hey hey... well after some 'nagging' from some people... i'm here to blog about my school... sorry that i've taken sometime... been very busy... yea i know "it's the holidays, how busy can you get?" ... well you guys know me... there's always something for me to do... lol.. anyway back to my school...

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1. Students for most of the week do not necessarily have to be in full uniform... other than weds which is tie day.. the rest of the days we can wear the college polo tshirt which i find more comfortable and does not have the green colour of that of the uniform.. further more the friday of every week of school is some sort of 'casual' friday - everyone including teachers can choose to wear school shirts (i.e. cca shirt, class shirt, school event shirt, you get the idea) so in theory you only need one full set of uniform plus a couple more of school pants/skirts... but you need another extra just in case anyway... the colour of the uniform fades extremely fast... it's only been like half a year and my uniform looks like it has been worn for more than a year.. lol...



2. tj is the second largest college in s'pore... or was it the third... well anyway it is definitely larger than chung cheng... and i had already found chung cheng quite large already... the tallest building there is five storeys high... so it's quite a climb up the stairs... especially when the classroom is at the top.. oh well.. and well unlike vj you may not be able to meet someone u know when you move around school... it depends on both people timetables and how many people you know... lol..



3. and speaking of classrooms... for such a big campus.. you can actually get lost and not find the classroom you are looking for... well that's when you don't know how the coding works... and also a bit of how the arrangement of the different rooms... every classroom have a 3digit code... so well the first digit is usually the numbers 1-5 which indicates the level the classroom is at.. then the next two digits is like the room number of a hotel... so usually classrooms with numbers 20 and above are in the main building and below ten are in the ip block... then if the room starts with a 'C' then it's a container classroom located in the corner of the school...



4. there are four houses... well not creatively named like the other colleges aforementioned... but still they are houses... so they are 'ALPHA warriors' , 'BETA knights' (house colour is white) , 'GAMMA gods' (my house :D) and 'DELTA dragons' . but usually we only refer to the four houses by their first name as in the the capitalized words... so alpha beta gamma and delta.. you might mistake i'm doing some maths or physics question... but it's the name of the four houses... very uninteresting rite... so we use much cooler names during J1 orientation ... like for this year... during the orientations both first intake and second .. alpha was Zephon (wolves as the mascot) , beta was erypion (scorpion as the mascot), gamma was Panthera (lion as the mascot) and delta was Slithas (snake as the mascot)....



5. even though we have a big campus much of it is the field, the running tracks, the sport complex and some car park.. so for a school with a huge population of students and teachers it can get quite cramped especially at the corridors and stairs between lessons when everyone is moving around school... the corridors especially at the main building are wide enough for 3 persons to walk abreast... so it's quite cramped for like over thirty students to walk along it in both directions.. furthermore you have to occasionally navigate around open doors of classrooms along the corridors... so congestion are a common sight...

6. okay... on to the food at the canteen... well i wouldn't recommend any of the stalls there except the fruit stall which sells fresh fruits, fresh juice, soya bean drinks, milk shakes and desserts at low prices... one big cup of soya bean drink costs only 40cents... and the most expensive thing you can buy there only costs $1.50 unless you ask for no ice which costs 30cents more... really cheap considering how expensive drinks can get outside... as for the other stalls there isn't any that really stands out as much... really those standard stuff.... the western one is not bad.. a bit expensive though... the vegetarian one too... oh but i would advise you in against buying food from the noodle stall... that one is not worth the money at all... i rather wait at a longer queue than buy from there... the noodles can sometimes be very chewy and the soup i find salty.. basically doesn't taste nice at all... well you might now think that our life at tj will be mundane with all the same old not really appetizing food everyday.. but the great thing with our school is that after 12.30pm everyone can leave campus to have their lunch elsewhere.. usually opposite school at the hawker centre where there are loads of great food or if there's time then can walk or take bus to bedok interchange there and have some fastfood... so we are really spoilt for choice... well those people with lunch breaks before 12.30pm then too bad, have to eat in school.. but that's hardly the case... my class only have that one day per week...

7.oh and most people here are really friendly and fun... well probably not until to the extent of vj's enthusiasm but we still enjoy having fun... afterall one of the Principal's motto is to have a holistic education... so striking a balance is important... between work, play, cca (which we call as pdp - personal development programme) and cip (which we call as Outreach programme) ... and at the same time develop core values of 'Passion, Purpose, Drive, Integrity and Care for others' ... so ya you get the idea... thought it may sound a bit cliche... anyway well i think it is partly because of these that we get to have interesting contact time (equals to assembly) and college events like we had a group of musicians that performs somewhat like stomp for contact time... we had local bands and Switchfoot performing at our school... we have school events like Mardi Grads where everyone including teachers can dress up in costumes, students can showcase their talents and set up stalls for that night... and so on... so well our school culture is not really muggish.. nor a play hard work hard kind of thing... hmm.. kind of like what we had in chung cheng... sigh.. do miss that chung cheng...

oh well hope to see you guys soon if have the chance... enjoy the rest of your holidays.. well even though there's exams after that but still it's the holidays... :D