355

ouch.

zzz I need a new pair of specs.
actually I've made them already but I'll only get them on like tues.

so I get tired after staring at the screen for a while.

anyway bio CT was epic fail.
cos I didn't do the dialysis elearning [which is coming back to haunt me again].
and I wasn't paying attention.
so in the end I died for one [of the two] structured questions.

and I have to perform for sec2s as part of MPP tomorrow.

!!!

one raffles [link]

is that building which houses citylink.

XD.

but seriously openhouse was FUN.
although I reached school at 7 and spent the first 30 min just walking around and started sweating really really badly.

so when we finally got into the humans hub my shirt was [effectively] transparent.

however actually it went very well - maybe cos we actually had an entire ROOM to showcase and all that.

and mrs yak ordered 8 pizzas for lunch XD.

so in the end I ended up spending the whole of openhouse [and then some] at the humans hub. which totally owns the science hub IMHO.

now I'm sleepy. zzz.

and I haven't even made my specs yet although they broke on wednesday.
meh.

353

ok I really owe this blog a post.
just that on wed a certain RC sec2 broke my specs so I have problems seeing and all that. and now if I stare at the screen too long my eyes start to hurt.

and it doesn't help that I sit at the back of the class.

anyway today:
ambassador's series was actually pretty good. I want to migrate to some western european welfare state! just that the questions were ._.

math was boring.
hcl was doing nothing cos she was getting us into groups for debates.
and I get to be the judge.
wait that isn't very good cos I'll have problems speaking. just that daniel is the other judge so yay.

prof malin was interesting. just that he turned off all the lights in the LT so I almost fell asleep.
and I was in the 2nd row.
ouch.

then that history/writing academic papers talk which OWL forced all of us to go for was quite interesting. just that I couldn't see anything on the slides again.
and that guy dragged from 530 to 6. so ended up chionging for piano immediately after that.

I've this feeling that my new teacher hates me. cos I don't really practice.

hmm what else oh I didn't die that badly for math CCT in the end. although the cancelling of sin2theta cost me 2 marks. like wth.

ok now my eyes are tired.

352

ugh math CCT was HORRIBLE.

[actually it was totally doable for me]

just that I freaked out after the first few questions.
and like totally forgot EVERYTHING.

however managed to complete everything in the end.
but then died cos I cancelled a sin2theta cos I was too nervous. and then while I was sketching my hand was shaking damn badly.

meh.

thurs:
math was ugh [cos I really HATE applications of differentiation. and I was already freaking out over trigo]
bio was quite fun - but plants are BORING. just that analogies to human reproduction [by LHL of course] are fun!
eng was interesting - did some socratic seminar. AGAIN. just that the article we were discussing was fun.
math CCT was ugh ugh ugh. plus the invigilator forced us to rearrange our desks AND sit in register order.
meh.

then down to peirce sec for RE. which went quite well [mainly thanks to the chocolates and sam soh crossdressing. XD]
just that now mrs yap [who was assessing us] wants us to present to lower sec ._.

then back to school. for RC stuff.
and overstayed/stayed back too late and was nearly late for piano.
and I don't like my new teacher.

friday:
chem was normal.
pe was zzz. again.
hcl was FUN [cos we were watching that movie again.]
english we managed to postpone writing our final essays to monday so we did another socratic seminar.


zzz.
ugh WSC tmr. but at least I've finished reading BOTH lit texts. yay.

but that doesn't mean that I UNDERSTAND what they're talking about.

351

ugh I feel sick.

and had a horrible training today - shouted too much and nearly murdered my throat. and then got pissed off with a LOT of people.


well as for school
PE was slack. and I HATE basketball.
math was slacker - EC wanted to continue with ws1 but we weren't paying attention so he let us do trigo revision instead.
hcl - I ended up spending 30 minutes doing my oral presentation. which according to everyone else was damn lol since I misread everything.

meh.

but the movie was really good.

chem was zzzzzzzzz.
geog was zzzzzzzzz.
just that I left halfway for that english/philo thing at HCI.

which was quite ugh.
and seriously it was too short.
and the group presentations were meh.

then back to school for CCA.


