well I probably ought to be updating my blog now.
TWO MORE DAYS TO CHRISTMAS!
[just that I'll be spending it alone. boo.]
but anyways my entire family went overseas on sat.
and they're only coming back on 25th/26th.
and I couldn't go thanks to SSEF.
but then again I didn't go to school on mon/tues. zzz.
ok so what've I been doing...
sat - bored. bored. bored. bored. ended up going for RCYC campfire which was quite high although the campfire was quite fail. and they didn't feed us so clive/xinyan/I ended up at tampines at 2230 at macs.
and well ended up catching a last bus home. whee.
sun - surprisingly I managed to wake up on time. zzz. but then like most of sun was wasted like what at piano? and talking on msn.
mon - meeting! which actually had quite a bit of time-wasting but at least it blew one entire day.
tues - ended up waking up at noon ._. then while watering my mum's plants [._.] I managed to get a thorn stuck under my fingernail. as in inside the flesh and all that. so after much pain with nailclippers/tweezers/needles/toothpicks and whatnot decided to go see a doctor zzz. who forced it out with a needle [I couldn't cos like it's kinda hard to see the thing since it was well quite deep in].
ok at least that killed some time.
today - in lab. zzzzzzzzz. UV spec sucks. especially when you have to do it for over a hundred samples. zzz.
so what I've left to do is really just clean up the house before my parents come back.
zzz.
AND I HAVE NOTHING TO DO ON CHRISTMAS EVE/DAY.
boo.
23 December 2009
13 December 2009
378
wow this is a very very very very very long-overdue post.
so let's see what happened so far.
but first things first where did I leave off XD.
oh yes EPIC MODERATION!
basically since english ended up with an overall 5.2% mod I have NINE 4.0s and a wonderful 2.8 in HCL. =D
seriously I'm epic.
so like 3.88 again [which was quite surprising, but then again last year the only reason why I got 3.88 and not 3.84 was a mod to SS]. just that this year my scores are quite lol.
62 82 83 84 89 89 92 92 93 94
cos of all the random mod [e.g. for math 2 and bio ._.]
hmm anyway after that GRAD CEREMONY - oh fine the final assembly - was incredibly retarded/fun. I mean after all it WAS our last assembly so we took the opportunity to sing along to the staff procession XD. [well when they were on their way out XD]. and of course since we didn't have any hats to throw people started throwing ties. which somehow escalated into people. which was still incredibly fun.
hmm yeah but it was quite sad come to think of it - I mean like next year there'll be weird people [read: RGS] joining us and all that. haiz.
then grad dinner was epically fail. but who cares at least we all got to camwhore. =D
and that reminds me I will REFUSE to upload my grad dinner photos until at least next year. cos everyone uploads them altogether so there's like a whole mess of them and it's nothing special and all that.
oh and before grad dinner was HCL O's. which went kinda badly cos I didn't understand most of the lijie questions - but then again I never do. oh and apparently I screwed up baozhang too. but niu was damn nice cos she threw a party for us after the paper. =D
seriously I have too many nice teachers.
oh great now I can't remember what I did in the week after HCL Os. I know there was a geogRA BBQ somewhere which ended up in me getting epically lost [cos I don't like east coast/asking for directions] - essentially I ended up getting off like 20 stops later or sth. but seriously ECP SUCKS.
ok now that explains ONE day.
where did that entire week go!
ok fine there was nov camp prep. but that only explains like 2 or 3 days of stuff.
and I know that there was ZD somewhere in which I epically screwed up because I didn't mug [but then again I never do] but still you HAVE to mug for languages so I'm not exactly very sure about taking H1 german but heck. oh and cos I fell to pieces during oral ._.
but up to now I still haven't collected my results so...
anyway what happened after that... november camp was FUN. just that it was too short.
but it was interesting trying to sleep in RC campsite and only getting 30 min of it.
and spamming deep heat is good.
and note to self: stop trying to do everything and step back for once.
ok so after november camp there was stuff like VIP CS1 and eh wait CS1 was before nov camp [which was why I ended up missing most/all the post-CS1 meetings and therefore ended up being hauled out during CS2 and yeah whatever but either way it was stupid]. oh so after VIP CS2 was stuff like AGM and another meeting which was like what 10am to 7pm? cos it was evac practice followed by FLAG PAINTING! at the esplanade underpass no less. which was really very epic. then after that I had to go to IKEA to look for tealights ._.
