Before I move onto the activities for the week, I should probably mention what I did the week before:
Saturday 11th October 2008
Tennis 1:00 – 4:00PM
As usual the same routine but this time Coach thought us our backhand swing...
Monday 13th October 2008
Website Design 2:00 – 3:00PM
Continuation of Website designing...
Wednesday 14th October 2008
Toddler Group 3:00 – 5:00PM
The usual...
Thursday 15th October 2008
Amazing Race 3:00 – 4:00PM
Ah yes, yet another week of Amazing Race – well, today Valerie and I helped out with the Challenge that Diana had suggested for Mr. Holmes to do for Amazing Race this week. The Challenge was to get both team members over a distance without touching the floor. The equipment they could have was only 2 chairs. It was interesting to see the many ways to get across. Take a look at the pictures:
The bunny-hop method
And the SUPER x-rated method...
It was fun watching do the challenge – things got pretty tense though when a team from the 7-9 group fell over and scrapped his knee. Practically Diana, Val and I panicked as they both ran off to get Mr. Holmes and some aid from the school nurse. I stayed and asked if they wished to continue with the challenge or move on to the next task taking the time penalty. They decided to take the next clue and off they were. They were really strong – I think that if that was me after a fall like that I would’ve just quit.
Anyway, I don’t think any team got eliminated – well not that of any that I know of anyway :).
ISB Quiz Night 7:00 – 9:30PM
Well, I was going to start of by saying “as you all know...” but then it occurred to me that you guys don’t know! So yes, there was an ISB Quiz Night and Mr. Klein asked our tutor group (12I1) if we had entered a team to represent our class. Rais – jumped up and down out of his seat and started naming people and it ended up as, Ardyn, Diana, Hazim, Rais and I in one team – the MEER CATS in honour of Rais’ surname. Actually, he wanted to be called the ‘Abdul Meer Cats’ but Hazim didn’t want.
Anyway, we all decided to wear all white so that we could stick our team name on our shirts. We came to the quiz night unprepared (as in, not even studying just a bit) and we surprised ourselves by how much we could answer and how many teams we were able to beat – I’m saving the suspense for later...
The MEER CATS feat. Mr. Klein
The Quiz consisted of 4 Rounds of which the first round consisted of Science, Math English, History and Anagram questions. To my surprise, even though I totally despise Science, I managed to answer 2 questions under it that none of my team members knew – which was how many bones in the human body and what it the temperature in degrees Celsius of Absolute Zero. Answer: 206 bones and -273oC . But the most I answered were from the Math section while Ardyn answered most of the English and Anagram questions. Diana took on History while Hazim took on Science – Rais practically answered whatever he could ;).
Round 2 consisted of Countries and their CapitalCities, plus a certain question concerning the Country. I was so happy when we got to this round – well only because I had a fascination about learning all the capital cities of all countries around the world, so this was a piece of cake. Well almost because there was a slide of pictures on the projector screen and by the pictures we had to guess which country it was...
After Round 2 there was a short intermission for refreshments. We went around talking to other people about the answers and some were pretty mind-breaking – and when I say mind-breaking I mean, “Oh my gosh that’s what we thought of in the first place but we thought it was wrong so we changed our answer!” Ah yes – those ‘careless mistakes’ kind of thing that everyone goes through in life...
Round 3 began quite soon and it was on Sports, Film and a pipeline question. Hazim and Rais whipped through the Sports questions in a flash and same goes for Ardyn with the Film questions. I helped Diana out in figuring the Pipeline question – this is how it goes. There were a number of animals on the left hand side of the sheet while on the right hand side were their classifications with the certain pipeline direction. Once we were able to classify them, Diana drew in the pipelines on the answer sheet and figured out which pipeline connected to the other.
