The mounting stress.

It's amazing how one sms managed to make me enter the emotional doldrums and stress all-time high zone almost immediately. All it took was just one. Single. SMS. That's how easily affected I am. Do not be mistaken by this though. Most of the time, I'm as happy-go-lucky as can be...Or at least I think I am. Like the friggin' chemistry test which I couldn't be bothered to study for - and ended up barely making the grade. =S But sometimes, circumstances change...and voila~ You're in the dumps! Welcome our PR! Sheesh. Judith and I used to crack jokes about how each of us deserved a permanent residence in the dumps or even at times, citizenship 'cause we're almost perpetually feeling moody. Gah gah gah// I must shirk that side of me. It's not doing me good. Just look at me! I look hagged and jaded. And I'm only 16!! 16 year olds are supposed to look youthful and not look as if they've already gone through almost everything life has to dish at them. Ok. A picture of Hilary Duff suddenly came to mind. Don't ask me why.

Oh. Maybe because she's looking oh-so-good and trendy and she's already on to making her n-th million dollars while I'm here, looking as if I haven't got a clue what the word "sleep" means and frantically scribbling my answers to my tutorials? Oh. That's why.

And that lucky guy beside her. PFSH!!

***

Teachers' Day's tomorrow. YIPPEE. That means a 10.30am dismissal. Wow. It even sounds wrong saying "10.30am dismissal". Most criminal. But WHO CARES!! It's time to go parrrr- people! =)) Can't wait to see all the old foggies back at rv. Not to mention a quasi-class gathering. Yay yay yay. Then it's back to school for choir till 6pm. Not exactly ecstatic, but when work has to be done, it has to be done. (Reminds me of my tutorials!! Ok, that was sporadic enough.) After which, it's Kerwei's farewell dinner at Fish and Co. Gee. I can feel the heat sizzling at my pocket already. But oh well. My second class outing which I'm actually attending. I don't mind class dinners. Love the food, love the company.

***

Oh yes, before I forget, biology olympiad practice round didn't go too well. *gulps* 11/40. Beeeeeeeeg LOLLAGE. I didn't even need to check, 'cause I knew I was just guessing for the most part of the test (read: 38 questions out of 40). *sigh* I'm not afraid of getting the boot though. That'll mean free tuesdays. But please please please let me stay on if they can afford one more loser on the team. I promise I'll chomp up my Campbell after the promos! I do I do I do.

That was Nerd enough. But no, I won't ingest and digest my Campbell book because I'm just going to end up with constipation in the end. Just imagine, I spent 3 whole days figuring out the weeny topic of immunology - and there are a good 40 chapters in Campbell, I think. Go figure!

***

Time to make my Cinderella-like exit. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince rocks. Anyone who has yet to read it should be transmogrified into a toad with nine legs! SHOO.

Plethora of tests

Yes, it's a "plethora" of tests presently. This week is swarmed with tests, both tomorrow and on friday. Tomorrow's tests include biology olympiad practice round and also french preliminary exam, written paper. Sigh. Even though I know I'll probably do ok for my written paper since there's a good 2 hours 45 minutes to complete the paper which we usually do in 2 hours, I still need to squeeze all the marks out of my comprehension and my essay. We went through the cloze passages in class today and by golly! I made so many mistakes it was bruising my ego! =(( But oh well. That's my weakest section...so I'll have to mug up on all the closures that I've done over the past year. ARGH. And biology olympiad. What can I say. I've only made sense of immunology!!

Today passed relatively quickly. Must have been the multitude of air-conditioned venues we managed to have our tutorials in. Don't belittle the power of the AIR-CONDITIONER. *in a evil Sauron-like voice* It was sweltering hot today and it didn't help the least bit that it was combined assembly today at the school-next-door. *rolls eyes* Spent a good twenty minutes cooking myself under the boiling morning sun. The rest of the day was unbearably ovenlike too. I was perspiring like there was no tomorrow even as I was walking from one lecture theatre to the other. Beat that. By the time it was 5.20pm, I was already doused in my disgustingly foul-smelling perspiration. If only I had known, I would have brought a change of clothes!! Ugh. Had to tolerate the icky stickiness the entire day. Yucks.

