Its the mid-term holidays now. A two-week stretch of forseeable idleness, if anything.
And what's more, the Oxbridge applications are due three days after we come back, 8th September. At a time most crucial for fixing your sloppy
personal statements, inquiring about problems with the
UCAS form and the occasional meeting with your referees to influence their write-up of you, the holidays seem far from being godsent. Granted, the stress levels were rising back in the little valley, but two weeks is just two long! One week is more than what we need (although probably unassuming juniors would disagree). Then at least we have a week in college to prep up our applications.
Heck, we had only a one week break last year and nobody complained.
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Dedications have started again, thanks to the
GreenThumb Club. They sure must be making lots of profit from those Cameron Highland roses. Won't be long before more like-minded groups jump on the bandwagon to get a piece of the pie. And knowing the students of KYUEM, most would encourage these enterpreuners with their fat scholarhships and undaunted spirit of giving. Merry X'mas.
Am I bitter? Well, until they come up with a singing telegram dedication, yeah, pretty much.
Heh. :)
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June A Level 2004 results ? It's official. We have
73 straight A's, slightly less than the
77 of last year but impressive nonetheless.
Congratulations Seniors!
Any surprises or upsets? Well, there supposedly was one student who scored
straight U's. Don't ask me how, I never thought it was actually possible. I'm not even sure I believe it.
On a more pleasant note, all 5
Cambridge bound students cashed in their conditional offers with their string of straight A's. This piece of news, I wouldn't have believed it if it was any different. :)
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The Batch of 04/06's
Cultural Performance 2004 ? Its over. 'twas held on the 20th of August and it was spectacular. Well, it was for the most part humourous, and full of "culture". It seems that they tried to put in as much "culture" as possible into every single scene. Thus, we ended up with 5 different dances in one scene (and one of the first scenes at that), one after the other. This scene was supposedly an international culture fair or something. Clever, very clever.
Entitled, "Allaedin and the Magic Lamp", it was a reinterpretation of the classic Disney's Aladdin, but set in China. Among the more memorable characters for me were Jaafar (played by a very deep-voiced junior); the lovely Princess Jasmine (played by a real-life "princess", no less.); the the All-Blacks inspired Javanese Pirates; the two genies three gargoyles and other magical creatures; the Siamese Prime Minister and an Indian Street Merchant (both played by the CP president himself, Mr. Joey)
But they were all good, really. The first thing we noticed was the backdrop. It was something. And the props. Wow. :)
So much hard work has been put in by the juniors to come up with last night's performance and I congratulate them.
In the words of Mdm Kat, the teacher advisor, "Your induction is over. You are now full-fledged members of the KYUEM community."
Overall, I really enjoyed myself. Brings back lots of memories of my own CP a year back. Which we still think is the best ever. The same way they would probably disagree. :)