Football match against Catholic JC

Tomorrow's my first match in the Football jersey of Anderson Junior College (yes, I just got my jersey, it's blue in colour and my number's 29 and it's from Nike!)! Wooo Hooo! The Anderson reserves team (including me) are going to have a match against the Catholic reserves team. I don't know if I'll be in the starting line-up, but if I play, I'll try to play well!

So I'll update about the match another day!

Orientation week in Anderson JC

I don't know why, but I always seems like I have this connection with people of the name Susan. As some of you may know, my maths teacher(or class mentor) in Kranji was Miss Susan Leong, and now my principal in AJC is also called Miss Susan Leong. And people doesn't seems to like her much too.

She was addressing the whole during morning assembly when she said she was very glad to see the JC1s in the Anderson uniform and one of the Orientation Group Leaders (OGL) smirked and said "Ya right" . Some other OGLs laughed and the teachers standing right behind him didn't care about what he just said. I found it funny because the principal was there addressing the whole school so seriously but she didn't know she was being made fun of by the students. This somehow reminds me of Kranji (if you know what I mean haha!).

We also learnt all the mass dances of AJC, and to be honest, the dances can't be compare to Kranji's mass dances. They are of different class. I must say I enjoyed mass dances in Kranji much more than I enjoyed the mass dances in AJC. My seniors from Kranji who are in the school now thought so too. Now that shows how cool Kranji is.

And I seriously think it's cool that Kranji let us learn Folk Dance and let us experience holding the hands of the opposite sex. Because there's a couple dance in AJC too, and some of the boys are behaving like how boys behave when they're still secondary 1. They whine about holding the hands of a girl. I didn't want to hold the hands of a boy because it feels extremely weird, and luckily my OGL helped pair me up with a girl in my class. Her name's Benita and she has only been to girls schools for the past ten years. When my sister heard about it she joked about how I took away her "virgin touch".

My class has 18 girls and only 4 boys (including me) Which was like the situation in 2A, but 2A got along pretty well, so let's hope my class gets along well too. During orientation I was called to a Lecture Threatre and I was asked if I'm sure I want to take the H1 Chinese, which they say was like a repeat of Higher Chinese. The teacher was shocked to see that I got an A2 in Higher Chinese and still want to take H1 Chinese. The teacher expressed her shock when she said, "he got 2 leh" into the mike.

And the rest of the people in the Lecture Room started talking among themselves and people looked over in my direction which I suspect was their attempt to take a clear look at this guy whom they thought was weird. Then my classmates started questioning me and trying to tell me not to take the H1 chinese because it could be a waste of time. But I still decided to take the H1 Chinese, because I want to study Chinese, but H2 Chinese with literature wasn't my type and I believe H1 Chinese can still improve my chinese because my chinese definitely isn't the best.

When I answered the teacher that I'm sure about taking H1 Chinese, the people in the front row expressed their shock by turning around and looking at me with eyes wide open. And on my way back to the Hall for the following activities some girls from other class came and told me not to take the H1 Chinese. But I thanked them and said I'll consider about it again. Alright I lied.

A friend of a girl in my class asked me why does Kranjians looked like Ah Lian and Ah Bengs with me as an exception. Students in Anderson mostly speak english more than chinese and I think Kranjians (or students from schools in the West) may be the only ones who speak more chinese. I admit I'm not comfortable with this fact. The girl later changed her comment to Kranjians all looked like cool people, and I answered her that "Kranjians are cool people but they are not bad people".

Well, if most students speaks only english most of the time, it means I may have an advantage during Chinese lessons, which I must admit I sometimes enjoy. It's sad how some people don't speak Chinese or even hates Chinese.

I'm in Scorpius house, which was a temporary name for the house (it will later be changed to Puma), it's colour is green, but I was hoping to be in the yellow house because then I'll be in yellow house for all my years in school. (Jupiter in Teck whye, Kestrel in Kranji). Scorpius won the Annual Drama Competition which I thought may be interesting, because it's fun to watch dramatic people.

Then there's Soccer training three times a week because of the competiton season and it was last week when Anderson beat Nan Yang JC. It was the first match of the competiton and the Scores's 3-0, but of course I didn't play because the JC2s were definitely better, but the coach wants the rest of us to prove we are worthy of a place in the starting Line-up during trainings.

To be continued...

Matriculation week at Anderson JC

I'm pretty sure everyone who's going to a JC for further education is having their orientation in their school for this past week, so here's my experience of orientation, or matriculation at Andesron Junior College (whatever that word means).

This week wasn't exactly an orientation week for us, because we only deal with mostly all the admin stuff during this week. So most of the time we have only Subject talks (to let you get a feel of how lectures will be like). I'm taking H2 Geography, Economics, English Literature (I have no choice because I don't want Chinese Literature or Maths) and H1 Chemistry as my contrasting subject (it's the only one I'm interested in, and I believe it's my Chemistry teachers in Kranji who have helped me develop that interest). Then of course there's the H1 General Paper, Project Work and Chinese.

