CCA Awards 2008

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Tremendous support and full rounds of applause were given to the winner of the CCA Awards yesterday morning at the hall of Pengiran Jaya Negara School. Tan Zong Hao, 15, the Assistant Head Prefect of the school for the year 2008, received a plaque accompanied by a certificate presented by the school’s headmistress, Cikgu Marina Chek binti Bujang. He was nominated by the Head of Business Department for his commitment towards making the Business Club a great success, which includes the start of a “Deejaying” system in the school.

Speaking to the reporter of Vance Tan Online was the Senior Mistress of the school, Cikgu Zainab when reporter, Vance Tan met her at the event. She said, Zong Hao, has received the award for three consequent years starting from the year 2005 until 2008. He has diversified his commitment to almost all clubs he was in so that all clubs can excel together in the near future.

The event was then continued with a few prize presentation ceremonies, including the presentation of prizes to the winners of the Spell It Right Challenge and the POA Quiz.

The Emcees for the CCA Awards, for everyone’s information, were Afif Abu Bakar and Hairol Ezza.

The Emcees of the CCA Awards

All smiles for Zong Hao

Back to back seater (photo by V.Sahlan, vancetan.com)

Journalist and photographer in action

Another winner of the POA Quiz

Making Science a success

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Science, taken seriously. The Science Department of SMPJNPHAB, was nominated as one of the best departments in the school, with their non-stop extensive hardship to foster and inculcate the influence of science amongst the students.

In conjunction with the upcoming Science Day ‘08 on the 27 November 2008, the Science Department is sparing one week of sleepless night, just to make way for the Grand Event of the Science Day. Amongst some of the highlights of the Science Day includes:

1. The Demonstration on the “Extraction of essential oil”
2. Tech Challenge competition (for lower secondary)
3. Tech Challenge competition (for upper secondary)
4. Science Sprint (Science treasure hunt).
5. Science Quiz
6. Science Jumbled word
7. Health checks up by the Ministry of health.
- Blood group check (INTERESTING!)
- Blood pressure
- Teachers and parents to donate blood.
8. Healthy Food Bazaar.
9. Healthy Food competition.
10. Play and Learn activities
- Table game
- Task Card
- Floor game

P/S: PJN Form 3 and Form 5 students, please come and join in the fun.

SMK Healthy Fruit Juice Making: Teachers and students packed the canteen area of SMPJNPHAB today trying to grab the title of a champion and runner up, right after the CCA Awards this morning. The event lasted for one hour and the products made the judges raise an eyebrow, but are the taste as good as how they appeal?

Vance Tan Online™’s journalist, Veroney Sahlan, reports:

Over 30 students and teachers combined joined the Sekolah Mempromosikan Kesihatan Juice Making this morning. The output was quite appealing with juices of various tastes that enhance your taste buds. Every fine details had to be taken into consideration as the judging criterias made the judges think quite a lot. Anyway, the winning group goes to Cikgu Nazlenny’s group. Congratulations!

A mouth-watery juice by Cikgu Aini’s group

Delights by Cikgu Saidin and Yura

Citrus and malic punch to punch away your thirst

While some activities are buzzing all the way at the school’s cafeteria, a group of people just decided to kidnap some teachers for a photograph session, since that will mark their end of secondary 5.

A long lost tradition

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Weaving, hand-made articles, home sewn designs and has yet been another arts which has been long lost in the sprawl of modern technology, whereby goods and handcrafts could now be manufactured through embroidery methods, unlike the past.

Whilst people search for the long-lost treasure, a particular school in Kuala Belait has done their very best to revive the tradition of hand-weaving by establishing a cross-stitch club. The club serves to educated students from all levels on how to cross-stitch a huge range of products and to get the hang of “cross-stitch engineering”. According to the club’s supervisor, the cross-stitch club only accepts girs as members as the intake of boys into the club the past few years deemed to be a failure.

When Vance Tan Online™ came across the cross-stitch club this morning, journalist Vance Tan, managed to interview the club’s supervisor in person to find out why boys are not accepted as members of the cross-stitch club as well as other frequently asked questions. Shown below are the products of the interview prepared for online broadcast by Vance Tan Media™. ‘I’, ‘You’, ‘Myself’ ‘Me’ in the interview refers to the club supervisor.

The main issue: Why boys are not accepted?
Generally, the main reason why boys are not accepted currently, is due to the unwillingness of some of the boys students to cooperate with the teacher when the lessons are given. Some boys may seem interested to join the cross-stitch club as they just wanted to take advantage of that one hour to have their “Sweet Moments” by staying as close as possible to the their loved ones.

When did the cross-stitch club establish itself for students?
The cross-stitch club started in about the year 2006 when the school launched the starting of the Co-Curricular Activities.

