no training

No training on 10th & 24th December! :)

Photos

Photos from the bowling camp! Click on the links!

Link 1
Link 2


THANK YOU ONG ELIS! And her pink camera.

How to go OCC

Sorry to post something on this blog but anyway you can add this as extra info:

I don't think there are any public buses to OCC but there's a shuttle bus that goes from YISHUN MRT station BUS STOP to OCC approximately every 45 minutes.

For those with no cars or don't want to cab eh?

NEW Holiday Schedule

Please be informed that there HAS been some changes made to the holiday schedule

Time	Date	Venue
4.30pm – 6pm	24th October (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	30th October (Tuesday)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	12th November (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	14th November (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	16th November (Fri)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	21st November (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	23rd November (Fri)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	26th November (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	28th November (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	30th November (Fri)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	5th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1230pm	7th December (Fri)	OCC
10am – 1130am	10th December (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	12th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1230pm	14th December (Fri)	OCC
10am – 1130am	19th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1230pm	21st December (Fri)	OCC
10am – 1130am	24th December (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	26th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1230pm	28th December (Fri)	OCC

In the SAD case that some of you didn't spot the difference -.- .... The Yishun training have been changed to Orchid County Club and the training time EXTENDED. This is in preparation of the upcoming A' Divisions that would be held there. Due to the extension of these new trainings some other trainings MAY be cut at Mr Ng discretion, so please keep checking back.

Below is the address of OCC for your reference:

Orchid Country Club
No. 1 Orchid Club Road #02-37
Singapore 769162
Tel: 6759 4448 Fax: 6759 6811

Thanks :D

Holidays

Please LEAVE A COMMENT on the days that you will not be attending training because you will be going on holiday or any other valid reasons in this format:



Name- dates (Reason)

E.g. Petrina- 14-18 dec (Holiday)

Pls give a NIL reply too if you will not miss any trainings, thks!

BY MONDAY 8 PM.

You will have to produce a parent's letter to cover your absence.



And... rmb to wear yellow on tuesday! Thanks!

training schedule

Bowling trainings for Oct, Nov & December :D

Time	Date	Venue
4.30pm – 6pm	24th October (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	30th October (Tuesday)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	12th November (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	14th November (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	16th November (Fri)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	21st November (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	23rd November (Fri)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	26th November (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	28th November (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	30th November (Fri)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	5th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	7th December (Fri)	Yishun Safra
10am – 1130am	10th December (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	12th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	14th December (Fri)	Yishun Safra
10am – 1130am	19th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	21st December (Fri)	Yishun Safra
10am – 1130am	24th December (Mon)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	26th December (Wed)	Tampines Safra
10am – 1130am	28th December (Fri)	Yishun Safra

Open House 2007

Hi. The open house is this friday, 5th October. We hope that everybody would be able to help out. We also need bowling balls for exhibition, anyone who wants to do so are required to polish their balls. Here are the distribution of roles for the day:
Four groups will rotate about their duties at different timeslots of 45 minutes
Groups:
1. Samuel, Angus, Petrina and Yi Xuan

2. Daryl, Christopher, Elaine and Serene

3. Eran, Jun Xiang, Natalie, Wei Xin and Elis

4. Marcus, Jimmy, Glenn, Valerie and Zuo Qi

Our booth would be at the sports complex (standing broad jump area)

Rotation of Duties:
o Booth: Promote the Pdp, take down contacts and manage enquiries
o Sports Complex: Give out cards and direct people to booth
o Canteen: Give out drinks and direct people to booth
o Classroom blocks: Give out cards and direct people to booth

At the end of the open house, please stay back for clean-up. Thanks.

Open House

Hey bowlers,

We are having our open house on the 5th of October 2007. So do approach us should you have any good ideas on how to promote our team to the future year 1s and attract people to our stall. All contributions are welcome from poster designs , ideas for free gifts etc. Secondly, those who wish to exibit their balls ( BOWLING balls) on that day please approach one of us also. We will be display about 4 -5. However, should you wish to exhibit your bowling balls, you would be required to polish them up. Thirdly, most if not all would be helping out at the stall, so should anyone have a valid reason not to be present (eg: setting up of other stalls for your teachers) do tell us so we can organise the shifts.

Thanks :)

A gift.

