Time to go back in time. :D
Welcome back to last Saturday, 9 Jan 2010. Mwuhahaha...
My unexpected visit
Johnston asked me if I was interested to attend Temasek Junior College[TJC] Open House. To be frank, before that I was pretty sure that I would never ever consider TJC since I would never be able to get such good grades. 
See I am so realistic. (As ever.) XD
So why did I attend anyway? One, to accompany Johnston. Second, just to see what a good Junior College looked like. (Seeing that my biggest regret from my primary school life was that I never attended any secondary school open house which gave me a shock when I step upon NCHS)
At end of the day, I can't believe I thought I actually had the thought to not attend the open house. Hahas...
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Originally, only Johnston and I were attending, but on the day itself, Darian joined in as he lived near. If I had known that, I would had called Keller. Hahas.
The more the merrier. ;)
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With Darian, the expert, along, we don't need to worry about getting lost. :)
Okay, maybe not. (Joking!)
Hee...
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While waiting for Darian to arrive, (he's walking), we went up from the underground MRT station...
and saw two students conducting flag day.
Leroy(in thought): Oh shit. *Prays hard they never saw us*
Johnston: Erm..maybe we should wait below.
Leroy: Yeah!
Going down,...
Leroy: Did you see the students holding the cans?...
Johnston: Yeah.
Leroy: Well, they could had approached us but it's too late now..we're in the MRT Station. :p
Johnston: They must be saying, "Ah! They're onto us!"
*Laughs*
O' Glorious Day
Darian already donated to today's Flag Day's cause! (Good boy!) Hee...
He shall be our shield! Now we do not need to donate. Whenever groups of students come asking for donations, we show him Darian(or his little sticker that proves that he, or 'we' donated)
Yay! Hahas
My, my. I'm so evil...>=D
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Reaching the TJC, we see TJC. (Like duh? Hahas)
Okay, jokes aside, it took me some time to find the main gate. :p
Actually I saw the building before I saw the tracks. Do all JCs have running tracks? OMG?
Anyway, so sad that we did not enter the campus through the revolving door. I really like those. (childhood pastime. Hahas!)
I really laughed when the fun students there told us to collect Goodie Bags. (I certainly did not went there for the goodie bags! Hahas!)
We had a nice student leader to walk us around the campus. I remember we reached a place that is unique in TJC. The lift.
Darian thought that was a 'EMO-Centre'. Hahas.
You know, with its dark surroundings and stuff.
Really had a good laugh there. :)
If we ever enter TJC, we shall create the legend of "EMO-Centre" Ha!
We're so evil..>=D
We're just joking, don't take it to heart. :)
Lectures!
Welcome to the highlights of the Open house, and in actual fact, one of my main reason why I came.
The beginning of the lecture was rather confusing because they were talking about TJC, not the GP. So we were like, 'are we in the right place?'
I remember Darian asked me, "You sure we're in the GP Sample Lecture?"
I nodded but thinking back, that was funny. :)
The picture on the right was on the picture that the lecturer showed us in one of the slides.
Do you recognise the logo they made? I certainly didn't despite finding it familiar.
Yep, it's the YOG Logo. *Slap myself for not knowing*
Best part? They made that out of used shoes! OMG!
I thought they used paint or something. Turned out it was the 'or something'. =]
Back to GP:
- 2 Papers. Paper 1: 12 Qs(Topics from different genre), Choose 1 [500-800 Words]. Paper 2: Comprehension with 5 types of Questions -- Language Features; Inference; Vocabulary; Summary; Application
- Both papers are of equal weight-age.
- Demands of GP Lectures: You will need to speak up
- Topics: Youth, Discrimination, Population, family and Women, The Mass Media, Poverty, Globalisation, The Environment, Crime and Punishment, Power and Conflict, Science and Technology
- Tutorials
- Group and Class Discussions
- Resources Packages
- GP Journals
- Vocabulary Excercises
- Oral Presentations
- Project and Research
- Current Affairs Quizzes
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Next up, we had a lecture on the Economics. This time, this sample lecture is straight to the point.
What is Economics?
- Economics is the study of how society manges its scarce resources
- Focuses on Scarcity and Incentives
- Microeconomics -- Individuals, firms, and government
- Macroeconomics -- Economics and Countries
- You learn to think in a way that is applicable to about anything.
