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.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
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?
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