That being said, it's a half day on Wednesday and a full day holiday on Thursday! That's great! Hark, all who would listen! T'is a blessed time to pull up your pungent and soggy socks and mug up hard for the promotional exams, which will mark the start of the reign on hell in a month. You have been warned.

ps. "JC people live for the weekends, which only last for two days."

Well said, David.

Temperature's rising.

I was suffering from a fever last night. Yes, the symptoms were there, alright. A splitting headache and the normal body aches. It was absolutely horrible. Nothing like it. I was hiding under my comforter all the time, trying in vain to keep myself warm (the irony!) amidst the chill in my room. I switch on the air-conditioner everytime I sleep you see. Furthermore, I was still haunted by the film The Maid which I watched with my RJ og mates yesterday. Left me cringing in fear and I still remember I jolted up when my brother suddenly opened the door to the room. I was that scared. ARGH. I shouldn't have watched that film - leaves me with nightmares after nightmares.

French alumni meeting yesterday was uneventful, so to speak. It was good exposure to talk to people who are doing their French A levels in VJC, like Muzhaffar. I feel so envious after realising what they do at A levels!! Sigh. I was actually quite torn between going to VJC and pursuing French A or going to RJ last year. But due to the fact that I live in a faraway land (read: bloody "ulu" Yishun), I decided to make my way to the "premier junior college in the Bishan area". Yes, we all know where that came from. Fact remains that I'm not willing to drop any of my wonderful subjects right now for french A. Have to commit myself to the choir too, now that I'm in the committee. So, french A will remain just that - a dream.

Finished my electrochemistry tutorial after two gruelling hours. Finally understood what the freakin' values mean. Yay-ness.

VC concert later. To be frank, I wasn't very keen on going to the concert, considering my hectic schedule of tests next week and the amount of tutorials that have accumulated over August, so I was hoping to spend my Sunday, faithfully at my desk and mugging away. However, since most of the choir people are going, might as well go and listen to them sing. I prefer VJC though. Anytime.

Inherited change awaits me. Ta.

Oxi-DIE!!

I have extremely amusing teachers. For starters, I've got the infamous Ms OAG as my chemistry teacher. Even her acronym is funny! Seriously, I don't think she conducts the best of lessons, but we always get a kick outta her pronunciation. It's a classic. Let me name you some examples.

Today, we were on the glorious topic of electrochemistry, which a good 3/4 of my class has no idea about. Suffice to say that we were lost for the majority of the lesson. I wasn't an exception either because I didn't do my tutorial and I didn't even revise the notes before the lesson...so laaadeedum, I was taking notes of her funny pronunciation.

"See the anode? The electrons come out of the iron anode. Many many. Like sheng hai zi (giving birth to children). Then, they pa pa pa (climb) up the platinised electrode then go to the nickel electrode."

"The iron here is oxi-die and the nickel is re-due."

"Oak-sidation takes place at the airrrrr-node."

Oh my goodness. Kaiqian and I were rolling off our chairs. And the all time favourite...

"Promos are coming and your class is very weak. Cham seh loh. (You're in deep trouble.) The house is going to burn. Shao shao shao (Burn, burn, burn.)"

HAHAHAHAHAHA. That was so random we were just stupefied at how she could suddenly talk about burning houses while thinking of the impending promotional exams. Yes yes. Promotional exams are coming and I'm quite confused by all the chemistry concepts. Doomed. Turned out I managed to scrape a bare pass for my class test on equilibria and kinetics. Go me! It was very difficult for me, alright! Out of 12 marks, I managed to pinch out 9 from my MCQs alone, which just goes to show how much I've been paying attention during the tutorials. Zero for my equilibria structured question. Not even half a mark for defining "dynamic equilibrium" incompletely. =((

French alumni meeting tomorrow. Yay! Can't wait. It sounds like a great deal of fun with all the song and games and all. And meeting all the francophiles!! Yippee.

