2006, THAT WAS THE YEAR THAT IS, AND WILL BE 'WAS', SOON.
Well, it's been a big year for many of us.
Firstly, it's the last year of 'school', not schooling of course, but school. JC for most, Poly, or even ITE for some.
Well, there's going to be even more to study, and hopefully more fun in store.
RJC for me is the place that I've wanted to go all along, and I really hope I can get in there for real.
Yes, it is going to be stressful. Many people I've spoken to have criticised RJC, saying that the attitude of students are pathetic, being arrogant and all, or that HC is better.
I can't deny that. Through the years there have been plenty of students in RJC with overextravagant personalities.
Only recently in October there was Wee Shu Min and her elitist views.
But hey! There was Annabel Chong that 'deflected' from RGS to Hwa Chong JC and certainly she caused more headlines! Haha. Controversy is not just at Raffles. Really.
Wikipedia has plenty of info. on those two I'm sure.
Whatever it is that all the criticism of RJC is about, I guess I'll find out for myself how true indeed they are, with Leroy, Jun Jie and Lin Hai. Oh and very likely, someone's daughter.
Anyway, it's been a great 4 years in ANDERSON, and although I directed plenty of flak towards the 'lax' and 'semi-corrupted' nature of the school, and a certain class in particular which robbed our black soccer ball, the friends I've made have been great, be it those in 2/4 or 4/7. The 2/4 days were so fun, and laughter was never far away thanks to lame people like Arkar and Kang. Also in part, thanks to the people in class which we could make fun of. A tit bit offensive of me? I just can't resist.
Towards the end of sec 2 and for half a year in sec 3, perhaps I was too study-orientated, and yes I was kind of lonely at times.I was starting to think sec3 (and what would be sec 4) life was stressful, especially with me still having to take Japanese, which was now becoming a burden as I slowly lost interest in it. Man, I knew I should have took French. I also did not really like the class (3/7) then. That sort of changed during term 3, where I sat next to Jun Jie, and got to talk more in class with the rest of our 'clique' or so to speak, Sherhan Cybil Linhai and of course Weelic, haha.They certainly made my upper sec. life all the less boring. Before knowing them, I thought I was hardworking. Enter Sherhan, and I'm content. Haha.
The thing with 4/7 that makes us special is that although there are cliques, we can easily joke around with other people. Haha, and there was this deal I made with someone at the start of the year that I would act like the secret admirer of someone in class for the year. lol. There's plenty to guess on this blog.
Anyway, Junjie and I were able to sit right in front, and so we could talk with many of the teachers.Most of which, were good. Mrs Theresa Lim demonstrated how different a teacher canimpact her students' grades. Either that, or the fact that we had most of our lessons in air con. lol. Just take a look at 4/6's results for geog. Mr Tan changed so much over the course of a year, and I'm sure he'll enjoy his retirement. However, there are unpleasant teachers too. There's the one that blows hot and cold. One moment having an outburst, what i term the Wrath of C***, and making us all hate her. Next moment, she makes/buys some food and makes some think otherwise, untill the Wrath cooldown has ended and it's time for another one, lol. Then, there is the one who can't see the funny side of April Fool's Day, always thinks her papers are difficult, tries to appear very good friends with another teacher who's married and older, yet looks more attractive and younger. Oh, I feel nothing but pity for them.
About the whole school, I feel pity too. It certainly looks as if it's on the decline. Hell, even my sister didn't want to go there, lol. And I feel the reason for the decline is obvious, due to the presence of more normal (It's not even mediocre, true meaning = relegated) classes, with people who like to steal footballs from us brighter students and use their attitude to intimidate us. Sigh. Thank goodness that that's the last I'll see of them for life. Oh wait, I'll meet them again in a couple of years thanks to this government policy, or will I ? lol.
Although that's a goodbye to be happy about, another to be even happier about, for me that is, is the Chinese language (the words, chengyu, the stories behind them, and last but not least the teachers, I mean teacher. ).
In 2006, I was suprisingly able to get rid of that sleepy syndrome I have during lessons, perhaps due to sitting with Jonathan for half a year during sec 1. Perhaps being near to the teacher's table helped. Well, the truth is: Thank God.
It's been such a busy year that I haven't had much time to catch many movies. But honestly, the movies this year have mostly sucked. It's what I call the year of the movies with hugely similar plot. Think Madagascar and The Wild? yeah, and their (the directors') creativeness is so limited that the substitute for the penguins in the former is just a Koala Bear in the latter. However, MI 3 is OK, and I certainly recomend this movie called Akeelah and the Bee. It's inspirational, and the mere fact that I support it shows that I dont discriminate against other colours. lol, if u can get my drift. Very recently Jay is acting in another movie, and at least he's now not the high-profile member of the cast, cause that goes to Gong Li and her ****s. Well on my way to being a critic eh?
For one, I've started watching Grey's Anatomy and couldn't stop watching it after (watching it). As with Desperate Housewives, it's a drama thats ENGLISH and from women's point of view. Haha. It portrays sex as a 'common' thing, and yes, that's what I love about Western culture. The openess. Now don't go thinking how sick I am, cause I probably am (that sick). Hmmm, I don't quite know why my sentence structure is always so repetitive.
2006 has also been the year I started becoming really hardcore about football. About Arsenal.
Going all the way to the Champions League Final in Paris and then losing it all, well I guess there needs to be no further mention of the emotions of an avid football fan after my previous entry.
Lastly, I certainly hope this has been a breakthrough year for me in getting to know Him better. It's been difficult. My parents are buddist, and I have no problems with that, their temperament has improved, mine hasn't. Next, I've always had the occasional doubt, being so intellect and stuff, (you doubt that?), and sometimes wasn't in the right frame of mind. After reading the Case for Faith, some of them have been clarified, and thank you James, for buying me that book, and thank you God, for making him rich. I mean generous. lol. I guess some questions are best left unanswered, but the last part of the book sure helped alot in my spiritual life. Hopefully, I can build on that in the future.
For now, it's the season to be jolly. Merry CHRISTmas, and I look forward to Boxing Day Bonanza tonight.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Man, football can really spoil my weekend.
I gone through the lows and highs and lows in just one match against Portsmouth [what *&^*% team is this, you ask].
Ok, Arsenal played horribly in the first half, creating NOTHING. Portsmouth played as horribly. It was boring. As always, when this happens at the Emirates Stadium, it is the away team that scores first. Fluke goal, but crap, pissed me off.
Then 2nd half, started on the same manner, and conceded another goal, this time I have to admit, its a genuine one. ok, 0-2 now.
Brought on our target man, and he had an immediate impact, 2 goals in 2 mins. Amazing.
So it became 2-2.
After that, deja vu for the 4th time [this is the 5th match in which this has happened]. Lots of chances, only sunday football-style finishing, and yet again, it's a case of what could have been. Last season it was away defeats, this season it's away defeats AND home draws.
Alas, I keep asking myself. Why? Why did the team have to wait till going 2 goals down to get so fired up? Why did we have to encounter such a good goalkeeper?
I was so fed up after miss and miss, i started shouting wildly, [haha imagine that, but seriously...], I was really mad for a moment.
At half time, I prayed to God, saying that I know it's going to be a frustrating game, please don't make me go mad. Please allow me to stay calm. Well, I guess it just wasn't to be.
This is probably a pathetic testimony.
Life is frustrating. But the best thing to do, is to keep the faith, and not give in, and only then will I be able to curb my blowing-hot-and-cold temper.
There is still a lot to be changed.
Slowly, but surely.....
I gone through the lows and highs and lows in just one match against Portsmouth [what *&^*% team is this, you ask].
Ok, Arsenal played horribly in the first half, creating NOTHING. Portsmouth played as horribly. It was boring. As always, when this happens at the Emirates Stadium, it is the away team that scores first. Fluke goal, but crap, pissed me off.
Then 2nd half, started on the same manner, and conceded another goal, this time I have to admit, its a genuine one. ok, 0-2 now.
Brought on our target man, and he had an immediate impact, 2 goals in 2 mins. Amazing.
So it became 2-2.
After that, deja vu for the 4th time [this is the 5th match in which this has happened]. Lots of chances, only sunday football-style finishing, and yet again, it's a case of what could have been. Last season it was away defeats, this season it's away defeats AND home draws.
Alas, I keep asking myself. Why? Why did the team have to wait till going 2 goals down to get so fired up? Why did we have to encounter such a good goalkeeper?
I was so fed up after miss and miss, i started shouting wildly, [haha imagine that, but seriously...], I was really mad for a moment.
At half time, I prayed to God, saying that I know it's going to be a frustrating game, please don't make me go mad. Please allow me to stay calm. Well, I guess it just wasn't to be.
This is probably a pathetic testimony.
Life is frustrating. But the best thing to do, is to keep the faith, and not give in, and only then will I be able to curb my blowing-hot-and-cold temper.
There is still a lot to be changed.
Slowly, but surely.....
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Okay, so its been a long long time since I've blog.
Suprisingly, the days have gone by so quickly, only a couple of weeks left before the New Year. Plenty of events....grad. ball, 4/7 chalet, 2/4 chalet, church camp.....yeh. It's left me way exhausted (at least for today).
Start with the 3D2N of chalet and church camp "combined", since i could not sign up for full time [need parent's consent], and also in part since i paid the deposit for the chalet already [perfect justification for the use of 'deposits']
So the chalet was at Coasta Sands resort this time, much nearer to downtown east compared to Aloha Loyang. Anyway, only went for first day, and it was a case of deja vu. We all [and not was actually not many] rented double bikes for 2hrs and it rained about 10mins later. I was cycling with James Lee, and credit to him, it was so difficult to cycle in the rain with the water and wind catching u right in the eye, but he was able to navigate pretty well. We cycled fast, slow as well, and made so many 360-deg turns which didn't work out and ended up having to take a long loop round the grass. Fortunately we were lucky not to crash after running over many branches and roots. It was cold indeed with us all wet and the wind. After that the girls took a LONG time to bathe [and it was only liike...6 of them?] and we went out for dinner. Then watched this 'girls aloud' show which had xiaxue in it, was totally stupid and NOT useful at all, haha. After that was talking and playing cards all night long, and most of the morning too. Woke at 7, headed off at 8. Very sleepy, and had to get my dose of coffee to keep alive for the rest of the day.
And so I took the mrt all the way from PR to Woodlands, changing at City Hall. The NS line going away from the city was not crowded one bit, and thus i had plenty of space to sleep, which i duly managed to, haha.
The camp at Sports School was great. The auditorium was gigantic and a very good place for all the sermons and praise/worship sessions to be held, although sitting down on the ground was a lil uncomfortable, not that i'm complaining here. Think the first sermon session right after I came was the most enlightening, about not giving in to obstacles between us and Him, and persevering on. Pity that part-timers don't get the Breakthrough shoe bag package, but I'm gonna borrow one copy of the book ASAP. Felt a little sleepy, but that was cured by the salt and vinegar chips, haha. Then after lunch which was OK, had a meeting regarding JC ministry. it's gonna be exciting I'm sure, our next 2 years at JC. But yeah, rightfully said, gotta do our best even during the first 1.5 month or so. Zero JC2s at R now, so, it will be difficult but I guess I've got to give my best next year.
Then after wash-up and rest, it was time for mismatch picnic which I didn't know of, oh well, guess at least I needn't have worried about how i looked, haha. The dinner was good, and the performances and thanks later were better, though it was kind of unusual that it wasn't the 'finale item' of the camp, with sermon still to come later! And it was another long one by David, mostly composing of testimonies. Well, guess it's a refreshing change from the usual sermons at services, yeah, although I was getting kind of sleepy.
The midnight concert was great, and really repented some of my sins recently during worship time, as well as strengthening my resolve towards Him. The songs were all good, and I enjoyed the praise part too with high spirits!
On wednesday, rather amazingly Northeast managed to win the olympics and that big trophy, lol. [heard from quite a few people that NE are pushovers and James even said many other districts wanted to thrash us at some sports, in good spirit of course, haha]. Well, it wasn't particularly 'us', cause I wasn't able to take part in it, but hopefully there'll be a next time to take part, and there'll be a next time to win again.
Well, I'll pause here for now, hopefully there'll be more promising stuff to write about after street outreaching tmr.
Suprisingly, the days have gone by so quickly, only a couple of weeks left before the New Year. Plenty of events....grad. ball, 4/7 chalet, 2/4 chalet, church camp.....yeh. It's left me way exhausted (at least for today).
Start with the 3D2N of chalet and church camp "combined", since i could not sign up for full time [need parent's consent], and also in part since i paid the deposit for the chalet already [perfect justification for the use of 'deposits']
So the chalet was at Coasta Sands resort this time, much nearer to downtown east compared to Aloha Loyang. Anyway, only went for first day, and it was a case of deja vu. We all [and not was actually not many] rented double bikes for 2hrs and it rained about 10mins later. I was cycling with James Lee, and credit to him, it was so difficult to cycle in the rain with the water and wind catching u right in the eye, but he was able to navigate pretty well. We cycled fast, slow as well, and made so many 360-deg turns which didn't work out and ended up having to take a long loop round the grass. Fortunately we were lucky not to crash after running over many branches and roots. It was cold indeed with us all wet and the wind. After that the girls took a LONG time to bathe [and it was only liike...6 of them?] and we went out for dinner. Then watched this 'girls aloud' show which had xiaxue in it, was totally stupid and NOT useful at all, haha. After that was talking and playing cards all night long, and most of the morning too. Woke at 7, headed off at 8. Very sleepy, and had to get my dose of coffee to keep alive for the rest of the day.
And so I took the mrt all the way from PR to Woodlands, changing at City Hall. The NS line going away from the city was not crowded one bit, and thus i had plenty of space to sleep, which i duly managed to, haha.
The camp at Sports School was great. The auditorium was gigantic and a very good place for all the sermons and praise/worship sessions to be held, although sitting down on the ground was a lil uncomfortable, not that i'm complaining here. Think the first sermon session right after I came was the most enlightening, about not giving in to obstacles between us and Him, and persevering on. Pity that part-timers don't get the Breakthrough shoe bag package, but I'm gonna borrow one copy of the book ASAP. Felt a little sleepy, but that was cured by the salt and vinegar chips, haha. Then after lunch which was OK, had a meeting regarding JC ministry. it's gonna be exciting I'm sure, our next 2 years at JC. But yeah, rightfully said, gotta do our best even during the first 1.5 month or so. Zero JC2s at R now, so, it will be difficult but I guess I've got to give my best next year.
Then after wash-up and rest, it was time for mismatch picnic which I didn't know of, oh well, guess at least I needn't have worried about how i looked, haha. The dinner was good, and the performances and thanks later were better, though it was kind of unusual that it wasn't the 'finale item' of the camp, with sermon still to come later! And it was another long one by David, mostly composing of testimonies. Well, guess it's a refreshing change from the usual sermons at services, yeah, although I was getting kind of sleepy.
The midnight concert was great, and really repented some of my sins recently during worship time, as well as strengthening my resolve towards Him. The songs were all good, and I enjoyed the praise part too with high spirits!
On wednesday, rather amazingly Northeast managed to win the olympics and that big trophy, lol. [heard from quite a few people that NE are pushovers and James even said many other districts wanted to thrash us at some sports, in good spirit of course, haha]. Well, it wasn't particularly 'us', cause I wasn't able to take part in it, but hopefully there'll be a next time to take part, and there'll be a next time to win again.
Well, I'll pause here for now, hopefully there'll be more promising stuff to write about after street outreaching tmr.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
On top of the below-written, I'd like to thank:
-Best Western, Hilton, and Mandarin hotels,
for their supply of ball-point pens which I used for all my examinations.
[soon there'll be pen sponsors for the best students]
-Coldplay, for
(1) naming your album X and Y, cos I believe thats the correct answer for a Chem paper1 qn on oxidation which I wasn't quite sure about.
(2) the songs in that album, esp. Fix you and swallowed in the sea, i listen to them every night, and they are part of my inspiration.
-UEFA, for breaking the standard schedule of champions league every 2 weeks to 3, so it [coincidentally?] doesn't clash with any exam.
-SHE who kept saying coastal was "easy" and "worth studying"
-Myself for knowing that i shouldn't heed her advice.
-The CE for allowing us at least 5mins to plan out essay structures for SS and history, before the exam even started since we could check the paper.
And please, feel [very] sorry for
-students who banked on coastal.
-Britney Spears, for marrying K-Fed and recording a *** tape and ALLOWING him to have possession of it.
-Old people on wheelchairs, who apparently like sweets a whole lot, so much so that the candyland in vivocity incident is absolutely blown out of proportions.
-Chelsea fans, who have the best team on the planet, yet, are so unprofessional.
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It's over.
At last.
At long, long last.
This week turned out great. Thank God for that.
It started at 12am on Monday,
Flamini, Toure and Gallas saw off sorry liverpool to seal a 3-0 win at the Emirates.
Oh, and to rub more salt, Gerrard and Riise coming into conflict, ahaha.
Then Tuesday, sigh AM. I don't quite understand why my paper 1 is always so shitty. It was 57 for preps, 50 for prelims, k la, and its careless mistakes again. Lost 6m on the matrix qn, lol. heck.
Then Wed, was physics. This was the one science i was absolutely confident about, and i didn't study it at all the night before, purely chemistry. And physics turned out ok. Geog was relatively difficult compared to our previous papers I think. But its only paper 1.
