Chen Jie
D.O.B:020495
Victorian
Like sports and speedcubing
A picture of the restaurant. It is the Five Star Hainanese Chicken Rice Restaurant but I got the idea of a “low class” restaurant.
However, when I went in, I was actually very surprised at the number of people seated comfortably, and I was soon to discover for myself the reason. When I was at the table, I was instantly surprised at the large variety of dishes that they served, and some of them looked just as scrumptious, or even more appealing…there were also air conditioners too:)
A blur picture of the menu there dishes such as hot plate tofu, kang kong, BBQ sting ray and etc.
A blur picture of the menuFor example, the You Tiao (fried bread stick) was very crispy. There was also the aromatic Chicken rice and other mouth-watering dishes. And what's more, it is like ice-kacang melting in my mouth
So anyway, I found myself having a whole different idea of the restaurant. I felt that chicken rice was actually quite delicious. As you probably can tell from this paragraph, I'm quite an avid fan of meat, but in the comfortable settings and wide variety of food, I felt equally at home as I would have felt at any other restaurant.
Of course, all this talk might make me sound greedy, after all, the real point of the reunion dinner is to catch up with family. As there a Chinese phrase go “家和万事新” is a homophone for phrases which could mean “family should live in peace and harmony”
团圆饭
Sorry if the video is very laggy
Wish all of you a happy CNY. See you guys tmrw……oops, I mean Thursday =D
Labels: 5th entry, Reunion Dinner
This is a picture of kai hui (in the centre of the picture) playing his 'Zhong Hu'. He is one of the best player in his section, "Sian Yue" There are different sections in CO. They are mainly "Guan yue", "Sian Yue", Tanpo Yue", percussion, Cello and base. I am in "Guan Yue" and I play "Zhong Sheng" It is very very heavy...sigh:( Kai Hui please do not come after me...
At 10.10am, we carry our instruments to the hall. Now you may be wondering who in the right frame of mind would go down so early went the performance start at 10.45am? If you guess that we went down so early for fun, you are wrong! The reason is we were the first one to perform so we must be prepared and you must also know that if we went in later, we might collide with students that were moving in to the hall.
So yeah! As you know we were the first one to perform. Now you may be wondering what song did we performed or want to listen to the songs that we played again. Here’s your chance. The two songs that we performed were “喜洋洋”and “贺新年” respectively.
These two short clips were taken by my good friend, Marcus Tong
While we were waiting at the back stage, the winners of the competition were announced. We won the second prize in the cohort! We had won a reward for our hard work! Although not everyone got a share of the prize, actually we did, but most importantly, we all had learnt that with hard work, you will succeed. As the class motto go “42 Minds 1 Spirit”, while decorating the classroom, we had developed an even closer relationship with our classmates, learning to work as a team.
It was a great time, although I hate the singing. Maybe I am unable to highlight the spirit so much, I mean it's something you already experience for yourself, don't you agree? Of course, I've tried my best, so let's just all soak in the experience of the new year and get into the festive mood...yeah!
I took a blur picture of the hall while the rest were singing...LOLThanks to Marcus for helping me to take video at bakstage=D
Labels: 4th entry, Chinese New Year Celebration
Monday, a day commonly associated with boredom and as the typical Singaporeans would call it boring (though I also a typical Singaporean) sighs… However, School was suprisingly hectic today, though it only started at 9.30am.
The collection point for old stuffs. The collected stuffs are sold to raise money to give to the old folks.
A few students and AFT, Mr Koh helping to cut ang pow for the cow, as you know this year is the "Niu" year. You will see later:)
After recess, we had science practical. I was not paying much attention as it is quite boring:( It was not long after science ended a subject I actually looked forward to! My Higher Chinese, Wang Jun, teacher has a unique ability to conduct his lessons in a fun and interesting way. By the way, his English is very lousy. He always calls the students (us) “Ladies and the woman” (We are males! Not females)Our last period was English, and Mr Tan showed us some of our classmate's blogs. Surprisingly, one of the blog shown was mine. After school, I stayed back to help out for the Chinese New Year (CNY) celebrations.
After the decorations: 
Until next time, this is Chen Jie signing out. Byes!
Labels: 3rd entry, CNY Decorations
DO YOUR PART as a VICTORIAN and support Pyro Cyro and 3Buskeeters in their quest for glory in the Science Buskers Competition and bring victoria school proud.
