Just Jie Yang now.

I admit, I’ve been kinda wary when it comes to blogging, the feeling of pouring out my thoughts is always different, and one example of why I should be afraid can be shown in today’s Newpaper headlines.

Anyway, I noticed that our juniors has been digressing since our batch left the main leadership positions and the school events just aren’t what they used to be, be it in terms of school spirit, atmosphere, etc. I simply cannot condone their failures in attaining the standards that we have left behind for them to reach. Let me provide some case studies.

Case Study 1: Aphelion Night

It ended so damn quick, I had barely warmed up to the atmosphere. The whole Sec 2 level plus 3 out of 4 of the Sec 1 classes didn’t perform, and only 2 Sec 3 classes perform. What the hell is wrong? Even if they start singing “Man Jiang Hong” (Whole Valley Red) in a nationalistic and even cheena tone, I will also appreciate the effort (that few grams of it). It speaks volumes about their ability to balance their social lives and academics. The whole Sec 4 batch gave excellent performances (perhaps 4A looked a bit shabby on stage) but at least, at least, we came up with original performances.

We had to devise our own entertainment, like going for night tours and criticizing the OT for screwing up possibly the best event that Aphelion has, apart from SMOPS, which also failed this year, sadly.

Case Study 2: SMOPS’ 07

This is the EMB message posted by Miss Tong, the OS of SMOPS.

Dear all,

The Singapore Mathematical Olympaid for Primary Schools (SMOPS) was held on 21 Apr 2007 and had attracted over 3300 participants. It was a success with the recognizable contribution of:

Remus Tan who demonstrated outstanding leadership qualities as OS

Timothy Sng who capably fulfilled his responsibilities as AOS

Cai Yong and his dynamic dismissal team

Caleb and his impressive Registrars

Timothy Yong and his Logistics macho-men

Yang Yang and his vigilant Invigilators

Shuan Sng, Edwin Liang and the team of Refreshment energizers

Wei Ming and his leading Ushers

Jiawei, the former OS who models faithful service and encouraging support

Sec 4 Block ICs who provided remarkable supervision

Jeremy Chen and Samuel Huang who rendered their technical expertise with good grace

All Aphelion gentlemen who have helped to run this mega-school event
competently

NCC officers who assisted in controlling the traffic flow efficiently

ProEd students who rendered their assistance professionally

All students who conscientiously prepared the classrooms for the competition

And all unsung heros who had supported in one way or another.

A heartfelt THANKS to all who had risen to the occasion!

Sharing the success with you,
Ms Tong
OS (SMOPS)”

Come off it, I don’t challenge Miss Tong’s words, but looking at the people, I can question them, and vehemently deny that they have done a good job. Yes, they have put in effort, but whether it was a success, we can continue to wonder. For me, I can say that the invilgilation and logs department are screw-ups.

The inter commitee bonds is so low, they don’t even know how another commitee is helping them. Yang Yang can call me to tell about mistakes in the paper that I reported, the Logs need to wait for me to ask for every single thing before giving it to me, making me seem like a crochety naggy old man, and the Refreshments can forget about giving the Block I/Cs food on prep day. And I don’t call walking around on actual day “faithful service”.

I am still angry that Wee Kian was left out of higher leadership posts. Yes, he never held an I/C post nor Admin post before, but he rises to the occasion, and gets the job done well. He also holds 1 year worth of experience that you can only just think about, but never have.

Just go reflect, and give me something to be proud of the 8th Aphelion Council.

Case Study 3: Lack of good council intiatives.

This is one of the useless council iniatives to involve the student body.

“Hey Guys!
The National Cheerleading Competition is back again, promising greater action and scale this year! A major event in the cheerleading calendar and supported by Singapore Sports Council for sports promotion, this is the 7th year Cheerobics is being held. Formerly organized by Nanyang Technological University Cultural Activities Club (NTU CAC), this is the first time Cheerobics is organized by the Cheerleading Association (Singapore).

Following the success of the open category held on March 24th, the secondary category heats will be held on 24th June, with the top three teams going on to compete for the top three positions at the National Indoor Stadium in conjunction with the Singapore Youth Festivals Celebrations on 29th June.

This year, besides the usual team category, secondary school cheerleading team can also take part in brand new group category. The group category consists of 3 – 5 members performing a 45 seconds – 1 minute stunts-only routine.

The prizes are as follows:

Team Category – Champion Champion Trophy + S$1,000 cash + Individual Medals + Challenge Trophy
Team Category – 1st Runner-up 1st Runner-up Trophy + S$600 cash + Individual Medals Team Category – 2nd Runner-up2nd Runner up Trophy + S$400 cash + Individual Medals Group Category – ChampionChampion Trophy + S$400 cash + Individual Medals
Group Category – 1st Runner-up1st Runner-up Trophy + S$300 cash + Individual Medals Group Category – 2nd Runner-up2nd Runner up Trophy + S$200 cash + Individual Medals

Registration closes on 13th May 2007. Do refer to the attached file should you want to find out more!
Form a group, appoint a group leader and sign up by clicking ‘A’ and typing in the names of your group members now! “

Very good joke, HSC, but I’m so sorry, haven’t you noticed that we are an all-boys’ school, or perhaps, everytime our dear president calls us dearly by “batchmates”, he fails to see that we are not girls, or is confused with our gender orientation. Cheerleading, is a good sport, no doubt, but no girls, and the factor of having elegance is kinda lost.

