Slow. Sluggish. Silent. Saturday.
Helped out at PLC's annual twilight picnic yesterday. It's somesort of a carnival thingy, just that it's held during the evening and into the night. In a fit of helpfulness, I signed up as a volunteer on that day. Well, I got assigned to the Parent Volunteer table. Really gripping job. Parents come. Hi. Tick their names off. Bye. Yay. Luckily I had a friend, for company. It's pretty good actually, the whole picnic, and at the end there were fireworks. Or at least there was supposed to be. Cause in my world, fireworks don't mean some sparks shooting out from the four corners on the top of the main marquee.
Nevertheless, the atmosphere was cheery and party-ish. The pipe and drum band from Scotch (our brother school) came. It's so funny, because they were all wearing kilts and big socks and hugging bagpipes. =P
Oh and Social's coming up. It's like a party/get-together for PLC boarders and Scotch boarders. I'm not too keen on going, but if they lock up the boarding house like they did last year so that everyone had to be there, well, I don't have much of a choice do I? Then formal later in August. Man they really make sure you get a chance to mingle with guys, unlike CHS... =) So stupid, if you wanna bring a date you have to pay for his ticket too (not a hard and fast rule, but obvious right? Basic courtesy.) Hahahah, I don't have THat much money to waste on other people...
Life's so slow moving here...i'm getting lethargic...and it's like a furnace outside, enough to melt you. We had our first full rehearsal (with everyone present, not full dress) for house concert this morning at Wyselaskie Hall, pretty good. The song and dance was cool...some was composed, the Tofu Dance was done to Beethoven's 5th symphony (can you believe it?! But they take off their tofus after awhile then put it back on after the dance) and the other is danced to Bring Me to Life, Evanescence. My house captain's really cool, she has big funky hair, but that's beyond the point. =)
Oh! One thing that I really find interesting here is the assemblies. The teachers are so sporting! Once we had an announcement by the school's Sports Captain who was trying to explain to us the different sports available each term and as part of the act, lo and behold we have Mr. Downie and some other guy onstage to play mini tennis. Hilarious. They were like exaggerating every movement and every now and then there were exclamations of "Uh!" "Ah!" as they hit the ball. Then Mr. Downie 'won' and did a double kick in the air and ran off stage.
Speaking of him, oh gosh, when he teaches, you can just feel his love for Physics permeate the class. He has an almost childlike excitement when he speaks about a topic. And he has this eternal look of "I am so so happy to be able to be imparting this beautiful knowledge to you". It doesn't matter that he was just trying to teach us significant numbers...And for the lesson on scalars and vectors, seriously, Physics with drama man...At the beginning of vectors he pulled out a lab chair, climbed onto it, then climbed onto the table and stood there while explaining vectors to us. For no particular reason but to emphasise and impress the point upon us. Maybe he thinks that we'll remember it more if he told us while standing on the table instead of the floor. And then there was him acting as an aeroplane but that's another story. Halfway through vectors class...
"It has come to my attention that...some of us are new here and not everybody knows each other."
(Class is bewildered)
"So we're going to have a party."
And he meant it.
He went into the prep room and brought out a cake (which we later found out, he baked himself) and some cordial. Then we stood around his table, and ate and drank and introduced ourselves to everyone. The cake was damn good too! Back home, I tell you...
Skalar: Kuantiti yang mempunyai magnitud sahaja. (Cth: suhu, jarak)
Vektor: Kuantiti yang mempunyai arah dan magnitud. (Cth: sesaran)
Finish! End of story! But sometimes, having learnt it before, I can't help wishing he'd teach more in class cause it can get quite draggy.
Nevertheless, an experience in itself.
Oh. And Happy Valentine's Day if it even matters. The day where shrewd people get rich and the rest get poorer. =)
Nevertheless, the atmosphere was cheery and party-ish. The pipe and drum band from Scotch (our brother school) came. It's so funny, because they were all wearing kilts and big socks and hugging bagpipes. =P
Oh and Social's coming up. It's like a party/get-together for PLC boarders and Scotch boarders. I'm not too keen on going, but if they lock up the boarding house like they did last year so that everyone had to be there, well, I don't have much of a choice do I? Then formal later in August. Man they really make sure you get a chance to mingle with guys, unlike CHS... =) So stupid, if you wanna bring a date you have to pay for his ticket too (not a hard and fast rule, but obvious right? Basic courtesy.) Hahahah, I don't have THat much money to waste on other people...
Life's so slow moving here...i'm getting lethargic...and it's like a furnace outside, enough to melt you. We had our first full rehearsal (with everyone present, not full dress) for house concert this morning at Wyselaskie Hall, pretty good. The song and dance was cool...some was composed, the Tofu Dance was done to Beethoven's 5th symphony (can you believe it?! But they take off their tofus after awhile then put it back on after the dance) and the other is danced to Bring Me to Life, Evanescence. My house captain's really cool, she has big funky hair, but that's beyond the point. =)
Oh! One thing that I really find interesting here is the assemblies. The teachers are so sporting! Once we had an announcement by the school's Sports Captain who was trying to explain to us the different sports available each term and as part of the act, lo and behold we have Mr. Downie and some other guy onstage to play mini tennis. Hilarious. They were like exaggerating every movement and every now and then there were exclamations of "Uh!" "Ah!" as they hit the ball. Then Mr. Downie 'won' and did a double kick in the air and ran off stage.
Speaking of him, oh gosh, when he teaches, you can just feel his love for Physics permeate the class. He has an almost childlike excitement when he speaks about a topic. And he has this eternal look of "I am so so happy to be able to be imparting this beautiful knowledge to you". It doesn't matter that he was just trying to teach us significant numbers...And for the lesson on scalars and vectors, seriously, Physics with drama man...At the beginning of vectors he pulled out a lab chair, climbed onto it, then climbed onto the table and stood there while explaining vectors to us. For no particular reason but to emphasise and impress the point upon us. Maybe he thinks that we'll remember it more if he told us while standing on the table instead of the floor. And then there was him acting as an aeroplane but that's another story. Halfway through vectors class...
"It has come to my attention that...some of us are new here and not everybody knows each other."
(Class is bewildered)
"So we're going to have a party."
And he meant it.
He went into the prep room and brought out a cake (which we later found out, he baked himself) and some cordial. Then we stood around his table, and ate and drank and introduced ourselves to everyone. The cake was damn good too! Back home, I tell you...
Skalar: Kuantiti yang mempunyai magnitud sahaja. (Cth: suhu, jarak)
Vektor: Kuantiti yang mempunyai arah dan magnitud. (Cth: sesaran)
Finish! End of story! But sometimes, having learnt it before, I can't help wishing he'd teach more in class cause it can get quite draggy.
Nevertheless, an experience in itself.
Oh. And Happy Valentine's Day if it even matters. The day where shrewd people get rich and the rest get poorer. =)
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