Updates~

Well, let's put our hands together and congratulate our Team NUS (BD), who won back to back tournaments during the last 2 weekends:


1) Golden Harvest Bridge Championships

2) National Youth Team Bridge Championships

Well done guys! =D

Bridge camp success~

Well, I believed everyone enjoyed the bridge camp last week~ In the 3D2N bridge camp, we learnt new games, played new games, and also made new friends! Haha. Anyway, thanks to our very amazing captain, we got to have a competition on the second day of camp, and here are the results~

First: Flemming Lemmings

Second:  Banelings

Third: NUS FTW!!!  (Woohoo!!! That's my team!!!)

Forth: We_r_noobi

Ok, and of course, for those who didn't made it to the finals, we have our console rounds, and here are the winners:

Congrats to everyone, and I am glad that our juniors finally get exposure to how a bridge competition feels like. =)

Anyway, I hope everyone else enjoyed the camp as well, and let's hope we will do something similar again during the next holiday~ (Oops, I haven't discuss this with captain yet. Lol).

Meanwhile, enjoy your holidays people! And congrats to NUS FTW again! Lol.

Updates for upcoming Bridge Camp 2010

Hi all!

Congrats to seniors for surviving yet another semester of exams, and congrats to juniors for surviving their first NUS exams. And one of the thing to look forward to after exams, is BRIDGE CAMP 2010!

All of you should have already received an email from me, but if you haven't here are the important things to note regarding the camp:

1) It's 3D2N camp, which also means that there will be staying over.

2) The camp is from Wednesday to Friday, 8th to 10th of Dec.

3) The meeting time is 12pm @ MPSH 4 on Wednesday.

4) Brief programme outline will be: Icebreakers, sports, bridge and games night.

5) Packing list


1 X set of toiletries (toothbrush, toothpaste, soap, towel etc)

Sufficient clothes for 3D 2N, maybe one presentable one during the competition
Sufficient undergarments
Footwear: sandal/slippers, and something that you can wear and play sports in

Sleeping bag (important!!! MPSH got no beds)

Water bottle (to keep yourself hydrated)

Camera (optional)

Writing materials

Personal medication
Sufficient money (all meals are self-funded)

Anything that is required of you for games night (Details below)

6) For games night, we will be playing games (duh). And our club only provides poker cards and space. So if you guys have any suggestions, like playing boardgames and so on, please inform us, and bring whatever is required.
 
That should be all~ Looking forward to see you guys on the actual day! Meanwhile, enjoy your holidays!!
 
Cheers,
 
Team manager

Break for exams~

Ok, in order to prepare for exams, we will be taking a break! So, no more trainings until further notice (which means check back at this blog).

All the best to everyone for your exams!

I shall go and mug too. Lol.

Keep 3 days free!

For those who didn't turn up for last night's practice, here is an IMPORTANT announcement:

Please keep your 8th Dec - 10th Dec free~

What is going to happen? Are we going to have a bridge camp or something?

More details will be given later. Meanwhile, just try your best to keep those 3 days free~

Updates!

Well, it has been quite a while since this blog is updated... so here is a lesson for all:

When deadlines and mid terms come chasing after you, there is no time to blog.

Lol. Just joking. But there are really a lot of deadlines and mid-terms for everyone during this month. So good luck to everyone! And I wish you all the best for your studies.

Bridge session is as usual, every Tuesday and Thursday, at MPSH 4.

Endure~ because we will soon be having our break to prepare ourselves for our final exams.

Updates and upcoming events~

Hi everyone,




SG IMP PAIRS will be held at SCBA on 16th Oct, Sat, from 2.30-11pm.

All are encouraged to take part in this event, it is one of the few pairs event scored in the IMP format (which we use for team matches).



Entry fee is $25/studentpair.

* * * * * *

There is an indonesian tournament at Batam, held from 5-7 November 2010 (deepavali long weekend). For those who would like to experience playing bridge competitions overseas, this would be a great opportunity.




Estimated Cost:

Ferry $47

Accomds, $75/room/night (about 112.50 each for 3 nights)

Entry fee $90/team, (22.50 for team of 4, or 15 for team of 6).

Rough estimated cost, about $250 including expenditure there.

Interested parties can contact lcy, by next Tuesday latest.

* * * * *

Oh, and for those who want to see some of our photos, all the photos for NUS-NTU challenge and beginners cup have been uploaded to our facebook page!

All the best to those who still have exams/mid-terms/assignments.

One last reminder, our T-shirt design competition is still ongoing, so for those who still want to take part, please send your designs to us!

Bridge beginners cup result and updates~

As you guys know, our beginners cup took place 2 Tuesdays back, and finally the photos are ready! Look at their excitied faces!

Congrats to the following winners of the beginners cup 2010~ Well done guys!

