Hi all

Just a reminder:

I'm still holding on to the $47 we have left in our 2J'07 class fund. While I certainly do not mind keeping the money for myself (think: $47 = 15 cups of Milo Godzilla/47 cups of Lychee Cooler), feel free to suggest ways we can use the money.

Yes, someone may think that $47 is a meagre sum of money... but it's still money, right?

Have fun.
Sherwin

PS: 14th SLC OT is already out!!!




From the SMB

Council Chairman 2008
From: Tan Heng Yang 26-10-07
To: All Ortus

Congratulations to LUCAS LIM for winning the Ortus Council Chairman elections.

A big thank you to Bertrand and all Secondary 3 councilors for their service and hard work. Please join me in wishing the new team all the best in the year ahead.Mr Tan Heng Yang Signing off for the last time...

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Grats to Lucas.

Joel




As Doomsday draws closer, it would be good to know our death schedule. Since it was deleted from the EMB, I've attached it below for your reference.

Link: http://files.boxstr.com/8589/0710050071796364.xls

God bless you,
:) John




Hello people,

Hope you've all had a good time slacking. Tomorrow's our DEATH day, so I've made another Excel calculator to calculate our MSG for the EOYs. I've combined this (EOY-A1? Calculator) with an improved version of the original (Exam-to-A1 Calculator) into one Excel file, which can be downloaded from HERE. In the new calculator, the default values are based upon the scenario that the bookworm scored 0 for all the exams.

God bless you,
:) John

Cancellation of Newspaper Collection on 13/10

From: TOH CHEE YIK COLIN 10-10-07
To: Class 2J

Dear Students,

Thank you for showing your enthusiasm in this coming Newspaper
Collection project on 13th October 2007. However, this event will be
postponed to a later date due to some administrative problems. I
will like you to inform your parents regarding this matter.
Please click "A" to indicate that you have told your parents about
the event cancellation. Please kindly do so by this coming Friday,

12/10/2007.
Regards,
Mr. Toh
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From the SMB. Lol. Administrative problems? Can't be easy bringing 100+ enthusiastic students to Ulu Pandan for CIP....

Hi again,

I've made a calculator in Excel to help you calculate the minimum you need to score for each subject in the EOY exams. You just have to enter your test scores for term 1, 2 and 3, in addition to your combined ACE and OP marks, for each subject. If you can't remember any of this info, go to http://results.hc.edu.sg/index.asp?l=en and login with your school account credentials to check it.

Download the calculator here. The default values are based on the hypothetical "bookworm" who scored full marks for every single test but had neither ACE nor OP. He would also need to score full marks for every single exam to obtain an A1.

God bless you,
:) John

So, yeah. The newspaper collection is this Sat, the day after our exams. Can't slack o.o.o.o.o.o.o.o. Newspaper collection is kind of retarded. Really. By collection newspaper, we are:

1. Depriving the residents the chance to get money from their old newspapers. The Karang-guni men will pay the residents money for their old newspaper, while we don't. This isn't fair to them, is it?

2. Affecting the Karang-guni men's business. Would you like it if someone suddenly took away all the stuff you are supposed to collect? They get money for collecting the newspaper. If we collect the newspaper, won't we be 'stealing' their livelihood and the chance to earn money?

3. The newsapaper are going to be recycled in the end, so it does'nt really matter who collects it. So why not let the karand-guni men and the residents earn money while they are at it. It's a win-win situation, they get money, we don't have to participate in the activity.


If we want to help the community, there are other things we can do other than collecting old newsapapers. We can collect old plastic stuff, since those are often thrown away and burnt, pollicting the environment. We can also take part in flag day and raise money for organisations. So why the must we collect newspapers? It doesn't make sense.

Can some IC of the event tell us why we are doing this?

Joel

As many of you already know, someone had the audacity to DELETE the entire class blog! I am currently trying to restore it using Google's and Yahoo's caches of our blog, but I'm afraid that all content before May 9 2007 and between September 20 and October 2 is lost forever :(

Anyway, I've decided to change the password of this main account of the blog and reserve it for admin use only (maybe for CMC members etc. to moderate). Everyone else will be invited to use their own Google accounts to post next time. Hopefully this will prevent any future unfortunate incidents such as this crisis from happening again.

God bless you,
:) John


P.S.
Sorry for taking up emergency powers (like Hitler) and changing the password at short notice. Hopefully you won't mind :)