When that was done, Round 4 came and it was Songs – we had to name the title of the song and who was it sang by. I have to admit, most of the songs I knew and heard over and over again, but I never seemed to know the title and who it was sung by. For example: “♪You don’t have to be rich, to be my girl, to don’t have to be cool, to rule my world...♫” Yeah... But lucky for us, Diana (once again) knew most of the songs that were played. To be honest, the only song that I knew the title of and the singer was Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl.” That’s true! And it was so funny to see all the teacher’s facial expressions like “what the heck?” It was especially funny because it was on Mr. Klein’s and Ms. Then’s face!
After Round 4 there was a short break while the markers marked the final paper entries after which Nick announced the winners for the Junior Division, and then the Senior Division. To be honest I didn’t actually think we’d get a high placing – not to mention we didn’t even think we were going to win! Not against the teachers! Anyway, all that I can say is that the team who we were competing with were “The Fabulous Five!” Well we weren’t actually competing against them, but we knew that they would beat us somehow – and to our surprise... we actually beat them! We couldn’t believe it! Now I guess you’re wondering why we were so surprised... Cross you eyes to the table:
THE MEER CATS
THE FABULOUS FIVE
Allison
Ardyn
Diana
Hazim
Rais
Amirah
Charleen
Hui Yen
MayAnne
Sheng
This is like Rais’ ULTIMATE dream so to say! Anyway, they got 11th place out of 16 while the Meer Cats were proud to make it into the top 10. We wound up in 8th place with 79 points out of 120.
GO MEER CATS, GO MEER CATS! GO! GO! GO MEER CATS, WHOOOOOOOO!~
Friday 17th October 2008
INTERNATIONAL DAY 2008 7:15 – 11:45AM
FINALLY! After 2 years without our ISB Traditional International Day – we finally had one today! Early morning we started off with an assembly. We were greeted by Nick and Isa the current President and Vice-President of the Student Body. The National Anthem of Brunei was then sung followed on by a series of dances by both primary and secondary.
After the assembly, we headed on back to the Secondary area where we were to watch the primary students parade around campus in their National Clothes. It was really cute seeing them parade – it reminded me of the times when I was them. After the parade, we headed on to our respective classes – well more or like the rest did but Brittany, Diana, Shawn, Val and I headed on to the Canteen Area to set up our food stall – “Fruits around the World!” It was pretty boring at first because we were situated beside the Barbeque Stall. Of course people would choose barbeque over fruits... And I know that because when I yelled out “Fruits! Let’s go healthy!” people walked over to the barbeque section. So I stayed by the food stall for about an hour after which I made my way to look at the other stalls with Brittany and Valerie. Well we made our way over to the Haunted House and met up with Adib, Amirah and Hui Yen. So we waited in line for about 10-15 minutes when we were told to get out of the line and let the primaries go first. It was annoying really... But then we spilt like, Adib-Hui Yen, Britt-Val and Amirah and I...
Amirah and I went into New Zealand – pretty boring really after which we headed on to America where we had a gay marriage (in California of course) performed by Jeff. It was so fun! After that, Amirah and I proclaimed to the World about our marriage.
We got our faces painted...
“JUST MARRIED”
...After which we headed over around the World for our honeymoon!
FRANCE
RUSSIA
CANADA
JAPAN
EGYPT
ITALY
MEXICO
SPAIN
NORTH KOREA
SOUTH KOREA
SCOTLAND!!!
After our so-called ‘honeymoon,’ we headed on back to the Haunted House – and with only a few minutes lining up, we were told to go back to our respective classes and clean up... I was so annoyed. I waited so long to go into the Haunted House which didn’t even happen! I mean it’s like a tradition for me! I ALWAYS go into the Haunted House on International Day! Some tradition that was ruined... The last I ever went into one was back when I was in Year 8... Anyway, no point arguing with the teacher – I just went back to the food stall to help clean up – surprisingly, all the fruit was sold! After cleaning up, it was time to go home...
Since its mid-term, nothing much has been going on, but are still a few...
Monday 29th September 2008
Web Design 2:00 – 3:00PM
As usual, another hour of putting our class website together; a series of editing pictures and putting together all the information gathered in presenting/advertising our class.
12I1 is the BEST class ever!
