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(Friday, May 25, 2007-)
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# Memories
Hey ppl. Nothing much to blog about in particular. Wanna say txs again to the people who've made my life memorable.
The council. The thirtieth. It was nice hanging out at Justin's although i will say the freezing cold wasn't too nice to bear. It was fun playing mahjong although DOA was distracting (because it didn't have sound... what were u thinking??) Txs Justin for letting us stay there and use ur kitchen to cook instant noodles. Stephanie now knows how to use the microwave oven to cook instant noodles. Yay! But really, 30th, txs for letting me hang out with u guys although im like super old and retired. Retrenched even. And some of the 31st that i know too. Txs for the hospitality. I do appreciate it cuz its really out of ur hearts that u do it and not out of compulsion. At least that's how i feel. Yup, txs for the frequent times i crashed scroom too =)
The RTs, in particular The Tropics citizens. It was nice talking to you JoJo before u leave. Yeah, its all so sudden isn't it. Well, i admit i was rather sudden too when i came. But it was nice, the squeals, i dunno how u do it. The JoJo attitude, the piano playing, the handphone-Hillsong-listening-sessions. Just doing random stuff and teaching me quite a bit about band too! Modulation and transpose. I know the difference now! Also the cutting pipecleaners from the start. "You can really cut!" Haha, comment of the year! Yup, txs for all the nonsense times we shared, the lunches together, pre-orders and the occasional sardine puffs! Eugene, txs for always welcoming me and also teaching me how to gem. Hehe. And also Rubik's and lending me ur credit card and treating me quite a few cabs and lunches. Yup, even money matters quite a lot =) But really thanks for just being a friend during my stay in TJ =) Yup, really meaningful and all the best too!
Today was meaningful in the sense that i saw my first Shakespearean (how do u spell that?) play, and it was OH MY GOSH BRILLIANT!!!!!! Yes TJC Drama Club gets my standing ovation for a play well played. A show showcased in excellence. It was a moment in life. A memory. Well, let me run through this billiant performance from my point of view.
Firstly, i paid $26 to see this production. 10 for tix, 16 for the cab fare to get there in time. Shouvik, txs SO SO MUCH for saving me that front row seat. Yes, that's how i could see u Zhiyuan and Zsa^2 =)
The opening was nice! With the whole introduction of characters. Then there was the Mariam and Actors who were really the funny people of the whole production. And then we progressed into Fairyland with some evil guy and his little minion. Ok, not little literally but yeah, it got funny from there when the love potion thing started to get screwed up.
I liked/loved the entrance of the FAIRIES!! (not to mention the accompanying FIRE!! *winks at zhiyuan*) they were so well hidden!! And the whole play really took off from there, with the set coming to life.
Donkey was funny, really funny, Lysander and Demetrius were really convincing, and funny at times. Loved the fight scene. Was funny how Zsa was sat upon too! Haha!
Yes, anymore details u should have wathced the whole production!!
But i stuck around after the production to congratulate Zsa but she never came down. Congratulated the rest on an amazing show. Went up and the rest i'll jz let those who know, know.
Went home. Went to Justin's. Did the extra Innovation Day work till about 3.30am before sleeping. Couldn't really sleep cuz it was freezing. So wore socks but it was still cold. Put my towel but it was still cold. Did i mention it was freezing? Slept at about 4 plus but couldn;t relaly sleep cuz it was freezing. Yeah, freezing! Haha, ok ok, yes it was freezing. I mean, cold, very cold like freezing? So i woke up lots and only got to sleep like one plus hours before 6am came.
Went to school for Inno Day. We got pwned/owned. The other departments were so prepared lar, with videos, prototypes, experiments, demonstrations. We were like.. blabbering about blogs and sms voting... OWNED.... But the reception was nice and got a msg from JoJo that she was in school too! Haha. Then i stoned ard.. dun quite recalled what i did. Oh yeah, went to Mind's Cafe to meet Eugene and his class! Played amny funny games, like Jungle Speed, Banana Snap, Bucket-something. And then ate there (mistake) and was almost late for drama. No Zsa, I was there while the "wedding reception" was still going on ya? So i caught the WHOLE production!! Yayayayay!! It was so worth it. i know i said already, but yeah!!
