Once again,

Ombak Ombak ARTStudio

presents

A WORKSHOP SHOWCASE

by Anak Anak Kota

Opera Pasar

Uncle aunty kenapa pi pasar?

Sayur ikan ayam semua murah dan segar

Semua harga dapat ditawar menawar

Dekat rumah jimat minyak jimat masa.

Campbell Street Market; Pasar Hutan Mayat; Sin Keh Tau - Letʼs preserve the market!

A twenty- minute musical and dance performance depicting the rhythms, movements, and sounds of the market.

Based on oral interviews, the young performers chant about the lives of the chicken, vegetable, mutton and tim sum traders;

and sing of the history and festivities in the market.

Artists involved :

Tan Sooi Beng (Music ), Ho Sheau Fung ( Drama), Aida Redza ( Movement ) & Toh Lai Chee ( Music )

Finally ... an update on our graduation

haizzz. its finally the end. not a happy ending though... chinese...est...biology......
well what the heck! its over! i just cant really imagine myself reaching the end of my school life just like that, i'll never get or should i say need to wear school uniforms... that feels really odd and kinda scary. It's all too fast.

So, yeah, on the graduation ceremony or smg. Well, I was quite nervous abt giving the speech. well i managed to pull through, at least i did not peed in my pants or lose my voice at the podium. Then, the prize presentation ceremony followed. Before I gave my speech, only then did I get to know that I had miraculously won myself the "outstanding graduate" no, not the most outstanding of course. But wow! I was really shocked, astonished. What???? Me?? an "outstanding" graduate? Well I was wrong then and thankfully i did apply for the award. I just wanted to give it a try with no intention of winning anything and also yes, for the interview experience. I went in there, prepared not to get it, cracked a few jokes, answered everything the HM, Mr Yeap, Mr Lye, Mr Chua, Pn Chan and Mr Cheah threw at me. Well they asked and I told them why I did not hold any high posts in school and all. Well, I never knew the school acknowledged outside-of-school activities.

Hence, in conclusion, SMJK Chung Ling DOES support such community and outofschool activities, its just that most of the students themselves arent interested and as proactive themselves. Haha. Janet was so wrong then.I believe the main factor would be their parents. Most parents nowadays really have a knack at pushing their children to their toes in terms of academics and protecting their children in cocoons.

So, back to the graduation ceremony...
And then came the outstanding student award presentation, I was really astonished and grateful to be able to allow my parents to accompany me up stage for the award presentation. My parents were also really really shocked..Haha. Indeed my parents were in fact the reason why I could've won this. Thanks to my parents punya open mind and really creative way of educating me.
really thanks dad thanks mum!

Not only that, i would also like to really thank my friends and classmates for being A friend to me and gave me the support I needed.
Thank you! I really felt really touched when Xiang Yih and Dee Sheng decided to make me my very own (ok i m not being vain, this is what they wrote) " Teng Shin NO1 " on a really large card Xiang Yih bought and my classmates held it up for a moment when I was about to give the speech before it was confiscated by Pn Chong Sim. I have been trying to see her to get the card back but now that its the holidays, shes not in school no more. I do hope she did not throw that away. Thank you Xiang Yih, thank you Dee Sheng, thank you 5SA5!!!

Of course, I would also like to thank my teachers.
Mr Ch'ng Chin Huat - our adorable and respected Add Maths sir who is also a very caring teacher and great teacher advisor to the School Action Board.
Pn Oon - my caring form teacher and really creative teacher
Pn Kang Kul Lee - our really dedicated BM teacher who gave me the honour of representing all students for the speech
of course Mrs Goh - our best chemistry teacher ever
Pn Wong - the very supportive though strict disciplinarian sejarah teacher
Pn Ooi - our bc teacher
Pn Kong- our f4 bc teacher
Mr Lim - our cool entao really dedicated Bio guru who makes his own notes
Pn Poh Chai See- though our class was really noisy and even made u cry haha
Mr Ong - P.moral guru who makes his moral lessons a fun jolly lesson

oh yeah n the photos will be updated in the next post...as i m still collecting them

My sister goes to quite a famous and so-called prestigious Chinese Girls High School in Penang (I think you know which school I am referring to) and recently she was penalized, not for having long fingernails, not for disobeying the teacher but for.. what I believe is the most outrageous thing ever........ for bringing the READERS DIGEST magazine to school!Marks were deducted from the stupid blue book. Imagine that! I am not saying this just because this happened to my sister but I feel it's just total crap! Its not that she brought Vogue or Feminine or some so-called bahan picisan. In fact, Readers Digest gives me more than what I can ask for from freaking textbooks!

It was a spot check conducted by the prefects and the disicipline teacher just would not admit and she kept on stressing on the point " Its black n white! We go law by LAW! You have to folllllllow the school rules. The school rules have clearly stated that no magazines are to be brought to school without obtaining the approval and a special " Permit or slip" .

Damn those rules.

We set the rules. We dont simply go by the rules blindly. Stop acting a kid for goodness sake! According to the rules, students would have to go see the English teacher every morning just to obtain a slip so that one can read the READERS DIGEST in class. How absurd! How can you instill reading habit in students if such rules and most importantly such stubborn disicipline boards still exist?

