Prefectorial Board 2010/2011 Installation Day

Oh I should have posted this weeks ago. Don’t blame me. It’s my window live writer’s fault. Couldn’t function suddenly.

OK after that marvellous annual dinner, just somehow felt that I was obliged to do something for that batch of juniors. So on that night, while I was blogging my previous post, I sent one msg to ChingLi, asking her whether she wants or not.

Then next monday , she said ok , to my surprise. Yeah I was surprised since she rejected me few times already before that. So after that August Test, we started taking videos and gosh, imagine taking videos in only a single day. People used to say, we cannot do things hastily or the quality won’t be good. Yet we went against it , to prove otherwise.

And yes. We spent our Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I didn’t help much. Chingli did all the works and I sincerely appreciated that. So it is a 3-day product. Yeah. 3 days…….

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Here came the Day , where we Form 5 gonna step down officially.

 

The last day for all prefects to gather.

And ironically, the first time all AJKT had their blazers on. It’s the first, and also the last.

Got up to stage.

And passed the baton to the next Chairman of Discipline Group , KaiJun.

And the Secretaries’ Hug. A sentimental one. Zirou and YiNing.

And lastly, Ben passed it to Bryan.

A bow said it all. Life as a prefect for 5 years in SMKTC, came to an end…

Bryan led the group and took their oath. With the mike off, he shouted so loudly and so did the others. And on that particular moment, I was deeply touched…

The juniors. Oh yeah. Like warriors of the school, with full passion. Just do not know why somebody kept on asking me to remove this photo from facebook.

And after the prestigious ceremony, that’s the 2010/2011 video.

Main director - Lee Ching Li

Sub director -
Lee Chin Yung
Chew Vincent Yap Yow Chun
See Woan Shian
Nurshahida
Ch'ng Zirou
Daniel Boey

CAST -
Yap Yow Chun
Wong Mei Chin
Ch'ng Zirou
Hee Sze Min
Lee Chin Yung
Chew Vincent
Executive Committee 10/11
Prefects of SMKTC

Sound and words by – Pn Usharani & Lee Chin Yung & Chew Vincent

I personally think this is a video of good quality. At the same time, just don’t understand why we F5 batch don’t have seniors like Chingli or KaiJie last year… HMM…

This video ended with BERANI CEKAP DAN TEGAS from all the prefects who watched it in the hall. For me, I was so reluctant to shout it when Eric used to ask us to shout during roll-call in afternoon session. And yes, that’s the last time for me to shout, so I shouted with the top of my voice. . . .

BERANI CEKAP DAN TEGAS !!!

It ended with tremendous claps and cheers from the audiences.

And the journey ended here.

                           = The END =

2 Pengerusi Disiplin(s). 

 

# I had serviced the school for 5 years and no doubt,I had learnt a lot throughout these. Prefectorial Board changed me, moulded me , transformed me to be a one, boosted with self-confidence and even worse… over confidence. And when ego took place in me, it crashed, brought me down, let me underwent a painful experiment, mercilessly. It’s for my own good, I know.

The day when I was applying as a prefect, I was trembling. I hesitated, whether I should join the force. Then I did.  Facing lot of troubles in Form 1, it even occurred to me that I should stop the journey. Well I continued, after all.

Yes I would surely regret if I choose to leave few years ago.

Remembering a teacher asked me in Form 2 : “ChinYung, why do you want to be a prefect? Isn’t it hard? I won’t let my son to be a prefect.”

I replied with a smile. But hey, are you trying to tell me that we should give up and stop ourselves from advancing whenever there are obstacles in front? Are you trying to build up generations that are cowards, chickens, despised by all? 

Anyway she was ignorant of it just because she had never tried. As we like to say, never try , never know.

Ah. It ends lastly. Happy yet reluctant. Mixed feeling.

Thanks all the teachers and prefects who always by my sides whenever I’m down with troubles. Yeah I will consider writing  flashbacks of my prefect life when I ‘m free. It should be interesting .

P/S : I ‘m the one reading the poem in the video! People just don’t trust me when I said that. Sad case.

P/S 2: Tolerate with my grammar errors or typo. I did this in a rush.

Blissful Reminiscence

Well it’s now 1.30 am and I guess most of the prefects who attended the fantastic dinner at Swiss Garden, now busy  bathing , start removing all the make-up , after being extremely wild for the entire night.

And here, Mr Lee CY, starts blogging again, despite the fact that it’s already super duper late, and taking the risk of kena scolding by his parents, plus – he hasn’t taken his bath yet.

