SMOPS

It has been a long time since I last posted, I mean very long time. I will be posting about the SMOPS that was organised by Aphelion yesterday. I think that it is went quite smoothly but I am not sure why some of the seniors say that this year's SMOPS is more screwed than last year's. Perhaps it is because we, the sec 1s slacked too much. Like when the registration officers were supposed to help invigilate, we were playing away with our phones at the back of the curtains. (P.s I am the registration officer and I was also slacking:)) In case you are wondering, the test was held in the college hall. So, we were hiding behind the curtains on the stage. But at least, we quit slacking after a while and eventually went on duty. While invigilating, we caught this guy cheating. He was looking around suspiciously and when we checked his answers it was almost the same as the person sitting next to him! So we reported it to the seniors and after a while, the seniors also found out that he was cheating. The teachers were also informed but they didn't literally catch him. I think they just black listed his name. Too bad. So that's all for today. Bye.

How not to use PowerPoint

I found a funny video on youtube which also teaches us what we should not do in a PowerPoint presentation. So enjoy:
Get it? The presenter is really funny right? Haha. So, I hope you that you have learnt something from this video. That's all for today. Bye.

Second woman dies from rojak meal

This is an article taken from The Straits Times on 9th April 2009.

The worst food-poisoning outbreak in Singapore has claimed its second victim on Wednesday. Madam Noraini Kasim, 58, died in Alexandra Hospital without coming out of coma into which she lapsed during the weekend. Her retired husband, Mr Mohd Salleh Sarip, 65, is in shock over how quickly her condition worsened. On Friday, hours after a mid-afternoon meal of Indian rojak from the stall named Rojak Geylang Serai in the Geylang Serai Market, she came down with diarrhoea. It was so bad that she was trailing blood as she made her way to the toilet. However her condition did not improve the next day thus she was admitted to a hospital. Her heart stopped at least three times during the weekend before she entered coma. Madam Noraini was with a friend for that meal of indian rojak. Her friend who ate only a little of it, was fine.

But neither Madam Noraini nor Madam Aminah Samijo, 57, who died on Monday, were as lucky. Another 144 people were treated as outpatients or had to be hospitalised. Among them was Madam Rosiah Samat, 38, who had diarrhoea on Friday evening, followed by a miscarriage. Thus actually a total of three lives has been taken away if you consider the baby as one.

It is suspected that the food-poisoning outbreak was caused by a cross-contamination of rojak and raw seafood ingredients harbouring the bacteria. The stall was also rated C for its hygiene last December. However the rojak stallholder Sheik Allaudin Mohideen said that he had been making a living for more than 22 years by selling rojak and this has never happened before. He also said that he prepared his food fresh every morning and dumped unsold portions.

So what do you think of this incident? Is the problem with the hygiene of the stall or perhaps it is because of something else?

Projects' Day Prelims

Hi to all, it has been a long time since I have last posted. Well, well let me think. Where should I start? Ok perhaps I shall start with some sad facts. Manchester United drew with Porto FC at their home ground! 2-2! Which means that there is a great chance that Manchester United may lose to porto on aggregate! :(

Now to my main point. Today we had the projects' day prelims. In case you do not know, our groups title is "shoelace clippers". As you can see from the title itself, you should be able to know what we are roughly doing so I won't be explaining much. Our group was the 15th to go up so it was quite boring at the start. When our turn came, I was so nervous. But luckily, I was able to finish my part of the presentation quite smoothly. Overall I thought that our group did pretty well as the judges did not ask us much questions. The judges try to fail the students by asking them questions and if they can't answer them, they will be failed. So luckily for us the judges only asked us two questions and we were able to answer them smoothly. Wish me luck that I pass through to the semi-finals.:)

By the way, here's a video for you to ponder about. Is our english turning so bad that it has already turned into singlish?

Well, what do you think? Do let me know by posting a comment. Thanks.:)