Okay, post production, decided to overnight in school. Haha! Did a few stupid things. Used shampoo instead of soap, got the lights shut off while bathing, walked to scroom when the choc was on the table. But it was a nice experience. Although Aaron was acting a little weird into the night (or early morning) and zhiyuan wasn't exactly thinking right. Lie down and watch the movie *looks at ceiling and laughs*
Yup, had fun staying over. Played bridge, sorry Hui Min didn't get to bridge with you. And Big2 and watched a bit of some movie which was quite lame... Then talked quite a bit. Sorry for keeping u awake.
Finally decided to sleep at about 4am. Zhiyuan had to wake up at 5.15 for the overnight wheelchair marathon. But her alarm mysteriously didn't ring and i woke up at abt 5. Then abt 5.15 Di Hui came and immediately she woke up. Haha, cool eh? Walked to the sports com, then listened tothe briefing and went back to the scroom to rest. Didn't get much though cuz councillors started arriving for schooL. Yup, second day of sports carn. Yes i didn't bathe that morning but did help out later with the wheelchairs. Played a little badminton but the wind was screwy. Haha
Then basically bummed ard the whole day. Played the gladiator thing with Aaron and won. Hehe. Watched the funniest match ever between Cadence and Evelyn!! Basically did nothing till abt 1 plus, went home to bathe then came back for soccer cheering. Oh yes, before that i was promoting the soccer match too.
The PE tutors were drinking beer!
Finally the bus came, but not the people. Rather disappointed but oh well, 5 of us took the second bus. Cool eh, a whole bus for 5 ppl. But on the way zhiyuan and swee liang looked like they were dead. Zhiyuan was a little hard to wake, and swee liang was a little slow. Haha. We got in and cheered.
I cheered like crazy but it was honestly a disappointing performance by TJ and RJ deserved to win. Yeah, sort of lost my voice cheering for them. Then took an MRT ride back to TJ.
Met JoJo and Eugene! Haha, so nice. The final meeting of the Tropics before we part our ways. Went a little high in there but it was all cool. Stopped by the guitar prep rooms and JoJo gave her stuff and then i got seats with Eugene cuz shums asked us to go early to get good seats. Then went opposite a while then soon the concert started.
Let's jz say i did a lot of screaming and shouting for my students. And also, there was one "GO STAGE CREW" that was Mr Eugene. Stuck ard after the concert. Gave a little something to my students. Then left for home. Shuming looked dead tired. Haha.
Yup, point to note. In thesse two days, i slept only less than 4 hours, and I didn't feel tired or sleepy. Some crazy HIGH!!
OK, Next post shall be on church and the weekend! Yeah!!Labels: 30th SC, Cadence, Eugene, Evelyn, Guitar Concert, JoJo, Mind's Cafe, RTs, soccer, Sports Carninval, Swee Liang, Wheelchair, Zhiyuan, Zsa^2
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(Tuesday, March 6, 2007-)
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# More Than Life
Monday
Okays, after emo-ing on sunday, life continued like normal. Still feeling happy but lazy to shift. But I got it done anyway. But that's later. Morning was quite bad. Dunno why I was so drained. I already had the Sunday to myself and still I was tired. Oh well.
But i reached school as usual and really the blur me forgot to bring my laptop charger. So I had the laptop but no power. So it had to run on battery and to make matters better, Jonathan borrowed my laptop for a lesson he was relieving. So when it came back, it had thankfully lots of battery left, but still, i had a lesson to prepare.
Not having my own laptop is so weird, doing a Current Affairs Quiz on an alien laptop just feels wrong. So i tried to get it done by 10am by sending the file back to my laptop. Tried to get the usual images for background but for some absurd reason, i was blocked from Google Images Search page! Why?? Why?? Just beside me, Siok's was working just fine... So I tried to rush it but to no avail as only 2 questions were done and thats more like a question than a quiz. So I went to 06 with totally NO lesson planned.
Thank God they didn't expect one either. Haha, so I basically wasted time with admin stuff, except the feedback part which was the real thing i needed. Then we went off to take pictures. Quite funny how most people were in their ties and others were casual. But we took pictures anyway. More to come this Friday I think!