Talking about french just reminds me of my french preliminary exam oral. In fact, I thought I did ok, not fantastic, but at least I managed to articulate my views quite coherently. However, my grammar really left a lot more to be desired. Even though Mme Tse was being a real sweetheart in not cringing in her seat, I could tell that my sentences were fraught with mistakes. It's not easy to answer questions like "Do you think the Olympics is necessary?" and "What is the greatest challenge the education system in France is facing now and how are they trying to overcome it?". Alright, I admit I did expect the latter question since my specialist topic (oh my goodness, sounds like Singapore's Brainest Kid!) is education reforms in France. Managed to puke out all the information that I so painfully read through over the course of the past week. Sigh. And Mr Chan had to tell me that my subject matter is too superficial only now. BIG Sigh. BIG BIG Sigh.

Oh well. It's a friday. And fridays are meant to be jovial! And filled with laughter! And partying! And *yawns*...Gee. I think I'm better off with more sleep. Those eyebags are not doing me good.

PW (H1) is optional.

What the friggin' pigs does that mean? Is that a joke? Seriously, it's terribly unjust when they only realised it now that Project Work is almost absolutely useless and pointless to do. And they have to make it only optional next year - when I've already completed my entire project. *pained look* I feel you all, J1s, I sincerely do. Hang in there. If there's anything, it's that there's only less than 3 months before this nightmare of writing and rewriting endless drafts of what-have-you ends. Take heart and walk away with a new vengeance.

***

Today was a rather eventful day. For one, swimming wasn't what we did for PE. Usually, my classmates would be waddling in the water while Jonathan, Ronald and I, due to our dismal level of fitness, redo our NAPFA tests again and again. I did that for like, ten weeks. So for all who think that floorball/soccer/netball/dance is a chore, think again. My class got the double whammy - swimming and NAPFA for the poor folks who can't get pass the pesky tests.

I can't belive I can't pass my standing broad jump and shuttle run. Shuttle run is suppose to be a giveaway test and almost everyone I know pass shuttle run. And me, I have short legs. Really Lilliputian legs, if you ask me. Which more than explains why I can't dash from one end of the hall to the other in ten blazing seconds. Darn. When I see J2s do their shuttle run in less than ten seconds, there's an unconscious thought that perhaps, just perhaps, it's in collaboration with the PE teacher-in-charge. But now, I KNOW I CAN'T RUN FOR NUTS! Urghs.

Due to the length of my legs, or lack thereof, I can't jump either. Please, I don't understand the rationale behind the standing broad jump. What's with jumping 220cm? Does it prove that you're fitter than the rest? No, it bloody doesn't. It just shows that you can jump 220cm. Period. In fact, I'm quite a fair bit away from passing and if there's any dignity in me left, it's to avoid jumping ten times in a row just to prove to everyone that "hey, I can only jump 2m." Sigh. Life really deals you some hard blows at times. Is it just me or do I hear my ego deflating in the background?

***

Immunology was the topic of interest for the Olympiad training today. It was great fun. Ok, not great fun as in playing Maplestory for three hours on end, but interesting enough a lecture. Unfortunately, it's not in the A level syllabus, so I won't be paying much attention to it. Perhaps just read through Campbell? Biology totally screws Physics to the floor. I'm glad I didn't do Physics A level, if not, I'll probably be cursing Newton or Faraday. And they'd be screaming from their graves at my abysmal level of understanding. Lol.

***

Two of the worst days of the week are down! Now for the french preliminary exam on Thursday. As long as my french doesn't desert me, I think I should be fine. For now, I'm breathing, eating and living french. Not that I eat croissants everday of course.

Begone, you lazy bum!

I am incredibly lazy. I can't believe it myself. Should I ever write down all the excuses I came up with while persuading myself to go and sleep instead of doing my work, I'd have filled up a good 400 pages or so already. Just what was I thinking about? Now I've got so much work piled up on me. Crap.

I am seriously thinking of getting sick on tuesday, by hook or by crook. I haven't got time left to prepare for my prelims on thursday and I am screwing things up at this crucial moment. ARGH. Lazy Sean, begone!! Give me a moment, I need to search for my hardworking self.

Chemistry is a bummer. I have no idea how I'm going to pass my kinetics and equilibria test tomorrow when I don't understand a thing about kinetics (what's with the graphs!!) and I'm pretty weak at equilibria.

So much for the Yay-ness yesterday. =(

Bright new day.