just that it turned out there were already some in the campsite so it was kinda like a wasted trip. boo. so after that was a whole bunch of other meetings and then VIP camp.
which was actually quite slack/useless [compared to normal standards]. I mean like discipline was ... even though abdul was PWO and stuff. but I hate getting blasted by maams.
note to self 2: stop taking blastings so seriously - they aren't shouting/screaming at you but more like all the other idiots in the group [of which there are too many]
only thing good was well I got evac gold! [in like less than 5h?] oh and we got like what 3h of sleep each night [or less]. so after the camp I ended up sleeping 15h. and waking up at 3pm the next day.
but seriously the camp wasn't that remarkable. AND I HATE CAMPFIRES. AND ARMY STRETCHERS. AND EVIL ROADS THAT KILL YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DO HUMAN STRETCHER WITH A BUNCH OF GIRLS (I STILL HAVE THE SCARS DAMMIT). AND STUPID PEOPLE LIKE ___________. AND PEOPLE WITHOUT A SENSE OF URGENCY. UGH. OH AND I HATE EAST COAST PARK! whee.
ok rant over.
but VIP was really only fun cos of (some of) the people there.
haiz.
ok so now that VIP is over, after I submitted my camp report [which was full of 1. bullsh*t 2. smoke 3. politically correct stuff 4. long rambling sentences 5. nothing] and well went for the ops AGM thing which was a waste of time and then went for a super long dinner with the VIs which was really quite fun but ended up with me reaching home at 11+ and getting my mum pissed off.
oh and speaking of ops agm thingy we were supposed to be at campsite at 1230. so I woke up at 9. and then fell asleep. and woke up at 905 [cos of the snooze thing on my handphone], turn the snooze function off and decided to sleep a bit more. and then ended up waking up at 1139. so after a VERY mad rush I managed to reach campsite at like what 1235? and that was after missing an LRT, a bus and a train. whee.
ok so yeah now effectively I have nothing much to do.
ok fine I have ISP/SCSF/SSEF.
OH SHIT.
I tell you my last 3 weeks of holidays are going to be like spent in the lab. boo.
so let's see what happened so far.
but first things first where did I leave off XD.
oh yes EPIC MODERATION!
basically since english ended up with an overall 5.2% mod I have NINE 4.0s and a wonderful 2.8 in HCL. =D
seriously I'm epic.
so like 3.88 again [which was quite surprising, but then again last year the only reason why I got 3.88 and not 3.84 was a mod to SS]. just that this year my scores are quite lol.
62 82 83 84 89 89 92 92 93 94
cos of all the random mod [e.g. for math 2 and bio ._.]
hmm anyway after that GRAD CEREMONY - oh fine the final assembly - was incredibly retarded/fun. I mean after all it WAS our last assembly so we took the opportunity to sing along to the staff procession XD. [well when they were on their way out XD]. and of course since we didn't have any hats to throw people started throwing ties. which somehow escalated into people. which was still incredibly fun.
hmm yeah but it was quite sad come to think of it - I mean like next year there'll be weird people [read: RGS] joining us and all that. haiz.
then grad dinner was epically fail. but who cares at least we all got to camwhore. =D
and that reminds me I will REFUSE to upload my grad dinner photos until at least next year. cos everyone uploads them altogether so there's like a whole mess of them and it's nothing special and all that.
oh and before grad dinner was HCL O's. which went kinda badly cos I didn't understand most of the lijie questions - but then again I never do. oh and apparently I screwed up baozhang too. but niu was damn nice cos she threw a party for us after the paper. =D
seriously I have too many nice teachers.
oh great now I can't remember what I did in the week after HCL Os. I know there was a geogRA BBQ somewhere which ended up in me getting epically lost [cos I don't like east coast/asking for directions] - essentially I ended up getting off like 20 stops later or sth. but seriously ECP SUCKS.
ok now that explains ONE day.
where did that entire week go!
ok fine there was nov camp prep. but that only explains like 2 or 3 days of stuff.
and I know that there was ZD somewhere in which I epically screwed up because I didn't mug [but then again I never do] but still you HAVE to mug for languages so I'm not exactly very sure about taking H1 german but heck. oh and cos I fell to pieces during oral ._.
but up to now I still haven't collected my results so...
anyway what happened after that... november camp was FUN. just that it was too short.
but it was interesting trying to sleep in RC campsite and only getting 30 min of it.