I don't care about trigo anymore - shall try to sleep now.
whee.

350 [yay?]

hmm german MOCK O level today was quite lol.

essay was relatively doable just that I keep forgetting my vocab.
and I wrote 190 words and since it's a MOCK O level we're limited to 150. So I ended up cancelling here and there and making a huge mess on my paper.

I so need correction tape/fluid.

then listening.

so the first sections were useless.
what they did was take a dialogue, cut it into bits and pieces, and then play each fragment, ask a question, replay the fragment, ask the question again, and then move on to the next fragment.

and the questions were all MCQ.

so you could guess how that went.

however at the last part of the listening it was just a full dialogue + open-ended questions. so you also could guess how that went too.



then written - both comprehensions were exercises in copying. just that the passages didn't quite make sense.

the close was similar to listening - started off way too easy and ended way too tough. meh.


but as I told wzy I just do the paper and forget the whole thing.

yay.



school today was quite fun.
philo we were talking about AO and democracy [well separately of course]. and we were just screwing around as always.
math eddie retaught worksheet 1.
HCL we watched some really cool movie. WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES! =D
physics was spent doing a MOCK paper.
house meeting was FUN! cos we were shouting stephen down and stuff.
then UNSW science was really just testing for skills. especially TIME-MANAGEMENT SKILLS.

ugh.

hmm guess I ought to sleep.
and the weather's quite nice tonight.
it was horrible on the way to MOELC - it had just rained and so the humidity was bloody high. so of course my shirt turned transparent again.
meh.

349 [is just WEIRD]

I think 349 is a weird number.
but then the 35xs aren't much better - e.g. 355 or um 358? I don't like 355.

._.

well anyway I thought the HCL midyear went relatively well.
but the only reason why it did was cos I don't really have any expectations for my HCL at all.

hmm.

saturday went back to school from 10 - 4.
today was a waste of time.

so really I prefer weekdays to weekends - at least I have something to do [instead of ROTTING on the com]. and I've just realised that in my blog I totally underuse [is that even a word cos my spellchecker says it isn't ._.] the comma - or maybe that's cos I ramble way too much [and when I ramble I either use a dash or the brackets]. lol.


so anyway I'm still bored.
should I go for RC or "class" outing - which I doubt most people will show up for - but then again not many people will turn up for RC stuff either.

meh.

but either way it's still better than staying at home.

just that I have a whole bunch of stuff to do.

hmm
1. reflections for 4H LJ - and the only reason why EC picked me [and rascal (!)] to do the reflections was cos he thinks I picked ICA - well I was randoming, so sue me. oh and maybe rascal cos he was asking funny questions [which I planted on him]. ha.
2. trigo! i.e. memorise formulae and hope for the best. again. so really not much
3. german midyear it's only a "mock O level" and isn't even counted all you 4H muggers. ok wait so that isn't work. yay.
3. batch CiP stuff
4. hmm do I have any overdue geog/hcl/chem? wait I think I might just have the remnants of a half-done baozhang in my bag. damn.

oh and filing - my red bag thingy which I dump all my worksheets in is starting to get heavy.

oh and RC on wed ._.


ok fine so I really don't have that much homework - or maybe I just procrastinated it all away.

=D

348/SURVIVED.

wow I can't believe that I survived HCL midyear.

and had time to SPARE after both papers.

paper 1 was quite badly done - wrote 3.5 sides for yingyongwen and 4.5 sides for yilunwen. and we have people like semen writing 6 and 8 respectively.

so anyway I ended with 15 min to spare cos there's just this limit to how much you can crap for the yilunwen - and I don't even think mine had any structure - it was just reasons for the situation, followed by one random paragraph on why character was more important than grades or something, and then solutions ._.

yingyongwen was better - however a little short [and I didn't really talk about the reasons behind the situation. damn.] and I only realised 1 min before the paper was about to end that I missed out one line in my geshi ._.