I've been hijacking this place lately. However this blog was meant to be a way to make announcements to the team... haha. So, anyway, as you may be able to see, this site layout has changed / redesigned.

Seeing that there was a site mishap earlier this month, I've decided to contribute a final gift to the team, in the form of a brand new look for this site. I've given this site a "web 2.0" make-over, bringing this site up to be in line with the current trends in the web-design committee.

With the change, you'll be glad to know that the images are now being hosted on googlepages, i.e., on google servers so the problem of expiring images shouldn't occur....
I've also moved the site to blogger's new templating system based on XML. This should ease the maintenance of this site. However, if there is a need to change the layout, CSS need to be used not HTML There may be a learning curve here.

Features are still being added, but I've included the tagboard already. I would prefer for the current admins to add the features desired as this is up to the current exco to decide.
The photo montage/collage was made using photos I have, and the pictures chosen are totally random..

Thats all for now...

Oh... and any comments or suggested improvements on the layout are welcomed. You can use my blog to comment or just post a comment in response to this post.

Cheers.
- Gerald (aka. GenSephyr, Fusedthought Studios)

Site mishap

To the committee members as well as the team....

Regarding the website. The file host isn't down. I checked.
Apparently, all the files hosted has been deleted due to account inactivity
(EDIT: Yixuan already confirmed this as replied in the tagboard.....)

So I guess all graphics, JavaScript files, CSS files are all gone for good. I do not know if I have a backup files here on my drive though.. I will try searching when I have time off from doing the school's website..

Maybe the committee may want to embark on a new layout??
You'll have the Nov/Dec holidays after the exams to do so i guess... =P

Anyway, I've took a look at the HTML and made some edits, so the site is now readable and almost the same as before, just that without the gradients and effects and stuff... Also, I corrected some errors which were causing the problems with display. Apparently the */ within the CSS section was removed causing the CSS to malfunction...

Email me with what you think (about redesigning and stuff).

Cherios

- Gerald

(p.s. pardon my intrusion... I seldom enter MSN nowadays.. so this is the fastest way to announce... haha)

General Announcement

Hey Bowlers,

Apparently the base URL in which Gerald hosted the site background is down, so now i have amended it abit for the TIME BEING.For the sake for clearer viewing. I understand it looks horrible, but its for the great good till i consult our dear Gerald.

Thanks

Term 3 Training Schedule

Hey Bowlers,

This is the bowling schedule for the rest of term.

Wednesday : 3pm at canteen Green Polo Tee.
Friday: 4pm at canteen Yellow Polo Tee

Week	Wednesday	Venue	Friday	Venue
4	18th July	[ Tamp Safra]	20th July	[No PDP]
5	25th July	[ Tamp Safra]	27th July	[PT / Bonding]
6	1st August	[ Tamp Safra]	3rd August	[Tamp Safra]
7	8th August	[ Celebration]	10th August	[ Holiday]
8	15th August	[ Tamp Safra]	17th August	[Hougang SB]
9	22nd August	[ Tamp Safra]	24th August	[ Tamp Safra]
10	29th August	[ Tamp Safra]	31st August	[No Training]

Training Schedule

Hey Bowlers,

Heres the short-term schedule for this week just in case you all need to make arrangements. Once Mr Ng approves the rest of the term then I'll post the full one.

Week	Wednesday	Venue	Friday	Venue
3	11th July	[ Tamp Safra]	13th July	[Hougang SB]

Meet at 3 in the canteen this Wednesday, Training from 4 - 5.30pm

Thanks. I wish you all Good Luck and High Score.

JTS

Daryl has booked for us 29 seats for JTS at Seoul Garden Bugis. Details are as follow:

Meet at: Bugis MRT
Date: 14th June 2007, Thursday
Time: 11.45am

It's $10.99++ per person, so it adds us to about $23 if you are a junior, since you need to pay for the seniors too. :D So, bring about $25, and see you there! :D

Hello bowlers.

It has been a great journey with you all this one year. I still remember the day I was elected as Captain. I was rather unwillingly thrust into this position, and i really regret showing my displeasure that fateful day at Tampines safra. On hindsight it was a really stupid thing to do. I mean, you look up to me to be your Captain and all i had to give was a stupid, unhappy face. I thought about things that day after i left and i realised since i have been given this position, i'm going to just face it, take it up, and do the best i can for the team. It was not easy getting used to being at the helm of an organisation but i suppose after a while, especially that wonderful team dinner on 25th august, our last training for the school term, i kind of got the hang of it.

