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aka 360th post.
yay.

and that's the reason why you should NEVER do math in holidays.
especially trigo.
just that I've almost forgotten all my identities but thankfully none of them came out in WSC except double angle.
lol.

speaking of WSC it was alright.
especially since I really didn't expect anything out of it in the first place.
and really the only reason why shek's team did that well was cos they got some screwed up debate judge.
so really my team should have done better than theirs XD. cos we beat them in challenge and bowl i.e. the 2 more unbiased sections.

shockingly my team managed to get full marks in lit/hist for bowl. which was a drastic improvement from Singapore finals. but then we could have done a lot better if I hadn't screwed up geog/econs + spoke up for art ._.
oh and 9/10 for math which was quite yay although it was quite scary - e.g. synthetic division of like what a 5th degree polynomial in 15s? or solving log equations ._.

but seriously considering how little effort I put in [relatively speaking] and how much bridge we played it was quite alright.
and shockingly I managed to get prizes for history AND math.


ok anyway for the rest of the holidays - monday was spent slacking, tues went back to school for socdoc - where we discovered the new 'security measures' - basically they locked all the gates except for the main one so everyone goes in/out from there AND they scan your ezlink cards when you enter AND exit.

so instead of climbing over gates for lunch we got OWL to drive us out.
XD.

today was spent shopping for phys PT. got wires and batteries but still can't find magnets. then had lunch with aaron and went home and just slacked.
until now.
which is like 1am.



whee.


EDIT: just found this on school website, talking about how the school is in lockdown mode [i.e. all gates closed, IC scanning - THANKFULLY NO TEMPERATURE TAKING]:
"students are advised to refrain from entering the school by other means."

XD

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as of now I'm about as prepared for WSC as I was for my HCL midyear.

so I'm kinda screwed - there's still lit/hist/ART [which I haven't touched AT ALL]/a bit of econs left

i.e. everything

and I'm sleepy.

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I must really stop reading depressing books just before I sleep.

plan for holidays [tentative]:
wk2: WSC prep
wks3 - 4: homework!

plan for holidays [actual]:
wk2: slack
wks3 - 4: slack
wk4 sun: finish all my homework.

zzz I'd rather have school lor.

anyway my list of homework! with commentary!
1. WSC geo
2. WSC lit
3. WSC hist
4. WSC art
5. WSC econs
6. WSC math [ok not really]
7. WSC DEBATES. ugh.

[ok fine I should have just lumped all of them together. but that like totally diminishes their impact or whatever you call it.]

8. METACOGNITIVE REFLECTIONS [already overdue!]
9. physics file ._. [which might be overdue depending on how you interpret "week 1"]
10. geog essay [which is so going to be overdue cos it's due in wk2 i.e. WSC time]
10½. speaking of overdue essays I think I have two zuowens which were due in term 2 [but they don't really count I think]
11. math PT ._.
12. bio SPA report [meh. shall get daniel to write and then I edit XD]
13. physics performance task [which will be a total waste of time]
14. RE REFLECTIONS [maybe overdue but most of my group hasn't submitted yet XD]
15. hcl - dunno. a whole set of papers but who cares? and zhuanti [maybe]
16. book club. heck we don't even have a book yet.
17. adult critic. I don't care I'm so going to fake it lor.
18. SOCDOC! well I need to find people to interview but I don't like EMAILING them.
19. ISP ._.
20. CHAOS [maybe]
21. German book review - need to find a book first
22. German ZD practice ._.
23. interhouse humans quiz
24. greengame
25. I think I've forgotten something... damn.

so yes I'm rather screwed. and I feel sleepy.

oh yes 25. PHILO!!!
and 26. math assignment 6B which we're so going to end up doing in class anyway XD.

zzz I need to do WSC stuff but I so want to sleep.
damn.

meh

zzz I'm falling sick.

so really haven't posted.
but anyway holidays so far
mon: NEA EC networking thing organised by RIJC [i.e. fail] - basically a whole bunch of random games [which the RI team pwned at] and then some random talks. and then 1h30 of project planning which we just did in like 30 min and spent the rest of the time talking to mengsiew/our facil-person who incidentally was mengsiew's good friend i.e. does nothing - so really it was quite fail. and the food wasn't THAT good. XD.

but seriously the view from the 25th floor of the environment building was quite cool.
and I discovered that that weird NPCC J1 who's always tormenting the sec4s is the chair of RJgreenearth [or oneEarth as they call it but whatever].

then tues: 4h of HCL with 4P ._.
so actually NY wanted to have it in the 4H classroom but then turns out that *another chinese teacher* koped it so we ended up having it in 4P instead.
and I was like the only 4H guy who went for this session [well ian came for 2h too]. 116.5/200 I think. mainly cos I failed zuowen and got ALL the MCQ compre questions but one wrong [i.e. 8 free marks gone]. and ian managed to scrape 100.5/200. and NY emailed the whole class 4H AND 4P's midyear marks ._.
so anyway going through the paper was quite boring cos I forgot everything already.

then off to WSC for a while, then to J8 for lunch which we all bought back and ate in the classroom. then had to meet ms tang for some accelerated learning stuff. so we [darren/me/semen] waited in the HOD room cos she was still talking with the history things. and when we went into her office-thingy the aircon was at full blast and pointed straight at me THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE MEETING. so I've been sick ever since.

then a bit more slacking for WSC and then home.
wed - computational chem workshop at NUS [USP which is damn close to FASS so it was really quite easy to get there [for me at least] - so anyway quite a few people got lost.] and 95 is really quite a horrible bus - on wed I managed to get on but leonggen/ziyang didn't. ha.

so anyway I was feeling rather sick and didn't even understand any of the physics - what's quantum mechanics anyone? seriously I still have no idea what it is.

but anyway went to arts canteen for lunch - NUS food is bloody cheap [relatively speaking of course] - and since we had a 1h30 lunch break we spent the rest of the time playing cards. then a bit more talking where I nearly fell asleep and then off to the lab where we fooled around with some modelling software and went on facebook etc.

then the next day was essentially the same just that I actually understood more cos I already know MO theory ._. but I still don't get quantum mechanics. so anyway during lunch we were playing charades. so anyway the prof came in but we demanded a bit more time so yiyan had to act out the phrase "ms denise" in front of the whole class. XD.

then yeah so actually the course was quite boring and incomprehensible. and I feel sick. damn.