Thurs, AM p2 i was so focused, i x2-checked every qn i done, as a result only 15mins + left after finishing the whole thing. Too close for comfort, but it paid off. This should be a full mark paper to overcome any hint of shortcoming from paper 1. Then Chemistry, from a objective point of view was kinda difficult, yeah. But I am pretty sure, I ll do patricia so proud, lol.
Friday, gosh gosh. History was an absolute shocker. The essays qns were ridiculous, esp the cold war qn, goodness! And SBQ was weird too, only 3 sources, 4qns. o.O
Ai, I just said to myself 'do your best...and........' yeah, haha. Think I did as good as i could. At least the test didn't seem to end on a sour note as I had so feared. I was happy. Everyone was pretty happy. Man, finally, FIFA 07? Battle for middle earth? hahaha.
Of course, cant wait to kick soccer with the guys on monday. Ive been practising hard on step-overs [cristiano ronaldo-inspired], and I think I ll showcase them, hahaha.
Of course, finally able to thank Him for all he has done in me, not just through the Os, but throughout the year. I have certainly changed alot, and I think I ll save that for another entry this year. I must say I am a very fortunate person, not to experience much stress throughout the Os, prelims, what have you. Even so, I've faced other problems, and He has guided me through them, indeed one of them has to be the fact that my sleeping-in-class symdrome has totally went away this year, even though i CONTINUE to watch super sunday matches, as well as champions league matches, and even when i spend long hours on MSN on many occasions.
yeah, I ll spend some time to reflect of this year. For now, its another frustrating game at the Emirates. Points thrown away yet again.
Goodness, how can Thierry Henry be rested??!
Friday, November 10, 2006
Well a week down, one more to go.
Big exams are over, big ones still to come [they're all big la]
At least for me, the biggest one of em all, is done and dusted.
And here's something interesting.
I studied deforestation and part of geog, being part of natural veg and probs caused by development. And, the MAIN reason i studied that was cause bio also has a portion on it.
Well, neither paper had any qn on deforestation, sigh.
And to think, that I unleashed it in part, combined with the haze situation in SEA, on my english essay, my most important paper.
Oh well. Monday, I [and almost everyone] got off to a flyer.
EM went with the trend -- no kick whatsoever. It has to be full marks.
SS was more tricky, but thankfully, fate has it that it is our batch that get's theme ONE.
Close shave, but SS should be ok. NOW i will focus on history with more intent.
Then Thursday was the content-intensive day.
Bio was quite cool, the OAS has our name on it! lol.
Another reason why it is 458.00 and not a dollar or two less.
Oh well, I did my best, no careless mistakes, that's the best i could ask for.
Geog. in the afternoon went great. I rushed from the start, and seriously rushed this time.
3 and 6 were popped; time elapsed: 48mins.
Took awhile to DECIDE whether to do 2 human [which would mean 3 in total], or the weirdo weathering one. So i did settlements first, then hmmm, really dilemma.
Weathering was ok, xcept for 1st qn. On the other hand, development looked straightforward too. Then, a flash rang through me that I should stick to my guns. So weathering it was.
Coastal, ironically turned out to be the tough qn; understandably so, apparently something not in the syllabus came out. well, TOUGH LUCK TO ALL VICTIMS.
I am just so relieved I had resisted studying coastal since last year, despite the numerous people who have said it was 'easy' or 'easier than ----'.
Friday was totally a waste of time. Why 2pm?! And not the usual 8 start time. Oh well, didnt matter, it was no different from paper one. And to think the only 'tricky' qn that existed, the number pattern qn, only warranted 3marks of challenging qns. BOOO!
Oh well, one more week to go. History is continuously bugging me.
I can't possibly 'waste' the luck that SS gave me.
Anyway, I ll chill off Sunday night to watch the big one Arsenal v Liverpool,
at the Emirates Stadium. The first 'big' match played at that new ground.
Lets make it the fortress that Highbury so was.
The image of Steven Gerrard, of all people, making a backpass mistake of monumental proportions by playing it straight to Thierry Henry in a 1v1 with their goalie, and gifting us the match this march, is still finely etched in my head. Hopefully such incidences will continue at the Emirates. =)
Big exams are over, big ones still to come [they're all big la]
At least for me, the biggest one of em all, is done and dusted.
And here's something interesting.
I studied deforestation and part of geog, being part of natural veg and probs caused by development. And, the MAIN reason i studied that was cause bio also has a portion on it.
Well, neither paper had any qn on deforestation, sigh.
And to think, that I unleashed it in part, combined with the haze situation in SEA, on my english essay, my most important paper.
Oh well. Monday, I [and almost everyone] got off to a flyer.
EM went with the trend -- no kick whatsoever. It has to be full marks.
SS was more tricky, but thankfully, fate has it that it is our batch that get's theme ONE.
Close shave, but SS should be ok. NOW i will focus on history with more intent.
Then Thursday was the content-intensive day.
Bio was quite cool, the OAS has our name on it! lol.
Another reason why it is 458.00 and not a dollar or two less.
Oh well, I did my best, no careless mistakes, that's the best i could ask for.
Geog. in the afternoon went great. I rushed from the start, and seriously rushed this time.
3 and 6 were popped; time elapsed: 48mins.
Took awhile to DECIDE whether to do 2 human [which would mean 3 in total], or the weirdo weathering one. So i did settlements first, then hmmm, really dilemma.
Weathering was ok, xcept for 1st qn. On the other hand, development looked straightforward too. Then, a flash rang through me that I should stick to my guns. So weathering it was.
Coastal, ironically turned out to be the tough qn; understandably so, apparently something not in the syllabus came out. well, TOUGH LUCK TO ALL VICTIMS.
I am just so relieved I had resisted studying coastal since last year, despite the numerous people who have said it was 'easy' or 'easier than ----'.
Friday was totally a waste of time. Why 2pm?! And not the usual 8 start time. Oh well, didnt matter, it was no different from paper one. And to think the only 'tricky' qn that existed, the number pattern qn, only warranted 3marks of challenging qns. BOOO!
Oh well, one more week to go. History is continuously bugging me.
I can't possibly 'waste' the luck that SS gave me.
Anyway, I ll chill off Sunday night to watch the big one Arsenal v Liverpool,
at the Emirates Stadium. The first 'big' match played at that new ground.
Lets make it the fortress that Highbury so was.
The image of Steven Gerrard, of all people, making a backpass mistake of monumental proportions by playing it straight to Thierry Henry in a 1v1 with their goalie, and gifting us the match this march, is still finely etched in my head. Hopefully such incidences will continue at the Emirates. =)
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
[skip the italics if football bores you to the doldrums, which im sure it does for many]
Very often in life, people are made to swallow their words, and it proved to be the case during the weekend.
Aha just when I thought Arsenal were clicking into gear they came unstuck against yet another team who just park the bus in front of the goal and do nothing but defend, and everything assosiated with that [time-wasting, bad tackles...]. but what can i say? It's something the players have got to learn to deal with, and they just can't seem to scrap results like Chelsea do so well. And on the 'sexy football' theme, Liverpool finally played some beautiful stuff indeed, and hats off to them. Man Utd too, admittedly.
Oh well that's the football bulletin, haha. HCL O's and chem prac are done and dusted.
And I was worried about HCL, indeed. It was like the first year of the new syllabus [thankfully no han zi or zao ju], and fortunately it was a shadow of AND, Cres, RGS, and many other school's papers which scared the life outta me. Paper1 i did the argumentative on 'Whether parents are solely responsible for instilling the RIGHT moral values into children' haha, I'm never gna speak much chi frm now on, or pple like Meijun will keep saying I sound funny. Hey, i got distinction for chi oral last yr ok! ha!
And at last, Chinese is done. It is. I like the funny chengyus and idioms that relate to animals and objects. For example, it IS too late to fill the holes in a ship when it is halfway out at sea, but apparently there IS time for a horse to turn back when reaching the mountain cliff, haha. Mdm Chan has been a good teacher la, to be fair, she really deserves to be in some better place than our school. But looking back at this language, probably the only thing that's nice about it Jolin's voice.
Then Tues chem prac. was the easiest of the sciences. For prelims, i think i spent too much time on titration. So this time, I tried, and tried, to keep pace with candidate 0291, [and this is testament to her effiency, lol], and I was not far behind la, which was good indeed. I did it 3 times, first time 22.0, overshot la, then i started 2cc earlier than that and managed to get 20.2 quite fast, twice in a row. you know, the real comfort came when candidate 0291 also got 20.2, and when other pple like kum boon also got that, rather than when patricia announced it [proudly?] to the class. I mean, I SERIOUSLY have reservations about her as an upper sec teacher, much less one in charge of 4/7 which is the b**t class in the level. Then QA it seemed to be test after test after test, but managed to di it in time la. yeah. I even left a litmus paper in each of the 6 bench reagents to ensure that no one would screw them up, lol. towards the end, while i was wiping my test tube, suddenly about 5-7 drops of KMnO4 just came 'splat' onto my paper. And because they were fine drops, they looked pretty red, like those drops of blood you see in horror shows/ anime fighting scenes. it shocked me. Then i saw KB was cleaning her burette in front. Well I have this to say of the bottom end of the burette, "boy can it spurt uncontrollably" =p
So apparently [and i don't trust it], R was NaBr, S was NaI, and T was Na2S2O3, the compound that me, weihong and sherhan have been arguing about the proper way to pronounce it, i.e. Sodium Thiosulphate, haha.
Oh well, it signalled the end of practicals, and the last time in chem lab. Chem lab has been such a memorable place. The irritating smells of ammonia and chlorine, and the cool effects such as decolourising and litmus paper changing colours, yeah I ll remember them, as well as all the dirtied worksheets [thankfully not clothes], and also the fact that people do get hurt there, like when sherhan got her hand scalded and had to put sulphur all over it, and a whole bunch of people got "acid-burnt" when one time we had to handle conc. acids. It begs the question, why put chem labs at lvl 1 when it is [obviously] the most dangerous? Ah, after the paper ended, I just took my mind cleaning the various apparatus man. I mean, we'll probably see all those same things and much more next year, but it sure is something cool.
From a school's point of view, they must be delighted. They now have a shitload of litmus papers, filter papers, and splints to last them a couple of yrs.
Oh well, its a crunch week, having to try to make sure enough of everything stays in your head and doesn't leach away. Pray to God that it'll keep on raining!
That's my impetus for studying in the afternn.
Very often in life, people are made to swallow their words, and it proved to be the case during the weekend.
Aha just when I thought Arsenal were clicking into gear they came unstuck against yet another team who just park the bus in front of the goal and do nothing but defend, and everything assosiated with that [time-wasting, bad tackles...]. but what can i say? It's something the players have got to learn to deal with, and they just can't seem to scrap results like Chelsea do so well. And on the 'sexy football' theme, Liverpool finally played some beautiful stuff indeed, and hats off to them. Man Utd too, admittedly.
Oh well that's the football bulletin, haha. HCL O's and chem prac are done and dusted.
And I was worried about HCL, indeed. It was like the first year of the new syllabus [thankfully no han zi or zao ju], and fortunately it was a shadow of AND, Cres, RGS, and many other school's papers which scared the life outta me. Paper1 i did the argumentative on 'Whether parents are solely responsible for instilling the RIGHT moral values into children' haha, I'm never gna speak much chi frm now on, or pple like Meijun will keep saying I sound funny. Hey, i got distinction for chi oral last yr ok! ha!
And at last, Chinese is done. It is. I like the funny chengyus and idioms that relate to animals and objects. For example, it IS too late to fill the holes in a ship when it is halfway out at sea, but apparently there IS time for a horse to turn back when reaching the mountain cliff, haha. Mdm Chan has been a good teacher la, to be fair, she really deserves to be in some better place than our school. But looking back at this language, probably the only thing that's nice about it Jolin's voice.
Then Tues chem prac. was the easiest of the sciences. For prelims, i think i spent too much time on titration. So this time, I tried, and tried, to keep pace with candidate 0291, [and this is testament to her effiency, lol], and I was not far behind la, which was good indeed. I did it 3 times, first time 22.0, overshot la, then i started 2cc earlier than that and managed to get 20.2 quite fast, twice in a row. you know, the real comfort came when candidate 0291 also got 20.2, and when other pple like kum boon also got that, rather than when patricia announced it [proudly?] to the class. I mean, I SERIOUSLY have reservations about her as an upper sec teacher, much less one in charge of 4/7 which is the b**t class in the level. Then QA it seemed to be test after test after test, but managed to di it in time la. yeah. I even left a litmus paper in each of the 6 bench reagents to ensure that no one would screw them up, lol. towards the end, while i was wiping my test tube, suddenly about 5-7 drops of KMnO4 just came 'splat' onto my paper. And because they were fine drops, they looked pretty red, like those drops of blood you see in horror shows/ anime fighting scenes. it shocked me. Then i saw KB was cleaning her burette in front. Well I have this to say of the bottom end of the burette, "boy can it spurt uncontrollably" =p
So apparently [and i don't trust it], R was NaBr, S was NaI, and T was Na2S2O3, the compound that me, weihong and sherhan have been arguing about the proper way to pronounce it, i.e. Sodium Thiosulphate, haha.
Oh well, it signalled the end of practicals, and the last time in chem lab. Chem lab has been such a memorable place. The irritating smells of ammonia and chlorine, and the cool effects such as decolourising and litmus paper changing colours, yeah I ll remember them, as well as all the dirtied worksheets [thankfully not clothes], and also the fact that people do get hurt there, like when sherhan got her hand scalded and had to put sulphur all over it, and a whole bunch of people got "acid-burnt" when one time we had to handle conc. acids. It begs the question, why put chem labs at lvl 1 when it is [obviously] the most dangerous? Ah, after the paper ended, I just took my mind cleaning the various apparatus man. I mean, we'll probably see all those same things and much more next year, but it sure is something cool.
From a school's point of view, they must be delighted. They now have a shitload of litmus papers, filter papers, and splints to last them a couple of yrs.
Oh well, its a crunch week, having to try to make sure enough of everything stays in your head and doesn't leach away. Pray to God that it'll keep on raining!
That's my impetus for studying in the afternn.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
It truly is such a boring weekend.
Stuck on a Saturday morning, can't go to Nexus, and having to read chinese model essays. It's all too late now isn't it.
Well, Monday will be my most difficult test. It IS make-or-break.
I don't know, perhaps the rain during the last few days have been a reprieve for me. It has made me able to study in the afternoon, however weird that might sound.
And it's so refreshing to see the view from my window. It's as if its in High Definition, comparative with the recent hazy days. Appreciate nature.
Been a weird o' week. It's when you see things like blood trickling down the sink [or however you describe it, and don't ask where the blood came from], that makes you reflect.
There ain't long to go. Ain't long to go till all this starts again.
I'm not depressed, neither am I stressed. Just, confounded.
And damn, ESPNSTAR isn't showing Arsenal v Everton tonight because of priority towards United and Liverpool. Hey, who's everyone saying is playing sexy football?
The way things are, I bet Liverpool fans would much rather watch Arsenal unleash their attacking game. It's less stressful as well. Back to the phrase I love to use - double standards. And i cannot, for the life of me, figure out why this is still so apparent.
Oh well, I ll just take it as a blessing in disguise and get back to work.
Hopefully, this is the last time I'm scraping for a subject I feel I'm absolutely powerless in wanting to improve.
Stuck on a Saturday morning, can't go to Nexus, and having to read chinese model essays. It's all too late now isn't it.
Well, Monday will be my most difficult test. It IS make-or-break.
I don't know, perhaps the rain during the last few days have been a reprieve for me. It has made me able to study in the afternoon, however weird that might sound.
And it's so refreshing to see the view from my window. It's as if its in High Definition, comparative with the recent hazy days. Appreciate nature.
Been a weird o' week. It's when you see things like blood trickling down the sink [or however you describe it, and don't ask where the blood came from], that makes you reflect.
There ain't long to go. Ain't long to go till all this starts again.
I'm not depressed, neither am I stressed. Just, confounded.
And damn, ESPNSTAR isn't showing Arsenal v Everton tonight because of priority towards United and Liverpool. Hey, who's everyone saying is playing sexy football?
The way things are, I bet Liverpool fans would much rather watch Arsenal unleash their attacking game. It's less stressful as well. Back to the phrase I love to use - double standards. And i cannot, for the life of me, figure out why this is still so apparent.
Oh well, I ll just take it as a blessing in disguise and get back to work.
Hopefully, this is the last time I'm scraping for a subject I feel I'm absolutely powerless in wanting to improve.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Well for me it has been a tumultuous week indeed.
I ll start way back.
Last Saturday. I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling freaking down and sick. The previous day, I had this weird feeling in my throat whenever anything liquid ran over it. And this feeling was confirmed by Saturday. I had quite a fever, about 39.5 deg, and i had to lie in bed till 11am. Couldn't eat anything. Just drank the same old bland nutrient that is water. Then i tried eating porridge. Couldn't get 5 spoonfuls in before having the vommiting feeling. Shit it. Went back to bed till dinner. And it picked up at night. Wasn't feeling so giddy, and i ate fruits. The headache wasn't that bad, so i managed to catch the 10pm match, that was Arsenal away to Charlton. Conceded an early goal thanks [or no thanks] to sloppy defending and ball watching, and i thought, another frustrating away game. Thankfully, this is a changed team. They managed to beat Man U at Old Trafford, and they managed to come back thanks to 2 stunning goals from van Persie. Better news yet, Chelsea drew at home!
