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oh joy I'm not in EOY mood yet XD.

as in well english went quite well normally - i.e. I screwed up here and there, like any other compre - but who cares. AQ was quite horrible though. wasted too much correction tape.

SS might just be a disaster - OWL's marking! venice was VERY smoky (very few specific examples; I forgot the names) - but that's cos I started mugging at 8pm the night before. and I'm very good at getting distracted. but at least I managed to bring in rise, fall of venice, as well as NS, active citizenry, civil society, isthmus of kra [yay], principles of governance AND an NE message to boot. oh and I used globalisation as part of my conclusion ._.

but it was smoky.

globalisation was much worse - ran out of things to write ._. and conclusion was crap. and with OWL I might end up with L2 ._. haiz.

oh and my handwriting was uniformly bad. =D


but seriously well I slacked until about 8+ today. again. and it seems like I've been treating EOYs as CCTs - i.e. only mug at the last minute. XD. hooray for last-minute cramming!

._.


argh who cares. it's almost friday. and monday's a holiday.

so I'll start freaking out over geog on like sunday or sth. =D


OH and CA marks!
this will be surprising:
my highest sub for now is PHYSICS!
so it's like
phys: 93
philo: 88.85
chem: something that got rounded to 89 i.e. should be lower than philo.
but KSP dropped most/all the evil quizzes ._. you know we have at least FOUR components that have been dropped this year ><
geog: 87 [like wth]
english: 78 [!]
chinese: 62 overall. YAY.
so like my chinese went from 1.6 to 2.0 to 2.8.

._.

argh who cares.

372

zzz school.

I haven't started mugging yet.
still.

spent 2h on failblog this afternoon. and reading random stuff on wiki. as always.

well anyway EOY revision isn't that bad - I mean looking at EOY schedule:

wk5 thurs eng [can't mug] SS [mug venice I guess]
fri chem [heck - except maybe some RP stuff that KSP just threw notes at us e.g. hydrogen fuel cell ._.]

wk6 mon holiday!
wk6 tues phys [formulae ._.] and geog [need to find examples for pollution + mug rivers]
wk6 wed nothing!
wk6 thurs math [which seems easier this year. and strangely enough the hardest topics are like vectors. and R formulae. and circ measure. and essentially anything which requires me to visualise stuff. I mean like trigo/differentiation/integration are all damn fun!]
wk6 fri bio [die].

so revision will look like this:

wk5 wed start - venice
wk5 thurs skim chem
wk5 fri slack
wk5 sat slack
wk5 sun geog! [i.e. slack]
wk6 mon geog and phys
wk6 tues bio ._.
wk6 wed bio ._./skim math
wk6 thurs bio ._.

well actually I doubt I'll spend so much time on bio per se - but rather digging up all my notes ._. which are all in one huge pile with all the papers that I've gotten throughout the year. ok fine they're in several huge piles ._.

argh.

(frisbee!)³

this blog is still moving awfully slowly.

mainly cos I slept at 330am on sunday trying to finish the OIP booth thingy for RE congress.

and then I slept at 9pm on monday to make up for it.

and then tuesday I spent the whole day reading ._.

and today was RE congress. and I slept from like 4 to 7 or something.

so I can't really remember what happened these few days. and I'm very sleepy right now ._.

well congress - at least this year the presentations weren't that zzz - thankfully no business@school and all that random stuff. and the GOH's talk was relatively short. and I completed two booklets during the VIP session!

then after that off to semrooms 7/8 for the OIP booth thingy. so first part was spent trying to grab stickers - and eventually managed to get extra [cos prefects are blind].

then set up the laptop to give model answers.

then like started giving away stickers to anyone who wanted them.

then since I had 6 other blank booklets [cos some 4H people *ahem* shek/welras *ahem* weren't in school] gave some away [to let people copy answers] and well filled up 3 myself.

so if they actually read the booklets they'll find 2 with my name on them. but with different [and proper] text of course. and the third booklet well I got leonggen to claim it for me. and well for that 3rd booklet I had people like brandon/weihan/bryan and everyone copying stuff out of it word for word and all that ._.

oh so in the end I had 1 white and 2 black frisbees. yay.

oh and >30 people asked me for one when they saw it ._.

ok I'm still sleepy.
and I owe OWL an essay.
and I haven't started mugging for EOYs! probably will start next week I guess.
after I finish geog. ugh.