Then after cam-whoring and getting a nice 4-piece poster, i went back to the staffroom. Did the daily crossword although i lost to the Siok-Neha-Aaron group, i still managed to finish it with random letters here n there. Then Aaron got us a ride to Quality Hotel where our celebratory lunch was to be held. Siok and I were laughing over how it sounded so fake, like : Buy this Quality Detergent or Use Quality Noodles. Sort of the Minyak Angin Cap Kapak sort of thing... Only Malaysians will get it i guess. And Qquality Hotel is in the middle of nowhere. Oh well.. We waited quite a while but no complaints when u get a free ride in a private car of Mrs Neo, so it was cool.
Reached the Grand Ballroom after everthing had started, and the few of us in the car sat down at a table. I ate too much. Haha, but its a buffet, you're meant to eat too much ryte? I ate
-Olive Rice
-Roast Chicken
-Sweet sour fish
-Beef stew
-Hong Kong Noodles
-Some veggie... why???
-A second helping of chicken n fish. haha
-Laksa
-Chicken rice
-Cakes for dessert
-Drank orange juice and water
It was good food, but not excellent or I would have exploded. Walked with Eugene, Neha and JoJo to the MRT and MRT-ed back to Bedok. Took 31 to the back gate which was wonderfully locked so I walked the long way around. Oh well... Met some games com ppl and then some SCIP dudes and two dudettes. Few councillors were around too and they were loud. SC is loud. That's cool.
After a while, heard a familiar tune from the piano. I knew it had to be Evelyn. Yay!! One of my wish list came true!! I didn't have a guitar around but I'm not complaining. Sang quite a few songs, listened to some from 5300. It was nice. Evelyn had quite a few nice songs i've never heard of before. Even a Malay one. Haha, but Hari Ini still rocks. Oh, and sorry if i sang really bad hor Evelyn. Then after a while, Zico wanted to talk to her so i stoned around and allowed my food to digest. Then talked to Eng, who was later joined by Evelyn. The SCIP dudes seemed to be busy with the video. No idea how that's gonna turn out but ever since my year, Orientation videos have been awesomely cool. Seriously, the videos are reason enough to turn up for orientation ok?
Then after that, Evelyn left to get the JAE Posting results. Perks of being in SC. mua ha ha ha. But in the end, she didn't get a hard copy of the list, so sad, but she had a long time talking. And i didn't see her after that. Smart move Evelyn. The $4000 of orientation shirts arrived and we helped Eng get it into the scroom which has the world's MOST horrible lock. Called Steffi to get the combi, but the dial is such a horrible one that my fingers were hurt. But I randomly turned the thing and after half an hour (not exaggerating), it fell open. Phew...
Counted all the t-shirts and hauled them into the council room. Then stayed around a while before leaving for dinner and home.
Read the newspaper like a good GP tutor while eating dinner and finally told Aunty Lily that i was moving out. Somehow, i think she knew i was going to ask. But it was cool. Went smoothly and i went back to finalise the packing. Was waiting for the cab peak hour to end at about 8 and dragged majority of my stuff down. Flagged a cab and the uncle was friendly. Cost me $3.20 though. I reached my new home.
No one was in. An eerie loneliness was in the air. Unpacked my stuff slowly. Didn't quite like the smell in the room but i will survive. Decided to take a walk back home to make sure im familiar with the surroundings. Had a nice slow walk in the night home alone. Took about 25 minutes?
Part Two (a) of my wish list came true. There was FX who sms-ed me and we started to chat. Then there was Winnie. Then Aunty Kaith. Then had mom too. There were so many people msging me. Haha. Sort of funny how my wish came through digitally. Was nice to be not "lonely" on my last night in my now-ex house. Here's the complete list of ppl that I msged or msged me for various reasons.