Tuesday 30th September 2008
OBBD Presentation
As all you readers out there may or may not have remembered, I went on a trip to Outward Bound Temburong with my fellow classmates. A few weeks ago, Ardyn and I volunteered to create a shot clip of photos to show to the rest of the class while our certificates were being presented. Today was the day that the clip was shown and when we received our certificates. I’m not too sure how many minutes/hour Ms. Hancox is granting the both of us though, however I am not expecting much since it was a simple task.
Friday 3rd October 2008
Swimming 4:00 – 6:00PM
I have moved my swimming classes to every Friday’s now for two hours since I’ve cut off the hour I’m supposed to do on Saturday’s. Anyway, pretty much the same routine – workouts and all; nothing new except the fact that I stayed for two hours. It was really tiring but I managed to pull through with no muscle aches, so far. But I can see myself in the next few weeks drained of my energy. At least I can say that I really give it my all to be the best swimmer I can be – and of course to stay fit and healthy. I need the exercise.
Saturday 4th October 2008
Tennis 2:00 – 4:00PM
Top left-hand to bottom right-hand: Allison(me), Charleen, Cheryl, Hui Min, Nyssa & Valerie... Now I wonder why I don’t have a picture of MayAnne in action :S Oh well, Diana is also part of our Tennis clan, but she is currently making me oh-so jealous for she is in BRISBANE for the mid-term...
Yet another week with tennis! Seriously, I have NEVER been so enthralled by a sport that I am not actually that good at. For so long I have said to myself that I’m only good at swimming... All along there has been another sport right up my nose! So today we just continued on working on our swing – I still keep getting it wrong though! My swing is alright, it’s just with so many things to remember, I tend to forget to do the littlest and simplest things like swinging my racket over my shoulder, doing my teardrop when I get ready to swing and my forward motion of my racket when I hit the ball... Yes, so many things. So coach had me close my eyes and focus on my swing and not on hitting the ball. I looked at the ball first so I know when to start bringing my arm and shoulder back – and when I’m ready to hit, I close my eyes. He’s a great coach really – I mean 6 years ago when I used to play with my cousin, all the coach had us do then was play, play and PLAY!
Today was Day 1 for us Girlies for Beginners Tennis - well okay, it may not be day one for MayAnne because she's PRO. Well, like Coach said, she's ex-PRO and I'm semi-ex-PRO. HAHAHA RIGHT MAYANNE? Anyway, today was fun in a way, practising our swings :).
Pretty much the same concept idea from the last post except that today we learnt some basic Photoshop Skills which I already knew through my own learning expertise...
Wednesday 23rd September 2008
Toddler Group 3:00 – 5:00PM
Isn’t Daniel the cutest?
Thursday 24th September 2008
Painting Group 2:00 – 2:40PM
Well, I didn’t actually want to continue Painting Group, but then Ardyn needed a hand with the wall. Today during this time actually we were supposed to go to our assigned Tutor Groups to help them plan for International Day. Well, Ardyn, Brittany, Tharindu, Valerie and I didn’t have any assigned Tutor Group because we were either in charge of Face Painting, Food or DVD Stall...
Amazing Race 3:00 – 4:00PM
Team December and another Team (I can’t remember their name) were eliminated today while Team Kura Kura and Team Microwave Oven were eliminated from the Year 10 – 13 group.
Year 10 – 13s working on a challenge – SUDOKU!
Friday 25th September 2008
Autism Group 12:00 – 1:30PM
Well, today was yet another day playing with Autistic children, and might I add that I’ve had a very difficult day indeed. All was good until Yi Shen decided to go out of the Adventure Playground and play in the Basketball Court. Everything was okay – we were playing and having fun until Yi Shen decided to go into the PE Room. He was bouncing the ball inside the room and wouldn’t go out. I got really scared that he’d smash one of the computers, so I talked to him and said that we should go back to the Playground. He heard what I said but wouldn’t listen. He kept on hitting me and spitting at me – to be honest, I got really annoyed. I wanted to go out and call his Mom, but on the other hand I didn’t want to leave him alone in the Room knowing that it might not be safe. So I called Hui Yen up to help me call Yi Shen’s Mom. Hui Yen came to the PE Room to look over Yi Shen while I called his Mom. When his Mom and I got to the PE Room, she called Yi Shen out, and when I was about to walk out, Yi Shen pushed me back into the Room and closed the door. Seriously, at this point he really had pushed my buttons – but I tried to stay calm. I opened the door again, and he slammed the door on me again... I waited for a while before opening the door again. I could hear Yi Shen’s Mom saying “Why are you doing that?” After a while, I opened the door again. Yi Shen’s Mom had told him to say sorry and give me a hug, which he did in the end. It was a frustrating moment for me to be honest. In the end they left early.
