Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Well done to all BBians who came down to participate in Indian Rangoli, Malay Congkak and Japanese Chess! :)

For Indian Rangoli, BB did well to clinch 2nd overall with the beautiful handiwork by both teams sent in by BB! :)





Also, in the individuals, BB2 did us proud by coming in 2nd! Congratulations BB2! :)

For Malay Congkak, BB players managed to secure 3rd place overall against all the other houses! Well done BB! :)



For Japanese Chess, BBians who came down for the game put up a good fight against the other teams, even though we didn't manage to win. Good try! :)



Hope everyone who came down to play for BB today enjoyed themselves, and of course, thank yous go out to all the supporters who came down as well! :) Do continue to participate enthusiastically for the upcoming IHCs! :)

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Today was One Earth IHC, a very exciting Green Race around the school to learn more about our environment :) Teams from each house sprinted all over the school finding clues, completing tasks and finally ended back in the Geography room to compete against each other in an intellectual battle :D

the BB team did us proud by coming in 1st for one of the tasks segments, and emerged 3rd overall! :) Well done to all BB players! :) And never forgetting our ever-so-enthusiastic supporters who came down to cheer for our team, thank you!

Hope everyone had great fun during One Earth IHC! :)

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Monday, February 25, 2008

$20

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 note in a room of 200 people and asked, 'Who would like this $20 bill?'

Hands started going up.

He said, 'I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.' He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill .

He then asked, 'Who still wants it?'

Still the hands were up in the air.

He replied, 'Well, what if I do this?' And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty.

'Now, who still wants it?'

Still the hands went into the air.
Then he said, 'My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.'

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

BB proudly presents MAKE NO BONES!
Directed and Written by Foo Ye Wei

The production was a fun, intense and crazy process. Although BB did not manage to win any awards, lots of hard work was put in, what with 2 long and gruelling weeks of intensive rehearsals, forgoing breaks, and committing every free moment to rehearsals. A great job to all of the cast and crew! :]

The Cast:
Mr Miles - Leoson
Mrs Miles - Shuli
Jack Miles - Nicolas Sambor
Mr Thom - Sadikin
Mrs Thom - Wenqi
Mrs Crest - Steffi Yee
Christina Crest - Weishan
Paige - Yona
Jonathon Hash - Ye Wei

Makeup and Costumes:
Lin Tong
Mathan

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Bridge IHC was held yesterday, and the BB players did a good job by clinching 3rd place overall! Below is the breakdown of the scores:

1st - HH with 111 points
2nd - MT with 110 points
3rd - BB with 94 points
4th - MR with 69 points
5th - BW with 49 points

For individual teams, BB2 did us proud by clinching 2nd place! :) Congratulations BB2!

Well done to all the players who came down, and thank you once again! Thank yous go out to the supporters who came down to watch as well! :) Hope everyone had fun at Bridge IHC! :D

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Monday, February 18, 2008

A Voyaging Ship

A voyaging ship was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert like island.

The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agree that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island.

The first thing the first man prayed for was food. The next morning, the first man saw a fruit-bearing tree on his side of the land, and he was able to eat its fruit. The other man's parcel of land remained barren.

After a week, the first man was lonely and he decided to pray for a wife. The next day, another ship was wrecked, and the only survivor was a woman who swam to his side of the land. On the other side of the island, there was nothing.
Soon the first man prayed for a house, clothes, more food. The next day, like magic, all of these were given to him. However, the second man still had nothing.
Finally, the first man prayed for a ship, so that his wife and he could leave the island. In the morning, he found a ship docked at his side of the island. The first man boarded the ship with his wife and decided to leave the second man on the island. He considered the other man unworthy to receive God’s blessings, since none of his prayers had been answered.

As the ship was about to leave, the first man heard a voice from Heaven booming, "Why are you leaving your companion on the island?" “My blessings are mine alone, since I was the one who prayed for them," the first man answered. "His prayers were all unanswered, and so he does not deserve anything."