-FX
-Winnie Chew
-Aunty Kaith
-Mom
-Stephanie Sim
-Anantha
-Cheresa
-Zsa Zsa
Looks like the only GP rep here missing is...you would know urself la ya? But no biggie. Jz had a nice night. End of Monday
Tuesday
JAE Day. Not a nice day. Shall skip everything that happened. Wanna know, talk to me? Haha. Blogging isn't everything. Just had a very low atmosphere. Fast forward to the nice part of the day, lunch with 06
It was so nice of them to decide on Gelare at Siglap instead of Far East so I had time to go with them. Had a long time waiting, and a less, but still long time ordering. But it was worth it. Had a nice time eating, chatting, and most importantly like any 06 outing, taking photos. Took some really nice ones, maybe 06 u could gimme some links for the photos of the day? Sorry goes out to Diantha who has the scariest photo of me ever. And to those i got the camera flash in their eyes. But overall it was a nice time and i took forever to leave. Darn...
Was late (yet again) for badminton at Chai Chee, but the remaining 45 minutes was worth it. Sweated a lot but had a nice game. Shot of the day, cross court from my right to the left which was almost horizontal and only about 2-3cm above the net and landing just inside with no chance to Sean. You had to be there to see it. Hee...
Then headed back to school, the long way from the interchange and got a Big Gulp. Sat around with some SC ppl and then went to the Audi. Then went home, rushed a bath, went to old house to surrender the key, collect deposit and toothbrush *winks*, went to tuition, which the family provided me with dinner, and taught tuition. Then crashed home. I was so tired... Slept till today, 6.50 instead of 6.15.
Wednesday
Yup, I was late. No surprise so I rushed out of bed, up my hill and down the six-sided dragon. School started rather differently with a mini farewell to Mr Liu. Mrs Pang takes his place as he goes off to be a principal. Mr Cecil takes her place. Then had nothing to do in the staffroom. Met some of the OGLs like Xuewen, Cai Yu (? hehe), Julie, Yumei, Shermin, and many more students.
Met Teik Kheng today and helped him with his printing and stuff. Realise I have lots of things to get done as well. Oh well. Had lunch with 21, rather, OG13 (which is sadly nameless) and talked with them. Talked to a few, maybe just one or two 2nd intakers. A cedarian. VJ reject, appealing back in. Overall, a lack of enthusiasm, characteristic of O2
Then after lunch, met Ms Lau and talked to her a bit. Then met Xuewen and Cai Yu and later on other students like Song Han and Jacob, Nicole. Then met the other RTs and Heri and Sam. Yup. Had the tribal music group who were really good perform. Potentially illegal information, they cost $1500 an hour, so yeah, they were really good. Too bad im not a tribal music fan. Found out Yumei isn't either. Hehe!
Then almost missed staff conference which had no relation whatsoever to the RTs and then had department meetings. Never knew colleges knew both the paper 1 and paper 2 grades of the students. Also, TJ Lit did extremely well. 71% Distinctions, 40% above National Average. Econs S also had 80% Distinctions. So thats some good news. Then had the bad. If i get the soft copy of results, they'll be here ok? For GP only lar of course.
Then debriefed about the English Fair. Had many comments. And i did bring up the fact that the blogs lagged like CRAZY. But also that most people bonded through this English Fair and got introduced to a variety of GP issues within the first few weeks. Many confidential details were also discussed. Haha, my students must feel so curious now. Oh well, nothing much, but there will be changes for the next EL Fair.
After the meeting, Im here in the staffroom. Back to marking I think.Labels: Cai Yu, English Fair, Evelyn, Gelare, Jacob, JAE, Julie, Nicole, packing, pictures, Quality Hotel, Shermin, wish list, Xuewen, Yumei
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(Friday, January 26, 2007-)
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# The Week That Flew By
Tuesday
Tuesday was glorious. Firstly, it was a day with only ONE lesson. So that's awesome and cool. Even better, I get to crash two PW lessons to watch my classes try to pull a skit together. Exhibitionists jz seem to be rolling along jz fine. But the awesome, cool and glorious part comes after school.
(part of tuesday cut out, FX, MY should know why)
Aunty Kaith is this person Ps Mark (awesome man!!) gave my contact to to (yes, its not a typo JY) be a tutor. And I got a call from her. While I was ironing clothes, but I was smart enough to turn the iron off before my shirts turned into new fashion statements. And we talked. Rather, it was sort of an interview. But the best and most fun one if I ever had one. And yeah, a meeting was set up at Plaza Singapura.
