i am confused about everything. ok dad signs up for gym today and tmrw he wants to cancel it because of this and that. the clothes were in a good spin with paper and stuff. nice. read the PERFECT english essay examplar which just happened to be on a similar topic as mine and was awarded perfect marks. mine is now all a muddle. have to save it soon. my brain is now in a mess even before school starts; and, and, we all wish mum would come back soon because we know that she is the only one who will be able to sort out our lives.
i did make a resolution to have a more positive outlook on life this year...
so
(:
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
back to miserable
15jan and the fun ends there.
little cousin & my bro swimming at serangoon country club
A380 seen at changi airport before departure to taiwan
in Chiayi we went with our church to 彩街 on 文化路/中三路
维恩's previous school was part of the parade too
for CAS I taught at the kindergarten my mum's friend owns
but but i wont dwell on the sad things...here are some pictures of my trip to spore, taiwan and spore (:
little cousin & my bro swimming at serangoon country club
A380 seen at changi airport before departure to taiwan
in Chiayi we went with our church to 彩街 on 文化路/中三路
维恩's previous school was part of the parade too
for CAS I taught at the kindergarten my mum's friend owns
pictured is mum and cousin 维佳 catching prawns (: all of us joined in later and they ended up eating 30++ prawns caught. 维佳 is holding the delicious tall icecream... hungry*
going up to alishan on the weekend. thats the 2nd oldest train in the world. the ride up was 3.5hrs zzzzz
once up there, we went sight-seeing... 维佳，维微 and background of the "Sister Pond"
The PIG TREE!
as we approached the 神木
there! the 3000 year old tree struck down by lightning. it is about 20m in diameter
the next day we woke up at 3am to watch the sunrise which was 7.00am#
pictured on the highest viewpoint from alishan to the opposite mountain
taking the 捷运 on new years eve = human jam
having fun at 士林夜市 after dinner 31 dec 2007
bro justin, me, 维微，mum, cousin's parents
went to taipei after a night back home in Chiayi. this is the taipei 101 building on new years eve. we were parked on the road waiting for the countdown.
西门町！！shopping!
坐猫空到上顶上.. 很冷!
singapore: grandmother's house. celebrating uncle's birthday. cake - belated.
cousin - hanxin's house. sleptover
terminal 3, changi airport, morning: tuesday 15jan
uncle looking very very lost with our handcarry luggage
d e p a r t u r e . . . depression. ok not really. i wont be seeing mum for 1 - a few months. she's staying to get her teeth done and maybe house renovation done too. dont know when she's coming back.
waving at our loved ones. oh so sad. goodbye taiwan and singapore for yet another year.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Jan 8, 2008
ACS(I) among world's best in IB exams
Students' average score, overall pass rate are tops
By Jane Ng
ANGLO-CHINESE School (Independent) students taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations for the first time have produced results that are among the best in the world.
Nine obtained the perfect score of 45, making up almost half of only 20 candidates worldwide with that score. About 5,500 took the examinations around the world last November.
ACS(I) is the first Singapore school to offer the IB in place of the A levels. The new School of the Arts will also offer it.
The IB was first started 40 years ago in Geneva and is now offered by 2,200 schools in 125 countries.
All students sit for a standardised exam set by an international panel of university academics, and the scripts are marked in various countries.
ACS(I)'s perfect scorers were Kevin Tan, Matthew Lee, Clement Tan, Yeo Yao Wen, Colin Chan, Jeremy Choo, Samuel Chan, and two girls - Charleen Chan and Elsa Goh.
ACS (Independent) student Samuel Chan did not let cancer get in the way of his getting a perfect score in the International Baccalaureate exam.The 18-year-old braved surgery, a stem-cell transplant, chemotherapy and radiotherapy from January to June last year, yet went on to become one of his school's top nine students.
Said Elsa, 18, formerly from Methodist Girls' School and the daughter of a company director and financial consultant: 'The IB is a challenging programme partly because we have to work hard throughout the two years.
'There are a lot of graded projects and presentations, so it feels like taking a two-year long exam.'
ACS(I) offers a six-year integrated programme from Secondary 1 through to Junior College 2 level. It takes in girls only in the final two years, when the IB diploma programme is offered.
The IB programme is considered by educators to be more broad-based than the A levels, with all students taking six subjects and Theory of Knowledge, a course that combines philosophy, religion and logical reasoning.
Students also do a research project, write a 4,000-word essay on it, and have to clock 150 hours of service to the community over two years.
The final exams make up about 70 to 80 per cent of the final grade.
The regional director of the IB Organisation in the Asia Pacific region, Ms Judith Guy, described ACS(I)'s results as 'very impressive' and said it is one of the top performing schools in the world.
The Straits Times understands that ACS(I)'s performance puts it among the top three schools worldwide, after a British school and an Australian one.
Of the 357 ACS(I) candidates, only one did not get the full diploma.
Their average score of 39.4 out of a maximum of 45 was higher than the Asia-Pacific average of 34.1 and the world average of 30.7.
More than half scored above 40, qualifying them for top universities like Harvard and Oxford.
The school's overall pass rate of 99.7 per cent was also significantly higher than the Asia-Pacific's 89.7 per cent and the world's 80.8 per cent.
Principal Ong Teck Chin was ecstatic about the results and told reporters yesterday that he literally jumped up and down when he got the good news during the weekend.
He said it had been a long journey since the school decided to offer the diploma in 2001.
'Parents and students would question us if our teachers were trained properly, there was no 10-year series to follow, and we had to do many things from scratch,' he said, before praising his teachers for working hard.
