Timetable

Sorry for the last post, but better late than never right!

Tuesday 26 Oct
Pure, Phy/Bio, Recess, Amath

Wednesday 27 Oct
Chem, Recess, Amath, Phy/Bio

Thursday 28 Oct
Amath, Recess, Elective, Pure

Friday 29 Oct (Until 3pm)
Phy/Bio, Hcl/Cl, Break, Chem, Amath, Amath (Yes, 4 periods)

Monday 1 Nov (Until 3pm)
Chem, SS, Phy/Bio(SPA), Break, EL, Amath

Tuesday 2 Nov (Until 3pm)
Phy/Bio, Amath, SS, Break, Hcl/Cl, Chem

Wednesday 3 Nov (Until 3pm)
Hcl/Cl Revision (massive 6 periods), Break, Amath, Pure

Thursday 4 Nov
Hcl/Cl Revision (massive 6 periods), Break, Pure, Amath, Elective

Friday is Deepavali

Monday 8 Nov
Hcl/Cl Revision (massive 6 periods), Break, Phy/Bio, Chem

Tuesday is break.

Wednesday 10 Nov
CL 'O' Levels

Thursday 11 Nov
Amath, Chem, Pure, Break, Math, EL

Friday 12 Nov
Pure, Amath, Break, SS, Phy/Bio, Chem

-Holidays-

bren.

HCL Worksheets

Hey 302.

The documents meant for HCL Revision has been posted on Wizlearn. Do check them out and start revising on your own at your own pace.

Thanks, and spread the message around!

bren.

Late updates

1. HCL: 作文5
   题目：失败不气馁，继续努力，最后得到成功
   条件：5个成语，1个俗语，人物必须是班上同学的名字，
   必须表现出“悬念”和“伏笔”的技巧。
2. EL: Live the Dream Essay
   Font: Arial, size 12
3. EL: TYS Nov 2003 Paper 2
   Comprehension questions are on the printed answer script.
   Three possible answers provided for each question, allocate suitable marks for each of them and state reason for doing so.
4. EL: Spelling on Wednesday, 11 Aug
5. EL: Speech writing class test on Friday, 13 Aug
6. Physics: R&R Worksheets
7. SS: Read supplementary notes

Happy national day (:
bren.

Message from Miss Tan

I don't know if y'all have received the email from Ms Tan, but it is attached below. (:

Dear 302

The departing spectators stopped in their tracks, fascinated by a display of youthful dignity in defeat. Hail the losers! Even in defeat, there are laurels to be won.

- Goh Sin Tub, What makes a winner

I don't know if you recall the short story I read to you at the start of the term, but today made me recall it and some of its lines.

Today I observed something spectacular about some individuals in our class. Tse You coming back despite his MC to play for the class, Daryl pressing on even in face of defeat, and still being considerate and gentle to other players, Xiaotong, Doreen and Hui Si stepping in to form a team, Priscilla and Zhi Min taking it in turns to play for the class.

It is easy to walk away and decide, beforehand, that the class will never win. It is also easy to tell yourself that you're too many goals down and there is no point in winning that last goal just to equalise. But it is in taking the difficult path that true victory is actually won. Things like showing class spirit and sportsmanship, shaking the hands of the other team, cheering and believing in others till that last whistle goes, these are the things that will ultimately win the day.

302, I am proud of you! I look forward to seeing many more interclass matches and seeing you win, even when you lose.

Carpe Diem
Ms Tan


Don't Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow.


Often the goal is nearer than,
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have captured the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.


Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

- Author unknown

bren.

Thank You

Miss Angela Chian

Hey Miss Chian. We really thank you for your undying passion and enthusiasm for the past eight months. This has been a winding journey of ups and downs, but we pulled through.

I recall how we learned that you were leaving soon some time during February and now February seems so far away. But now you are really leaving.

We hope that you have enjoyed interacting with us as much as we have enjoyed having you as our form teacher. Don't forget about us! 'Cos I won't forget how you laughed uncontrollably like a freak (literally) during one of the Chem lessons.

Epic line - "Okay, stop laughing already." *Bursts out laughing*

So thank you once again for your dedication. You've really been an inspiration.

Stay 3O0M2!

302 & Miss Angela Chain

4 January 2010 - 30 July 2010

CIP STUFF

Heloo 302,

there are a few things we need to discuss (plan to do so on thurs but guess what?! We went for a sexual edu talk arghhhh)

its about the fundraising for an outing w NHPS kids!!!! :D

few questions to consider: (for outing)

The venue of the outing

The things needed --> then can conclude the budget :)

Time of the outing?

AND ANY MORE THAT YOU THINK NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED, YOU CAN SUGGEST TO ME :D

(for the fundraising)

I guess its decided on song dedication

Things needed:

- loudspeaker

-CDs

and,

are we doing for both recess and lunch?

how many days are we doing it?

do we need shifts? (maybe we dont need the whole class to do)

ehhh think about these questions first, if got time then we discuss OK? :)

-from your dear CIP rep, YING SHUANG :D

New Class Comm Decisions + Weekend Homework

New Comm Decisions

1. Implement usage of indiviual A4 boxes to organize your books, files, worksheets, etc.
2. Recycling boxes would be set up.
3. Duty roster and class relay would be recrafted.
4. There should be no litter and books on the floor; books should be arranged properly if you place them under your desks.
5. Place your chair up on the table before you leave the classroom at the end of the day.
6. Yong Qin would lock the classroom doors until the entire classroom is in an acceptable state of cleanliness.
7. Please make your payment for the class fund ($2) to either Bao Cai or Claudia.
8. If you are going to be absent (sick, overseas, family problems), please SMS Quan Yao or Jian Le to inform them to help you to collect homework. 
9. People who are interested please help out in the creation of the Racial Harmony Day slogan.
10. Take note of your CIP dates. Interested individuals can create worksheets for the students and pass them to Hui Qi.
11. Do not use the classroom technical system for music to avoid the potential $500 fee.
12. Be informed that the class notice boards would be refurbished. Interested people can volunteer your help.
13. When the board is complete, there would be different sections for different subjects. It is your responsibility to take note of the tasks or assignmetns that you have been assigned.

Weekend/Overdue/Going-to-be-due Homework

1. EL/CL: SRPs
2. Pure Geog: Weather revision worksheet. Due on monday.
3. Amath: Weekend Trigonometry homework from last week
4. EL: Nov 2002 Paper 2 from last week
5. EL: Prepare EL Files, MCY (a la DIE book), TYS for EL lesson
6. HCL: Rewrite HCL Paper 1 (Situational + Compo) if you have not done so. Due on monday.
7. HCL: 《送汤》构思图（分数将占据一篇随笔的分数）
8. Pure Geog: Class test on the elements of weather on 20 July
9. Elective History: Class Test on Fascist Japan on 21 July
10. HCL: 'O' Levels Chinese Language Listening Comprehension on 20 July. Bring along IC, entry proof.
11. Physics: Man in the mirror ray diagram from last week.

bren.

Updates

13 July

1. Elective History Class Test: Fascist Japan on 20 July
2. Physics: Man in the mirror Ray Diagram

14 July

1. Class photo taking tomorrow. Remember to bring tie.
2. Bring $2 for class fund. Guys pass it to Baocai; girls pass it to Claudia.
3. Remember to learn the words for EL spelling on friday.
4. Bring along English TYS November 2001 Paper 2 on friday to go through.
5. Bring EL TYS, DIE book (a la MCY), EL File on friday or prepare to face Ms Tan's wrath.
6. Remmber to bring back Obama's speech for translation tomorrow.

bren.

