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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.

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.