Since then, there was no turning back. I was just going to do what i could for the team to the best of my ability. I was just going to do what i thought was right. It was great watching every one of you improve yourselves both in your bowling, and in terms of getting to know each other better. Certain incidents at the start of this year only seemed to strengthen our ties with each other. Bowling camp was one of the committee's first attempts at organising major events, and i'm proud to say that i thought both of them were successes. I am very happy that everybody enjoyed themselves.

On a personal note, i do realise that i have changed quite a bit this year. I am very sorry to have carried my personal frustrations over to bowling. So sorry for showing you black faces during some briefings and debriefings and during bowling. I faced lots of pressure in class because everyone was doing well and teachers were starting to say things. I suppose i could have tried to handle myself better in this aspect, because it was detrimental to the team.

I do not believe in leading with an iron fist. Because of this, i've tried to portray myself as everybody's friend. I never wanted that much of a distinction between Captain and team member, because after all, i was one up until the announcement of the committee, then i was not just a team member anymore. Do you know what i'm saying xD. Of course there were times when there required an exertion of authority but I always chose to believe that you would know how to do the right thing at the end of it. And i was not disappointed. Thank you for having the discipline to gather and do warmups and cooldown without me having to say too much. Thank you for being on time at the canteen each day before training. Thank you for offering your services to help drag the balls around. Thank you, my committee for roughing it all out with me. Basically, thank you very much for doing your part in making my captainship an enjoyable, and much less stressful one.

A division was the most memorable one for me. I decided to actually talk to you guys as captain. I mean, prior to that it was all "see you on friday!" "next wednesday same time same place same shirt" "YOU there, do warmups." OH whatever. The response i got from everybody after i delivered the short speeches each day made me so so so happy. Even though our cheer is not as fancy as the other schools, that simple TJ Whoosh was more than adequate. For that moment Temasek Bowling sounded out to the other schools with one voice, and a spirit to fight on and persevere.

Although we missed out on our team goals by 2 positions for both girls and guys, i know that everybody put in their best effort. How do i know? you ask. Each time we cheered before the event started, i looked into your eyes and saw the determination and drive to do your best, both for yourself and our team. That is the most important thing. The will to do your very best. Congratulations to each and every one of you. I couldn't be more proud.

Starting from today, the new committee will be taking over. Marcus, Daryl, Chris, Natalie, Petrina, Yi Xuan. You will be the ones taking Temasek Bowling to greater heights. Congratulations to each and everyone of you.

TJ Bowlers unite. Thank you so much for walking the journey with me. I could never be more proud.

Steppings

May 30th....

This will most probably be my last post in this site as the webmaster.

Starting today, the 2006-7 Committee will officially step down making way for the new 2007-08 committee. Congratulations to all who are appointed. The official appointment of the new committee will be done at the 2007 Sportsmen Appreciation Award Ceremony.

On behalf of the committee, a really big thank you to everyone for making our time in Temasek JC bowling Team memorable.

As for the future of this website, I'll leave that for the new committee to decide.

Thank you all.

A Division Results.

They have been updated. Get the results at the following link.


RESULTS HERE

All the best for your next 6 games tomorrow!

All the very best for A division!

Here are the timings.

Monday 14 May. Green shirt. Morning
Thursday 17 May. Yellow shirt. Afternoon
Tuesday 22 May. Green shirt. Morning
Wednesday 23 May. Yellow shirt. Afternoon.
Saturday 26 May.... Masters.

Once again all the very best. i know you're all excited like me =)

VJC Invitational 2007

EDIT: The tournament has been canceled.

WHAT?
Victora Junior College Bowling Invitational

WHERE?
Safra Mount Faber

WHEN?
22th April, NEXT SUNDAY

TIME?
Not confirmed. Can be in the morning to the evening depending on which squad you are in.

FEE?
$35 or less(Not confirmed)

TEAMS OF?
Four. 4 person a team. Gender does not matter. Meaning: Boys and girls can be in the same team.

GAMES?
Six. 6. Series of 6 games.

PRIZES?
$20 proshop voucher for a door gift.

AWARDS?
The same series scores will be used to determine Singles and Team awards - same as TPJC Invitational. Of courses, the awards are MONEY. =P

EXTRA AWARDS?
$1000 for perfect game. Sponsored by Storm.

HOW TO JOIN?
Message your name to Qing Hui BY MONDAY!

bowling shirts

hello

hope everyone is happy with their bowling shirts =)

basically from next week onwards, we will expect all members to be in the new bowling shirts for training. anyone who fails to do so would be severely dealt with =)

DARK GREEN on wednesday
YELLOW on friday

it would be nice of you guys to wear the yellow shirt to school on friday too since its now some special friday and you can wear any school related shirts. so you can save yourself the trouble of changing and bringing extra shirts =)

in case some of you are still unaware, you'll need to get a pair of khaki and black shorts/pants (those of you who don't have it lah)

girls wear shorts and guys long pants hor. and it would be khaki with dark green, black with yellow. yup that's all.

oh wait wait. due to some error with the sizes, i'll be making a trip down some time next week to alter an extra L size to S size. anyone with shirts that are TOO BIG can pass their shirts to me and get it altered too. uh too small then can't help it. sorry.

urm if theres anyone who wants to do mutual swaps to change sizes or trade with the extra L size i got, just let me know. but the yellow shirts sizes would probably be correct so... you will have one big one small shirts lah. yup. CALL me if there's any questions. my bill exploded -.-'' anything, CALL me. thanks =)

Team Chalet

The chalet details are taken down for the discussions,,,

Further notice will be given....

Sorry for inconvenience caused...

jackets

hi sorry about the late post.

ok for this post right, i'd like everyone to COMMENT, leave a comment. don't forget to state your name.

the comment should include,
1) if you would like your name to be printed on the jacket

2) where would you like your name to be printed

yup that should be all. you can also sms me, but leaving a comment would be preferred lah. then later i'll tabulate the results and tell you guys the conclusion ya? thanks.

do note that the jacket itself is $35, addition of $5 for names. and that the design is similar to our jersey. thanks.

Bowling Schedule (as of March 30th)

Day	Date	Venue
Wed	4/4	Safra Tampines
Sat	7/4	Hougang
Wed	11/4	Safra Tampines
Friday	13/4	Safra Tampines
Wed	18/4	Hougang
Friday	20/4	Safra Tampines
Wed	25/4
Friday	27/4	Safra Tampines
Sat	28/4	Safra Yishun
Wed	2/5	Hougang
Friday	4/5	Safra Tampines
Wed	9/5	Safra Tampines
Friday	11/5	Hougang

For Timings, keep note of announcement by captain. Mostly will be 5-7pm. BUT there are exceptions....

note

hey guys.

sorry to make this sound like we are trying to force those who do not want the jacket to buy it. but please understand that this is a team jacket so if we want it, we buy it as a team.

its like for example, your class wants to make a class tee. its unnecessary and you do not need it, but because the majority of the class wants it, thus everyone has to buy it as everyone is part of the class. the same applies for this jacket. yes, we already have the jerseys but the jerseys are a MUST in order for us to compete in the tournaments.

think of the jacket as a momento of being part of Team TJC Bowling. you can continue wearing it and always remember that you are always part of the TJBowling family.

to those who really have difficulties, please do not hesitate to approach me or mr ng. i'm sure we can work a solution out together. thanks.

Jackets, Jackets...

Updated: 25th March 2007, 10.40pm.
NOTE: VOTING HAS ENDED
Angus's vote will automatically be taken as a YES as he had not responded in time even after calls and smses from us.

Hey! 1st time posting! Wahaha! Anyways, this post is regarding the proposed jackets. So listen up.

We are requesting the whole team to vote on the jacket again, after a few unexpected incidents. After discussing with Mr Ng, we have decided to ask you all to vote again. Please read the following important points...

