Calendar 2008

The calendar is modified (with addition of holidays in Singapore) from the template from http://cp.c-ij.com/english/calendar/2008/index.html -One of my favourite sites for craftwork. I wonder whether anyone is free to work on the 3D craft - esp the new addition such as the forbidden city - great for display in the humanities room - http://cp.c-ij.com/english/3D-papercraft/building/forbidden-city_e.html

Amazing Gadget - Microvision

Just saw this amazing gadget - a mini projector which you can keep in your pocket or embedded in your phone etc. Imagine you can project from your phone, laptop, xbox, players etc onto the wall or any surface. Simply amazing - I wonder when will this be made available in Singapore? Learn more about it - http://www.mvis.com/pico_projector_displays/howitworks.html

Archery - Combined unit activity with Ang Mo Kio Secondary

The day started with a threatening sky and indeed it poured from 8.30 a.m. to 9 a.m. We made use of the time when it rained to get to know the 17 cadets from Ang Mo Kio Secondary better. Thank God the rain stopped at 9 a.m. The cadets were split into 3 groups and everyone started practising with their bows. Ms Vani and Ms Chan (from AMK Sec) also tried - I gave it a miss as I had already done so last year. Jiawei from our unit and Winnie from AMK Sec were the winners for the individual round. Team 3 won the group event and our team won against AMK Sec. The cadets also managed to practise with shooting at balloons. I think they found that more fun. Some cadets commented that last year's archery at the Bukit Timah field was more fun as there are 3 stations - one with the bull eye, one in which they had to shoot the furthest and one at animals (pictures). Click here for more photos.

Digiital Art Competition

The British Council, Singapore Science Centre and Scholastic Environment Fund organised the Digital Art Competition on the Environment to present you an opportunity to express your thought to save the environment.

If you are creative, innovative, IT savvy and most importantly feel strongly about our environment, we want your participation in the Digital Art Competition on the Environment.

This competition will be held from 1 November 2007 to 23 March 2008 and will be open to all.

There will also be free Digital Photography Workshops provided by Canon to participants of this competition. The workshop runs from 2pm to 5 pm and is available on either 4 or 11 December 2007.

If you are interested, please email to eosacademy@canon.com.sg your personal particulars, contact details and the date you would like to attend.

Please visit the competition website for more details.

Should you have any queries, do not hesitate to email Sandra at Sandra.Bodestyne@britishcouncil.org.sg .

Coming events

Looks like I will be extremely busy for the next few weeks:

Mon 22nd Oct Full Dress Speech Day Rehearsal.
Tues 23rd Oct 'O' Level Econs Paper 1 and 2 - Success to our pioneer batch of Econs students.
Wed 24th Oct Speech day rehearsal and book flood in AVA room
Thurs 25th Oct 'O' Level Geography Paper 2 and cleaning of classroom (1st 3 periods) and issuing of report book and subject combinations postings.
Friday 26th Oct Speech Day
Sat 27th Oct Archery at Bukit Panjang next ti Segar LRT with AMK Red Cross Unit.

Mon 29th Oct Humanities Meeting 8-10 a.m., Meeting with vendor for internet 10 a.m.
Tues 30th Oct IT course and IT dept lunch
Thurs 1 Nov Chinese Speech plus workshop 10-12 a.m.
Fri 2 Nov 2p.m. meeting for Combined UG Camp AVA room

Wed 7th Nov 'O' Level Geography Paper 1 and Microsoft Office Challenge Prize Award ceremony
Fri 9th Nov 12.30 p.m. Briefing for Malacca exchange Program.

Wed 14th Nov to Fri 16th Nov HS Red Cross Malacca Exchange Program - 3TO, 28 cadets

Mon 19th Nov Civil Defence course for 12 cadets at Yishun CD HQ
Mon 19th Nov HS Staff Retreat @ Johore
Tues 20th to 22nd Nov Trial run for Combined UG Camp
Wed 22nd Nov Results of Chris's PSLE results
Fri 23nd Nov to 25 Nov HS Combined UG Camp - 2TO, 6 instructors, 2 NCOs, 5 cadets
Thurs 22nd Nov to 25 Nov RCY Challenge - 7 cadets

Sat 8 Dec Project Red Cross Love at Queenstown CC - 12 cadets

Wed 19 Dec Results for Chris's Posting to the Secondary School
Fri 21 Dec Chris report to the Secondary School

Wed 26 Dec Dec Staff contact time

Trying to keep myself free from 9 Dec to 18 Dec to spend some time with my family - maybe a holiday to somewhere nearby.

Microsoft Office 2007 Online competition

You might want to find out more about microsoft office 2007 and win a prize - weekly contest.
http://www.office2007quiz.com.sg/singapore/office/newday/game2007/index.aspx

My Story Portal Competition

Sharing a piece of good news - I won the 2nd prize in the above competition - ha ha - didn't expect it as I actually cut and paste my story from my old blog. You might want to visit the website - a gallery of entries reflecting the oldest in Singapore and fond memories of the past in Singapore.

http://mystory.heritagefest.org.sg/index.php?title=My_Kampong_Days

Of course I am also still waiting for my prize from the Microsoft Academic Skill Callenge for MOE Staff (Champion for Microsoft Powerpoint) - they keep postponing the award ceremony- quite irritating as I have to be on standby next week as they can't confirm the actual date! Anyone wants to join me for next year - I will be participating in the Microsoft Word Category.

My students were also so disappointed when I told them the cheques for the 2 competitions, the new media challenge 2007 and the word power challenge 2007 (which are all from Singtel - $2000 and $1000) will come in only end of Oct or Nov - which means I can only give them in late Nov or Dec!

There is actually another competition - amazing race style with filming of . historical places in Singapore next Saturday. The problem is I have already booked archery for my Red Cross on the same day and I cannot participate. You can refer to the poster outside the computer lab for details. Anyone interested? The prizes, according to the poster, are very attractive.

Budget 2008 competitions

Encouraging all to participate in the following competitions:

Budget 2008 Essay Competition

“Infinite possibilities; finite resources”
Click on the link below for details:
http://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/essay.html

You might also want to refer to the winning essays in 2007: http://www.mof.gov.sg/budget_2007/essay_winners.html


Budget 2008 Video Competition

“What the Budget means to me”
Click on the link below for details:
http://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/video.html

LInk-cadet activity at Rivervale Primary

A big THANK YOU to Mrs Natarajan and Mdm Normalis for making the collaboration a success. Pretty sad that Mrs Natarajan is going to retire next year as she is such an experienced instructor. Though our initial plan was to share first aid with the link members, I think we had learnt more from her e.g. cuff bandage. After practising with bandaging, Kit Man showed the link members how to make button badges. They were very enthusiastic and eager to try out. However one of the machines did not work and they had to queue for one. I had forgotten to bring my third machine, otherwise it should be faster. After that, Mrs Rajan treated us to some curry puffs and drinks. We ended the sessions with some cheers in the field.

Areas for improvement - I must get the cadets to plan in advance more activities which we can conduct with the link members. I was told that the cadets from Compassvale arranged for a series of activities e.g. CPR, evacuation drill, blanket exercise etc. Maybe we can plan for a Telematch next year.

Click here for more photos.

I could only update the above as I suffered from severe diarrhoea and gastric pain since that night and have not really recovered since. Still feeling the discomfort as I am typing this ... update on 12th Oct.

Geography Blog

I decided to set up a geography blog - a platform for the geography students to look at the current geography related issues or just sharing on some tips on how to improve on their essays. http://olevelgeog.blogspot.com/