WE DID IT
Wednesday, October 30, 2013 | 11:57 PM
Yes I lost my virginity (refer to title of this post).
But guise, before your imagination goes wild, let me make myself clear! I lost my A-Levels-Virginity! I have officially concluded my first G.C.E. A Levels Paper: Project Work (more commonly known as the horror/highlight of every JC1 student’s life in Singapore). Before I grant you access to this eggciting journey of mine, just wanna let you guise know that the photos in this post will be in order of dates taken, from the start of the journey, till the end. (And I will not go into detail about each phase of PW (PI, GPP, EoM, WR, OP and I&R) because I am lazy and it will take me forever to write so much.)
Photo: Shirley, Jiawin, Jialing, Amanda, and Sexy Me (from left to right)
In this first photo that we took together, we have our first proper outdoor PW meeting in Shirley’s neighborhood. For this blog post, I have so many people that I want to feature and to thank, stories to joke about and to share. I thought of many ways of writing this blog out:
THE FIRST VERSION, (Sign-posting is an important thing that I learnt in PW)
In a story format. Featuring my Project Work Tutor, otherwise known as Mr Tan Ching (or Mr Inspirational in my school context), as the Emperor. Jialing is the court’s jester, Amanda will probably the royal dancer/singer (think of pretty ladies in royal courts), Shirley will be the princess (I was thinking to put her as the royal cook since she always bring food for us but I know she wants to be princess so…), and I have a hard time deciding whether to put Jiawin as the Imperial Counsellor or the Eunuch (I know he prefer the latter…) And I will crown myself as General Teh! PERIOD.
THE SECOND VERSION, (Because two is better than one)
In a model format. No not supermodel model that you see on the runway although every time when it comes to PW, I do feel like “running away”. (if you did not pick out how I played with words there, then I really need to sharpen my English) But anyways, when I say “model format”, I meant using Emperor Tan’s model kind of model to write out this post.
(P.S. Mr Tan you ever read this, I will change “Emperor Tan” back to Mr Tan if you find it too rude but I thought well, you deserve the title and Emperor is a level higher than “Mr” anyways. ... Omg I am such a 马屁精. BTW, 马屁精 means bootlick-er for the non-Chinese readers.)
Such models include: Bronfenbrenner, 5W1H (a hot favourite amongst students since primary school), Paul’s Wheels of Reasoning, Stakeholders’ Analysis and so many more that it will probably take me a year (well.. probably even more) to finish telling you guise about it. Students who have been taught by Mr Inspirational, will have such models constantly on their minds although personally, I would still prefer those models over at Abercrombie & Fitch.
I am suddenly inspired to create a thinking model called A&F! LOL. #BimboSince1996 Okays something to discuss with my PW mates when we meet up for I&R submission tomorrow. Anyways guise, here is a summary of my PW journey using the stakeholders analysis. LOL
THE THIRD VERSION, (Creativity is also highly appreciated during PW, so I will try to come up with as many versions of telling the PW journey as possible)
Now that I’ve got your attention with my interesting stories of PW, ... I have no idea what to do with this attention that you have given me. HAHHA didn’t expect THAT did you now? :p Anyways, an on-going inside joke that I always have with my PW mates with, is “Humor”. According to Jialing, who quoted it from Mr Inspirational, humor is saying something that nobody expects you to say! It’s going to get confusing here so… Try to stay with me yeah?
At this point in time, you will be expecting me to come up with an interesting way of telling my PW journey. BUT since you are expecting this, I am going for a more conventional route instead and this is probably what you are NOT expecting. But since I’ve said this, you will probably be expecting something what people will normally write like thank you so-and-so, it has been an up and down journey filled with love and hatred blahblahblah.
DON’T YOU FEEL THAT I HAVE JUST LED YOU IN CIRCLES?!
This, is what happens in PW. We go round and round in circles. When you ask for advice, hints and pointers are given but never the direction. They give you the “Go ahead!” then you really go ahead and then they say “Okays.. Maybe that is not the right direction. Do you want to try again?” So we go this way, beat around the bush a bit, oppos wrong direction! And then you go back to square one and start all over. Once in a while, you get lucky and hit the jackpot and figure out what is it that they want. But most of the time, you just stay in that circle.
