Thursday, April 02, 2009
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200th POST! *Balloons and streamers descend as a round of applause roars*
Monday was 2.4km run. Haha, managed to secure a B. Yeah, may not be very good to some of you. But B's always been my standard anyway. Jiayou to all those who have yet to take or are re-taking! Dun give up and push on. You'll make it.
Had ACJC Geography Quiz yst. Haha, yes, we emerged champs! I guess Mr Chan's less-study-less-stress strategy worked, trauncing muggerish styles. Haha see? Geography is not about memorising.
We (Gu Yue, Hui Shan, Ruo Qi, Evelyn, Xiao Hui, Yi Wei and I) managed to secure a big trophy for the school and 4 medals for us. :D They should have made 8 lah. Tsktsk. Evryone deserves equal credit. Eh no, greatest credit goes to Gu Yue for remembering all the Chinese cities, recent developments and statistics. Pro.
Recee-ed while waiting for the quiz to commence. Eye candy alert! Sometimes. Lol. The 1st round was oh-my-godly tough.
Ms Or said it was A Level Geog. No wonder. Slumping, composite volcanoes, landslides, shallow focus etc. And I forgot how to calculate wetted perimeter. Yes, I must have been the dumbest to get tht simple qn wrong. Hope Ms Tan doesnt see this! :P Or else GG.
Had refreshments after tht (which was one of Mr Chan's purposes of coming cuz even if we dun win, still got free food. LOL). We were uber worried abt the results cuz if we dun do well, we will get kicked out. Huishan and I kinda made a bet that if we didnt get thru, we shall all drown ourselves in the swimming pool. Cuz it wld have been so embarrassing and unbecoming.
"River Valley High!"
Bursts of elation and cheers from us. Mr Chan got GY and I to go for 2nd round, where we were teamed with Chung Cheng High (Main). Got first question wrong and was quite demoralised. Haha but with their great knowledge & GY's, of China and stats, we managed to secure a spot in the finals.
Finals was between ACS (I), CCH (M), NYGHS and RVHS. Hui Shan and Yi Wei joined us on stage for this round. Haha, I lagged in putting up the answer during the first question. It was supposed to be a rapid fire round but in the end, everyone waited for the emcee to say "1,2,3" after 30s then we put up. How childish it must have looked. Hui Shan managed to get the Tokyo Subway question right based on her not-so-clear impression of it when she was in Tokyo. Pro-ness. After 15 questions, we were the only school to have a positive score (+1 or +2 i think). The rest were btw 0 and -2. What you want? Wrong answer, -1. Correct answer, +1. 15 questions.
Were over the moon and excited when we were crowned Champions of ACJC Geography Quiz 2009. Took team photo and left with full satisfaction. Guess we managed to live up to the standards our snrs set for us. Way to go, RV! Hopefully next year's team will help us to defend and maintain that title. Then you will see "River Valley High School" appearing twice on the Champion trophy. Honestly, I never thought we would have gotten it when I first stepped into the LT. It seemed so distant, so out of reach. But we still got it, people. You guys did great!
Monday was 2.4km run. Haha, managed to secure a B. Yeah, may not be very good to some of you. But B's always been my standard anyway. Jiayou to all those who have yet to take or are re-taking! Dun give up and push on. You'll make it.
Had ACJC Geography Quiz yst. Haha, yes, we emerged champs! I guess Mr Chan's less-study-less-stress strategy worked, trauncing muggerish styles. Haha see? Geography is not about memorising.
We (Gu Yue, Hui Shan, Ruo Qi, Evelyn, Xiao Hui, Yi Wei and I) managed to secure a big trophy for the school and 4 medals for us. :D They should have made 8 lah. Tsktsk. Evryone deserves equal credit. Eh no, greatest credit goes to Gu Yue for remembering all the Chinese cities, recent developments and statistics. Pro.
Recee-ed while waiting for the quiz to commence. Eye candy alert! Sometimes. Lol. The 1st round was oh-my-godly tough.
Ms Or said it was A Level Geog. No wonder. Slumping, composite volcanoes, landslides, shallow focus etc. And I forgot how to calculate wetted perimeter. Yes, I must have been the dumbest to get tht simple qn wrong. Hope Ms Tan doesnt see this! :P Or else GG.
Had refreshments after tht (which was one of Mr Chan's purposes of coming cuz even if we dun win, still got free food. LOL). We were uber worried abt the results cuz if we dun do well, we will get kicked out. Huishan and I kinda made a bet that if we didnt get thru, we shall all drown ourselves in the swimming pool. Cuz it wld have been so embarrassing and unbecoming.
"River Valley High!"
Bursts of elation and cheers from us. Mr Chan got GY and I to go for 2nd round, where we were teamed with Chung Cheng High (Main). Got first question wrong and was quite demoralised. Haha but with their great knowledge & GY's, of China and stats, we managed to secure a spot in the finals.
Finals was between ACS (I), CCH (M), NYGHS and RVHS. Hui Shan and Yi Wei joined us on stage for this round. Haha, I lagged in putting up the answer during the first question. It was supposed to be a rapid fire round but in the end, everyone waited for the emcee to say "1,2,3" after 30s then we put up. How childish it must have looked. Hui Shan managed to get the Tokyo Subway question right based on her not-so-clear impression of it when she was in Tokyo. Pro-ness. After 15 questions, we were the only school to have a positive score (+1 or +2 i think). The rest were btw 0 and -2. What you want? Wrong answer, -1. Correct answer, +1. 15 questions.
Were over the moon and excited when we were crowned Champions of ACJC Geography Quiz 2009. Took team photo and left with full satisfaction. Guess we managed to live up to the standards our snrs set for us. Way to go, RV! Hopefully next year's team will help us to defend and maintain that title. Then you will see "River Valley High School" appearing twice on the Champion trophy. Honestly, I never thought we would have gotten it when I first stepped into the LT. It seemed so distant, so out of reach. But we still got it, people. You guys did great!