Ok, then to Monday, where i was still bothered by the fever. I was as good as a sitting duck during bio prac. What to do. But over the weekend, I sort of had mixed feelings. Of course, it sucks to be sick, but on the other hand, I also felt kind of lucky that this didn't take place during the preliminary examinations, and of course, not during the real deal.
The week seemed to sweep by. Every passing day we anticipated results. But as ANDERSON never fails to disappoint, it was delayed till Thursday. So Thursday was indeed set up as THE DAY.
On Wednesday night, I took some time during QT to reflect on the prelims [fine I'm lazy to keep continuing the proper english....], all the doubts, and whether i was over-confident for some subjects. Ok I ll admit it. I think if u sit anywhere near me, you ll know that I said many times that chem and EM were confirmed A1s. If u didn't read my past entry [shame on you!], i ll repeat. I doubted physics and bio for A1s. The biggest worry though, was failing chinese. And so, I really prayed, and prayed, for a very long time [by my standards at least, comparatively], that I could pass my chinese.
On thursday, fatefully, chinese was first. I got back the compo paper, 52/90, and i thought, ok, 48 for paper 2 will clinch it. It was OK. Then, when i got back my paper 2 and saw the 46.5/110, i was absolutely shocked. Many thoughts went through my head. At first, it was 'why now?' of all times to fail a subject, much less chinese! And i was selfishly asking people to help my find marks. Sorry CX, PK and erm, Kumby, haha. Then it started to sink in. I was really distraught. For half a day [you ll find out why later its HALF], I was not myself at all. I was making unreasonable comments, as the feeling of desperation sank in. Along the way I got back quite a few papers, and yeah, EM was indeed A1. Bio also fluked an A1. And I have to say I'm sorry, when people like PK and KB talked about my maths being 'sick' i took it as mocking my chinese, and got pissed. And Meijun said she saw me talk in such a critical way she had never seen before. yeah, after reading CX's entry, i realised half the person i was. [the other half is the half that gets equally pissed when Arsenal cannot get results, haha jk]. To top it all off, i even asked the question, 'why God?'. yes I admit it, that was how low i got, and that I've got so much to improve, as a person. Still, I ll like to give thanks to Mrs Allison Lim, who said some comforting words to me after i told her of my chinese, that a 49 will surely be moderated to 50, and yeah, it really calmed me down for awhile.
Then after recess, when i came back, someone told me Mr Tay added 3m to my paper2 chinese! Goodness me! I couldn't believe it. I have to say, I deserved the mark, but very seldom do you get luck as such. Relief suddenly flooded through me. The dream was alive. And boy was it decisive. Now, going back to the rest of results. AM was made extremely dramatic by me again. Paper 1, i got 50. In fact i was feeling quite OK, cos i was expecting to lose 35 marks. I totally wasn't ready for it on the first day. Then paper 2, was a 68, which after adding in the marks for the matrix qn which could not be done, the overall was a 78, A1. Bang it in. Geog was a foregone conclusion, at least for 4/7 students [no offence to those who fell short], but we outclassed the field la. Then chem. I was so confident about it, i expected to cruise to an A1. Turned out, i just scraped another 78 for it. Practical was horrible, and paper 2 saved me. And Weelic, all confident as ever, suprisingly fell short of an A1. That's how deceiving chemistry was. Physics, i felt, was the most difficult science. The MSG was so high la. [high = numerically high]. To get an A1 i was quite surprised, but by then it really didn't matter la, the R5 was settled liao. The day ended with combined humanities, and ooh! I went oh so close to getting back on track. SS was good with 39 but i got dragged down by history with 35 la leaving a total of 74. now gimme a break. Oh, and the most important subject, english, hopefully it gets an A2. The scenario is that i got 67, then managed to add 3 marks for compre, now you do the maths, and I hope that with mercy it will turn into an A2. But if it doesn't, its OK. I'm satisfied with my results. And it is good la. I'll give myself credit where it is due, and I think I ll take some time to work on the languages, time which is more relaxing, before its back to the rest, the sciences and maths. oh and geog.
I left Thursday feeling whether or not 8 would be enough for RJC, and then on Friday, i read CX's entry which is really a great one. And then I went to Hope on Saturday, and it was difficult to openly say my results. I mean, people were all doing so much worse off, and I really could sympathise with them. Which made me realise, hey, that I should be way satisfied with myself, even if my parents still aren't.
Back to Friday, once i got the chinese paper, i could suddenly feel sympathy for people like PK and KB and whoever, who so dearly needed marks to be pushed up a grade so their L1R5 would be ok for their desired JC. And to only have that feeling after mine were secured, i realise that's really selfish of me. So it's been really a week of reflection for me la.
I also realised, how easily i get pissed when i watch Arsenal play. Now they are firing on all cylinders, but when they go dry, I ll swear when watching again. And its not that they are playing badly, it's just now putting the ball into the net. Like 2 weeks ago when Reading drew with Man United, elaine told me that she was happy that they fought back to a draw. And me, for the first 2 Arsenal matches at the Emirates against weak teams which ended in draws, i got so fed up with watching them. What loyalty?, you might ask. And yeah, I ll try to be more accomodating in this aspect too.
At the end of the day, it just goes to show what has become of the Singapore Education System, when everything is so highly stressed on meritocracy. The field is there, but the school can't even allocate a slot for us boys to enjoy soccer, and for girls to enjoy captain's ball or what have they [haha..]. And moving on, I don't mean to be offending, but I have to say I am yet again sickened by the many people protesting about unfair marking and marking discrepancies. you know, I also used to have this feeling of unfairness, like last year when band 1 students for english for such pathetic marks compared to other people, and come to think of it, perhaps it was unfair; this year, Mdm Chan has certainly been stricter than other teachers, and it is definitely unfair. But the teachers have got it right this time round for prelims la, and hats off to them. I mean, they do sectional marking which is as good as it gets. If there is any discrepancy, it would be the marking of compositions, and that would be understandable. But to complain about chem and geog and in the process delay the finalizing of marks is unacceptable. This is probably making it very obvious, but such attitude from students is really sad. And when i saw patricia is 4/6 struggling to justify herself, i pitied her. yes. I mean, yeah, she aint a good teacher at all, Im pretty sure she ll be kicked back to teaching lower sec next yr, another 'ms ho', and to have to face 4/6 whose many claims I'm sure, have no grounds, is sad. ah, as sad as it is, it's the harsh reality of the education system nowadays. I can only imagine that more colourful exchanges will take place in JC.
Please, do something. <----------L5/ Purpose detected
I ll start way back.
Last Saturday. I woke up in the middle of the night, feeling freaking down and sick. The previous day, I had this weird feeling in my throat whenever anything liquid ran over it. And this feeling was confirmed by Saturday. I had quite a fever, about 39.5 deg, and i had to lie in bed till 11am. Couldn't eat anything. Just drank the same old bland nutrient that is water. Then i tried eating porridge. Couldn't get 5 spoonfuls in before having the vommiting feeling. Shit it. Went back to bed till dinner. And it picked up at night. Wasn't feeling so giddy, and i ate fruits. The headache wasn't that bad, so i managed to catch the 10pm match, that was Arsenal away to Charlton. Conceded an early goal thanks [or no thanks] to sloppy defending and ball watching, and i thought, another frustrating away game. Thankfully, this is a changed team. They managed to beat Man U at Old Trafford, and they managed to come back thanks to 2 stunning goals from van Persie. Better news yet, Chelsea drew at home!
Ok, then to Monday, where i was still bothered by the fever. I was as good as a sitting duck during bio prac. What to do. But over the weekend, I sort of had mixed feelings. Of course, it sucks to be sick, but on the other hand, I also felt kind of lucky that this didn't take place during the preliminary examinations, and of course, not during the real deal.
The week seemed to sweep by. Every passing day we anticipated results. But as ANDERSON never fails to disappoint, it was delayed till Thursday. So Thursday was indeed set up as THE DAY.
On Wednesday night, I took some time during QT to reflect on the prelims [fine I'm lazy to keep continuing the proper english....], all the doubts, and whether i was over-confident for some subjects. Ok I ll admit it. I think if u sit anywhere near me, you ll know that I said many times that chem and EM were confirmed A1s. If u didn't read my past entry [shame on you!], i ll repeat. I doubted physics and bio for A1s. The biggest worry though, was failing chinese. And so, I really prayed, and prayed, for a very long time [by my standards at least, comparatively], that I could pass my chinese.
On thursday, fatefully, chinese was first. I got back the compo paper, 52/90, and i thought, ok, 48 for paper 2 will clinch it. It was OK. Then, when i got back my paper 2 and saw the 46.5/110, i was absolutely shocked. Many thoughts went through my head. At first, it was 'why now?' of all times to fail a subject, much less chinese! And i was selfishly asking people to help my find marks. Sorry CX, PK and erm, Kumby, haha. Then it started to sink in. I was really distraught. For half a day [you ll find out why later its HALF], I was not myself at all. I was making unreasonable comments, as the feeling of desperation sank in. Along the way I got back quite a few papers, and yeah, EM was indeed A1. Bio also fluked an A1. And I have to say I'm sorry, when people like PK and KB talked about my maths being 'sick' i took it as mocking my chinese, and got pissed. And Meijun said she saw me talk in such a critical way she had never seen before. yeah, after reading CX's entry, i realised half the person i was. [the other half is the half that gets equally pissed when Arsenal cannot get results, haha jk]. To top it all off, i even asked the question, 'why God?'. yes I admit it, that was how low i got, and that I've got so much to improve, as a person. Still, I ll like to give thanks to Mrs Allison Lim, who said some comforting words to me after i told her of my chinese, that a 49 will surely be moderated to 50, and yeah, it really calmed me down for awhile.
Then after recess, when i came back, someone told me Mr Tay added 3m to my paper2 chinese! Goodness me! I couldn't believe it. I have to say, I deserved the mark, but very seldom do you get luck as such. Relief suddenly flooded through me. The dream was alive. And boy was it decisive. Now, going back to the rest of results. AM was made extremely dramatic by me again. Paper 1, i got 50. In fact i was feeling quite OK, cos i was expecting to lose 35 marks. I totally wasn't ready for it on the first day. Then paper 2, was a 68, which after adding in the marks for the matrix qn which could not be done, the overall was a 78, A1. Bang it in. Geog was a foregone conclusion, at least for 4/7 students [no offence to those who fell short], but we outclassed the field la. Then chem. I was so confident about it, i expected to cruise to an A1. Turned out, i just scraped another 78 for it. Practical was horrible, and paper 2 saved me. And Weelic, all confident as ever, suprisingly fell short of an A1. That's how deceiving chemistry was. Physics, i felt, was the most difficult science. The MSG was so high la. [high = numerically high]. To get an A1 i was quite surprised, but by then it really didn't matter la, the R5 was settled liao. The day ended with combined humanities, and ooh! I went oh so close to getting back on track. SS was good with 39 but i got dragged down by history with 35 la leaving a total of 74. now gimme a break. Oh, and the most important subject, english, hopefully it gets an A2. The scenario is that i got 67, then managed to add 3 marks for compre, now you do the maths, and I hope that with mercy it will turn into an A2. But if it doesn't, its OK. I'm satisfied with my results. And it is good la. I'll give myself credit where it is due, and I think I ll take some time to work on the languages, time which is more relaxing, before its back to the rest, the sciences and maths. oh and geog.
I left Thursday feeling whether or not 8 would be enough for RJC, and then on Friday, i read CX's entry which is really a great one. And then I went to Hope on Saturday, and it was difficult to openly say my results. I mean, people were all doing so much worse off, and I really could sympathise with them. Which made me realise, hey, that I should be way satisfied with myself, even if my parents still aren't.
Back to Friday, once i got the chinese paper, i could suddenly feel sympathy for people like PK and KB and whoever, who so dearly needed marks to be pushed up a grade so their L1R5 would be ok for their desired JC. And to only have that feeling after mine were secured, i realise that's really selfish of me. So it's been really a week of reflection for me la.
I also realised, how easily i get pissed when i watch Arsenal play. Now they are firing on all cylinders, but when they go dry, I ll swear when watching again. And its not that they are playing badly, it's just now putting the ball into the net. Like 2 weeks ago when Reading drew with Man United, elaine told me that she was happy that they fought back to a draw. And me, for the first 2 Arsenal matches at the Emirates against weak teams which ended in draws, i got so fed up with watching them. What loyalty?, you might ask. And yeah, I ll try to be more accomodating in this aspect too.
At the end of the day, it just goes to show what has become of the Singapore Education System, when everything is so highly stressed on meritocracy. The field is there, but the school can't even allocate a slot for us boys to enjoy soccer, and for girls to enjoy captain's ball or what have they [haha..]. And moving on, I don't mean to be offending, but I have to say I am yet again sickened by the many people protesting about unfair marking and marking discrepancies. you know, I also used to have this feeling of unfairness, like last year when band 1 students for english for such pathetic marks compared to other people, and come to think of it, perhaps it was unfair; this year, Mdm Chan has certainly been stricter than other teachers, and it is definitely unfair. But the teachers have got it right this time round for prelims la, and hats off to them. I mean, they do sectional marking which is as good as it gets. If there is any discrepancy, it would be the marking of compositions, and that would be understandable. But to complain about chem and geog and in the process delay the finalizing of marks is unacceptable. This is probably making it very obvious, but such attitude from students is really sad. And when i saw patricia is 4/6 struggling to justify herself, i pitied her. yes. I mean, yeah, she aint a good teacher at all, Im pretty sure she ll be kicked back to teaching lower sec next yr, another 'ms ho', and to have to face 4/6 whose many claims I'm sure, have no grounds, is sad. ah, as sad as it is, it's the harsh reality of the education system nowadays. I can only imagine that more colourful exchanges will take place in JC.
Please, do something. <----------L5/ Purpose detected
Friday, September 29, 2006
Its friday again what-do-ya-know.
And I have to say, its been one hell of a forgetful Friday. lol.
In the morning James told me message some stuff by recess, and [yeah RATHER SUPRISINGLY], i forgot.
Then, during geography in the humanities room, we were doing mapwork, and i was almost about to take the whole map out when we left till i was reminded that it had to be collected and returned.
After recess was CHEM in the lab. One part of the QA involved getting a few drops of conc. HCl. And, 2 things here. First, i went there with only a test tube, no holder.Another 2 things to elaborate on this. Thankfully, I wasn't caught by patricia for not bringing a holder along, and thankfully i didn't let any of the acid be in contact with my hand when i added it to the test tube. Imagine, one drop trickling down the outside of the test tube and it would have been youch! Second thing, when i went there, i took conc. sulphuric acid, not HCl. Stupid right. And I was heating it gently and with CX were testing with moist litmus paper after moist litmus paper, and no effect. like WTH was going on. Only after awhile [and that was about 5mins!] did i realise i took the wrong acid.
That's not the end. After the whole prac session was done with, i left my pencil box in the lab. yes, i took A calculator, THE paper, and A pen[not -cil box]. Left the rest of it there. And it was so malu infront of patricia and weiting and sherhan and jj they all. man....................
On that forgetfulness theme, let us all not forget that one week has just silently passed us by. I sure didn't think I did much. yet i feel sleepy every night. yet i can't bring myself to study much during the day session. So, I think this transition time is fast running out, its time to get serious again guys.
Back to the chem lab. and the practical was quite interesting. The volumetric thing was very weird. It wasn't just the normal titrate this with that. It invloved adding this and adding that and THEN titrating this with that. And haha, its tricky, the pale yellow thing. its like the yellow keeps getting fainter and fainter, and you just don't know where to stop. Luckily i was SLOW, and this was worsened by the fact that my pipette filler was once again screwd. at LEAST patricia BOTHERED to change one for me. Also, CX was fast. so she overshot hers and i caught up. ha! And then the indicator thing was kinda redundant, but oh well. The QA was fun. The choking gas, and the highlight was the oxygen relighting glowing splints. For once, it was like pretty obvious. Haha.
This week has been kinda slack. In class its joking and all. At home I've tried reading zhitongche for one. Hai, gotta find some way to do better for chinese. Im really scared i ll fail for prelims. So I can take no risks, since from my viewpoint chi is worth 2pts, [passing it rather], and that is an impossible deficit to overcome if they aren't clinched.
On Tues night i woke up to watch champions league. Arsenal are back on form, and Henry suddenly scores 2 headers. [he still sucks at heading im sure]. More importantly, we're back on form. That's the confidence the win over Man U in front of their own fans gives.
And on that note, I believe what we're going through these days, is simply a mentality thing. About the O levels and all. Let's face it, the O levels is easy. Comparatively, there's no two ways about it. It's getting the job done, believing you can do well, that's the difficult part. People from double science classes, or pple struggling in trip. sc classes, often see it as such a challenge [not saying pple like me aren't], when, by virtue of being able to enter ANDERSON, we should all perform very well for the Os. So, its finding belief and confidence, and most importantly, peaking at the right time, I feel. I think any talk of consistency is now nonsense, since the prelims are all over already. There's one and a half months, and certainly, how the time is spent in the last 2 weeks, of that period, will be pivotal.
lastly, remember my entry before last, where the focus was on Mrs Chong and how we should lay off her?
Well, she's given us chocholates, and hey she's filthy rich, but it still takes effort and thought to buy chocholates okay!
And let's be honest, she's been able to relieve our stress with some very entertaining stories hasn't she.
Maybe that's not teaching, but we students from 4/7 are smart enough not to need teaching right..............=p
And I have to say, its been one hell of a forgetful Friday. lol.
In the morning James told me message some stuff by recess, and [yeah RATHER SUPRISINGLY], i forgot.