The PW journey for everyone differs in who they form their circle with and what do they do in the circle. My PW circle is formed with Jiawin, Shirley, Jialing and Amanda. But halfway through our journey, our circle grew bigger. Like how a bubble met another bubble and then join together. The bubble we met is formed by Yiling, Janice, Terence and Pearly. We were two different PW groups, two different circles, two different bubbles, but I’m glad we came together because it made my Oral Presentation journey in PW so much more fun AND bimbotic (somehow). And here is a picture (taken today) as visual aid so that you can visualize what I meant. LOL
Speaking of circles, I would now like to talk about my PW journey using the concept of shapes. Heehee. It began with a star, with each of us in the group standing at each end. We have different Ideas (Proposed Ideas), we have different beliefs, different characters and attitudes and we are different in so many ways. But we are connected as a group. We begin our journey, as stars.
P.S. My PW tutor once told me that shamelessly run in RV blood and I just couldn’t agree more
But along the way, our vision blur, our goals vary, our priorities divided, the star became a cloud-shape, an indefinite shape. Just think of fluffy and easy to dent clouds. Sometimes it rains, (well actually, is mostly) but sometimes it shines. Then we slowly, we try to come together, help each other, push each other.
If I were to give each of us a shape, Shirley will be crown-shape (refer to top part of the post about her wish to be a princess), Jiawin will be a triangle (think of a strong base/foundation and a sharp top, indicating a mind that is very sharp), Amanda will be a rectangle (a common shape that is always there, found in almost everything and always useful. Think of buildings, tables, in almost anything you need in your everyday life, is rectangular) Jialing is a circle no questions ask. And I would like to a heart-shape. ^^
We in our different shapes and sizes went from a star to a cloud but eventually, as time passes, as we braved winds and storms and rainbows, we evolved, from a 5-end-star to a never-ending-circle: The Sun.
THE FOURTH VERSION, (I will give four versions of this PW journey seeing how our project, named “FORE”, has four strategies) I wanted to end it off with a poem but currently my poetic genes are on vacation so... here’s an alternative version of the PW journey alright?
To the Emperor who saw the potential in us, who held such a high expectation in us, who gave us so much push, who tries his best to teach us how to fish rather than how to eat the fish, who at the last minute (before Oral Presentation today) calmed us down and gave us confidence, who has never given up on us (and even thought of PW remedial so that we can be better thinkers even beyond PW), thank you! If I were to give you a colour, I would give you: Black.
Because how would the stars be able to shine, without darkness?
To the (annoying) “driver” of the team (who loves to sing slutty songs), thank you for pushing us all the way, all the time. For giving us help and encouragements whenever we need it and for always saying things like “I’m so grateful you guise are in my team” (guess what, I am too!). Truthfully and honestly speaking, I don’t think our group would have made it this far, or achieve so much without you. :’) If I were to give you a colour, I would give you: red.
To the (generous) “sponsor” of the team, the girl who always makes sure that we will never go hungry and go around biting everybody, thank you for being there for me all the time. Amongst everyone, I can always go to you and talk about more private stuffs, even though sometimes you misunderstood me... :X And thank you for traveling so much for this team who mostly resides in the West! :’) If I were to give you a colour, I would give you: white.
To the “volunteer” of the team, who is always so humble and quiet, and always giving us your support, and keeping our backs covered (also literally because you always walk behind us…) Thank you for giving us your best, for always waiting for those who lacked behind, for watching out for us silently. You’re always so calm and compose and always so sweet-natured. If I were to give you a colour, I would give you: pink.
To the JOY of the team, who never fails to make everything ten times funnier, and whose presence is so comforting (to lean on), thank you for making this journey a million times more enjoyable than it could have been. You are truly lovable I must say. And thank you ESP for making my presentation parts a success today. PW would have been so boring without you! NO MORE HUMOR YOU KNOW?! If I were to give you a colour, I would give you:
And lastly, I want to thank the guy who has been my motivation all this while: Le "Friend".
Thank you for all your love. Not only has it kept me moving, it has kept me alive. :')
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