and spamming deep heat is good.
and note to self: stop trying to do everything and step back for once.
ok so after november camp there was stuff like VIP CS1 and eh wait CS1 was before nov camp [which was why I ended up missing most/all the post-CS1 meetings and therefore ended up being hauled out during CS2 and yeah whatever but either way it was stupid]. oh so after VIP CS2 was stuff like AGM and another meeting which was like what 10am to 7pm? cos it was evac practice followed by FLAG PAINTING! at the esplanade underpass no less. which was really very epic. then after that I had to go to IKEA to look for tealights ._.
just that it turned out there were already some in the campsite so it was kinda like a wasted trip. boo. so after that was a whole bunch of other meetings and then VIP camp.
which was actually quite slack/useless [compared to normal standards]. I mean like discipline was ... even though abdul was PWO and stuff. but I hate getting blasted by maams.
note to self 2: stop taking blastings so seriously - they aren't shouting/screaming at you but more like all the other idiots in the group [of which there are too many]
only thing good was well I got evac gold! [in like less than 5h?] oh and we got like what 3h of sleep each night [or less]. so after the camp I ended up sleeping 15h. and waking up at 3pm the next day.
but seriously the camp wasn't that remarkable. AND I HATE CAMPFIRES. AND ARMY STRETCHERS. AND EVIL ROADS THAT KILL YOUR HANDS WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DO HUMAN STRETCHER WITH A BUNCH OF GIRLS (I STILL HAVE THE SCARS DAMMIT). AND STUPID PEOPLE LIKE ___________. AND PEOPLE WITHOUT A SENSE OF URGENCY. UGH. OH AND I HATE EAST COAST PARK! whee.
ok rant over.
but VIP was really only fun cos of (some of) the people there.
haiz.
ok so now that VIP is over, after I submitted my camp report [which was full of 1. bullsh*t 2. smoke 3. politically correct stuff 4. long rambling sentences 5. nothing] and well went for the ops AGM thing which was a waste of time and then went for a super long dinner with the VIs which was really quite fun but ended up with me reaching home at 11+ and getting my mum pissed off.
oh and speaking of ops agm thingy we were supposed to be at campsite at 1230. so I woke up at 9. and then fell asleep. and woke up at 905 [cos of the snooze thing on my handphone], turn the snooze function off and decided to sleep a bit more. and then ended up waking up at 1139. so after a VERY mad rush I managed to reach campsite at like what 1235? and that was after missing an LRT, a bus and a train. whee.
ok so yeah now effectively I have nothing much to do.
ok fine I have ISP/SCSF/SSEF.
OH SHIT.
I tell you my last 3 weeks of holidays are going to be like spent in the lab. boo.
2 November 2009
377 [um no comments]
hmm this is weird.
like well I get disappointed with my results in the papers that I thought I did well in.
and I actually do better than expected for the papers that I screwed up ._.
says something about my expectations I guess. XD.
well anyway results:
eng: 34/45 for compre, 23/30 for essay
well this was ok - at least we avoided certain markers - but then again I kinda screwed up all the 1 mark questions ._. and 4/5 for vocab [yay!]. sadly 7/10 for AQ cos she struck out my entire first point. but then again things could have gone much worse.
23/30 for essay well... ok fine I rambled a bit too much.
overall 78 according to pat's marklist but not sure how the system will calculate it. and how much moderation we'll get.
chem: 77/80 - 29 in section A [thanks to a stupid mistake], 38+2 in section B [thanks to 2 stupid mistakes] and 8 for section C [thanks to a stupid marker ._.]
but then again 77 is very decent. and I still can't believe I was THAT careless. but section B could have been worse. and section C was crap ._. overall 92 [behind GXZ and welras. thanks to ISP XD]
geo: 13/13 [wth!] + 12/13 + 11.5/14 [._.]
did ok for the first question even though I spammed [which I think was the point really] and wrote crap for the FOURTH part question [i.e. mini-essay ._.]
second question was ok.
LORMS essay died cos my conclusion was invalid. so like 3 paragraphs wasted ._.
overall 89
phys: 67 which became 65 and then 66
so I screwed up the MCQs [got the FIRST question wrong AGAIN], most of the structured I was writing rubbish/blowing smoke. and during the checking I realised that CCK had marked a structured qn worth 2 marks wrongly. so 2 marks gone there. but then while showing it to him [cos he has some weird system - everyone who has to change marks places the script on his table opened to the page with the error and he'll call up one by one, so I happened to put the opposite side facing up, and well he was looking at it and realised I should have gotten another mark on the other page ._.] but then it was quite disappointing [but then I didn't UNDERSTAND the paper the first time I did it XD] so then I was wondering if I should take phys or bio ._. overall 89 [yay the second one]
math: 57.5/50
paper 1 was careless. I'm sure they deducted for leaving answer as 19 1/2 instead of simplifying by pulling out a 1/2 ._. argh.
paper 2 was ouch. especially the differentiation question. but shockingly my kinematics was actually CORRECT [except for the last part, cos I forgot that c was not 0], but I confused the marker by putting part 2 before part 1 XD. then this was epic:
2x = 240, 360, 600
x = 120, 240, 300
spotted the error?
haiz. and then SOMEHOW I managed to get full marks for the circ measure question even though I rushed it and finished it with like a few seconds to spare. =D. so overall was 94 and 89 [the third one]
so during recess I was suanning people by saying that my lowest 4.0 was an 89 XD.
but seriously then my overall scores were like
62 78 89 89 89 92 92 94
so by right if I had a 3.6 for either of the next 2 papers I'd end up with a 3.80 GPA [using new system]. and if I had a 3.6 for both it'd still be 3.80. and if I had 0.8 for both it would ALSO be 3.80. something's very rotten here.
so either I had to hope for 2 4.0s in BIO AND SS. both of which had many people dying tragic deaths. or just heck.
so bio: 18/21 for MCQ [which was actually better than the original 25/30 XD] and 44/59 for structured = 62/80
hmm so actually I died in quite a few structured questions for lack of key words. but got saved by 6/6 for essay. and the entire economic botany structured question XD. and for the muscle/bone question which I smoked through. but it was really better than I expected [but then again I put in a BIT of effort by reading bryan's notes and interrogating dewin on msn]. so overall 82.
then SS - 15/20 for globalisation [!] and 16/20 for venice [!!!]
cos globalisation well it was a GEOG topic and as a rule of thumb geog students were supposed to do better than history ones so like most people in our class had 16/17/18. but then I got stuck at L3 cos he struck out FOUR paragraphs of conclusion. T.T
and on the other hand venice from the way OWL made it out to be it seemed like everyone died. so I expected to screw this one up but I didn't. but the irony is that [according to her notation at least] I brought in SIX other factors apart from the given one. and thus spent too little time on the conclusion. so overall 82. phew.
so really for my humans papers actually I've been dying quite badly for LORMS [at least under OWL] cos either I write too much conclusion that doesn't get counted or I write too little which DOES get counted ><.
and well my results look quite nice now:
HCL 62
ENG 78
SS 82
BIO 82
PH 89
MA2 89
GEO 89
CH 92
GER 92
MA1 94
so although it wasn't as nice a pattern as last year's [90 89 88 87 86 84 83 80] the numbers are quite nice. cos so many end in 2 or 9. XD
so overall 3.84 using the OLD system. ha.
but then again I just realised that since noone got a perfect 4 i.e. the people with 9 subs in GPA i.e. 10-subject people [cos the school counts RE/philo as a subject] have at most 8 4.0s and 1 3.6 but if my english gets moderated up I'll get 9 4.0s and 1 2.8. which will be quite epic. especially since I'll be like one of the people with the most 4.0s and yet with a very low GPA [people with 6 4.0s can hit 3.90 using the NEW system ._.] and yet I'm capped at 3.88. stupid HCL. and even people with 5 4.0s and 3 3.6s can get 3.85.
._.
well at least I did better than I expected [especially with regard to bio/SS/geo/english. and I should count myself pretty lucky I guess]. and again there's not much difference between 3.80 or 3.84 or 3.85 or 3.88.
so school's ending.
T.T
like well I get disappointed with my results in the papers that I thought I did well in.
and I actually do better than expected for the papers that I screwed up ._.
says something about my expectations I guess. XD.
well anyway results:
eng: 34/45 for compre, 23/30 for essay
well this was ok - at least we avoided certain markers - but then again I kinda screwed up all the 1 mark questions ._. and 4/5 for vocab [yay!]. sadly 7/10 for AQ cos she struck out my entire first point. but then again things could have gone much worse.
23/30 for essay well... ok fine I rambled a bit too much.
overall 78 according to pat's marklist but not sure how the system will calculate it. and how much moderation we'll get.
chem: 77/80 - 29 in section A [thanks to a stupid mistake], 38+2 in section B [thanks to 2 stupid mistakes] and 8 for section C [thanks to a stupid marker ._.]
but then again 77 is very decent. and I still can't believe I was THAT careless. but section B could have been worse. and section C was crap ._. overall 92 [behind GXZ and welras. thanks to ISP XD]
geo: 13/13 [wth!] + 12/13 + 11.5/14 [._.]
did ok for the first question even though I spammed [which I think was the point really] and wrote crap for the FOURTH part question [i.e. mini-essay ._.]
second question was ok.
LORMS essay died cos my conclusion was invalid. so like 3 paragraphs wasted ._.
overall 89
phys: 67 which became 65 and then 66
so I screwed up the MCQs [got the FIRST question wrong AGAIN], most of the structured I was writing rubbish/blowing smoke. and during the checking I realised that CCK had marked a structured qn worth 2 marks wrongly. so 2 marks gone there. but then while showing it to him [cos he has some weird system - everyone who has to change marks places the script on his table opened to the page with the error and he'll call up one by one, so I happened to put the opposite side facing up, and well he was looking at it and realised I should have gotten another mark on the other page ._.] but then it was quite disappointing [but then I didn't UNDERSTAND the paper the first time I did it XD] so then I was wondering if I should take phys or bio ._. overall 89 [yay the second one]
math: 57.5/50
paper 1 was careless. I'm sure they deducted for leaving answer as 19 1/2 instead of simplifying by pulling out a 1/2 ._. argh.
paper 2 was ouch. especially the differentiation question. but shockingly my kinematics was actually CORRECT [except for the last part, cos I forgot that c was not 0], but I confused the marker by putting part 2 before part 1 XD. then this was epic:
2x = 240, 360, 600
x = 120, 240, 300
spotted the error?
haiz. and then SOMEHOW I managed to get full marks for the circ measure question even though I rushed it and finished it with like a few seconds to spare. =D. so overall was 94 and 89 [the third one]
so during recess I was suanning people by saying that my lowest 4.0 was an 89 XD.
but seriously then my overall scores were like
62 78 89 89 89 92 92 94
so by right if I had a 3.6 for either of the next 2 papers I'd end up with a 3.80 GPA [using new system]. and if I had a 3.6 for both it'd still be 3.80. and if I had 0.8 for both it would ALSO be 3.80. something's very rotten here.
so either I had to hope for 2 4.0s in BIO AND SS. both of which had many people dying tragic deaths. or just heck.
so bio: 18/21 for MCQ [which was actually better than the original 25/30 XD] and 44/59 for structured = 62/80
hmm so actually I died in quite a few structured questions for lack of key words. but got saved by 6/6 for essay. and the entire economic botany structured question XD. and for the muscle/bone question which I smoked through. but it was really better than I expected [but then again I put in a BIT of effort by reading bryan's notes and interrogating dewin on msn]. so overall 82.
then SS - 15/20 for globalisation [!] and 16/20 for venice [!!!]
cos globalisation well it was a GEOG topic and as a rule of thumb geog students were supposed to do better than history ones so like most people in our class had 16/17/18. but then I got stuck at L3 cos he struck out FOUR paragraphs of conclusion. T.T
and on the other hand venice from the way OWL made it out to be it seemed like everyone died. so I expected to screw this one up but I didn't. but the irony is that [according to her notation at least] I brought in SIX other factors apart from the given one. and thus spent too little time on the conclusion. so overall 82. phew.
so really for my humans papers actually I've been dying quite badly for LORMS [at least under OWL] cos either I write too much conclusion that doesn't get counted or I write too little which DOES get counted ><.
and well my results look quite nice now:
HCL 62
ENG 78
SS 82
BIO 82
PH 89
MA2 89
GEO 89
CH 92
GER 92
MA1 94
so although it wasn't as nice a pattern as last year's [90 89 88 87 86 84 83 80] the numbers are quite nice. cos so many end in 2 or 9. XD
so overall 3.84 using the OLD system. ha.
but then again I just realised that since noone got a perfect 4 i.e. the people with 9 subs in GPA i.e. 10-subject people [cos the school counts RE/philo as a subject] have at most 8 4.0s and 1 3.6 but if my english gets moderated up I'll get 9 4.0s and 1 2.8. which will be quite epic. especially since I'll be like one of the people with the most 4.0s and yet with a very low GPA [people with 6 4.0s can hit 3.90 using the NEW system ._.] and yet I'm capped at 3.88. stupid HCL. and even people with 5 4.0s and 3 3.6s can get 3.85.
