Councilor-in-training Selection Camp (CIT) in HCI

During the March holidays, I was one of the few Secondary Ones and Twos who went for the CIT Camp. Max had also gone to the camp. He encourage me to go and was so enthusiastic, in the end I decided to accompany him and attend the camp. I did not expect it to be very fun, but I enjoyed the camp very much and the activities were interesting and entertaining. The only two events that I disliked were the bumping session and the night trail. The bumping session was right after dinner and we weren't prepared for it at all as the seniors were still chatting happily during dinner. It has delayed the activities by almost an hour. Despite that, the seniors knew the importance of instilling discipline into us. I feel that discipline is the most important value that a person should have in order to succeed in life. After that, we went on a night trail. it was my first time at night in school alone. I was a little scared at first, but seniors told me not to think of the scary things that might happen to me, but instead try to think of girls,(because we do not have girls in my school). When I was on the trail, I tried to kept thinking about happy things that would occupy my thoughts during the trail. It lasted about 15 minutes and it was over in a blink. As we could only go one by one, it was 11 p.m. when it finished. By the time we got to bed, it was already 1 a.m. The next morning, we had breakfast and team-building games. We played caterpillar, and another game which required us to move water from one pail to another. It required teamwork and cooperation from everyone in the team. it was fun and entertaining. My team was the second team and for winning, the councilors poured the water onto us. Although my team members were not really happy for getting wet, but we still enjoyed it as it makes us go through thick and thin united as a team. It was time for lunch. After lunch, we prepared a skit for the campfire. As nobody could come up with a good idea, we came up with something crappy and was meant to make the audience laugh, but it turned out to be an epic failure. The campfire was also a pep talk from the seniors and to tell us how tough a councillor's life would be. Even though my group was the worse, we were encouraged by seniors and we felt consoled. It was the last activity of the camp and we did cheers for each others and wrote good comments for each other. The next morning, we packed up and left after bidding each other goodbye. It was the best camp which taught me many values. Even if I don't get in Council, I feel that it was still worth my three days of my precious march holidays.

My Youth Squad Selection Trials Results

Finally, after weeks of playing round-robin matches against the top players in Singapore, I finally managed to pull through the Qualification Round, I made to the Final-Round and emerged tops of the group and qualified to join the National Youth Squad. The playing system goes like this-there are 16 players and they are split into two groups. The top four of each group will proceed to the next round, where the top four will proceed into the Youth Squad. Sounds easy? Nope,not at all with the Sec twos around. I was quite lucky this time as many of the good players missed the matches. I hope that I will be able to make it to the Youth Olympic Games in 2010 and win a medal for Singapore, although know that it is difficult to defeat players from China and Indonesia, who train practically everyday. Nevertheless, it is always good to dare to have a dream instead of having no target in mind. With that, I end off what I have say here.

My Term 1 Test Results

My term 1 tests results are finally out and I am not really satisfied that I attained a Mean Score Grade(MSG) of 3.67. I was happy with my Geography and Language Arts as I had attained an A2, the highest grade that I had achieved for Term 1. I was unhapphy that my History and Infocomm Studies got a B3 and my Maths and Chinese got a B4. Worse of all, my most hopeful subject of all, turned out to be the worse and I was utterly disappointed that I got a C5. I am not at all satisfactory with my grades, especially my Maths and Science. I also had a part to play for my bad grades. I have not been revising lateley as I have competitions around the corner. I also belittled the tests and did not treat it seriously and did it in a careless manner. In the new term, I vow to work harder when the competitions are over and revise my work more often. My target for term 2's MSG is to be below 2.5, the reason being that my mum promised to buy me a new wallet as my wallet is very old. I just got back my Maths test, and I managed to attain a A1 with a score of 30/40. Even though it is just a borderline A1, it is the first A1 that I achieved for my test in my secondary school.This achievement has motivated me to work harder in my upcoming tests and to be able to achieve my target. That is all for now, I have to get back to my revision now.