ALRIGHT. finally i can get online n make my browser work. i still haf tis stupid adware thing though.... the blockChecker or sumtin like that. whatever. One whole week!!! i had so many things to blog... yea bud e word is had. i forgot n am too lazy to recall.

just e major stuff....
i rmb the VS matter and i rmb meeting up wif stef!! n had absolutely no other affections for her other than being a loooong lost fren. yeps... anyway. lets tok bout e VS matter. seems like awholelot of peeps r askin mi stuff bout wads happening to VS n y im this worked up about it.

yeps... so here it is. the VS entry.

ok the thing happening now is that the present principal has proposed to MOE to turn Victoria School into a co-ed institution, meaning to turn our backs on a 129-year tradition and being the only all-boys government sch in Singapore. And all victorians (bar a extremely minority: bloody Hong yes... im tokin about YOU!) are totally against the idea. So a few of them has come up with an online petition for victorians to show their dissent.

from the petition webbie:

[ About The Petition ]

Disclaimer: This petition was written by an old boy and is entirely his personal opinion. They do not necessarily represent the views of this site and its Admin.
Please take the time to read this.
You should know what you are signing.

Everything written here is factual, and based on input from one of the members of the VAC/VEC, that is, the Victoria Advisory Committee. The basic premise for the switch to Co-ed is to keep VS sustainable, as an academic institution, since you all know we’ve been going down consistently over the last 5 years.

The Need?

An evaluation done by a team of educational specialists predicted academic trends in VS over the last 5 years; apparently the school is on a downward spiral, and ultimately unsustainable. Typical slippery slope argument; our last batch pulled us back from band 3 to band 1 in the rankings, but this has been declared inconclusive evidence of a trend reversal by the VAC. But what is has done is buy us some time. The details on how, when and at what level of detail this prediction was performed at, is currently unknown. Amongst those who did this review are Mr. Ang, Mrs. Chan (principal, VJC, and thus VAC secretary), and experts from Hwa Chong Institution.

The Argument

Mr. Ang posits that we need to bring in girls into the school because 1) girls will raise the academic standard of the school in and of itself (statistically, it is true that girls do better) and 2) bringing girls into the system is the given pre-requisite for IP (integrated program) to continue, or VJC will not accept partnership in IP with VS since it is deemed to be the ‘weaker partner’. This move is supported by Mrs. Chan, who does not support IP with VS, but in her capacity as secretary of the VAC, advocates that we bring in girls into VS anyway because she is concerned for our welfare. Mr. Ang also advocates IP as imperative to keep us sustainable.
The move for Co-Ed is spearheaded by Dr. Ong Chit Chung, Chairman, Victoria School & Victoria Junior College Executive & Advisory Committees, and MP for Jurong GRC. He has also indicated that a joint-IP with TKGS or Cedar (the way TCHS and NYGH are doing IP with HCI) is out of the question and MOE has told us not to interfere with them, because it would be unfair to force them into a union under VIP just so our IP programme can take off.

What we need to do

Hence, the crux of the issue is how to keep VS sustainable academically. The proposal to become a co-ed school is premised upon the evaluation that VS is academically unsustainable.
We posit that we not only need a mass petition to signify to the school administration that there is no ground support for their proposal, but also that we know what the problems with the system are, are what can be done to make VS sustainable ultimately. Be it school culture, teachers, better attitudes or a more efficient administration, speak up.
Hence what we are looking for is a counter-proposal, an evaluation of the problems and how to solve them, to deal with the very roots of the issue. Co-ed is the thing that made us all worked up, but do not lose sight of the chief issue at hand. We need to make it clear that we have a culture to preserve, that it may be intangible but not worth any less than the tangible aspects just because we cannot quantify them. We need to tell those who say they want to preserve and save the school to know that they save nothing if they rob us of identity. Without results we would be Siglap Link secondary; we’re agreed that that’s unacceptable. With results but as another anonymous mixed school, we are nothing.

To all Victorians; you know what is good about and what is wrong with the system. Email comments and ideas to the webmaster. The Review Committee meets within 4-5 weeks time, to discuss the OVA’s official stand on the issue (no statement has been issued so far) if you have something productive to contribute, if you can stand in front of the VAC and tell them why Co-Ed is a mistake, you should let us know. Again, email the webmaster.

Victoria Thy Sons Are We.
(This write-up is written by Lin Hong Xuan, 4C, graduated in 2003)


yeps. ok i wun tok about the feasibility or viability of the proposal. what most victorians are so agitated about is the subsequent consequence it will bring to VS and what it has managed to do in all of its 129 years - to mould her students of boys into men. The VS spirit is in such abundance among victorians of all batches it would be devastating for us to see such treasured be taken away and never passed down. in some way or another any victorian would have witnessed the victorian spirit and sense of brotherhood existing between victorians, be it at the track&field or crosscountry meets the constant cheering the neverending spelling cheer... or respective CCAs at competitions. we are moulded into men of character. it is really... something being a co-ed school can never achieve. we are proud of singing the VS anthem we are proud to be waving Victoria's flag and we are proud and glad we chose Victoria.

i rmb baq when i was in the choir. n during competitions the VS spirit was thr for evryone to see. wrote this when i was using multiply:

i haf alot alot alot of memories about choir... there was e VS spirit... Vs choir is realli sumtin diff... veri difff. sumtin u can't experience anywhere else. nt SPchoir. nt anywhere... i rmb alot... when we got gold at SYF... evrybody jumping arnd. n we did e VScheer in Nanyang(SYF held dere)... every other sch was like lookin at us bud we dun cre... then got into finals. eventually lost to tkgs. n i rmb nelson sayin we did our best n he couldn't have asked for more... we were still happy though... n cheered again outside VCH.(finals held dere). bud it wasnt about the cheering... it was the unity n passion n sense of belonging n e SPIRIT.... two yrs later sweat blood n got gold again... tis time diff. tis time we were d sec4s... we were d ones leading n we got gold(barely)... it was nt success dat strucked mi noe... i juz felt relieved n happy for d choir... n bournemoth trip. went there n trashed CEDAR... thrashed all d english choirs dere... won evry single group we entered. n got best choir of e yr... dat was when i was still in sec1... d first time i felt d SPIRIT. i've been tokin bout d SPIRIT so many times, bet u wondering wad d hell is it rite... dun tink u'll ever noe... its sumting victorians will always haf a memory of... realli miss VSCHOIR....

yeps... we dont want to see evrything vanish. and i want to scold the stupid ANG. ever since he set foot in VS he has been rubbish n nothing else. yeah so he's ranting about how our results are goin downhill... bud i rmb err b4 him. Mr Chia got us into top 10. and the deprovement started after our dear APC came in?? so yea... and he is someone who breaks his own promises. Public enemy no.1

ohhh... n dere was the victorian challenge!! evry four years we would hold tis ting whr victorians would come up with challenges all of us would do. the painting of the old grandstand at geylang bahru was the result of this. it has sadly been painted white by the new occupants. our class did the challenge at new site and we came up with the idea of forming the sch badge with candles. we did it overnite.... n this is it.














i love Victoria.