ATHENA ATHENA ATHENA!

On the 24th of March, our juniors will set out to accomplish what we did last year! Thanks to your feedback, they’ll hopefully have a better experience!

NOTICE THE DATE! IT’S AFTER BLOCKS HAHAHAHAHA so come along if you can, bond with your juniors as you work with them to meet our target of 100,00 cans, maybe even make it a class outing!

Please inform your CT reps ASAP (by Thurs 1 March) if you would like to come!! Indemnity forms will be passed to you through your CT rep(:

THANK YOUUUUUU and jiayou for blocks!!!!!!!!!!!

LOTS OF LOVEEEE <3

AthenaFC11/12 :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

To all the Dramafeste’12 Crew!

Thank you so much for so willingly volunteering to bring stuff for the play:D

There are still a few more items we need

Coffee machine

Drink cups (can be of all colors, all sizes and all materials)

Carpets (2x pavement grey, 1x black)

Round, high tables x 3

Chairs to go with them x 8

High chairs x 2

Welcome mat

Money box

Yayy thank you so much again!

Athena FC11/12

Hey Athenians!!

Thank you so much for being so enthusiastic and coming down to support all our rehearsals and work sessions (even though there were a few hiccups initially, which we sincerely apologize for!)

Today’s work session will start from 2.30 and will last til around 8, feel free to drop by whenever you can:D

For those who didn’t come on Tuesday, here’s a list of stage props we need you to help us borrow!

Coffee machine

Drink cups (can be of all colors, all sizes and all materials)

Carpets (2x pavement grey, 1x black)

Coffee tables x3 (need not be high)

Chairs to go with them x 8

High chairs x 2

Welcome mat

Money box

Note: we no longer need masks and picture frames as there have been changes to the set design!

Do also bring along paintbrushes, chalk, pencils and measuring tape/long rulers if you can!

Let me know if you’re bringing any of the above items(: PLEASE TRY TO BRING THEM IN BY FRIDAY!

Thank you so much and see you soon:DD

Lots of love!!

Amber, on behalf of Athena FC 11/12(:

Hello J1s,

Thank you for your overwhelming response during the recruitment drive for CREW for Dramafeste’12!!

We greatly regret to inform all of you that we can only officially publish and recognise 30 names for their participation in Dramafeste (excluding cast). As such, these names will be chosen based on attendance by your senior CT reps.

Meanwhile, any one of you who are still interested and passionate and enthusiastic to help, are more than welcome to do so! We’ll be building and painting our set/props this week at the BPA. More details on dates and times will be updated through your senior CT reps and this blog, so do check back often!

You can take this chance to get to know some of your fellow Athenians and see what it’s like working behind-the-scenes in a production. Most of all, it’s the perfect avenue to expend that never-dying faculty pride and spirit!

Once again, we were very touched and heartened by your enthusiasm during the recruitment! Keep all the passion, enthusiasm, and faculty love coming. We promise we’ll make this Dramafeste’12 journey a brief but memorable one. (:

Hope to see you soon!

Love,
Teresa and Wesley
your Dramafeste’12 I/Cs

HEY ATHENIANS!!

Are you missing those good old orientation days, when we laughed and fought and danced our hearts out as one?

Afraid of drowning in homework? (Or already becoming a mugger?)

Well, VIVACE may be over, but WE THE FAC COMM certainly aren’t done with you awesome lovable bunch of juniors yet:D

Be excited for this year’s fac cip, coming up really soon – CANtribute’12!! It’s a fun-filled yet meaningful tradition passed down from your seniors. Look forward to lots of class bonding, memorable moments (and for the guys, muscle building) as team ATHENA embarks on this mission together!

This year, on Saturday the 24th of March, we will aim to collect 100,000 cans of food to benefit 10,000 families in need!!

Watch out for more details coming up soon!

AHOOT!

Love,
Athena FC 11/12

Hello Athenians!

A bigggggg thank you to everyone who came down for auditions on Wednesday/Saturday! The overwhelming amount of talent we witnessed in that short couple of hours was beyond what we expected. You guys completely blew us awayyyy.

I’m both happy and sad to announce that there will be callbacks on Tuesday, 14 February, so do hang on tight to your phones for any updates in the next 72 hours! (Happy because we are really impressed by the amazing performance of the J1s this year, and sad because we won’t be able to cast all of you for Dramafeste!)

For those who auditioned but did not get casted, please do not feel dejected! All of you were truly impeccable, and the ultimate decision lies in how suitable each and everyone of you were for the various roles. However, we’d love to have all of you in Athena’s Dramafeste’12 team, so do sign up to be part of the formidable crew! We need all the hands/enthusiasm/talent we can get!

For those who are contacted for callbacks, do reply to acknowledge and let us know if you are unable to make it for the allocated time slot asap! We’ll try our best to arrange a schedule best suited for all of you.

Once again, thank you so very much!! Words can’t express how happy/grateful/relieved/excited we were after the auditions~~

With a lot of love,
Teresa and Wesley,
your Dramafeste’12 I/Cs 

Hey there dear Athenians!

The time has come. Tomorrow is the day! After all the sweat and hard work and aching bodies and hot hours spent in the sun, tomorrow is the day we show the world Athena’s dancing prowess!

Important things to note! 

All are to report in our beautiful faculty shirt and jeans. 

We will be dancing in this order:

Also, before POP, there will be a blockings session held for 20 min from 4.10pm to 4.30pm tomorrow!

Remember everything that our dance i/cs have taught us! Straight arms, straight fingers, straight lines, straight everything! Always follow the beat and do not anticipate the timings!

Spend the next 24 hours practicing the dance! Play the Faculty Dance song during your breaks! Play the song in your head during lectures! Dance in the corridors! Dance in the bus when you think nobody is watching! Dance even if people are watching!

