Benchin
Erm i know this is a bit late. But what i did for the holidays is work super hard. Seriously man i work so hard until 3.00 am everyday. And then i got bored. And started drawing. and i drew this on my chinese book.
Oh yea and i had cca camp on the first week
Oh yea and it was kinda fun
oh yea and second week i went to m'sia but i didnt get any photos.
i ran out of steam and didnt really study anymore
10:50 PM
A LAME joke:
Why is it very hard to get our class work? Cos it's 4T!!!
Hope you can get the joke...cos 4T sounds like "faulty"...
8:36 PM
GRAND FINALE! ^^
9:47 PM
Soul society needs samuel
Save the best for the last (:
9:34 PM
Second "victim" :P
9:29 PM
Brandon getting owned ^^
~Guess who posted this? (:
9:06 PM
Mr Tiah
My holidays were quite boring. Other than going for training or doing some project I seldom go out. I spend a lot of time on dota. New version came out, makes the game more exciting. No rampage pictures to post. Ksing nt my style. Recently I only get triple. >:( Played a bit of cs too. Quite bad at it though. Probably the worst holiday I ever had, with all the stress coming from work. Only regret would be not watching transformers 2.
12:27 AM
My Hols..
Sorry for the late post. Well..part of my hols were spent on doing projects and schoolwork. During the hols I also played soccer and basketball occasionally.
I attended the VJC workshop with some of my classmates, it was an enjoyable experience which i will never forget. I learnt many useful and interesting stuff there as well.
Another highlight was the Da vinci exhibition which i went with ben ng and KTC as part of our geog project. The exhibition was rather interesting but i think they wasted too much space on analyzing the Mona Lisa painting.
The main event during my hols was the chemistry project which i embarked on with Jianwei and Manfred. I think i dont want to talk much about it....
Besides doing work and project, most of the time was spent relaxing and slacking around and taking a well deserved break after the hectic first semester.
Alvin
9:59 PM
manfred's hols
hols hav been quite busy, so no time go overseas, oso cos no $ la
a lot of time spent on doing projects
remaining time spent on watching tv shows/ movies/ listening music dat i missed out during sch term
oso spent more time outdoors
i got more sleep, to make up for the 10 weeks of lack of slp
i oso attended the vjc ting (half of it)
since tc alr write so much abt npcc camp den i dunnid add so much
i was the hike ic, so i had to walk to ecp from bishan 2 times, one for recce, one for actual ting
its actually quite near lor, walk 3 hours reach alr
since im so passionate abt chemistry, its no surprise dat im taking part in a chemistry project with jianwei n alvin, teacher mentor is mr koh
its abt making an IL (1,1,3,3-Tetramethylguanidinium propionate) using tmg n propionic acid, den using it to extract artemisinin from some artemisia annua leaves
it sounds damn cheem, but actually not dat hard, jus dat we hav to put in a lot of time and effort
oso, we r risking our lives in dis project, cos a lot of the shit is toxic n harmful
see? dis is how enthu we r for science
so far we alr made the IL, dis is how we did it
1st we mix tmg and propionic acid together using ethanol as the solvent
propionic acid stinks like hell, damn disgusting
and tmg fumes r poisonous
so we do our work in fume hood, but at the start mr koh say cannot bring the weighing balance into fume hood, so we do outside, den end up we inhale a lot of the shit, its a miracle we r still here
k after dat we stir it using magnetic stirrer, leave it for 2 hours, den after dat we hav to remove all the ethanol and other impurities so dat we get our il
so we mus use rotatory evaporator, the ting keep turning, den got heat n reduced pressure, so the ethanol will be removed, since got lower bp
after dat we add activated carbon, which is charcoal, den do the stirring plus the evaporation again
den we put into vacuum dessicator to suck, dat one damn disgusting, got grease on it, n its yellow la
den in the end we get our precious il
so dis took up quite a lot of the hols as well
5:24 PM
Now, you should know what to reply Mr Koh when he asks that famous question of his again ^^
Photo taken at yesterday afternoon in a gallery in Wisma Atria.
~Xin Yan
11:05 AM
my hols
well...played and slacked quite a bit, but it was a very busy hol. Started off with interact camp, although i had to miss out on the CIP event thingy coz i had to go for SMO =( and found myself intrigued by SAW V. hmm… dunno if that’s good or bad. Also went for the 2 VJC courses which Jack already posted about below, so won't elaborate on them.
Erm rest of hols was mostly projects…
So I don’t have much pics, only this:
11:41 PM
KTC's Holidaes
Hi guys!
I have been trying to attach photos to my blog post but the thing just keep failing. So dun blame me for this empty looking post.
Anyway, I was really busy during the hols. Just to name some of the many activities, I had the VJC workshop*, the many project meetings, preparation for NPCC midyear camps and the camp itself.
