Tour to Bedok NEWater Plant

Organised by Mr Su Ronghua, the VS ASEAN and A*Star Scholars visited the Newater Plant in Bedok.


It was the first time I had also been to the NEWater facilities and so it was a good eye-opener for me:


The plant was very well set-up and lots of thought and design had gone into it to make it visitor friendly as well as to be interactive for students.

Our Lower Sec boys definitely enjoyed themselves with some of the hands-on activities there


Most importantly, our guide, Mr Herbert, gave us a distinct breakdown of the various steps and stages in turning raw water into NEWater:


The boys and I definitely enjoyed ourselves and the guided tour of the facilities showed students process of ultra filtration, reverse osmosis and UV water treatment to turn raw water into Newater definitely helped to give the ASEAN/A*Star Scholars an idea of the challenges Singapore faces in terms of limited resources.
I am sure this will help them in their Social Studies as they explore how Singapore overcomes our various social, economical and politcal challenges

Adapted from Mr Siow's Blog
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Victoria Hall CNY Dinner 2009

Yesterday, Victoria Hall celebrated the 15th Day of the Chinese New Year with a steamboat buffet for all the boarders.

It definitely was a fun time for the boarders to bond and have a good time. There were lots of activities and games.
Here we see the boarders competitng to see which table can peel enough 'kwa chee' to fill up the diagram of the Ox on their paper


Which CNY celebration is complete without the ever popular karaoke- Here we have Aaron Tung from Malaysia belting our Michael Bolton's "Go the Distance"


Our new Vietnamese scholar Mai aka Alex, finally managed to get his track to play and say a great rendition of 'When you believe'


So here's to a great year ahead for all of us in Victoria School and Victoria Hall!

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Lo Hei for CNY

Over the course of the CNY, we had a series of Lo Hei amongst the boys in Victoria School.

Here we see Sec 4B graced by the presence of Mr Low, our Principal, giving the Serious PE class some words of encouragement in the the Year of the Ox


Our boys in the hostel were not to be left out!
Courtesy of my partner in crime, Mr Su Ronghua (and his Mum), a sumptuous spread of Lo Hei was prepared for them on Wed, after their Compulsory Study Time.
We were joined by 2 new boarders: Welcome to Marcus and Kym Hwe!


Since we had so many boarders, we decided to do Lo Hei 'United Nations' style.
The boys mixed the dish according to nationality (of course, we had some foreign imports to help out as well: right, Harri?)


Great to see the way Akshat learnt how to handle the chop-sticks! And also welocome our furthest guest, Kym Hwe from Korea!

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CNY Day2 P1

CNY Day1

Best Decorated Room

Based on the room check Mr Su Ronghua and I did 2 weeks ago, we have awarded prizes for the best decorated room for Chinese New Year.

In 3rd Place, we have H1-04-06


In 2nd Place, we have the chirpy guys from H1-04-15


In FIRST PLACE!, our Vietnamese scholars from H1-04-04

They win the 'Immunity Idol' of the Luck Ox which will be presented to the cleanest room the next time we have this competition. heh heh.

Meanwhile to congratulate the boys on their good cleanliness and to celebrate CNY, Mr Su Ronghua gave all of us a late night dessert:

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Welcome, Victoria Boarders of 2009

Well, it's a New Year and I would like to extend my thanks and warm-welcome to my good friend and colleague, Brudder Su Rong Hua, who will be moving into the hostel. Together, we will be taking charge of all the ASEAN and A-Star Scholars from VS.

Here is the Xiao-Xiao Gang of 2009!

H1-10-17
Agilan & Aaron:

H1-06-07
Bank, Q, Win and Palm:

H1-06-06
Chan Hui Dhar and Kong Wei Chung:

H1-06-22
Tank and Kai

H1-04-19
Chu Toan Thang and Teoh Jun Yeang:

H1-04-18
Brian and Rock

H1-04-17
Billy and Akshat:

H1-04-16
Martin, Andrew, David and Harri:

H1-04-15
Nicholas, Ravi, Joseph and Joshua:

H1-04-06
Matt, Max, Wind and Game:

H1-04-05
Ang Qi Kai, Lee Jia Lok, Tea Xuan Jie and Fung Jin Jie:

H1-04-04
Victor, John, Alex and Ken:

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