Last week of school is finally here...it's FINALLY HERE!!! Oh my goodness..this has been the CRAZIEST term 3 I've EVER been through. When I look through the pictures that I've uploaded for this post, I really wonder how I went through the last 9 weeks without having lost my mind :S Thank God for colleagues and loved ones who went through all that madness with me, else I might have really gone bonkers.
And so here is the maddest & most horrendous Term 3 ever, now through the eyes of my Nikon D60 :)
NCC POP 2010
A first for the unit, our POP was actually held in July! Haha, due to a variety of reasons and constrictions, we had to push back our promotion of the Sec4s from Part Ds to seniors all the way till the first day of Term 3.
This is the 6th POP that I've attended in my time here, but is also one which really caused me to well up with pride and a tinge of sadness as I saw the batch that I've worked closest with, and loved the most, graduate to the rank of "senior". Think P and I have never spent as much time with another batch as we have spent to nurture and grow this batch, and seeing them mature and pass on the baton to their juniors was really one of the sweetest feelings...
Finally promoted to the rank of senior :)
To the Part Ds: You guys will always have a special place in our hearts. Don't forget to come back to visit yah? :)
S1 Singapore Youth Festival Mass Display
One of the events that added most to the madness of this term, was the mass display that the entire Sec1 cohort was involved in this year. The kids had been practising for the event since February, twice a week, all the way up to the end of June, and finally, the event was here in the first week of school.
The Sec1s and their form teachers attended only half a day of school everyday for the entire first week of school, and travelled over to Singapore Indoor Stadium for rehearsals. All that culminated in the actual Opening Ceremony of the Singapore Youth Festival on that Saturday itself.
One of the many facets of being a teacher..styling kids' hair with gel and glitter before major performances!
Look at what the glitter did to my finger!? I think up till now, I still can find traces of that silver glitter on my camera bag.. :S
Final briefing before heading off to Singapore Indoor Stadium for the actual event. Isn't it a massive number of people??
This is the situation of our boys while waiting for dinner and waiting to perform..look like squatters don't they? All thanks to the tiny mini weeny 3 little changing rooms that were allocated to the 300 of us.. =.='
The marching contingents at the start of the event..
JUST before our entrance into the arena for our performance..it's another squatter settlement!!
And the performance itself *beam* :)
The other segment of the mass display, a performance by the Sec2s of River Valley High School :) very nice combination of colours I must say :)
And the grand finale item by both schools!
My kiddos and me
The theme of the SYF Opening ceremony, Torch of Friendship.
And this was my full-time job for the first week of Term 3...part time teacher, full time SYF 2010 Helper.
CHS 75th Anniversary Homecoming
So, after the madness of preparing for SYF the whole of 1st week, 2nd week was spent fretting and doing last minute preparations for the 2 stalls that my kids were putting up at our annual funfair-cum-Homecoming. This year, I had a food stall and a games stall. I was literally stuck at the Laser Tag games stall the entire day, trying to smoothen the flow of registration and lining up and all. MY GOSH, it was really one biiiiiiiiggggg mess at the beginning due to the inexperience of the kids at dealing with situation that arises! Goodness.
As can be seen, though I had my camera with me, I practically had no time to take pictures, and for the first time in my life, I didn't even walk around during Homecoming itself. So this was me, at the end of the day.
Was a most horrendously tiring day, but at least the profits reaped were worth it. ;)
The Inaugural Singapore Youth Olympic Games
I must admit I was among those who weren't the most enthusiastic about the games coming to Singapore at the beginning for a whole variety of reasons..terrible me.. I must say, my enthusiasm for many things have dwindled to an all time low this year. Hearing J mention how excited he was about the games, and how he'd like to have volunteered in this once in a lifetime event, made me reflect on my own low level of enthusiasm :S BUT, I'm glad that through the 1.5 weeks of this historic event, I managed to catch some of the action 'live' (thanks to having to bring my boys and to Z who bought me the tix :P) and I'm really glad I did! :)
My kids and I at the Singapore vs Egypt Handball match at Suntec City..
Somehow, seeing the Singapore flag being hung there among the rest of the countries draws out this sense of pride from me :)
As can be seen, the Egyptian players are really big-sized compared to our Singapore players..
So we lost that match to Egypt, but I think it was still a good game, given that the Singapore team was a pretty new team. Must say it would have been wiser to have checked up on the rules of the game before coming to watch it to prevent unnecessary angst :P Apparently, it is actually legal for players of the opposing team to clamp their opponents' arms! Something that the supporters (like my boys and I ) viewed as violence as usually, manhandling is not allowed in most games :P
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| Intermission performance by a dance troupe mad up of cute little boys. Really cute and good! :) |
Was really excited about watching gymnastics 'live' because I've always loved watching gymnastics on television! :) Thanks to Z who bought the tickets for me. :)
And this is the Singapore team warming up..
Singapore team performing with Hoops..
Singapore team performing with ribbons.. :) Love the costume!
Canadian team, I think :P
Japan team
Z also managed to get the tickets to the Handball Finals, so I caught both the women's and men's handball finals, which were both very exciting!! At the same time that the Handball finals was being played, Singapore was playing the 3rd-4th placing soccer match as well. Would have definitely gone for the soccer match if I hadn't already agreed to go for the Handball match since Singapore was playing.. Nevertheless, handball was pretty interesting too :)
The women's finals was a match between Russia and Denmark.
Russia's goalie.
Russian player taking a shot at the goal.
Final score!
It's victory for the Denmark people!! :)
The men's finals had a pair of TWIN judges from France!! How cool is that?? :)
Egypt vs Korea. Egyptians had height, but Koreans had speed!
Just look at how high the Korean player jumped to attack!
I was rooting for Korea, hoping that they'd win the finals on behalf of Asians, but the Egyptians won the game. Didn't really like how the Egyptians started rejoicing and just wasted the last 15 seconds of the game away instead of playing till the end...though I do know that that can be a game tactic...I still thought that was quite rude of them :S
This is not a picture of a person experiencing a cramp during the match, it's a picture of one of the Egyptians getting a cramp from jumping around too much because they had won the game. Hahahhahah...
Women's prize presentation. Gold goes to Denmark :)
Proud supporter of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games :)
Goodbye big baby Pooh
After a good 2.5 years, I've finally decided to transfer the ownership of my humongous baby pooh bear over to LC's nephew, so that it can receive the treatment that it should have gotten right from the beginning, hugs and kisses from its owner everyday. Took many photos of it together with my miniature pooh so that I can have them both in pictures at my office table :) This is one of the cutest :P
Housewarming at J's place
Had a really good meet-up with my secondary school friends last Saturday at J's place at Holland V. Think I've been so busy this year, I haven't been able to meet up with the gang as often as before. So the night had a Spanish theme, so our food was basically spanish like tortillas and lotsa cheese and stuff :)
Chheeeeessssseeeeeeeeeeee :P
Some dip my friend whipped up at home, yummmmyyyyy :)
Can't remember what this drink is called...err...moschito? :) yummmyyy :)
TSG all smiles :)
Yup, so that pretty much sums up my Term 3. *phew* Amazed that I can do so many thousand major things in such short periods of time. Will update more about Teachers' Day...maybe next week when I'm on my one week break ;)
