Christmas Special
Season's Greetings! And a related discussion is ongoing at our Notebook project.
No new issue for both projects on the last week of the year. We'll be back after the New Year. - En & Hou
(Feb 2006, also see Christmas Special, Continued)
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posted by En and Hou at 6:33 AM
Xpress cartooning by two students, En & Hou
reflecting the Singapore
education system and its schools. 
171 Comments:
Nice. Censor it =p
Happy Xmas to you guys too.
y'know the horse has been dead for a long time.
you can stop flogging it now.
or is the rarefied atmosphere up there giving you a one track vision?
I'm Number one! I'm number one! Wow pretty vicious and yes the AC mythical beast has been much debated to what it is, kinda bit much on the blood and gore, shouldn't the Greek Gods be taking revenge on Santa for killing their disciples? Hahaha but well done once again guys and to all, a Merry Christmas! God Bless y'all! Hohoho!
-Prospero
Yay! I'm so number 5th on the post! Good Job!
Wicked! Finally some neighbourhood school kids making their debut.
Haha good connection with the RV "roots of tradition"!hahaha what about NY and HC?
Santa looks super cute!
ohno. tragic deaths. x.x
haha good job! and you seemed to miss out RG there
oops sorry made a mistake!
woohoo!~ 11th comment made. its a good one on elite schs vs neighbourhood schs. studentssketchpad rox on!!! :D
btw...the creature on the ACS Crest has an eagle's wings, dragon body and lion 's head...though i'm quite sure the creature as a whole has no particular name :p
santa is an anagram for me :D
oh gosh this is good. superb.
so far 2 elite schools have not been mentioned in any series. one girls' school and one boy's school. wow.. i actually keep track.. heh...
gan lame
It blew my mind away when I read, yet again, another FANTASTIC AND SURREAL, storyline you guys have conjured up outta yer head.
WELL DONE! And tat play (anagram) on SANTA (SATAN) was superbly thought out!
You even had it colorfully done! Guess it is the Xmas edition, yeah?
Go on drawing, dudes, and may Xmas be truly its meaning and spirit it shld be!
@haematoma
What dead horse theme? You mean this is hackneyed? Tot otherwise. Quite original to me.
Wahahaahah Santa is Satan actually, be careful of what you wish for, for you may get a merry 666 xmas!
zzzz
Dont get the 666 part...wat significance is this? Another astrological omen?
Missing panels...
For some reason not all load each time.
Thats indeed a bloody xmas...hohoho...can u guys do one on all e JCs in singapore ??? Haha...coz always see sec sch very sian :P
666 is the number of the beast, omg you noobs
My birthdate next year will be 06/06/06. heh
Ah yes! Think some biblical thingy, yeah? Will read on this and put in moi's S$2 worth soon!
And yes. ACS does have a unique chimera on its hand : lion's head, eagle's wings and dragon's body. Apparently a fusion of East and West.
And there is a teaching vacancy available. And I hope I can be a residence-master too! Heh
Aw man.Where's MGS huh.
God damn it, where's my SJI?!
WELL DONE!! =)
Ah yes! Book of Revelation Chapter 13 has a 666 beast or man. Who the heck is he/it? Anyone has the answer?
Blogger seems to be having a problem with images for today, so if the images fail to load in sequence, try reloading Ctrl-F5. (19 pages total)
Cheers,
Hou.
Hahah... Funny.
Why no TKGS?
hey i think this thingy about elite schools is a little too long-running isnt it we've been seeing this stuff for weeks! and the ac thingy is really weirdo shit! oh and im an ri boy but i still dunno whats a gryphon :( what isit?
Wif all due respects sir, I think what En & Hou had, creatively and originally, done was to put together the beasts as represented in the various elite schools emblems to put acroos their version of an Armageddon of sorts.
It could also possibly be tat it is within the elite schools that the demons and monsters could be summoned forth to deal the blow of Dooms-day.
The other skools probably do not have as rich a picking as do the elite ones....
i am happy! :)
The Book of Revelations Chapter 13 has it that to decipher wat this 666 thing stands for, it calls for wisdom.
"Whoever is intelligent can figure out the meaning of the number of the beast, because the number stands for a man's name. Its number is 666." (quote and unquote)
The gryphon is a stately creature emblazoned in yer school's crest dude.
question!
why is rg white elephant?!!!
Those slides are new, or are they? Didn't see the parts abt RVHS and SANTA being sued off his knickers!