370

this blog is progressing at a glacial pace.

and speaking of glacial organic chem is VERY fail.
[we were using glacial acetic acid. that's the link. ha.]

cos right I think siakpeng ordered the wrong alcohol. cos we were supposed to be making isopentyl acetate but they gave us isopropanol instead ._. [i.e. we ended up with isopropyl acetate which is a totally different thing. and which does not smell like bananas at all.

and the way the lesson was planned [i.e. the worksheet koped from the net] means that noone will be able to finish the thing in the 2 lessons given ._.

and I wasted my free period staying back after the organic chem module to try to finish the stupid experiment.

well the only thing I can say is that it's fun refluxing stuff.


hmm I've been incredibly busy these few days. [ok maybe not unless you count stuff like facebook as being busy].

refurbishment went well [shockingly I don't recall hearing of any complaints from the residents]. just that most of the people in block 62 got taken for an excursion by the lions' befrienders so a lot of RI guys were out of a job ._.

yeah so that was the only problem.
and painting is fun.
and my house t-shirt is win.

for the rest of the stuff on homecreation check here.

I spent about an hour typing that one out already ._.

yeah anyway dmp is still quite fun/slack.
just that I wasted too many of my free periods.


and ISP will be epic fail.


anyway what's left to do:
1. CLE POSTER
2. RE CONGRESS POSTER FOR OIP [and I'm soloing ._.]
3. GEOG ESSAY
4. ISP
5. revision

and everyone else has already started mugging for EOYs. argh.
but for me I guess it'll be like what spend one day on bio 1h30 on geog 1h on physics and SS 30 min on math and heck the rest.

or I could not study at all.
but then my bio would die ._.
AND I HATE THE NEW GPA SYSTEM.

no rest for the weary

ugh I almost fell asleep.

at 8pm.


let's see DMP is quite ok. but for example take tuesday. full timetable + refurb briefing + sorting out mess during/after refurb briefing + losing voice during refurb briefing + block party prep + going late for 3rdlang + almost falling asleep during LISTENING COMPRE. and yeah.

and today well stayed back in lab till 630 to do ISP. and troubleshoot stuff.
oh fine we spent 30 min playing with cornflour + water.

and what I need to do is basically read an article [a JOURNAL article] by tomorrow. well it's interesting and all but it's really dry and well rather sleep-inducing.

oh and I still have geog essays and chem reflections and more chem stuff to chiong out BY THE END OF THIS WEEK.

and refurbishment on saturday.

so basically thanks to all these although everyone else has already started mugging for EOYs I'm still trying to tie up my CA.

argh.

oh and I tried crashing one of OWL's geog lessons with her sec1s today and she actually let me. but then 1G pissed her off so she chased me away so she could scold them.

._.

argh.

anyway ANOTHER full day tomorrow.
with geog [alright save for the essay] hcl [ugh but thankfully she's just going through prelims] and facilitation [ugh AND I have work to do but I think I can do it during HCL. XD]

and ISP [again] after that.

meh.

368/zzz

k haven't updated this since well a very long time ago.

but I've finally gotten blogger to work.

so starting from the holidays:
monday - RI-NTU
tues - green game [7am in RI] followed by RI-NTU
wed - ISP in school for the whole day ><
thurs - ditto
fri - 6 hour geog lesson ._.

so essentially I almost died during the holidays.

but DMP's for slacking right? nope.
1. trade/aid PT - 3k words
2. rivers essay - 1.5k words
3. chem reflections - 500 to 3k words
4. org chem quiz - i.e. memorise whole of org chem [which I didn't do and thus screwed up very badly but really I don't care]
5. ISP - have to do a presentation on wk2 sat and we haven't even gotten any results yet.

so yeah.

oh and BATCH CIP ><

but anyway dmps are fun.

GE4B geog of religion is hilarious [especially with mrs koh]. and even though there are way too many debaters in there she never understands their [history/debate-style] questions and just twists it into something geog-related [on purpose? XD]. so I'm actually learning stuff.

EL9A reading a movie watching a book is really slack especially since mrs d'cruz spent half of the first lesson marking attendance and telling stories.

CH6B is extremely lol. cos right the module was planned by siakpeng but then ours is conducted by mrs yau - who essentially tells us to follow the procedure [and she's very good at bullying the lab techs].

on the other hand:
CE1A is horrible - I mean seriously the only reason why people want to be OIP facils is cos they want to go for OIP again. and so stop acting like so moral and saying what you want to help the sec3s and all that zzz.