'I told the students to target getting an average of 36 points - they got 39 points. We probably have to shift the standard up for the next batch,' chuckled Dr Ong.
<http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_193799.html?vgnmr=1>
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this is going to my motivator for 2008! hahahaha. I tell you that sch is full of geniuses. 45 is practically almost impossible for normal humans + that guy had cancer and hospitalized ok.
at least im one step there...having cleared business&mngment from my 6 subjects with a L7 is good enough. but i dont like english essays, or math, neither am i looking forward to organic chemistry or biology...mandarin, needless to say should be all right though. tough tough tough.
4 more days till i get back to australia and when i do get back its 2 wks of sch prep time till sch reopens :/ its ok i guess. 10 full months of hard work and slavery to the IB diploma then i'll be free and back in spore/taiwan again ((:
to all the peeps who didnt catch me while im back this time round im very sorry for being lazy and staying at home most of the time. plus my grandma and uncle moved to river valley from serangoon north so i tend to roam around greatworldcity and orchard more than bishan etc! and yes my stay is shorter than last year's 1month singapore and 2wks taiwan. its actually 2 weeks each place this time. but i can assure you it should/will be longer end of 2008!! hahahaha. just thinking abt that makes me happy. miss everyone i didnt see lots! hmm...i havent seen anyone yet to tell the truth.
ACS(I) among world's best in IB exams
Students' average score, overall pass rate are tops
By Jane Ng
ANGLO-CHINESE School (Independent) students taking the International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations for the first time have produced results that are among the best in the world.
Nine obtained the perfect score of 45, making up almost half of only 20 candidates worldwide with that score. About 5,500 took the examinations around the world last November.
ACS(I) is the first Singapore school to offer the IB in place of the A levels. The new School of the Arts will also offer it.
The IB was first started 40 years ago in Geneva and is now offered by 2,200 schools in 125 countries.
All students sit for a standardised exam set by an international panel of university academics, and the scripts are marked in various countries.
ACS(I)'s perfect scorers were Kevin Tan, Matthew Lee, Clement Tan, Yeo Yao Wen, Colin Chan, Jeremy Choo, Samuel Chan, and two girls - Charleen Chan and Elsa Goh.
ACS (Independent) student Samuel Chan did not let cancer get in the way of his getting a perfect score in the International Baccalaureate exam.The 18-year-old braved surgery, a stem-cell transplant, chemotherapy and radiotherapy from January to June last year, yet went on to become one of his school's top nine students.
Said Elsa, 18, formerly from Methodist Girls' School and the daughter of a company director and financial consultant: 'The IB is a challenging programme partly because we have to work hard throughout the two years.
'There are a lot of graded projects and presentations, so it feels like taking a two-year long exam.'
ACS(I) offers a six-year integrated programme from Secondary 1 through to Junior College 2 level. It takes in girls only in the final two years, when the IB diploma programme is offered.
The IB programme is considered by educators to be more broad-based than the A levels, with all students taking six subjects and Theory of Knowledge, a course that combines philosophy, religion and logical reasoning.
Students also do a research project, write a 4,000-word essay on it, and have to clock 150 hours of service to the community over two years.
The final exams make up about 70 to 80 per cent of the final grade.
The regional director of the IB Organisation in the Asia Pacific region, Ms Judith Guy, described ACS(I)'s results as 'very impressive' and said it is one of the top performing schools in the world.
The Straits Times understands that ACS(I)'s performance puts it among the top three schools worldwide, after a British school and an Australian one.
Of the 357 ACS(I) candidates, only one did not get the full diploma.
Their average score of 39.4 out of a maximum of 45 was higher than the Asia-Pacific average of 34.1 and the world average of 30.7.
More than half scored above 40, qualifying them for top universities like Harvard and Oxford.
The school's overall pass rate of 99.7 per cent was also significantly higher than the Asia-Pacific's 89.7 per cent and the world's 80.8 per cent.
Principal Ong Teck Chin was ecstatic about the results and told reporters yesterday that he literally jumped up and down when he got the good news during the weekend.
He said it had been a long journey since the school decided to offer the diploma in 2001.
'Parents and students would question us if our teachers were trained properly, there was no 10-year series to follow, and we had to do many things from scratch,' he said, before praising his teachers for working hard.
'I told the students to target getting an average of 36 points - they got 39 points. We probably have to shift the standard up for the next batch,' chuckled Dr Ong.
<http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_193799.html?vgnmr=1>
___________________________________________________________________
this is going to my motivator for 2008! hahahaha. I tell you that sch is full of geniuses. 45 is practically almost impossible for normal humans + that guy had cancer and hospitalized ok.
at least im one step there...having cleared business&mngment from my 6 subjects with a L7 is good enough. but i dont like english essays, or math, neither am i looking forward to organic chemistry or biology...mandarin, needless to say should be all right though. tough tough tough.
4 more days till i get back to australia and when i do get back its 2 wks of sch prep time till sch reopens :/ its ok i guess. 10 full months of hard work and slavery to the IB diploma then i'll be free and back in spore/taiwan again ((:
to all the peeps who didnt catch me while im back this time round im very sorry for being lazy and staying at home most of the time. plus my grandma and uncle moved to river valley from serangoon north so i tend to roam around greatworldcity and orchard more than bishan etc! and yes my stay is shorter than last year's 1month singapore and 2wks taiwan. its actually 2 weeks each place this time. but i can assure you it should/will be longer end of 2008!! hahahaha. just thinking abt that makes me happy. miss everyone i didnt see lots! hmm...i havent seen anyone yet to tell the truth.
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