Alright. It's raining cats and dogs outside, but the point is, I'm feeling a lot better. I guess it must have been just the whole "friday" thing that just got the better of me. Sometimes I play along with my emotions and banish the rational side of me to God knows where. Thanks guys for the encouragement, but I've managed to put the situation into perpective. I'm glad I've got friends like you guys.

Down with the melancholic confessions of yours truly. Now for something more Yay.

Hm. I've managed to read a book during the past week despite my hectic schedule! Wooot. That's news. And that's a huuuuuge "take that!" to all who say that they have no time to read. I read "When We Were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro. It's one of the times when I just pick a random book of the shelf and pray that it's a good read. Haha...turned out that it's one of the standard literature texts for A levels for Detective Literature. And no, it wasn't dreary reading it. In fact, the story is rather intriguing, considering that Mr Christopher Banks, the protagonist in the novel, has a mild Oedipus Complex. His dad left the house because he felt that he couldn't match up to his mum and his mum was abducted by a Shanghai warlord, with whom she was stuck with for the next ten years or so, being abused. However, a promise was made between his mum and the warlord that he'll finance the childhood of Christopher...And in the end, Christopher, growing to become one of the greatest detectives of all time c.f. Sherlock Holmes, went in search of his parents, thinking all the time that they were abducted. How sad was the ending when he realises that his mum has gone a little senile and was in a little church with other nuns. Sigh. There's a story about Akira too, who happens to be his friend, but that's rather unnecessary, in my opinion.

Rating for the book : 7.5/10

Not one of the books I'll read again, but I'd recommend it to people who like to read stories that have a great revelation at the end of the book, vis-a-vis Harry Potter and Dumbledore thing.

***

That being said, I'm going to plan out the topics that we've to cover for the promos...And start working now! Main focus is to do well for the french prelims over the next three weeks. ARGH. Even though I was awarded with an A- for my mock french oral last week, I felt that I could have done better in the topic questions section. Hm. Yvonne is such a sweetheart. She lent me a book that explains all the things to do with the baccalaureat, which is the equivalent of the A levels here. Thanks a bunch, Yvonne!

Off to start working. Mug mug mug.

Es-tu un vrai francophile?

I took the quiz. It said I only had "mild french fanaticism tendencies". ARGH!! I'm a francophile! I love french! I love the culture! I love the food! I love the language! I love...Oh gee. I could go on forever about the things about french culture that I adore so much. I don't just have "mild french fanaticism tendencies", thank you. I have a full-blown francophile epidemic! Ugh.

Mood swings can really spoilt one's day. Just look at what happened to me today. Trying my best to keep my spirits up (TGIF, remember?) and focussing on the lessons wasn't easy. As Georgia and I were walking back from the language centre today, she noticed that I wasn't looking as chirpy as I was. How intuitive. I thought I was adept at concealing my emotional doldrums already! Sigh. It's not just that I wasn't in a good mood in the morning, but some other rather frustrating thoughts...Thoughts that have haunted me for ages. As I read about Luna Lovegood asking Harry to help her find her bag and her belongings, I was consumed with the pain of reading how she confessed to Harry about the names people called her...of her lack of friends. Ouch. I was brimming at tears and the weirdest thing is, I was trying my very best to convince myself that I am not like Luna Lovegood and that I have friends around me. But the truth hurts at times. Went to school today and as I sat at a corner of the canteen table, eating my lunch with my classmates, I couldn't help thinking grudgingly that it is perhaps right afterall - that I have horrible social skils, that I just ain't Mr Popular.

Frankly, I've never wanted a lot of friends. I cherished my solitude - times when I could be alone, unhindered and not compelled to put up a facade. Not that I always do, but I feel obliged to meet up to other's expectations...To yield to others just so that they'll accept me. Hell. I don't even know why the hell I'm writing all this down. To console myself that hey, there's no way I can work around it? That I'm just fettered by my innate tendency to withdraw from people around me? Damn it all.

I just need a day to think it through. Personality tests can reflect who you truly are sometimes. I'm an INFJ, which according to the test, is one personality which is often misunderstood. Right. I am misunderstood. But I can't help thinking, maybe I was the culprit? Maybe I was the one pushing myself into the corner and forcing myself to live with the fact that I am an island.

"No man is an island."

