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Abeline, Carolanne, Cai Fang, Jolene, Clara, Yu Jing, Melissa, Jia Yee, Pei Jin, Si Ying, Eunice, Cheryl, Mei Jiao, Evelyn, Biqi.
Chuan Han, Bryan, Hoe Wei, Jun Heng, Keef, Yingjie, Wee Liang, Neville, Michael, Xing Han, Hong Wei, Yi Cheng.
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January 2007Our Story
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I don't know what to say.We wrote history at 10:35.
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I hope this open letter would speak what everyone is thinking, but no one voices.
07S7C is a good class, but we’ve been inflicted with a very strange disease. This disease baffles me, because I can’t figure out when it started and why it started.
This strange disease leads to gender consciousness, an automatic sorting of the genders in every imaginable location from the class bench to the lecture theatres, the canteen to the classroom. It has become conditioned reflex to file into the lecture row or row of seats in class next to someone from your own planet. This has become so ingrained in the 7C culture that it would be unimaginable to do otherwise.
I guess segregation in seating arrangements has been the case since last year and it never really used to matter, but this habit of ours has spawned an unhealthy awkwardness in our class interaction. Maybe we grew distant from the other gender clique this way, and embraced negative stereotypes of the other gender. If you detach yourself from those stereotypes and look again, 7C contains so many wonderful individuals.
No one is willing to take the first step when gender interaction is required, such that we resort to jumping line and flipping palms just to divide ourselves into 2 groups reluctantly. (-.-) Both sides want this gender divide to end, we have nothing specifically against the other gender, but it is easier for us to keep this status quo that everyone is settled into. It takes the whole class to want to have a change, and to respond positively whenever anyone takes the initiative, for a whole culture to change.
Often when we want to say something to someone of the opposite gender, we fear the awkward silence that may follow, and this perhaps deters you from saying anything at all. But if everyone is less guarded, less conscious that the person you’re talking to is a guy/girl (since it really shouldn’t matter), and if we all take one small effort to break the ice with a smile or a random question, then conversation will flow naturally.
You can say that 7C will stay a perfectly decent class the way it is even if this status quo is maintained. I guess this disease is nothing lethal, but it is sad when we have the potential to go so much further as a class.
Many of us have fond memories of non-awkward class dinners during orientation, when filing into genders wasn’t a natural response. We enjoyed ourselves taking part spontaneously in so many school events and outings together as a class of 07S7C students, not a class of males and females. The fact that so many of us still turn up for class outings after two years show that we do want to keep the class spirit going, and maybe, our hope in this class of unrealised potential.
We didn’t start this class the way we are now, and I hope we don’t have to end this way either.
What’s the purpose of this letter, you may ask. It has no grandiose and idealistic aims in making a huge difference overnight. This letter is trying to start by spreading some hope, hope that 7C does not have to continue staying this way, if we all consciously try a little harder.
We wrote history at 12:25.
(after National Day celebrations. where were all the singaporean guys?!)
a random happy photo (:We wrote history at 19:16.
We wrote history at 14:56.
Taken by that noob guy in blue
zi-pai success!
zi-pai success #2!
Random photos @ class bench:
Guess whose sexy lips are these?
2nd try!
Camwhoring on the courts (even though we were supposed to EXERCISE):
Someone's middle finger =S
Guess whose shadows?
+ starthat's all for now! (man, my cam is good XP)
seven-cee is the LURVE <3
We wrote history at 18:14.
Singapore
Vienna
Cologne Cathedral
Paris
Niagara falls
Cleveland
Las Vegas
Toronto
Los Angeles
Malaysia
We wrote history at 15:35.
SINGAPORE — The big mistake, officials here say, was letting the terrorist suspect make a trip to the bathroom.
Mas Selamat bin Kastari, alleged by the government to be the leader of a terrorist group here, escaped from a high-security prison two weeks ago while taking a bathroom break, in a major embarrassment for this efficient, tightly battened city-state.
In a furious response, the government put the entire country on alert, setting up checkpoints, sealing its borders, patrolling its parks and its shores, even urging people to keep an eye on their bicycles in case the wanted man decided to pedal to freedom.
With each new empty-handed day the embarrassment deepens as Singapore confronts its Tora Bora moment, its most-wanted terrorist suspect melting into the urban terrain, as Osama bin Laden evaded American troops in Afghanistan.
For some people here, this noisy, flailing search — even more than the escape itself — has cast Singapore in an unfamiliar light of haplessness.
“We had all bought into the image of a well-organized government machinery,” wrote Alex Au, author of a popular political Web site called Yawning Bread. “Suddenly, our picture of Singapore as a kind of Big Brother state is, well, full of holes.”
All around the city, police officers are on patrol and their checkpoints have delayed traffic for as much as 15 hours in some places, according to newspaper reports.
Security officers on boats and Jet Skis are patrolling the coastline and the police have removed keys from the ignitions of unattended motor boats.
In what one newspaper called “extensive land, sea and air searches,” military officers in jungle fatigues and Nepalese Gurkha paramilitary forces have scoured the city for the runaway inmate.
Wanted posters are everywhere, mug shots have been transmitted to millions of cellphones and the entire nation of four million people has been deputized to look out for a round-faced man who is 5-foot-2, weighs 139 pounds and walks — or at least runs — with a limp.
Newspapers here say it is the biggest manhunt in Singapore’s history. Mr. Mas Selamat, 47, who is said to be the chief of operations in Singapore for the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network, is accused by the government of being the coordinator of a failed plot to bomb the United States Embassy and several other targets in Singapore. Officials also say he planned to crash an airplane into Singapore’s airport.