God is jz awesome. Mom wanted me to teach tuition and somehow by faith I guessed she knew God would pull through. And without ANY effort, I got my first student. No agency, no publicity, no strings attached... strings were even given away perhaps cuz im not doing this job for the money cuz the rate im charging, tutors would go broke. But, I thank God for literally providing me with my first student. Hope things turn out fine!
Ironed the rest of my clothes and went to bed rejoicing. :D
Wednesday
My day of double periods. It was not too bad, except GP quiz once again backfired. Note to self : STOP using transparencies for quizes. Gave 21 and 06 their first assignment of the day. However, discussions were interestin as I continued the Next Generation article's discussions. Finally they are talking back. Feels like a graveyard coming alive, minus the ghost n weird "ajaran sesat ppl" who live there. Slowly people coming out of the lifeless shell. Yup, 21 and 06 is coming alive. So much fun now, rather than e telling lame jokes the whole day. And the Evening Show with Mr Wilson has still been spared from its second episode.
Supposed to treat Mervin and Nicole to soya beans for guessing the note of the school bell. Apparently its some other guy who guessed it, not Mervin. Oh well, the cheapo here didn't treat anyone in the end cuz they were not around. Had some talk with other 04 ppl. Life is getting interesting for KI ppl as well.
Had staff conference. Jz one thing to point out, teachers have this scheme where is they work <15>14 years, its 700. How cool is that? Lemme tell you, a handphone is considered a personal productivity device. If the GP Dept gets their way, broadband access at home can fall into that category along with PDAs! If I got my way, I'd get the gun I was talking abt for PCs. Helps shut the council up during meetings when everyone is high or jz plain noisy. Think of it, how many times have u tried to get attention of ppl to give an announcement and failed? Jz with this PPD, all ur problems are solved. Plus, it can be used to threaten lazy ppl to hand in work too!
Yeah, then was GO GREEN DAY flier dist. I got to be with Beverly and Slyvia from 34. Funny, funky and happening people. Cuz we had Mdm Noraini from the G.O. with us who didn't want to walk so we took a cab!! (Waves to Zsa^2 as she screams in protest =) We reached there and thought we had it easy with th e postman being there with all the letterboxes open but he didn't allow us to put, so we went house by house. Then I ran out of fliers. Then I realised my big mistake. Should have jz spammed the mailboxes after he left cuz there was this small slit. Where did my two years of LEO ONC go and hide?? Oh well..
It got more fun as the video/promo crew arrived. Beverly and Sylvia were sabo-ed by their CT, Mrs Noordin to be a part of the video promo. Filming it was so hillarious as it was so kayu at first, ppl not getting the angles right, Beverly being a bimbo, and many other funny scenes which you could jz guess. And then Mdm Aini wanted to leave so I went with her on th eway out and she bought goreng pisang for us, which were like GM Bananas. They were huge!! And all the bimbos ate one, including me. Yes, I admit the bimboness for letting the crumbs spill all over..
I was a little late for my meeting with Aunty Kaith so i hurried to Bedok Interchange, MRT-ed to PS and met her at Yamaha. Met Vincent too, talked things over, got free dinner from Aunty Kaith whom I met for the first time who is not even in hte same church as me. So sweet! Gave me this awesome book to read even. Im in chapter 1 part 2 i think. Yup, then headed back home and slept.
Thursday
My only one period at 3pm day. Had a very tough time marking the assignments. Cuz of all the 1/2 and 1 marks to decide on. Mostly failed but there were a few passes. So far two out of three GP reps passed i think, or all passed. Quite a good start, but wanna give a huge, enormous round of applause to Joanne of CG 06/07 for scoring FULL MARKS!!!! I was blown away.... like..
All the way to the chem dept blown away... And got some stickers from Jocelyn. See, Most Caring RT Award truly belongs to her. I wanted to give one, but JOcelyn insisted on two. But Joanne, u totally deserved it! Totally totally cool. Yeah. *hops around*
Hops to LT4 for SCIP elections. I lose a "bet" (which was on nothing) that the SCIP elections would start at 4.50 but he won when it started at 5.15 due to delays. It started about 3/4 of an eternity after its actual starting time of 4.30. Quote of the day to Evelyn from me, "You need a gag". Yeah, Evelyn and I go wayyyyy back. As far back as Mei Hui in JB. Hahaha, jz literally far lar, not figuratively. Anyway, glad u got the sex-cretary post u wanted although Ms N was so scary. Happy that the ppl I liked got the posts. My grand junior, Michael from SJI. All the way!! Perhaps we shall meet again Evelyn, if u dun run back to JB as often as Mei Hui!