Third place: Yingjie & Simon

Second place: Enyu & Pang Yang

First place: Donghe & Lingming

Good job guys! ;)

* * * * * * *

As you guys know, we will be taking a break for mid-terms and so on, so Tuesday duplicates will resume on 5th Oct and Thursdays training on 7th Oct. Venue SHOULD BE at MPSH4 finally! Yay, you guys can finally see our own CCA room after YOG and IFG used them for the pervious weeks.

If you haven't done so, please send an email to us to inform us of your attendance for Thursday, because we will most likely be having a team match! And also, its the FIRST CHANCE FOR PROMOTION into a higher level group! So, try your best not to miss this training!

Update for the week~

And theSingapore inter-uni bridge championship took place last Friday~

Congrats to TeamNUS for winning the championship! =)

And our beginners cup took place this Tuesday too, and it was a success~ Haha.. Photos will of our winners of our beginners cup will be uploaded soon~

For those who don't know... CB1101

Dear all~

Please join the ivle community, CB1101! Go to your IVLE, click on the communities tab, search under 'Sports and Recreation'. You should be able to find it there.

Basically, this will be an alternative place to get any bridge files that we will put up (like system notes)~ And it is on IVLE! O.o Imagine you logging into IVLE with a friend beside you, then you can stun your friend by saying that you have a module that teaches you how to play bridge! Lol.

With less than 24 hours left to the beginner's cup, I wish the freshmen all the best~

Reminder for new members to register with your partner for Beginners cup!

Ta-da~ The trophies for winners of the NUS bridge beginners cup 2010!

Just a reminder for all new members:

The deadline for registration (contact us via email or any other ways you can think of) is 12th September Sunday, 11:59pm! This means you have slightly less than 24 hours left when this entry is post up.

Also, those who haven't pay their club membership fee are not allowed to take part in this competition. We will still be collecting club membership fee from those who didn't pay/weren't around the last time we collected on the actual day of the beginners cup,14th September Tuesday, 6:50pm sharp, S16-04-06.



That's all updates for now.. if there is any last minute updates, do check your emails or check back this blog again~ All the best to everyone who are coming on Tuesday!

Updates for the week~

Oh my oh my, this is so so so exciting! The NUS-NTU challenge is just round the corner! And for the first time in NUS history, we are going to have a medal for the best Junior pair of NUS! :O Just look at the medals! O_O

Ok.. now for the slightly more serious part...

Tuesday training resumes! But because of IFG dota who is using our usual training place MPSH 4, we will be having our Tuesday trainings at S16-04-36 until further notice!

See ya~

Updates for the week~

1) Thursday training tomorrow will begin at 7pm. At S16-04-36.


Please look for your own respective coach during the session! The 'advanced' players look for Yukun and the rest look for xiaoming!

For year 1s who are interested to join us, feel free to come!


2) On a separate note, to all who are keen on representing our school for the NUS-NTU challenge!!


It will be held on 10 September 2010. 9am-7pm at NUS MPSH4!! Please keep yourself free! It's a public holiday, hari raya puasa, on a long weekend!!


Good news: This year, for the first time, the top NUS pair (after cross-imps comparison) will be awarded medal/trophy in recognition of your good performance!! Kindly sponsored by lcy =). Hope this motivates you to want to play well! =D

Updates for the week~

Here are a few updates for this week... :

1) The beginners' course on Tuesday was a success, as I believed that a number of people managed to learn a new game: Contract bridge , within the few hours of the session! Woohoo~ Also, everyone got the chance to know everyone else during the session =) So, just a gentle reminder to those whom I cannot contact via emails, beginners' course Day 2 will be on this coming Tuesday, same time same place! For those who did not turn up for the first session, but are still interested in joining us, do come down on 24th August 7pm YIH Training Room 5 for the 2nd session. :)



2) A few good links/programmes to download:


a) Bridge Base Online

The place where you can play against people from all around the world. Download the programme, create an account, and let me know your BBO Username!! My username is LCY

http://online.bridgebase.com

b) Learn to play bridge

For those who are exceptionally enthusiastic, and find that I am teaching too slowly, do go check out the programme. It contains all the basics you need to know as a bridge player. I will be teaching using this programme from next week onwards.

http://www.acbl.org/learn/ltpb.html

(Point 2 was an extract from our captain's email. So.. yup. My BBO username is szhichao btw. )

3) This update is more for seniors.. but oh well, freshies can read and know more too! SRC is organising this end-of-year road trip to west malaysia, from 6-9 Dec 2010. They will be bringing 4-5 sports teams along. During the road trip, they will try to get Msia unis to host friendly matches against us! We have submitted our emails to express our interest to go overseas (I mean.. this sounds SO EXCITING!!! and FUN! because going overseas with friends is always a good experience), so now, let's keep our fingers crossed that the universities there are able to host bridge friendly matches against us.

4) There will be a new training structure for our thursday trainings. Everyone will be divided into 3 groups. The group you are placed in is decided by yukun (our coach) and lcy (our captain). Its tentative, we might promote you if we think you are too good for the category you are initially placed in.