I have to blog, since that particular , the hard-to-be-described feeling still stays with me here. My blog is my diary, only it is a public diary which is allowed to be viewed by everybody.

First, I have to say, Good Job to the juniors , for their hard work in making this night to be a very successful one. And secondly, congratulation to you once again. For your success in forcing the tears to squeeze out of our eyes, turned some of us to be crying babies. Yeah you did it.

 

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Well, some of my friends, used to describe me as cold-blooded one, for I can still laugh my lungs out while watching the most sentimental , touching movie, while people around me start grabbing piece and piece of tissue, wrapping them into typical Chinese food- Wantan. As for my graduation day in Standard 6 , I actually enjoyed watching people crying everywhere, while me standing aside, laughing at their dramatic acts.

Lol? As if they attending a funeral?

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And miraculously, I have to admit that, I cried.

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Ok it began with the performance. First, the Nameless band , which eventually granted a name by Pn Lee WW , The Perfect Prefect Band. Sounds er-hem.. Marvelous job anyway. Then the dance, led by Sze Hsuan I guess, and it’s truly surprising and astonishing to see them with SEXY dance, but not sexy dress. xP

And then. it’s the Sketch.

To be honest, I did not expect much from that. Yet these chaps did something beyond my expectation and they made us laugh hysterically all the way out , with their amusing tone, and very good script. And…

Yeah it’s about life as a prefect. It reminded us of  how we got impressed and chose the path to be a prefect, what circumstances we were in that made us to be more courageous, how stressful it was when we underwent the dreadful interview, how happy we were when we turned to be Blue Shirt Guys, how excited we were in receiving our posts, how dedicated and committed we were when we had a bunch of new juniors, who first knew nothing, but turned out to be what they are now.

(interview time)

And so coincidentally, the actor was Chee Hong .And this guy made me recall back the days in afternoon session when I taught him the right way to talk, to walk, and even stand, since this guy was like so lembik like agar-agar in his days in Form 1. And yeah, still vividly remember his blurrrrr face , half-opened eyes .

And when Bryan or Gabriel (the actors), who’d grown from a junior to a senior, after teaching his junior everything, after working with his junior for so many years, having all the fun time together, the day has come. The senior took off his tie, implying that  Form 5 now have to pass the baton to the new generation, as they are old enough to manage the Board. Zirou started to have tears rolling in eyes, and as for me , I just couldn’t stop thinking of the days in afternoon session. The day when I, with MC trained the ignorants and innocents to carry out their duties, scolded or even punished them severely in roll call when they failed to perform their duties well enough.

Time flew without much of our concern and we were sitting there, watching them playing their drama, and also recalling back the days. Reminiscing. It’s wonderful. It’s blissful.

The sketch ended with laughter. Then you guys all lined up in front, started singing that song – You Raise Me Up – and it struck right to the bottom of my heart. When you people standing up there, I thought of the days when you guys still wearing white shirts, with red ties. I thought of the day before recruiting you as prefects, I checked your Biodata together with Pn Shanthi. And then, it started choking me. I tried my very best to control myself, but it’s just too hard to resist it. Quickly, I covered my face , that full of tears, I couldn’t believe that I was crying.

5 years.

5 years of serving the school. 4 years of becoming your senior.

I realised how reluctant I am to leave this board, though I always say I wanted to leave so I could concentrate on my study. It’s very normal for us to cry, seeing you guys growing from kiddo to now, the leaders of Board.

Someone asked me, would I still choose to become a prefect if I am given a chance, to back to the day in Form 1. Hell yes! I answered, without doubt. People outside thought that prefects carried out teachers’ instruction blindly, prefects lead stressful lives. They do not understand the fun when everybody is working together, moving forward with the same pace , to our very own goals. We had numerous camps that made our bonds to be closer, we had dinners , we had trips. I have to say, prefect life is part of my school life. No prefect, school life will just be , bored. 

I am just so timid when I first came to this school. And I even had no gut to go in front to the counter to get the registration form and sign up as a prefect. I guess, if that day I choose not to be a prefect, I might now be another weirdo, who just spent time digging pile and pile of books. The training I got in prefectorial Board, from my seniors, moulded me to be an active one, daring one, and one that can think in a more logical and rational way. This Board made me to socialise with others, and I realised how nice it is to have more friends in school.

Last year, we together organised camp and annual dinner and again, we were trained to be cooperative and tolerant. We tend to be more independent, we were forced to stay at the jungle alone during camp time. All these fear, struggle, tension.. made us grow. Metamorphosis occurred in this Board. And not to forget the camp in Cameron highland, the best camp ever attended.