Then, during geography in the humanities room, we were doing mapwork, and i was almost about to take the whole map out when we left till i was reminded that it had to be collected and returned.
After recess was CHEM in the lab. One part of the QA involved getting a few drops of conc. HCl. And, 2 things here. First, i went there with only a test tube, no holder.Another 2 things to elaborate on this. Thankfully, I wasn't caught by patricia for not bringing a holder along, and thankfully i didn't let any of the acid be in contact with my hand when i added it to the test tube. Imagine, one drop trickling down the outside of the test tube and it would have been youch! Second thing, when i went there, i took conc. sulphuric acid, not HCl. Stupid right. And I was heating it gently and with CX were testing with moist litmus paper after moist litmus paper, and no effect. like WTH was going on. Only after awhile [and that was about 5mins!] did i realise i took the wrong acid.
That's not the end. After the whole prac session was done with, i left my pencil box in the lab. yes, i took A calculator, THE paper, and A pen[not -cil box]. Left the rest of it there. And it was so malu infront of patricia and weiting and sherhan and jj they all. man....................
On that forgetfulness theme, let us all not forget that one week has just silently passed us by. I sure didn't think I did much. yet i feel sleepy every night. yet i can't bring myself to study much during the day session. So, I think this transition time is fast running out, its time to get serious again guys.
Back to the chem lab. and the practical was quite interesting. The volumetric thing was very weird. It wasn't just the normal titrate this with that. It invloved adding this and adding that and THEN titrating this with that. And haha, its tricky, the pale yellow thing. its like the yellow keeps getting fainter and fainter, and you just don't know where to stop. Luckily i was SLOW, and this was worsened by the fact that my pipette filler was once again screwd. at LEAST patricia BOTHERED to change one for me. Also, CX was fast. so she overshot hers and i caught up. ha! And then the indicator thing was kinda redundant, but oh well. The QA was fun. The choking gas, and the highlight was the oxygen relighting glowing splints. For once, it was like pretty obvious. Haha.
This week has been kinda slack. In class its joking and all. At home I've tried reading zhitongche for one. Hai, gotta find some way to do better for chinese. Im really scared i ll fail for prelims. So I can take no risks, since from my viewpoint chi is worth 2pts, [passing it rather], and that is an impossible deficit to overcome if they aren't clinched.
On Tues night i woke up to watch champions league. Arsenal are back on form, and Henry suddenly scores 2 headers. [he still sucks at heading im sure]. More importantly, we're back on form. That's the confidence the win over Man U in front of their own fans gives.
And on that note, I believe what we're going through these days, is simply a mentality thing. About the O levels and all. Let's face it, the O levels is easy. Comparatively, there's no two ways about it. It's getting the job done, believing you can do well, that's the difficult part. People from double science classes, or pple struggling in trip. sc classes, often see it as such a challenge [not saying pple like me aren't], when, by virtue of being able to enter ANDERSON, we should all perform very well for the Os. So, its finding belief and confidence, and most importantly, peaking at the right time, I feel. I think any talk of consistency is now nonsense, since the prelims are all over already. There's one and a half months, and certainly, how the time is spent in the last 2 weeks, of that period, will be pivotal.
lastly, remember my entry before last, where the focus was on Mrs Chong and how we should lay off her?
Well, she's given us chocholates, and hey she's filthy rich, but it still takes effort and thought to buy chocholates okay!
And let's be honest, she's been able to relieve our stress with some very entertaining stories hasn't she.
Maybe that's not teaching, but we students from 4/7 are smart enough not to need teaching right..............=p
Friday, September 22, 2006
Oh yeah the prelims are over. It's been a huge relief. Ive been pretty stressed out over the past few weeks. Even that one in the holidays. Most stressful were the days before PHYSICS and BIOLOGY, in which i was struggling to finish revising the entire syllabus. I got so tired at night, and really wished to continue, but, I found its no use, so i just went to bed early. I don't know. Don't really feel that confident of an A1 for those tests. And for a realist like me, i know when I have done a good test, like AM 2, EM 1n2. Obviously im confident for those. But, when Im not, i just hope i can somehow scrap an A1 out of those subjects.
Apart from that, has been to deal with my sweaty palm problems [haha!]. I got really anxious during SS which was the first "intense-writing" paper. I had so much difficulty writing, just so wanted to end the paper ASAP. So, thankfully i brought pens with rubber for subsequent papers. And it helped.
The aircon atmosphere was just wonderful. And I think the tests were conducted very well. Mdm Wong was OK. Her jokes were, err -----
but i think she maintained discipline. That was good. And there were full attendances. Remember that flak i directed at how the preps. were handled? haha.
For the science exams, really had to hold our bladders, lol. I was almost dying after chem, thanks to a sudden [i won't say migraine] headache, just as the lightning struck. Was struggling to finish the paper, but thankfully it wasn't too difficult. lol, for physics and bio, I had to restrict myself to very little fluid during breakfast. 2h45min lei!
There has also been the funny side of the prelims. "who belongs to this?" was kind of cold. And then today, Mrs Chong stamped the ground rather heavily, well that's so typical of her. And i just wonder why she shouts so loud when pple ask her qns. Guess its the aging process. We all know that's the case with mr Chye. Then, people bringing "insurance equipment"! Wah, like Sok Mui brought not 1, not 2, not 5, but 3 protractors! my goodness! and she forgot to bring for geog MCQ. =_=
"Tonight is the night. Put a string in your pencil box", lol arkar told me this, and i mean, like WTH does having a string help in measuing curved distances! Like how to u keep it not straight?! and Jun Jie, he brought an entire ball of sewing string. boy oh boy.
I think the prelims have produced many unexpected incidents. Some exams were easier than expected, certainly. Chemistry for one. Emaths? Paper 1 was easy, but paper 2 def. was of a higher standard, so, guess its balanced. As usual, there are the toughies. None more so than English Comprehension. Man, questions were so challenging. Just hope it doesn't screw the overall that much.
But well, not that the exams are over, finally we can take some time off. For me, that's being the avid football fan again. It's been an agonising first few weeks of the season, with arsenal playing so well but lacking finishing. FINALLY, without star man Thierry Henry, they managed 2 brilliant away wins at Hamburg and, sweet as ever, at Manchester. I stayed up late on Sunday, and boy was it worth it. We played them off the park, dominated them, missed a penalty, and still won. So much for not winning our first 3 games, and so much for Manchester winning 4 on the trot. Ha, take that ManU fans, [Leroy, Kelvin...Elaine?], whoo, victory sure is sweet. Wait till we do that to Liverpool.
Now, the IMF/WB are out of our island too, apparently coinciding with the conclusion of our prelims. Haha. Thank goodness there were no violence from civil society organisations.
Have been reading the news the past few days, and it hasn't been pleasant. From the coup in Thailand to the guilt expressed by the man whose wife bled to death after donating her kidney to him. Guess it just reminds me how lucky we all are. To be able to finish our prelims smoothly. For most of us [no offence], to be in with a real shout to go to the JCs we want to go. To be with the friends we have, and I must say today's outing with 2/4 pple to Sentosa to play with sand and swim about is really a great way to spend the last day of the exams. Most importantly, for me, to know that God is guiding me through this critical period of my life. That's comforting amidst the stress and the frustration I have felt this week. Im pretty sure of it, that Ive thrown away Amaths, because of a sloppy opening day. That was a tough start. Im sure, everyone has faced similar low points during the prelims. To be able to recover from them, and most of us certainly have, I think we should all give ourselves a real pat on the back.
yeh, its 37~38 days to O levels?
I thought it was pracs. but using common sense, hell no! its the real deal in that period of time!
Well, i have this to say.
How relaxed are you?
Apart from that, has been to deal with my sweaty palm problems [haha!]. I got really anxious during SS which was the first "intense-writing" paper. I had so much difficulty writing, just so wanted to end the paper ASAP. So, thankfully i brought pens with rubber for subsequent papers. And it helped.
The aircon atmosphere was just wonderful. And I think the tests were conducted very well. Mdm Wong was OK. Her jokes were, err -----
but i think she maintained discipline. That was good. And there were full attendances. Remember that flak i directed at how the preps. were handled? haha.
For the science exams, really had to hold our bladders, lol. I was almost dying after chem, thanks to a sudden [i won't say migraine] headache, just as the lightning struck. Was struggling to finish the paper, but thankfully it wasn't too difficult. lol, for physics and bio, I had to restrict myself to very little fluid during breakfast. 2h45min lei!
There has also been the funny side of the prelims. "who belongs to this?" was kind of cold. And then today, Mrs Chong stamped the ground rather heavily, well that's so typical of her. And i just wonder why she shouts so loud when pple ask her qns. Guess its the aging process. We all know that's the case with mr Chye. Then, people bringing "insurance equipment"! Wah, like Sok Mui brought not 1, not 2, not 5, but 3 protractors! my goodness! and she forgot to bring for geog MCQ. =_=
"Tonight is the night. Put a string in your pencil box", lol arkar told me this, and i mean, like WTH does having a string help in measuing curved distances! Like how to u keep it not straight?! and Jun Jie, he brought an entire ball of sewing string. boy oh boy.
I think the prelims have produced many unexpected incidents. Some exams were easier than expected, certainly. Chemistry for one. Emaths? Paper 1 was easy, but paper 2 def. was of a higher standard, so, guess its balanced. As usual, there are the toughies. None more so than English Comprehension. Man, questions were so challenging. Just hope it doesn't screw the overall that much.
But well, not that the exams are over, finally we can take some time off. For me, that's being the avid football fan again. It's been an agonising first few weeks of the season, with arsenal playing so well but lacking finishing. FINALLY, without star man Thierry Henry, they managed 2 brilliant away wins at Hamburg and, sweet as ever, at Manchester. I stayed up late on Sunday, and boy was it worth it. We played them off the park, dominated them, missed a penalty, and still won. So much for not winning our first 3 games, and so much for Manchester winning 4 on the trot. Ha, take that ManU fans, [Leroy, Kelvin...Elaine?], whoo, victory sure is sweet. Wait till we do that to Liverpool.
Now, the IMF/WB are out of our island too, apparently coinciding with the conclusion of our prelims. Haha. Thank goodness there were no violence from civil society organisations.
Have been reading the news the past few days, and it hasn't been pleasant. From the coup in Thailand to the guilt expressed by the man whose wife bled to death after donating her kidney to him. Guess it just reminds me how lucky we all are. To be able to finish our prelims smoothly. For most of us [no offence], to be in with a real shout to go to the JCs we want to go. To be with the friends we have, and I must say today's outing with 2/4 pple to Sentosa to play with sand and swim about is really a great way to spend the last day of the exams. Most importantly, for me, to know that God is guiding me through this critical period of my life. That's comforting amidst the stress and the frustration I have felt this week. Im pretty sure of it, that Ive thrown away Amaths, because of a sloppy opening day. That was a tough start. Im sure, everyone has faced similar low points during the prelims. To be able to recover from them, and most of us certainly have, I think we should all give ourselves a real pat on the back.
yeh, its 37~38 days to O levels?
I thought it was pracs. but using common sense, hell no! its the real deal in that period of time!
Well, i have this to say.
How relaxed are you?
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
DONE. OVER. oh well.
Man it feels great to finally get the prelim pracs. over and DONE WITH.
AND that this skin is finally up. Not that it's supposed to take that long, just that with PREPS and PRACs. i could hardly find anytime to put it up and do the editing and what have you.
But anyway, quite amazingly, its been MORE THAN A MONTH since Ive last blogged, and it feels so weird right now. Anyway, i ll still get on with this "familiarising" entry. Noticed the fonts a little tighter, but i think its sort of less messy. My thought. And, hard to believe, the many weeks [5, 6?] we had with no pressure whatsoever have just passed us by. I mean our schedule now is quite like a cyclone, with the pressure-free zones and the high pressure zones. whatever;
And I've had to have this near-impossible task of balancing football with studies now. I guess Ive studied lots during the period of time which in football terms I'll like to call, "post-world cup pre-EPL" period. But know its tough, and its tougher when MY arsenal are not getting results. Argh. Yet again its that cliche, trying to "pass the ball into the net". Its frustrating. Even more frustrating when people keep saying they are the best passing team in Europe.
Bah. Schedule is bad, bad. Man U - Arsenal and Chelsea- Liverpool are taking place on Sunday 17th September, which is, midway through prelims. After that theres champions league too. damn it sucks. zz.
But for now i ll try to make the most of the holidays, which im sure we all would. PREPS. has been OK. sadly not much progress, which is the most important thing to get through these tests that count for nothing, nothing at all. For once, i screwd up CHEM. Worse, i screwd up COMBINED HUMANITIES. This is quite a collapse la. My A1s from sec3 till now [which i am VERY proud of], suddenly become a 27+26=53/100. ya at least im still proud of it. zz.
Well, at least AM and BIO were my alternatives. Thats the good thing about R5 when u take trip. science i guess. its pick 5 from 7. these subjects were big boosts la. but the one i needed most still hasnt come to fruition. Hopefully, its hasn't YET. But time is running out fast, and english is a language. Its not easy. I think it certainly is within me but sometimes it just doesn't work out.
For the moment, its teachers day tomorrow. Mdm Chan should be delighted that we got top for chinese, i mean imagine how well we could have done if I wasnt in 4/7. [yala thats too modest of me, so also, conversely, imagine how slightly poorer we could have been if i hadn't contributed my share of A1s to the class, aha]
Today, seeing Mr Tan really made the day, i think. Man he really looks visibly skinnier. Guess stress amounts to less time for exercise and perhaps, less time for the brain to focus on digestion? I mean, thats a relatively old human brain we're talking about. lol.
I wonder, if anyone has dared tell Mr Tan about the state of our maths now, i mean under Mrs Chong's influence. I could only imagine, if TTP was around, the difficult questions we would have to do. Not just difficult, unnecessary, i should add. I mean, its frustrating doing all the freaking difficult PnC qns isnt it. After awhile, no? Doing all the integration of linear function divided by linear function-its not easy! Its difficult, perhaps a waste of time, and again revolving back to that word, STRESS. At a time like this, surely the last thing we graduating students want is to be stressed over maths questions which we cant seem to solve. I mean, even for a person like me who's not that devoted to maths, i still get pissed when i can solve a problem. And that pissed attitute sort of renders one unable to study other topics, more pressing matters. Haha thats my phrase. Regardless, TTP is STILL the best teacher ive had by far, really. If anyone needs proof of that, read the entry not long ago-its really not that long ago and already his absense is felt. Im just trying to say that Mrs Chong aint all that bad. I mean, she has a good track record, last year. Yes, past glory, students individual efforts people may say, but its something she deserves. So, i think all of us who have reservations about her should think twice about it. Quite honestly, i sometimes get sick of her apparent poor teaching methods, which was minimised for a simple topic like vectors, but then amplified for relative velocity. All in all, i think she aint THAT bad a teacher as many people apparently see her to be. Lay it off her yeah?
heh.
AND that this skin is finally up. Not that it's supposed to take that long, just that with PREPS and PRACs. i could hardly find anytime to put it up and do the editing and what have you.
But anyway, quite amazingly, its been MORE THAN A MONTH since Ive last blogged, and it feels so weird right now. Anyway, i ll still get on with this "familiarising" entry. Noticed the fonts a little tighter, but i think its sort of less messy. My thought. And, hard to believe, the many weeks [5, 6?] we had with no pressure whatsoever have just passed us by. I mean our schedule now is quite like a cyclone, with the pressure-free zones and the high pressure zones. whatever;
And I've had to have this near-impossible task of balancing football with studies now. I guess Ive studied lots during the period of time which in football terms I'll like to call, "post-world cup pre-EPL" period. But know its tough, and its tougher when MY arsenal are not getting results. Argh. Yet again its that cliche, trying to "pass the ball into the net". Its frustrating. Even more frustrating when people keep saying they are the best passing team in Europe.
Bah. Schedule is bad, bad. Man U - Arsenal and Chelsea- Liverpool are taking place on Sunday 17th September, which is, midway through prelims. After that theres champions league too. damn it sucks. zz.
But for now i ll try to make the most of the holidays, which im sure we all would. PREPS. has been OK. sadly not much progress, which is the most important thing to get through these tests that count for nothing, nothing at all. For once, i screwd up CHEM. Worse, i screwd up COMBINED HUMANITIES. This is quite a collapse la. My A1s from sec3 till now [which i am VERY proud of], suddenly become a 27+26=53/100. ya at least im still proud of it. zz.
Well, at least AM and BIO were my alternatives. Thats the good thing about R5 when u take trip. science i guess. its pick 5 from 7. these subjects were big boosts la. but the one i needed most still hasnt come to fruition. Hopefully, its hasn't YET. But time is running out fast, and english is a language. Its not easy. I think it certainly is within me but sometimes it just doesn't work out.
For the moment, its teachers day tomorrow. Mdm Chan should be delighted that we got top for chinese, i mean imagine how well we could have done if I wasnt in 4/7. [yala thats too modest of me, so also, conversely, imagine how slightly poorer we could have been if i hadn't contributed my share of A1s to the class, aha]
Today, seeing Mr Tan really made the day, i think. Man he really looks visibly skinnier. Guess stress amounts to less time for exercise and perhaps, less time for the brain to focus on digestion? I mean, thats a relatively old human brain we're talking about. lol.
