FOA!

FOA - The Festival of Arts 2009 - was a blast !
As usual , we performed ( supposed to put up the competition drama but tak jadi . )
This year's performance was a last-minute idea of a tribute to MJ - the King of Pop.

as usual , we surprise ourselves at many things we do ( eg: mighty minds , drama) and we surprised teacher with how much we improved in a day , with her comments.
therefore , EC ppl need stress to shove their butts of a chair and keep them on their toes.

So FOA , this year's was apparently the ONLY and FIRST year that our teacher advisors had the chance to sit back and relax , because of our efficient and independant way of working . Applause!
On the downside, this year is probably the worst year in terms of income , but like teacher said , LDDS is not a money making club. Money matters, leave that to the Koperasi and Tunas Bistari to roll in the cash .

Last year, we were told to SPEND money, because we had too much :D

Anyway FOA was a blast and I loved it , plus this year we had proper t-shirts which were decent enough to wear ( grey t-shirts from last year, anyone? actually those were okay )

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Our Formative3 test just ended today , frankly it's nothing much but yeah , unprepared.. Haha.
I rarely have the time and leisure to blog about funny stuff which happens in school , so i'll save it for "oral blogging" sessions when I have nothing to talk about.

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I might blog about my trip to the bank , or mighty minds . OR get some pics up on facebook. Meanwhile i'm packed, gtg tuition!

Yay

What's been happening lately?

Today's my birthday! Thanks to everyone who wished me in any manner - in no particular order-

MUM and DAD Sueanne eunice diyana ben jamie( HAPPY BIRTHDAY:D) christy stefi jace matthew lichin zoe kitty pavan shafiq justin shaarvin chienyin alia heng meersha sebastian-ng chuhsien christina aaron haren jarred foonglina aneel adrian

sorry if i forgot to mention anyone :D remind me thanks !

thank you for the gifts :D

Went to sg with dad just now , had brunch at Oscar's , enjoyed it!

i'm lazy to blog abt MM and the skull in dirty water. maybe next time

Your call.

from http://www.aizuddindanian.com/voi/2009/07/english-out-bm-in-for-science.html

The announcement was made today.

Beginning 2012, students in Year One and Year Four in primary schools, and Form One and Form Four in secondary schools, will learn Math and Science in Bahasa Malaysia.

The reason?

"Only 19.2% of secondary teachers and 9.96% of primary teachers were sufficiently proficient in English," he said, explaining the Government's decision to revert to the old system.

Seems silly isn't it? The patient has a rotting arm, and the Government's solution to the problem is to chop off the head.

While there is certainly some nationalistic pride behind having a national language capable of teaching science and math (this is debatable), it probably isn't in the best interest of the students who will wind up having to re-learn everything in English anyways once they start tertiary education, at least for those who aim to pursue those subjects. And for those that have no ambitions to study beyond a secondary education, having so little proficiency in English is not going to be much help in the "Real World" (TM) either.

With English having a prominent role in the schools, it was a step in the right direction, painful as it was. Come 2012, the education system is going to gostan. Do you see what i did there?

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I am in total support of what this fellow blogger says. Few years back , the government was in a frenzy to train teachers and re-introduce Math and Science in English again.
Workshops, courses , programmes , systems , etc etc were put into action and we were quite pleased as it meant that Malaysians won't be sesated in the world as they would have a basis of science/ math in english.
Hablur??? what's that? It's crystal . Zarah is Atom .
As the blogger mentioned, there is a sense of nationalistic pride in teaching Math/Science( M/S) in Bahasa Malaysia. But what use is it , if we are to be confused with terms in English ? Are we going to be big-headed that we have "retained" our use of BM in teaching subjects that most of the world learns in standard language - English?

We can see that the standard of the English language in Malaysia , is not up to scratch.I think Miss Shyamala might agree to that , she being a teacher who loves the English language very much . Even our neighbours which split in 1963 , Singapore, have progressed by leaps and bounds , compared to us , who are complacently limping along , crippled by our various ailments and Achille's Heels .

Phrases like, " borrow me money" , " I drop and scratch my arm" , " open the light" , are less than rare in everyday life. Even if one may ace a written paper, they stumble and struggle with speaking English.

So It's like typing out a whole bad-ass long essay then backspacing word by word and typing it again. GOSTANNNNN.

So , very nicely said just now.

"Seems silly isn't it? The patient has a rotting arm, and the Government's solution to the problem is to chop off the head."

Good night .

See , this news overshadows what I was gonna post ! the rubber object found 2 days in a row in our class!

What's Happening ?

