[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.