I wonder, if anyone has dared tell Mr Tan about the state of our maths now, i mean under Mrs Chong's influence. I could only imagine, if TTP was around, the difficult questions we would have to do. Not just difficult, unnecessary, i should add. I mean, its frustrating doing all the freaking difficult PnC qns isnt it. After awhile, no? Doing all the integration of linear function divided by linear function-its not easy! Its difficult, perhaps a waste of time, and again revolving back to that word, STRESS. At a time like this, surely the last thing we graduating students want is to be stressed over maths questions which we cant seem to solve. I mean, even for a person like me who's not that devoted to maths, i still get pissed when i can solve a problem. And that pissed attitute sort of renders one unable to study other topics, more pressing matters. Haha thats my phrase. Regardless, TTP is STILL the best teacher ive had by far, really. If anyone needs proof of that, read the entry not long ago-its really not that long ago and already his absense is felt. Im just trying to say that Mrs Chong aint all that bad. I mean, she has a good track record, last year. Yes, past glory, students individual efforts people may say, but its something she deserves. So, i think all of us who have reservations about her should think twice about it. Quite honestly, i sometimes get sick of her apparent poor teaching methods, which was minimised for a simple topic like vectors, but then amplified for relative velocity. All in all, i think she aint THAT bad a teacher as many people apparently see her to be. Lay it off her yeah?
heh.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Ah, I think today has made me feel very disappointed about the school. SCHOOL.
Yes, I always thought the school was progressing quite well, you know, the renovations and all. I must say the outlook of the school is fantastic, probably better than any school in Penang [they are really quite run down]. OK, but i do feel that this school is very corrupted and lax when it comes to exams. Seriously.
During sec3, even term 1 this year, our school has had this fantastic idea of common tests. Oh yeah, next best thing to true-train right, so we have more curriculum time. Or more time blown dry by some creative-minded teachers. *some. And because of the relatively small scale "common test" outlook, there is no common time for the tests. How ironic. So one class can take it on Monday, the next class takes it on next Friday. And we being split up from our sec2 classes, have real good links between friends of other classes. Yes. Thumbs-up to the school, it has truly succeeded in strengthening trust towards friends from OTHER CLASSES. I am dead sure the teachers all know this full well. During a chem prac. this yr, ms goh even mentioned it. oh great! we still took the same test. guess what>? Who didn't do well for the test man. And if it wasn't enough help, the chem teachers decided to further lower the weightage of the test to allow more people to get A1s. Its jus like cutting off part of a bell curve. I mean come on. In that matter, even though my english has been extremly poor for 2 terms, i am glad that they aint making things easy for us. Like in term 1, even when it concerned colors award, they didnt do "moderation". That's the way things should be. Really.
And come on, last yr's EOY exam was such a success. After every paper we could keep the qn paper. What has happened to that? Now this preps., every paper has to be collected back, people are just not sticking to the schedule. And they are still allowed to take the tests as much as a week after. You gotta be kidding man. The next best thing to LIVE telecasts on TV is same-day telecasts. Who wants to watch a delayed telecast of something man. It totally takes the kick away from it. The school is just so lax at this. Teachers are giving in to students' requests for hints, tips. Come on, u ask them before O lvls and suddenly they wont be so willing, cause they dont want to screw us up. Precisely what's happening now. Some students are just so good at this, getting tips from friends, teachers, etcetera. Goodness, come O lvls, good luck. Thank the school for trying out a true-train like program without the protection of confirmed passage to a good JC. Hats off to ya man.
Honestly, how many people have had an exam "fixed". I certainly have, and i admit it. During sec3, the chengyu tests were all selective studying. Man, and almost everyone did the same thing. Yes, i am guilty. But please, students can't be blamed, its natural, its normal. Blame the cause. Get at the root. No provocation, no headbutt [that's so random]. Similarly, if the school is strict on the tests. and organises it to take place at the same time, deduct marks /day if students don't turn up like Mr Tan did do, then all this surely wouldnt have taken place. When Mr Tan deducted 5marks frm some 4/6 student for a common test, i think it made all of us afraid of getting sick during tests. Just like refereeing a football match. You be strict early on, players will be less aggressive. Then, you wont end up losing control of matches and break a record by producing 16yellows and 4reds in a match. Impose your firmness early on, and it will pay. Same thing for NPCC i think. We as seniors really were too lax by Aug and Sep last yr. The CIs were practically giving up on taking digs at us anymore. Just fed up. And everything from then on really didnt go the way we wanted it too. Well. That's enough for one day.
I have my views on things. expect more to come. lol. you know it makes sense.
k la, anyway i had a great 17th July. the EM was bad, but bio was ok. AHH i cant even spot V(ictory) in black and white. lol. Then had a great day la. Thanks for all the sms-es. Thanks James for the album which i had so wanted, thanks Ariana and Naomi for the pencil box which i had so needed, thanks yanchao "and gang" for that 512mb MMC, thanks Nick and co. as well for the red currant no.10 shirt of Dennis Bergkamp, even though you got it pretty cheap, he IS one player i respect a whole lot .Thanks Sherhan and Weiting for making me feel so embarrassed and everyone else who EITHER said happy birthday to me on monday or with the belated after monday, and those who sms-ed me. haha. ok. That's a load off my chest.
Im still mentally blown off by the NSW test.
Yes, I always thought the school was progressing quite well, you know, the renovations and all. I must say the outlook of the school is fantastic, probably better than any school in Penang [they are really quite run down]. OK, but i do feel that this school is very corrupted and lax when it comes to exams. Seriously.
During sec3, even term 1 this year, our school has had this fantastic idea of common tests. Oh yeah, next best thing to true-train right, so we have more curriculum time. Or more time blown dry by some creative-minded teachers. *some. And because of the relatively small scale "common test" outlook, there is no common time for the tests. How ironic. So one class can take it on Monday, the next class takes it on next Friday. And we being split up from our sec2 classes, have real good links between friends of other classes. Yes. Thumbs-up to the school, it has truly succeeded in strengthening trust towards friends from OTHER CLASSES. I am dead sure the teachers all know this full well. During a chem prac. this yr, ms goh even mentioned it. oh great! we still took the same test. guess what>? Who didn't do well for the test man. And if it wasn't enough help, the chem teachers decided to further lower the weightage of the test to allow more people to get A1s. Its jus like cutting off part of a bell curve. I mean come on. In that matter, even though my english has been extremly poor for 2 terms, i am glad that they aint making things easy for us. Like in term 1, even when it concerned colors award, they didnt do "moderation". That's the way things should be. Really.
And come on, last yr's EOY exam was such a success. After every paper we could keep the qn paper. What has happened to that? Now this preps., every paper has to be collected back, people are just not sticking to the schedule. And they are still allowed to take the tests as much as a week after. You gotta be kidding man. The next best thing to LIVE telecasts on TV is same-day telecasts. Who wants to watch a delayed telecast of something man. It totally takes the kick away from it. The school is just so lax at this. Teachers are giving in to students' requests for hints, tips. Come on, u ask them before O lvls and suddenly they wont be so willing, cause they dont want to screw us up. Precisely what's happening now. Some students are just so good at this, getting tips from friends, teachers, etcetera. Goodness, come O lvls, good luck. Thank the school for trying out a true-train like program without the protection of confirmed passage to a good JC. Hats off to ya man.
Honestly, how many people have had an exam "fixed". I certainly have, and i admit it. During sec3, the chengyu tests were all selective studying. Man, and almost everyone did the same thing. Yes, i am guilty. But please, students can't be blamed, its natural, its normal. Blame the cause. Get at the root. No provocation, no headbutt [that's so random]. Similarly, if the school is strict on the tests. and organises it to take place at the same time, deduct marks /day if students don't turn up like Mr Tan did do, then all this surely wouldnt have taken place. When Mr Tan deducted 5marks frm some 4/6 student for a common test, i think it made all of us afraid of getting sick during tests. Just like refereeing a football match. You be strict early on, players will be less aggressive. Then, you wont end up losing control of matches and break a record by producing 16yellows and 4reds in a match. Impose your firmness early on, and it will pay. Same thing for NPCC i think. We as seniors really were too lax by Aug and Sep last yr. The CIs were practically giving up on taking digs at us anymore. Just fed up. And everything from then on really didnt go the way we wanted it too. Well. That's enough for one day.
I have my views on things. expect more to come. lol. you know it makes sense.
k la, anyway i had a great 17th July. the EM was bad, but bio was ok. AHH i cant even spot V(ictory) in black and white. lol. Then had a great day la. Thanks for all the sms-es. Thanks James for the album which i had so wanted, thanks Ariana and Naomi for the pencil box which i had so needed, thanks yanchao "and gang" for that 512mb MMC, thanks Nick and co. as well for the red currant no.10 shirt of Dennis Bergkamp, even though you got it pretty cheap, he IS one player i respect a whole lot .Thanks Sherhan and Weiting for making me feel so embarrassed and everyone else who EITHER said happy birthday to me on monday or with the belated after monday, and those who sms-ed me. haha. ok. That's a load off my chest.
Im still mentally blown off by the NSW test.
Friday, July 14, 2006
Its been a long week man. Very long.
Boy, after monday i dunno why it felt like Thursday or something.
But God lifted me through la.
Haha, his help was very apparent from day 1 la.
Read James's blog about the 5min thing he had for Amath P2, and i have my own 5-min miracle for EM P2 as well. 5mins left, i was stuck with the 2nd part of qn2 on trigo. and bearings. Trigo. and the circle properties had been my serious weakness for EM la, just the inability to notice stuff. and i was looking at part 3, part 4, freaking hell if i had the ans to part 2 i cld apply them straight away.
AND THEN IT CAME.
wow i suddenly realised the alternate angles and managed to finish the rest of the qn in 5mins. and checked ans with my friends, it TALLIED. omg. huge relief. in fact, after the papers were collected, i was staring right up [in this case its the ceiling but where else man]. just amazed.
That was a huge lift for me la. That night, i was so tired la. History and AM were to follow on tuesday. I have gotten A1s for history in every exam, i didnt want to waste it. But, my record for AM was nothing like it. Its been pretty cursed. 3 times ive gotten 74.k, where k<5, lol. and then there was the horrible C5 for last yr EOY. i was determined to set right AM. so i decided, i would study less for history. i did cold war and fall of communist govt. in the afternn, not throughly at all. and at night was a rush of maths. i got so pissed over PnC, integration, and i focused alot on ABSOLUTE VALUE. ok it didnt come out on P1, bud it did eventually for P2. Going by the trend, absolute value always came with big marks. BIG. and so for tues, hist, every1 was predicting MAO would come out. i was so shit-ed. usually only 1 topic came out for each theme. Theme 3 had Cold War, MAO, and Fall of USSR. if MAO came out i'd be done. DONE.
And surprise surprise, cold war AND mao came out. huge relief. My history record should be intact. and AM, i was careless at times, bud fortunately the mistakes occurred at the "show" qns, so its easy to spot them. and i did EITHER for the last qn. huge relief. 2 tough days settled. Wed was less stressful. the compre passaged quite touched me la. recently i read a sunday times article about a CEO who died of cancer, and he said cancer gave him the best months of his life. it was so touching. back to the paper. it was tough, but still OK on the whole la. Thurs. CHINESE. no nd to say. its a joke really. i didnt know the guy died. i thought he left for somewhere or something. [do i understand chinese???]
Alongside that, physics MCQ was tough la. really tested deep concepts like the shorter e dist, larger the field of view. and magnetic field on moon doesnt change. and the Paper2 was better. MUCH BETTER than the chemistry paper on monday which is [im sorry bud the critism has to flow again] FREAKING LOW STANDARD. like WTH? lifting electrolysis qns frm papers which we hv been told to do? what is this man. give us free marks for what. and ask us 3 times whether is exothermic or endothermic. whats the problem man. no arrogance, but big occasions such as preps. should Really test students la. sigh.
Friday's AM turned out to be quite challenging. first qn last part just needed area - area, i ended up using cosine rule and then 0.5absinx to find the area, bud the exact value at the end was comforting. then i loved the absolute value qn. i was praying it would come out, and it came out big. summore for quadratic eqn. so it was pretty doable. i had practised hard on transformations la. so, in conclusion, im really hoping for A1 for maths this time. That the hard work would pay off. Anyway, if i dont, at least, ive did the best one can do, and that's TRY. [thats quoted from Roger Federer, tennis's no.1 player].
Now i just want to end the preps. on a high note. [PLEASE GOD!]
will update plenty of things, including what i think of THAT headbutt.
FORZA ITALIA anyway!!!! [i am so unfaithful to Les Bleus].
Boy, after monday i dunno why it felt like Thursday or something.
But God lifted me through la.
Haha, his help was very apparent from day 1 la.
Read James's blog about the 5min thing he had for Amath P2, and i have my own 5-min miracle for EM P2 as well. 5mins left, i was stuck with the 2nd part of qn2 on trigo. and bearings. Trigo. and the circle properties had been my serious weakness for EM la, just the inability to notice stuff. and i was looking at part 3, part 4, freaking hell if i had the ans to part 2 i cld apply them straight away.
AND THEN IT CAME.
wow i suddenly realised the alternate angles and managed to finish the rest of the qn in 5mins. and checked ans with my friends, it TALLIED. omg. huge relief. in fact, after the papers were collected, i was staring right up [in this case its the ceiling but where else man]. just amazed.
That was a huge lift for me la. That night, i was so tired la. History and AM were to follow on tuesday. I have gotten A1s for history in every exam, i didnt want to waste it. But, my record for AM was nothing like it. Its been pretty cursed. 3 times ive gotten 74.k, where k<5, lol. and then there was the horrible C5 for last yr EOY. i was determined to set right AM. so i decided, i would study less for history. i did cold war and fall of communist govt. in the afternn, not throughly at all. and at night was a rush of maths. i got so pissed over PnC, integration, and i focused alot on ABSOLUTE VALUE. ok it didnt come out on P1, bud it did eventually for P2. Going by the trend, absolute value always came with big marks. BIG. and so for tues, hist, every1 was predicting MAO would come out. i was so shit-ed. usually only 1 topic came out for each theme. Theme 3 had Cold War, MAO, and Fall of USSR. if MAO came out i'd be done. DONE.
And surprise surprise, cold war AND mao came out. huge relief. My history record should be intact. and AM, i was careless at times, bud fortunately the mistakes occurred at the "show" qns, so its easy to spot them. and i did EITHER for the last qn. huge relief. 2 tough days settled. Wed was less stressful. the compre passaged quite touched me la. recently i read a sunday times article about a CEO who died of cancer, and he said cancer gave him the best months of his life. it was so touching. back to the paper. it was tough, but still OK on the whole la. Thurs. CHINESE. no nd to say. its a joke really. i didnt know the guy died. i thought he left for somewhere or something. [do i understand chinese???]
Alongside that, physics MCQ was tough la. really tested deep concepts like the shorter e dist, larger the field of view. and magnetic field on moon doesnt change. and the Paper2 was better. MUCH BETTER than the chemistry paper on monday which is [im sorry bud the critism has to flow again] FREAKING LOW STANDARD. like WTH? lifting electrolysis qns frm papers which we hv been told to do? what is this man. give us free marks for what. and ask us 3 times whether is exothermic or endothermic. whats the problem man. no arrogance, but big occasions such as preps. should Really test students la. sigh.
Friday's AM turned out to be quite challenging. first qn last part just needed area - area, i ended up using cosine rule and then 0.5absinx to find the area, bud the exact value at the end was comforting. then i loved the absolute value qn. i was praying it would come out, and it came out big. summore for quadratic eqn. so it was pretty doable. i had practised hard on transformations la. so, in conclusion, im really hoping for A1 for maths this time. That the hard work would pay off. Anyway, if i dont, at least, ive did the best one can do, and that's TRY. [thats quoted from Roger Federer, tennis's no.1 player].
Now i just want to end the preps. on a high note. [PLEASE GOD!]
will update plenty of things, including what i think of THAT headbutt.
FORZA ITALIA anyway!!!! [i am so unfaithful to Les Bleus].
Sunday, July 02, 2006
And then its another farewell.
What a year it has been, bade farewell to my friend migrating to Australia at the beginning of the year. Then in May it was Highbury. haha. Now, somewhat abruptly, Mr Tan has come into early retirement. It's such a pity la, always felt like asking him why not at the end of the year, and when i did on Friday, he said he was advised to stop teaching for his health. Well, i think it could only be a family member of smth that he would sort of prioritise above us wonderful students. haha.
Yes, Friday was a fantastic send-off to him. Thankfully he managed to arrive, and well i guess pizza was not really to his liking [health and all, "plenty of sugar"!!], but i guess its okay to eat it once in awhile. After all, how could he reject it. so, after we boys were totally crowded out by the girls while doing the toasting, me JJ and WL finally managed to squeeze in and get a short chat with him. yeah, he mentioned about how so many of us have matured since sec3. Haha, he even joked about his experience as a student in school and in a university in Malaysia. it was funny, it was so similar to what my dad said, about the very apparent favouritism towards malays. oh well. and he said our batch of students are one of the least troublesome, that was so nice to hear. haha, while i was asking the questions, junjie kept complimenting and praising him till it made him like so embarrassed, where he like couldnt open his mouth, holding a smile. lol.
And so after we went to the area outside General Office to take plenty of photos. haha, and naomi went crazy over him, so desperate to stand next to him to take photos. lol. ok maybe im making things sound more awkward.
Pardon me but i think this is an excellent shot of the boys and TTP. It really is.
[you know, without those pesky girls. ok jk la. lol.]
Then just me, JJ, and weelic.
