Priorities In Life
Hey all, those who actually read my blog still.
It’s been a great 2 weeks 
Although I would say that perhaps the group dynamics aren’t going so well (probably thanks to me) I figured that it wasn’t so bad! Everyone wanted to learn and participate and I think that’s something that really VS has to try to make it’s students do. To think, to participate!
Anyway, I was recently quite stressed over the Creative Arts Programme portfolio thing, although I (used to) write on this blog fairly often, I can’t submit a blog entry as one of my ‘best pieces of writing’ can I? and I’m still quite stressed over Council application. Although I might not even get it at the end of the day, with IP1 being an apparent honeymoon year I think it’s the year where I should try everything on my plate.
Of course, that’s a sure path to destruction, our BC project is actually kind of coming apart at the seams because firstly, the rubrics are very vague, the perimeters are very vague, and we only have the VIP open house 2008 to guide our experiences. Speaking of which, that feels like a REALLY long time ago. I’d better start taking more from the conflict management course if I don’t want to be hated by the end of the year ._.
To end off, I’d like to just post a min poem I wrote. It might not really make sense, it shouldn’t even be good at all, but (insert high ego strength) I wrote it
The church
- Inspired by lofty spires, imposing stained glass and mesmerizing sunlight streaming through my fingers.
VIP Orientation!
With the awesomeness of IP Orientation behind us, VS just seems like a distant memory now.
3 Days of Pump it up, VJ Unite(Okay fine this is almost the same as VS Unite), Yo VJC and the 10v14 class cheer in Victoria Island, and I’m left with almost no voice but a WHOLE lot of spirit. Pity though, it seems as if I suddenly stood up during assembly and did YO VJC! I’d get killed. But fine, that makes sense. Update: Someone actually did Yo VJC during 05 Febuary 2010′s Friday assembly!
On day 1 it was a game where we had to make a boat and float it in the fountain, while going around doing forfeits for Gamemasters to get materials and stealing lifelines from each other. FUN. After which I think it was tribe station games, which was fun but very tiring and somehow the tribe I was in was jinxed to lose most of our matches. We, however, mastered the art of sucking up to Gamemasters to avail ourselves of ‘suckup points’ There were the usual games such as forming the longest line with anything you could find, and we used the carpets outside the lecture theatre!
On day 2, it was cheering all over again, and the Victorian Game Show. We were presented with various bits of trivia such as when Victorians Day is. Rather unfortuantely, I have already forgotten!
Then after that we had wet and dirty games day. Soy Sauce and Egg and Corn Flour, anyone? It was really hilarious, with games such as the ‘scissors-paper-stone-on-chairs-with-soy-sauce’. There was this rather…innovative game where we had to create the highest, hair-tower, and we were given various condiments such as eggs. Undoubtedly, it was a sticky, disgusting, and failed game. Paradoxically though, we had LOADS of fun.
One of the highlights was when we took an unusually long time to settle, which I guess the PSLs preempted. So they made us bow, reflect, and really seemed extremely angry at us. When we all closed our eyes…the Waterbomb parade arrived!
I WANT YOU TO REFLECTTTTTTT -whooossh
Oh and I just realized the great extent to which rewards motivate people. The PSLs were like ‘okay, for every 1 water-bomb bag you pick up, you get 1 point! there were over 4000 water-bombs, so you know how many points are at stake here!’. The parade square was clean as a whistle after that
On day 3, it was AMAZING RACE WHICH WE FINALLY WON WOW! It brought us around various Siglap Landmarks such as the park connector, Siglap Centre, East Coast Park and Ice Cream Chefs! It was really fun running round because 2 days of indoor games left us with a thirst to run around and sweat(I have no doubt that these comments have a tinge of sarcasm to them!) But to be really honest, it was great to explore the environment around us and to complete the rather silly tasks we were given, such as sudoku and such and such.
Then we finalized our super awesome 14 cheer! And after that we had some inter-class games which were kind of an anticlimax since we were all waiting to go YOU GUYS ARE BOOMZ DYNAMITE! during the inter-class cheer games.
Although it seemed as if 10v14 might come in first, in reality 10v15 came in champions for IPO’10. But I guess the amount of spirit and the bonded feeling I hope we all shared proved to be invaluable. A big thank you to all the PSLs, to v16(The ‘honorary PSLs’!) and everyone else who made IPO’10 such an amazing and no-holds-barred event! Oh, and credit to the photographer for these amazing photos. I found them on the Facebook page for the IP1s.
It was fun .I might not be typing a lot here, but it was fun, really. Now I know why all our seniors were so excited the first time they saw us at open house. Probably because they knew that some of us would be about to embark upon the same journey as they did.
First post of 2010!
I think 2010 shall be my renaissance.
My golden age of thinking, the time when I become a prolific reader and go one step further to plugging the information gap. So many things to catch up on, global affairs(Middle east, China, India), politics(geopolitics; remember the RSP seminar?/ Marxism, Socialism), economics, literature, etc. etc.
The ~$80 I’ll be getting in July suddenly seems so much more useful.
School is starting in exactly 6 days and it’ll be the start of a new environment, treading in unknown oceans, stretching as far as the eye can see, so I’ll have to juggle both getting my footing and my bearing. I guess you’ve got to scale small hills before taking on large mountains.
Now for the second one.
I think I’ve been neglecting the sciences and mathematics too much, but I guess my reading is a sort of sabbatical. I’ve actually engaged in interesting conversations with my classmates on different political systems; and I guess we can discover this world together.
So is my stint at the soup kitchen coming at an end. Tick tock, tick tock. The end of a transitional period.
Happy 2010!