MT8A is just 1h30 of chinese every other day. but I've managed to get away with not doing her work. anyway all we're doing now is changwen.

oh and SHOCKINGLY. I got 64.25 for my prelims. mainly due to a 15/20 for yingyongwen and 17/20 for changwen ._. oh and 41/70 for zuowen [even though half the baozhang was jianyi ._.] oh and I got 10/20 for zonghe even though I randomed the whole thing.

wow.
ok now time for lunch.

367

yay blogger's working again.

and I HATE MORNING ASSEMBLY.

366/zzz

hmm I really have this habit of posting one week and then not at all the next.
but then now I'm really tired so yeah.

cos have been chionging socdoc a lot - thurs until 3am, sat/sun until 11pm at clement's house so yeah.

and we're still trying to subtitle!
but then again socdoc meetings generally involve a lot of cards/slacking/eating so yeah.

anyway school's starting to be hell again - ok fine we were isolated without aircon on the 7th floor last week so it kinda FELT like hell [ok I'm exaggerating but then our class koped 2 extra fans from the class next door so yeah] - but then isolation was fun cos we got our own recess and well the 7th floor is really good for playing cards. XD.

ok so anyway really what do I have due in the next few weeks or so:

english
adult critic [!!!]
showcase portfolio - seriously I'm going to organise it ALPHABETICALLY ._. and not like I have much to show really.
book club - I finished the book. yay. but I read in like groups of 100 pages and then fall asleep for several hours afterward.

math
apparently there's a CCT tmr but who cares. differentiation is fun [as long as I don't screw up]. and I still kinda like integration.
but no PTs etc so I don't care.

SS
argh socdoc. although our whole class got extended since we're a H1N1 class XD. so that WAS one perk of being on the 7th floor.

hcl
zhuanti [huh no idea what it is just that it's due in two weeks' time ._.]
prelims [seriously godie. and I need a dictionary [again] ._. and all she's been doing so far are just chengyu. which make no sense to me]
oh and I owe her 2 zuowens! or more.

chem
NCT, ANCQ, ISP, SCSF, whole bunch of notes to read - ugh.
at least organic chem is interesting once you get over all the memorisation.

phys
magship! my group's going to kill me - but I've been really busy with socdoc T.T
CCT in week something - who cares I kinda understand electromagnetism and practical electricity isn't even a topic.

bio
FREAK SPA REPORT haven't submitted yet ><
OMG BIO REFLECTIONS again haven't submitted yet - seriously too busy ><
and CCT on thurs apparently - seriously need to read botany and smoke my way thru ._.

geog
overdue essay, development PT which is effectively an essay - ugh.
hopefully no CCT though [although I think there is ._.]

german
who cares XD.

ok so well it doesn't LOOK that bad but considering that it's all clustered together and that I'm running behind for geog/hcl/bio [the first two kinda expected but then since geog was from term 2 and hcl from god-knows-when [but then it's the same every year] so yeah. but bio's surprising.] and then magship and socdoc are dangerously close. followed by bio CCT, NCT, ANCQ i.e. have to finish RJ org chem by FRIDAY. then the next week showcase portfolio is due and so on so forth so I'm going to die.

meh.

365/whee

hmm school these few days is zzz.
and I'm falling sick.
my brother got a 7 day MC just for flu-like symptoms. and I feel feverish but the thermometer refuses to admit that I have a fever. ugh.

and apparently wesley caught it from me [even though by right I don't have it] so he has a fever too. I'm jealous.

anyway school - tues was totally boring cos they decided to pay us back for the period 6 that they cancelled on wk1 mon - so timetable was like math HCL english chem HCL.

so math we didn't do much - went through apps of differentiation for TA tomorrow [i.e. today] and then well we didn't want him to go on cos we thought that we'd mix up integration and differentiation.
first HCL went through mock paper that I didn't do i.e. really really boring.
english was just talking about the model AQ that we had to grade and well we went very off-tangent [especially since it's about children's TV XD]. chem was in the lab - electrolysis with leong gen. XD. and then hcl again but then I realised that I left my bag in the lab ._. so anyway after doing a bit of stuff [I can't remember] we played more chengyuyouxi. so my group got pwned in the first round but then we won the next. and she used the sec2 worksheets [which I think I did before] so my guessing was uncannily accurate. oh and chengyu games are damn fun cos they're damn noisy and I can shout a lot of random things.