Ok notice the pattern of subsets?
First the whole class then the boys then the 3 of us and now ME, MYSELF, and I, and the one constant k, Mr Tan. LOL.
Man, i have always thought Mr Tan was a great teacher, since the start. yes, during the first test in term 1, i missed an A1 by 0.5marks. I remember it was 26/35 or something. 26.5 would have been >75%. haha. i was angry. felt hard done by la, when about 5marks was duducted for no working shown/never underline/mixed number in an equation. yes, then i did something to the paper in stupidity. somehow, i was more foolish[or perhaps not] when i allowed him to see what i did. he stared at me with his accusatory eyes, then told me to meet him after school.
Then, he probably said the most meaningful words a teacher has said to me in my secondary school life. yeah, i broke down. but i think it changed my impression on studying somewhat since that day. And i think it really inspired me to perform so consistently well throughout 2005. I managed to break my mid-year jinx, and for once, i ended the year feeling satisfied, unlike the previous years' feeling of "what if" and "what could have been". and then i met him the day the EOY papers were given out. he asked how i did. and i said, very good. [ok i didnt expect myself to be so arrogant at that point]. and then he gave me a sarcastic look of disgust. haha. i laughed. he walked away. zzz.
k la. and this year, i think ive mentioned it plenty of time, that he nv scolds me [compared with JJ]. haha. i dunno why.many times, i did not do my homework. he definitely knows la. every time we are copying stuff from his transparency, he will sit at the desk and stare at either mine or JJ's work. so, he definitely sees what i write. Hell, he even managed to spot some small error i made in an integration exercise. lol. yes, he is such an observant guy. i guess at times this year i have been very stressed. the late nights, the oozing rashes. as usual TTP is at his apparent "no sympathy" towards these kind of things la. but im sure he does care a lot la. Its just he doesnt know how to show his emotions. To be honest, i was surprised he never looked surprised in the hall. He did not do anything when Mdm Wong broke down to tears. That, i guess, is what people call the "measure of a man". perhaps thats why they say women are so much more emotional, but what the heck, dont we just love our teachers all the same, if not more?
What a year it has been, bade farewell to my friend migrating to Australia at the beginning of the year. Then in May it was Highbury. haha. Now, somewhat abruptly, Mr Tan has come into early retirement. It's such a pity la, always felt like asking him why not at the end of the year, and when i did on Friday, he said he was advised to stop teaching for his health. Well, i think it could only be a family member of smth that he would sort of prioritise above us wonderful students. haha.
Yes, Friday was a fantastic send-off to him. Thankfully he managed to arrive, and well i guess pizza was not really to his liking [health and all, "plenty of sugar"!!], but i guess its okay to eat it once in awhile. After all, how could he reject it. so, after we boys were totally crowded out by the girls while doing the toasting, me JJ and WL finally managed to squeeze in and get a short chat with him. yeah, he mentioned about how so many of us have matured since sec3. Haha, he even joked about his experience as a student in school and in a university in Malaysia. it was funny, it was so similar to what my dad said, about the very apparent favouritism towards malays. oh well. and he said our batch of students are one of the least troublesome, that was so nice to hear. haha, while i was asking the questions, junjie kept complimenting and praising him till it made him like so embarrassed, where he like couldnt open his mouth, holding a smile. lol.
And so after we went to the area outside General Office to take plenty of photos. haha, and naomi went crazy over him, so desperate to stand next to him to take photos. lol. ok maybe im making things sound more awkward.
Pardon me but i think this is an excellent shot of the boys and TTP. It really is.[you know, without those pesky girls. ok jk la. lol.]
Then just me, JJ, and weelic.Ok notice the pattern of subsets?
First the whole class then the boys then the 3 of us and now ME, MYSELF, and I, and the one constant k, Mr Tan. LOL.
Man, i have always thought Mr Tan was a great teacher, since the start. yes, during the first test in term 1, i missed an A1 by 0.5marks. I remember it was 26/35 or something. 26.5 would have been >75%. haha. i was angry. felt hard done by la, when about 5marks was duducted for no working shown/never underline/mixed number in an equation. yes, then i did something to the paper in stupidity. somehow, i was more foolish[or perhaps not] when i allowed him to see what i did. he stared at me with his accusatory eyes, then told me to meet him after school.
Then, he probably said the most meaningful words a teacher has said to me in my secondary school life. yeah, i broke down. but i think it changed my impression on studying somewhat since that day. And i think it really inspired me to perform so consistently well throughout 2005. I managed to break my mid-year jinx, and for once, i ended the year feeling satisfied, unlike the previous years' feeling of "what if" and "what could have been". and then i met him the day the EOY papers were given out. he asked how i did. and i said, very good. [ok i didnt expect myself to be so arrogant at that point]. and then he gave me a sarcastic look of disgust. haha. i laughed. he walked away. zzz.
k la. and this year, i think ive mentioned it plenty of time, that he nv scolds me [compared with JJ]. haha. i dunno why.many times, i did not do my homework. he definitely knows la. every time we are copying stuff from his transparency, he will sit at the desk and stare at either mine or JJ's work. so, he definitely sees what i write. Hell, he even managed to spot some small error i made in an integration exercise. lol. yes, he is such an observant guy. i guess at times this year i have been very stressed. the late nights, the oozing rashes. as usual TTP is at his apparent "no sympathy" towards these kind of things la. but im sure he does care a lot la. Its just he doesnt know how to show his emotions. To be honest, i was surprised he never looked surprised in the hall. He did not do anything when Mdm Wong broke down to tears. That, i guess, is what people call the "measure of a man". perhaps thats why they say women are so much more emotional, but what the heck, dont we just love our teachers all the same, if not more?
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Well, its been long since I've been here.
And man its already time for sch reopen, and what i'd like to call the HOME STRETCH.
Nxt month will be a big month in due time.
First and foremost, our Prep. where we all will see indeed if all our efforts made during the June hols hv come to fruition. Then on July 9th, its the final in Berlin. Hope my spain/france will be there. aha. Moving on, im turning 16 on the 17th
[cool man nxt yr i can say im turning 17 on the 17TH. =.=]
And im sure it pretty much gets tougher from this month on, so yeah, thats the start of the home stretch.
Finally came back from m'sia on wed night, where i managed to watch plenty of tv there including world cup, and i also managed to finish my geog. o yeah! They just seemed to be inexhaustible. lol.
There was CHEM on thur, and boy was it boring. whats worst was that i left my pencil box in school. just hope i can FIND it. argh. of all times to be careless.....
oh well. on friday it was a mad rush of homework. think i did 2 Amaths papers from 8am to noon, had lunch, then continued with 1 more. really a marathon . lol then continued with chinese compre, then a history essay, and topped things off with revising physics TYS.
really, this is the stuff that laggers are made of. LOL.
towards the night the flu was getting really really bad, i think i must have been quite a concern to the environmentalists about how many trees i was going to burn at one stage. thankfully managed to sleep sound, although it wasnt so pleasant when i woke up. kept sneezing and sneezing, and i was feeling rather breathless [nonono not breath taken away]. so went to see a doctor and be it placebo effect or whatever, it immediately abated when i stepped into clinic. guess its pretty much the same reason which explains why u always see things when you dont need them and when u need them u cant find them. or why we nv express our feelings until its too late. ok. digressing way too much. lol.
so went home, took an awful long nap also to make up for the stressful friday. and then checked my messages. one of which told that Les Bleus finished 2nd after winning 2-0, which i was delighted at first. only until after awhile i realised they were meeting SPAIN. the hot team. damn. what a sad clash of interests. somehow i feel France can weave some magic.
Anyway. speaking of world cup, the referees have been awful. none worse than Graham Poll, who is the english premier league's best referee, who gave 3 yellow cards before sending a Croatian player off. boy, Australia could have ordered a replay just cos of that!
well so far, i believe the form teams have been spain, germany, and perhaps argentina, which, i think were brought back to earth in the round of 16 clash v Mexico, where they were so, so lucky to progress, thanks to probably the goal of the tournament by Maxi Rodriguez.
So that is it, probably the last entry for a long time. perhaps if SPAIN / FRANCE triumph in Berlin then i ll hv smth to write haha.
you know it makes sense.
And man its already time for sch reopen, and what i'd like to call the HOME STRETCH.
Nxt month will be a big month in due time.
First and foremost, our Prep. where we all will see indeed if all our efforts made during the June hols hv come to fruition. Then on July 9th, its the final in Berlin. Hope my spain/france will be there. aha. Moving on, im turning 16 on the 17th
[cool man nxt yr i can say im turning 17 on the 17TH. =.=]
And im sure it pretty much gets tougher from this month on, so yeah, thats the start of the home stretch.
Finally came back from m'sia on wed night, where i managed to watch plenty of tv there including world cup, and i also managed to finish my geog. o yeah! They just seemed to be inexhaustible. lol.
There was CHEM on thur, and boy was it boring. whats worst was that i left my pencil box in school. just hope i can FIND it. argh. of all times to be careless.....
oh well. on friday it was a mad rush of homework. think i did 2 Amaths papers from 8am to noon, had lunch, then continued with 1 more. really a marathon . lol then continued with chinese compre, then a history essay, and topped things off with revising physics TYS.
really, this is the stuff that laggers are made of. LOL.
towards the night the flu was getting really really bad, i think i must have been quite a concern to the environmentalists about how many trees i was going to burn at one stage. thankfully managed to sleep sound, although it wasnt so pleasant when i woke up. kept sneezing and sneezing, and i was feeling rather breathless [nonono not breath taken away]. so went to see a doctor and be it placebo effect or whatever, it immediately abated when i stepped into clinic. guess its pretty much the same reason which explains why u always see things when you dont need them and when u need them u cant find them. or why we nv express our feelings until its too late. ok. digressing way too much. lol.
so went home, took an awful long nap also to make up for the stressful friday. and then checked my messages. one of which told that Les Bleus finished 2nd after winning 2-0, which i was delighted at first. only until after awhile i realised they were meeting SPAIN. the hot team. damn. what a sad clash of interests. somehow i feel France can weave some magic.
Anyway. speaking of world cup, the referees have been awful. none worse than Graham Poll, who is the english premier league's best referee, who gave 3 yellow cards before sending a Croatian player off. boy, Australia could have ordered a replay just cos of that!
well so far, i believe the form teams have been spain, germany, and perhaps argentina, which, i think were brought back to earth in the round of 16 clash v Mexico, where they were so, so lucky to progress, thanks to probably the goal of the tournament by Maxi Rodriguez.
So that is it, probably the last entry for a long time. perhaps if SPAIN / FRANCE triumph in Berlin then i ll hv smth to write haha.
you know it makes sense.
Monday, June 12, 2006
ENCOUNTER CAMP last friday.
Okay it wasn't really a camp for me la since i only went for ONE day, bud it sure was a great day. Woke up extremely early [compared to previous days] to take 165 to Clementi INT, then switch to 96 to get into NUS campus, then take a shuttle bus to PGP. All that had to be done since my dad was overseas! arrgh.
But anyway it was raining real heavily la, and the lower floors were really badly flooded.
Still, straight away had a praise and worship session followed by sermon, both of which were the longest i've experienced, lol. Esp worship, wow the time just seemed to slip so quickly, but so meaningfully too.
Next was lunch and had some time to interact with the new CG members, and we are one sick bunch la, continually talking about how [fill it urself] the food was. Like what, old lady's fingernails [pieces of fish] with some dirt [black pepper] and maggots [rice...?] so disgusting la lol.
Hmmm then after that played "wargames" when it was nothing like it lol. Had to go around questioning suspects to find out who killed Shirley. And super frustrating la, as if the rain wasn't bad enough, there were still those freakish gamemasters spraying water as you rather enthusiastically. lol.
Anyway was glad to have a long break and wash-up, and after that it was BringItOn! and lol the bloopers were funny bud yeah northeast's AM static won! deservedly la. yeah. Man, it was a long day la, pity i cldnt stay on to spend more time having fun and fellowshipping with the grads. grp pple. yeah, bud i sure experienced God like i hv never before in that short 6~8hrs or so. =)
*and i also learnt that PGP's resorts at NUS look so modern frm the outside with tempered glass panels, bud inside it is total rubbish!
hmmm last few days it feels weird not being able to catch world cup matches live, bud im sure most of them were quite boring as well. such as England scrapping past Paraguay 1-0 frm an OWN GOAL. how silly. if anything i feel, the 2 big factors in successful teams is either a good defence, or a good attack. England had a great midfield but Crouch and Owen were hopeless up front man. Argentina however were so clinical in finishing of the Ivory Coast and their goals were superb finishes man, they are definitely favourites for this. Still, im backing Spain and France this time. hmm, the way things are going for spain in sport, Alonso continuing to win F1 grand prix[s]....Nadal beating Federer in the french open final, and alas Barcelona winning the champions league, nothing seems to be going wrong with them, so, why not the world cup?
Okay it wasn't really a camp for me la since i only went for ONE day, bud it sure was a great day. Woke up extremely early [compared to previous days] to take 165 to Clementi INT, then switch to 96 to get into NUS campus, then take a shuttle bus to PGP. All that had to be done since my dad was overseas! arrgh.
But anyway it was raining real heavily la, and the lower floors were really badly flooded.
Still, straight away had a praise and worship session followed by sermon, both of which were the longest i've experienced, lol. Esp worship, wow the time just seemed to slip so quickly, but so meaningfully too.
Next was lunch and had some time to interact with the new CG members, and we are one sick bunch la, continually talking about how [fill it urself] the food was. Like what, old lady's fingernails [pieces of fish] with some dirt [black pepper] and maggots [rice...?] so disgusting la lol.
Hmmm then after that played "wargames" when it was nothing like it lol. Had to go around questioning suspects to find out who killed Shirley. And super frustrating la, as if the rain wasn't bad enough, there were still those freakish gamemasters spraying water as you rather enthusiastically. lol.
Anyway was glad to have a long break and wash-up, and after that it was BringItOn! and lol the bloopers were funny bud yeah northeast's AM static won! deservedly la. yeah. Man, it was a long day la, pity i cldnt stay on to spend more time having fun and fellowshipping with the grads. grp pple. yeah, bud i sure experienced God like i hv never before in that short 6~8hrs or so. =)
*and i also learnt that PGP's resorts at NUS look so modern frm the outside with tempered glass panels, bud inside it is total rubbish!
hmmm last few days it feels weird not being able to catch world cup matches live, bud im sure most of them were quite boring as well. such as England scrapping past Paraguay 1-0 frm an OWN GOAL. how silly. if anything i feel, the 2 big factors in successful teams is either a good defence, or a good attack. England had a great midfield but Crouch and Owen were hopeless up front man. Argentina however were so clinical in finishing of the Ivory Coast and their goals were superb finishes man, they are definitely favourites for this. Still, im backing Spain and France this time. hmm, the way things are going for spain in sport, Alonso continuing to win F1 grand prix[s]....Nadal beating Federer in the french open final, and alas Barcelona winning the champions league, nothing seems to be going wrong with them, so, why not the world cup?
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Here we are again, already deep into the 2nd week of hols, and it only seems like the first.
But hoorah, World Cup is going to kick-off ever so soon! sigh, i supported France for WC 2002 and the 2004 Euro championships, and boy were they miserable tournaments. This time round I'm going with RED the winning colour of almost all sport, in spain and netherlands i guess. haha. okok, better not digress too much into football.
Hmmm, last few days, havent been doing much PRODUCTIVE stuff, bud anyway, this week in my schedule is science week, and i must say ive read the chem txtbk like a pledge now, cos of the freaking idiotic questions that are set. And i must quote out, some schools are really so weird. They set MCQ qns about mole concept which involves about 2~3 steps and its 1m. And in seectionA they set things name gas X which is, 1m as well. uhhhh =_=.
That's done for homework. havent even set foot on the lang papers. Well anyway, about my fears of cockroaches, i think i have overcome them somehow, using the concept of, erm, vaccination. you see, vaccines provide immunity to diseases by giving you a very weak form of that disease, so ur body can overcome it and be immune to it frm then on. Well, i guess by beating the sick hell out of innocent smaller cockroaches, im now able to whack big ones as well. cool huhh. the amazing applications of science onto psychology[which i suppose IS a form of science as well].
Anyway, havent been doing much but just chatting with friends online and on the phone and catching up on Teri Hatcher and the rest of the desperate housewives cast as more and more surprises spawn in the never-ending maze of lies, sex and deceit. haha.
On friday i ll b able to go for ENCOUNTER! at NUS which should be a world of fun and learning as well, esp after i had to miss service last week due to some unfortunate family reasons, haha. Speaking of that, mom forced me to go to a talk at the temple near my house [biggest in the country i believe] about 'Ups and downs', which was quite good also la. It had nothing to do about religion, for once, haha, and yeah there were impt points about learning how to let go in life and etc. Think it helped alot, although i listened to the whole thing with my specs off, eyes closed, lol. [fact that i didnt fall aslp must mean it was at least of OK standard].
So, till next time, cant wait for Friday at midnight where Germany will kick-off the hunt for the 'holy grail' at the fantastic Allianz ArenA in Munich. =)
But hoorah, World Cup is going to kick-off ever so soon! sigh, i supported France for WC 2002 and the 2004 Euro championships, and boy were they miserable tournaments. This time round I'm going with RED the winning colour of almost all sport, in spain and netherlands i guess. haha. okok, better not digress too much into football.