12 July update

1. Physics pressure ws
2. Physics ray diagram
3. English tys: Nov 2002 paper 2
4. Chemistry: Chemical energy ws
5. Amaths Trigonometry weekend hw
6. E. History essay: Protectionist policy cause of rising militarism?
7. HCL: 成语练习作业

bren.

some class tests coming up:

1.Pure Geog test (upon 15 marks)
chapter on weather whole topic on 20 July

2. chemistry mole calculation test on 23 july

3. chemistry energy change test on 16 July

4.Mrs Leuar Linear Law test nxt week

dunno still got anot, pls add for other tests not here. gd luck :D

baocai

FOR PURE BIOLOGY STUDENTS

FOR THURSDAY, EVERYONE MUST BRING THEIR THUMBDRIVE FOR DATA LOGGING (PRACTICAL)

THESE FOLLOWING PPL HAVE NOT PAID FOR TYS (很久的帐了)

3. Qian Ling

5. Yun Jin

12. Fang Ning

15. Zhi Min

16. Iris

18. Zi Yan

19. An Qi

20. Si Ying

22. Hui Si

23. Hui Qi

24. Lay Siew

35. Bai Cai Bao Cai

P.S. There might have been errors made, so if you're very sure you have paid, just tell me and I'll cancel your name.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, ITS JUST $5, DONT DRAG UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR.

by Bio rep, Ying Shuang :D

TIMETABLE: Term 3 Week 1

Take note: TIMETABLE.

bren.

Holidays

Things to unscrew this June holidays

1. Forget about handing in travel declaration/ remedial forms.
2. Amaths: Ten Year Series Questions (refer to instruction paper)
3. Amaths: TEST:
   -Quadratic equations and inequalities
   -Exponential and Logarithmic functions
   -Coordinate geometry
   -Modulus function
   when school reopens.
4. HCL: Rewrite paper one (Compo and Situational)
   - If you are rewriting on the same topic, minimally achieve an A1
   - If you are rewriting on a new topic, minimally achieve a B3
5. HCL: 挑选两篇文章（微型小说、报章、小说、网上文章都允许），便自己造出三个与文章有关系的问题。问题像是理解问答里头的题目。
   Q1: “可以抄”类题
   Q2: “可以抄，也要想”类题
   Q3: 发挥题
   * 并自问自答。
6. HCL: 阅读笔记本 计划
   最低要求读两本书，多读不限，要有下列的要求：
   1 目录 (20 m)
   2 生字 （抄并解释）(20 m)
   3 好句、好段落摘抄 (20 m)
   4 读后感 （没有字数限制）(40 m)
7. EL: EL TYS page 7-11
8. EL: Rewrite paper one (Compo and Situational)
9. EL: Complete oral discussion worksheet; more in depth discussion if possible
10. Pure Geog: Natural vegetation practice worksheet
11. Physics: All outstanding worksheets
12. Physics: Ten Year Series (Hejin please enlighten me on what to do)
13. Sec3 Camp: Purchase things you need, report to school at 6.15am on 21st June.
    * Reporting attire: PE T-shirt with jeans (not encouraged) OR track pants OR school long pants (for guys)
14. Turn up for any remedials.
15. Enjoy your june holidays!

bren.

Hey, Ms Tan finally sent the emails, to most of us I think. But if you hadn't received it, or if your name isn't below, please tag on the tag board.

Dear All

I have finally gotten round to writing all of you Thank you emails :) for your lovely cards and words which made teaching you worthwhile. THANK YOU!

Qianling - Thank you for recalling the things I say (although not necessarily in the way I'd hoped for). Keep striving to do your best. P.S I do not do bimbo actions as I am not a bimbo! You, on the other hand, use 'like' waaay too often in your sentences :) I really hope brain cells do not die when I chase students for work. Otherwise, I will not longer have a brain.

Wai Kit - Thank you for the paparazzi (not the Lady Gaga song) shots. They are perfectly unflattering attempts to portray me! And your 'something' is very cryptic.

En jie - I hope you speak up in class and enjoy lessons!

Benedict - Thank you for your advice on how to be a teacher! I shall remember it.

Anqi - Thank you for writing to me twice :)

Hui Si - Thank you for the mirror writing. It was a challenge I enjoyed. Please be responsible with your work!

Iris - I somehow do not relate you to Ris Low, although now that you mention it... :) I enjoyed our chats.

Priscilla - I love how your note to me is to apologise for leaving work at home. Sigh. It will enable me to remember you and your annoying irritant ways more authentically.

Fang Ning - Love the language! Spiffy is indeed a lovely turn of phrase. Keep writing!

Yee Siang - Bye!!!

Ying Shuang - Yo. :) Keep handing in your HW!

Si Xiu - Jianle tells me you have low motivation to hand in HW now, but I am sure you are actually more intrinsically motivated that you realise. I want to watch you dance!

Lay Siew - Thank you - I hope you did enjoy lessons!

Litong - I will miss you rolling your eyes at me when I make illogical comments :)

Zhi Min - Thank you for lending me your pen and for your kind words!

Pei Xing - Love the unidentifiable drawing of pei pei de xing :)

Zi Yan - I need a translator! I only know how to tell people not to go (kajima?) and that they're smart (to to kei?) or pretty (Ipude?)

Charlene - Thank you for being a great rep!

Julia - Thank you for your kind words. And for being responsible. It is a relief to have Julia's in my class!

Doreen - Please be less blur and do work :)

Yun Jin - I did receive the lovely card! I hope you got my thank you email too!

Yong Qin - I wish all the boys had handwriting as neat as yours!

Si Ying - I will miss all of you too!

Bernard - Your dedication to Kelly Clarkson is amazing. I hope life is not sucky - that would be a pity and also quite full of saliva. ;)

Hui Qi - Thank you for telling me that I look nice :) It is an ego boost.

Dong Yan - You are very welcome! I wish you sat nearer the front.

Quan Yao - Your penchant for MSN language is slightly worrying. But c u sn 2 XD

Bao Cai - You are such a joy in class - eager to learn and very entertaining. I enjoy having you in class!

Hejin - Aww You have hidden depths. When they are not buried in itouch gaming. I don't want to say good bye to you either - but tian xia wu bu san zi yan si or so my chinese teacher taught me.

Jian Le - Thank you for keeping in touch with me! I'm honoured by your high esteem of me (or appalled at the quality of English teachers you have had previously). But I was very happy with 302!

Xiao Tong - I will visit. Actually maybe the word should be... haunt. :)

Beng Kang (who lacks an email address someone tell him to get one) I will email you properly when you have one! Hopefully one day I will get to try your cooking.

:D

Good luck for those taking Elit, Clit, HArt, MSP (and chinese listening compre). Last few papers, don't give up now.

