STAR WARS EPISODE 7: SEARCH FOR THE LOST LIGHTSABRES

The CNY Version

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY... ...

There lives 4 legendary Jedis. This story took place in the year 3578, where technology seems to meet its limit, advances are slow, poverty strook every corner of the galaxy. There lies a legend, a prophecy that 4 legendary Jedis will bring propersity and fortune to the whole milky way.

The 4 Jedis are: MASTER JEDI CHUE, MASTER JEDI JOSHUA, MASTER JEDI SHAUN and lastly Padawan Kok.

It was around 1253pm. Master Jedi Chue was watching SMALLVILLE, when he sensed a disturbance in the force. He sensed a beast was wreaking havoc in the city, killing many innocent lives. Many called the beast "NIAN". Master Chue wanted to help but he is weaponless, so he together with 3 other Legendary Jedis went in search for the lost lightsabres. The prophecy has a saying that only the lightsabres can defeat the "NIAN". Unfortuantely, Padwan Kok was consumed by the "NIAN" as dinner on his way to meet the other Jedis.

The other Jedis met at Bishan Council, dressed in simple civilian clothings to hide from the parapazzi, they took the train to Jurong East. The journey was long and ardous, bearing the intense heat and chilling rain, they finally reached their destination... THE SCIENCE CENTRE. They paid the stupid $12 entry fees and went into the Science Centre in search of their goals. Into the science centre they went, they saw many legendary Jedi. Jedi Master Jack, Jedi Master Anne, Jedi Master Joseph, Jedi CAT EMILE, Jedi Knight Zhong Ming and so on... They too saw many fallen Dark Jedis including Dard Lord of the Sith, Han SIONG!, Dark Jedi Ren Huan and lastly Darth Yuan(Jun Yuan was original name before he tuned to the dark side).

After intense hours of search, they finally found it. The four lightsabres lied in front of them. They can feel the dark power in it. The ambitious Jedi Master Chue wanted power, power and MORE POWER!!!! All of them took the sabres, and a big Jedi Duel occured. Jedi Master Chue has turned to the DARK SIDE. He uses his anger and fear to make him more focus. In an amazing thrust with the lightsabre, he killed Jedi Master Joshua in a single fatal blow. Jedi Master Joshua fall down to the ground spilling Jedi blood from his mouth. Jedi Master Shaun was shocked but in an amazing combination of Jedi Force and his newfound Lightsabre he managed to resurrect Jedi Master Joshua. Eventually in a 2vs1 duel, Dark LORD of THE SITH FALL...

The 2 Jedis went to finish off the beast "NIAN" and save countless people's live. The 2 jedi taught the people in order to prevent "NIAN" from coming back, they need to play firecrackers and paste red auspicious things in their household. This is how CHINESE NEW YEAR comes about. Understand?

Signing off....

HAPPY RAINY DAYs

Rain, Rain AND MORE RAIN. The monsoon season is here, and if you can recalled what Mr Tan said during Geography lessons, the rain comes from the South China Sea. Did it ever occured to you what will happened if all the rain came gushing down to Singapore. To me, the only place to able to survive the massive flood is Bishan.

Bishan is located right above a hill, though it is not a tall hill, but I think Bishan is still able to survive. Don't you feel safe living in Bishan?

Life in JC has been rather good, a new life has really started for me. Now is to await for the O'level results to be released. I suspect the results had already been delievered here to Singapore and the MOE are doing the final tablulation.

Life is full of rain and shine. However, we must not let the rain dampen our mood to do what we aimed for. STRIVE TOWARDS IT! Instead make use of the rain to fill the bucket of water, you never know when the shine will come at full blast and drained off the water. Train yourself to survive any obstacles and stay happy!

I hereby sincerely wish all my friends out there HAPPY RAINY DAYs!

THE OLYMPIAN EXPERIMENT: DAY 3 OF ORIENTATION

3^rd day of my JC life. After a good night rest, my body has regenerated to the maxium point. I am fully recharged and ready to take any tasks at hand or so I thought. The usual routine of waking up at 5:30am and ate a piece of plain bread and rushed to school.

Greeted by the friendly security guard which really kick start my day, I too greeted Jack and Chin Swee through a simple sms. I don’t really expect them to reply since I myself seldom reply back to a sms. Walking with joy, enjoying the morning breeze, I suddenly felt something was behind me. Turning around I saw Li Shan, but on second look, it is actually Jane, the co-chairman of the STUDENT COUNCIL. I actually have difficulty differentiating Li Shan and Jane. They both look alike especially the way they walk and talk. So, I greeted Jane and she greeted me back with a great smile on her face. Now, this is truly a great way to start a day.

Then, as I was walking towards the exercise station, I felt a strong instinct to check on my handphone. And so I checked it, it was a sms from Jack. Here is his message to kick start my day. “F*** U! STOP UR NONSENSE LAH! U WILL GET IT WHEN I MEET YOU!” It was pretty disheartening to see such young people so easily flared up just because I send a morning message to him. How strange could he be? Just in case you are wondering what message I sent him, here it is. “Morning! Eaten ur breakfast?” Not affected by the message, I continued to do my simple morning exercise which is some pull-ups. Then again, another strong instinct came to check on my handphone, I checked it and it is a message from Chin Swee. His message though simple, is definetly much better than Jack’s. Here is his message to me. “Yesh…Morning!” This is what I called showing appreciation.