Hmmm, last few days, havent been doing much PRODUCTIVE stuff, bud anyway, this week in my schedule is science week, and i must say ive read the chem txtbk like a pledge now, cos of the freaking idiotic questions that are set. And i must quote out, some schools are really so weird. They set MCQ qns about mole concept which involves about 2~3 steps and its 1m. And in seectionA they set things name gas X which is, 1m as well. uhhhh =_=.
That's done for homework. havent even set foot on the lang papers. Well anyway, about my fears of cockroaches, i think i have overcome them somehow, using the concept of, erm, vaccination. you see, vaccines provide immunity to diseases by giving you a very weak form of that disease, so ur body can overcome it and be immune to it frm then on. Well, i guess by beating the sick hell out of innocent smaller cockroaches, im now able to whack big ones as well. cool huhh. the amazing applications of science onto psychology[which i suppose IS a form of science as well].
Anyway, havent been doing much but just chatting with friends online and on the phone and catching up on Teri Hatcher and the rest of the desperate housewives cast as more and more surprises spawn in the never-ending maze of lies, sex and deceit. haha.
On friday i ll b able to go for ENCOUNTER! at NUS which should be a world of fun and learning as well, esp after i had to miss service last week due to some unfortunate family reasons, haha. Speaking of that, mom forced me to go to a talk at the temple near my house [biggest in the country i believe] about 'Ups and downs', which was quite good also la. It had nothing to do about religion, for once, haha, and yeah there were impt points about learning how to let go in life and etc. Think it helped alot, although i listened to the whole thing with my specs off, eyes closed, lol. [fact that i didnt fall aslp must mean it was at least of OK standard].
So, till next time, cant wait for Friday at midnight where Germany will kick-off the hunt for the 'holy grail' at the fantastic Allianz ArenA in Munich. =)
Monday, May 29, 2006
Oh yeah, the holidays are finally upon us.
Boy has it been long since I've blogged, haha.
Hmmm, in a week, there has been plenty of CHANGE. yes that vague word.
Haha, firstly, on Wed, finally passed out of NPCC after 3 and a half [ i really dont know why everyone says its 4, 4, 4, its 3 and a half only what!] years of that cca. We'd barel;y rehearsed for the parade thing la, and we didnt have our own fancy drill performance like other batches did in the past, but, what the heck, we've broken plenty of 'records' in the other extreme end for being arugably the worst batch, and yeah its good to keep the streak going. LOL. Hiaz, just a year ago, when we took over, it was like so sian, keep getting scolded by CIs during the first few trainings, but since the turn of the year where i got to take squad and organise camp, man it feels bad to leave, esp when the sec1s are in such a sorry state of affairs [no offence its a formality]. Back to the occasion, whoa, while marching the final 14 steps to ark's timing, started to remember all the miserable moments during sec1, 2 and 3, lol. All the times we got criticised for having small attendance, and the times when our drills were crap. lol. Time has called upon us. yeah, the feeling of throwing our berettes were great sia, and the boot-stomping and chaotic-chasing after that was unforgettable also, haha. Next was the "early-anticipated" buffet [jus a high-class way of saying "catering"]. haha, the apostrophes do their job la, the food was SUCKY. bud wadeheck. after that the performance frm sec3s was quite good, the movie thing. and they gave us a gay band each, how gay! and the small and last-min card the sec1s did was quite touching also la, lol. There was this guy who said he likes my sense of humour! and i mean like, i try my best to act fierce when taking squad, and he thinks its funny. well thats funny.
lol, then on Saturday NEA3 also got restructuring. Ah, its like happening so fast la, these things, and all in this fateful year summore. Hmmm, now in grads. group things im sure great things beckon, though ll still miss the jons and the petes and the zhicais. lol. not yk [okay JK la]. Speaking of it, i think the sermon was the most significant one yet, about addiction and all, which is quite true to me la. I mean i'm so addicted to watching soccer, i've been watching almost every early kick-off, every super sunday match, and every match involving Arsenal, including 2.30am champions league matches. sigh, and also sometimes cant stop playing computer games. so, seriously, ive gotta fight the addiction la. hopefully the sermon served as big motivation. AND, btw on friday night,
[for pple who hv read Digital Fortress]
Subject: Big cockroach
Status: TERMINATED
lol. i managed to swat one of those fearsome creatures! mainly cos it was in my way and i really really needed to get my calculator. haha. staying at that, Shirley must be quite some person to witness 12 cockroaches writhing in pain walking the road to hell. you know, it's one thing having Baygon spray, its another thing daring to spray and watch them die tragically. okok, better not digress too much.
No, i still havent got over the 5mins of madness in Paris on May 17th.
No, my skin still hasn't fully healed.
No, i cant bring myself to change my impression on HER, [lol, never will]
No, i haven't decided which JC i want to go to.
No, i can't stop sleeping late.
No, any slight movement of any cockroach within visible range will STILL cause a proportional [reflex] movement in me.
However,
Yes, Henry's decison to stay at Arsenal has been comforting.
Yes, i've learnt a whole lot about self-control [or rather LACK of self-control] when u develop rashes
Yes, i'm NOT going to HCI.
Yes, I've adapted and aint that sleepy in sch nowadays.
Yes, I've started to kill cockroaches who stubbornly stay stationary and chose not to frighthen me. Mercilessly i should add.
[hmm, think i ll upload pictures when im free some other day, boy its LATE!!]
It makes full sense. =p.
Boy has it been long since I've blogged, haha.
Hmmm, in a week, there has been plenty of CHANGE. yes that vague word.
Haha, firstly, on Wed, finally passed out of NPCC after 3 and a half [ i really dont know why everyone says its 4, 4, 4, its 3 and a half only what!] years of that cca. We'd barel;y rehearsed for the parade thing la, and we didnt have our own fancy drill performance like other batches did in the past, but, what the heck, we've broken plenty of 'records' in the other extreme end for being arugably the worst batch, and yeah its good to keep the streak going. LOL. Hiaz, just a year ago, when we took over, it was like so sian, keep getting scolded by CIs during the first few trainings, but since the turn of the year where i got to take squad and organise camp, man it feels bad to leave, esp when the sec1s are in such a sorry state of affairs [no offence its a formality]. Back to the occasion, whoa, while marching the final 14 steps to ark's timing, started to remember all the miserable moments during sec1, 2 and 3, lol. All the times we got criticised for having small attendance, and the times when our drills were crap. lol. Time has called upon us. yeah, the feeling of throwing our berettes were great sia, and the boot-stomping and chaotic-chasing after that was unforgettable also, haha. Next was the "early-anticipated" buffet [jus a high-class way of saying "catering"]. haha, the apostrophes do their job la, the food was SUCKY. bud wadeheck. after that the performance frm sec3s was quite good, the movie thing. and they gave us a gay band each, how gay! and the small and last-min card the sec1s did was quite touching also la, lol. There was this guy who said he likes my sense of humour! and i mean like, i try my best to act fierce when taking squad, and he thinks its funny. well thats funny.
lol, then on Saturday NEA3 also got restructuring. Ah, its like happening so fast la, these things, and all in this fateful year summore. Hmmm, now in grads. group things im sure great things beckon, though ll still miss the jons and the petes and the zhicais. lol. not yk [okay JK la]. Speaking of it, i think the sermon was the most significant one yet, about addiction and all, which is quite true to me la. I mean i'm so addicted to watching soccer, i've been watching almost every early kick-off, every super sunday match, and every match involving Arsenal, including 2.30am champions league matches. sigh, and also sometimes cant stop playing computer games. so, seriously, ive gotta fight the addiction la. hopefully the sermon served as big motivation. AND, btw on friday night,
[for pple who hv read Digital Fortress]
Subject: Big cockroach
Status: TERMINATED
lol. i managed to swat one of those fearsome creatures! mainly cos it was in my way and i really really needed to get my calculator. haha. staying at that, Shirley must be quite some person to witness 12 cockroaches writhing in pain walking the road to hell. you know, it's one thing having Baygon spray, its another thing daring to spray and watch them die tragically. okok, better not digress too much.
No, i still havent got over the 5mins of madness in Paris on May 17th.
No, my skin still hasn't fully healed.
No, i cant bring myself to change my impression on HER, [lol, never will]
No, i haven't decided which JC i want to go to.
No, i can't stop sleeping late.
No, any slight movement of any cockroach within visible range will STILL cause a proportional [reflex] movement in me.
However,
Yes, Henry's decison to stay at Arsenal has been comforting.
Yes, i've learnt a whole lot about self-control [or rather LACK of self-control] when u develop rashes
Yes, i'm NOT going to HCI.
Yes, I've adapted and aint that sleepy in sch nowadays.
Yes, I've started to kill cockroaches who stubbornly stay stationary and chose not to frighthen me. Mercilessly i should add.
[hmm, think i ll upload pictures when im free some other day, boy its LATE!!]
It makes full sense. =p.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
"When you win it's happy days."
yeah, when you don't. i guess the feeling sucks.
yeah, the losing feeling does suck.
Arsenal finally fell to Barcalona, 2-1, in Paris.
The sad thing was, we were so close, so close...to winning the "holy grail".
Down to 10men after our goalkeeper was sent off for a silly challenge outside the box, i thought it was all over, we would be run down badly, especially with the class that barcalona had, Ronaldinho [THE best player in the world], Eto' and Deco.
Miraculously, we still managed to take the lead before half time, after a strong header above a hapless Barca defence.
In the 2nd half, they came at us badly. On the few times that we managed to hit them on the break, Henry spurned 3 guilt-edged chances. Had we been 2-0 up, it was truly game over. But they say in football, it's all about taking your chances, and we didn't. And Barca came roaring back with 15mins left. 15mins short, of the holy grail. Pre-match, everyone was talking about Henry and Ronaldinho, but they played poorly, sadly. It was a Barca sub that changed the match, and 2 goals in 5mins totally wrecked our hearts. Damn!
At the end of the day, people say that the referee was biased against Barca, but honestly, Barca deserved it la. We would surely have won if Henry worked his way passed the goalkeeper before tapping in, like he usually does. Tension or whatever, he always tried to hit it first time, and it did not work out at all. What a pity.
But it's ok. The 10men fought like heroes against the 11 of Barca. And i can say for sure, we gave them a much tougher challenge than Chelsea did with 10 men. Oh well, now it's time to look at the future. There's a great season ahead in the new stadium, and if Henry stays, I'm sure we can overcome Chelsea.
I think, when the second goal went in, it made me realise how much time i have wasted playing computer games and all. Watching football is so much more meaningful. [contradicting, lol]. Or any kind of sport la. Be it tennis or F1 or whatever. Its def so much more meaningful. Sigh, prob that's why my results have deteriorated so much. Besides, it's still salvageble la. gotta find some way to fix Amaths. and of course, the bewitched language that is English.
It has been an emotional week la. I am really mentally tired.
But it's not too bad, they were only the best I've ever had.
yeah, when you don't. i guess the feeling sucks.
yeah, the losing feeling does suck.
Arsenal finally fell to Barcalona, 2-1, in Paris.
The sad thing was, we were so close, so close...to winning the "holy grail".
Down to 10men after our goalkeeper was sent off for a silly challenge outside the box, i thought it was all over, we would be run down badly, especially with the class that barcalona had, Ronaldinho [THE best player in the world], Eto' and Deco.
Miraculously, we still managed to take the lead before half time, after a strong header above a hapless Barca defence.
In the 2nd half, they came at us badly. On the few times that we managed to hit them on the break, Henry spurned 3 guilt-edged chances. Had we been 2-0 up, it was truly game over. But they say in football, it's all about taking your chances, and we didn't. And Barca came roaring back with 15mins left. 15mins short, of the holy grail. Pre-match, everyone was talking about Henry and Ronaldinho, but they played poorly, sadly. It was a Barca sub that changed the match, and 2 goals in 5mins totally wrecked our hearts. Damn!
At the end of the day, people say that the referee was biased against Barca, but honestly, Barca deserved it la. We would surely have won if Henry worked his way passed the goalkeeper before tapping in, like he usually does. Tension or whatever, he always tried to hit it first time, and it did not work out at all. What a pity.
But it's ok. The 10men fought like heroes against the 11 of Barca. And i can say for sure, we gave them a much tougher challenge than Chelsea did with 10 men. Oh well, now it's time to look at the future. There's a great season ahead in the new stadium, and if Henry stays, I'm sure we can overcome Chelsea.
I think, when the second goal went in, it made me realise how much time i have wasted playing computer games and all. Watching football is so much more meaningful. [contradicting, lol]. Or any kind of sport la. Be it tennis or F1 or whatever. Its def so much more meaningful. Sigh, prob that's why my results have deteriorated so much. Besides, it's still salvageble la. gotta find some way to fix Amaths. and of course, the bewitched language that is English.
It has been an emotional week la. I am really mentally tired.
But it's not too bad, they were only the best I've ever had.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Today, we got back most of our remaining results. Or at least i realised.
Started with english. and the functional writing was a miserable 20. but the vocab test that followed left me stunned. Boy is this another term of English screwed up, and since sec3, i've only gotten A1 for a language ONCE. Seriously sad, and, worrying.
Then, Amaths was pretty horrible really. so careless. and when mr tan saw my paper, he was saying "Not good enough!". and he wasn't wrong. so many freakish mistakes on differentiation, and they cost you big time when u get the first part of the qn wrong. And to the test i have this to say.
- Sum of terms is the EASIEST be it differentiation or integration.
- Always check to make sure the SIGN is correct. I seem to have a real knack at making these sort of silly errors.
-Proving. ALWAYS complete the square.
Sigh. "Nothing to talk about liao la".lol.
Also got back Emaths and physics.
This term is very average for me la. dammit.
Emaths geog and the 3 sciences were all fairly simple tests, who doesn't get A1 for them.
I suspect, prep. will be much tougher la, so hopefully, I can rise to the occasion. Honestly, the only outstanding subject has been my combined humans, or history at least. lol. we've got plenty of time now. chemistry syllabus if finished le, so at least can start revising. bud we are pretty slow at bio and physics man. imagine all the chapters we have to cramp into our minute brain. I cant. boy oh boy.
but we all have to. period.
I think this term, the soccer has totally overwhelmed me, the race for 4th place, and the great run in the champions league. Now, season's over, apart from the small matter of the champions league final, and the even smaller matter of the world cup [ha!]. Really gotta do constant revision. and selective studying for geog, if its going to work out. The late nights studying in the bright lights in my room have been the best nights, where i really felt i was MAKING PROGRESS. Now I've gotta try to lock myself in there man. haha.
I'm an optimist. you know it makes sense. lol.
Started with english. and the functional writing was a miserable 20. but the vocab test that followed left me stunned. Boy is this another term of English screwed up, and since sec3, i've only gotten A1 for a language ONCE. Seriously sad, and, worrying.
Then, Amaths was pretty horrible really. so careless. and when mr tan saw my paper, he was saying "Not good enough!". and he wasn't wrong. so many freakish mistakes on differentiation, and they cost you big time when u get the first part of the qn wrong. And to the test i have this to say.
- Sum of terms is the EASIEST be it differentiation or integration.
- Always check to make sure the SIGN is correct. I seem to have a real knack at making these sort of silly errors.
-Proving. ALWAYS complete the square.
Sigh. "Nothing to talk about liao la".lol.
Also got back Emaths and physics.
This term is very average for me la. dammit.
Emaths geog and the 3 sciences were all fairly simple tests, who doesn't get A1 for them.
I suspect, prep. will be much tougher la, so hopefully, I can rise to the occasion. Honestly, the only outstanding subject has been my combined humans, or history at least. lol. we've got plenty of time now. chemistry syllabus if finished le, so at least can start revising. bud we are pretty slow at bio and physics man. imagine all the chapters we have to cramp into our minute brain. I cant. boy oh boy.
but we all have to. period.
I think this term, the soccer has totally overwhelmed me, the race for 4th place, and the great run in the champions league. Now, season's over, apart from the small matter of the champions league final, and the even smaller matter of the world cup [ha!]. Really gotta do constant revision. and selective studying for geog, if its going to work out. The late nights studying in the bright lights in my room have been the best nights, where i really felt i was MAKING PROGRESS. Now I've gotta try to lock myself in there man. haha.
I'm an optimist. you know it makes sense. lol.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Wow, the fact that im blogging so soon again means it must be something special.
And it was. On sunday night.
It was the final day of the season 05/06.
More importantly it was the last match at Highbury, which i have been counting down on this blog since the turn of the year. lol.
Apart from all the celebrations expected post-match, there were still points for grabs.
We soooooooo needed 4th spot for champions league nxt season [only top 4 teams get it], and rivals Spurs have been there since December, keeping us at 5th. If Spurs won, there was nothing we could do. If they drew or lost, and we won, then we wld pip them to 4th. But, spurs have been on excellent form la, and they were "expected" to win, so no one gave us a chance about getting 4th place.
As fate would have it, on Sunday morning, a bug hit the Spurs players and 10 of their first team players suffered from food poisoning. WHAT A "BLESSING". yeah,. if it being the last match wasnt enough motivation. And we started off brilliantly. Scored a goal in 8mins and the crowd was in raptures. Then, complacency kicked in. Sigh. While everyone was cheering, Wigan stunned us first with a poorly defended freekick, to make it 1-1. And then another freekick, where the goalie was caught offguard, and BANG, it was 1-2. I was so dam shocked la. However, 2mins after that, right away, Henry got us back level with a superb 1v1 finish. 2nd half, a gift from a defender allowed henry to make it 3-2. and then soon after 4-2 from the penalty spot. His hat-trick, and he kissed the ground after that, a scene which will prob be replayed over and over again. Full time followed, and all the fans hailed the wonderful player who turned the match around. Surely, after yesterday, he would stay at Arsenal. Critics say otherwise, but i am damn sure of it. Now we can look forward to May 17th, against Barcelona, where the pressure will be off our shoulders. =)
And it was. On sunday night.