3Buskeeters
2) View the videos.
3) Give them comments and good ratings.
The viewership number and ratings contribute to their score in the final round.
Lets wish them all the best in the grand finals on Saturday:)
The Rubik's Cube is a 3-D mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by Ernő Rubik. It is said to be the world's best-selling toy, with over 300,000,000 (300million)Rubik's Cubes being sold worldwide by 2005!
In a classic Rubik's Cube, each of the six faces is covered by 9 stickers, among six solid colours (traditionally white, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow). A pivot mechanism enables each face to turn independently, thus mixing up the colours. For the puzzle to be solved, each face must be a solid colour. Apart from the regular 3x3x3 cubes, higher order cubes have patented and created such as the 2x2x2 ,through 5x5x5( As shown in the picture above). There are exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possibilities, which is approximately 43 quintillion to solve a Rubik's Cube, and that's a lot!!!
So yeah, enough of the intro. So when was my first encounter with Rubik's Cube ? One day, I can't remember the date, when I just came to school I saw my fellow classmate, Kiran playing with an intriguing looking cube. I observed how swiftly Kiran rotated to cube and got enthralled by it.
I embarked on the ‘ambitious’ journey to of solving the cube that had frustrated thousands of people worldwide. With the help of Kiran and other friends, I finally mastered the concept of the complicated puzzle. It was such an ecstatic feeling when I first got all the six sides correct.
Steadily, my timing improved drastically. When I first started, my timing was 5 minutes. However, after two months of regular practice, it had dropped down to an astonishing 30secs and it became part of my daily routine.
Unlike other hobbies, this particular hobby is very appealing. In my opinion, speedcubing stimulate the brain and develop logical and systematic approaches to problem-solving, keep the mind sharp beneficial to the maintenance of short-term memory, eye-hand co-ordination and general concentration. Most importantly, it is engaging and full of astounding fun.
Now on the negative side, I got to admit that too addicted to speedcubing is detrimental. I vividly recalled that I got so preoccupied that I could not even ‘break’ when term 2 started in March last year and neglected my studies. Therefore, my results dropped drastically. My results were awfully atrocious :(
To cope with this problem, I had to take severe action. I had to prioritize myself, studies must always come first and to infuse restraint in myself. This proposal proved to be a fruitful. I passed with flying colours for my end of year examination...Let’s celebrate...=)
So wrapping up my second post, Dmoral of the story: studies always come first. Though I won’t really discourage people to refrain from playing Rubik's Cube as it is an exceptional way to distress.
One last video:
Just for fun ...>.<...LOL
Labels: 2nd entry, Rubik's Cube
This is my first ever english blog post and it will be about EDUSAVE AWARDS CEREMONY.
A blurry photo of the stageWhen I arrived, I hardly saw anyone I knew, surprisingly. I think it's because most Victorians stay around the Simei area and not Bedok. However, I recognised a victorian as he was wearing the school tie and his name is Francis from class 2a. I am elated however, ignored him as I suspected the he don't know me. If I went up to him, I will be very embarrassed.
We were supposed to report at 7pm, while the ceremony would be at 7.45pm. Of course, you might be asking yourself, "What exactly did you do for almost an hour?". The more seasoned people were reading books, obviously used to the monotonous atmosphere. This being only my first time receiving the scholarship, I wasn't as "experienced" and I could only look around and act dumb:(
Before that though, there was something very interesting that happened. I mistook my seat no. as C 00 46.I immediately seat down when I found the seat. However it was very embarrassing when a guy turned up and said that I took his seat. I checked the letter and found out that my seat was actually C 00 47. Someone on duty brought me to my seat. Needless to say I was quite angry at being made a fool for nothing :(
A photo of the guest of honour, Professor S Jayakumar shaking hands with Francis
DMoral of the story: Always pack a book when you know something's going to be long and boring. Since everyone's crazy about twilight now, maybe picking it up isn't a bad choice. :) It's not really a moral per se, but considering that it was just one long award ceremony I think it's not so bad to be able to pick something out from it.
One last photo:
I did not show the cheque in case anyone thinks I'm bragging(Just a precaution).That's all for now, see you guys tmrw!
Labels: 1st entry, Awards Presentation Ceremony
