English Literature- Freeze Frame

Preparing for Freeze Frame

Group 1:  Kidnapping

 

Group 2: Trouble at School

Group 3: Burglary

Group 4: Car Accident

Group 5: Zoo

Group 6: Rescue Mission

Group 7: Camping

Group 8: Tourists visiting a monument

The Happy Family

The army of Jordan who guarded him while waiting for his Dad to fetch him home. ;-)

Reflection

An aphorism by Charles Dickens, "Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

As I glean from the messages posted by teenagers of today on FB, I cannot help but sigh on how pessimistic life seems to afford them, or at least that is how they perceive it. As chided by Dickens, one really ought to look at the beautiful side of each situation and appreciate what left of her beauty, if one is in a dire situation, for it is when one forces oneself to veer away from the tremendous whirlpool of negative suction, and often indulgence, that one is able to break away from the vicious cycle of melancholy.

Life is good, as I have often reminded myself; yes, I need to remind myself often when situations are not pretty. Life must be good for the 'propaganda' has a magical and magnetic effect of setting one in the direction of goodness, and hopefully, happiness. Looking at the life and death dramatic experience of the Haitians, Iin relativity to our lives in Singapore, I cannot help but unknowingly let out a soft, but convincing, "Life's good".

Ex-Students of 2E2' 2009

Taken them for two years of their impressional years, it brought fond memories to see former students of 2E2 in the previous year donned in long pants, looking at least prima facie, like young adults. What is more endearing is not how much they have matured physically, having spotted a few more red spots on their a-long-while-ago perfect complexion, but how they remain the jovial outspoken selves they have been well known for, vis-a-vis peers in their level. Absence of two months from the holiday nonetheless mattered not for their warmth to people still emanates. To those who greeted with a simple 'Hi', when you see me along your path of traverse, thank you for remembering the one whom you have tormented, tickled, angered, warmed, and showed me your world, for the two growing years of yours.

Let us hope for your continuing growth in physicality, psychology, mental and most importantly, emotionally. By the way, I am still waiting for the class reunion gathering that was proposed but has somehow dropped into a deep empty well, with echos of its fall reverberating its arrival. 2E2'2009, you have been missed.  

 

Lunch with Jun Hong and Wah Wah in 2010!

1N1 ROCKS??? 1N1 ROCKS!!!

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat." ~Anonymous author

Henceforth, I seek the members of 1N1 to step out of the comfort you have long been accustomed to, and venture into the arena of leadership, where opportunities abound for you to realize, develop and hone your currently dormant skills of event organization, unforeseen situational management, and above all else, social emotional learning!

So, come on, 1N1! Be a scholar! Be an officer! And be the ladies and gentlemen of the future. The world awaits your coming of age to make it into the 'Pandora' that we, however unfortunate it is, know only as illusion today.

Journal Topic for T1W3

If my desk could talk, what would it say?

Our lovely class...

On the first day...

Week 1 Day 1 Noise Meter: DEAD silence
Week 1 Day 2 Noise Meter: Silence
Week 1 Day 3 Noise Meter: Remnants of murmur
Week 1 Day 4 Noise Meter: Shhhhh..., I sang.
Week 1 Day 5 Noise Meter: Quiet. I urged.
Week 2 Day 1 Noise Meter: Quiet! I shouted!
Week 2 Day 2 Noise Meter: Shut up! I screamed!
Week 2 Day 3 Noise Meter: ...
Week 2 Day 4 Noise Meter: ...
Week 2 Day 5 Noise Meter: Hello. Hello! Thank God! My voice is still there!

CCA Day!

What a festive day! Cool...

Release of O Level Results!

Finally, to the next lap!







































































Daniel (left), the BB boy with 7A1s... (Gulp)

What happened during these two years?

By Christina Koh, 2E2' 2009, BBSS
Posted on Christina's Facebook on Friday, October 30, 2009 at 7:42pm
With permission from author for reproduction on this blog.

1. Remember tripping over my own bag and flew across the classroom - falling down on the ground, my face on the floor and the boys going the "did you see that *nudge one another* LOL" look. And me (as concluded by my friends) lied on the floor for a minute.

2. GPS going over-hyperactive and suddenly she jumped to my seat and we banged onto one another. Her shirt (you know the pin at the collar?) was stuck on to my hair. So.... please try to imagine yourself and mr nicholas went "uhh, puaysiang? there are boys... around."

3. I accidentally spit water on to ... saravanan's face. (please read the sentence again - its an accident.) He made me laugh while i was drinking water so... well, i couldn't help it.

4. Someone dared me to jump from the classroom to the canteen. luckily i didn't do it.

5. i shouted "the sky's falling!" x10 at the parade square back in the old campus. Okay, i feel like shaking my head at myself.

6. NDP trainings.

7.Celebrating one another's birthday - especially Mr nicholas's one.

8. Our first class party, though i was the first to get hit by water bombs.

9. Got scolded by my home econ partner just because i didn't know how to switch on the stove.

10. when i get bored during lessons, i tend to do something stupid. like throwing paper at the one in front of me and then pretend that it wasn't me who threw it.

11. Banging into a group of boys after PE on my way up to class, ugh and the group of boys laughed at my reaction.

12. Being kind to throw the soccer ball back to the primary school kids but the ball bounced back and hit my good face. ugh.

13. Aiyoh, news critiques and journals.

14. I don't know why but Johan and matthew was laughing at me while I was wiping my specs.

15. Falling sick because I mixed laksa with something else. I remember going to the GO and being so weak that a TA had to helped me with my bags. tsktsk

16. running in the rain with a cardboard over my good head.

17. Funny project meetings happening at PR's house ; Siyu did something ridiculous, Johan scared himself with a turtle (including april). Some silly people got warned but insisted to walk and walk till they got out of PR's condo and had to walk a big round just to come back in.

18. Mr nicholas's off-tune talking (aiyo, zhao xia ah.).

Ah, i missed those good times.

Welcome 2010

To all students!

Welcome to the year where you are going to make a difference in your life; let's hope it is for the better!

Mr N

Motivational

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley

Life

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently.
Palladas

Govern thy life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.
Thomas Fuller

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard

As I grow to understand life less and less,
I learn to love it more and more.
Jules Renard

Follow your Dreams

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Goals

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley