Junior Bronze Award

Juliane received the Junior Bronze award for The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition! I am very surprised and happy for her. Her teacher chose a few students who are good writers, not including Juliane, in the class to participate but welcomed other students in the class to participate. Juliane decided to take part on her own accord. Surprisingly, she is the only one in her class who won a place in the competition! 

I guess Juliane has less or no pressure on her and she could write as creatively as she wants. I am proud and happy, not because Juliane won a prize but because she took up a challenge and didn't let others define who she is. I hope this experience will spur her to challenge herself more as well as to take up future challenges. :)

Early Bird catches ...

... the chocolate! :)
I was invited to an internal MOE PERI initiative sharing at MOE Language Centre, 8:45am - 12:45pm. As usual, for all my appointments and meetings, I always like to be early. It is a show of respect for others and for myself. Today, there was a bonus for being early. I won 2nd prize for being early at the MOE internal sharing! :) 

My Early Bird prize: a bag of chocolate! 

The internal MOE PERI initiative sharing

Prize Collection

More questions today from my colleagues and friends about my lucky draw prize:
"Have you collected your TV?"
"How's your new 40" TV?"
"Sony, must be good hor"

When they knew I have yet to collect it:
"How come you still don't want to collect your prize? A 40" tv leh!"
"You don't want it, is it? Then give to the office lah."

"If you don't want it, you want to sell to me?"

Haha. My dear friends and colleagues, I must thank all of you for your excitement about my prize. :) Just to let all of you know, I will be collecting my prize on Thursday lol. If you want, you can come over to my workstation to take a look at it, ok? Hahaha. :)

Lucky Draw Winner

Remember the 3rd prize that I won at the lucky draw held during my organisation's staff lunch? It's a Sony 40" LCD TV. How is it, you asked? Well, I don't know. The fact is I have not collected my prize yet! Hahaha. :P Ever since I won it on 27 February 2010, I have been asked by my colleagues almost on a daily basis if I have collected my TV and/ or how's my 40" TV lol. My colleagues are much more excited about my win than I am lol. I have also been told that no one from our department has ever won the top 5 prizes and I am really lucky lol. :P

Today, I received an email from the staff lunch organising committee asking me to collect my prize from their office by 12 March and to bring a trolley when collecting the TV as it is bulky! I guess my delay in collecting my prize stems from two reasons: 1) that the TV is bulky and I will need private transport to bring it home and 2) I have no idea where to put the TV at home. No matter where the TV ends up - in the living room, in my parents' room or in my room(! :P), we may have to rearrange some furniture. More work haha. We'll see. :)