Sidetracks; Day 2, & Day 3!

Yesterday was day 2 of the orientation programme for PJC, and it was very very very worrying. Basically for the most part of the day, we went to intro-lectures where we were exposed to the various subjects and how difficult they'd be. We knew JC wouldn't be easy, but what I saw was something way beyond comprehensible means! Maths was okay, but only because it didn't give much details other than the things we'd be doing for our syllabus, yeah like we'd know what to expect when you just give us the topic titles >=(. Chemistry was the scariest in my opinion. The teacher was trying to be very realistic, so he used an 'O' level chemistry question and gave us the answer, it was a rather simple question, basically how to get an organic compound to change into another, but then came the 'A' level standard answer, which was to basically add in more details into the steps of how the new product came to be. I only recall alittle of his talk, but stuff like nucleophylic substitution reaction or whatsoever doesn't really bode well for me, so PASS. :D

After all the intro-lectures were said and done, we were left to do our own OG time, and it was the last one we'd be having! :( The OG leaders were going to leave us already so it was quite sad. But they left us with a parting gift, and that was the contact list of everybody in our OG, and some parting words as well. And after a rather short debrief, we were released.



Day 3:
Today was day 3, and since I completed most of my intro-lectures yesterday, I didnt want to stick around and do nothing for 3 hours or so, so my friends and I decided to go play basketball. We found alot of guys who wanted to do so as well, but man the answer we got was reaaaally not very satisfactory: "The P.E. department does not loan balls." Sounds kinda... Off. Anyway, we were basically walking around alot and just talking about decisions on how our subject combinations should be like. I was caught in the dilemma between Chemistry and Physics, because both seemed just as mortifying, but I was clearly bothered about Chemistry's intro-lecture. So at the end of it, it SHALL BE PHYSICS! We had loads of crappy stuff happening to us in between the walking around sessions for like 3 hours, sitting in the library to cool off and other stuff. At the end of the day, there was a CCA exhibition, and I am now considering between tennis or maybe a club. Seeing that studying should be more important, just as how nice my testimonial should be, I guess this is a rather important decision to make. Oh well, lessons begin tomorrow, or rather the lectures, time to go to school!

OG5!

Sidetracks; Pioneer JC! Exciting 1st day!

The sun wasn't even out in the sky yet, and I was already out of my house making my way to the bus-stop. I didn't even drag my feet as people would usually do on the first day of school, because I WAS TOO EXCITED! SCHOOL! SCHOOOOOOL! I began timing myself as to how long it might take to reach Pioneer, and it took me exactly half an hour and that means no more "aiya five more minutes lah!" in the morning! Anyway the first day was pretty much an introduction to the school, with many talks in the morning, such as the principal giving her speech, and other things that basically concerned how our upbringing in the JC would be like. As this was an orientation, we were all seperated to our own Orientation Groups (OGs)! I was grouped with OG05, and everybody was really nice, albeit abit shy, which is natural for everyone, with everything looking foreign and all. This was truly a new start for all of us, and as I realized the teachers in PJC like to say, "give you a new slade", or something like that, it was pretty much true! We began introducing ourselves to each other once the ice-breaking sessions began, and I got to know many people by the end of it, which was pretty cool, muahahaha! We also had a tour around the school before that, and boy the school's HUGE! After everything was done for the day, we had a song and cheer session right at the end, and everybody were probably just too tired from the day's events to get as hyped up as the OG leaders and student councilors, heh. Oh well, that's all for today, but maybe tomorrow'd be a more butt-aching event, since it'd be talks, and lectures... Well, we will wait and see!