And if you don't have any business to do in school tmr, no need to go lah hor.

bren.

hello people!!The june holidays are coming,so if you're quite free you can commit your time in doing community services which can earn you lots of cip hours:DD
i've included some links for you all to find out more on these prgrammes,sign up if you are interested!after all,what's there to lose by helping people?:DD

if you want ,you can also go as a group,but please teake note that some organisations,e.g. SPCA doesn't allow too big a group for cip:DD

Happy holidays!
http://www.bank4u.org/youth/aboutMAD.aspx
http://www.nvpc.org.sg/pgm/EventCalendar/NVPC_F_EventCalendar_DetailView.aspx
http://www.bwell.org.sg/Events/Events%2009.htm

but please take note,to check carefully at the criterias before you volunteer as some have age linits:D

of all the activities,there's at least 3 events that you can take part in:Dbest events would be flag days:DD

anyone interested can also find me cuz i can collate the people going:D
earn your CIP hours,dont waste your time away:DWe help other people for joy,and earn joy ourselves:D

share the joy of giving

cheers,
jianle:DD---care rep

Have you read your emails yet? If you haven't, here's what Ms Tan sent:

Dear Students

I am quite disappointed that despite the fact that Tuesday is my last lesson with you, some of you have not bothered to submit the work that I am waiting to mark. I feel that often teachers do so much for you and are so willing to take on extra work to help you achieve your potential, and yet our efforts and well-wishes are thrown back in our faces. I also am disappointed that I will have to punish some of you even during my final lesson with you on Tuesday.

Even if you are unwilling to do the work, I am unwilling to give up on you. Those who have not completed any work due for Tuesday will stay back every recess, lunch and after school until every single piece of work you owe me is in. (The only exception is Claudia's 2 essays). I hope you understand that it is because I want to asses how you are doing in school.

If you finish it over the weekend, please leave it in my pigeon hole before flag raising so that I can mark it. You owe me

1) E Learning
2) Nov 1998
3) SRP
4) Prepare for your picture discussion


On a different note, I am sending this as a sort of farewell. I have really enjoyed spending time with your crazy class :) from Tse Yu's Tiger picnic to Hejin's constant sleeping in class and chasing down Daryl at the Basketball court to do his work...and the girls - such joys :) Yun Jin who is so responsible (and lately always talking to Jun Hui) and Julia and her multiple personalities and Jian Le and her loud shrieks. I really cannot even begin to explain how much I will miss all of you! If I could I would write about every single one of you in this email but it will go on forever. I do want to say one thing, however. THINK about what you really want to do to be successful in life. Most of you talked about Happiness as one of the characteristics of being successful. I urge all of you to really consider this. A friend of mine told me recently that all her life, she never pushed herself. She just did well enough to get to the JC she wanted, then the Uni course she wanted, and now she is regretting it. Not because she didn't do what she wanted, but because she does not know what her potential really is. She has never worked her 110% for anything. And I can assure you, that THAT is what makes her feel dissatisfied with her life. If you want to the world's best restaurant owner (think Beng Kang) then do it. To the best of your ability.

Below, I attach a speech by the Dean to the Harvard Law school. If you have the time, I hope you can read it and feel truly inspired. I have highlighted the parts that I too want you to listen to, and re-read again and again. You may be young, but the things you do now are ALWAYS a choice. A choice that could change your entire destiny.

All the best! I wish I had more time to have an extended conversation with each of you, a cup of coffee in hand, with a sketchpad of your dreams and hopes between us. But that belongs to a different age, when each teacher had less students and each student more time. This email will have to suffice! Nevertheless, I look forward to meeting you when you have grown up, and can show me how successful you have become.

Ms Tan

PS If you ever need help, or just someone to listen to you, please email me. I may not always have the time for you, but I will definitely try my absolute best to make the time.

Speeches & Publications

Baccalaureate address to Class of 2008

Cambridge, Mass.
June 3, 2008

As prepared for delivery

In the curious custom of this venerable institution, I find myself standing before you expected to impart words of lasting wisdom. Here I am in a pulpit, dressed like a Puritan minister — an apparition that would have horrified many of my distinguished forebears and perhaps rededicated some of them to the extirpation of witches. This moment would have propelled Increase and Cotton into a true “Mather lather.” But here I am and there you are and it is the moment of and for Veritas.

You have been undergraduates for four years. I have been president for not quite one. You have known three presidents; I one senior class. Where then lies the voice of experience? Maybe you should be offering the wisdom. Perhaps our roles could be reversed and I could, in Harvard Law School style, do cold calls for the next hour or so.

We all do seem to have made it to this point — more or less in one piece. Though I recently learned that we have not provided you with dinner since May 22. I know we need to wean you from Harvard in a figurative sense. I never knew we took it quite so literally.

But let’s return to that notion of cold calls for a moment. Let’s imagine this were a baccalaureate service in the form of Q & A, and you were asking the questions. “What is the meaning of life, President Faust? What were these four years at Harvard for? President Faust, you must have learned something since you graduated from college exactly 40 years ago?” (Forty years. I’ll say it out loud since every detail of my life — and certainly the year of my Bryn Mawr degree — now seems to be publicly available. But please remember I was young for my class.)

In a way, you have been engaging me in this Q & A for the past year. On just these questions, although you have phrased them a bit more narrowly. And I have been trying to figure out how I might answer and, perhaps more intriguingly, why you were asking.

Let me explain. It actually began when I met with the UC just after my appointment was announced in the winter of 2007. Then the questions continued when I had lunch at Kirkland House, dinner at Leverett, when I met with students in my office hours, even with some recent graduates I encountered abroad. The first thing you asked me about wasn’t the curriculum or advising or faculty contact or even student space. In fact, it wasn’t even alcohol policy. Instead, you repeatedly asked me: Why are so many of us going to Wall Street? Why are we going in such numbers from Harvard to finance, consulting, i-banking?

There are a number of ways to think about this question and how to answer it. There is the Willie Sutton approach. You may know that when he was asked why he robbed banks, he replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” Professors Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz, whom many of you have encountered in your economics concentration, offer a not dissimilar answer based on their study of student career choices since the seventies. They find it notable that, given the very high pecuniary rewards in finance, many students nonetheless still choose to do something else. Indeed, 37 of you have signed on with Teach for America; one of you will dance tango and work in dance therapy in Argentina; another will be engaged in agricultural development in Kenya; another, with an honors degree in math, will study poetry; another will train as a pilot with the USAF; another will work to combat breast cancer. Numbers of you will go to law school, medical school, and graduate school. But, consistent with the pattern Goldin and Katz have documented, a considerable number of you are selecting finance and consulting. The Crimson’s survey of last year’s class reported that 58 percent of men and 43 percent of women entering the workforce made this choice. This year, even in challenging economic times, the figure is 39 percent.

High salaries, the all but irresistible recruiting juggernaut, the reassurance for many of you that you will be in New York working and living and enjoying life alongside your friends, the promise of interesting work — there are lots of ways to explain these choices. For some of you, it is a commitment for only a year or two in any case. Others believe they will best be able to do good by first doing well. Yet, you ask me why you are following this path.

I find myself in some ways less interested in answering your question than in figuring out why you are posing it. If Professors Goldin and Katz have it right; if finance is indeed the “rational choice,” why do you keep raising this issue with me? Why does this seemingly rational choice strike a number of you as not understandable, as not entirely rational, as in some sense less a free choice than a compulsion or necessity? Why does this seem to be troubling so many of you?

You are asking me, I think, about the meaning of life, though you have posed your question in code — in terms of the observable and measurable phenomenon of senior career choice rather than the abstract, unfathomable and almost embarrassing realm of metaphysics. The Meaning of Life — capital M, capital L — is a cliché — easier to deal with as the ironic title of a Monty Python movie or the subject of a Simpsons episode than as a matter about which one would dare admit to harboring serious concern.

