Today, we had an unforgettable english lesson.

So unforgettable that I cringe in reminiscence of it. Okay, today we had our social advocacy tour, where we are SUPPOSED to walk around the neighbourhood and point out the problems, then come up with a proposal to try and solve it.

So what made this lesson so unforgettable compared to the rest of the lessons (where we actually sleep in class while our dear english teacher ms quah gives a pointless lecture) is that we went around the school.

Yes, you read correctly, we went around the SCHOOL, not neighbourhood.

Lets give an example of how an udeak social advocacy tour should be like:
Ms Elsa Chew, led the class 3H out for 2 periods, where they went to J8 for 1.5hours to eat, and the remaining 1/2 hour was spent walking there and back.

BUT, what we did was this:
2.15: Gathered at stadium steps
2.25: Went around the SCHOOL
3.05: Went back to class
3.20: Class Dismissed

So instead of the 2 hours in cirriculum time, we had only 1 hour, and 5 minutes out of school time. Damn! Worst of all, it wasn't even a tour at all, the whole project should have been named: "Old tales of Ms Quah and RI"

For the whole "tour", she was talking about who RI looked like years ago (huh? what about the project, where we are supposed to spot problems and solve them?) Let me tell you a story she told us: I entered RI in 1990. Many years back, they wanted to plant a time capsule, and dig it up again 10 years later. But people forgot the location and thus it is still uncovered till now.

How smart.

Haven't blogged in a week. Everyone's schedule is filled with the numerous CCTs and Assignments. Anyway, now the CCTs are over (for the time being). Yes, I know there's a bio CCT tomorrow, but I don't take Bio! So i have 2 free periods, one from the bio period, and one from the bio CCT. Hurray :)

Anyway, a few posts back, I commented about Ms Peh's teaching method. Now let me give you an overview of our teachers. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the worst, these teachers are rated:

English: Ms Quah Seok Wee (2) Terrible
Chinese: Mr Khoo Kiak Ern (7) Not bad
History: Ms Doreen Ang (6) Okay, but extremely boing
SS: Ms Morier Matthews (6) Okay, but seems to teach without a lesson plan. Lesson objective not clear and lots of time usually wasted. If not, she's a relatively good teacher.
Maths: Ms Peh Lian Hong (7) Seriously, I think she's not bad now.
Biology: Mrs Elizabeth Foo (4) Even though I don't take bio, I've heard lots about her. Can be fun and can be boring, the latter happening 90% of the time. She commands lots of respect in the school though, having worked in RI as a teacher for 21 years already, longer than any other teacher.
Physics: Mr Tan Weng Seng (9) Great, no doubt our best teacher
Chemistry: Mr Chong Han Guan (1 or 10) See explanation

Mr Chong Han Guan is our current chemistry teacher, who took over from our former pwnzors teacher, Mr. Tan Wei Lei. He allows you to play handphone games in class if you finished your worksheets already, and during our last chem lesson, the released us about half an hour early from the chem lab as the lab practical was so damn short. Some people went to RJ to enjoy themselves. So you think this is the ideal teacher for you? Think again.

Every lesson, he comes into class, gives you ~5 worksheets and ask you to do them as homework. Then he will go through (if you can even consider showing us the answer as going through) the ~5 worksheets he gave us last lesson. This goes on repeatedly until he runs out of worksheets. If you finished, then you can do anything you want (i.e, play handphone games). This is why some people give him a rating of 10.

My rating is 1 though, as he only gives out and go through worksheets, and thus he NEVER teaches. I'm somebody who is damn slow at grasping concepts, but the moment i get it i'll own in whatever wks and test that come in my way. Under such a teacher, I'll never grasp the concepts, cos I never learnt anything during his class.

For those people in 3D, you should know how his lessons are. Let me give you an example of a lesson in a sec 2 class. (Information for the rest of this paragraph supplied by fellow cellist Jon Yu) For your knowledge, Mr. Chong teaches Physics too. (Woah, so talented). For all the physics worksheets, he so lazy he didn't even bothered to go through them. So he printed out the answer key for the whole set of worksheets and asked the students to go and copy them. And today, he got pissed with his class and just stormed out, saying "YOU CAN DO FUCKING WHATEVER YOU WANT!"

So what's your rating for him? 1 or 10?

Lets take a look at my schedule again for the remaining 3 weeks again.

Philo essay due friday
Rehearsal starts next monday
Chinese Newspaper Article review due next tuesday
SS CCT next tuesday
History CCT next wednesday
BIO CCT next wednesday =)

Oh, and RI will be holding the mozART challenge, a national music and art competition. mozart as in music, and the ART as in art (duh) in 18 days time. Guess who are the facilitators? My RE group! Yeah, thats right. This competition is our RE project for this year.

18 days, its closer than you think. Crap... I've been playing Dota for all the RE periods so far, today i played viper. I had Boots of Travel, Vanguard, Radiance, Buriza and a Reaver (going for heart) and my overal score is 600k+ (top of table), but i still lost the game.

Last week was learning journey, and i went for "RE" on monday, during the lit cct period. Won the game with Sven with Satanic, Vladmirs, 2 Bracers, Boots, and crystalis.

Then 2 weeks ago, I played Clinz, and owned the game with boots, a heart, and 1 and a half rapiers (Actually a rapier, a relic and a demon edge). Then another week before i played Magina and PA. Can't remember what games i played for the RE periods before that. Btw, I randomed the heroes for all these games.

Anyway, back to the competition. Ok, so far we have 13 schools, don't know everyone of them, but could name a few. RGS, St Hilda's, CHIJ Toa Payoh. My RE group is screwing me up for playing dota, but actually 4 out of 5 members play dota, and usually Dennis and I will be playing during RE. Dennis sucks lah, but actually i'm no better (just better than dennis, but people like jing hui will be suanning me all the time).

Yucks, this post is so random. Liverpool pwned Chelsea! Trailing by 0-1 after the first leg, they won the match 1-0, making it 1-1 overall, and owning them in penalties 4-1! Chelsea just sucks lah. Face it. Man U owns, they will get the treble.