The Exams

Haihzzz. Its 3 days to the end of the prelude to another ordeal. It's hard to imagine. Time does zip past so quickly. SIghs n whines. At the start of the year, I told myself yes I have to PIA have to put in more effort in my studies. This is the SPM year. I am about to face one of the most important exams in my life. That was January. I looked at the calendar- 330 odd more days to SPM. What the heck! I keep giving myself excuses like Everyone's gotta play. All study n no play makes tshin a dull boy.......... In the end, all play n no work. Regrets & full of remorse. Now, the trials is almost close to its end. I look back at what I've done this year and I feel even more dissatisfied with myself. The trials has really burned away all my mental calories. I am mentally exhausted. I wonder how long will it take for me to regain control. That's probably why I have not being updating this for quite some time.

Nevertheless, my boredom was fast diminished as the political atmosphere here in Malaysia gets really tense or foul once again. Immaturity of some of the so-called community leaders and politicians surfaces yet again. Get a few brainless vociferous degenerates, a few courageous reporters and a few more dopes of blurness n desperateness armed with a shield of draconian law and you get what you get today in Malaysia not to mention the anticipation for change in this country.

Now, one place I would really love to be is where I was 3 months ago- on a slow moving wooden boat overlooking the vast ,perfectly beautiful skies ever with shades of blue, red, yellow and green, listening to the orchestra of the wild, the humming of the small electric motor, the splashing of the brownish yellow water of the Kinabatangan, and of course at intervals, mesmerized while peeping through a friend's binoculars to get a closer look of the almost perfect
2 π r square round red asses of the endangered male Proboscis monkey giving us a funny
face as he mates with his 7th or maybe 18th concubine on a tree branch overlooking us as he does his thing while we watch.

I still recall falling in love with that forest and I still long to just allow one's self to be amazed by how truly mesmerizing nature can be, and not through the pathetic KBSM Textbooks which tells us to love the forest and more bullshit where we will have to regurgitate that out in the SPM

I have not updated my blog for quite sometime, obviously but nevertheless, here's a brief post before the trials in 3 days time.

Penumpang- penumpang konnonya. takda banyak komen lagi.

Georgetown World Heritage Site Celebrations

Before






Friday, Saturday, Sunday. The world heritage celebration kicks off on Friday with the tour of the historical sites of Georgetown with Lim Guan Eng while Natasha and u-jean led batches of students through the streets of Georgetown. My heart was already leaping with joy in school, anxiously waiting for the bell to ring, for me to be released, for me to rush home, take my bath have my lunch and out I go to the bus stop. Nevertheless, mum returned unexpectedly and so no more bus ride and I wont be late. After 3 rehearsals, today would be our tech rehearsal with all the lightings and all. One of the rooms in the Town Hall acted as our rest area and preparation area. Gosh bangganya kita, imagine the honour of being the opening scene of this grand event for Penangites- right after the governor's and CM's speech!!!! Haha!

At the air-conditioned backstage, we were amused by Chin Eng's amazing magic tricks where he pulled white canvas from his teh tarik cup placed on against his lips. I was like really nervous as I was quite afraid I would hit someone (especially natasha whom I have hit for quite a number of times) or something ( the gigantic speakers) with my bendera merah. Sorry natasha if you're reading this....... Not only that, we also set the record-breaking longest, most number of repeated singing of a boria verse together with the copper coil turning effect hand movement:
Kisah Pulau Pinang tajuk dan tema,
tempat persinggahan berbilang agama,
pelbagai bangsa bercampur bersama,
boria anak kota dendang seirama.

and saturday finally came, but wait, I had to go to school. Damn it! But it was rather pointless to do so. The BM teacher wouldnt be coming but no, I had to come, for Mrs Goh's never-to-be-missed CHemistry lesson and also Pn Wong's History lesson. Hence, right after Mrs Goh's class, I requested permission to return home early due to the reason that I was sick( with Mr Chng's full cooperation and help) from bilik Disiplin 1. Thank you Mr Chng, you're the lao hero! I contracted a real bad cold actually due to the fact that I washed my hair and bathed with freezing cold water on Friday night at 12.30am.............

Took a nap and went straight for AAK. Well, since I had the time, I decided to do T-shirt printing with the help of Pei Shan , Mun HOe and AUnt Lyndie. That shirt was real nice! The one and only t-shirt u can ever find coz it has my large handprint on it. Then, we realized we were so late and we had to rush over to Esplanade from Cannon Street on foot.

We arrived and Janet was already doing the War chant part with us. Last minute changes on performing night- typical Janet. But that's what gives that LIFE to our shows which other shows dont possess. The weather wasnt on ur side this time, it was so clear yesterday but today, there were strong winds, little rain- the 2 chillies placed on top of the two supporting structures of the stage wasnt working. Reinforcement(a plastic bag of onions, garlic and chilli) was sent in by Hun Meng and miraculously, it worked, the rain stopped and the wind calmed down. Initially, the wind was so strong it kinda destabilized the tall background photos depicting Francis Light and it was like gonna fall onto us on the front stage. Darn, that was a scary sight! WOrst, nthe spotlights above us were so gigantic and heavy-looking that if it fell onto me, I would be no more than an apom gone wrong.