Then went to meet Benjamin Ong whos on work training by HP in Singapore. Very nice to have the chance, but then again, being the blur Malaysian I am, I took the wrong exit at Orchard MRT and took almost half an hour to reach Lucky Plaza. Sorry Ben. Met his friends. Not too nice people on their personality so ask Ben abt them ya? Ben treated me MOS burger!! Yaynesses!! Second dinner treat in two days. Kind of a nice reward for doing QT every morning. Txs God! Got my socks and a nice talk with Ben. Had a mini econs lesson too about Malaysia's emerging economy.
Went back on a 16. Stopped at VJ instead of VS. Walked all the way home... Sad, but still rejoicing on the inside. God is truly good! Hope God grants miracles to 06 for their skit too. Patchy, but falling into place.
Friday
One word : BUSY. First four periods were lessons. 06 exhibition ppl were so bored. Sorry Yumei, Sek Hui and Dao En. 21 ppl, well, skit falling in place. I really thank God for Zsa^2 who is pulling it together and everyone who listens to her. Also to those who did the blogs, awesome stuff.
Next was some quick marking then Dao Kang came for lunch. I was late. Sorry ya DK. Ate my "dinner" meal. Then DK crashed TJ for a bit. Then I had to quickly finish my marking, Completed all and tabled all the results. Passes here and there, but hope to see greater things!
Went to meet Jean at City Hall. Walked the bottom of Raffles City. With weird shops selling extremely ex stuff. Walked to and through all six floors of Funan till we almost died.. And founf, in Jean's favourite adjective, fugly stuff. We established criteria no. 1 for all laptop bags/cases, it must have handles. If not, reject it no matter how cool it looked. So with this rule, we looked through many fugly bags and finally gave up cuz they were too ex anyway. Waited for 20mins for 14. It came and we "epitomised the idiom 'packed as sardines' " according to Jean. Yup. was a tiring ride. Taught Jean to bluetooth messages but she had more fun sleeping on the way back
Reached the stop and waited for 12. Thank God I didn;t miss it cuz the non-double decker one came. I raced to the hawker center, ordered my "dinner" raced once again to TJ. Reached Audi at 7.30 when i was supposed to be there at 7.00. Great. I opened the door and expected at most 50 parents, but there was like slightly less than a 2nd O crowd! It was scary. I did shiver and was scared but God must have calmed me down when I finally started my speech at 8.20, a quarter of an eternity away from the actual time of 7.40. Gave my speech, but ALL credit goes to God who must have helped me so much. Cuz Ms Ying didn't think anything spectacular of it, netiher did Ms Faye Tan who vetted it a second time nor Mrs Lim who saw it for clarification, but it went on very well and I've been invited to speak to the Year 1 and 2 cohorts to spur them on!
Talked to some parents then rushed off to church. Rachael was having her powerfully wonderful sessions today. Although it looked like P1 art class with all the drawings, it was a meaningful reflection on our past, present, and (this is the best) our hoped for future and our most feared future. Yup. maybe you'd take some time to reflect on it too? See where you wanna be? How you're gonna get there? Can you make it? If not, try God and see if He can ever fail you? Theme song : I Surrender
Awesomely tiring day. Random stuff. Phildia, looks cute in TKGS U, but Julie... err.. P5? N txs for not falling asleep ya Phildia in my speech. I got a Singapore souvenier for the speech. Audi is cold as ever. Staffroom too. Funan is big. 50 minutes is short. Bedok Swimming Complex is so far ppl need to cab down to TJ. Google Earth was so sabo-ed by me. I dunno what a vanguard sheet is
Ok, enough of weird-i-ness. Yaynesses. Signing off.
Photos in next post if i have time. Gave up on the HTML which goes haywire everytime i upload them. Ciaoz n God Bless U!Labels: Aunty Kaith, Evelyn, Flier distribution, Joanne, Phildia, PTD, QT Reward, SCIP, Tuition, Vincent
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