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Saturday, September 30, 2006
Today we had our last official session at GMPS for this semester. The mentees will be having their PSLE next week. Would like to wish them All the Best for their exams... Gambate!!!
Time really flies... It was as if it was just yesterday when we first met them, but actually it has been a year already. They are still as playful as ever but can't blame them la, they are still kids afterall. Hehs...
Would like to dedicate the following song to them:
Hope they will treasure the friendship they forged with one another throughout this one year or so... As they move on to their next stage in life, they will continue to work hard and excel in whatever they are good at. To all GMPS mentees (lao steamers), WE LOVE YOU!!
*Wow! This is the most serious post I have ever written. Haha! =P*
Wah! Special thanks to me ah? Haha! Thanks Naseera! *beams*
Here are just some misc pics:
People at 11th Anniversary Appreciation Dinner better known as "Qing Gong Yan"
The 8 Glass Club formed during "Qing Gong Yan". How to join? Just drink 8 glasses of water over dinner and you are in le =P
Our unofficial mascot at YIH. This was taken a week after 11th Anniversary but apparently it is still there when I went back to sch today. Good la! Help to publicise BP Mentoring. Hahaha! Next time you walk pass YIH remember to say "Hi!" to our mascot wor. Hehe! -_-""
Got new scandal le: Xiao Chuan, Wei Ming, Gengyun and another gal (forgot who) involved in love rectangle. *Sighs* Youngsters these days ah... bwahahaha =P
I actually posted somthing on the anniversary and it miraculously disappeared after one day... Hmm... wonder who deleted it. Grrr... Oh well, now that I got time at IRO to blog again, let me redo it *Sigh*
The 11th anniversary actually went very smoothly. Much better than expected. Of course there were a few screw ups here and there. There were a number of funny moments. Let me see how much I can recall...
Firstly, there was Yikai and me. We actually forgot the names of 2 mentors during the mentor award ceremony. We had to call the mentors behind them 1st b4 Yikai finally remembered their names. I would like to apologise to those two mentors, Limin and Yulu (hope i got their names right this time :p)
Apart from the emcees, there was also Stephen who actually forgot the name of our BMSS coordinator, Xiaoli. Best part, he actually announced it on stage! Haha... We actually tried to tell him the name from backstage but luckily some1 came to the rescue (cant remem who, maybe Stephen can add in the missing info :p).
Then of course, there was the band! Many ppl complained that the band was not suitable for the kids. Too bad Stephen didnt sample their music b4 bringing them in. Also heard that the band members themselves were shocked to find out that they were singing to kids when the curtains opened. Haha... Plus the poor GMPS kids had their ears covered because they didnt like the band. They kept saying "no" to the next performance. *haiz*
During the cake celebration, there was Weiming who was suppose to take photo of the cake cutting (dunno why the BP photographer disappeared after the reception) but was too shy to stand in front to take the photo. Half the time was spent on calling for him to take the photo. Stephen mentioned that the curtains actually opened with Weiming's back facing the audience :p
All in all, apart from the bloopers (which the audience did not notice thankfully), the whole anniversary celebrations went well. All the hard work put in has actually paid off *sigh* By the way, I really looove the banner that we did. It looks so nice hanging up there.
Lastly, I would like to thank Tengfu, Nick, Weiming, Liang Qiao, Ai Kai, Stephen for their efforts put into making this event a success. I would like to give a special thanks to Guangyu who really amazed me with the Amazing race later that day. It was the first time the committee members, esp Stephen, didnt have to do last min stuff to get things going. Guangyu was really super efficient! For the kids, the Amazing race was the highlight of the day. So thanks for making it fun 4 them :)
Time to get back to work. I must do some justice for being paid $8 an hour. Hehehe...
Owing the my project meeting in the afternoon, I attended only the latter half of the event. Although it was quite messy at the end due to wranglings over KTV or no KTV and being stuck right in the centre of the CBD area with no other area to go, we in the end went for ........ KTV (after 1 hour of discussion outside Partyworld).
My apologies to those who walked all the way from Lau Pa Sat to Partyworld (i.e. Justin, Weiming, Xiaochuan and the rest) and didn't do anything there... we shall have a better plan next time k!!