But let’s for a moment abandon our Harvard savoir faire, our imperturbability, our pretense of invulnerability, and try to find the beginnings of some answers to your question.

I think you are worried because you want your lives not just to be conventionally successful, but to be meaningful, and you are not sure how those two goals fit together. You are not sure if a generous starting salary at a prestigious brand name organization together with the promise of future wealth will feed your soul.

Why are you worried? Partly it is our fault. We have told you from the moment you arrived here that you will be the leaders responsible for the future, that you are the best and the brightest on whom we will all depend, that you will change the world. We have burdened you with no small expectations. And you have already done remarkable things to fulfill them: your dedication to service demonstrated in your extracurricular engagements, your concern about the future of the planet expressed in your vigorous championing of sustainability, your reinvigoration of American politics through engagement in this year’s presidential contests.

But many of you are now wondering how these commitments fit with a career choice. Is it necessary to decide between remunerative work and meaningful work? If it were to be either/or, which would you choose? Is there a way to have both?

You are asking me and yourselves fundamental questions about values, about trying to reconcile potentially competing goods, about recognizing that it may not be possible to have it all. You are at a moment of transition that requires making choices. And selecting one option — a job, a career, a graduate program — means not selecting others. Every decision means loss as well as gain — possibilities foregone as well as possibilities embraced. Your question to me is partly about that — about loss of roads not taken.

Finance, Wall Street, “recruiting” have become the symbol of this dilemma, representing a set of issues that is much broader and deeper than just one career path. These are issues that in one way or another will at some point face you all — as you graduate from medical school and choose a specialty — family practice or dermatology, as you decide whether to use your law degree to work for a corporate firm or as a public defender, as you decide whether to stay in teaching after your two years with TFA. You are worried because you want to have both a meaningful life and a successful one; you know you were educated to make a difference not just for yourself, for your own comfort and satisfaction, but for the world around you. And now you have to figure out the way to make that possible.

I think there is a second reason you are worried — related to but not entirely distinct from the first. You want to be happy. You have flocked to courses like “Positive Psychology” — Psych 1504 — and “The Science of Happiness” in search of tips. But how do we find happiness? I can offer one encouraging answer: get older. Turns out that survey data show older people — that is, my age — report themselves happier than do younger ones. But perhaps you don’t want to wait.

As I have listened to you talk about the choices ahead of you, I have heard you articulate your worries about the relationship of success and happiness — perhaps, more accurately, how to define success so that it yields and encompasses real happiness, not just money and prestige. The most remunerative choice, you fear, may not be the most meaningful and the most satisfying. But you wonder how you would ever survive as an artist or an actor or a public servant or a high school teacher? How would you ever figure out a path by which to make your way in journalism? Would you ever find a job as an English professor after you finished who knows how many years of graduate school and dissertation writing?

The answer is: you won’t know till you try. But if you don’t try to do what you love — whether it is painting or biology or finance; if you don’t pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don’t begin with it.

I think of this as my parking space theory of career choice, and I have been sharing it with students for decades. Don’t park 20 blocks from your destination because you think you’ll never find a space. Go where you want to be and then circle back to where you have to be.

You may love investment banking or finance or consulting. It might be just right for you. Or, you might be like the senior I met at lunch at Kirkland who had just returned from an interview on the West Coast with a prestigious consulting firm. “Why am I doing this?” she asked. “I hate flying, I hate hotels, I won’t like this job.” Find work you love. It is hard to be happy if you spend more than half your waking hours doing something you don’t.

But what is ultimately most important here is that you are asking the question — not just of me but of yourselves. You are choosing roads and at the same time challenging your own choices. You have a notion of what you want your life to be and you are not sure the road you are taking is going to get you there. This is the best news. And it is also, I hope, to some degree, our fault. Noticing your life, reflecting upon it, considering how you can live it well, wondering how you can do good: These are perhaps the most valuable things that a liberal arts education has equipped you to do. A liberal education demands that you live self-consciously. It prepares you to seek and define the meaning inherent in all you do. It has made you an analyst and critic of yourself, a person in this way supremely equipped to take charge of your life and how it unfolds. It is in this sense that the liberal arts are liberal — as in liberare — to free. They empower you with the possibility of exercising agency, of discovering meaning, of making choices. The surest way to have a meaningful, happy life is to commit yourself to striving for it. Don’t settle. Be prepared to change routes. Remember the impossible expectations we have of you, and even as you recognize they are impossible, remember how important they are as a lodestar guiding you toward something that matters to you and to the world. The meaning of your life is for you to make.

I can’t wait to see how you all turn out. Do come back, from time to time, and let us know.

- Drew Gilpin Faust

For those who made it this far, here are my extended comments on each of you and what I recall!

Charlene - Thank you for being my English Rep! You have been tireless at collecting work and responsible with your own. I appreciate it! Keep writing - your desire to articulate your thoughts and ideas will see you far.
Dongyan - You have always done the extra work I give you carefully. I admire your determination to improve! Good work attitude. Keep trying your best.
Qian Ling - Remember that whether to do any piece of work well or badly is always YOUR decision. Keep focused on what you want to achieve.
Claudia - I hope that you will begin to see why you should not leave work piled up :) Your english is excellent - tap into that potential!
Yun Jin - Thank you for always greeting me every single time you see me. It brightens my day! Keep working hard.
Julia - I like hearing about your very interesting hobbies and personality. You have hidden depths :)
Jamie - I will remember your etiquette game! You have made me laugh so much!
Yan Ting - From the day you told me to stop nagging you, you have begun to hand in work much more punctually. I am greatly encouraged. Thank you for always distributing work for me.
Jian Le - You are always so full of energy and excitement. Find a way to use that in work that you enjoy! Thank you for always studying for your spelling :) and well done!
Si Xiu - I hope one day I can watch you dance. I remember that you read very well :)
Doreen - You are always so blur and yet so earnest, I sometimes am reluctant to tell you off. Keep focused on your work! I hope all my students have handwriting like yours.
Fang Ning - The sci-fi writing expert. Fingers crossed I will still see you at GB!
Shu Ping - The demure one :) Need I say more? Your opposites attract theory is clearly accurate!
Ying Shuang - I am amazed at how far you travel to school! That kind of determination is impressive.
Zhi Min - with the neat handwriting and who is super responsible. :) I appreciate your help in giving our worksheets.
Iris - Who has many admirers. Choose the right one! You have so many CCAs - make sure you have a good balance in life!
Li Tong - I think I remember you complaining to Jamie that you were going to have me for 5 hrs? Or something like that :) But then you behaved beautifully and class, despite describing yourself as 'rude' :) and told me about Biber and how cute he is! haha
Zi Yan - You and your lunch parties. I want!
Anqi - You always are so gentle and calm! Thank you for re-doing that SRP that disappeared!
Si Ying - Who looks so pretty but really need glasses :) You are surprisingly fierce!
Priscilla - With the cool but too long hair who always owes me work. Please do it for yourself!
Hui Si - Smart as a whip but too lazy to prove herself. Find something you are passionate about!
Hui Qi - Responsible and helpful! Well done on your Sec 2 History and Art. And thank you for chatting with me!
Lay Siew - Thank you for being a rep :) and for not bearing a grudge :)
Pei Xing - Who always looks like she is Alice in wonderland and yet is dreamily thoughtful about Lit.I enjoy your contributions in class.
Xiao tong - Also similarly blur but cheerful and accommodating! Why does everyone tease you about WK?
Andrew - You are like my friend who has no idea what she can achieve. Try and find out?
Ler Yang - Who is always practicing marching. You have wonderful ideas! Don't be afraid to speak. It comes with practice.
Benedict - Bene means good. I hope that is true in your life! Enjoy Sec school life and work hard! Don't avoid it. You are so able to see beyond the surface. It is a gift. Apply yourself more to find out what you can and want to do!
En Jie - Who is a good marcher in Boys Brigade! Work hard and don't be afraid to speak up in class!
Tse Yu - Act your age!! Thank you for being slowly more responsible in your work. It is always worth it. Your essays are also funny.
Beng Kang - remember to make sure your life and destiny is really your decision. dont compromise now on your school work, for what you imagine will occur in future.The future is always unknown, it is best to be prepared for everything. Don't park 20 lots away simply because you're not sure there will be a parking lot ahead.
Wai Kit - Thank you for being so hardworking. Never give up!
Daryl - Don't let bball get in the way of your future. You clearly have the potential to excel!
Bao Cai - I really enjoy your enthusiasm in learning. And how much you are unafraid of what others may say or think of you.
He Jin - Give it your 100% Enjoy tuition!!
Jun Hui - You always ask the strangest and most kaypoh question, and pretend to be a Lit student! Work harder!
Quan Yao - Ever since you moved seats, you're been very on task and have done good work! I'm impressed!
Bernard - Kelly clarkson! I love choir - if you get the chance, join the HCJC one :) I sang in it and loved it.
Yong Qin - Thank you for being a great Lit rep. Smile more!
William - Stop running away. Ask if you need help! Focus in class.
Yee Siang - Uncle? Why do they call you that! Your work is good and efficient, but you sometimes daydream at the back of the class. You always have this half amused expression on your face too!

