On the 4th of September, every thing went well. Two days ago, our team dissected our workings. What did we do wrong? What can be done better? What can our juniors learn from this?

Every now and then, I see teachers wearing the lanyard I designed. This is the most satisfying part of doing the gifts to the teachers. Years from now, I can imagine the juniors asking themselves "where did the teachers get those lanyards?". Sadly, no one will remember who made these lanyards and what they were made for. But what is for sure, I have left my mark. New teachers will come, old ones will leave. But many teachers will continue to carry these lanyards, just like how the I love AC lanyards persisted for years. I have never given this many teachers' day presents. I really enjoyed the adventure, the experience of designing and ordering my own merchandise; something I would never have done if I was not in the council.

From the input I got from my peers and from my own judgement, in terms of rating, I give 6.5/10. I am really impressed that the 10 of us could come up with so much in a matter of 4 weeks, not to mention including the arrival of terms and SPA. All of us sacrificed a lot. The reception and logistics went perfectly. The decorations, while rather modest in the hall, was very extravagant in the lobby and the banner was just fantastic. I was especially impressed by the concert i/cs ability to liaise with so many people and to put together the concert that was really entertaining and funny; because the concert was the only product students saw, I can say that they did a wonderful job. Perhaps I am not really in the position to judge since I missed the bulk of it, but from what I saw, I was pleased. However, from the perspective of a planner, teachers' day lacked creativity. Basically, in my opinion, I was the one doing the branding of the event as the decor, posters and gifts all contained the modified superman logo I designed. The concert despite being an excellent concert, didn't involve new ideas. The excellence of the concert was rooted in the creativity of the various performers, but the concert ics did try to put in a few of the creative ideas but they were not feasible. I thought that the standard of creativity was set by national day celebrations, when balloons were dropped from the balconies which was a pleasant surprise. In terms of creativity, I give 1.5/3. For the good concert a give a 5/7. Hence, 6.5, cause the others aren't pulling their own weight in idea generation. I can't say they weren't creative for the video and deco were planned by the respective ics, however much more could have been done. The Best is Yet to Be. Be creative 35ths.

Been lazy, and busy to blog...

It has been really hectic. I signed up for Teachers' Day Ad Hoc, and I got smothered by the chairman who tasked me with the duty of both publicity AND gifts. I learnt a lot though. I pretty adept at adobe photoshop now... to a small extent. I now know how to design my own merchandise. And I got a really good contact for doing that heh.. For teachers day I designed a mug and a lanyard which was given to every teacher. I can even see many teachers walking around with the lanyard I designed.

The mug is really nice. I'm serious. It's basically the modified superman logo to contain AC with the phrase "I'M AN (AC) TE(AC)CHER", (AC) representing the logo. Of course the (AC) and the (AC) in teacher is the logo. So it's more like I'M AN on top and then AC logo below the TE on the left and CHER on the right of the logo. The title ACcolade: Our Heroes was suggested by me, albeit reluctantly because I actually wanted a medieval themed concert. Oh wells... that was the 4th of august. But because my partner was struggling with her studies and violin exam, I pretty much did all the work. But hardship makes a person stronger. I now believe I can do much more.

I sacrificed a lot for teachers' day. I didn't do any kind of studying for a month thanks to it. And because of that I failed Chinese and GP mock tests. But, I still got an A grade for Chemistry, Math and Biology tests somehow. Ok, maybe not somehow. I am somehow highly inclined towards the Math and Sciences. But I completely fail at art subjects and languages.

Went out during the september holidays with my group of friends from FMSS. It really brought back memories about how they were always around to keep me company while the rest of the class ignored my existence.

After being in council for a few months, I have comed to realise that I am pretty much an oddball in the council. Practically everyone there was once from some sort of prefectorial board. I have noticed something; councillors are fundamentally differently in their personality. They are almost always a high E and have rather high EQs. The biggest and most obvious point I noted was that a high knowledge of pop culture and celebrity trivia (which includes knowledge about american music and movies) correlates to extraversion. The most outgoing is the person who has the most topics to talk about, relevant to today's youth and to today's pop culture. And guess who's the most out of sync with pop culture? haha...

Been really stressed lately by Chinese. I just don't get it. Why do I need to learn literature in Chinese when what the government wants is for us to do business with China or in China. We should be learning how to write argumentative essays and understanding relevant terminologies rather than learning expressions that will be of no use in day to day conversations. There is something wrong with the education system. If the purpose of the chinese syllabus is to create a generation that can discern ideas, I believe that the educational system already imbibes this ability through all arts subject and GP/English, hence the chinese syllabus should be changed such that it involves just pure memory work. Languages are best learnt through the repeated process of memorisation, application, memorisation... something I learnt from a friend who managed to digest Japanese to a surprising eloquence in just half a year. Furthermore Chinese is absolutely complicated. In english, our vocabulary consists of alphabets --> words ---> sentences where words can be classified more or less into adjectives, verbs and nouns,, or course there are others like conjunctives. But they are basically words. In chinese, words (zi) are the basic building blocks. On its own, it has meaning, when paired up with another it will probably have another meaning, some come in triplets and most come in quartets (ci yus) and even more taxing are the proverbs which are unlike english proverbs and idioms, the words of a chinese proverb will have the meaning of the proverb only together and you cannot vary it, whereas in english, the component words can allow a small degree of freedom, such as "love me, love my dog" can be "one who loves me should love my dog", in chinese its ai wu ji wu and nothing else. the equivalent of word in english is equivalent to the single word, the double, the triple and the quartet. This means a larger bank of meanings as compared to english. The chinese language is full of redundancies too. Many words are simply too specific with all sorts of unwritten rules. Two different pairings can have the same meaning but one of them can only be used in a certain context which just makes me completely annoyed. Chinese has a really disorganised sentence structure that is radically different from english. To exacerbate that, expressions (1,2,3,4) are not classed as adverbs adjective or what nots in a dictionary, leaving you to guess. Some expressions can't be used as both adjectives and verbs, and adjectives and nouns or any combination, but nothing states so. Completely frustating... I have no idea how I will ever master chinese to a reasonable eloquence...