Updates on the Hall 2 Overseas [Trip 3D2N to Genting/KL/Malacca]!

Departure:
When: 4th Dec 4.15am
Where: Hall 2 Blk One

Arrival:
When: 6th Dec Midnight
Where: Hall 2

Payment:
Those who have yet to make full payment of $160, please kindly do so by 30 Nov!

Important Things to Bring:
- Application & Indemnity Form (those who yet to submit)
- Passport!
- Collared shirts (those who wish to enter the casino)
- Your personal medication (if necessary)
- Warm Clothing (Can get cold)

Accommodation:
Genting: Theme Park Hotel (2 to a room)
KL: Berjaya Times Square (3 to one room)



Bus 1
Lee JiaYing ( L)
Zhenhao (Asst L)
Xiangting
Aw Si Kuan
Kin
Wendy
Charlene
Basil
Zheng Wen
JingXin
Shawn (First-aider)
Joanne Pang
Tan Hui Lin
Lionel Loh
Sidney Kumar
Kailing
Jackie thia
Sathish
Daryl
Zixian
QianQi
Yeo Wan Qi
toh kok peng
Lee Wee Kwang
Heng Wei Lian
Tan Wen Yuan
Wang WenHan
Samuel

Overall Group Leader: Samuel


Bus 2
Quek Jia Liang (L)
Winnie (Asst L)
Xingwei
Yanhui
Chew weili Gavin
Xinyi
Ervin
Joanne Tan
Yewloong
Zhuang Yuankai
Yoongwah
Leow Zi Xiang Tommy
Jiadi
Yinglan
Lili
Sharmagne
Koh Xin Shuo
Wong Choon Xin
Yeo Shi Ying, Sharlyn
See Jun Wei
Lim Cheng Xun
Chan Huiwen
Wei Jie (First-aider)
Zong Ming
Shili
Juaytee
Liting
sengkeat


Bus 3
Grace Chung (L)
Junyi (Asst L)
Heng Ting Guan
Pei Jun
Chai Peiwen
Yeo Jie Ying
Chen Yanxuan
Ong Simin
Lim Jia Yin
Huang PeiSheng Jeremy
Lim Willy
Chia Kim Hock Eric
Ho Yong How
Chia Yee Han (first aider)
Leong Kar Weng
Leong Yu Ren Jeffrey
Lim ZiRui
Wendy Tan Mei Feng
Huang Qiao'e
Tan Shiwei
Soon Jiaying
Ng Li Zhen
Raymond
Chew Jin Feng
debbie
janice
Liew Shi Feng
Fumin

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But They Did Not Give Up

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

~ Samuel Beckett

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• As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success. He turned to politics and was defeated in his first try for the legislature, again defeated in his first attempt to be nominated for congress, defeated in his application to be commissioner of the General Land Office, defeated in the senatorial election of 1854, defeated in his efforts for the vice-presidency in 1856, and defeated in the senatorial election of 1858. At about that time, he wrote in a letter to a friend, "I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth."

• Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62. He later wrote, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never, Never, Never, Never give up." (his capitals, mind you)

• Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him. He drank the hemlock and died corrupting.

• Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe. He returned to his office and kept on writing.

• Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class. His teacher commented that "there was a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another." Three years later Sternberg graduated with honors from Stanford University with exceptional distinction in psychology, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 2002, he became President of the American Psychological Association.

• Charles Darwin gave up a medical career and was told by his father, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat catching." In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Clearly, he evolved.

• Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive." As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

~ Confucius

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• Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7. His parents thought he was "sub-normal," and one of his teachers described him as "mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift forever in foolish dreams." He was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. He did eventually learn to speak and read. Even to do a little math.

• Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15th out of 22 students in chemistry.

• Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded.

• R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

• F. W. Woolworth was not allowed to wait on customers when he worked in a dry goods store because, his boss said, "he didn't have enough sense."

• When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

• John Garcia, who eventually was honored for his fundamental psychological discoveries, was once told by a reviewer of his often-rejected manuscripts that one is no more likely to find the phenomenon he discovered than to find bird droppings in a cuckoo clock. (sort of a cute critique actually)

• Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work in the rarefied atmosphere of outer space.

• Daniel Boone was once asked by a reporter if he had ever been lost in the wilderness. Boone thought for a moment and replied, "No, but I was once bewildered for about three days."

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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly."

~ Robert F. Kennedy

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• Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called him "hopeless as a composer." And, of course, you know that he wrote five of his greatest symphonies while completely deaf.

• The first time Jerry Seinfeld walked on-stage at a comedy club as a professional comic, he looked out at the audience, froze, and forgot the English language. He stumbled through "a minute-and a half" of material and was jeered offstage. He returned the following night and closed his set to wild applause.

• In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." I'm sure you know that Norma Jean was Marilyn Monroe. Now . . . who was Emmeline Snively?

Don't give up everyone! All the best for your exams!
-Shawn Chua

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Hey What’s that Under the door?!?!?!

IT’S THE EXAMS GOOD LUCK PACKAGE!!! This year the 24^th JCRC would like to wish everyone all the best for your exams with a simple all the best card, a light-hearted magazine and some sweets! Oh I would just like to point out the coffee is not instant coffee. Yupp u need a plunger or u can use your sock if u want to relive the good old army days of your dad. I assure u it's taste is worth the trouble for all u caffeine addicts out there! For those who got the cards with my handwriting please forgive me.. hahaha!! I tried my best!! Alright study hard guys all the best ya!!

-Shawn Chua

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In faith or in fear

Greetings everyone! How have things been this exam period? Well my message today is a rather simple. How have u been coping with your exams? Have u been driven by fear or by faith? This message might sound rather philosophical but do bear with me and I hope it encourages you all to continue to press forward towards your exams!

Many of our actions are motivated by fear. Fear rejection; fear of loneliness and of course the fear of failure. Most of the time when motivated by fear or when we respond to our fear it results in substandard performance, and poor outcomes. Conversely when we are motivated by a hope and a faith, things are often a lot more positive and fruitful.

My challenge to everyone today is to be find that faith to press on for your exams. Honestly I am petrified on the prospects of these coming exams but yet though this period I’ve experienced many encouraging moments that have shifted my fears into faith. For one think of your family that is supporting you all the time. My mum always prepares the best meals when I get home during the weekends to encourage me knowing I’ve had a hard week. The friends around me in hall that give me words of encouragement and jio me to study. My buddies that aren’t here with me will still give a ring to share a few lighthearted moments and remind me that exams are means to an end and not the end itself. All these small actions mean the word when view in the right perspective and gives you that energizing faith, a positive force of motivation that spurs you to give your best.

To end off, count your blessing, find that positive motivation and all the best for your coming exams!!

-Shawn Chua

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Hope this brightens your day!

I Like Your Thinking

A teacher asks her class, "If there are five birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?" She calls on little Johnny.

"None, they all fly away with the first gunshot."

The teacher replies, "The correct answer is four, but I like your thinking." Then Little Johnny says, "I have a question for YOU. There are three women sitting on a bench having ice cream. One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. Which one is married?"

The teacher, blushing a great deal, replies, "Well I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone."

"The correct answer is the one with the wedding ring on... but I like your thinking."

From: http://jokes.comedycentral.com/random_joke.aspx?joke_id=1839&cat_id=16

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