Monday, July 31, 2006
Wahz... it seems like only Nick and I are blogging here... ok lar, with the occassional posts by others. But, do blog yah... otherwise it defeats the purpose of setting up a blog in the first place.
Anyway, Matric fair was from 31 Jul to 3 Aug and some pics galore on the Matric Fair.
Over at BP Mentoring, we gave out our prized notebooks. 1 notebook actually costs a bomb (those in blue in the pictures below). Ha!
Some random pics:
Our Rotaract Booth for recruitment
Our table arrangement... I thought it was quite well arranged because it was done up by yours truly. Ha!
We had some publicity items like our poster:
And, also our large vertical banner (which I thought was quite impressive):
Btw, did you know that just beside our booth was the Games booth and they were giving out free games like PangyaSea and MapleSea? Ha!
Anyway, recruitment this year was comparable to that of previous years and I think that the entire Rotaract Club surpassed their target expectation (even better than last year...). But, let's see how many actually do join BP Mentoring and do continue with it even after a year.
*fingers crossed*
Stephen... out...
Blogger is absolutely screwed...
This is the second time I'm typing this entry. Anyway, we had a birthday celebration at the end of July for those whose birthdays fell between April and July.
And our birthday prince and princess for the day was Tian Zhen and Xinyi respectively. Here's the picture of the birthday "couple"... *keke* (later kana whacked)
How can a birthday celebration not have any birthday song right? So, here's a glimpse of what we had.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PRdaU5v0eQXinyi is a great birthday cake cutter too. Absolutely suplendid!! Got skill wor...
And look at the wonderful creamy chocolate mousse cake...
Yum Yum!!
Just when I thought that a nice cake like this should end up in the stomach, the kids had other ideas...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPE6MngtiecPoor cake... Sigh
(stephen... out)
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
The trip that we go to the science centre is very fun and help me learnt more about science.
Monday, July 24, 2006
Boy am I slow in posting replies.
Glad that the GMPS outing to the Science Centre turned out to be very fun for all , esp. those who played with the water! Ha! Kudos to all who turned up for the outing, both mentors and mentees. Gd job Liang Qiao and Nick!!
*round of applause*
Ok people, do blog more yah!!
You can talk about anything... abt the mentoring session, who's naughty or funny stuff that occurred. Just speak!
(Stephen... out...)
Sunday, July 23, 2006
i find that this trip is very useful and interesting as i have learnt alot of things which i never learnt in school ..i also got the chance to hang out with my friends ...i hope the school can conduct more of this kind of trip as i like it very much..
eu kai wee kelvin
hehe(=
Saturday, July 22, 2006
As usual for primary school kids, we waited for half an hour or so for the latecomers. Jin Hong was way too late, and we have no choice but to leave without her. On my way there, she kept calling, to ask us to let her go by herself, and Stella even wanted to go and fetch her...
In the end, we feel that we really could not afford the time and manpower to let Jin Hong come along...
That Kai wee and the rest of the boys were the clowns on that day...when i say clowns, i really mean clowns. You should watch the video that i have uploaded onto Youtube. The one with the balloon demonstration in one of the auditorium. GMPS was bringing up the excitement of the whole demonstration. Way to go!
So we tagged along with the mentees and Mrs Yang was pretty enthusiastic in sharing with them the explanation behind the exhibits. The only so-called trouble that we get from the kids were that some of the boys were playing with the paper-rubberband catapult thingy. They even accidentally hit some of the strangers....
The mentees were always deriving pleasures out of simple things. Balloons, balls moving around, water.. ..you should really see how wet they were. We decided not to restrain them, and juz let them be. After all, perhaps these are rare moments haha. That doesn't of coz mean that the mentors ourselves wanted to get wet too. We were simply onlookers.
Quote of the day is the conversation between Liang Qiao and Jian Yong(hunter):
Liang Qiao: Hurry up, do a chop chop one.
Jian Yong: huh? chop chop? (apparently he couldn't catch what chop chop means) Erm, not lamb chop..or watsoever.
All in all, the whole trip was pretty alright, with less involvement in the actual quiz, but with some effort that was good enough. An excursion with primary school students will always be test on ur strength of your legs; you will have to keep running with them or even ahead.
Jin Yuan and Kai Wee were having this Mosaic Picture being done. A pretty cool software huh?
Please go to these links for the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHCIup-4MQM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4un6x3nSgs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f8uiaXfdYc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN58qg6RWIE
~Nick~
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Ok.. apparently my last post got deleted by blogger and I'm now retyping the entire thing again. Darn!
So, the second session at HSS was generally ok. Attendance was like ****, very terok. Because many mentors thought that calling and sms-ing the mentees was a one-off affair. Apparently not... Hopefully, it will be better next time. Aim next time... full attendance. Possible?
hur hur
Anyway, we had the usual... both academic and activity.
*yawn yawn*
(i'm repeating myself in every post)
This week, the academic/interaction time ended 5 minutes later than expected. Obviously... we started late again! Grrr...