“You are mistaken!" the voice rebuked him. "He had only one prayer, which I answered. If not for that, you would not have received any of my blessings."
"Tell me," The first man asked the voice, "What did he pray for that I should owe him anything?"

“He prayed that all your prayers be answered."

For all we know, our blessings are not the fruits of our prayers alone, but those of another praying for us. When Jesus died on the cross he was thinking of you!

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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Proficient and adept at playing a certain sport or game? Or simply fuelled with inexhaustible passion that you wish to play your part for BB? Sign up now on the following form! Alternatively, if you know of anyone from BB who is good in any IHC event, you may wish to recommend him too!

Name & Class: E-Mail Address: IHCBridgeCultural FesteMusic FesteAmazing RaceChess Comments:Other details you wish to add.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

This week marks the start of IHC season, and we begin off with a bang indeed, with the very first IHC being Cybergaming IHC which consists of two parts, Counterstrike and DoTA! Cybergaming was spread out over a few days this week, and almost everyday Computer Lab 7 was brimming with avid fans of CS and DoTA :)

For Counterstrike, both our J1 and J2 teams fought hard, and our J2 team managed to get through to the second round after the first day! However, the opponents were hard to defeat the next day, and BB did not manage to make it through to the next round.

For DoTA, both our J1 and J2 teams did a great job and managed to defeat both their opponents on their first match! It was hard to do so for the next round though, and both teams did not get through to the semi-finals.

However, it was a good effort by all teams anyway! All our enthusiastic players were all training hard the week before :) Well done BB players! Here are the overall results for Cybergaming, after totalling up the scores for both CS and DoTA:

First: BW
Second: MR
Third: MT
Fourth: BB
Fifth: HH

Thank you again to all our BB players, and to all the supporters who came down as well! Hope everyone had fun during Cybergaming IHC! :) To end off, here's a picture of our J2 DoTA team :)

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Who You Love

John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his Army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl whose heart he knew, but whose face he didn’t, the girl with the rose. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in a Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himself intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind.In front of the book, he discovered the previous owner’s name, Miss Hollis Maynell. With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II

During the next year and one-month the two grew to know each other through the mail. Each letter was a seed falling on a fertile heart. A Romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refused. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn’t matter what she looked like.

When the day finally came for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting - 7:00 pm at Grand Central Station in New York.

“You’ll recognize me, ” she wrote, “by the red rose I’ll be wearing on my lapel.” So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl whose heart he loved, but whose face he’d never seen.

I’ll let Mr. Blanchard tell you what happened: A young women was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears; her eyes were blue as flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like springtime come alive. I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a rose. As I moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips. “Going my way, sailor?” she murmured. Almost uncontrollably I made one step closer to her, and then I saw Hollis Maynell. She was standing almost directly behind the girl. A women well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes. The girl in the green suit was walking quickly away. I felt as though I split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the women whose spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own.

And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was something precious, something perhaps even better than love, a friendship for which I had been and must ever be grateful.

I squared my shoulders and saluted and held out the book to the women, even though while I spoke I felt choked by the bitterness of my disappointment. “I’m Lieutenant John Blanchard, and you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?”

The women’s face broadened into a tolerant smile. “I don’t know what this is about, son,” she answered, “but the young lady in the green suit who just went by, she begged me to wear this rose on my coat. And she said if you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test!”

It’s not difficult to understand and admire Miss Maynell’s wisdom. The true nature of a heart is seen in it’s response to the unattractive. “Tell me whom you love,” Houssaye wrote, “And I will tell you who you are.”

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Friday, February 8, 2008

Hi BB-ians! Here's a post about our very last One Month of Games which happened on 1st Feb! Anyway so the music started playing in the amphi at 3.30pm but people came down late, so the game itself (captain's ball as usual! :D) started about 3.45pm! However for this game we changed the balls, so there was the soft volleyball, some small squashy yellow ball, a rugby ball and a pingpong ball (which everybody protested against!) Here are some shots of people in action...

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Saturday, February 2, 2008

Slow Dance
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die

Cause you never had time
To call and say,'Hi'

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift...Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

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