._.
well at least I did better than I expected [especially with regard to bio/SS/geo/english. and I should count myself pretty lucky I guess]. and again there's not much difference between 3.80 or 3.84 or 3.85 or 3.88.
so school's ending.
T.T
22 October 2009
376/aquaporins!
math was a disaster. yay!
well fine math 1 was ok just that most of us lost at least 1 mark due to careless XD.
but math 2 basically I wasted too much time at the start - CHANGING CORRECT ANSWERS TO WRONG ONES! argh.
and ironically the only question I feel confident about was the question that I chionged at the last minute i.e. circ. measure.
but at least I have a decent 23-mark cushion ._.
BIO IS DISGUSTING.
I'm feeling very disinclined towards mugging right now.
especially since it SEEMS like I know most of the stuff after skimming through everything [just that I don't know the details/key words which is what's going to sink me tomorrow].
but I'm lazy.
oh and speaking of my finger [cos vincent ong who stalks this blog asked about it] the part that was yellow [cos of pus, inflammatory response/whatever] is now brownish [mainly cos it's under the skin]. it might be black though. but at least it doesn't hurt anymore.
off to do some more skimming of notes ._. [cos I really can't bring myself to do rote learning/memorisation]. and cos I tend to rely more on my gut than anything else.
well one last paper and then we're done!
and after that we have three days of intensive chinese remedial. yay.
well fine math 1 was ok just that most of us lost at least 1 mark due to careless XD.
but math 2 basically I wasted too much time at the start - CHANGING CORRECT ANSWERS TO WRONG ONES! argh.
and ironically the only question I feel confident about was the question that I chionged at the last minute i.e. circ. measure.
but at least I have a decent 23-mark cushion ._.
BIO IS DISGUSTING.
I'm feeling very disinclined towards mugging right now.
especially since it SEEMS like I know most of the stuff after skimming through everything [just that I don't know the details/key words which is what's going to sink me tomorrow].
but I'm lazy.
oh and speaking of my finger [cos vincent ong who stalks this blog asked about it] the part that was yellow [cos of pus, inflammatory response/whatever] is now brownish [mainly cos it's under the skin]. it might be black though. but at least it doesn't hurt anymore.
off to do some more skimming of notes ._. [cos I really can't bring myself to do rote learning/memorisation]. and cos I tend to rely more on my gut than anything else.
well one last paper and then we're done!
and after that we have three days of intensive chinese remedial. yay.
20 October 2009
375/1 more paper!
well that's what jian/huang would say. XD.
well no papers tomorrow [yay].
so essentially I spent the whole evening slacking. on youtube. and I ADMIT IT I WAS LISTENING TO TAYLOR SWIFT. but she's good! [yes ben she is. and I don't like jason mraz. ha.]
hmm what happened today - physics! I didn't understand the paper but I could do it ._. so essentially what I did was to throw all my formulae/laws at each question and just whack. XD.
but since I forgot all my magnetism and whatnot well I'm expecting maybe 60/80. especially since I didn't study.
cos I wasted fri/sat/sun doing nothing.
and I started on geog on monday at 7pm ._.
so yeah I kinda forgot physics entirely XD.
yeah and my fourth finger on my right hand is screwed. cos I slammed it in a door I think. and then it bashed the nail in so now it's like growing into the flesh. so it hurts whenever I apply any sort of pressure to it.
so like I can't hold my pen properly ._. oh and there was pus oozing out of my finger during physics.
yeah so anyway my handwriting was a little screwed. and I made a whole bunch of careless mistakes during the paper. =D
and strangely enough [again] I found the bonus question easier than most of the structured ones ._.
so anyway finished the paper with about 20 min to spare zzz.
then GEOG! I spotted quite well really. =D
but then...
section 1: 3×3 mark questions = 3-4 paragraphs each = ¾pages each ._.
PLUS a 4 mark question so about 1 page to that
IN 30 MIN MIND YOU
section 2: 7 mark question with diagrams
2×3 mark questions ._.
IN ANOTHER 30 MIN
section 3: 2×2 marks = about 1 long-ish para each ._.
and LORMS essay.
