Lim Guo Hong

Wow, a lot new things happened after I entered Poly…  like I am lazy to blog anymore.. >.>

Anyway, woohoo… I am blogging  from my new laptop!

woohoo.. i am blogging from temasek school’s lab.

The computers here are like 10 times faster than what I have at home.. even though I am using Starhub maxonline.

I will be unavailable for the next 36 hours because I am going to Temasek Poly for camp… well orientation camp. My second camp in my whole entire life… Should be fun!!! haha

Wow, a lot of things happened lately… Let me take my time now in this post to update you what had happened to me ( if you are interested anyway )….

Disclaimer: This is a LONG post, do not bother to read if you have no time.. Its just about the boring life of mine.

First of all, i had my first part-time job with Sintex. A company that sells bedsheet sets and stuffs regarding beds. It was recommended by Hong Wei’s cousin’s boyfriend. The pay was quite okay. It was my first part-time job le. I was supposed to work for 6 days but I took the last day off to have Christmas Celebration at Coach’s house. Met a lot people and get to know more people. The person who leaves me a very very deep impression is Ah Seng. He is just “powerful”. Jiayou Sintex.

Wayne Ong Yao De. He is one of the most friendly people I had ever met, never see him angry before and takes all things that come his way cheerful. I should learn from him and not get affected by things around me so easily but anyway We celebrated his birthday on, I think the 28th of Dec which is a Saturday. Had 2 celebrations with him. One in the afternoon and one at night. We went to Novea there to had some NICE NICE chicken rice and following which we had our “dinner” at some hotel and … wth… he paid for it. It makes me feel so weird and bad. Thats quite a big sum since quite a lot of us went. Anyway I owe him one, I gonna treat him back for it.

Second Birthday which we celebrated is Chang Heng and Bing Han.. All of them are very brother lor. All born so near. We had our lunch at “I forget where”( If I am not wrong it is changing appetites ) but Coach Quek, Chee Tah, CBL, Lijun, Danielle, Bing Han, Yao De, Yan De, Chang Heng was there. I was there late due to PA filming so I only ordered one mudpie.. It is BIG.. omg.. make me so full.

Yet another birthday but this time is Yan De, he is another cheerful guy. Never see he angry before also. We went to Waraku to eat. ( Waraku is the restaurant i love most ). I was at my cousin’s house that day and later I meet up with Xian Ying, Yao De, Yan De and Chee tah to go to Marina to eat. Bing Han and Chang Heng went there as well but not with us. We did heard the bad news of them failing the coach’s test but its okay. It didn’t affect the birthday boy. Haha. We went for a bowling match after that. We are suppose to play loser punch and we lost….but for some reason, it didn’t ended up to be loser punch. I started playing quite well and deprove haha.. Chee tah was very good! Yan De never get on-form though. If not, we will win. Haha

I am going to compete in Chang Quan, Sword and Spear. I no longer have interschool but this competition which will be held in March will replace my “interschool” although it is an international competition. We are going to train in Shen Zhen first before competiting. From Wufang, Me, Hao Meng and Jun An will be going and we will be going with Coach Xue and wushu students from RP. Lets hope that we can get some “result” back. Haha

Me, Jun An, Kelvin, Robin and Bing Han is participating in 2008 Chingay under PAYM. We are suppose to perform wushu on this float which will be pushed by MacPherson Secondary School students. We had our first rehearsal on Saturday, hot hot Saturday. It seems like the students did not have a problem pushing even when we step up. Its a total of 600kg when we are up there. It did not include the generator yet which will add up to 900kg. One of the person-in-charge wants them to “carry” up the float… They are rehearsing the “carrying” that day before we left and that is only 300kg… what about us on top jumping and the generator.. Will they be able to do it? They are having a big problem carrying 300kg already… Lets see then.. Me and Jun An went for a Pool game after last Saturday and we played “Loser Dare” haha.. he lost and he owe me a dare. Anyway Next Saturday will be our next rehearsal. Lets see what will happen on that day then.

