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It is here again. Honestly, this is the only event that gets me excited as an alumnus of YJC.

Tickets are priced at $10/-. They can be bought at the event itself or from any existing YJCians, students and teachers alike. If you see any YJCians on the street, stop them and ask for a ticket or two.

The event will be held on the 27th Feb 2010, 9am – 5pm. It is a Saturday, exactly a month away. Cross the date out for this funfair! There is no excuses such as you have to work or it is for family only. If your family day on Saturdays, CVD makes a great event for your kids to come. There are events targeting children and teenagers. If you are lazy to wake up from a long week at work, that’s what the 5pm end-time is for. If you stay in the east side of Singapore, that is what the 5pm is for too.

This is for a good cause. Proceeds from this year’s CVD will go to Singapore Disability Sports Council. In addition, to reflect Singapore as the host city for the inaugural Youth Olympics Games, CVD ’s theme is “Fiesta de Olympic Agones” (Fiesta of Olympic Games). So do expect a day filled with games and fun!

Enough said, do visit the College’s CVD page on school website or make a reminder or two at Facebook or in your calendar!

Poster Credit: Yishun Junior College

In one of the earlier post, I mentioned about the upcoming Jogathon. I forgotten to post up the details of the event. I am lazy to phrase everything in my own words (my JC GP tutors are going to kill me ), so here is the word for word version:

Dear friends and alumni,

We are welcoming you back to the YJC family to join us in our annual Jogathon. We are also raising funds for college improvement programs to benefit future generations of YJCians. Do join us for a meaningful day of good fun and healthy living. We look forward to your presence and generous support!

Jogathon 09
Date: 3rd July 2009
Time: 330pm
Venue: MacRitchie Reservoir

For all participation and donation enquiries, please contact Mr Toh Shihua at toh_shihua@moe.edu.sg or 62579873 ext. 353.

Edit: The Jogathon 09 got canceled due to the worsening of the H1N1 situation here in Singapore. I was kind of disappointed, but now looking forward to next year’s!

Yeah!!!  OK. This set of exams was over 2 days ago. I screwed my last paper. I was tired from doing duty for four days. I didn’t know my limit. Now I know better. Still, I could answer all the questions and hopefully all the papers have a pass grade printed on my report card. Anyway, all I can do is to wait for the results. In the meantime, I am hunting for scholarships for SMU. My mum said only 1/8th of the applicants are successful. Stressed. Well, another challenge for me.

Recently, my Facebook got a small mushroom of activities, all YJC related. Jogathon 2009 is here. I was contacted by the teacher-in-charge, Mr Toh Shi Hua for a request on posting a message on the largest YJC group (over 1.5k members by far) I am administering. There were plenty of unsolicited messages before. Hence, I stated that any of such message would be removed. (I recently edited it to unrelated to school.) In addition of adding this information provided to the group, I created an event for it too. Hopefully, some alumni will still come despite that it will be on a Friday. Please, there is at least a month of advance notification. The result of this: friend requests from people I don’t really know and more messages to my bloated inbox (I don’t practice deleting messages. Facebook gives us unlimited space. Why waste it?). I am attending it, if you guys want to know.

I recently upgraded my blog to the latest version. It was not exactly a painless process. I had to manually update the files as the automated script went bonkers somehow. In the process, I had to recreate the configuration file as I accidentally deleted the old one. While doing this, I checked my Nuffnang (I didn’t check for ages). I was surprised that there are ads running on my blog. Gee… Thanks!

To end of, here is a MV hosted on Youtube:

I went back to YJC at 1pm. I was lazy to walked to school, so I took a bus there instead. I do have a concession to utilise. I met Wen Song at General Office, then Jeremy and Took Yao (did I spell correctly). I then realised that it will be a day of reunion. True to the words, I met many of old classmates and friends. There are even people I said hi to and replied the same way and the next line was, "I forgot your name liao, and how we met. "

We toured around the fun fair area and realised that the number of stalls seemed to have shrunk as compared to the previous years. The carnival used to extend towards the lab area, but this year, it was mostly confined to the assembly area and the canteen. There was also a lack of souvenirs to bring home too. Where are the test tubes which have names in them? Where are the little items that are amateurly done but yet still unique? I see stalls and stalls selling food and drinks, but I want my key chains and soft toys! Still, somehow it attracted plenty of people. I saw students from other JCs and secondary schools walking through the stalls and talking to their friends manning the stalls. I saw married teachers bringing their family to the carnival. Mr Phua’s baby daughter was brave among the "uncles" and "aunties". She did not cry when approached. But she is frowny!

The highlight of the day was the school’s Principal dunked. When she climbed the ladder to sit on the dunking machine, almost the entire population in the school went to the machine. Everyone was waiting for someone brave enough to dunk the Principal. After some tries, a guy from PJC managed to dunk her on his first try. So much for the fun! Hmph!

We (me, Wen Song, and part of 202) went to play Bingo after that. Mr Caleb Lee and VP Wong made a lost on this. Each of us gotten an average of 7 Soyjoy bars and 3 hampers of imported food each worth about $30.

It was a great day anyway.

It is the annual event from Yishun Junior College, my alma mater. This fun fair used to be an event to “open the house” to prospective students along with the rationale of “celebrating” values (I wonder how we did it still). Last year’s CVD was memorable, because it marked the start of a relationship that ended months later.

Anyway, it will be a fun-filled event, with many different stores around trying to outdo each other in terms of creativity, attractiveness and business sense.

Each ticket costs $10 and can be obtain through the following means.

1. Log on to Facebook and search for any current YJCian and ask for a ticket. It will help their sales. ^.^
2. Contact any alma mater you know (screams, ME!) and arrange for a ticket or two.
3. Go down to the school on the day itself and get the ticket!

In my experience, one ticket is not enough. You will need at least two. I already gotten one from my sister and another from my cousin. For those who wants to bookmark this event in their Facebook, click on this Event page link and mark yourself as “Attending”.  The following is a map of how to go to YJC from Yishun MRT station. For the street smarts, you can try cutting through the HDB blocks.