Val’s kid (Ren Wee) and I blowing bubbles!
I won’t be heading off to go Swimming today because... Yeah... *Peace!*
Oh and, I think I might be changing my Swimming schedule to only every Friday’s for 2 hours. This is because I’ll be taking up Beginners Tennis on Saturday afternoons from now on! Well – I have played Tennis before, like 6 years ago? So yes, that is why I am going back to Beginners.
Monday 15th September 2008 Website Design 2:00 - 3:00pm
Well, it wasn't my intention to join this CAS Activity, but I had to seeing as I was nominated Webmaster in my class. After joining the club I actually realised how useful it is for me when I get into College :). Anyway, it was fun, making designs for my Class website that I am going to make. I hope everything turns out well in the next few weeks to come...
Wednesday 17th September 2008 Toddler Group 3:00 - 5:00pm
Same old, same old routine. Oh and yes, I stopped joining the Painting Group. It's kinda boring when you have too many volunteers who want to paint and in the end I wind up with NOTHING to paint...
Friday 19th September 2008 Autism Group 12:00 - 1:30pm
Same routine as well with Yi Shen - though I felt as if I wasn't taking very good care of him even though I never took my eyes of him. He ran so fast under small places in the Adventure Playground that I had to go the long way just so I wouldn't loose sight of him. And just as I was about to approach him, this other kid just rammed into him and knocked him down to the ground. He started to cry and I felt bad. His Mom wasn't mad but I thought it was kind of rude for the other kid to just run away without saying sorry - but I can't judge them that way. They don't really know what is right from wrong. Anyway, I really did feel bad. And not to name and names, I could really see it in people's eyes that they were sort off blaming me for what happened because I did not take proper care of him... Which is a sad thing because I NEVER did let my sight of Yi Shen. Anyway, because of what happened, Yi Shen lef early :(.
Wednesday 10th September 2008 Painting Group 2:30 – 3:00pm
It went by real quick actually and I didn’t get to paint much for there were a lot of people who wanted a chance to get at in and paint. To be honest, I only painted like the guy’s hair black and that was it. I stayed around until 3:00pm though just helping people get the paints all mixed right. After that, I headed on with Val and Britt to Toddler Group...
Toddler Group 3:00 – 5:00pm
Nothing much happened – pretty much the same thing as last week except that there were more Toddlers that came this week. I felt like a little kid all over again playing with Playdough and stuff :).
Thursday 11th September 2008 Amazing Race 3:00 – 4:30pm
Once again Mr. Holmes went a bit of course with his timing again and unfortunately cancelled the last activity that Amirah, Andrew, Diana, Val and I handled. Well I mean, a few people were able to make it to the last challenge before pit-stop but then not all were able to do the challenge. And to those out there – this was the OFFICIAL start of the Amazing Race ISB. Sorry but I don’t know if anyone got eliminated on this first leg but I’ll have to find out for you guys probably next week...
Friday 12th September 2008 Autism Group 12:00 – 1:30pm
Today was yet another day to play with Autistic Children and of course an opportunity for me to meet with Yi Shen again! He was really hyper-active today and non-shy unlike last week. He laughed and had so much fun which was really nice to see... It was really hot and sticky for we played outdoors the whole hour and a half. I got tired, but he certainly didn’t which amazed me on how much strength and stamina he had!
Yi Shen and I having some fun at the Adventure Playground
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