Thursday : Interviewed by the LDDS editors , Sean and Ashwin for a bulletin feature about the EC Drama team .
Edwin as usual gave very interesting answers , with the atmosphere getting heated and rowdy , especially next door where the BoD meeting was.

Friday : Got together to discuss the alternative sketch for FOA . Tribute to MJ . Still putting the pieces together. Sorry 5E , Edwin trashed your class ..
kicked the ball around , wrote his address on the whiteboard , WITH PERMANENT MARKER . We managed to clean it off nicely while he complained,

Whats wrong with you all wei! I nicely mess it up you all go clean up...walao .

Thanks to the cooperation of everyone involved, we managed to come up with a decent idea and outline most of the script . Thanks to :

Pavan - came with lots of info . + entertainment
Edwin -entertainment
Shafiq - coming although he was sick , then giving some ideas
Shaarvin - entertaiment as well
Justin - Giving ideas even though he was sleeping
Theeban - Ideas and entertainment

And below , there's an X Rated photo of Edwin . ENLARGE IF YOU DARE. Justin , Constant Vigilance ! Remember! Bad things happen while you sleep and though thou arth oblivious , they come back to haunt you one day ..












OMG DID YOU SEE THAT!





Sorry :D it's not as bad as it looks yknow!


Saturday : Parents Day! Went to school for " Jalinan Mesra" between parents and teachers. Overall teacher said I was good except that I talk a lot .

Mum : " Talk a lot ? Means disturb a lot of students ah, noisy! "
Tchr : " No lah, he just talks .. not noisy "

then my mum was kinda hairan how to talk and not be noisy (must be hard to imagine, considering her very talkative/noisy group of friends! )
I said I talk softly and keep my volume down , maintaining a level of respect and consideration for those around me .

Flag day duty after that , karat a bit since it's been a year since Flag Day 08 ( I cant duty this year though , sorry) . Duty until 12 , went back , took some things and came back to school at 1.30 pm for the FOA Auditions ( Bands) .
6 bands came, only 5 will be chosen..

1) Alvin John , Alvin Sanjay , John Gordon , and Gurdave Singh! Perfomed Beat It and a Metallica song. Gurdave the guitarist performed like a true rocker, head banging , guitar biting and playing with the guitar behind his head. Thumbs up!

2) Fifth Avenue : Yolander, Matthew , Ben Chia , Othniel , and idk who's the drummer :x
Perfomed "crushcrushcrush " Thumbs up!

3) White Chicks : Jeremy , Victor and ? performed Wonderwall . Good vocals!

4)AIA : Ivan sings!! Light On , incidentally Ms.Shyamala's fave song. She was kinda angry, not being able to forgive Ivan for ruining her fave song.. well after all voices sound different on loudspeakers.

" You'll stop my heart again.."

indeed..scary . Hell hath no fury like _____________ scorned.

5) Reconcile - Ram , Alvin , Jonathan , Joel - sang 21 Guns . Thumbs up! although couldn't hear jon's voice, mike prob?

6) Enddless . Yes with two DD like TheeBBan . Sang Wake Me up When September Ends. Good, but not impressive..not really.

in the end AIA was out :(

Monday : today .

Had First Aid class . After screwing our brains with , Brain , Heart ,and Lung Anatomy/Physiology , Ivan made us do CPR on Pavan . Idiot blew into our ears , ahh

when it was his turn..

Ivan : " mao fong go lie down be victim. "
Me : mehehheheh..

I will perform head tilt chin lift
*blowwww*
*presses finger tightly on my throat*
*BLOWHARDER*

lup dup

I've been having a throbbing headache from last night till now .
Not going for Rohaini later.


Good luck , convent. You all represent Johor and as we know Johor rocks !
So win the choir competition!

Lim Tiga Bersaudara

sup' .

I feel weird today so I didn't go to school .
Leaky nose, sore throat and headache (swine flu? )

NO WAY :D

I was in the cinema watching transformers on saturday , enclosed and crowded ( full house)
plus with air-con !


Anyway Transformers was really awesome, a really epic movie. There was one Shocking part which made EVERYONE laugh . The whole cinema. Then when Megan Fox was close-up-ed on the screen diyana made it sound like as if it's my fault that the scene existed..

Had NCO training yesterday , I don't think it had anything to do with how I feel today .

Did it?

You don't get sore throat from commanding unless you don't use the "stomach voice" .
(my sore throat was from sunday night)

Big jokes :

Michael's turn at report and command.