LET’S DO THIS ATHENA! WE SHALL CHEER OUR HEARTS OUT AND RELEASE THE DANCERS IN US WE NEVER KNEW!

Fingers crossed. All the best!

Love,
Athena FC 11/12

Hey Athenian J1s!

There’s just two days left to POP. In two days’ time, you guys will be dancing in the central plaza with the music blaring in your ears and coloured lights flashing all over. All the effort and time spent in practicing will pay off when you guys dance and cheer your hearts out on Monday, as we show the school WHAT ATHENA IS MADE OF! 😀 😀 😀

Just some tips for you guys to remember as POP draws near:

General pointers:
CHEER YOUR HEARTS OUT!
KEEP YOUR ARMS STRAIGHT AT ALL TIMES!
KEEP IN STRAIGHT LINES WHILE DANCING!
MAKE EVERYTHING SHARP! FOLLOW TIMINGS!

Some more specific things to take note:

1. When running in, align in your lines, and align your caps properly on the floor. This is important so you guys can use the caps as a gauge to align during the dance! You guys are really well-aligned when you run in, so good job! But when y’all slide out it gets a little messy! So just remember to step near the caps okay!

2. For the very first part of the first song, step out to your cap. Remember to bend low before and after the turn.
For the chorus of Get Up and Fly, just cheer the entire thing k! Including the entire “get up get up get up get up”! This part has a lot of jumping, so make sure after each jump you are already aligned to your friends around you. Try not to use more jumps to align because that will make everything look messier.

3. For the second song, just remember the timing for the “slide off to the side like a fader” part; remember, swing your arms 45 degrees at “slide off”!
For guys, take the sliding step to the right at “to the side”, and take the two steps to face your partner on “fa-der”.
For girls, crouch down at ‘to the side”, and step up again at the “der” from “fa-der”.

4. Remember to keep your hands outstretched during the part where the guy is behind the girl! And follow timings! As for the pose, pose, pose part, remember the new cheer, and just make sure the pose is sharp, just like how you guys did it today 😀

5. For the 4th song, the cap song, just remember to outstretch your hands during the wave!

6. It’s the final song already! Remember all the tips we told you guys today:

– the timing for the part after one-one-more,
– girls being confident to swing and outstretch your arms during the solo,
– guys coming out precisely on “HEY” during your solo,
– the jumping, stepping and final crunching movements! Remember to do everything according to the beat!

Okay guys, we know this is really a lot for you guys to absorb, but we really need you guys to KEEP THIS IN MIND so we really show off how good we are as a faculty on Monday evening! So please keep this in mind, and KEEP PRACTICING!

In any case, I’d just like to add that you guys are the best batch of J1s that we could have hoped for. Seeing you guys get up and dance while the fac comm were performing for campfire, something that no other faculty did, was just amazing to witness. Seeing you guys come so early for the morning practice today, though it was just campfire yesterday,  made our fac comm really proud of your batch. This year, so far, we can’t say we’ve won anything, but we can definitely say with pride and with our heads held high that we are the faculty with the most heart, most soul, and most spirit. There’s just two days left to POP, and let’s show Hwa Chong what espirito verde really means.

Long live Athena!
Love,
Tanyang
Rosanne

Hello Athenians!

Congratulations are due for both Apollo and Artemis for winning War Games and Class Performance, and Class Flag respectively! They fought well and were strong opponents, and we congratulate them for emerging victorious! Good job also to Ares, for their impressive performance and fighting spirit.

Don’t be disheartened though Athenians, you guys fought just as hard, just as well, (if not harder) and you have made all of us so very proud of you! Seeing all of you dancing and cheering and singing and having the time of your lives last night was all we needed to know that the hard work paid off.

Though we didn’t win Class Performance, Class Flag and War Games, I can still proudly say that we are not a loser fac because regardless of the results, Athena already won with our spirit, passion, and wisdom!

Thank you juniors, for giving us so much to be grateful for, to be proud of, and to remember for the rest of our lives.

Long live Athena, the loser fac no more!

Love,
Athena FC 11/12

PS: After the amazing dance practice this morning, I really can’t wait for POP!!!! Hope you guys are just as excited~ DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK, HEY!

Hello Athena!! \\n//

Honestly, it doesn’t matter if we didn’t win class performance, or class flag. It doesn’t even matter if we didn’t win war games. Who knows, we may be second in everything, and that would probably still put us first overall for the race for the fac shield. 😀

And actually, I just realised, so what if we don’t win fac shield? Right now we are undoubtedly the highest fac around. We’re the only faculty that starts our own cheers without relying on the Fac Comm, we’re the only fac that goes around chanting our dance chants, and organising dance parties. So who cares, actually, we’re having hell loads of fun together as a faculty, and that’s what matters the most. The GREEN Spirit! All of us seniors, not just the fac comm, we’re very proud we have you as our juniors!

Many of my friends from other faculties who saw the dance practise this morning came over and told me about how scary we were. We are already at the stage where we can almost just go POP and own already. By tomorrow it’s going to be perfect for the big show during POP! By POP, we’re just going to be crazy and DOMINATE the dance floor!

For some of you all, I know I spheeeak will havfffe a lot of shalivva schpittng out cause I was wearing retainers today ><. Really sorry about that! Next time before I address you all I will take them out haha!

So rest well, you should be asleep hopefully by now actually, save your energy for tomorrow, 8am to 10am, for the final dance practice before POP day and we’ll keep this spirit alive and rock the dance floor during POP! 😀

NA-NANA-NANANA-NA-NANA-NANANA-NA-NANA-NANANA ATHENA!!
Damian, on behalf of AthenaFC 11/12

PS, Natalie Yap (did I spell your name correctly), have you found your phone, it’s with your friend I think.