Since i should talk about soemthing unique here, i shall share more about my camp, which was held on the 22nd to 24th june. That was the last NPCC camp that i will attend, and be in charge of. Throughout these 4 years, i have been to about close to 10 camps already under NPCC. This last one was nothing special on the appearance, but I tried to make it special for myself since its the last one. And sleeping a total of 3 hours for 3D2N was indeed an unforgettable experience.
Those many UG kids in 4T will know the standard framework of any camp. Let me just tell you guys planning a camp is much more draining than going through it. Editing proposals after proposals, going to NTUC buying 300 bucks worth of food and pushing 2 full trolleys back to school was part of my job. Haha.
Anyway, during the camp, the highlight was the traditional HELL HOUR again. As the name suggests, campers will have to go through close to an hour of HELL. What hell have i been through as a camper? Well, the first year i was treated to some dough making session where the seniors make dough on your hair and shirt with egg and flour. Then i experience the roti prata session on Raffles green. Seniors wet the field and make us roti prata with the mud.
So, being creative and original, i treated my sec 1s to a combination of both. Roti prata, including the flour and the egg. You might think its cruel and now you might be cursing NPCC for being inhuman. But frankly, in a UG CCA, I won't think that you will remember the drills and campcraft for the rest of your life. What you will remember is the shit that you go through with your squadmates, and hell hour is just one of them.
Ok another highlight which explains why i slept so little was the night hike. 2nd night starting from 2 am, some sec 4s including manfred and i and mr koh hiked with the sec 3 batch to East Coast for the sunrise. I was totally energy-drained already and just kept walking and walking, although that was not the first time I am doing this.
Anyway, yeah. This camp sort of reminds me that my stint as ccal is gonna end soon. It wasn't easy, but it was rewarding. As i always use this analogy, "In NPCC, you be 3 years of dog and in the 4th year you get to be the dog trainer. " Haha, dun worry, its not THAT cruel, its just an analogy. So im almost done with being a trainer! Happy or sad, i still haven figure out.
Teng Chuan
P.S. the class tee will be up as promised, the reason why i stopped is becos my photoshop free trial was used up. Im looking for the disc. Will make use of NO CCA next week to complete it. Sorry for lagging. Anyone got any more opinion just tell me.
11:12 PM
During the June Hols 1st week, I was sick. Then second week onwards mug project.
I went to Jalan kayu for SS project, Science Centre for Geog project. Quite fun. Science Centre had these shows, Tesla coil show. One can see the vast amount of discharge, damn cool. Then Parry and I watched that science magic show, which is damn lame. yeh tats about it. XD
jav
10:58 PM
Lame joke
Each Friday night after work, Santa Singh would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a tandoori chicken and some meat kebabs. But, all of his neighbours were strict Catholics .... and since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating chicken and meat on a Friday.
The delicious aroma from the grilled meats was causing such a problem for the Catholic faithful that they finally talked to their Priest. The Priest came to visit Santa, and suggested that he become a Catholic. After several classes and much study, Santa attended Mass ... and as the priest sprinkled holy water over him, he said, “You were born a Sikh, and raised a Sikh, but now, you are a Catholic."
Santa’s neighbors were greatly relieved, until Friday night arrived. The wonderful aroma of tandoori chicken and meat kebabs filled the neighbourhood. The Priest was called immediately by the neighbors and, as he rushed into Santa's backyard, clutching a rosary and prepared to scold him, he stopped and watched in amazement.
There stood Santa, holding a small bottle of holy water which he carefully sprinkled over the grilling meats and chanted: "Oye, you waz born a chicken, and you waz born a lamb, you waz raised a chicken, and you waz raised a lamb but now yara, you are a potato and tomato"!
~Xin Yan
9:51 PM
For the first week of my June Holiday, I was at my red cross camp. In the camp, I was mainly doing preparations for our campfire. Other than that, it was quite slack. For the next two weeks, I was playing com games, doing a bit of homework and projects, and going out with my family over the weekends. I also found a program that allows you to play piano on the computer (but I dunno how to play piano).
For the last week of holiday, I was chionging my projects. That’s about it for my holidays.
--Sheng Wei
10:47 PM
Holidays
My holidays were busy with lots of school stuff. First week got camp, quite fun cos' Sec 4s dunnit do anything only need to supervise :). Second week got Bio DMP which is a total waste of time, spend 40 hours just surfing internet for info. Then 3rd and 4th week was spent chionging all the remaining projects and homework, especially SS Doc. Our group went to lots of NICE locations to film like Esplanade and Biopolis..Yea so thats how I spent my hols..no pictures to post though.
Jia Wei
9:22 PM
From Ming Chan...
I spend most of my holidays doing work and training. So the first week was basically spent on doing homework and training. We went to the IRAS for out learning journey and it was quite fun. The second week was the same old boring thing again, chionging the homework, projects blah blah... and also training. In the third week I went for camp which was fun... Did a lot of stupid things . I was sick for the first few days of the fourth week but I did recovered. Went to do geo project with jon koh and Brandon and then went to watch Transformers which was super nice. So thats how I spent my holidays.
Ming Chan
2:47 PM