Some trivia:
a) we have a Jay Chou in the house
b) we have a Andy Lau in the house (+ he can sing oldies too!!)
c) we have a rocker in the house
d) we have someone who can sing very well without the mike (weird....)
e) we have a guy who can sing all the girl's part in the duet (+ our residential food supplier of mooncakes)
(match the qns to the names below:
Yikai Peichien
Tengfu
Tedmond
Grace)
**No prizes for guessing correctly, but you can try..**
++ 3 others (Nas, Guangyu, Nick) who left half way through and they haven't showed their prowess yet!!
Anyway, I only have some pics from the KTV:
The last few remaining at 1.15am
From our initial strength of only 9 people
Shall try to upload more videos soon!!
Meantime, enjoy the video of NUS-BP Mentoring's Jay and our outing organizer:
P.S.: I have since updated the blogs with the blog addresses of our mentors and mentees. Do take a look at their blogs yah.
For the sake of those mentors out there who had had some technical problems with this blog. Rest assured that the probability that your entries got problem is very small. =)
1. If you are really worried that your long entry will disappear, you can save it as a draft every now and then.
2. I understand how you feel about the long-entry-got-erased kind of feeling..i had my fair share. So don't write a thesis here. =P
3. After you have clicked the "publish post", you will see the percentage thingy that shows you how much your post had been updated. Once it reached 100%, everything should be ok.
4. Sometimes it's normal to see your picture not appearing despite having inserting them. ( it means you are super SUAY). So re-insert your picture again yea.
5. Try not to use the multiple picture insert function. It doesn't work most of the time. If it works for your operating system, then it should be fine.
6. Feel free to blog about anything here...haha really ANYTHING. Don't be shy. well.. if you guys are really so free, http://www.luciushunt84.blogspot.com . Since you are so free might as well come and do my tutorials for me ya, wash toilet also can. ~NICK
This are just some of the few photos that I had, so thought i could put them to good use by displaying it here. Well...we shall wait for the rest of the photos!! ~NICK
Yoyo... 11th Anniversary is over. It's time to hit the books again.
*whack books*
Will post more on the 11th Anniversary soon.
Just wanted to share what I found on the net... a bit lag lar. But thought that it was quite interesting. Got new kind of ringtone... a ringtone that the teachers cannot hear. Hmmm... I think i shld just dl it!!
It's dame irritating... but it's still a good invention nonetheless.
Oh yah.. if you wanna read some of the mentees' blogs, do go to Justin's blog and check out the links, e.g. Aaron, Gary, Dillion, Mun Yee. I think only these 4... interesting facts of life. Wonder if we can link them in our blog. What say you Justin?
THE NUS BP MENTORING CLUB
The NUS-BP Mentoring Programme is a community-service project
sponsored by British Petroleum. Under the programme, mentors
are matched with mentees to help these younger pupils raise their
personal development and academic standards. Here at NUS, we mentor
academically weak students from Geylang Methodist Primary School
from 10 am to 12 noon every Saturday. Our mentees are EM3 pupils from
Primary 5 and Primary 6 and we try to kindle their interest in English and
Maths through a combination of games and experiential learning.(Shivaram)
Bad id: "bpmentoring" (There is no flooble chatterbox with this id. It may have been deleted, or never existed. You can sign up for a new account if you wish.)
People at 11th Anniversary Appreciation Dinner better known as "Qing Gong Yan"
The 8 Glass Club formed during "Qing Gong Yan". How to join? Just drink 8 glasses of water over dinner and you are in le =P
Our unofficial mascot at YIH. This was taken a week after 11th Anniversary but apparently it is still there when I went back to sch today. Good la! Help to publicise BP Mentoring. Hahaha! Next time you walk pass YIH remember to say "Hi!" to our mascot wor. Hehe! -_-""
Firstly, there was Yikai and me. We actually forgot the names of 2 mentors during the mentor award ceremony. We had to call the mentors behind them 1st b4 Yikai finally remembered their names. I would like to apologise to those two mentors, Limin and Yulu (hope i got their names right this time :p) 
Apart from the emcees, there was also Stephen who actually forgot the name of our BMSS coordinator, Xiaoli. Best part, he actually announced it on stage! Haha... We actually tried to tell him the name from backstage but luckily some1 came to the rescue (cant remem who, maybe Stephen can add in the missing info :p). 
Then of course, there was the band! Many ppl complained that the band was not suitable for the kids. Too bad Stephen didnt sample their music b4 bringing them in. Also heard that the band members themselves were shocked to find out that they were singing to kids when the curtains opened. Haha... Plus the poor GMPS kids had their ears covered because they didnt like the band. They kept saying "no" to the next performance. *haiz*
The last few remaining at 1.15am