so anyway very short recess.

and then paper 2.

randomed for zonghe.
the first 2 lijies were remarkably easy.
then the 3rd lijie was mainly copying - except for the definition questions [where they give you a phrase and you're supposed to define it - duh ._.] and that last question asking for your opinion.

so I did the 4 copying questions and left the rest blank.

then lijie 4 which didn't really make much sense - so I just copied as much as I could and left the personal response/opinion question blank.

then I looked back at lijie 3 and found out that the personal response question looked easy too. so I wrote a bit of rubbish for that.

then changwen which was SCREWED cos the passage was just weird.

then now I had 13 marks blank - 4x definition questions + 5m question at the end of lijie 4 which I didn't even UNDERSTAND - well I understood the question but I didn't understand the quote the question was based on.

so like 20 min more [shockingly - in my EOY last year I ran out of time and left 12m blank ._.]

then I went to sleep.

then NY came over and whacked me when she saw my unanswered questions.

so I wrote nonsense for the definitions [hoping for half a mark each XD]. and then I still couldn't understand the give examples from real life thingy.

so I just searched for the quote in the passage and copied everything around it.


then I decided to sleep again.

just that NY came around and hit me. and told me to check.

which I did - or at least pretended to.
and I discovered a wrong word. yay.


._.


oh and paper 2 had "COMMONT TEST" on the front cover.


so anyway this paper was like zzzzzzzz. a lot of copying. so hopefully I ought to pass. yay.

347

meh I'm bored.

so far what I've done for HCL revision:
1. memorise 格式
2. nothing else.

yeah I know I'll screw up.
might fail but whatever.

school today -
bio was lawl [no pun intended, seriously XD] - law dragged us to 2nd floor atrium to do our bio spa [cos apparently it's more conducive for groupwork - just that there's no aircon T.T] - well we got to talk to all the teachers walking to the staffrooms. XD.

SS was slack - going through that simon tay article and gossiping - or rather talking about gossiping. lol.

chem was zzz. we wasted time [as usual]. XD
math was lesson ob - and I have this theory that every time we have a lesson ob the teachers teach worse - which was very true - I had TOTALLY NO IDEA what eddie was saying.
meh.

HCL wasn't much - just that it never seemed to end. [cos she kept going through stuff and we kept asking questions.]


anyway I'm so dead for hcl midyear. meh.

346 [is also quite a nice number]

LJ day was FUN.

so basically we were supposed to meet at 1330.

but then mass-convoing on facebook last night we decided to meet for lunch at 1230.

and well me being me - I managed to end up at J8 20 min early - it always seems that I'm either very early or just late for stuff.

so I was walking/loitering around. so bumped into 4D and 4C.

then slowly the 4H people started to arrive.

hmm first was matthew then um clive then more and more [actually I'm just too lazy to remember]

so eventually we ended up with about half the class there.

and since we couldn't find any space anywhere we just all packed our food and walked back to school.

so we ate in the canteen - which was quite funny cos we were like the only class there. oh and I bought 4 bags of chips.

then off to the raja block to assemble.
turns out we were both right/wrong - CCK was wearing something which looked like a cross between light brown and light purple. so while we were waiting for the bus we took our temperatures ._.

or as I was shouting "guys go fake your temperature". aaron brought his fahrenheit thermometer [again] but forgot the calculator. XD.

then well while waiting for the bus I opened a packet of chips.
and we were playing retarded games - first heart attack and then concentration [in full view of the teachers/RIJC students who seem to have some obsession with the Raja block].

and EC was playing with ewan's soccer ball.

then onto the bus - taiti with EC.
so he actually won 3 games in a row.
then he lost the next one. lol.
but seriously he's quite good.

so when we arrived at the tuas checkpoint we had this presentation about the checkpoint - which was quite zzz.

until we [I] started to ask FUNNY questions.
"what happens if you lose your passport?"
"what happens if you bring chewing gum into singapore?"