Chinese New Year is coming up and of course, I am preparing for the performance. It is for my ex-school. Montfort Secondary School. I guess it might be our last official performance for the school. The rehearsal starts tomorrow which is the day that I get my result… Er… Anyway… I will be doing spear for the performance so await my “great” performance.

O level result will be released tomorrow. I already had an “A2″ for my Chinese and now I feared the rest… EHHH.. I am quite confident when taking my O level but it always seems like the more confidence I have when I take my paper, the lower the result I will get. PLEASE… God help. I am really scared.. Ah Gong Bo You.

“Our local boys have gained because of the higher level of competition and commitment we encouraged by recruiting the foreign students.”
-Montfort Secondary Principal Simen Lourds.

The Straits Times ( 24 Nov 2007 ) - Saturday (S8)
Foreign Talent
Should schools stay off the bandwagon?

Montfort Secondary Prinicpal Simen Lourds feels differently.

Mr Lourds, who used to play competitively growing up in Malaysia, is credited with reviving the school’s status as champions.

“Our overall goal is not just to win badminton tutles,” he says, refering to the strategy of recruiting foreign students crucial to Montfort’s championship plans.

“We want to do out part in the national target of having a team in the final rounds of the sports’ supreme tournament the Thomas Cup, in 2012.”

The first question he and his badminton teachers asked themselves was whether schools were competing at the level of top countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

“The answer was ‘no’, because our local boys were complacent,” he says. “They thought they were good by just beating one another.”

So, four years ago, he recruited a top Indonesian student to play for the school team although Montfort already had the National champion, Derek Wong.

Derek was the son of former SEA Games singles gold medalist Wong Shoon Keat, Montfort’ coach.

The two qualified for the final of the national championship, recalls Mr Lourds.

“The Indonesian boy, Albertus Teddy Setiadi, beat Wong easily, allowing him only five points in each game,” recalls Mr Lourds.

The humbling defeat had the intended effect of jolting the Singapore boys.

They bought into the school’s programme of year-round training and competition.

“We train every day and a nights too,” says Mr Lourds, The boys get a break only yo prepare for the O levels.

He did not reveal how many foreign players the school has drafted. But last year, Montfort dominated the two secondary schools tournaments. Of the 14 it fielded, nine were foreigners.

The schools started a badminton alumni to persuade former students to provide sparring time for the players. “We created the chance for them to play against men,” he says.

“So, the foreign talent is just one component in our effort to raise the level of the local game,” he says.

Last year, Derek turned the tables on his Indonesian schoolmate and beat him for the national title.

Derek has grown into such a promising talent, he is the only teenager in the senior national squad.

Half the national age-group players in the national association’s stable are Montfort boys, says Mr Lourds.

They include Indonesians and a Thai who want to represent Singapore, he says, and that can only be good for the country.

As for the local talent? He says that Montfort players emerge regularly as champions in the annual national tournament which restricts entrants to Singaporeans.

“Our local boys have gained because of the higher level of competition and commitment we encouraged by recruiting the foreign students,” he says.

They also hold their own in regional tournaments, although they may not win.

“We are still behind, but we have closed the gap,” he says.

We are too lazy to study now … ARRR

Must chiong!!! Choing after this post… arr haha..

Today A.Math and Bio = Dead!!! GG

Montfort Secondary School have its Youth and Racial Harmony Day Carnival on the 20th July 2007. Like every other years, different classes have to come up with different ideas to rise funds. To be honest, I am not too sure where all the earning will go to but with Mr Simen around. I can assured you that it will be put into good use.The day started at 7.50am. Unusually early for us, we have a morning assembly and we took our pledge in English (3 days before Friday, we have our pledge in different languages ) and we also have our National Religion Creed ( I think that was called National Religion Creed ) and we later all assembled in the hall. The hall assembly started solemnly with Mr. Loyl Yeo leading the Committee of teachers who have their own religions and pray for the school in different religions. Later we were shown 2 videos of Montfort homestay project which featured Willy, my junior at wushu. Montfort Homestay Project is aimed to allow students of different races to understand one another better through staying at one another’s home. At the end of that presentation, people in their ethinic costume were up on stage, there were about 10 of them with one of them from my class, Rohith Miser. A short introduction were done on different type of costumes and later they had a “competition” to see who wins the best dress’ed up award. Of Course, Rohith won. We later have the carnival.