So no thank you to your lame activities. And please, support Lijie’s initiative to have a DOTA competition.

So are we digresssing? Judge for yourselves.

You’re not the emo-est of quiz-takers, but you lean in an emo direction. You feel angry and passionate on a regular basis, but you also have an easygoing side that keeps you grounded. You’re naturally introspective, but you’re not compelled to analyze every detail of your life—sometimes you’d rather shrug your shoulders and get on with the day. You understand why your emo friends seem so sensitive, but you also get why that drives your non-emo friends crazy. You’re the happy medium of emo-ness! Not happy in the middle?

Hanging out with people you’re INTO into is supposed to be fun; it doesn’t have to be rocket science, prom-night-every-night, or a sliding board directly into marriage. And the Happy Fun Time Dater totally gets that. To the HFTD, you can get to know someone just as well (if not better) by letting go of your ego and nerves and just being dorks together as you can by staring into each other’s eyes as the sun sets over the ocean. But just so you know: doing the ocean sunset maneuver is nice every once in a while, too… to let someone know they’re special.

Okay, I admit, I am in the mood for doing quizzes and evaluating myself, it gets to let me know more about myself. Isn’t that good?

The QS is the most mysterious “type” of all, because they can be in any clique, or no clique at all. They could hang on the sidelines of the jock crew, the geeky crew, or the goths, or the emo kids… or maybe they hang with the hip hop crew, but are more into R&B. Or they just hang in the library, reading during lunch. As such, you have to kind of actively scour the QS hotspots to “capture” one, and you’ll almost definitely have to initiate the first conversation. Try:
- The quiet table in the cafeteria
- Parties — look for the wallflower that looks about ready to leave
- The A.V. club, choir, or band
- The computer room
- Libraries, bookstores, coffee shops
- Video stores on Friday or Saturday evenings (the QS often rents alone)
- The park on a sunny Saturday

Happy Birthday, Randy Cheong Wang Long.

You are 16, so please bring me to watch some violent pornography.
I’ll buy you a pack of condoms too, just in case rabbit needs some love.

I have been angering people around me today, so I shall explain myself, not to deny nor to anger the people further.

The Daryl Incident
He definitely has some mood swing problems, not to mention that this is coupled with difficulties in understanding and not bothering to clarify, nor listen on. This makes my life extremely difficult, since I hate to mince my words, yet neither can I bring myself to tell him in the face he’s being stupid when it comes to insignificant issues. This causes me to have extremely bad expression, and thus, I hate confronting people. It’s just this fact that I tend to be sarcastic like 90% of the time when I get the inspiration to niao people around me. Sadly, he likes to cut me off before I state my point, while I listen intently to his point before telling him where his logic is flawed. It kinda makes him think he’s right, or at least more logical than me, and thus I listen to him and don’t interrupt him. I’m sorry, my dear. It’s because I have manners, and I subconsciously like to point out errors in the other party’s argument.
So please, listen to me. You may say that coming at 6.40a.m. is no biggy for you, and 6.50 may disrupt the briefing by OT, but the thing is, AOS has no issue about it, we take like 2 mins to hand out nametags and mark attendance, and the briefing at the most, takes 5-7 mins. We are scheduled to check the classrooms at 7. So it’s perfect.

You don’t listen to my point of view, so you are angry at me for always appearing to turn down your views and only asserting my point without any reason.

I am angry because of that. Not because of your difficulty at understanding me (It’s partially my fault too), nor because you want to come at 6.40, which is pretty early for a sleep-deprived boy.

Please, I am not high-and-mighty, nor am I despising any other peeps. I embrace criticsm, be it to me or from me, and I love to come up with smart humour, not crude humour.

So, I suppose those who are angry with me should send me a mail or chat with me if you still remain heated up after reading this.

Okay, no handphone this week, but next weekend, because my brother is coming back from Taiwan.

This means aviators and Asics shoes, which is equally good! =)

I dare say nothing hits me hard like the ecstasy of getting my hands on money. Cold hard cash, to be exact. I got my Edusave award today, and the 2544 bucks that came in the form of cheque (aww, so disappointing), set me off on a happy mood for the rest of the day.

Plus, Plus, I am getting a new handphone this sunday! Woohoohooooo~! Can you believe it? After three years of topping up this hi-card and after 4 2nd hand phones, I am going to place my hands on a new phone. My dad has to rate it, though, as in cost and the plus plus, but who cares? It is a new phone.

Although 10 people failed their IHC test (out of 34), I am quite certain I can at least scrape a pass. I did my best at least. There’s chemistry tomorrow, but thanks to Mrs Seck’s excellent and meticulous teaching, I can just study and look through the main points, instead of memorizing like crazy.

Oh, happy day!