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♥ Change! at Botanical gardens 31st May 7PM!!!

DEAR 65, LETS ALL GO DOWN AND SUPPORT QINNY"S CONCERT THIS COMING SATURDAY!!!

I'm drumming and WADE"S THE LIGHT MAN!

This is definitely something you would never want to miss!
Also, do not forget the many abused animals that await your support.

cheers,
wenqiang

♥ SHENGYU
AND
HUITING
KEBABA!

YAY!
Congrats to the two heroes for their outstanding performance during today's match against RJC and AJC!
And also to Shengyu for clinching the MVP of the A div Bball champ once again for the 2nd year running. Woohoo...

BB boys doing business as usual, BB girls are comeback queens

“Man U completed the double today and this probably bodes well for this afternoon”, said Mr cheer IC. While Liying would do a better job at being a cheer IC than him, he could at least make a living as a prophet. Indeed, it was truly an afternoon to savor for Hwachong.

For the BB boys, it was yet another functional afternoon for them. Even during warm-up, they displayed their glittering array of skills, with star centre no.13 Lim Shengyu dunking 4 times in a row. The match was tight at the start, with opponents AJC making a game of it. With HCI’s no. 15 making good use of his thunderous biceps and no.4 making penetrating runs, there were plenty of players to watch. Most importantly, redsports favourite and esteemed member of the hottest band in town, SXML, Lim Shengyu gave an impressive all-round display to light up the court. Whenever he received the ball under the net, there could only be one conclusion. Fatigue never seemed to seep into the tireless centre, as he shrugged off an ankle injury and kept going. After the game, the MVP for two consecutive years modestly declared, "I didn't want to be MVP again, so i tried to pass the ball to my team mates." In the 4th quarter, HCI BB boys decided to assert their authority. The floodgates opened and they comfortably cemented victory. Simply unstoppable.

The BB girls’ match was more dramatic than anything mediacorp could produce. In the first 3 quarters, RJC used sneaky 3-pointer shots and a water tight defense to keep the HCI girls at bay. Their tactics worked to great effect and they managed to chalk up a seemingly unassailable lead of 44-28 points over HCI by the end of the 3rd quarter. Indeed, all seemed lost and this seemed to be RJC’s day. Nevertheless, the human spirit has proved time and again that impossible is nothing. Liverpool came back from a 3-0 deficit beat AC Milan in the exciting 2005 Champions League final. 300 Spartans held back the terrifying armies of hundreds of thousands of Persians. Today, this reporter was privileged to see HCI BB girls triumph over impossible odds. In the 4th quarter, with the raving lunatics in the HCI stands cheering themselves hoarse, the sheer passion of the HCI BB girls saw them take control of the game and send their points surging up. Finally, the HCI BB girls clawed their way to the slenderest lead in the dying seconds. As RJC poured men forward, the final thirty seconds seemed like eternity as our girls hung on desperately to endure a nerve-wrecking finish. Alas, the clock ticked zero, sending the HCI and RJC crowds into the very opposite spectrum of emotions. Heartbreak for RJC, all smiles for HCI. One awed Hwachongian, Liu Wen Qiang, gushed, “OMG that was sexciting!” Truly, that pretty much sums up this match.

Congrats to all Hwachongians and in particular, Huiting and Shengyu!

-The 65 Times

♥ hallo ppl. this is like the first time i blog on the class blog? lol. anyways, remember i said that i will volunteer myself to settle the class tee stuff after my dance night? so its post-dance night here and im here to keep my promise! (: my aim is for us to get our class tee by the end of blocks, how's that? (:

i'll be sourcing out the cheapest price for class tee soon, so if anyone knows of any good vendor please tell me asap. i think i should be getting sample of the sizes so u guys know how big/small a s/m/l/xl is. and i'll need everyone's cooperation to get the tee out in time, like telling me your sizes and stuff. (: so check the class blog regularly! most probably i will be updating on the class blog over the june hols. (:

cheers,
ngehwee

♥ Hello 65 people!

Are you interested in getting Public Service Commision Scholarships? If yes, then you should go for the Psychometric Assessment Exercise next Tuesday. Simply sign up on ISP - under student development - for the morning session!

What it is:
- Makes you eligible for PSC Scholarships and Government scholarships
- Nothing happens to you if you fail
- Consists of four parts, namely:
Language component (true or false questions based on an essay)
Maths without a calculator
Seeing patterns
Part IQ, part personal preferences assessment (untimed)

Haha, guys who have taken the NS test should know how it is like.

OK so whether you want to go for the test is up to you, but if you do, please sign up for the morning session together!

Thanks
SHOCKyan

hi , please help those needy children by putting a rainbow infront of your msn nick. just by putting this, , msn will donate 20cents to China to aid in the earthquake disaster. do your part and help them, thanks . for more info, go to http://info.msn.com.cn/caihong/rainbow.html

I've checked the website, it looks pretty authentic. Anyway, no harm just adding a rainbow to your nick! (r)

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On the other hand, someone just said that dont put the rainbow! its a backdoor method for hackers to hack our account. same thing happened 2years ago, pass on!

I don't know which side is true, both have convincing arguments. But anyway, apparently this rainbow thing only works for online users from China so no point for us to put it on our nicks either.

I've been watching the Sichuan earthquake reports on cabletv the whole night, and it's really quite sad. I started watching 凤凰中文电视台 when a lady was interviewing three teenage survivors (2 girls, 1 guy) from Wen Chuan, Bei Chuan and another earthquake area. They were being interviewed in Beijing. I shall attempt to remember bits and pieces of what they said and try to present it here, with extra bits of other info I read or watched somewhere else. I'll write in 3rd person.