Out of all the lecture talks, I must say the most confusing talks of them all is English Literature. To be honest it feels like I'm in a class filled with nerds, or people who "knows it all". Call me mean, but that's the impression they gave me. Alright, to be fair, maybe not all of them are nerds, but this definitely does not appeal to the two guys sitting behind me during the talk. Because when the lecturer asked the class to guess what is the meaning behind a poem, they were discussing in their "ever-standard english" and told one another "I got that answer at first, but..." (blah blah blah whatever they can think of to explain why they got it wrong) when their answers were different from the teacher's answers.

I also noticed that Anderson JC has a few Ang Moh teachers. The female Ang Moh teacher in the Literature department was a more serious lady, but the male Ang Moh teacher was more of a joker. There was this morning when he was marking the attendance of the matriculation group (MG) beside my MG 31, he went up to the first guy and called out "Sedia!", then move into the Sedia position himself with a "act-serious expression" on his face. It was really funny and I laughed, but what amazed me more was how calm the student was.

The first guy of the group didn't laugh or did anything else. He bascially stoned. Then the Ang Moh saw that he had just joked with a guy who apparently didn't have any sense of humour, and had embarrassed himself, he changed the subject.

"You're pretty tall, aren't you?", was his next sentence (the Ang Moh was the same height as me and the guy is a head taller than him or me). But the guy remained so still that you could have mistaken him for a weird looking statue. I'm sure the Ang Moh teacher must be feeling bored with all this students without sense of humour.

The staffs in the general office wasn't very friendly, they would point to random directions without looking at you or looking up when you asked them for something and some gives you one-word answers which doesn't help clear your doubts. For example, I asked the guy for the benefits of the Financial Assistance, and he simply told me, "Money?" and when I asked what was it for he told me, "studies?".

Well I think I'm going back next week to thank him again for helping me unlock the mystery behind the benefits of the Financial Assistance.

I didn't make any much friends in the new school except for Darren, a second year student. He was trying to get me to join his CCA, the sports club and we became friends even though I didn't join his CCA. Then I met a few more guys in Soccer and got to know them. The people there are reasonably friendly, but not friendly enough to make the first move to talk to you. I don't blame them, because I'm one of them. Haha!

But it was still the most comfortable to talk to Kranjians. There's quite some Kranjians (or 2A-ians) in Anderson. There's Zhan Ning, Hong Lip, Jin Hui, Keng Wee, Yu Liang, Yvonne, Adeline, Shun Ting, Yen Ting, Angeline, Gin, Stella, Sim Leng, Pei Wen (from 4A), another 4D girl who I wasn't sure of her name, Wei Sheng and George.

The feeling's funny when you meet Kranjians in a new school. It feels like you're old friends with that person. Just yesterday, I spoke to George more than I ever did in the 4 years in Kranji. It's comfortable, because you don't have to introduce yourself and ask all the boring typical questions to get to know one another.

There's quite some Ex-Kranians in Anderson too, most are from NPCC, I met into Sharon, Allen (did I spelt her name correctly?), then another guy who's name I forgot. Then there's this ex-prefect of Kranji who recognised me as a Kranjian in the toilet, and also another guy who asked me to join Choir in the Library. I chatted with some of them, and they bad-mouthed a little about how the school's geography notes sucks, but the worse I have heard of was about Soccer, the CCA I told them I was interested to join.

I was told Anderson Soccer was the last in the National JC Soccer Competition. But I didn't care, because I was just there to play the sport that I like, so I went for the trial yesterday. Zhan Ning is in Soccer too, so at least had someone I knew. It wasn't exactly a trial, because the Coach told us that we all are already in Soccer for CCA, just that they are choosing 5 new guys out of the new people to join the senior team for a friendly game today.

So we did warm up, train a little, then played a 5 vs 5 game and finally a real game, with the new guys against the seniors. I played as a Left Full-Back (defender in the center) and Zhan Ning as a Striker. I had a really average game, so I wasn't selected for the friendly match. But next monday we're going to have another selection for the school team, because the team needed 5 more person to take part in the National JC soccer competition. And I'm going to try my best to be in the team.

After leaving kranji, the feeling of walking around Lot 1 is special, because you'll never know who you are going to meet into. And this week I met into Regina at the bus interchange. But she looks confused to see me in Kranji uniform (Because it was only the first week, so we can wear our secondary school's uniform to report to school). I don't know why, but I'm starting to think shopping at lot 1 is fun.

To be continued...

P/S: Look out for the post with photos taken during the Chinese New Year and also photos of my new Soccer boots from Nike! By the way, this is my 150th post on this blog!

This is what I feel about 26/1/2009 before late afternoon

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