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Haha. Wanna thank all my seniors as well, though I did so last year.

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So, with all these fond memories, how could I resist the outburst of emotion, hold back the tears that insist to flow out?

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We were not doing a good job this year. Too much politics around. But I have strong faith and confidence in the Botak Gang that they could lead the Board much better next year. And you guys, better don’t put me down.

And F4 juniors, I believe – Leadership is Action, Not Position. Whichever specific job you got, you still play an important role as a prefect and enjoy it, before it’s too late.

For Chee Hong, Kai Jun, Viyen, Jolynn and etc, my more favourable juniors, keep it up and support the team. Yeah you can.

~End of Life as Prefect~

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Eheh, I am still a prefect now, since I hasn’t stepped down officially. Why I speak as if I am no longer a member of the board? Ok anyway just once again, a huge thank to everyone of you, and last but not least, erm… I think I will miss you.

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er ya. would like to also wish Yong Xin Happy Birthday here. All the best for you in carrying out your job, but at the same time do not neglect your study .

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Oh yeah, thanks KJ, for the dice dollll. I lovin’ it . Enjoy your post as Head of Discipline.

you will do better than me..

Carnival 2010

Agogo Fried Chicken was back to town and Carvival ended merrily yesterday. Busied for the entire day for 5S1 stall, everybody gave out a sigh of relief and it marked an end, an end of Agogo Stall, an end of all the hard work together with the fun and laughter which we all enjoyed .

Flashback now >>>

Went Tesco to buy Chicken and all other items.

One cart was definitely no enough for the things we bought.

Just take more than 20 packets of nuggets and 20 packets of french fries , as if everything was FOC, the greatest shopping spree in my life. WOW

A car full of stocks. . .

And on the exact day…

Most 5S1 arrived at school at 6. Start setting up stall.

Sheau Hwee helping Hong Seng with his badge. The Agogo badge.

Ting & Tong Pratha !

Frying French Fries .

Nuggets.

Agogo Cold Drinks.

And our Agogo Fried Chicken!

The banana leaves lady was late again , and she took the whole banana tree here!


And Sheau Hwee , the one in charging of money, looked so innocent here

And yeah ! The food looked so inviting

Promotion team ! Stand by!

Must thank Jia Pin for the Promotion Chicken. They said she only slept for 5 hours in 2 days , just because of this chicken .

And the Customers…

Well, just felt tired of typing. Once again let photos do all the talking.

Still, I have something to say here, from the bottom of my heart…

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Dad and Mum fetched me back that day about 7. 30 , after me having tea time with 5S1 friends at Maideen. They started asking , how much my stall had made. I answered. And then they compared with my brother’s stall, Alam Sekitar I think. Our profit made no distinct difference.  Our stall did more work , apparently, more sweat and tears , but we didn’t have much profit ahead of them.

So yes, is it proven that 5S1 guys are all stupid? More work, but not more money that we richly deserved? No of course.

The Process is the most important one.

I love to see the unity of some of my classmates. The sense of oneness, that’s the only solid reason that made me willingly stay to help my own class stall instead of other societies. It touched my heart and on Carnival day, most of us were like a family. It was a touching scenario when Kah Leong , Hong Seng, YC , Sheau Hwee and others feeding people with sausages and pratra when we desperately needed something to treat our starving stomachs. No one cared about saliva , everybody shared same food or use the same straw to drink. Yes this was what I always yearned for.

That’s why I couldn’t control myself when I saw people not giving full commitment and enjoyed themselves when we people working so hard until somebody couldn’t manage to finish the coupons. It got onto my nerves until I started grumbling while marinating the chickens. How can people able to play , wandering around so happily, leaving their classmates working like dogs? They were just so fking self-centered , inconsiderate and selfish.  It took no good to complain, I know that very well, but I just couldn’t … …

ok. I tried to control myself next time.

Yes. It’s not their faults. Carnival was meant for people to have joy, but not bound by anyone to work endlessly for the entire day. It’s just we, the dedicated ones, willing to work for the whole day.

Nevertheless, job brought us together. We had fun while sweating. When everything came to an end, when we started recalling what was happening throughout the whole Carnival, surely we would be smiling or laughing, for our Hard Work got paid.

Money, yes it’s important. Yet unity is far more important than that.

Now , I started realising, I don’t really love 5S1. I only love some 5S1 classmates who were really there for the class , no matter how busy they were. This Agogo Project was like a mirror, clearly reflects people’s personalities , and let me know who are the reliable ones, and who aren’t.