302 what amazes me is that in spite of your various different personalities, you accept everyone! Keep it that way! You know how some teachers feel that all of you are lazy and influence each other. As a class, choose to surprise them. Make them really say that you are 'boomz'

Hey everybody,

Ms Tan's leaving next week already, and Ms Rani wants us to prepare something for her by Wednesday. So.. I was thinking of a card.. Or would you all want to buy something for her as well? Please tag your suggestions, otherwise I'll just make the decisions myself. -.-

Now, I know she's harsh on us when it comes to homework and about our class attitude. But really, she's just doing her job. Our class' attitude IS surprisingly atrocious anyway, yet she continues to try, she deserves at least a praise. Definitely there will be some of you cheering because she's leaving, 3 words to present to you: shame. on. you.

Let's give her our earnest wishes okay?

--yongqin

Edit: Kinda didn't expect so many tags. Thanks to those people, I have a rather good idea already. I speculate that there won't be a need to collect class funds, it won't cost a lot, mainly DIY. :D. Get ready your coloured pens and whatever you need to write/ decorate on the big card because we don't have much time. Ms Rani wants us to do it by Wednesday (which means we only have a day) because its the exam following. But just maybe, we have the whole week. :/

MID YEAR TOPICS

ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS:

Secondary 2:

1.Expansion and factorisation of algebraic expressions( TB 2A chapter 2)

2.simple algebraic fractions (TB 2A chapter 3)

3.Linear equations in 2 unknowns(TB 2A chapter 5)

4.Pythagoras Theorem (TB 2B chapter 7)

Secondary 3:

1. TB 3A Chapter 1: indices

2, Tb 3a chapter 2: more aboout quadratic equations

3.TB 3a chapter 3:Linear inequalities

4.TB 3A chapter 5:Functions and graph(so boring...-.- i dun like :( )

5.TB 3B chapter 9: Coordinates Geometry(so boring -.- dun like too :( )

PURE GEOGRAPHY!!!!!!!: (VERY, EXTREMELY IMPORTANT :) )

FORMAT:

Structured questions including 1 lorms(what's that?) question

TOPICS TESTED:

1. Chapter 2: Map reading and basic techniques(bleh)

2.NATURAL VEGETATION

chapter 3:Types of natural vegetation

chapter 4: Forest as a natural vegetation

chapter5:Case study for deforestation in Kalimantan

2.CHAPTER 12: RIVERS

3. CHAPTER 13: COAST

YAY!!!!!! PURE GEOG RAWKS!!!! LOL... I TOOK PHOTO OF THE ELECT GEOG TOPICS BEHIND, THINKING IT WAS PURE GEOG-.- ANYWAY, I KNOW THE TOPICS...

CHEMISTRY TOPICS:

1. Kinetic particle theory

2. Measurement and experimental technique

3.Purification and separation

4. elements, compounds and mixtures

5. atomic structures

6.ionic bonding

7.covalent and metallic bonding

8. Writing equations

9.The mole

10.Chemical Calculations(until 10.2)

11. Acids and Bases

12. Salts

BIOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!:

CHAPTER 2 to 7

Mr Li is so funny!!!!! HAHA!!!!

credits to your pure geog rep:

Lai Bao Cai :)

to all biology students(!)

ALL BIOLOGY STUDENTS IF YOU HAVEN PAY FOR YOUR TYS, PLEASE PASS ME THE MONEY BY THIS WEEK :D
tyvm ;)

-biology representative, ying shuang

Things to unscrew/take note for this weekend

Whoa this week very the busy.

1. HCL: SRP and 剪报 files to be handed in by next week.
   Must have >14 JianBaos and all the SRPs given out up til now.
   Extra work will be counted in as bonus marks.
2. HCL: 随笔、剪报、作文、anything you havent' hand in and you know is counted in CA to be handed up next week. If not you no marks.
3. HCL (optional): 实用文（三）by next week.
   Format, first and last paragraph must be written in full.
   However, the main text can be written in point form. This is to help those who have inconsistently handed in work, so if you don't feel like doing it and you have been regularly handing in assignments you can choose not to do. But since it's 20 marks, why not? Ha.
4. English: E-Learning Summary by monday.
   Ms Tan has already sent each and every one the information found on our etherpads and board 800s in case our computers die on us.
5. English: Readers' Digest Worksheet. Yes, really. I know. ._.
6. Chemistry: The WHOLE chemical calculations worksheet, except for the questions highlighted by Ms Chian by next monday.
7. Amaths: (Questions from text book, do in Amaths BOOK ONE)
   Pg 209: Q 10, 11
   Pg 17: Q 4, 11
   Pg 19: Q13
   Due next tuesday.
8. Social studies: The worksheet on the policies made by the Sg government. Supposedly due today but since Mrs Thai was on MC, get it done by monday if you haven't done so.
9. CLit: CLit test, 28th march. 唐詩(the green bk)
10. Physics: Pay 90 cents BY monday for SPA file, if not you'll have to buy it yourself.
11. Physics: Forces worksheet, ASAP.
12. Physics: Turning effects of forces worksheet, ASAP.
13. Physics: Bring SPA information booklet (last page) for SPA next week.
14. General: Mrs Leuar will swap one hour of english lesson with Ms Tan on tuesday.
15. General: Study for chemical calculations test on tuesday. Question will be from WS Class Exercises 1 - 6

bren.
Have a nice weekend.

P.s/ The GaGa songs = tribute to Lady Chian. Idk what to tribute to MrQ. Ha.

