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Orientation 2010 Part 1: From an OGL’s point of view

By Rach

Think Orientation 2010 started on Thursday 28th Jan 2010? Well, think again. Things started on December 2009, when the OGL list was confirmed. Then came the OGL camp, followed by Tuesday morning meetings, and in the lead up to orientation, DAILY morning meetings. Then came Wednesday, the all important day of preparations. And finally, our grand walk-in. Things needed to be done, they needed to be done well, so as to give the J1s the best welcome they’ve ever received.

For our walk in on Wednesday, I don’t have any photos. (I couldn’t help it that I was so into my rehearsal I had no time for photos heee). All I know is that I was totally enthralled by Vulcan’s energetic performance that warmed up the whole house, Voda’s splashing dance that cooled down the place, Vasilia’s mind-BLOWING item, and Terra’s earth-moving show.

And that’s not all. We spent time preparing the orientation booklets and set up make-shift factories to get the job of folding >1000 booklet in less than 30 minutes.

A while later…

(See the yellow booklets? All ready)

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A New Year Upgraded

By Obsession

As the new batch of J1’s enter the school for the first time, they will be experiencing our ACJC campus for the very first time. Everything about the college will be new to them. What they won’t know is that some of these facilities really are new to all of us. I am sure many of my peers would remember the resurfacing of our school track. Our old track, worn dull by many generations of school athletes, years of PE lessons and the odd fitness enthusiast, has been given a new lease of life. Now a brilliant crimson red, it really brightens up the area and accentuates the emerald green of the field.

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The Week Before School: OGL Camp 2010

by Rach

The week before school reopened, while most ACJC students were trying to finish up their homework, or going out more to ‘enjoy what’s left of the holidays’, a 100 odd students were back in school, attending a 3-day day camp. It wasn’t just an ordinary camp, it was the OGL CAMP. A camp for all the leaders to learn everything about Orientation 2010, and pass on the ACJC legacy to our juniors.

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JEP Reflections (2)

On being bilingual and calm, or is it bilingually calm or calmly bilingual…

I observed that doctors are fluent in both Mandarin and English as they have to communicate with patients from different backgrounds. Continue Reading…

JEP Reflections (1)

In the November/December holidays, about 32 students went on the Job Experience Programme and they spent between 3 to 5 days in work environments that were very different from college or home life. While most of these students were selected and sent to various companies, some were serious enough to source for their own opportunity.Here’s what some of them have to say.

  On being a lawyer…

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Cambodia OCIP 2009

By Sophie and Daphne

These 2 writers from Maniac had the golden opportunity to participate in this ACJC Overseas Community Involvement Programme to Cambodia from the 13^th to the 22^nd of December. There were altogether 18 students and 2 teachers who went on this trip. I’ll start by describing what we did in Cambodia, and later in this post Daphne will reflect on the interesting insights she has taken away from this OCIP.

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Open House 2010: an indoor view

As much as I would like to start this post with some maniAC and RadioACtiveFilm pics, I have to let First Aid take pride of place – not just because of the very important role they play in ACJC life, but also because of the sheer charm of their CCA display:

L-R: a First Aider, a swooning maiden

Okay, now we can have a maniAC/RadioACtiveFilm photo:

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Back to School…for the last time

By Rach

In a few days, or hours, or by now (depends on when you, the reader, are reading this), I will be going back to school… for the last time in my life. It will be last time I hear my mother go,”Sleep early tonight, it’s your first day of school tomorrow!”. It will also be the last time I get new white shoes and get all excited about wearing white-washed-like school shoes. (Which by the way, I really did get. Heh.)

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2009 – A retrospective view

By Christy

It’s 2010, our break is over. And here at maniAC, we’ve resumed writing. To start off 2010, this writer took a short tour around the famous (or rather, infamous) Orchard belt about 2 hours after the New Year countdown, and what greeted me were cans of snow foam and crazy ribbon strewn carelessly all over the place, from the tops of pillars to the gates barricading the sides of the malls. The sheer number of the cans I saw, coupled with the indifference of the youths who were still there spraying foam at each other, shocked me so much that I felt it was obligatory of me to rant at these people and burn (using my words) some sense into those who are either regular participants in such a barbaric activity or those planning to take part in such things in the future.

Messy Merry New Year, anyone?

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CCAAB Florida Exchange programme

By Jean Gabriel Renaldy (2SC1)

Nearing the end of the year 2009, a group of 16 ACJC students went on the first Leadership Exchange Programme to Florida done in ACJC. The trip lasted for 10 days, from the 28th of November to the 8th of December. During that duration of 10 days, we travelled across the sunshine state of USA, from a huge but quiet city of Jacksonville, and downwards towards the amusement park city of Orlando.

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