Activity wise. I think that it was real fun and dame very well planned. Why? Because I planned it. Haha! (very bhb...) No lar... I think that since it went off smoothly, I will consider it a success; partly because everyone was very obedient and listened to instructions.
So, our activity was similar to blind man. One pair of mentee will work together; one will be blindfolded and the other will be the guide to the mentee. Along the stretch of corridor are post-its and the guide has to direct the blindfolded mentee to the post-its through verbal instructions and without touching them.
Mentors helping the mentees to tie the blindfoldSome mentees did not give accurate directions, while others were just lost and confused. In the end, we did have some knocks here and there. Wenjun hit his head on the metal door handle and almost rammed face first into the fire extinguisher, while the blindfolded Simeng (right in foreground of the picture) bumped into another mentee.
Blind men/women
Yikai points to the post-it behind the dustbin. That's not allowed!! (or is it?)Oh well, behind all the play lies the rationale that trust is important. Wanna find out more, do check up the internet for more details.
We tried doing the egg experiment again also. This time round, the egg didn't break. Hengz.... And, many still remembered how to differentiate between the hard boiled egg and the normal egg.
*if you dunno or can't remember, do check our Nick's post*
All listening intently or all very sian-ed... I hope it's the former! Ha!(Stephen... out...)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Went for mentoring at GMPS on Saturday. Liang Qiao and I were the only mentors there... the other mentors were either sick or busy working. As usual we had one hour of study and one hour of play. I could see some significant change in attitude in some of the mentees, ie Kai Wee and Jinting. They were rather cooperative throughout the session... maybe bcoz PSLE is coming ba. Heh.
Towards the end of the study session, a few of the mentees who finished their work early went to play mahjong. Haha! I was initially surprised when I heard them shouting "Peng" and "Hu". When I turned around, I saw that they transformed the word-forming game, Scrabble, into mahjong. Ha! Creative sia. ^_^
During the play session, we played badminton. However, the game of badminton eventually turned into fishing. Dun ask me how... The mentees went to ka-chiau the fishes that were in the flowerpots at the school garden. Poor fishes. =P Jian Sheng even kope some fishes home for 2nd round of torture. -_-""
At around 12, we gathered the mentees in the classroom and Liang Qiao made some announcements. When the mentees were told that they had to come up with a song performance for the BP Anniversary, we got the expected "Hur..." from them. =P Haha! After that, we just escorted the mentees to the coffeeshop for lunch.
Looking forward to Science Centre outing this coming Saturday. Yeah! =)
~Guangyu~
Sunday, July 09, 2006
Now, to post something about the sessions in HSS.
8 July was our first session in HSS.
The mentors actually did sms or phone their mentees on Friday to tell them about the session. Weiming was frantically (maybe not frantically, but something similar) emailing and sms-ing us before the session to remind us about it.
So, the first session saw a not too bad attendance rate. Much much improved from the very few that we had. We started late... obviously. So, it was basically academic work for 1 and a half hours and then 1/2 hour of activity. NOT!
At least for my case, it was mainly interaction and getting to know my new mentee. And since he's smart, academic work took only a fraction of our time.
So, after that, we had the science experiment and because the eggs broke while on the way to school, it was very very very disgusting and slimy. So, it was just verbal presentation throughout.
*yawns*
Weiming planned some team bonding activities like grabbing the hand of the person opposite you and then try to untangle yourself and a team relay whereby we had to move from one end to the other using different methods e.g. running, hopping, jogging, crawling, frog walk etc...
A pity that we had no camera that day.
(I forgot to bring mine... argh!!)
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Today is GMPS 's first BP mentoring session after the june holiday break for the students. The students were as usual restless with a suprising attendance of Jin Ting. Liang Qiao and I were pretty shocked that there is a BIG change in Jin Ting's attitude towards this BP mentoring session. She was very cooperative. We have to pass to them some photostated worksheets to do, which were done half-heartedly by most of them, who crave more for soccer and captain's ball. About 5 minutes before we commenced the games, Liang Qiao was asking the students how they could tell the difference whether egg A or egg B is the cooked egg. Most of them were quick in saying that they should weigh the egg..while there were still some who mentioned about spinning the egg. The guys were persistent in wanting to play soccer, but ultimately they still join the girls in playing captain's ball. After the whole session we went lunch with the mentees at the coffeeshop opposite the library. (by Nick)
Water break after the game of captain's ball.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
The NUS-BP Mentoring and Tutoring Scheme is a unique community service project for NUS undergraduates (and alumni) to become Mentors to younger peers. A Mentor becomes someone special in a child's life over a period of time as a big brother or sister. We nurture and develop our mentees' potential through two-hour weekly sessions over a period of six to twelve months of sustained mentoring. NUS-BP Mentoring is a project under NUS Rotaract Club. (Rajiv)
Finally got a blog started for Bp mentoring thanks to Shiva and Rajiv's input!
As usual for primary school kids, we waited for half an hour or so for the latecomers. Jin Hong was way too late, and we have no choice but to leave without her. On my way there, she kept calling, to ask us to let her go by herself, and Stella even wanted to go and fetch her...