- Economics deals with vital current problems at the national level
Paper 1
- Case Study. 40%. 2hrs 15 min
- 2 sets of questions based on 2 condensed write-ups of about 2-3 pages based on a multi-faceted economic issue or policy decision, including a set of data.
- Required to apply economic principles in analysing, synthesising, evaluating, or solving economic problems.
- Each set is 20% of the toal marks.
- Essay. 60%. 2hrs 15 min
- Divided into 2 sections
- Required to answer at least 1 questions from Section A and B each.
- Each Section has 3 questions
Tutorials: Worksheets; News of the Week
Lectures: Notes, Specialisation
Enrichment: Competitions, Current Affairs, Newsletter
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Here's a joke about Economics(by the teacher herself!)
3 people are stranded on an island -- a chemist, an engineer, an economist. They have one box full of food but it is sealed. They decided to each us their expertise to open the food and get the food.The Chemist find chemicals found in the island to concoct up a solution to blow off the surface of the box and get the food.
The Engineer set off deeper into the island to look for materials to make a tool to open the box.
The Economist just stood in front of the box and said, "Assuming we had a hammer..."
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After that, we attended the Principal's Talk. The principle is good, I must admit. :)
PDP(CCA) experience in TJC
In TJC, they do not call CCA, CCA. LOL!
They call it PDP(Personal Development Programme).
Wonder why the need to cause this confusion. O.o
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Electrifying Messy Situation
Anyway, we reached this Science Council's booth which had three tables.
One for Chemistry, Biology, and Physics.
Chemical Booth have this cool colour changing experiment.
Biology is about DNA.
Physics was about Static Electricity.
Johnston and Darian was really fascinated by that Electric Tower(whatever you call it) despite having experienced that during their secondary school life.
It was hard not to roll eyes but I must admit, it was amusing.
Johnston and Darian really like sparks, I guess.
They even want to touch the ball to charge themselves and 'electrocute' someone else. (thank god, I was not one. :p)
P.S: To the Physics booth, the spark sound is annoying, please remove it.
Not-so Enthu Students(maybe)
We spent the rest of the time staring at the students dancing at the Atrium. Johnston thinks they're really enthu. Me, being the pessimist for now, thinks otherwise.I mean c'mon, they're(most) not smiling(I could had sworn one was frowning). How can that be called enthu. I would rather believe they were doing this because they were asked by either the teachers or the student leaders.
If it is the student leaders, then woots. If it was the teachers, then Zzz....
No offence intended towards the teachers, I meant that if the teachers were the ones who asked them, then the JC is still pretty teacher-reliant. (which I don't believe that in TJC's culture. ;)
During the watching of the dance/performance, I met Hai Jin and Dylan. Oh hello!
Apparently, Ying Ying, Clarissa and them also came to look around.
Hai Jin and Dylan were also staring at the performance. LOL! Though they shortly left.
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Memory Fragments
Next stop, library!
Somehow or rather, I ended up at the Library. The library was big, for a school. :D
We went upstairs and I met hai Jin, Dylan and Clarissa.
Further ahead, two TJC students approach us. They're KI students.
Those two remind me of someones but...I can't point a finger on either one. But I like them anyway. Hahas. They're enthu students who like KI. ;)
Learned a lot about KI from them. Thanks! ;)
I think I keep a lookout for them if I enter this school. ;)
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Other incidents
The first one concerns Darian. After the second Lecture, he was going to collapse. Since we saw a Milo Van when we entered TJC, we suggested that he go get a cup and refresh himself.
..Turns out that by the time we had our second lecture, the van was gone(along with the contents)
Poor Darian...
Being nice, he stayed with us until the end. It was appreciated. :)
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I feel really sad for the Water Polo. They had to play in the Canteen. So Johnston and I pretended to give a shocked expression facing them. Darian took a picture of us. Wonder what happened to it? Hahas!
Separation..:o
Don't go all teary-eyed. :DDarian left us first after we left TJC since he lived near.
Had KFC with Johnston.
And yes, this is my first KFC Meal for 2010! Take that! (Me being random)
:D
After that, met with dad to open a new bank account. Woots, now I have credit card. Not that I'm going to use it often anyway. Will see it once in a while though. :p
Homed.
P.P.S: Took me 4 hours to post this. ZOMG?
