Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I got the link to this article in an email, there are actually more articles about the issue on the sunday times issue on how they defined IJ girls there, so you can go read more about it; the link is at the bottom of this paragraph. I was a bit upset about the definition delivered to the public. I guess I would not deny that there is some truth in it, that a majority do hem our skirts really short and wear out belts low, however I did feel offended by the comment IJ girls as being 'allegedly easy when it comes to the opposite sex' as well as the caricature , after all I was educated for 10 years CHIJ Toa Payoh. Even though the article was 'toungue-in-cheek' ,to me , that comment was just baseless and insulting to a school which has probably educated more than thousands of girls in its 152 years of stay in Singapore. It basically undermined the rich legacy of the convent and the strong values it has taught many girls. The education and spiritual enrichment that I received during my years there is one probably no other school would be able to equal and I am proud of how it has shaped me into the person I am today.

http://www.chijalumni.org/news.htm


Lifestyle article cast aspersions on IJ Girls

Tuesday September 19, 2006


I AM the chairperson of the Infant Jesus Board of Management of 11 CHIJ Schools in Singapore and an old girl of one of these CHIJ Schools.

I refer to the article published on pages L4 - L6 of Lifestyle of The Sunday Times ('Alternative Singapore: The Encyclopedia'; Sept 17) where the authors indicated their desire to present 'overseas visitors' with an 'Insiders' Guide to help them get the most out of their stay'. They have therefore 'come up with (their) own counter-culture compendium of nuggets' which will 'initiate you to the local hybrid lingo'. I note that the article was written 'tongue-in-cheek'.

I am concerned and dismayed that the authors have elected to include in their 'compendium of nuggets' their definition of 'IJ Girls', together with other commonly used words within the local Singapore community.

My concern lies in two areas:

Was there a need to tarnish the image of thousands of students, past, present and future, including girls as young as six-plus years old in Primary One, with an image that they are 'allegedly easy when it comes to the opposite sex'?

Was there any need to associate your improper definition with an inappropriate caricature and a picture of IJ students in uniform, taken out of context?

There are currently about 16,000 pupils in our CHIJ Schools aged six to 16 years of age. The first CHIJ School was founded 152 years ago, which means that thousands of young women would have been educated in an IJ School. The wholly inappropriate description has swept through a large swathe of innocent pupils and ex-pupils.

The recent coverage of Mrs Elizabeth Choy was very tasteful. Your readers may wish to know that Mrs Choy was an 'IJ Girl', having schooled at a CHIJ school from 1929-1933.

Other IJ Girls include Singapore's Ambassador to the United States, Prof Chan Heng Chee; Members of Parliament Mrs Cynthia Phua, Ms Ellen Lee, Dr Fatimah Lateef, Ms Sylvia Lim, Ms Jessica Tan; Executive Director (Unifem) Ms Noeleen Heyzer, IJ Sister Cecilia Chew, IJ Sister Daniel Ee, IJ Sister Christina Joy and IJ Sister Maria Lau, just to name a few. I wonder if these women would appreciate being described as 'allegedly easy on the opposite sex'?

The authorship and publication of such an article cannot, by any measure, be accepted as a 'tongue-in-cheek' article. It was an ill-conceived idea and done in bad taste. It has caused much distress, pain and embarrassment to women, of all ages, that hail from our CHIJ Schools. We do not condone your publication and take strong objection to the aspersions cast upon IJ Girls.

Donne Marie Aeria
Chairperson
Infant Jesus Board of Management
CHIJ Schools

Friday, September 22, 2006

these 2 days have been unexpectedly boring...
with the exception that I have met my goal in ironing
the anime episodes on youtube have run out...
I am like a dried up prune in need of much entertainment or just to go out.

Although the problem would be that I have no money to spend and so many things that I want that I can't differentiate what i really want from what is just a fad to me.
sometimes I want things so much, but after a while...or a few months or years...it just doesn't seem necessary to me anymore. Did I also mention I hate indesiciveness...so I just cannot stand not being able to decide what I want. ironically, it's stressful...at this rate I'll probably be dying early...haha...

somehow I just cannot wait for next week, where I can get to school and just...okay maybe that's not a very good option. I sound like some caveman in confinement...

hiax...

Thursday, September 21, 2006

like prelims are officially over...
*jumps for joy*
although I don't feel very much relieved...there's still the nagging of the mext wave...
haix..
anyway, yesterday was a fantastic day...
haha...2t29's very first class outing, went to minds cafe, opposite paradiz. the class just played board games and card games the whole 2 hours plus...haha...the SNORT was the best game ever...haha...it's like dirty germs but just that for this version we use animal sounds. it was really fun...haha and the the other game was rather interesting...don't really know what it's called though. basically the card shows a hand gesture and you need to dertermine if can be done and if it can be you have to imitate it as fast as possible.
we finished up at 7 and then the girls and I decided to go PS to shop for trevin and karen's bro's present. we walked and walked until 9.30 when we finally found both. Karen and I were in barang barang walking around hoping to find some sort of inspiration there. Surprisingly barang barang does not only sell furniture and furniture accessories but toys too...
and then headed home.

baby had S paper today...poor little thing...
the whole of today was just spent on youtube watching stuff....
I dont want this day to end...
which reminds me, I'll have to go iron late..whoo!!

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Happy 18th month anniversary baby!!!

1 and a half years...
Thank you so much for being there for me, giving me a shoulder to cry on.
Thank you so much for pushing me and motivating me, when I felt that I could go on no longer.
Thank you for taking care of me, always putting me first, especially when I'm sick.
Thank you for your patience, kindness and love that you have showered me with.
Thank you for always being there to cheer me up when I was down.
Thank you for making me such a happy person these pass 18 months.
I have truly loved and appreciated all the times we have spent together.
I hope that we would grow to love and understand each other more.
I love you so so much!
:) muakz!!!

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Cause there's something in the way you look at me
It's as if my heart knows
You're the missing
make me believe that there's nothin'in this world I can't be
I never know what you see but there's
somethin' in the way you look at me

I've finally gotten into windows on my computer...
It's SUPER screwed up...
It's like everytime I type a letter the whole screen sorta blinks.
The colours all in weird shades....and it comes in dots, not a solid colour.
Everything is extremely BIG cos the resolution is the smallest one and I'm afraid to change it cos then I'll have to restart the comp and then I would need to go through all the shit I had to go through just now to get in. Mummy's probably going to scold me when she finds out the state the comp is in, I have no idea why it screws up like that...why is it MY comp always screws up and other people who DL loads of stuff don't screw-up!??!? I have too much stuff...school stuff and personal stuff in here to reformat this whole thing...AAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Today was rather well spent...I mean just doing chem...now I'll be doing math soon...as you can see it's rather boring, just total mugging and mugging and non-stop worrying if I've done enough.
I have no idea what I'm going to type here seein as the day hasn't been the most exciting of all days, perhaps it's the need to be online and that the computer still works...I haven't even had dinner!!! I was in the middle of doing a math prelim paper too...
I think i should end...
end.

Monday, September 04, 2006

I swear nothing gives me an adrenaline rush like chemistry...I just love doing it 0_0

This might or might not make sense to you.

Perhaps if I said prelims are next week it might...

or not.