This is really a riot of laughs!
And santa is a FAT bastard? Wahahahaha...
I think the white elephant was juz an allusion to our more than "reported-to-death" headlines in the press! Nothing to do with RGS in particular, right EN & HOU?
Just fer laughs..rite? RITE?
eh, the gen1 word on 11th is wrong. keke :D
great post nonetheless. esp liked the one in which the chinese high boys scream "tian yi!" while being incinerated by the torch. :D
z0mg...
You made it sound like RGS isn't a part of the Raffles family. ^.^
But I like the part leading up to the conclusion.
Hilarious. But u guys missed out dhs!!! boohoo
I liked the linkback to the bunny offering from the St. Nicks gal... inside joke for regular readers ba...
Wat bunny? Wat linkback?
haven't you all heard about the white elephant project by a class in rgs?
huh is the project a white elephant???
haha i dont even know how a gryphon looks like anyway... maybe it loooks like this -.-
HEY GUYS!!! U missed the rgs ppl this issue??? Wat happened to them? Anyway nice work! One of the best =D
Dark Kaiser : It's on page 8!
Cheers,
Hou.
ah why white elephants?
i like the chinese high and ny torch tho XD
is this somehow related to the movie "santa's slay"?...
great job but where's ri and rgs?
missed 2 slides sry!
no sji. <:( im depressed.
Mein Gott, you just break newer and newer barriers each time don't you. Haha well done, well done.
Really entertaining and ingenius=)I appluade your creativity but best you not leak ur school now yeah?
This is really good, your best so far! Keep up the good stuff! hoho. XD Merry Christmas!!
Nice parody of "Santa's Slay". Which is probably a crappy movie. I haven't watched it. :P
I laughed out loud at the part where 'elite' students were getting picked off...And at the St. Nicks part. This issue is so violent and bloody. Well, not everything on the intarweb is child-friendly. Cover the eyes of your young 'uns!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND KEEP DRAWING :D
I just noticed that Teck Whye is there! Well, I'm not from Teck Whye...
Heh, good going you all.
HAHAHAHAHA FUNNY AS SHIT.
Respect!
Perhaps those who complain the same schools are featured each time would like to suggest something else that can be parodied/made fun of.
Less well known schools really don't have that much material for the artists to draw on.
Hey! Nice comic this time :D
Happy to see that finally my school has been featured, haha only a tiny bit though. But still, great job done :)
Organization? Oh no, you have fallen to the Dark Side! Please use (Standard) English next time, okay?
A white elephant is an expensive gift/thing that does nothing except shows how rich the owner is. In the past it's been used to destroy the financial stability of a minor enemy because they're expensive to upkeep! White elephant gift exchange is also a popular Christmas game in Amerika. Therefore, RGS gets hit with white elephant gifts from Santa, which happens to kill them see?
n00bs...
Organization is the American spelling. Organisation is the British spelling. So technically, it IS standard English. Don't anyhow criticise people.
The 'white elephant' definition can be easily found off the web.
Anyway, En and Hou, your strip is too violent for an NC16 rating! You'll need at least a M18! Lol!
We understand that you guys need to put in effort to keep up with the weekly strips and we appreciate it. Well done!
I agree with agagooga that we can suggest more ideas if we want something refreshing in the strips. That's what the message boards are for right?
It appears that many in so-called 'elite' schools don't even bother to read the papers or know even basic mythology...
- Why RGS is connected to white elephants: A group of RGS girls started the White Elephant T-shirt Project because of the Buangkok incident... (don't tell me you guys don't know what that is...)
- Why 666 is associated with the Devil: According to the Book of Revelation in the Bible, before the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ, the Devil and his 2 'accomplices' a Beast and a False Prophet will come to Earth. And in those days, only someone with the 'mark of the Beast' (i.e. the number 666) will be allowed to trade. Don't ask me why the number is 666.
Revelation 12:16-18
"16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.
18This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666."
- What is a gryphon: A gryphon (or griffin, or griffon) is a mythical ferocious creature, with the head and wings of an eagle but the body, tail and legs of a lion.
In its body, the griffin is blessed with the speed, flight, and penetrating vision of the eagle and the strength, courage, and majesty of the lion.
In symbolism, the griffin combines the symbolic qualities of both the lion and the eagle. It is the king of birds and lord of the air united with the king of beasts and lord of the earth.
BTW, I still see a very heavy WarCraft influence... The Dwarven Gryphon Rider, and the RV 'roots' remind me so much of Treant Protector's Overgrowth spell hahaha...