It was the final day of the season 05/06.
More importantly it was the last match at Highbury, which i have been counting down on this blog since the turn of the year. lol.
Apart from all the celebrations expected post-match, there were still points for grabs.
We soooooooo needed 4th spot for champions league nxt season [only top 4 teams get it], and rivals Spurs have been there since December, keeping us at 5th. If Spurs won, there was nothing we could do. If they drew or lost, and we won, then we wld pip them to 4th. But, spurs have been on excellent form la, and they were "expected" to win, so no one gave us a chance about getting 4th place.
As fate would have it, on Sunday morning, a bug hit the Spurs players and 10 of their first team players suffered from food poisoning. WHAT A "BLESSING". yeah,. if it being the last match wasnt enough motivation. And we started off brilliantly. Scored a goal in 8mins and the crowd was in raptures. Then, complacency kicked in. Sigh. While everyone was cheering, Wigan stunned us first with a poorly defended freekick, to make it 1-1. And then another freekick, where the goalie was caught offguard, and BANG, it was 1-2. I was so dam shocked la. However, 2mins after that, right away, Henry got us back level with a superb 1v1 finish. 2nd half, a gift from a defender allowed henry to make it 3-2. and then soon after 4-2 from the penalty spot. His hat-trick, and he kissed the ground after that, a scene which will prob be replayed over and over again. Full time followed, and all the fans hailed the wonderful player who turned the match around. Surely, after yesterday, he would stay at Arsenal. Critics say otherwise, but i am damn sure of it. Now we can look forward to May 17th, against Barcelona, where the pressure will be off our shoulders. =)
Friday, May 05, 2006
DOUBLE STANDARDS.
Boy do i hate that phrase. It applies to all aspects of life, I feel.
Like, for example, in soccer, the Chelsea manager always feels that the press is against Chelsea. When Manchester and Arsenal were winning titles they were well-branded and well-respected. Now that Chelsea have won their 2nd title in as many years, all everyone talks about is when they will collapse, and their boring style of play. Yes, i don't like Chelsea. I don't like the way they play. But I understand how Chelsea are feeling.
Now, for an example today, we got back a test paper, and i did quite okay for it, and i'm assured of an A1 liao. There was this one question worth 2marks where everyone who has seen my answer and compared it with others, would agree that I deserved at least 1, if not both marks. When i asked the teacher, she said "I want you to learn how to phrase your answer in the proper way" Okay. The thing is, instead of using "heat absorbed", I wrote "heat taken in". Apparently someone's English aint so good, but it doesnt take an English pro to understand that they mean pretty much the same thing. Okay. So i'll learn.I'll use absorbed next time. However, I noticed some one my friends using phrases such as "energy used up" and golly me they got 2marks for that question. So i went back to the teacher to demand an explanation. And she said, "It's not that it matters, you've already got your A1. I won't entertain you any further." Why how professional! We are from 4/7. The average person gets an A1, unlike in other classes. And she declares that, "If someone from [another of my classes] wrote that, I can understand that their English is not that good. As long as what they are thinking is right, they deserve the mark." Indeed, I am sure this is doing you no favours into increasing your likeness which has been so evident of your actions. [all the following is referring to A TEACHER and not some close friend of mine however intimate it sounds okay, LOL]
This, my friends, is blatant double standards. Being a teacher, you can be strict or lenient. Easy-going or always serious. Either way, you can be a good teacher in the eyes of students. [Mrs Lim and Mr Tan respectively]. What is important is to be consistent in your actions, so treat everyone equally, with the same, i shall say, RESPECT. Only then will you get it in return. Earlier, I was talking to some of my classmates, and i sort of told them that i felt, teachers who are rigid, and don't give in easily to students' requests for marks, are good. What is important is being consistent in being rigid, or giving in. Being inconsistent and contradictory in your actions, will result in dire consequences in the future. In politics, one contradictory statement will be instantly picked up on by the opposition. It gives a poor impression of yourself, and that's exactly how i feel. It doesn't really matter much to be, as far as I'm concerned. I'm pretty confident of being able to self-study in a subject which is poorly taught. If anything, it's an ADVANTAGE on top of other students who depend on notes. [BOO HOO!].I mean, u print so much notes for free and you sell a small bundle of test papers for how much? And we're forced to pay! Why don't you try selling your notes and see the reaction you'll get? And I can seriously picture her, 10years down the road, being something like a Ms Ow-yeong.[if u can grasp the insulting part of that].Teachers say that the results don't relate to any bonus to them or anything, but the truth is that it will determine whether they get to teach sec4, or, quote "socially cannot mix with" sec2s. Results do matter to teachers. Mr Tan is always stressing how poor our results are, why? The answer's in the question isn't it.
Oh well. I made so much out of something so small. Guess it goes to show, that
"one never knows what ripples one's falling pebble will cause"
Sigh. Ok. Today, also got back Chinese and History. Failed Chi la. lol. 25/55. That's "Chan's minimum standard" ? lol. doesn't matter la. only thing that matters is that I PASS OVERALL can le ba. i mean the tian cong is pretty much guesswork. and compre is jus whether i can UNDERSTAND the qn, which shows how freaking poor my chinese is. too late.
History was ok la. 18/25 is not great, but then again the highest was only 19. Really, by making the combined humanities tougher and tougher, they prob want pple to neglect it more and more, with the essays being of more weird forms, and souce-based having combined skills in one qn.
Well, this term has been tiring, and if anything, term 3 will definitely be rush-hour term, if what Ernest and Mr yong said is anything to come by. Seriously, the end of the football season is quite a huge relief to me. I mean i wun die if i miss a world cup match. Final or not. Blimey, international matches just don't captivate me like club football matches do. Passion. Support for a club.Perhaps if Singapore football gets better. LOL.
Well, there is just a Sunday of premier league action left. And its the farewell match at Highbury before we move into the 60.000 seater emirates. Lets just hope the day will be a great one. Wigan ain't strong. I dunno. 7-0? We've already done that twice in the past year! ha!.
Boy do i hate that phrase. It applies to all aspects of life, I feel.
Like, for example, in soccer, the Chelsea manager always feels that the press is against Chelsea. When Manchester and Arsenal were winning titles they were well-branded and well-respected. Now that Chelsea have won their 2nd title in as many years, all everyone talks about is when they will collapse, and their boring style of play. Yes, i don't like Chelsea. I don't like the way they play. But I understand how Chelsea are feeling.
Now, for an example today, we got back a test paper, and i did quite okay for it, and i'm assured of an A1 liao. There was this one question worth 2marks where everyone who has seen my answer and compared it with others, would agree that I deserved at least 1, if not both marks. When i asked the teacher, she said "I want you to learn how to phrase your answer in the proper way" Okay. The thing is, instead of using "heat absorbed", I wrote "heat taken in". Apparently someone's English aint so good, but it doesnt take an English pro to understand that they mean pretty much the same thing. Okay. So i'll learn.I'll use absorbed next time. However, I noticed some one my friends using phrases such as "energy used up" and golly me they got 2marks for that question. So i went back to the teacher to demand an explanation. And she said, "It's not that it matters, you've already got your A1. I won't entertain you any further." Why how professional! We are from 4/7. The average person gets an A1, unlike in other classes. And she declares that, "If someone from [another of my classes] wrote that, I can understand that their English is not that good. As long as what they are thinking is right, they deserve the mark." Indeed, I am sure this is doing you no favours into increasing your likeness which has been so evident of your actions. [all the following is referring to A TEACHER and not some close friend of mine however intimate it sounds okay, LOL]
This, my friends, is blatant double standards. Being a teacher, you can be strict or lenient. Easy-going or always serious. Either way, you can be a good teacher in the eyes of students. [Mrs Lim and Mr Tan respectively]. What is important is to be consistent in your actions, so treat everyone equally, with the same, i shall say, RESPECT. Only then will you get it in return. Earlier, I was talking to some of my classmates, and i sort of told them that i felt, teachers who are rigid, and don't give in easily to students' requests for marks, are good. What is important is being consistent in being rigid, or giving in. Being inconsistent and contradictory in your actions, will result in dire consequences in the future. In politics, one contradictory statement will be instantly picked up on by the opposition. It gives a poor impression of yourself, and that's exactly how i feel. It doesn't really matter much to be, as far as I'm concerned. I'm pretty confident of being able to self-study in a subject which is poorly taught. If anything, it's an ADVANTAGE on top of other students who depend on notes. [BOO HOO!].I mean, u print so much notes for free and you sell a small bundle of test papers for how much? And we're forced to pay! Why don't you try selling your notes and see the reaction you'll get? And I can seriously picture her, 10years down the road, being something like a Ms Ow-yeong.[if u can grasp the insulting part of that].Teachers say that the results don't relate to any bonus to them or anything, but the truth is that it will determine whether they get to teach sec4, or, quote "socially cannot mix with" sec2s. Results do matter to teachers. Mr Tan is always stressing how poor our results are, why? The answer's in the question isn't it.
Oh well. I made so much out of something so small. Guess it goes to show, that
"one never knows what ripples one's falling pebble will cause"
Sigh. Ok. Today, also got back Chinese and History. Failed Chi la. lol. 25/55. That's "Chan's minimum standard" ? lol. doesn't matter la. only thing that matters is that I PASS OVERALL can le ba. i mean the tian cong is pretty much guesswork. and compre is jus whether i can UNDERSTAND the qn, which shows how freaking poor my chinese is. too late.
History was ok la. 18/25 is not great, but then again the highest was only 19. Really, by making the combined humanities tougher and tougher, they prob want pple to neglect it more and more, with the essays being of more weird forms, and souce-based having combined skills in one qn.
Well, this term has been tiring, and if anything, term 3 will definitely be rush-hour term, if what Ernest and Mr yong said is anything to come by. Seriously, the end of the football season is quite a huge relief to me. I mean i wun die if i miss a world cup match. Final or not. Blimey, international matches just don't captivate me like club football matches do. Passion. Support for a club.Perhaps if Singapore football gets better. LOL.
Well, there is just a Sunday of premier league action left. And its the farewell match at Highbury before we move into the 60.000 seater emirates. Lets just hope the day will be a great one. Wigan ain't strong. I dunno. 7-0? We've already done that twice in the past year! ha!.
Friday, April 28, 2006
COMMON TESTS ARE DEAD AND BURIED,
ok except for the last fingernail jutting out frm the coffin that is EMATHS.
Ha today had NAPFA test, and as usual, i faced huge huge problems at my 2 weak sections, the sit n reach and standing broad jump. guess we were super lucky to get to do sit-ups first la hor. man it was the typical thing to start la. managed to do 52 i tink. then tough one, standing broad. crap man. my first jump only managed to get 211cm and the C for gold is 218. ahhh. i prayed hard, damn hard to get 218 at least, something seemingly impossible. then i rmbed what arkar said to "lift off ur legs like an aeroplane", and so i did. and i managed to get 220+, and i sliped, one leg moved infront abit. and mr nagor said it didnt count. and said 210 straight away. and i mean please, yes it didnt count bud cmon he allowed so many girls to slip and he jus estimated their reading. i felt i was seriously hard done by. i mean i wld hv accepted it if he jus gave me a 220 when i jumped slightly more than that ok.
sian. then the rest was the normal stuff la, sitnreach jus managed 39 [C was 38], then pull-ups and the shuttle run was FUN. haha. poor junjie i tink he was severely nervous and hence cld not perform as well. bud the place total sucked la, bud it was fun hearing all the screeching, none better than Zhishu's i tink. haha. then went home with yanchao.
Wah, came home jus dropped dead on the bed. then had dinner and watched tv awhile, then played dota at frm 2130~2330 hrs. wah fun la. one of the most exciting matches. yep. playing with ark ken n zm is fun la, and that mavis so pro. walao. lol.
ya. so the whole wk of tests have been over, and the hall atmosphere was wonderful la. the aircon and all, only prob was the light getting into ur eyes for the early exams. best thing was still all the FREE PAPER. YEAH. rocks man. sigh tink i screwd up amaths again. the rest are hopefully still OKAY. bud i am really hoping for something good in English la.
yeah and of course chinese will fail for sure, bud nvm, at least can get some happy meals AGAIN. =p.
k la, Wed was wonderful, i woke up and watched the return leg of Villarreal and Arsenal. yeah, it was worth it! the villarreal players were as usual, diving like hell again, crap man. and they had plenty of chances to be honest, and they spurned them all. Then in the last min, a blatant dive earned then an outrageous penalty. After all the hard work of defending for 89mins, the 1-0 lead we had from last wk, they could take the tie into xtra time if they equalised, and who doesnt score from a penalty in professional football. Well, up stepped their captain, and our goalie SAVED IT.OMG. well, that's EXACTLY why he is Germany's number 1. and his heroics led us to the final in Paris on May the 17th. and after the final whistle was blown, i was soooooooo happy. i jumped a couple of times and screamed out loud HDB-style in the break of dawn. man did it feel good. My, Ive been an Arsenal supporter since P6, and it has been a thrilling ride, from the unbeaten season in 2003-04, from the change of style - frm the team which used to eek out 1-0 results, so the wonderful free-flowing game that we play now. from having the wonderful defenders to seeing players like Henry and Pires mature.the euphoria when we beat manchester, And its such a pity, we're leaving the wonderful stadium for a much better one nxt season. bud the final will be great one.
Arsenal v Barcelona.
and im sure James lee was also as elated as me when his Barcelona went to the final. yea it has been 3years of rebuilding at his side also, and equally thrilling i guess. Best of all, it wld be 2 teams of attacking football, after all the long ball defensive teams like chelsea, AC milan and Juve. and nxt, of course is the 2 best players in the world facing each other. Ronaldinho and Henry. REALLY REALLY hope Arsenal can win it. YEAH!
ok except for the last fingernail jutting out frm the coffin that is EMATHS.
Ha today had NAPFA test, and as usual, i faced huge huge problems at my 2 weak sections, the sit n reach and standing broad jump. guess we were super lucky to get to do sit-ups first la hor. man it was the typical thing to start la. managed to do 52 i tink. then tough one, standing broad. crap man. my first jump only managed to get 211cm and the C for gold is 218. ahhh. i prayed hard, damn hard to get 218 at least, something seemingly impossible. then i rmbed what arkar said to "lift off ur legs like an aeroplane", and so i did. and i managed to get 220+, and i sliped, one leg moved infront abit. and mr nagor said it didnt count. and said 210 straight away. and i mean please, yes it didnt count bud cmon he allowed so many girls to slip and he jus estimated their reading. i felt i was seriously hard done by. i mean i wld hv accepted it if he jus gave me a 220 when i jumped slightly more than that ok.
sian. then the rest was the normal stuff la, sitnreach jus managed 39 [C was 38], then pull-ups and the shuttle run was FUN. haha. poor junjie i tink he was severely nervous and hence cld not perform as well. bud the place total sucked la, bud it was fun hearing all the screeching, none better than Zhishu's i tink. haha. then went home with yanchao.
Wah, came home jus dropped dead on the bed. then had dinner and watched tv awhile, then played dota at frm 2130~2330 hrs. wah fun la. one of the most exciting matches. yep. playing with ark ken n zm is fun la, and that mavis so pro. walao. lol.
ya. so the whole wk of tests have been over, and the hall atmosphere was wonderful la. the aircon and all, only prob was the light getting into ur eyes for the early exams. best thing was still all the FREE PAPER. YEAH. rocks man. sigh tink i screwd up amaths again. the rest are hopefully still OKAY. bud i am really hoping for something good in English la.
yeah and of course chinese will fail for sure, bud nvm, at least can get some happy meals AGAIN. =p.
k la, Wed was wonderful, i woke up and watched the return leg of Villarreal and Arsenal. yeah, it was worth it! the villarreal players were as usual, diving like hell again, crap man. and they had plenty of chances to be honest, and they spurned them all. Then in the last min, a blatant dive earned then an outrageous penalty. After all the hard work of defending for 89mins, the 1-0 lead we had from last wk, they could take the tie into xtra time if they equalised, and who doesnt score from a penalty in professional football. Well, up stepped their captain, and our goalie SAVED IT.OMG. well, that's EXACTLY why he is Germany's number 1. and his heroics led us to the final in Paris on May the 17th. and after the final whistle was blown, i was soooooooo happy. i jumped a couple of times and screamed out loud HDB-style in the break of dawn. man did it feel good. My, Ive been an Arsenal supporter since P6, and it has been a thrilling ride, from the unbeaten season in 2003-04, from the change of style - frm the team which used to eek out 1-0 results, so the wonderful free-flowing game that we play now. from having the wonderful defenders to seeing players like Henry and Pires mature.the euphoria when we beat manchester, And its such a pity, we're leaving the wonderful stadium for a much better one nxt season. bud the final will be great one.
Arsenal v Barcelona.
and im sure James lee was also as elated as me when his Barcelona went to the final. yea it has been 3years of rebuilding at his side also, and equally thrilling i guess. Best of all, it wld be 2 teams of attacking football, after all the long ball defensive teams like chelsea, AC milan and Juve. and nxt, of course is the 2 best players in the world facing each other. Ronaldinho and Henry. REALLY REALLY hope Arsenal can win it. YEAH!
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