West Zone Badminton Champions!

Today marked another milestone for the Hwa Chong Badminton Team(HCBT) yet again! It is the first time we won the champion title, and I feel very honoured and proud of the team's achievement. The atmosphere was tense and both sides had supporters who cheered their lungs out for their school. Our opponent was Kranji, whom we won in the second round. It was rather close for the previous encounter against them, and it was again today. We won the first match comfortably with my twin brother, Joshua, taking down the first match. However, it was a close fight for our first doubles, though we lost in the end. Everybody was hoping that we would have a clear-cut win with the score being 3-0, but it was a disappointment and demoralising when our first doubles lost. I was the second singles and felt pressured as it was a do-or-die situation. We could not afford to lose the second singles or the second doubles either, as the third singles is a tough match. I started off the first set easily, leading him by 7 to eight points. However, I fatigue started to get the better of me and I made many careless mistakes. Luckily, I won the match 21-18 in the end. In the second set, I decided to try a new tactic as I was rather tired out in the first set. It worked rather well and I won the game easily 21-9. It was time for the second doubles. It was a deciding match. Our boys started off quite comfortably, and took down the first set. However, they became a little over-confident and lost badly in the second. However, the desire to emerge triumphant and overcome their opponents increased their morale and fighting spirit. They took the lead right from the start, but was chased up nearing the end. However, the calmed their nerves and won by a marginal amount of 22-20. All of us jumped in joy and were over the moon as HCBT has reached another level. Our supporters, mostly councilors, congratulated us. We were thankful for their unwavering support for our finals and we hope to share the joy with them, as well as the rest of the school. To end off, I would like to thank my coaches, the school, teacher-in-charge Mr Tan and anyone and everyone who made this champion trophy possible to achieve.

TKAM Chapter 3

Chapter Naming: Scout's life at school

pg 28 - 31 Walter Cunningham follows Scout home for dinner. Walter's unusal way of eating made Scout make some rude remarks. This made Calpurnia angry and Calpurnia scolded Scout. Scout was angry for being ticked off and felt that Calpurnia liked Jem more than her.

pg 32 - 33 Miss Caroline sees Burris, one of the Ewells. He was filthy and mean. Miss Caroline was shocked and tried to hole him back in class, but he left difiently and hurled insults at Miss Caroline, and made sure she was crying before shuffling out of the school building. The class comforted Miss Caroline and continued with their lessons.

Semi-final of Zonal Competitions

HCBT has finally made it to the finals of the West Zone Finals! Today was the semi-final match, and we were up against Hillgrove Secondary School. We had an easier than expected win, triumphing over them 4-1. However, in the other semi-final match, Nanhua Secondary School lost to Kranji, who would be our opponents in the finals. We had won Kranji before, and I have confidence in taking home the gold. It would be the first time for the HCBT C division boys to win champion for the zonal competition. However, it was a close win, the score being 3-2 against Kranji Secondary School. I feel that the only thing lacking in the badminton team as compared to Kranji's badminton team is the fighting spirit in the court and the team's morale. I hope that my teammates would be able to give their best against their opponents in the finals. The finals in will be on this Thursday at the indoor sports hall at Fuhua Secondary School. I wish my team and myself all the best in the upcoming finals and bring back hounour and glory for the school.

TKAM Chapter 2

Chapter 2 naming:
Starting School

Pg22 - 24 Miss Caroline found out that Scout was literate and was rather displeased and punished her for being educated. Scout complains to Jem, but Jem says Miss Caroline was just trying out a new method of teaching.

Pg 25 - 27 Walter Cunningham, a boy in Scout's class, has not brought lunch and Miss Caronline offers him a quarter to buy lunch. However, Walter's family is too poor to pay back. Walter kindly declines, and Scout tries to explain to Miss Caroline. However, Miss Caroline does not understand the situation and gets so frustrated that she slaps Scout's hand with a ruler.

Chinese New Year Celebrations at Poolside for HCBT'10

Three cheers for Mr Sin! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! Thanks for all the effort put into grooming us into better players! And lastly thanks for your dinner treat! We promise to do our best to win the champion title for you!
We had our dinner at the Poolside cafe. It started with a prosperity dish, yusheng. The C div boys had a lot of fun mixing the dish while shouting well wishes for the team. Soon, a variety of chinese delicacies were served. As a way of showing respect to the elders, Mr Tan, our teacher-in-charge was the first to eat every dish. However, the Scondary Ones were very shy and I had to serve them too. What a terrible life to be a senior! However, there were quite a bit of leftovers. Therefore, we came up with a game, and the loser had to eat a portion of the food. Fortunately, I did not hav to eat the leftover food! Phew! But anyway, I enjoyed the dinner thoroughly! Lastly, we presented a new year card to Mr Sin, and took some group photos as to preserve the memories of this wonderful day!

Chinese New Year!

Chinese new year is just around the corner! As the much-anticipated occasion is arriving soon, my class of 2O3 and my family members and beginning to start making preparations! My class has put up traditional items suck as lanterns and "ang pao" to decorate the classroom. Today was the grading of the CNY decoration of our class. Even though I doubt we would win, I feel that the bonding experience that we got while decorating the class as a whole is definitely more valuable than any prize that is won for the CNY decoration competition. My family members has also started making preparations, but in a different way. We decorated out house with firecrackers and lanterns. We also started our shopping for goodies yesterday and will soon begin the spring cleaning of our house this weekend. I hope to rake in a reasonably auspicious amount for red packet money like $888. I can't wait for the arrival of CNY!

2nd Round of Competition

The Hwa Chong Badminton Team(HCBT) C'Division has officially made it to round 2 of the competitions! We were the top of our group, therefore our route to semi-finals should be free of obstacles. Our targets for this year is higher than the previous, but I am confident that the team would be able to achieve better results than would be expected. However, I feel that there would be a need to change the training environment. Our school hall needs a little refurbishing and maybe a new layer of flooring. I believe that with the improved facilities, the badminton team would be able to concentrate better during trainings.