IN 30 MIN
so needless to say I ran out of time. zzz. but my handwriting was neater than last year even though I wrote less.
and I might have screwed up section 1 - cos my answer to the 4 mark question was VERY smoky ._. and too short.
section 3 I might not have hit L4 depending on how OWL sees it.
argh I'm terribly incoherent today.
must be the lack of sleep. and I'm typing with 9 fingers - which is actually quite easy just that I tend to get the order of letters wrong [cos I type without looking at the keyboard and also damn quickly].
zzz stupid finger.
rawr off to mug bio tmr ._.
depending on when I wake up and how lazy I feel XD.
well no papers tomorrow [yay].
so essentially I spent the whole evening slacking. on youtube. and I ADMIT IT I WAS LISTENING TO TAYLOR SWIFT. but she's good! [yes ben she is. and I don't like jason mraz. ha.]
hmm what happened today - physics! I didn't understand the paper but I could do it ._. so essentially what I did was to throw all my formulae/laws at each question and just whack. XD.
but since I forgot all my magnetism and whatnot well I'm expecting maybe 60/80. especially since I didn't study.
cos I wasted fri/sat/sun doing nothing.
and I started on geog on monday at 7pm ._.
so yeah I kinda forgot physics entirely XD.
yeah and my fourth finger on my right hand is screwed. cos I slammed it in a door I think. and then it bashed the nail in so now it's like growing into the flesh. so it hurts whenever I apply any sort of pressure to it.
so like I can't hold my pen properly ._. oh and there was pus oozing out of my finger during physics.
yeah so anyway my handwriting was a little screwed. and I made a whole bunch of careless mistakes during the paper. =D
and strangely enough [again] I found the bonus question easier than most of the structured ones ._.
so anyway finished the paper with about 20 min to spare zzz.
then GEOG! I spotted quite well really. =D
but then...
section 1: 3×3 mark questions = 3-4 paragraphs each = ¾pages each ._.
PLUS a 4 mark question so about 1 page to that
IN 30 MIN MIND YOU
section 2: 7 mark question with diagrams
2×3 mark questions ._.
IN ANOTHER 30 MIN
section 3: 2×2 marks = about 1 long-ish para each ._.
and LORMS essay.
IN 30 MIN
so needless to say I ran out of time. zzz. but my handwriting was neater than last year even though I wrote less.
and I might have screwed up section 1 - cos my answer to the 4 mark question was VERY smoky ._. and too short.
section 3 I might not have hit L4 depending on how OWL sees it.
argh I'm terribly incoherent today.
must be the lack of sleep. and I'm typing with 9 fingers - which is actually quite easy just that I tend to get the order of letters wrong [cos I type without looking at the keyboard and also damn quickly].
zzz stupid finger.
rawr off to mug bio tmr ._.
depending on when I wake up and how lazy I feel XD.
17 October 2009
374/to hell with mugging
ok I'm only posting cos I'm too lazy to do any work right now. XD.
and cos the next paper is so far away! [ok fine I'm deluding myself.]
but I've really been slacking the whole day away. AGAIN. I seem to do that every saturday. argh.
well anyway chem was a joke. I mean the hardest question in the whole paper HAD to be the crossword. XD.
but of course I was careless [reading cm³ as dm³ and ending up with an answer 1000x the actual one - way back in sec3 I had an answer 1000x less than the actual one cos I messed up another conversion. XD]. but seriously chem was a farce.
and my right shoulder hurts thanks to SS.
and GEOG. oh noes.
and I discovered that I lost my thermometer. O.o
and cos the next paper is so far away! [ok fine I'm deluding myself.]
but I've really been slacking the whole day away. AGAIN. I seem to do that every saturday. argh.
well anyway chem was a joke. I mean the hardest question in the whole paper HAD to be the crossword. XD.
but of course I was careless [reading cm³ as dm³ and ending up with an answer 1000x the actual one - way back in sec3 I had an answer 1000x less than the actual one cos I messed up another conversion. XD]. but seriously chem was a farce.
and my right shoulder hurts thanks to SS.
and GEOG. oh noes.
and I discovered that I lost my thermometer. O.o
15 October 2009
373
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.
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.
8 October 2009
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.
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.
7 October 2009
(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.
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.
30 September 2009
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.
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.
23 September 2009
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.
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.
19 September 2009
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.
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.
17 September 2009
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