2π

aka 360th post.
yay.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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



whee.


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

XD

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

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

i.e. everything

and I'm sleepy.

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

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

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

zzz I'd rather have school lor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

meh

zzz I'm falling sick.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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yes I know I haven't been posting.

but I've finally gotten my specs.
and everyone says that I look like wenjun now ._.

WSC was quite fail.
cos we didn't mug - like my team didn't even TOUCH visual arts so effectively we got pwned and RGS just swept everything.

but whatever.

now ironically I'm bored cos I never feel like doing any work.
._.

shall have to go find something to do.
or maybe re-read WSC stuff.
damn.

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.

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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.