Perhaps the AH BENGS and AH LIANS of the neighborhood schools?
THat would be aperitif...
Hey if tat is what a gryphon is, by jove, I think I have seen it in NAR-HIA (oops I mean NArNia - now u know y it is narhia coz that WHITE WITCH MADE IT SO)
By the way, catch a load of the Britishers' accent in tat film - really cool language...
It appears that many in so-called 'elite' schools don't even bother to read the papers or know even basic mythology...
Uhh yesyes. Go play AOM to know about mythology xD
love the bunny part (: it links back to your old post! :D
Pretty gory but this is cartoon gory not real life gory like surgery or injuries!
That wld have been terrifying!
HO the white elephant project HAHAHA i think i saw the shirts somewhere o.o
hi all! great webcomic. anyway for all who are even interested, that thing on the ac crest is a wyvern. haha in dota its that. urmm visage issit?
hah yes of course the white elephant project by the LYFE pple and good thing you guys included neighbourhood schools here otwise they may feel v left out hehe
Eh andrew...
Organisation is the British spelling.
Organization is the American spelling. The standard spelling is British, ie. Organisation.
In the webcomic En & Hou used "organization", which is the American spelling, ie. the non-standard spelling.
"Don't anyhow criticise people."
WHAT ABOUT MGS!
What's with SCGS getting slaughtered by some taoist master?Can someone explain to me?
Wat no Sji?
Scgs badge is similar to the ying-yang symbol on the taoist master
WOO.
Great stuff really. one of the best, especially the idea of bringing together all the schools' representations.
and abt the ACS thingy.
its a CHIMERA. a damned CHIMERA.
gotta admit it looks chimera-ish.
for more info about rg white elephant proj
http://www.journalhome.com/unusualfeline/15442/
Wahahaha...that was fun! :p
how come ny girls are oso being burnt by chinese high's torch! ouch. hahaha. good link on the roots thing thou! farni!
xiamei : Nanyang's IP links to HCI (College).
Cheers,
Hou.
To mib,
Yes, it's true Singapore uses British English, but it's not entirely wrong if you use American English either.
Anyway, it's just a comic strip so lighten up!
If you use the standard so much, don't even use Singlish at all in your posts.
Oh geez... Some people are being narrow minded here... Both types of English are accepted in Singapore, though of course we need a "standard" to keep things right, that's why we use Bristish English.
In the working world, it doesn't matter which English you use, as long as your grammer is correct and people understand you.
Unless of course, you're in an academic institution where your teachers don't accept American English for your assignments, then too bad for you, you MUST follow the standard. *sad*
PS : They do accept American English at A levels you know?
I am not too sure if Standard English is taken to mean British English. I would embrace both forms as "Standard English" though.
ANyway, they are just different English but one isn't wrong while the other is correct.
Otherwise the 290 million Americans must be seriously had if their brand of English is "wrong"? What about the 30 million Canadians? Or the Australians? Are theirs wrong too? They do have different ways of writing too.
So standard must surely mean grammatically correct but different ways of using the language.
While I personally prefer British English to American English, I find both forms acceptable. There isn't a right and a wrong. Does it really matter so much as long as you can make yourself understood? Don't get too worked up over something like this. :) Lighten up, it's just a comic! Not a GP paper...
Mib,
I'm sorry, but you're just...annoying.
nice one.
this is the all-star post man.
this is the best post ever! i don't usually comment but i really can't help saying this was a job well done. well, about some people saying the sec sch theme is overdone, or that the same schools get featured over and over again, i gather its just cos they're not from that school :p i, personally, am happy to see my school featured lotsa times cos it never fails to make me laugh :) keep posting!
Well as it is in our so-called British system, we are already using loads of American stuff. Like we do resume and curriculum vitae, holiday and vacation and so on. Thus we have alternated using both forms, interchangeably even.
So I don't think we can really say we are British English outright. We are "rojak" at best...or cosmopolitan....
So there!
what about mg! haha lol.
Mib, you poor clueless soul.
Think before you write ok? There're many people here who'll flame you back for every negative comment you write...
Don't make a fool of yourself like what you did with the GEP debate.
finally, after so many lame strips, a really good one!
might have missed out a few 'elite' schools though.
May I add tat besides our British education system, courtesy of the GCE (which is a Singapore-UK effort really) and our Parliament modelled on the Westminster, everything else we have here could be very American
For one, our media. Look at Hollywood's bewitching hold on our movie channels.