1. If MORE than/equal to 5 people state that they do not want the jacket, we will proceed with making the jacket for the whole team except those people.
2. If LESS THAN 5 people state they do not want the jacket, we will proceed with ordering for the WHOLE TEAM. This decision has been undertaken by the committee and Mr Ng.
3. Those people with problems and are unable to buy/afford the jacket may approach Yee Tien or Mr Ng to rediscuss/ renegotiate the jacket.
4. If you do not submit a vote before 11.59pm, 24th March 2007, Saturday, your vote will automatically be taken as a yes.
5. You are voting for or against the $35 jacket. Requests for the $30 jacket will not be entertained.
6. The only ways to vote are either to comment on this post or SMSing YEE TIEN.
7. Please state CLEARLY whether you are FOR or AGAINST the jackets. Do NOT give half-half votes like "not sure". Thanks!

Voted in favor of
-Rodney
-Yee Tien
-Azri
-Qing Hui
-Christopher
-Elis
-Daryl
-Yi Xuan
-Wei Xin
-Eran
-Zuo Qi
-Gerald
-Jun Xiang
-Natalie
-Genevieve
-Elaine
-Kristen
-Marcus
-Billy
-Petrina
-Alan

Voted against
-Shaun
-Serene

Haven't Voted
-Angus

Follow-up on Video

Hi all...

Like I've informed Qwhee and Marcus, I re-encoded the video into the handphone video format .3gp

So for those interested to keep a copy of the video in their handphone, you can download a version of it here and transfer it to their phones. Or you can always ask me for it while waiting for the bus to go training...

Cheers =)

TJBOWLING

Dedicated to TJC Bowling. Check out the nice date! Wahaha

EDIT:
For a handphone optimized version, visit the "follow-up post" on the video to download it

To our dearest B'Division Girls,

Tommorrow is the start of your fight. But remember, you are THE TEMASEK JUNIOR COLLEGE BOWLING TEAM B' DIVISION SQUAD. You are the elite team of girls to take down the national competition for us.

There is no such thing as a senior, junior , reserve or no choice then go in one, Mr Ng had the choice not to bring you all in, but he did, for one sole reason, you have what it takes. We have nothing to lose, so take your time to STRUT, fear NO TEAM, NOTHING will scare us.

Feel confident that you will come from behind and kick someone's ass. If anything, return to basics, relax, dont look back and remember why you came so far in the first place. Embrace each stike and rejoice each spare.

Last thing. Know for every butterfly in your stomach, every open frame , every word from the coach, every pain in your body, every smile and every revolution of your ball, there will be a little prayer from us, made for you to do your best and have a good time.

Play for it.

message to the team.

hi guys.

well we just felt that we owe you guys an apology la.

we do not deny that there are problems within the committee, but we assure all of you that we are trying our best to resolve them among ourselves.

to those of you who have felt that we should have done a better job, we apologize for letting you all down.

to those of you who have been disappointed with our actions, we apologized and assure you all that we are trying our best and we are just humans who make mistakes sometimes.

regarding the decisions that the exco have made, we hope to have all of your support as we believe that all decisions made are in the best interest for the team.

we welcome feedback, but to our emails please.

lastly, good luck to our b div girls =)

jackets and deposit

Hey ya. Please bring $35 on Monday for the 2 polo shirts. I'll be at the table near to ZAP in the canteen at around 7, so if you want to pay me then, it would be good.. If not, drop me an SMS any time of the day and maybe we can meet or something.

There will be a $20 subsidy so you would be only paying $13, but bring $33, because the subsidies won't be granted until a later date, and we've got to pay the aunty the deposit by Monday so she can start printing. :)

The aunty will be passing us samples of the jackets (to see the sizes, if you people are still keen on getting the jacket) and also cloth with silver/gold words printed on it. because she said that the effect might not be as nice since the font won't be too metallic.

Uhh. Oh, and she also sent me pictures of the jackets:

Hm, click on the pictures to have a better look. The first 3 are the cheaper jackets, pricing at about $30, inclusive of printing and everything. The jackets shown are of course just the design without the printing and everything yet.





This is nicer looking yeah? But nicer looking = More $$$!! Heehee. Uh, should be about $35 with printing.


Hm, so I wonder if you guys are still interested in getting the jacket. Do leave a comment/sms to tell me/YT. Don't tag!!! (: Bye~

tentative design for the polo shirts

Back of the shirt:


Front of the shirt, at the chest area:


Polo shirt colours: Dark green & bright yellow

Hm.. It will probably be gold/silver/white on dark green and black on bright yellow. See what the aunty says tomorrow man. Will keep you guys updated. :) Good night! Zzz...