The topics for Maths Mid Year exam topics pinned on back notice board!!!!!
Will update soon here (:
Thank You.
-Yun Jin

(after a very long hiatus') things to unscrew

Things to unscrew

1. Extreme Importance: (Quoted word for word, credits to Junhui):
   "WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONARE? VOLUNTEER YOUR FACES FOR HoM POSTER."
   Please, also bring magazines TOMORROW. Thanks.
2. EHist: Please finish the worksheet given out today. And the test is on this thursday, don't forget.
3. Chem: CHEM CALCULATIONS WS: All questions (except those that miss chian highlighted and said that we do not need to do them at the moment). Complete by 19th April, Monday)
4. Chem: CHEM CALCULATIONS TEST: 20th April
   Questions will be from the class exercises 1 - 6
   Quote miss chian: The quesions "will be directly copy and paste".
5. EL: Anything you haven't submitted you better submit soon or you shall die a terrible death.

bren.

---------- FOR BIOLOGY STUDENTS ONLY--------------

BIOLOGY TEST THIS FRIDAY TOPICS:

1. FOOD TEST(E.G. : BENEDICT SOLUTION :DDD)
2. WATER
3.ENZYMES
4. FINALLY THE WHOLE AND WHOLE OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM!!!!!!!


GGGGGGGOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD LLLLLUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

laibaocai

HoM

What up.

HoM classroom deco's dateline is this friday, so I think we must do something. Ha.

IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD MAGAZINES, PLEASE BRING IT TO SCHOOL BY TUESDAY AND GIVE IT TO JUNHUI, TYVM :D

The "just-in-case-you-havent-done-so"/Reminders list

• Chinese SRP
• English SRP
• HCL: Jianbao (14th)
• Physics: Mass, weight, density WS
• Amaths: Remedial homework
• EL: Commonwealth Essay (it's already due, by the way)
• IMPT: Amaths LOG and EXPO test NEXT FRIDAY
• HCL: The lyrics you changed.
• HCL: Shi yong wen 2
• Pure geog: WORKSHEET DUE ON MONDAY

bren.

Upcoming Class Tests/Quizes/Etc

1. Amaths: Quiz on tuesday's and thursday's lesson - This Thursday
2. English: Spelling
3. English: Compre Test - This Friday
4. Biology: I-dont-really-know-what test - I-dont-really-know-when
5. Chinese (HCL): Study 课文 7, 8, 10, 11. (right?) - Next week
6. Geog (pure): Kalimantan and rivers - Next Thursday
7. History (elect): Stalin Class Test - Next Thursday

I might have missed out some? No? Don't think so. Okay, I don't know. Tell me if I have.

bren.

Test and Test Topics

Tests next week

1. Chemistry Level Test: Chemical Bonding:
   
   Ionic, Covalent and Metallic bonding
   ON MONDAY
2. Chemistry Class Test: Qualitative Analysis
   
   ON TUESDAY
3. EMaths: Chapter 5.1 Test:
   
   ON WEDNESDAY (Monday's lesson is swapped with Mrs Leuar's monday Amaths lesson)

Important things to take note:

1. Hand in report book if you haven't already done so. 
2. Hand in EL compo and SRPs if you haven't already done so.

bren

Timetables

What up yall.

ELEARNING 2010: 1st APRIL 2010

TERM TWO WEEK ONE TIMETABLE

bren.

:D

Okay uh, holidays ending soon. If you haven't completed your homework (like me), chiong during these 2 days. We want to do better right?

I apologize for sounding a tad bit pissed off in my homework post lah, but yeah.

And once again, at the tagboard commotion:

bren.

30210-40210

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/3021040211/

Check if you have already confirmed your invitation and joined the group.

bren.

Let's pull our socks up!!

ok 302, i trust you have seen our amazing stats(kudos to EL). How do y'all feel? if you like it, pls dont say it. but you gotta have a conscience. who likes to be the worst? you can say i'm the best at being the worst, but don lie to urself. Let's buck up yea? you dont want to be remembered as the worst class when we graduate, right? i know i dont. so make urself proud, dont disappoint urself. at least try.

ben

ADDITIONAL THINGS TO UNSCREW

March Holidays Things to Unscrew (Add on list #1)

1. SS: Straits Times 'REVIEW' WORKSHEET.
2. CHEM: Attempt acids and bases questions from 10 year series
3. HCL: Instructions:
   
   实用文（二）：私对公　公函练习
   
   作答者的姓名一律用颜孜芳（地址：畯杰路33号，新加坡邮区234197）；如有需要，对方的姓名一律用沈诗菁（地址：誉辉路25号，新加坡邮区684132）；如对方在国外，地址由考生自定。
   
   题目：
   你最近观察到所居住的组屋区有很多老人，但缺乏方便他们行动的无障碍设施。试写一封信给建屋发展局公关部主任反映这个情况，要求当局采取行动。
   
   ＊题目词语释义：
   无障碍设施：方便有特殊需要群体活动的特别设备装置
   建屋发展局：HDB
   公关部：机构对外沟通的部门
   
   正文参考结构：
   1．第一段：自我介绍（你是以什么身份来写这封信？介绍自己的身份，但不用在这里介绍名字）＋写信目的（最近发生了什么事让你想写信？你为什么写这封信？）
   
   本人是……，由于最近……，特此致函就是为了……
   
   2．第二段、第三段：反映情况（你所住的组屋区是什么情况？你怎么发现那么多老人？老人经常在组屋区内做什么？你发现老人在组屋区内行动的时候遇到什么样的困难？
   
   3．第四段：分析情况（你认为为什么会有这样的困难？这个情况会有什么后果？）
   
   4．第五段：建议建屋发展局采取的后继行动（你认为建屋发展局应该怎么处理这件事？你所设想的无障碍设施包括什么？）
   
   5．第六段：恭维语　＋　希望
   
   素闻贵局……（从所提供的恭维语列表中选取合适的恭维语），因此希望贵局能够……。
   
   6．第七段：谢谢
   
   邱老师指示：
   1．请学生自行阅读第一份自学材料，明白公函的格式、目的和写法。
   2．请遵照指示一步一步完成实用文（二），只能使用稿纸。
   3．所有实用文（二）应当在星期二的课堂结束之后交给代课老师。
   
   ＊＊迟交者将严加处分！
4. Subject reps can tell me your homework for the holidays and I'll post them here.

bernard.

March Holidays

I am doing this as requested.

March Holidays Things to Unscrew

1. I don't know what happens or will happen if you haven't hand in travel dec. You must have been living in a hole or under a rock or hiding somewhere I don't know. But since it's the holidays already I see no point in chasing after yall for it anymore.
2. The above applies to Malay books as well.
3. PAY $1.50 IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO BRING YOUR HEALTH BOOKLET ANYMORE TO PURCHASE A NEW ONE.
4. Chinese SRP File, if you haven't hand in. English SRPs also. Basically all homework that were supposed to be submitted before the holidays put in your respective teacher's pigeonholes when you return to school during the holidays.
5. Chemistry Qualitative Analysis WS 2
6. Physics Common Test 1 2008 (GRADED) Hand in on the first day of school.
7. Amaths 10YearSeries questions that are given on the piece of paper.
8. Amaths questions that are written on the whiteboard, but I understand some of yall might be lazy enough to not to be bothered to copy any homework left on the board. Questions include:

9. HCL: 创意写作：作文（三）：《我有第三只眼睛》
10. HCL: 实用文（二）：支架性作业 (I don't know the question?)
11. HCL: 朗读三篇学过的课文，并录制成mp3，然后上传致asknlearn
12. Emaths Test on SOLVING QUADRATIC EQUATONS when school reopens
13. English Composition: "Write a story about 'running away'"
14. HCL: Acknowledge the invitation for the Yahoo! Group MrQ created soon. Check back on your emails.