Group 1: Advanced Players (taken by yukun)


You will know who you are. =)

Group 2: slightly less than advanced players (taken by lcy/xming)

All other year 2s and above, and selected freshmen

Group 3: beginners (taken by me/xming)

all other freshmen.


Seniors please take note! As for freshmen, don't worry. This will only apply to you AFTER the beginners course. So meanwhile, just enjoy yourself, and for those who think you can make it to group 2... you know what to do... Lol.

That's all the updates for this week~

Bridge beginners' course!

A reminder to those who I didn't managed to contact via email (either due to loss of email, or that the email address got typo), our bridge beginners' course is starting this TUEDAY! 7pm @ YIH training room.

Just some information about what to expect on Tuesday (for those who read this post, ta-da! You know more than the others!)...

Ice-breaking session and get-to-know each other session
Introduction by Exco members
Beginners course and also Tuesday bridge session (concurrently)
Time to play bridge!

Yup. I think that should be the schedule for this coming Tuesday. Do remember to come after you have your dinner!

See you there!

Updates about upcoming events~

Hi all~

Orientation week just finished, and very soon, school is going to start! Just a few announcements.




1) There will be NO TRAINING IN SCHOOL for the month of August. YOG hogged our training venue (MPSH4) and there aren't any other venues available. However, there will be online BBO training on Tuesday, starting at 7.30pm. (The link to the website is http://www.bridgebase.com/ )

Please confirm your attendance by Tuesday 6pm every week :), you can email  us @ nuscontractbridge@gmail.com. When you're on BBO, look out for Xuyao, bbonick: whoisjj. Our vice capt will be co-ordinating and arranging the online trainings. Depending on the number of pairs, we might be playing TMs or IMP pairs.



2) The beginners' course will be held on 17th ,24th  and 31st Aug, 1900-2200 at YIH training room 5. Seniors are strongly encouraged to come down and help, and do inform us if you are coming.


3) Inter-Varsity Challenge is tentatively fixed in the month of September this year. Also for this year, SMU might be making their debut appearance at this event. To all those who are interested in representing NUS Contract Bridge for this event, there isn't much time left. Lets all start training up, our aim is to get the Challenge Shield back.

4) Some of our people are representing our club in the Pesta Sukan Bridge Open Team Competition held on the 7th (2pm-11pm) and 8th August.(1pm-10pm) on the 8th. The venue is at Concorde le meridien hotel. Let's wish them luck!

Updates after the end of Matric fair

Hi all!

After 4 days, the matric fair finally came to an end, and I am glad to announce that we have over 120 people leaving their contacts with us! =) Do remember to come for our beginners course, and bring any interested friends along as well!

Anyway, to people who signed up on Tuesday, 27th July before Lunch time 12pm, can you please email us or leave ur contacts here again?

This is because of an unfortunately accident caused by our neighbour, tripping our power supply for our laptop, causing us to lose some data.. =( Sorry for the trouble caused.

Do check back this blog regularly for updates!

Day 3 of Matric fair!

It's day 3 of the matric fair, and we welcome students from Faculty of Science and Computing to join u toady! =)

Just a small annoucement: Can the following freshies please send us an email showing your email address?

Yinghan
Christine

This is because there had been some error in our Excel sheet, and we lost your email addresses :(

Alternatively, you can check back at this blog for updates~

Weekend updates~

Hi everyone~

Please check back this blog regularly after Tuesday for updates! We'll most likely send you guys updates as a whole after the end of Matric fair.

For those people who wanted to join bridge but unfortunately missed their chance during the matric fair, don't worry! You can just email us or leave your email address with us (at the tagboard or blog comments) and we will contact you when we have any updates!

Alternatively, you can check back this blog~

Have a good weekend! And we look forward to more signups for the remaining 2 days of our Matric fair~

Matric fair day 2

It's day 2 of the matric fair!

And we welcome freshies from faculty of ENGINEERING and LAW matriculating today to join us! =)

Just a minor update...

WE ARE ON FACEBOOK!

Our facebook badge is right at the side of this blog, so do add us as friend if you are interested =)

Matric fair!

Ok~ Matric fair is just round the corner!

Our booth number is D5, and we are the one between Bowling and Canoe Polo!

See ya there!

Be sure to drop by our booth at NUS matric fair on the following dates for more information:
22nd July, 23rd July, 26th July and 27th July.

See you there =)

Welcoming the committee for Academic year 2010/2011~

Hi all!

With less than one month till the start of our new academic year, let me introduce the 3 key people that will be serving the bridge club for this year:

Captain: Lam Cheng Yen


Vice-Captain: Zhang Xu Yao

Team Manager: Foo Chao Kiat

As of now, I will be the one maintaining and updating this blog. So, do check out this blog regularly for information and updates regarding our club! If you have any questions, either post them on the tagboard, or email us at nuscontractbridge@gmail.com

Cheers~

Chao Kiat