The day finally started but with a very low applauds. SUBJECT TALKS. I the flag-bearer leaded my team to the respective destination. It is the most boring tasks I ever done. The talks bored me to death except for the GP subject talk. The moment we walked into the lecture hall, she asks us to be quick and asks us to shut-up. Then she went insulting us, telling us none of us in this cohort is legible for KI (knowledge and inquiry). Show some respect, there are a few RI students down here!!! She was also quite vain, every time she turned around, she has to swing her silky brown hair so violently so that her hair is conspicuous for everyone to see. The most unbearable is these, the lessons haven’t even started and she said that everyone will fail our GP exam this year. How irritating is that!!!

I mean this is not the right way to motivate us into studying for our GP.

The talk ended and it is time for a break. I don’t really have time to properly have a meal since I have a skit to act in. So I bought a “bao” (bun) from the snacks stall and eat it. A very typical bun, probably from the factory. Nothing much to comment on.

Break is over and I had to meet with the other THEBES PL to discuss about the skit. I volunteered to be the mom. I wasn’t really sure why I volunteered to this role, till now I have no answers at all. No choice, I have to keep my promise and become a mom. I actually wore a skirt, and had to act in it. From then on, everyone from the group calls me “MOM”. The 1^st auditions falls on today too. So, after few rehearsals we went for the audition. I have to act sissy, naggy, pathetic in order to successfully make the judges laugh. I eventually did my job with some embarrassments. Here is the storyline.

The skit is about a game show on the WORLD UGLIEST MAN ALIVE. There are 2 contestants, and they went up to see the world ugliest man. They can’t stand the look and they fainted. You should really see their acting skills, they are good!

The day ended.

Wait for my 4^th day of my JC life.

THE OLYMPIAN EXPERIMENT:DAY 2 OF ORIENTATION

Day 2 of my JC life, woke up at 5:30am. 1/4 of my energy is gone, left 3/4. Still in a very enthuisatic mood, I ate my piece of bread and head off to school. Reach there about 6:30am, greeted again by the friendly security guard.

Through pure observation, Johnathan and Jazreel didn't report to school today. Guangyang lost its domination of the Orientation to Cedar Girls' School. Everywhere I go, I can at least see some Cedar Girls' school students somewhere in the college. Also, I tried looking for the girl whom I danced with yesterday, sadly I don't think she reported for school that day too.

The day went on without them and we headed to our OG classroom. We handed in our prelims results to our OG tutor. Again, lots of boring admin stuff among the tutors and I almost doze off again. Ren Huan, completely exhausted from day 1 slept throughout the admin thing. I also received my Orientation package costing me $18. Just look at what's inside. Announcement came and we had to report to the hall for the MASS DANCE. We changed to our PE t-shirt and headed to the hall.

The dance was pretty complicated and many of us were lost in the midst of the steps. BUT PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, we all have fun dancing and finally mastered some of the basic steps. Nothing much amusing happened except for Adrian who laughed with Kai Yuan throughout the whole Mass Dance for some reasons.

Lunch came and I bought a plate of mixed vegetable rice. I ordered 2 dishes, 1 of them is chili vegetable and the other is sweet braised pork meat. OHHHHHHHHH MANN!!!! IT TASTES SO MUCH BETTER THAN GUANGYANG'S MIXED VEGETABLE RICE!!!! The chili vegetable was spicy enough to actually get rid of the smelly pesticides of the vegetables. The chili used was definetly top quality and I heard it was actually homemade. The vegetables are springy and crunchy with each bite brings out the full taste of the hot spicy chili. Next came the braised pork meat, the best of the dishes. The braised pork was fried so perfectly over the flame that it is actually crunchy on the outside but soft in the inside. It captures the sensitive tastebuds of mine and actually made me want to cry. After suffering 4 years of bland food in GYSS, I finally got to enjoy good food! Each bite onto the braised meat brings out the sweet and sour taste of the sauce used in the cooking. The gravy used tastes just right, not too oily nor too sweet. I decided to give 4 stars out of five for this dish. Furthermore I heard that this mixed vegetable store changes it menu every single day....

After lunch, a few GYSS people gathered in the hall and so I joined them. Zhong Ming and Emile seems to be MIA( missing in action). So we just continued chatting and time flies and we went to gather back to our OG. Now, it is time to prepare for the campfire performance and we had to elect a PL(peer leader). Strangely enough, I was elected by the OGL. No choice, I led my team to the campfire preparation and some ideas flow in. Chun-Li seems to be abit over ambitious and wanted to perform an orchestra. Finally we got an idea and decided to sing the song " PASS IT ON". Additional 4 PL's join me in the role later and I was the flag bearer as seen from the photo on 4e1 blog.

Ren Huan still very tired, slept throught the whole campfire preparation. We finally got to see Zhong Ming and he was with his Catholic High friend for some reason. We didn't bother him much since we have our own life too.