actually I had 2 more questions - but decided to use rascal to ask them instead.
so we asked that officer:
"what was the most creative way of smuggling people that you've encountered"
"what was the most interesting thing that you've confiscated"

then we watched a HILARIOUS video which aimed to educate homeowners [how... appropriate] on what to do to avoid being arrested for harbouring illegal immigrants.

the video then went on to depict scenarios of people NOT following the "3 steps" and getting arrested ._.

after that was another video which aimed to show how to enter singapore. well rather what to do at immigration/customs.

so being government videos and all that they were ridiculously exaggerated - which provided a very good source of entertainment to us. for example they had this guy passing through customs with fake guns and knives AND banned publications [read: playboy] and being smart enough to go into the "red lane" and declare them.

wow.

so after that we discovered that we had food.

they catered a whole buffet for one class.
wow.

so while we were eating we discovered some interesting posters in the area - quite a few examples of smuggling/fake passports which were quite LOL.

anyway we went to see the arrival hall thingy for people arriving by bus - we went through that for MM - just that we weren't allowed to go down thanks to SWINE FLU.

anyway on the bus ride back we were singing.

in falsettos.
and also we sang several national songs, replacing "Singapore" with a certain math teacher's name.

and some other random songs.

and we ate more chips.


so really this was THE most fun LJ day ever. not in the least thanks to the food/
and to quote EC "martin now I know why you chose this place"




[cos really when we were 'voting' for our destinations we were all shouting out random places and so happened that I saw ICA and saw that it was bloody far so I shouted for that one. long bus rides are fun!]

345 [is a very nice number]

yay posting from school now - cos morning assembly got cancelled thanks to the rain.
anyway 4H seems pretty chaotic/noisy now. and wenjun is looking over my shoulder so I can't type any incriminating things.

ok I'm getting a headache. especially thanks to shawn tan's voice.

oh damn I forgot to bring my health booklet.

and I forgot to do that stupid HCL essay thing [it's supposedly my turn today but it seems that she isn't in school].

I feel damn antisocial.

damn eddie just came in.

and kirk's on the PA system now.

and we're all standing up for no apparent reason [well maybe cos we haven't greeted him yet].


O.o jiarong just came online.

344 [isn't really that nice a number]

ok fine finally decided to post after a week or so.

I seriously HATE long weekends. wasted friday by slacking on the com for all of 10 [or more] hours. and then saturday [i.e. today] well went down to school [but managed to waste a lot of time in J8 deciding what to eat] for WSC - which was seriously a waste of time - even EC would be better ._.

and then some RC stuff [and as always the sec2s are quite horrible].

so anyway this week [but then again I can't quite remember what happened]. meh.
ok thursday skipped school to go down to GESS for NEA EC module 4 [with international schools]. so thanks to bad planning and all that no other local schools went down - and RI only sent 1 guy i.e. me since they only decided to let one guy miss school. also the french/canadian/australian schools were still on holiday ._.

so it was only me/GESS/UWC/Delhi Public School Singapore [but I resisted the urge to ask them if they knew a Mrs Kala XD].

so anyway the speaker was some weird guy. and then everyone was split into groups. so like 6 GESS people in one, 5 indians + 1 UWC person in another, and the rest of the GESS people + me + the other UWC person in the last. so the speaker was zzz. then well at the first activity we already couldn't get along. cos like the GESS guys in my group were damn screwed up so most of the work was left to the GESS girl + the UWC girl + me. just that the UWC girl was trying to force her ideas on all of us and in the end she ended up pissing everyone off.

so we had to come up with an idea for some environmental project in 'our' school [but then again we were working in groups] so like we had some big mess trying to decide what to do [thanks to UWC fighting with GESS]. so it went really badly but was only saved by lunch.

so lunch the food was quite decent - except for the fact that the [anorexic] GESS girls only ate fruit. so since lunch was 1 hour long we spent the rest of the time talking/listening to that speaker tell stories which are quite zzz. and then finally the GESS people discovered that I spoke german so a few of them were quite embarrassed given that they had made some not-so-positive comments about 'chinese people' - i.e. me [although I didn't do anything!] and the UWC girl - who seriously only looks chinese but has an american accent or something.