What are your views on cross-stitch?
When I first started the club as a newbie in about the year 2006, I myself should say that I was not that expert as compared to the other team members. I slowly developed the engineers of cross-stitch only after multiplied amounts of cross-stitches done and exhibited. Actually, cross-stitch is just an easy game of penetrating the threads through the pieces of clothes and it just depends of how fast you can do it and how passionate you are for it.

How many designs have your club done so far?
As I said, I personally have done a lot of cross-stitches projects, and to sum everyone’s cross-stitch, the total amount would mean heaps and heaps of uncountable designs. Of course, we all started with the simple designs like stitching names and alphabets until we got use to it. Stitching designs on pillow and phone book came afterwards.

What are your advise for the teens out there?
To the teens out there, I would advise them to acquire this wonderful arts of cross-stitching as the arts of hand weaving should be always passed on to the next generation.

Last question from Vance Tan Online™: Would the club be opening to boys next year on request by vancetan.com?
Yes, we will hope to see interested and passionate boys participating in the cross-stitch club next year and make sure that they have to be really focused during the lessons.

CfBT Road Show at SMPJNPHAB

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CfBT Education Services Sendirian Berhad is claimed to be a Brunei company of local and international owners. The main focus of CfBT’s work according to the CfBT website, is focusing on the recruitment and management of English teachers to work in government schools. CfBT is contracted to provide 265 teachers at Primary and Secondary level.

Sekolah Menengah Pengiran Jaya Negara Pengiran Haji Abu Bakar, the most prestigous school around Kuala Belait, have been honoured this morning to host the CfBT road show, with more than 60 students joining the road show. Amongst some of the activities lined up for the students of Menengah Four are reading skills, listening and speaking skills, writing and planning skills and also life and study skills. The CfBT road show was conducted by four teachers expertised in their own field.

Also, during the road show, students enjoyed English to the fullest as games were conducted. A student from SMPJNPHAB at the same time won a mock cheque of $100,000 from the Sir Andrew Dowlings for completing a grammar and vocabulary task which comprises of extremely bombarstic vocabulary.

The Schedule of the Road Show

The participants of the CfBT road show

An English teacher from the company

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Enough for only two + What friends are for

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“What describes something which is good for one, enough for two and not at all for three?” and the answer is a secret. Well, a lot of best friends all around schools and workplaces often share secrets amongst themselves as trustworthy is the thought of them.

Certain secrets may reveal the identity and character of someone’s house matters or family matters depending on the situation. While on the contrary, secrets shared between friends may also consist of personal problems of different aspects. Some people really do not know how to control their emotions and blabber-ness and would ocassionally blurt out secrets of their friends in the midst of fun, but unintentionally.

If you are that kind of person, what do you do? Of course, a person who unintentionally blabbers secrets in any form is termed to have tattletale disease, as suggested by most people. They would just let out anybody’s secret in just the snap of the fingers. To consider on how to prevent this sort of sickness or illnesses, several ways can be occasionally practiced and take noted.

The one most important thing of keeping a secret is to dump away the habit of “You know what”, “I know something..do you want to know”, “Like seriously..oh my god” and even “There’s got one guy…he’s like…”, which usually happens with middle-aged teens. Certain provoking words like the ones stated above are often the gateway to the letting out of a secret.

Besides that, you may also consider the harm of letting out a secret that does not belong to you originally. A lot of secrets that are shared to you, particularly your best friend, are often secrets that are quite sensitive. As a matter of fact, letting out a secret which has something to do with his/her family problems may make him/her feel humiliated and face-off.

Do not try to whisper your friends secret, even to him/her self in front of a huge crowd as that will be a loophole for people to join in the conversation. People tend to be suspicious if you whisper to your friend and might think that you’re actually gossiping at them. Try to keep cool and ensure that vasodilation should not occur on the cheeks of your face as this would prove that something secret is going on between you and your friend.

A word of thanks to the mystery artist: A Bruneian local artist gave Vance Tan a potrait of his drawing this morning to mark the appreciation of the 1st aniversary of Vance Tan Online on 1st November 2008. The drawing drawn using stencil pencil and an eraser is claimed to be the fastest drawing being completed, about an hour only. All the details of the drawing were exactly similar and the artist even designed the potrait accordingly to Brunei’s custom, Melayu Islam Beraja. Vance Tan personally would thank the Mystery Artist (who doesn’t wanted to be named at the moment) for the drawing.

What friends are for: as requested by Jasper Wong and Durrah Nafeesah Hj Idris

They smile and pose for your website or blog

They support you in times of happiness and sadness

They spy on you using their hand-made teropong

They keep you smiling with their acts