iCouncil Meeting!

Today was all the iCITs first official iCouncil meeting! It was supposed to be a no-teachers affair, but our Council Mentor gatecrashed :)

Anyways, during the meeting, our council chairman kindly updated us on the updates for council. There was

• iPlay --> which consisted of iLeague and iPing-Pong, which hasn't started yet
• iSite --> which had been proposed for 3/2 years and was finally approved
• iLounge --> which opens every Tuesday and will be revamping next term!
• Buddy System --> which is completely NOT new to me but is supposedly very new! :)

On a side note, our council mentor asked our council chairman to re-explain why the invested councillors did not have their badges. Due to some language manupilation, the council chairman was made the scapegoat! Reminds me of Snowball and Squealer from Animal Farm, but nevermind.

Actually, that's about all :)

iLeague

We (1I1) drew with 1I3 yesterday in an iLeague match :(

Now WHAT is iLeague? Well, iLeague is like an inter-class soccer league within iSpark Sec 1 and 2 only :) Unfortunately, due to some weird planning, every class will have to play against every other class, so the Sec 1s end up getting thrashed by the Sec 2s.

Anyway, 1I1 has played against 4 classes so far. Our record is: 1 win(against 1I4), 1 draw(against 1I3) and 2 losses (against 2I1 and 2I4). Our goal difference is, according to calculations, -16. I know. It looks bad. But hey, we have four points!

Back to 1I3. They totally did not deserve to draw. We should have won! We totally hsd the advantage from the moment I switched places with Benny and replaced him as goalkeeper while he replaced me in defense. That was AFTER the first goal of the game, which, of course, came from 1I3.

I kept a clean sheet after that :) which means that I did not concede, and Wei Zhi missed 2 beautiful chances that would have seen us own 1I3 completely. Yeah. Luckily, Zheng Jie managed to score :) he is our team's only scorer, with 3 goals! Three Cheers for Zheng Jie!!!

My First Semester as a Secondary as a Secondary School Student

Well, after a LOONG 5 months, I'm forced to admit that time just flew by. I know that its a contradiction, but hey. It's long if you look back but if you take each day as it comes, time just goes by, like sand through your fingers.

So, let's begin with the positive points. Can I do this informally? Please.

• Classmates rock
• Teachers rock
• iCouncil rocks
• NCC rocks
• Food rocks

Okay, a bit more elaboration. As a side note, notice I didn't put "Classmates rock", instead putting "Friends rock". This is because so far, everyone who has been my friend has been really nice or they wouldn't be my friend anyway.

My teachers rock too. I haven't been scolded at all this term, and my LA teacher, who's my Projects Day mentor and who conscripted me into LA fest preparations (which is on 3rd June @ ACS(I) for P4s. See you there!), is really nice too. My History teacher has a new policy: "Get even, not angry". I think that's a good policy! :)

iCouncil rocks because it does. Especially the councillors. When they took us for Sports Meet (not CSM) weeks ago, they tried to get us to cheer loudly but all of us were really unsupportive and it was... stupid. I'm also running to be a councillor, as mentioned in March, I think.

NCC rocks because all our seniors are really nice. Our NCOs (Non-Commissioned Officers) bring us for Games every 3 weeks or so, which is way better than our Part B and C seniors, who never go for Games during training. June camp is coming up, and it's supposed to be really tough and all that, but I'll blog about it once I return from it ^.^

Food rocks. Trust me, it does. During recess, the queues at every store are unbelievably long, because the food at our canteen is so nice that even JC and HCIS students come to our canteen to eat. Try it some day if you can.

Now to the not-so-pleasant side.

• Some classmates have a little... problem...--> teachers scolding us like there's no tomorrow

As you might have noticed, there is only one little thing to blight the Secondary School experience. Granted, some of the blame lies on me too. Sometimes. Because, as Einstein says, " The world is not a dangerous place because of those who do evil, but those who stand by and do nothing". I shall not dwell on this unpleasant matter anymore.

As usual, every year there will be some interesting highlights. Let's do this in chronological order.

• Orientation
• Meeting of Teachers for the first time
• "Discovery" of Projects Day
• 1st Ever Consortium Assembly
• Person X seeing iSpark's DC
• Person Y seeing iSpark's DC
• 1I1 v2.0
• Facades

TBC...

Lack of Posts in April

Ookay. I haven't been posting for the whole of April. And a bit of March. But I have a reason! Well, not much. But hey, I had a lot of exams. Not-so-major class tests. The point is, I had to revise like there's no tommorow AND I'm really happy that they are all over! :)