then after lunch just finishing our project planning and then presenting. zzz.

so anyway it wasn't worth it - EXCEPT FOR THE FOOD - cos the workshop was quite useless. zzz.

and I'm now an EC. XD

then went back to RI to watch that SYF showcase, met up with jack/jim and yf/some SE people in the library, went with jim for dinner and met the guitar people on the way [i.e. darren/shawn tan/wesley]. then met kwuntong/gl/michael/4A people at J8 and a whole bunch of other guitar people [i.e. daryl/weixuan] too. so went to s11 to eat with jim/darren/shawn tan/wesley/daryl/weixuan and met richard/rongjun/jessica.

then well we split up - me/darren/shawn/wesley went to popular to look for hcl assessment books for shawn, who also tried to recommend some to me [NO WAY!] and then richard/jim/rongjun went to comics connection.

walked back to school [stopping for icecream on the way], and went with them to the gallery. which was where the performers had to sit - and they forgot to turn on the aircon. meh.

then went down again cos they had to get their guitars, met weixuan and taught him a few swear words [and I learnt some from the EC workshop, so it really wasn't THAT much of a waste of time] which he promptly used on clement who so happened to turn up. then the guitar people came, went up with them and went back down again.

so met avinash/jessica/daniel ng, so we spent damn long deciding where to sit and in the end took a seat in the back row. so we couldn't see anything so daniel and I ended up standing for most of the concert.

so anyway I kept looking up [to wave at the gallery] or at the door - cos a LOT of people were late [especially certain teachers] - so met mrs neoh there as well as quite a number of teachers. however turnout was mainly parents though. zzz.

so it really wasn't AS BAD as I'd expected [cos sports people wouldn't go and UGs are too busy/don't care]. however as for the individual performances:

band was ok, just that the acoustics of the hall really suck so everyone's damn soft and thus only band sounds ok. and they're good when they make a LOT of noise and fill up the hall and all that. they should do that more often seriously.

choir was also quite interesting. since they had microphones. but it was a bit repetitive/boring. and the high parts were scary.

then CO [fail - even huang agrees] - thanks to the acoustics and all that. and their first [or was it second] piece just went ON AND ON AND ON AND ON [AND ON] - so whenever we thought that it was about to end it didn't. and eventually when their second piece DID end the ending screwed up. cos they seemed as though they were rushing and all that.

guitar was barely audible [EVEN WITH MICROPHONES]. and repetitive. as how daniel put it I don't get why they're an ENSEMBLE - isn't guitar a solo instrument?

SE was overrated. and repetitive too. I guess I really can't appreciate music.

so anyway after that just loitered in the hall [and everyone was trying to slap weixuan - even though there were still several parents there] - oh and the microphones during the concert were IMBA - cos they'd like disconnect? intermittently [I love this word] so some words/phrases wouldn't be um... microphoned? [meh forgot the word] - so like it's funny. especially when they break up the teachers'/conductors' names - ok so where was I?

oh yeah we were all trying to slap weixuan.

so in the end went home with big auntie/weixuan. initially we tried to flag a cab from RI, but there wasn't one, so we decided to take 88 instead.

so we effectively had the whole upper deck of the bus to ourselves so we were playing some really stupid games. then when we reached AMK we decided to get off and try to get a cab at the taxi stand there.

however the queue was rather long.

so being the sl*ts that they were, wx and semen decided to walk down the road and flag a taxi there. which worked. to quote them "sometimes being bitchy pays off" - and of course I was just an innocent bystander.

so took the cab all the way to weixuan's house and I walked the remainder of the distance back. which was further than I thought it was. meh.

ok now I'm still bored.

although I DID spend 30 min on this post. and that's even though I've been talking typing non-stop. meh.

shall post a proper post if/when I feel better.