Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:44 AM
I have made up my mind to be a Marketing Manager.
Responsibilities:
-Planning & developing marketing strategies.
-Providing administrative support for marketing and promotion of Executive Education Programmes & IT Services.
-Event and logistics management / coordination and liason with vendors to ensure smooth delivery of marketing events .
-Liaison with internal and external clients/participants before, during and after programme commencement.
-Delivering a superior level of customer service and programme satisfaction.
-Marketing collateral production.
-Update and maintenance of corporate website.
-Conducting market research.
Requirements:
-Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree, Post Graduate Diploma or Professional Degree in Marketing or equivalent.
-At least 2 year(s) of working experience in the related field is required for this position.
-Applicants should be Singaporean citizens or hold relevant residence status.
-Preferably Managers specializing in Marketing/Business Development or equivalent.
-Possess excellent communication, organization skills and team ethic.
-Demonstrate a professional disposition, personal leadership and maturity.
-Possess keen attention to detail, excellent time management and ability to work under tight deadlines.
-Competent knowledge of MS Office applications, web designing, graphics editing using various softwares.
Well, when i think of Chong Boon, the first thing i taught of is the rules and regulation. Every school has their own rule to abide, and there is no way we can prevent that from happening. A rule is a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, and if we do not abide the rules, we are just merely ruining our school's reputation. But nonetheless, in my opinion, i think there are some rules of Chong Boon that are uneccessary at all. Perhaps after i explain my reasons for obstructing some regulations, the in-charge will do something about it.
Firstly, the handphones. In my handbook, it is clearly stated that no handphones should be allowed in Chong Boon premises, and i partially disagree with it. Imagine, we come to school without handphones, how are we going to contact our parents of the latest happenings, and for emergency purpose? So i think handphones should be allowed in schools. As long as we do not reveal our phones to the teacher, i do not think they should ban handphones from school.
Another thing, its about the shoe. Things has got into better state after allowing white shoes. But before that, life was miserable with the rule saying that we had to wer the school shoes. The quality and the design of the shoe does not suit most of our likings. And even if we were not to have much movements with this shoe, it still worn out after a few months just by walking. So i think things will be even better if Chong Boon were to allow sports shoes to school as it will save us alot of money as we can buy a better quality shoe rather then having a limit. I hope Chong Boon would allow sports shoe as soon as possible.
So i can conclude that, with Chong Boon allowing handphones, and allowing sports shoe, i believe things will get much better and we can have a better life in Chong Boon without the need of using handphones suspiciously and wearing good shoes without spoiling it so soon.
Sunday, March 23, 2008 5:45 AM
Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year, especially by people outside China. It is an important holiday in East Asia. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival ().
Chinese New Year's Eve is known as Chúxī (除夕). Chu literally means "pass" and xi means "Eve".
Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had a strong influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Koreans, Mongolians, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, and formerly the Japanese before 1873. In Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and other countries with significant Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated, largely by overseas Chinese, but it is not part of the traditional culture of these countries. In Canada, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Canada Post issues New Year's themed stamps in domestic and international rates.
Although the traditional Chinese calendar did not use continuously numbered years, its years are now often numbered from the reign of Huangdi outside China. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various writers, causing the year beginning in 2008 to be 4706, 4705, or 4645.
Chinese New Year starts on the first day of the new year containing a new moon (some sources include New Year's Eve) and ends on the Lantern Festival fourteen days later. This occurs around the time of the full moon as each lunation is about 29.53 days in duration. In the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20. This means that the holiday usually falls on the second (very rarely third) new moon after the winter solstice. In traditional Chinese Culture, lichun is a solar term marking the start of spring, which occurs about February 4.
The dates for the Spring Festival from 1996 to 2019 (in the Gregorian calendar) are at the right, along with the year's presiding animal zodiac and its earthly branch. The names of the earthly branches have no English counterparts and are not the Chinese translations of the animals. Alongside the 12-year cycle of the animal zodiac there is a 10-year cycle of heavenly stems. Each of the ten heavenly stems is associated with one of the five elements of Chinese astrology, namely: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The elements are rotated every two years while a yin and yang association alternates every year. The elements are thus distinguished: Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, etc. These produce a combined cycle that repeats every 60 years. For example, the year of the Yang Fire Rat occurred in 1936 and in 1996, 60 years apart.
Many confuse their Chinese birth-year with their Gregorian birth-year. As the Chinese New Year starts in late January to mid February, the Chinese year dates from 1 January until that day in the new Gregorian year remain unchanged from the previous Gregorian year. For example, the 1989 year of the snake began on 6 February 1989. The year 1990 is considered by some people to be the year of the horse. However, the 1989 year of the snake officially ended on 26 January 1990. This means that anyone born from January 1 to January 25 1990 was actually born in the year of the snake rather than the year of the horse.
Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of the two calendars, incorrectly using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese New Year dates.
Monday, March 10, 2008 7:42 AM
The trip to the Singapore Flyer was indeed a memorable one. We took a coach there, but it demoralized all of us as the coach was not as comfortable as what we expected. Nonetheless we arrived there with an exciting piece of mind. We assembled there, we got our tickets and we were happy that there was edusave to subsidize the amount of the ticket. We all wished to have the ticket kept as we might have to wait for a long time before the next visit. Hurray! It was our turn first to board the wonderful observation wheel. We queued up together, impatiently waiting for the capsule to descend to us.
We boarded the capsule. It was air-conditioned and it was spacious and cozy for us to settle in. However, it was unfortunate that we had to separate from the girls as we do really wish to enjoy our time with them. We took measurements and estimated the volume of the capsule. It took us only 5 minutes to do that. As the cacophony of students' chatter excites the atmosphere, there were also a few students complaining that it was a waste of their time until they reached the maximum point of the revolution. It took approximately 25 minutes before it reaches the maximum point. Each and every one of us stared in wonderment by the breathtaking view of Singapore. We saw places like Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Merlion Park, Fullerton Singapore, Collyer Quay, and Padang etc. We took pictures of ourselves at the capsules, how we wished those girls were with us.
We were reluctant to alight the capsule after the complete revolution. We wanted to go for another round as the scenery was too spectacular for us to part with. However, after alighting, we went to the rainforest and took pictures of the modified erupted volcanoes and waterfalls. Then we had our 30 minutes break. We bought cup noodles and we sat down at one corner and discussed our feelings of the trip while having our breakfast. After that, we went to the rooftop garden. There were lots of centipedes but we were not afraid of them. We took a class photo at a grass patch. After that, we were told to do a reflection on that day's experience. We wrote our expectations, descriptions and our memories on one piece of mahjong paper. After that, it was time to go back to school.
On the whole, i think that this trip is a historical and marvelous one. I get to see the whole Singapore with my friends under one capsule for the first time. I do wish that Chong Boon will have similar outings like this for us.