We watch the Americans closely and mimick loads of their style in speaking , language, culture and so on. Don't see much traces of a British influence really.
America is a clever and highly innovative nation. We have adopted many of their practices and some of our NGOs are copies of theirs. However not all are necessarily good or right for us to imitate but we have in some instances.
this. NC16 version. ROCKKKKS!!!!
Aww, and you even have a "moral of the story" (somewhat)!
Btw, we are following many of America's economic and business practices. Even governance and so on.
THis is seriously not a good emulation, in my opinion.
I still remember that my lower-primary school teacher actually refused to accept American English in spelling tests. Not sure if this is still the case though. =P
Cheers,
Hou.
Er, why do people assume I was being SERIOUS when I posted that? Dude. Some people have NO sense of humour/humor.
HAHAHA!!!
So now mib, now you know how we felt in that other thread.
Justice is served!
Merry christmas everyone!
Hilarious... but I don't quite get the St Nicks part. What does Satan girl's relationship with the lord of darkness imply?
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
mib: This is the Internet, dearie. What you mean as a joke may not have the desired effect, so think before you post.
got a slight problem. RV not elite school hahahahahahah!
thanks for not 'killing' mgs :D
So stereotypical.
*stabs taoist kungfu master white eyebrows*
..bastard. >:[
other than that, i laughed. xD
nice touch with the hell logo on santa's PC.
nice one :D
the slide on the bai mei taoist wushu master. do i see a weapon from an old classical swordfighting movie? the weapon that lands on your head and slices it off.
i see Kill Bill references in that slide...
Hahah.. very smart of you to have spotted xue di zhi.
heyhey! this post rocks! but how, oh HOW could u all include acs and forget mgs????? sobs. they're as gd as synonyms yah.
though thanks for not letting mg girls die a so-called 'painful death' lol. =D
and btw how can rafflesians not know what a gryphon is? =( talk about school pride yah.
auspicium everybodaee.
merry christmas en and hou!
Oh GOSH! I guess it mus be moi u r referring to...
But i DO have a SENSE OF HUMOR..
See.... *pinches eyes, rolls tongue and bleahs"
hahahahaha...how's tat?
EW the kungfu taoist master is so mean
lovely (:
nice one. personally, i reckon ACS is more of a chimaera. not those in WC3. As in those mythical ones. coz if i'm not wrong, the chimaera has a lion's head right?
anyways, someone said it before me but how abt doing a continuation with the gods fighting back. that'd be great
hey ur comics are funny.. do some strips on JCs!! haha
A chimera has several definitions.
One, mythologically, it is a lion, goat and snake rolled into one. Another means inguistically an impossible idea.The third has it as a creature grafted together from at least two genetic types.
Going by the third, a gryphon, the sphinx, a mermaid, the centaur, the satyr and the minotaur are all chimeras.
HO HO HO! That was hilarious! I did not imagine santa had a demon for a friend!
why no cedar? cedar has never been featured. hahah
Lovely... I love the way you guys drew Santa! He looks so cute and sadistic at some point!
I had never left a comment before. This one's a great one. Good job! ^^
whahahas. i like the way those elites were killed. e st nicks n RV one is funny. great job!
i like the way acsi kena killed! anyway yea i saw the gryphon in narnia omg damn coolio!
did you know that chimeras are also what scientists call humans who have double dna in their bodies? :D
i love your comic strips!
keep it up! it's real funny. ((:
you shld put it up on The Straits Times.
Well yeah. Chimera is now a term being bandied about in Science, and it goes by the third definition of a chimera having at least two genetic types.
Yeah, it can be a human + sth else or an animal + another animal...like we have a zeekey (zeebra + donkey).
or is it a donzee..haha
omg...rafflesian spotlight u r the lamest guy who ever posted -.-
nice one. but where's mgs?
HOHO. Ri's and HCI's deaths were BRUTAL. nice... and it is NOT a goddamn chimera. it's just an eagle, lion and a dragon all smushed into one.
and yes i'm from acs.
btw the acs gep in the previous post was... so unnaturally gay... give him high socks & high pants too for goodness sakes.
where the hell NJC went?
haha, nice one^^ and st nicks was not killed.... woohoo^^ haha...