" Selamat pagi Squad. Pada pagi ini, saya akan mengawadkan squad. Penanda sebelah kanan, Prebet Lim "

Chuan Li : " *HENTAK * SQUAD! "

"Penanda sebelah kiri Prebet.. Lim"

ME: *HENTAK* SQUAD ! "

Okay , the Prebet Lim Tiga Bersaudara are on the move, I repeat , On the move.

Made the whole squad laugh earlier when someone else had their turn
( Me and CL were in that position for like more than half of the training)

Then Un's turn came, and he kept getting wrong and his voice sounded funny or something, Shafiq was tahan-ning his laughter and couldn't take it and went SNORT SNORT SNORT like damn babi .

Which naturally, made half the squad laugh , I tried to tahan :/

Shafiq as the timer , his voice became quite harsh , which made pavan say something which I dunno if i'm allowed to post here , but it made us laugh too .

Un : Bergerak ke kiri bertiga tiga , ke kiri , pusing.
Shafiq : Stup Du*HACHHI* *HACHI HACHII HACHII*
Pavan : woi apa apa ejek nama bapak aku ahh .
Shafiq : what the HACHII HACHII HACHII

I heard from somewhere - Sneeze once ,someone misses you . Twice - someone's cursing you .

Three times?


Go see a doctor.


Fabian : What the hell was all that! Laughing at what? Shafiq you were farting from your nose!





Well like Shaarvin would say :

Time passes sooo slowly.

" I open my eyes.. " < Live by the sword Die by the sword , Jamestown story

He did it like in a .. bingung kinda way .DAMN FUNNY.

The other day , of all topics we could talk about , we talked about...

POKEMON .

honestly , pokemon rocks. I used to be freaking expert at it when I played last time.

On a Happy-er note :

Happy Birthday Zoe!!!

i've known you for a year and a bit

but your shoes still dont fit.


0.o anyway happy birthday and smile smile SMILE!

two days ago was my mum's birthday :D low profile !

and vithya's too . Happy birthday!

On a Happy-er note :

All of a sudden -

Today marks the passing of music's most loved pop icon , Michael Jackson

The King of Pop.

Rest in peace , the world remembers you .

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Assumption

I forgot to prepare my SJAM uniform last night because I forgot and partly because me and Shafiq pakat-ed to wear the Team Johor shirt to show our pride in being Johorian :D
(because SJAM Johor rocks)

First person I met at the gate , Sean : he was wearing team Malaysia .
Then I saw Edwin ! " SEE , LIM ALSO WEARING! "
Justin assumed Ivan wouldnt let us wear..

nvm then , today was Hari koperasi's launching day so they called some fellows from outside and had a big ceremony etc etc .. Form6 girls performed a choir , what song I couldn't hear because they didn't use the mike and the crowd was too noisy .

Saw Ms. Shyamala at the door , and we all thought , " wow now she's training a choir?? "

So I asked her , ( previously maybe none of us would dare to approach her with such a question because we assumed she was really terrifying but with all the time in close proximity with teachers we begin to understand them .. plus judging from the bus ride home from segamat , teacher is a very sporting person )

" Teacher, did you train the choir?"

her reply : (with intonation)

" Me?? No! If I trained them they wouldnt be so bad ,would they. "

HAHAHAHHAAH and almost everyone at the back who heard and understood laughed , but personally I dont know how to judge choir but they weren't that bad considering they probably had a few hours of last minute training , very much like the Combined Adult Team in the District level which trained for , at most , 10 hours and mashed SMK JJ Which we ASSUME , have been training for months..

Next , two meetings lined up : LDDS BoD meeting and Interact Meeting/interview.

While waiting for LDDS , we lepak in class and did a bit of NCO training . Isaac clarified the intonation :

*rising tone* selamat pagi TUAN! * inflect voice higher * * isaac swings hand up*


Went for Interact first , filled in the interview form :

* post preffered , areas of interest , 3 ways to improve IC , 3 suggested activities , 2 other comments*

asked for early interview and alas, I was first to go in ( what to do , got LDDS at 2pm)

Grilled by 3/4 of the BoD , plus Shan , Honorary Ex-President (as Kumaresh puts it )

turned out okay , maybe I was mentally prepared , it's something like what happened on Monday for 7 people.. Commitment commitment commitment!

Time to commit to your studies or you'll commit suicide when your results come out.

* oh ya, WHAT'S OMSSSFEEE ???? *

Shafiq / Sean : Operation MiStakeS FrEE

why the extra S and E ? If johor keeps up the presence and quality it has , in later years we'll have THIS on the shirt!

OMFGITSAAACNAACJHRWTFOMGGTPWNED

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