Other things

I have some rather bad news for yall. So results have proven that our class is apparently not doing well at all. Below I will include our class statistics among all the 11 classes.

Let me do an explanation. There are 11 Sec3 classes in the cohort. Below will show our class's ranking among all the 11 classes for each subject. Meaning to say, if we are the first class in the whole level for that subject, we will be 1/11. If we are the worst class in the level for that subject, we will be 11/11.

Amaths: 11/11

Bilogy: 8/9

Chemistry: 9/11

Chinese: 2/4

Elect Geog: 10/10

Elect History: 7/8

SS: 10/10

English: 2/11 (this is not a typo error)

Pure Geog: 3/4

HCL: 9/11

Pure History: 2/3

Clit: 5/5

Elit: 2/4

MSP: 7/8

Emaths: 11/11

Physics: 9/11

Not very good, is it.

And recently all the problems with us pissing every teacher off and everything. We must change. I don't know how that's going to happen but we must. So.

Put in the extra effort to hand in whatever you are told to do so and try to not make teachers want to slap you due to repeated irritation. Pay attention in class and don't sleep unless you really could die if you don't (but that doesn't mean that you can take that as an excuse to not stand when Ben or me or whoever asks the class to stand to greet the teacher, and henceforth causing the person to be scolded for not yelling loud enough for the class to hear when apparently you can't hear anything since you have been sleeping, thank you). 

But since we're in the crap together, we must get out of it together.

Crappy news aside,

enjoy your March Holidays (:

Please, I want to step down already.

bernard.

Things to Unscrew

Things to unscrew/take note

1. HCL: ALL CHINESE HOMEWORK including SRPs, Compos, Newspaper reviews etc. Those who fail to do so will have to stay back one day and complete them.
2. EL: English SRP (which I don't remember receiving last week's)
3. Pure Geog: Keep 17March free. Field trip at integrated resort's nearby sentosa beach for fieldtrip. Gamble gamble at the casino, poker face. Poke your face.
4. Chemistry: Qualitative Analysis Worksheet 2 by next thursday
5. Chemistry:
   IMPORTANT CHEM LESSON DURING HOLIDAYS.
   This is not a remedial but a full on normal lesson 'cos MsChian (ie. Lady Chian) will teach mole calculation. Must come, even if you have choir. Come back on 18th March, 2pm to 4pm, if memory serves.
6. Bye bye road run 2010.

bernard.

When you gotta go, you gotta go

ROAD RUN FAILED :D

k im posting the things for tml road run please take note!

FOOD

egg sandwich--yunjin
hotdogs--jianle
peanut butter and nutella sandwiches---siying
snadwich--bao cai

SNACKS(twisters,chips,sweet stuff etc):
Laysiew
Ziyan
Qianling
Daryl
Tse Yu
Enjie
Si xiu
Yee siang
Ying shuang

DRINKS(1.5 litres,packet etc)
Hejin(2x1.5 litres)
Quanyao
Huiqi
Iris

OTHERS:
mats--Fangning and ms chian
Trash bags--bernard
Cups--julia
utensils--anqi
paper plates--charlene

so,basically our picnic tml is going to be quite an UNHEALTHY one so people please try to buy healthy snacks like less salted chips etc.for people making sandwiches please try not to put too much seasoning or nutella or peanut butter etc.and anyway,we'll need more mats or else we'll all be sitting on the field.which is going to burn our butts.

anyway,please be hydrated tommorow,drink plenty of water.and another improtant thing is,
WEAR YOUR CLASS TEE!!!!

and of course if you do not know how to go here are some pointers:

-take 176 from jurong town hall road(beside je library)
-take 282 from clementi interchange and get down at duno wad stop and walk across the industrial park.
-go nan hua high,walk to the AYE bus stop cut through all the flats and go to clementi woods.walk on the passenger walkway outside,then cross the junction and go straight.yea you'll see macs.
-go mrt station take cab
-ask someone to give you a lift!

yea so thats all.have fun tml!i'll be a station master at the skipping rope station:DDDD

-- the fantabulous care rep jianle

hey people its jianle here!
first time posting but its for an urgent matter.
we HAVE to discuss the class picnic by tml else we'll have NO PICNIC!!!
and its after road run.
so maybe we'll starve to death.
so please for those who can volunteer for bringing food please inform me bernard benedict or daryl k.

information on road run:
1.each person will NEED to have 2 bottles of water
2.the electronic tags will be given out at the road run please take good care of it it costs $50 for one.
not worth it.
3.Please be punctual on that day!!
4.CLASS PICNIC ---we'll be needing mats,food,trash bags and drinks.it'll be a scorching hot day,for those who do not want to become ang paos please bring sunscreen or sunblock:DD

so thats all!fun posting!

Test

Higher Art students please be reminded that there will be an ART HISTORY TEST on Term 1 Week 10 (which is now) and that it'll most likely be tomorrow because Me and Dong Yan art not in Singapore on Friday and that Dong Yan can only make it on Tuesday. So, gambatehh!!!! CHIONG BAHH :D D:

why Mr Tan never remind us?
Well, he said that it's a "surprise" test. =.= ...

Weekend things to unscrew

Yingshuang, the latest post if not about NYAA anymore (:

 

IMPT.

1. Health Booklet by monday
2. TRAVEL DEC.  
3. Kc is coming to Singapore on 27th April !! :D
4. "All I Ever Wanted" (single) impacting Hot AC, AC and POP radio formats 9th March 2010.

Things To Unscrew Weekend Checklist

1. Physics: Worksheet
   Section B Q1,2,3
2. Amaths: Logarithms worksheet
   Do in AMATHS A5 BOOK 1
3. HCL: Chinese worksheet: Comparison of the 2 课文
4. HCL: 生活随笔: Last 2 questions (I think)
5. CL/HCL: Chinese SRP file hand in on monday
6. HCL: 剪报 if you haven't already done so
7. English: Surprise spelling next week
8. Chemistry: Qualitative Analysis Worksheet
9. Physics: FORCES CLASS TEST NEXT TUESDAY

Sorry for the late update. (:
Class tee will most likely be ready by 9th March.

bernard.

NYAA FORM AND MONEY!!!!!

PLEASE HAND IN YOUR NYAA FORM, AND THE 6 DOLLARS TO ME BY TMR
DEADLINE IS TMR, SO IF YOU DONT HAND IN, YOU'LL BE DEAD!


OKAY, JUST REMEMBER LA HOR :)


- FROM YOUR DEAR CIP REP, YING SHUANG

Hey,

This is not a gentle reminder for Emath, maybe like hard, or probably rough. :B

Do make sure you have done the following(:

1. CNY algebra quiz.

Go to http://www.ace-learning.com.sg

Log in to your account: Mostly both your ic.

Once you entered the lobby/home,

The assignment is already shown at the centre of your screen.

It is titled: "Revision on indices and algebra"

*Do it on folscap paper.

Hand in promptly(Via mathrep/mathbox at the teacher's table.

2. Week end homework quiz.

Go to http://www.ace-learning.com.sg

Log in to your account: Mostly both your ic.

Once you entered the lobby/home,

The assignment is already shown at the centre of your screen.