This was kinda boring compared to the other funnier ones.. like the lost episode? Maybe u can do one on project runway and al the contestants are the elite schs or smth. And MAKE WENDY EVIL. MAKE HER EVVEEEELL.i hate her. >cough<
Erm, why the heck elephants? And white ones too. White elephants? Yeah.. i dont see the point. You couldve had them invaded by alien BRAS. lol
Dis is simply GREAT! keep it up!
MORE MORE MORE ON STNICKS!
that's a brilliant idea! A project runway-themed comic strip... let's see who becomes Wendy..
lol darn funny, but careful that u guys don't become stereotyped as another happy tree friends. really, some kids from elite schs should watch their egos... elitism rains supreme in some of them
and there's a name for the ac creature but i can't remember. starts with k i think...
you know i thought white elephants referred to the RI's big white shirts....??
haha. i'm terrible.
As I mentioned before a "chimera" has three definitions basically. So unless there is a name to the ACS' one, it is a chimera.
It could be called a gryphon like RI's or a unicorn or a pegasus but a chimera is a generic name for any creature with 2 or more genetic types, including humans and animals.
THink of this as the binomial nomenclature of classification, genus and specific.... like pongo pgymeus, etc
i dun get e idea behind hci and nanyang getting killed by a fire. and tian yi? i guess u ppl tink tt just bcoz we r called the chinese high sch, we r pro in chinese. well most of us ARE, but still. =X SRY IM GETTING SHO TENSED UP! and gd job in killing RI HOR! =X jk
hey....i came across this website...
www.studentstypepad.blogspot.com
is it ur joint project?
joy tan : No, that's not ours. We only run the Sketchpad and Notebook projects.
Cheers,
Hou.
this is teh best ever...happi new year..
cool ending! indeed, we shldn't stereotype each other unfairly.
Brilliant!! Another classic! In future posts, hope you can introduce other schools (e.g. chung cheng, dhs, victoria, cedar, just to name a few).. there are many other schools with interesting steoreotypes you never suspected.
Tsk tsk tsk!! Shame on those Rafflesians who do not know the symbolic meaning behind the griffin..
anyway, with the orientation activities going on in jcs, perhaps you can have a story on it? Batch dances, og outings, cca fest, council stuff.. these are just ideas waiting to transform into pictorial form lor!
Another idea: why hasn't there been any post on china scholars? *hint hint*
yeah! I had really fond memories of the mass dances BBQs during orientation. You could draw something on that. JCs have loads of sterotypes.
I remember how according to JC uniform colours, someone said, rjc is white dandraff, tjc is green moss, hci is brown mud and njc is grey dust. rofl.
Keep up the good job!
ex-sji-nj guy
the creature on the acs crest is a wyvern. and the rafflesian gryphon has two heads if im not wrong
ACS'emblem cant be a wyvern coz that is the English equivalent of a chinese mythical dragon but winged.
Like roar? why must HCI and NY be mentioned on the same page. >.<
eh why always rgs and scgs. MGS is the sister sch of ACS how can u forget them!
haha... ... Nice Comic. But alot of people didn't know about the RGS White elephant(it is supposed to be the t-shirts that they sold)... ... haha... ... Why don't you guys try something on JCs and Millenia Institute and polys being sterotyped?! I am sure it will be fun! hehe... ...
XDDDD!!!! lol, your comics rock. aww, but no MGS this time round?? ex-MG girl here... ah, i am disappointed... XDDDDDD!!!!! but really, there's nothing to attack us with...unless...giant laurel wreaths appear to strangle us???
but way cool. XDD!!! ^_^
taoist priest n scgs girls. what a connection to make! well their uniforms are too skimpy for the tao religion i guess. let alone their materialistic natures. yesyes not all sc girls are like that. we know we know. i just love it -- tao priest ==> sc girls. haha. sc girls, think of smth else if u wanna redeem urselves lol. hmmm... prada specs? roxy totes? or the little white thingies ur prefects wear?
Lol.. I see my sch of Smurf been featured in the end.. LOL..Nice job!
why mr white eyebrow kungfu master?that's so unfair.they got the most humane and sensible deaths.and besides,how come you spared the neighbourhood school ppl?do you think they're very nice?sometimes they can be even more neow and bitchy and rude and crass compared to the elite school people.
very nice. (: and very creative.
no MGS? D:
no MGS? D:
woah gosh...impaled by roots of tradition...
hey i didn't know my school's so elite.
it was so creative!
however why must it be a taoist kung fu master for SC? haha. it'll be cooler if it was like a flying saucer or something.
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