THen I met my old friend, Yu Ming who was from PCGHS and was also performing tonight together with Syafinaz under the Penang Symphony Orchestra and Choir. They were the last show of the night singing Tanah Pusaka. We rehearsed again and finally it came, we were just before the stairs up the stage when the fireworks display went on. Truly mesmerizing though not as much as what we were gonna be(LOL).

Mahathir Lokman was the MC for the night and he was basically saying that Penang is a special place for him as he was taken to Penang by his dad every time he scoredAs in his exams. Finally, were on stage and I am like " I can believe it. I cant believe this is my last show for the year or maybe the last Kisah Pulau Pinang ever for all of us". It went on with everyone so bersemangat and it was a good show according to Prof Tan ( ah bangganya kita).

It was supposedly a happy night for us but then Selven slipped and fell on a pool of water where apparently 5 people nearly slipped earlier that evening(davina, sabrena were one of them). We were all shocked and really praying hard for Selven. I was hoping he did not injure his back and spine(thankfully he didnt) as he was carried out in a stretcher. Mun Hoe nearly cried. I dont usually feel the sensation of the urge to cry but this time I did. Most of us felt that too when we saw Selven being carried out on a stretcher with his eyes closed but we were much relieved when bansiang told us hewas conscious. Thankgoodness he had strong bones. And now everythings ok and he's kicking again...Alrite!!

Well we also took the opportunity to take a few photographs with the local artistes present that night. Alleycat, Syafinaz, "P.Ramlee" and Zaibo..... We werent allowed to leave town hall after our performance but chin eng and I kinda sneaked out just in time to see David Arumugam sing "andai kamu pergi dulu" and another song. the end finally came at around11.45 pm where we came out again for the finale where we stood side by side with all the other performers, singing Negaraku and the state Anthem with total semangat dan passion which I have never ever experienced in school assemblies. The event ended with TYT and GUan Eng leaving.


After.....

Mixed feelings. Sad yet happy. It's a goodbye once again to this bunch of great and best friends. Now it's all the way to SPM which is (3 months away)

Mari kita bersama-sama berjuang!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,
tengshin

ELS AGM - KPA Anniversary

and so it finally came, the Annual General Meeting of the ENglish Language society of Chung Ling High School. It is one of the most anticipated ceremony of the year. Meanwhile, the committee members are leaving with mixed feelings. Some could not care less, some unwilling to let go, some with much dissatisfaction & some with absolute T.L.ness(youknowwho)............. It went on well and the prizes for the English Fest were given away to the winners who are not quite contempt with what they are getting. As for those who applied for posts, they were treated to much disappointment due to the sudden change of Mdm Cheah's decision to announce only the names of the EXCO members considered.






What the heck is that!!! Was that one of the agenda for the AGM???


" You got a problem with me? Try me! "


Fellow F1 & F2 members





The WInners of the Fest


Entao VP who is boiling with TLness

Laporan KPA Anniversary

Now, as for the truly ANTICIPATED KPA anniversary, it was well, quite alright. It was considered to be a national event although there were only 3 other schools participating which are PCGHS, Chung Hwa Confucian & Chung Ling Butterworth( a school from overSEAS). Yeah, as expected Chung Ling kias were treated to a variety of "mouthwatering" eye candies for some while a few who were in the "Upper class" (LOL) weren't even interested due to the unsatisfactory quality perhaps. Basically the anniversary was 100% performances. There were the skimpily and believe me, very sexily-dressed "devils and angels"(mostly girls,much to the satisfaction of many) from each school doing the catwalk, singing competitions, one 3 minute dance session, breakdancers stomping the stage and among them, the most impressive one - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ APPLAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SALUTATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tommy Gan and Calvin Khor ( the Shufflers)

I was really impressed with them although at the same time I was quite glad I did not join them in the end. I would have wrecked the show if I were to go out there and be a "Ki Tong". I would also like to take this opportunity to thank ah Gan for deciding to invite me out to do our signature" chest-shaking dance" during the climax of the dance. But, sorry Mr Big Gan, I couldn't know when were you giving me the signal as the stroboscopic light effects were really -cool .... yet memeningkan. I Salute them once again!!! They were really way cool! Plus the music was really fitting and the stroboscope effect really brought your dance moves to the peak!

Bravo brothers!!!!

After enduring 3 hours of darkness in the really seeeeeearing schol hall, I decided to go get some fresh air, joining Juan Juan & Ming Ming. We decided to do something more productive- brainstorming for karangan isis at the amphitheater under the pleasant sun. How nice & siao! LOL

Ahem!





Before


I apologize for the blurness Daniel.




















Now this guy is really a moron


Not to forget a few photos of a drunken cadet

Not to forget a Bonus Video :

The Fog thickens in Chung Ling......

the cover page I designed for the Add mths project