The guy recounts what happened during the quake. His teacher immediately evacuated all the students, made sure everyone was rescued such as going back into the school building to the first floor to rescue someone before rushing to save her daughter, who was trapped under a collapsed building. That teacher dug through the rubble with her/his bare hands continuously through the night, and a team joined him/her when day came. Even when that team was replaced by another team and they still continued digging , they could not reach the girl. Throughout the digging, though, they could still hear the girl's voice. Then, they heard it no more. She had been buried alive and squashed to death.

There have been many cases of survivors making the tough decision to save others who can be more easily rescued instead of saving their loved one. There was a lady who was buried on the 3rd floor of a collapsed building, and she knew that her husband was buried even deeper below, the 1st floor. However, she knew that the machinery to remove the debris and rubble was not available yet, so she told the rescuers to leave her husband to save others, until the machinery came. The machinery took 5 days to come. I'm not too sure whether her husband came out alive or not. But I read in the newspapers today that there is a high risk of survivors dying even after they've been rescued from under the rubble.

Quote from The Sunday Times, World, pg 14:

" DANGER OF CRUSH SYNDROME

Washington - For people trapped under earthquake wreckage like in China, a successful rescue often marks the beginning - not the end- of the danger. Crushed muscle tissue can flood the bloodstream with toxic substances that can kill within a few hours. Even if a person avoids that problem, kidney failure caused by the toxins is often fatal within a few weeks. "Crush syndrome", the collective name for these problems, is second only to the trauma from falling debris as the cause of death in earthquakes. While the numbers vary, it is said that up to 10 per cent of people who make it to the hospital end up with acute renal failure from crush injuries. About half need dialysis to survive. The release of the damaging substance is the result of mechanical stretching of crushed muscles and the death of tissue because of insufficient blood. The damage often begins only when a survivor is extricated. Until then, the debris functions as a tourniquet, effectively isolating the pinned body part."

One of the girls being interviewed tries to recount what she saw after the quake. There were hands sticking out of the piles of rubble, sometimes legs, or just the head, or maybe the upper torso of the body. All of them were bloodied. For some, it was hard to discern how it looked like originally. There were hands all bloodied with the nails all gone as the survivors try to dig themselves out from the wreckage. There were faces unrecognisable, after being squashed and deformed by the heavy rubble piled on top of them. At this point, the interviewer told her to stop. She didn't want them to remember such terrible things anymore, and she herself (and she believed the audience too) could not bear to imagine the disastrous scene.

Another remembers how the parents would come to the school compounds to search for their children. She waited, and waited, watching all her other friends meeting up with their loved one, but her mother never came. All three of them had been orphaned due to this earthquake.

At the end of the interview, they stood together, presumingly to take a photo. Then one of the girls started choking up. To her, she felt really bad because the three of them are safe and talking happily in Beijing, while there were still many others still buried in Sichuan, and those poor people may not have had the chance to eat a biscuit, or to drink a sip of water for the past few days at all.

China, Hong Kong and Taiwan had a combined charity show at the same time tonight. Around 7-10. They showed the pictures, sang, interviewed soldiers and raised funds. Last time I saw, Taiwan raised about 1.864 billion, and Hong Kong around 8 billion. China's show interviewed two soldiers who came back from Sichuan. One guy recounted his experience in getting to Wenchuan. They took 31 hours to reach the epicenter of the quake in Wenchuan, and that was all by foot. They kept going despite the raining of the rocks, heavy rain, uneven ground (due to the quake) and even when there was no ground, they crossed probably slippery streams. The roads were blocked, the damage was evident from the crushed vehicles along the road and the damaged buildings. They were shivering from cold, they had to keep ducking from the falling stones and rocks due to the constant quakes that continued (uncountable), but they never stopped nor slowed down on their way to Wenchuan. Because they knew, every minute was precious to those people trapped under the rubble. And they were the first to get to Wenchuan, and release reports of the extent of the quake to the rest of the world. The other soldier 's hometown was Sichuan. Out of 36 family members, 29 were still missing in Beichuan. But he's not giving up due to grief, and determined to keep on doing his job, because to him, everybody was family.

Also, on 19 May, 14:28, everyone in China will mourn for 3 minutes, during which all activity will stop, and the cars,trains,ships and air raid alarm will sound.

"为表达全国各族人民对四川汶川大地震遇难同胞的深切哀悼，国务院决定，2008年5月19日至21日为全国哀悼日。在此期间，全国和各驻外机构下半旗志哀，停止公共娱乐活动，外交部和我国驻外使领馆设立吊唁簿。5月19日14时28分起，全国人民默哀3分钟，届时汽车、火车、舰船鸣笛，防空警报鸣响。"

Oh, there was another piece of information regarding the appearance of Earthquake clouds. Apparently, there are appearances of strange clouds before earthquakes. They are long, like the trails airplanes leave behind, just that thicker and of different colors at the same time (orange, white, grey). Also, the intersection or start of the clouds appear to the epicenter of the quake.






Nevertheless, googling for info on these clouds have came up with the "Hot Air Paradox" which declaims the earthquake cloud theory. I don't quite know what it really is about, no time to read. I might update more about this next time though. If you're interested just google "earthquake clouds".

There're just too many things to say. Below are some links which you can go to to look.

http://news.ifeng.com/special/0512earthquake/
http://news.sohu.com/s2008/dizhen/
http://www.china-quake.com/China%20Sichuan%20earthquake%20cloud.php

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