I really thought it through, real hard. I wasn't convinced that just because it's the 'O's year means I can't have a go for my passion. I am coping very well now, so I just wasn't convinced. Other things came into my thoughts. And I was glad to came to a final decision. I'll come back to guides once I'm done with everything else and when every other thing else is away from me.

Yesterday was CCA recruitment day. I was honoured to be able to stand within the Colour Party, representing the school as a flag bearer carrying the school flag. For guides, I was the in-charge for outdoor-cooking. To judge how good the food was, if you observed, everytime you take a glance at the kitchen dresser, there was always people gathering there. Okay, the scouts desperate scouts came over, craving for bits of food. As a Patrol Leader, I was glad that I had done my job well.

Nevermind about that, I was so drained after everything! A few of us went to lunch together, then some didn't want to head home so "early", so we continued to parkway. I'm skipping the part where we met *ahem* oh and the nice pants guy. We were quite bored, soooo extremely exhausted, but they STILL didn't want to go back! So we went to Best! denki and played with the Apple products. Deniese introduced us to this camera thing with special effects and then you could bluetooth it to your phone.
These were the results:

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