He had been in detention here since 2006 under the Internal Security Act, which allows the government to hold suspects without trial, and his escape shocked terrorism experts in the region.
“Everyone thought Singapore had the tightest security system of anyone around,” said Sidney Jones, a leading terrorism expert for the International Crisis Group.
As a nation, Singapore is as lean and mean and flexible as the rapid-response military the Pentagon dreams of, and it reacted with impressive speed and agility to recent Asian outbreaks of bird flu and SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome.
But for the moment it seems to have met its match in Mr. Mas Selamat. His disappearance challenges the government’s basic promise to its citizens that it will keep them safe and comfortable.
The authorities have released little information about his escape on Feb. 27, but they say that he acted alone and on the spur of the moment and that he is probably still in Singapore.
The official account is that the prisoner asked to go to the bathroom while waiting for family members to visit, then simply disappeared from the Whitley Road Detention Center.
If this is true, said Lee Kin Mun, a leading political blogger who calls himself Mr. Brown, the government should “take a leaf from school exams, where security seems to be tighter” and where students must be escorted to the bathroom.
The country’s founder and former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, boiled the whole debacle down to one word: complacency.
He used the episode to strike again with his frequent warning that Singaporeans must work hard to protect the modern but fragile country he created from a social or economic explosion.
“It shows that it is a fallacy, it is stupid, to believe we are infallible,” he said. “We are not infallible. One mistake and we’ve got a big explosive in our midst. So let’s not take this lightly. I think it’s a very severe lesson on complacency.”
His son, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, said, “It is definitely a setback, and it should never have happened.” And then, echoing his father: “It’s the danger of complacency, of thinking that everything is all right.”
In Singapore, words like that amount to marching orders, and government agencies seem to be rushing to demonstrate that whatever else they are, they are anything but complacent.
Wong Hong Kuan, the assistant police commissioner, is at the center of the storm, commanding both his security forces and the public response.
“He knows machines, so keep an eye on your car,” said the newspaper Today, reporting on a recent briefing by Mr. Wong. “Anyone who discovers their vehicles, including motorcycles and bicycles, missing, should make a police report immediately.”
“Err on the side of caution,” the paper quoted Mr. Wong as saying. “Every second counts.”
The public has swung into action, as it has with previous nationwide campaigns — to have fewer children, to have more children, to keep toilets clean, not to throw things off balconies, to speak good English, to smile and to commit “spontaneous acts of kindness.”
More than a thousand people have telephoned the police with tips. Concerned citizens are stopping people on the street who fit the fugitive’s description. This is not a good place to be a man with a limp.
“Mas Selamat” seems to be everywhere.
He has been seen running into a park wearing only a pair of shorts monogrammed with the initials of the detention center. He has been spotted at an outdoor food stall, “but it turned out to be the man is Chinese,” according to a witness quoted in the news media.
Someone followed his footprints up a flight of stairs to a rooftop, where the footprints disappeared. Someone else saw him running down a highway toward a causeway linking Singapore to Malaysia.
A comedian, Ahmad Stokin, 51, said he had been stopped eight times, but did not seem to find it funny. He said he might look a bit like the picture on the wanted posters and he may have a limp, but it is in his right leg, not his left.
Two weeks into the search, these fruitless sightings are about all the papers have to report about the biggest news story of the day.
The top headline on Thursday about the search in the country’s main newspaper, The Straits Times, read: “I Think I Saw Mas Selamat.”
An unidentified woman, the paper reported, had just recalled seeing someone who fit the description two weeks ago near the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped.
Pondering this report, the newspaper left its readers with what is now a pointless question.
“Was Fugitive Limping Along This Road?” it asked in a headline, and displayed a photo of an empty, rain-slick road where the witness had been standing.
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guess who's the person in the red suit? lol.We wrote history at 20:52.
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7C's #1 favourite past-time
the gambling den
cycling(:
..no comments..
outside our chalet
thumblinas(:
bbq!
the bbq fan club
FOOD!
HW x 2
satay lovers
thankyou neville and ryan for the cake!
it was like a refugee camp (spot weely in the closet?)
6 in 2 beds(:
i love you 7C!
<3
cheryl
i love cheryl too :) all right here are some more pics:
how to appear tall. seems that CF has fully aquired the skill, hum...
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freebies for the day...
so you think u can dance?
teddy can dance too! sway~ clap clap! sway~ clap clap!
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The guys pitching their skills against other guys....we won.... yay...
hot bods...just joking..
7c gals...
playing captain's ball in the pavilion when it rained... so fun...
7c at work....building sandcastles....
hardworking bunch.... :)
LOvely....
This concludes the end of yet another class outing...hope the next time we go more ppl can make it... start planning another class outing!
lots of love,eunice
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the few of us playing with candles until some security guard comes and spoil all the fun -.-
Joloene at work...whoo.. :)
Grand lightup...pretty neat..
7c at the fountain...we made a wish, hope it comes true..
this gotta be the nicest photo,though our faces aren't v clear but the background is super nice..ralph's here too...
7c again..this photo took quite a while to take..all thnx to my cam..
that's all at MAF...
EUNICE
We wrote history at 18:06.
Sorry to inform u all so late....the deadline for this " Notice Board Duty Roster" is term 4 week 1, no later than Wednesday of that week . So let's come up with a suitable topic first.....Any constructive suggestions are welcomed .....thank you very much..
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