Winner, Rohith

The best of all should be the stall set up by the PSG, their food is pretty unique and nice, althought it is expensive. The other food stalls are quite repetative but there is one stall which I can never forget will be Wen Song’s food stall which sell the BBQ meat. It smeels REALLY great and a lot people wanted to buy from what I know but the waiting time is really too long. I took a quick walk around the game stall. There is one which you have to catch the marbles. That idea is quite unique to me.

There is Sepak Takraw game in the hall. The whole day really is fun

Miss Chai came back that day as well and we, 4E2, took photos shot with her. The beloved A.Math and Math teacher. It was around 12 noon when we all are gathered in the classroom when we got informed that Miss Chai is back in Montfort. The whole class get hyped up and all of us wanted to rushed down to the HOD room but was stopped by Mrs. Pereira as we might get her into trouble. 36 people in a HOD room? Haha. She came to our class and we have our short chat like we did with her at Newton Room before she left. Then later when we are dismissed, we saw her at the area outside the General Office so we decided to take a class photo with her.

Miss Chai and her standard movement. A teacher that I will never forget. She still care so much about her and the first thing she ask was about our exam and the timetable.

I have to leave early that day so I didn’t get the chance to talk with her more like my classmates did but I bid her goodbye. At least I will not regret.

A fruitful day indeed.

I was doing some research on some Post-Secondary (Polytechnic) Institute’s Websites and I think this will be useful to some of you so you do not have to waste time finding them.

Polytechnic
Nanyang Polytechnic
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Republic Polytechnic
Singapore Polytechnic
Temasek Polytechnic

Today is the first day that the tickets for the Valor@Montfort are on sales! What is Valor@Montfort, some of you may ask. I did once said in my blogpost here( Montfort Secondary School in Digital Life) that Montfort will be opening a computer lab specially for the purpose of gaming.

My class happened to be the first class to be able to use the lab because of the SQC survey and the feel of that room is totally GREAT! Just yesterday, we have the NE “game” and we happen to go in again. Looking through the programs, I see a lot of the “in” games ( Sorry but I do not play games ) which I always hear my friends talk about. The computer is pretty fast to be honest and the space given to you is EVEN bigger than the computer’s lab itself.

What is Valor? As quoted from the presentation done by the 2 Montfortian Gentlemen, Valor also means Courage. Mr. Simen, principal of Montfort Secondary School, keeps saying ” Awaken the Montfortian Gaint in you” and this means to be courageous. The lab has been installed with 41 iMac and good aircons. There is also a cyber-wellness room which I did not see it personally yet but it is used for after every 1 hour of playing, you must take a rest in that room for 15 minutes.

$1.50 per hour isn’t too expensive but what is expensive is that students have to get signatures from all the teachers of that day. It may not be as easy as you think. There are still rules like if you have CCA on that day, you are not allowed to play and only the person who has bought the ticket can play and stuffs like this. They are pretty good and I think the people who are in charge of this has put in great effort!

There will be 3 slots for booking everyday and booking is priced at $1.50 per hour.

On Friday, which is tomorrow, it will be the official opening of the Valor@Montfort ( at 2 pm ), there will be some guests but I forget who are they. I know what EA sports, iMac Singapore’s director, iMac’s computer seller representative. Mr. Simen will be playing games along with other guys. It will be a fun event!

Like I say, $1.50 isn’t expensive and hence as typical Singaporean, there is a long Q, after school today, I see a really long Q outside the General Office

Perhaps I should try it one day.

I had my O level Chinese oral today and well… It was supposed to start at 2.15pm but there was a blackout and it started at 3.00pm instead. The question given is easy but I think I am a bit too nervous when doing the first part.

Nothing  much to say.