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Friday, August 06, 2004 , 7:47 PM

><))o> AJ amazing race and the amazing 09/03
#Warning: You are about to read a blog entry about a victorious class. Do not feel jealous.

#National Day kicked off today with Bernard summoning the class to school early to brief us for the race....well..there wasn't much briefing actually...(or i cant remember there being any briefing!)....anyway...Bernard is in his Number One uniform and he is the parade commander for this year's National Day....Gosh...he looked so good in his uniform...nothing like the usual sloppy Bernard....haha...(sorry Bernard...just stating the facts!)..below is Bernard looking very serious with Shuxin...

#Bernard's voice was the loudest during the whole parade...and of course...he looked the smartest (i'm not being bias!)...below is a picture of the usual ceremony that we have for National Day...

#After Mr Tan said the National Day Speech, he sounded the horn and while everyone was still wondering what to do, I heard Shuxin's voice, "Amy! Run! RUN!" and i ran straight, through the lockers area and up the stairs to Lecture Theatre 2, our first stop for the AJ race. Lo and Behold, we are the first class and the classes that came subsequently behind us (probably due to slow reflexes! Haha!) are being shut out of the theatre and we kinda took our time to answer the questions....we are asked to say "Singapore, my homeland" in Tamil and Malay....luckily we got Marlin, Intan, Leena and Jacintha. While Marlin and Intan led the class smoothly through saying the phrase in Malay, Jacintha and Leena's Tamil weren't too powerful and they had to call Ganison for help...(call themselves Indians....haha...jac/leena, no offence k?)...anyway, within 20mins (at 8am), we finished the first task and ran to the housing estate opposite AJ to board the bus that was waiting for us....Intan and Ganison were at the bus waiting for us (because they have lower limb injury that spared them from the running)..anyway, this two sweeties coax the bus uncle to drive the bus near the overhead brigde so that we don't have to ran so far....(aww....so nice of them yah?)....and then it's off to our second destination.... [btw, we scored 11 out of 15 for the first station].

My gang and i dominating the backseats!

Meimei and Leena getting their faces tattooed.

Leena with the headband wrapped around her not-so-flat chest in Survivor style!

#Our second stop was the Singapore Teachers' Union. We were the first to reach the station and i overheard the student helper telling the teachers that she was amazed at how fast we got there and the teachers nodded in agreement. Anyhow, we were handed a set of questions again....this time the questions are tough with weird questions like what does al-Kharyyam (i think its spelled that way) mean....when was the Singapore Teacher's Union set up...when was its estate developed (we literally had to sit down and "have coffee" with the person-in-charged of STU before we could get the answers to the solution...think that guy must have been in conspiracy with those teachers at the station!).....the question about al-Kharyyam was especially hard...everyone including Ms Kwan-Terry, was either begging the guy for the answer or using their handphones to make calls....

#However horrible the second task may be, we got through with a beautiful score of 75 out of 100...and left for the third station at 8.45am...waving to many other teams that have, unforunately, arrive just to see us waving to them (Muahaha...i have to admit...we are a sadistic class...)

#At the third station, we kinda flop it because we hadn't read the questions carefully enough...we scored a miserable 40 out of 70...however, it cannot be a testimonial to our efforts because we did try...(see below)

#At 9am sharp, we hurried to our last station (1 hour for 1 whole task...how great is that? We are WAYYYY ahead of time!), Thomson Plaza. The questions there was easy mainly on NTUC, road names that Thomson PLaza is located and so on.....but of course, there was some "fishing" of information to do....while marlin and a few others went to ask the stern-looking security guard for information, yonghao and Joe ran up to NTUC to find out which organisations are in the tripartie relationship with NTUC.....

Above is Bernard, our official cameraman cum comdedian....cum lamer...

#After completing the questionaire, we checked....and checked....and Checked and CHECKED (because we have got alot of time and because we didn't want to lose any more unneccessary points.) and our checking paid off! We scored full marks (60) for the task!!! We were elated...Mr Ang, the teacher-in-charged of that station seemed geniunely impressed....haha...we took a picture before we left.....the victorious 09/03!!!

#We reached school at 9.31am (a full 29 mins ahead of the time that we are supposed to report)....we went back to our home room and took a rest and had our debrief....[below are pics of me, meimei and leena monkeying around]

the above pic is one of my favourites....it's taken with Mrs Soon and Meimei...me and meimei look like Mrs Soon's daughters....haha...

#At 10.45am, we went down to the parade square for the prize giving ceremony....the moment we saw Yong Hao (opps...i forgot to mention that he is the Head for this race) at the prize giving stand, there was excitment among us (so did we win? Which placing?!?)....the JC1 prize giving went on with the JC 1 class champion scoring only about 155 marks...then the JC2 prize giving began...it began with the 5th prize...and so when we noticed that Yong Hao was the last person in the row, in our hearts, we knew we had won!! There was just an adrenaline rush when the second JC2 placing was announced....the MC went, "A round of applause for 24/03 who came in with a score of 162"...by then, we were jumping up and down like a bunch of impatient gorillas (Mrs Soon was at a corner and she was beaming!)...and the moment of truth...MC,"And our champion for the JC2 is.....09/03 with a score of 183.5!"...that was it...we just screamed our heads off and did our ever famous 09/03 cheer...(the newly improved and improvished one..including Ms Kwan-Terry's name this time)...

I say Mugger you say YONG
Mugger YONG, Mugger YONG (Mugger yong = Yong Zhi Hao)
I say Kangwei you say ERRR
Kangwei ERRR, Kangwer ERRR (Kangwei loves to burp!)
I say Ms Kwan-Terry you say CUTE
Super ACT CUTE, super ACT CUTE (This is the newly added line)
I say 09 you can ZAI
09 ZAI, 09 ZAI!
(cheers...09, 09, 09,09....until everyone around us starts to look pissed)

the above pic are the teachers...i took the picture because Mr Sng Peng Boo looked so cute in his suspenders.....he is our "dad" (so called la)...its a stupid thing that we came up with sometime ago...for details, go to leena or meimei's blog.

above is YongHao receiving the prize from our Principal, Mr Tan.

#After the moment of elation, craziness, we went to canteen for ice-cream which Lishi and Chee YOng has prepared for the class...there was a birthday boy...who was kana sabotaged by his friends and they caused quite a big commotion in the canteen...with all the food flying around, benches top coming off and even a dustin cover being thrown in rambo style...
We were getting quite irritated with those bunch of people and guess who saved the day? Mrs SOON!!! Although being so much smaller in size compared to those guys, her presence certainly commands respect....she went to tell off the guys and insisted that they clear up the mess....(Muhaaha...Corrective WOrk Order....Serve them right!) When Mrs Soon came to us, we started clapping....Mrs Soon is just an amazing teacher!