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Uh.... excuse me, I need to make an announcement.

To: ACS(I) Year 1 NCDCC Cadets
Re: Total Defence Presentation

Kindly note that in lieu of there not being NCDCC last Friday the 21st of August, the submission deadline for your total defence presentations has been extended to this Thursday the 27th of August. Please email your presentations to either Jonathan Tang (jontang94@yahoo.com) or me (allisterlow@me.com).

Thanks :)
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Ok, moving on. I was sick on Thursday, so I didn’t go to school, which meant I missed the chemistry test. Whoops. So I settled that with Mr Peter Tan on friday, and he did the “Aiyah! What to do?”. I’m probably doing the test on Monday or Tuesday. Mr Tan seems way more stressed than usual (which is already very stressed) these few weeks. Oh dear.

IHS presentation was also on Friday. I was quite upset with the actions of one of my group members. I’m not gonna say who. Along the way, in the duration of the project, I don’t mind jokes or messing around, but there are certain periods of time where this is not appropriate. Especially on presentation day itself. Everyone else was frantically preparing and you were preoccupied with messing up the computer.

You’ve helped us tremendously in the duration of our research, so please make sure that the inappropriateness mentioned above doesn’t happen in future.

I was also extremely upset with Swapnil Kumar. My team delivered our presentation on a Mac, so there was the presenter display feature, which is a kind of tele-prompter thing. This means that although the primary display (projector) showed our presentation as per normal, the laptop screen showed the slides as well as speaker’s notes, timers, and the next slide. These miscellaneous items do not appear on the primary display.

That’s how we could remember all those phrases with literary value, speak fluently, and not appear to be holding note paper or cue cards.

Now Swapnil, having speaker’s notes on the computer and referring to them is not cheating. It should not have escaped your brilliant mind that other teams where using speaker’s notes in the form of cue-cards and paper. I do not appreciate your running up to the front of the class, interrupting when I was about to speak, and yelling about my speaker’s notes. That was unprofessional.

I understand the concepts of academic rivalry, and the fact that we constantly try to better one another in various aspects. But we do this in mature ways by elevating the standard of our work. We do not do this in childish ways such as screaming and shouting. Please do not do such things in future.

Anyway we got 15/15 for the presentation. On a side note, one of my team members was very loud about it. Yeah, I know we are all super happy :) I am too. But try to think about other groups who didn’t do as well ok? :) It comes across as boastful to make so much noise.

After school, I went for Ms Ong’s A Math lesson in the library as a result of my one week of absence from school. I have been enlightened. Thanks so much! :) On the way, saw Ms Ho in one of the library rooms doing IOC or something. Me and Ben Tay stood outside and kept waving for uhh... a while. The look on her face was hilarious XD

Then after that I had to finish the POD homework from the week I was away. And we found Ms Ho in another room doing something else. So we waved again for uhh..... a while. And then we decided to sit on the chairs facing the room. Her expression was soooo funny XD Eventually I think she couldn’t take it so she ran away and left the room :P

The after school me and my bro and mum and dad went to a barbecue housewarming party of one of my mum’s colleagues. It was fun :)

Looking forward to Science Research Challenge exco meeting on Monday :) If you have any interesting science experiments that you know of, kindly leave a comment, because we are in the process of brainstorming for some, for an event that we are starting :) The rest is classified data so I will not describe what that “event” is about :)