It is titled: "S3 indices and standard form hw"

*Do it on your math bk 1.

Hand in promptly(Via mathrep/mathbox at the teacher's table.

3.Emath 10-year series.

Indicate if your want/do not want on the class list that is passed around or inform to your mathrep/teacher.

Pay a sum of only $6.60

4. Emath File

Those for do not want it and have already informed, your name is already recorded on the list. Please do so if you have not. Once bought, considered yours.

Pay a sum of only $0.90

File detail: Flat & Green, just like me(:

5. Other

If you have not done at least one of the above and not intending to do so too.

PLEASE DO SO

or die.(:

Common Test 2010(23rd february)

-Indices

-Quadratic functions

TEEHEE, IF IM NOT WRONG. . .

Bring :

pencil

eraser

curve rule/french curve

ruler

pen

correction tape

father

mother

cat

dog

mouse

kangaroo

math teacher

graph plotter

tent

@cash

lvl 53 magician

poker card

kelly clarkson

lady gaga

answer sheet.

;D

Amath common test topics:

Chapt 9: simultaneous equations in two unknowns

Chapt 3: polynomials and partial fractions

Chapt 2.1: operations on indices and surds

k thats all.

-Enjie

class tee design

CLASS TEE DESIGN FIVE:

Kudos to waikit. You can choose to change your decision. Yunjin also have a design.

bernard.

Hey guys, as you all may already know that Ms chian is leaving.
The following video is done especially for her, to thank her prior she leave us, for all that she has contributed.
Good luck, in your future endeavors.
SEND US PICS!
(:

Class tee, baby!

Choosing a design: (click to enlarge pictures below)

1. If you like one specific design,
   choose: 'DESIGN 1/2/3/4'
2. If you like one side of a design and the other side of another,
   choose: 'DESIGN 2 FRONT, DESIGN 4 BACK'
3. If you don't like anything, you can choose to:
   (a) come up with a design and post it here
   (b) keep quiet
   (c) express your utter disgust towards the designs (not encouraged)
4. If you already have a design and wish to post it here, email the .jpg file to:
   repent.yourself-away@hotmail.com and TELL ME YOU SENT IT cos I don't check emails ._.

Additional things to note (ie. propaganda):

1. White is good. Basically, nobody will choose white since they think it is 'boring'. Hence, if 50000 people think it's boring, no one else will use white. Therefore, white becomes unique (: Moreover, white is uber easy to design. Henceforth, white color for the win!
2. In the below designs, the maroon is CHANGABLE. Idk if I spelt 'changable' correctly (and I bolded it), but I basically mean the color can be adjusted.
3. Voting slips will be given after cny. Questions will include: material, colors, designs, etc.
4. Let's keep our design simple (: Our motto is boomz enough. Ha.

DESIGN ONE:

DESIGN TWO:

DESIGN THREE:

DESIGN FOUR:

bernard.

Weekend Update

Sorry for not posting lol.

Things to unscrew this CNY (long) weekend

1. HCL: 作文（二）
   Refer to the question paper
   Impt: Must inclde at least 5 new words from the texts that we've learnt. Excluding one word will result in the loss of 0.5 marks, and a total of 2 marks will be deducted for not using these words. Not really splendidly phrased, but still (:
2. HCL COMMON TEST FORMAT: 50marks, 1 hour
   - 20 marks 词汇 30 marks 理解问答
   Textbook 3A: 第1, 2, 4, 5, 8 课的词语
   词汇测验：1 填写汉字(5m)、辫字测验(5m)、选词填空(10m)
3. EMaths: Ace-learning: Post under calander (do on foolscap)
4. AMaths: EXERCISE BOOK 2
   Page 28: Q 4(d), 5(b), 6(e), 7(f), 7(g)
   DUE: WED 17Feb
5. AMaths: Common Test 1 2009 (do on foolscap)
   DUE: WED 17Feb
6. Chinese: SRP Week 6
7. Physics: Common Test 1 Paper 2009
8. SS: Worksheet: Traffic Management in Understanding Governance
   Skill focus: Explaining factors
9. Chemistry: Preparation of salts worksheet

bernard.

P.s/ Kc is going to Malaysia. COME TO SINGAPOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LAHHHHHH.
Sorry. Ha.

WISHES FROM THE GOD OF LOVE AND GOD OF FORTUNE

To ALL 302 students and teachers:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR AND I HOPE THAT YOU ALL WILL ENJOY IT!!!!! :DDD JIAYOUS IN EVERYTHING YOU DO AND HOPED THAT YOU WILL GET A LOT OF MONEY FROM YOUR HONG BAOS :P

GOOD LUCK IN THE COMMON TESTS TOO AND HOPED THATEVERYONE IN 302 CAN GET ALL A1s!!!!!!!! :DDDDDD

SEE YOU ALL DURING COMMON TESTS!!!!! :DDDDD

LAST OF ALL, GOOD LUCK IN EVERYTHING YOU DO......

YOURS FAITHFULLY,

LAI BAO CAI

Weekend Checklist

If you freaked out in the last five minutes or so, please go back into a sane state of mind. I merely changed the skin (:

Things To Unscrew (for the weekend) #3

1. HCL: 作文（二）
2. Physics: TEXTBOOK Page 46
   Q5 (a) (b) (c)
3. Chinese: Week 5 SRP
4. Elective Hist: League of Nations worksheet
5. CHEMISTRY TEST NEXT WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY:
   Come on the day when you are free. I.e. If you are not free on thursday, come on wednesday and vice versa.
6. HCL: 剪报(you should have 12 剪报 in your file already...if not, means u lagged behind...)

COMMON TEST SCHEDULE

1. MON 22FEB: HCL/CL & English Language
2. TUES 23FEB: EMaths & Elect HIST/GEOG
3. WED 24FEB: Chemistry & Social Studies
4. THUR 25FEB: AMaths & Biology
5. FRI 26FEB: Physics + 2nd Humans (geog/hist/lit) > AFTER SCHOOL
6. MON 2MAR: MSP (Sec3s)
7. TUES 3MAR: C Lit

IMPORTANT REMINDER:

If you are attending the class + misschian's birthday & farewell dinner, please be informed to meet at
CLEMENTI MRT STATION CONTROL STATION (read: the place where you tap cards. Make sure you are outside in case SMRT happily charge you an overtime fee of $2 :D) AT 5.30PM.

If you are not attending, attend it. Lol. Come lah. Make MsChian cry. (:

bernard.

Baocai get well soon :D

And homework I update tmr/weekends okay. Haha. Havent study chinese. Die. die.die.die.die.

Please come for class dinner k. Go for the sake of MsChian. And for the sake of the firsthand experience of singing in a BK restaurant! (:

Peace out.

TRAVEL DECLARATION BY TMR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

bernard.

...=.=

Higher Art students: i dunno when but there's this test abt Art Movements sometime this week to next week. Hand in 10 pieces for ms ng tmr. I not sure if mr tan's hw can be counted together with ms ng's. >.< Finish gothic asap(for ue own good) buffer(for ur own good so next time dunnid chiong like crazy ppl,well i think we are crazy alrdy O_o) I think we better photocopy all work so mr tan won't spoil the picture with colour pencils XD

Everyone: Sign Travel Dec. form by 10th Feb( next Wed). Hand in SRP by this Friday. Hand in SS file on this friday.


Think that's all...yawn so sleepy... =.=