3rdlang was the usual stuff. but rather slack still.

wed: TA was horrible - redid question 2 four times in total [substituted wrongly, wrong formula, differentiated wrongly, careless] and all that so it really was a mess.
and question 1 I forgot quotient rule.
then geog was zzz. as usual. and she spent ONE [and maybe a bit of tomorrow] lesson on aid.
physics quiz was a bit easier [ok fine it was a lot easier] just that I didn't know how to justify the wiring mistakes so I wrote a lot of rubbish. oh and dc motors are interesting. and I KINDA get magnetism. but not electricity.
hcl was boring - wait she didn't actually do anything except go through chengyu and get us to check our CA marks. I managed to pass. =D
cle was boring - marriage vows. zzz. but it was still funny.
english she tried to get us to write an AQ but we hated the question. so we ended up grading more [funnier] samples. just that darren and I seemed to disagree with everyone else.

zzz.

then loitered a bit more [really who cares - and they're bringing back everything next week T.T] in school. and in J8.

ok shall sleep now [cos I feel sick even though the thermometer says I'm not. I tell you it must be broken.]

364/zzz

ok I feel like I'm falling sick.
yay me.

hmm school today was boring.
but tomorrow will be worse - they've decided to pay back for the period 6 that they cancelled in wk1 by replacing assembly with it. I.E. DOUBLE CHINESE TOMORROW.

but then again since she was in quarantine segregation in wk1 does that mean that we get a free period?

tomorrow is seriously boring - math CHINESE english chem CHINESE. and 3¼h of german. ugh. and no elearning done as always.

school today:
chem - we social-distanced ourselves away from the teacher.
and I didn't really pay much attention.
and we were playing paper throughout the whole lesson so it was rather fruitful.
oh and KSP thought that the aircon wasn't working and forced us to open all the windows when in actual fact it was just that it had just been turned on so he didn't feel anything - well either way we just complied and didn't care.

SS was rather interesting but this is "globalisation through a historical approach" - and no I'm not kidding today we learnt about china/deng xiaopeng, the cold war/fall of berlin wall/weird russian people/glasnost/perestroika and so on - ugh. she said that geog looks at things from time and space and that gives a very negative view of globalisation [first point true second not really] ._.

so anyway to quote OWL: "geog looks at things from time and space, history is all time no space". also "history is very clear - all dead man's [sic] story". which is also rather true.

also it was fun waving to OWL while she was having lesson in 4J. and seriously her SS looks more interesting than geog.

followed by the 3 ‘P’s - PE, Philo, Physics. PE - VQ wasn't here so we played soccer. Philo - KC wasn't here so we didn't have to present and instead were tasked to "work on our projects" - which for us mainly involved photoshopping things/pictures of women cos we'd chionged the whole thing yesterday ._.

physics - sadly he was here [aww.] but he seemed in quite a good mood [which was strange considering that he had 4Q before that - oh maybe that was why he seemed so pissed off at the start - but anyway -] and didn't even confiscate aaron's phone when he smsed in class. oh and we got let off early. for lunch. in an empty-ish canteen.

oh and so much for social distancing when 4 sec4 classes had 3rd period PE today.


oh and DMP's back on! [albeit in a modified form - I tell you the announcement really doesn't mean anything - it's just to keep us happy - and we might end up with stuff like 1 day DMP or something ._. - but then again it'd be great to have DMP WITHOUT the sec3s. yay.]

ok then HCL - we distracted her by asking her to let us play that chengyu game so she didn't go through the test paper which I didn't do/bring. oh and she returned a baozhang that I didn't do/submit either.

then home.

I could get used to going home early you know.

just that CCAs are starting again next week [apparently].

damn.

363/ok I'm bored

and trying to make up for all the times which I didn't post

so this thing from aaron:
Google your name, and write down the first webpage link name that makes grammatical sense and is relevant or just pick the funniest one on the first page of results.

1. Google “(your name) needs”:
martin needs to get drunk [._. I don't even like alcohol. yet]
martin needs to get laid [no comments]
martin needs medical treatment [no comments]
martin needs to stop disposing of hard drives with top-secret data intact [lol.]

2. Google “(your name) looks like”:
martin looks like a cartoon character [no I don't ._.]
martin looks like a 'giant, black wet sock' [...]
martin looks like yoda [NO!]