Day 2 ended with not a very high bang but we still have much fun...
Await for day 3 of the orientation.

THE OLYMPIAN EXPERIMENT:ORIENTATION DAY 1

Day 1 of my orientation. Woke up 5am in the morning, feeling excited, ecstatic, with thoughts of meeting new boys and girls came flusing into my mind early in the morning. I got ready my tools, basically a digital camera, a bag and some writing tools. After gorging down my wonderful breakfast which is only a piece of simple bread, I set off at 6am to a WHOLE NEW ADVENTURE WHICH DEFINETLY LEFT A BIG BIG MARK IN MY MILESTONE OF MY LIFE...

I reached my destination at 6:10am, amazingly the school gate was opened. I walked into Serangoon JC, greeted by the security guard. The place was totally deserted and saw a few listless faces along the way to the hall. I took out my digital camera and begin shooting some pictures. I heard a few people calling me "SIAO", came here so early and take pictures. However, they can't break my determination of taking the best photos here. So the canteen I went and took the photos of the stalls there, and I was totally gladden with hope that my 1st 3 mths here will be fufilling.

Time passes, people have begun flocking in. No surprise the usual people from GuangYang has come and join in the fun. Emile, Joseph, Jazreel, Zhong Ming, Clive, Vincent, Puay Kun, Ren Huan, Jun Yuan and Johnathan. I didn't get to see Johnathan as I heard from Jun Yuan that Johnathan still can't find Serangoon JC. We went in without him and settled to our respective OG(orientation group). Ren Huan and I surprisingly is in the same group, THEBES (EPSILON).
The usual routine of singing the National Anthem and saying the Pledge. Then came the Principal, she came onto the stage expecting us to clapped and cheer for her but nobody did. I was about to burst out laughing. The principal doesn't seems very stable, she talks so fast, faster than Shaun, that I can't even understand what she was talking about. The morning assembly ends and we head off to our OG classroom, leaded by our OGL( orientation group leader).

The day went on, doing alot of admin stuff. I almost doze off and finally the fun started. The first exciting item. THE COLLEGE DANCE!!!! I went off with Ren Huan in hope of finding someone beautiful to dance with. We went to CORINTH and finally I found someone. She was quite cute, defintely pretty and about the same height as Anne. She has black silky hair, has a very seductive smile and a very perfect hour-glass figure.The dance starts and I got to hold her hand and dance. We dance, dance and dance. Ren Huan was right beside me and she was dancing with a typical girl(go ask him yourself, who he dance with). The FEELING WAS SO GREAT!! Sadly, the college dance ended and I bid farewell to her. Too bad, I forgot to take a photo of her.

LUNCH TIME. I ate two plates of chicken rice, the rice was non-oily and was fragrant. Furthermore the chicken was so tender and smooth, with every bite comes out 4 different tastes, namely spicy, salty, sweet and sour . The chicken is amazing. Not to mention the sweet and sour chili sauce that matches the standard of the chili sauce outside GYSS. I decided to give 4 stars out of 5 for this dish.

After lunch, we had our station games. Each team get to play 4 games on that day. I got to know some really cool people there, namely Ming Liang from Zhong Hua, Jun Zhi from Sengkang Secondary, Ren Huan from GYSS, Veronica from Braddell-westlake, Chun-Li from Whitnely. The games started with a BIG BANG! First game we played was "SPONGE NETBALL". I was the goal-keeper and our team scored 3-0. VICTORY FOR US! We loss the next game and a draw for the next.

Then came the last game. I do not know the exact name of the game but I decided to called it "DO NOT PLAY IF YOU HAVE NO LUCK!" GAME. Basically here how this game works. There are rougly 20 chairs layed out in a single row arranged in horizontal manner. Behind some of this chairs are some marks. If anyone of us sat on these marked chairs, you will have a pail of water poured on you. Each team must played 3 rounds. A few guys do not dared to play this game so I volunteered myself for the 1st round. So happily I went and sat on of the chairs. Ren Huan sat a few chairs away from me. I read my horoscope for that day and it says LADY LUCK WILL NOT be with me today. Refusing to believe what the horoscope says, I sat on the chair. The moment I sat on the chair, something tells me to GET OUTTA OF THERE!!! Still stubborn, I continue to sit on that chair. Out of a sudden a pail of water came FLUSHING down from my back and I know I have been hit! Never mind, this is the only the first time. Still refusing to believe in the horoscope, I entered the second round of the game. I sat at the same place again. Ren Huan too played and he did not get drenched in the 1st round. Second round started, the game coordinator loitered around my area. Intially, he poured some water at my partner and so I thought I am saved this time. BUT!!!!! All of a sudden the pail of water came flushing to me again!!!!! So I told myself, never mind this is only the 2nd time. The last round of the game and I was determined to prove the horoscope wrong. I went back to the same chair and sat on it again. The 3rd round started and guess WHAT?!!! I was being poured again. From then on, I was labelled in my OG the UNLUCKILEST DUDE IN SRJC!

THEREFORE DAY 1 OF MY ORIENTATION ENDED WITH A BIG BANG! Await my second day of my orientation...