3. Google “[your name] likes”:
martin likes his independence [sadly you can't get any in singapore]
martin likes to sew [._. I can't sew for nuts]

4. Google “[your name] says”
martin says being sued is inspiring [oh no it isn't if you're in singapore]

5. Google “[your name] wants”:
martin wants a tattoo [ok maybe]
martin wants broadband across USA [no I don't. maybe free broadband across singapore though]

6. Google “[your name] does”:
martin does haiku [ok lol...]

7. Google “[your name] hates”:
martin hates business models [well I hate econs]

8. Google “[your name] can”:
martin can't get michael jackson tickets [._.]
martin can't yet see the point of government [well at least the singaporean one]

9. Google “[your name] goes”:
martin goes gambling in japan [O.o]

10. Google “[your name] is”:
martin is out of order

11. Google “[your name] loves”:
martin loves duopoly
martin loves c****s


ok that was retarded.
and I censored quite a bit.
zzz.

362/wow this is slow

ok I'm like updating weekly now or something.

maybe cos I'm too lazy to update this anymore.
but then again now I'm only updating cos I'm too lazy to do any work.

hmm school - can't quite remember what's been going on.
just that they cancelled DMP. so we're trying to get it back again and well from the looks of things it might be working.

what else - english: I still don't understand AQ.
physics: I still don't understand magnetic fields and all that
chem: I still don't understand electrochem [and I actually fell asleep in class]
geo: I still don't understand whatever she's talking about [but neither does the rest of the class]
hcl: I never did understand whatever she's been doing anyway. and I owe her a [few] zuowens + those mock paper thingies.

so really I'm still in like holiday mode or something.

what else...
bio: stem cells are zzz. and he owes us food + ice cream
SS is geog.
PE is ok - cos we group the people who can't play soccer together.
math is fun. relatively speaking. just that I don't like definite integrals.

ok so yes this week is rather boring. or maybe I've forgotten everything already.

361/zzz

ok fine so I haven't been posting.

well mainly cos wk1 didn't even seem like school - like what no homework/period 6/CCA/RA CLASSES so I'm like home at like 2/3pm [mainly cos I still stay in school a bit and talk to people like wesley cos I really don't enjoy joining the crowds walking to the MRT station and all that].

so anyway timetable got reshuffled, so we have stuff like CLE before lunch and math after. and 3RD PERIOD PE ON FRIDAY! [just that now they shifted all sec2s/3s to 2nd recess on fridays for "social distancing" and all that bs so we can't enjoy it. yet. but then looking on the bright side of things sec2s and 3s lost their lunch. XD. as in the school moved period 6 up for them so they get dismissed earlier but we get an [emptier] canteen.]

oh and 6th period resumes tmr. meh.

and anyway school's been very slack cos the locked up all the boarders so like 4E had 10 people gone, 4F lost 6, 4I lost 8 and 4J lost 11 or something like that. so really they can't do anything can they. XD.

so anyway I haven't really done much work [if any] - been sleeping 12h every day [i.e. from 12 - 12 ._.] so don't really feel that tired. chionged out quite a few questions for humans quiz though. just that we might not even have it considering how 2 assemblies have been converted to PDI already.


oh and YAY FOUNDERS' DAY POSTPONED!

anyway for school
english - she got kinda pissed that we didn't submit metacognitive but then went back to her usual self afterwards.
math - I kinda like integration just that it's a bit annoying. and noone's told me how to integrate sec x yet. meh. I think I have this total love-hate relationship with math or something cos I don't want to take it in JC and really it's just PAINFUL but then again it gives me my 4.0s [CONSISTENTLY] so yeah.
geo - development and more development. and she axed tourism so darren and I are crying foul.
chem - usual waste of time. I hate electric cell cos it's really physics and I still can't understand what the heck potential difference is. and seriously what's the difference between V and I ._.
so that brings us logically to physics - ok I don't quite get magnetic fields either but then there are RULES. so it's like kinematics all over again [which was really my best topic last year - just memorise the formula and WHACK. but this time we get to play with our hands. how wrong is that XD]
bio - he's still on ECONOMIC BOTANY. oh and got back CCT2, shockingly got a 27 cos even though I screwed up diabetes [thought it had something to do with glucagon/glycogen apparently I still made sense somehow]. but economic botany is fail.
hcl - NY got quarantined! so first period was wait the first HCL lesson got cancelled cos it was a period 6, next lesson CSK came in, gave us 2 zonghes and 1 suoduan which we all discussed even though she told us not to. then we had this relief who put us through a full paper 1. but I still didn't finish in the end.
philo was a free period and so was CLE cos both had nothing planned for this week. XD.
first PE lesson was slack. second one also. but seriously SOCCER? ugh.

ok what else... nothing much really.


and now school REALLY starts.

and we got 3 frenchies joining our class! whee.