I scoff.

Impending promotional exams!!

Newsflash: HCI promotional exams are due in 4 and a half weeks' time.

If that doesn't wake you guys up, I'm bloody surprised. I almost fell off my chair when Mdm Kua was writing out the timeline for the next few weeks to come. Turns out, there isn't much time left. Week 10 will be about only half a week since wednesday is the day for the teachers' day celebrations (yet another one!) and thursday is a school holiday. Thereafter, it'll be the September holiday, which isn't much of a break if you ask me...then 2 and a half weeks before we're up to the guillotine. Alright alright. It's not that bad! Just imagine yourself going through two weeks, or thereabout, of papers and then...you'll be free as a lark! Off to Orchard Road! To Maplestory (*excited gush*)! To the library! To the...What-have-you! Oh, what a delightful prospect. But till then, hell reigns so we better pull up our soggy socks and start working our butts off. Wheeee.

Managed to complete 8 questions on Maclaurin's Series before I almost shredded by paper into bits after I got the third derivative wrong again. Maths. Is. Crappy. Period. URGH.

I even pulled through editing my EoM! And this is my third draft, mind you. I know of groups who have just done their GPP? Which my class had to hand in erm...before the June break? Sheesh. Dr Siva really pushes us to the max, 'cause he believes S7 people apparently "can do it". In my opinion, it's just bollocks. Blah. My class is admittedly one of the weakest classes in the whole of the S7 faculty and if he thinks of us so highly...I just don't know what to say.

Thursday's down and there's only Friday left to slog through. Fridays are good once french lesson begins. Yep. French is good. French is fun. But not when prelims are freakin' next week! Sheesh. I'm going to hyperventilate from all the stress accumulating. Call it post-promos/prelims syndrome. Almost all JC one students fall victim to the debilitating disease.

Quote of the day, "So, you take french. Do you have a french curve?"

Goodness me. That was so random I thought she was just joking with me! In fact, she had forgotten to bring her french curve to school for the Bio SPA and was hoping that for some funny reason, I'd have a french curve. Now, normally people don't bring french curves to school 'cause it's just irrelevant and unnecessary. But thank her lucky stars. I'm too lazy to pack my bag and it happens that I left it in my bag after the bio SPA on monday. Lol. Passed it to her and now I'm "the french guy with the french curve". Call that amusing, or what?

Triple whammy.

It's a monday. I've got the blues. I've got Maplestory hangover from yesterday after levelling to level 18. I've got a 5.20pm day. I've got 3 tests/assessments. What could be worse?

In fact, today was a great day!! I mean, when you compare it with other shitty mondays. Mondays are usually synonymous with the words "boredom", "long" and "what the hell am I doing in school?". Sometimes, it's just a mix of all three. But hohoho. Yours truly decided yester-night to adopt an Optimistic Outlook today! And did it work? You bet! That's why I'm going to take a positive stance to everything I'm going to talk about today! Monday blues? Some other time. =)

Economics timed assignment. Seriously, they couldn't have been kinder on this one. I can't believe I'm saying it either, but face it guys,

THEY GAVE THE EASIEST QUESTION.

Alright. Not that it'll ensure that I do well, but at least I can pull through with at least a pass? Phew. However, I did suffer from involuntary muscle spasms after the one hour because I was writing so fast I thought my hands would catch fire. I really think I saw my fingers twitching a little after the paper. A little, but still!! Sheesh.

Bio SPA went ok too! No cell drawings, thank God. I was getting nightmares about how to draw cells yesterday and how I would explain all the photosynthesis processes. Dark cycle...Rubisco...Whatever! I couldn't be bothered about it! Bah. The biology lecture was somniferous today as usual - I was on the verge of landing a PR in lala-land. Something tells me Mrs Tan was too busy looking at the row in front of her, which was filled with - most fortunately for me - boys who were drifting off to dreamland too. One of the guys was caught and was forced to stand throughout half the lecture. That really woke me up. As bored as I was reading about the bloody enzymes which have such long names like reduced nicotamide adenine deoxy-whatever phosphate, I had to stay awake. Gee. Will have to review more on photosynthesis during the weekend.

French oral presentation wasn't too good. I delivered my script fair enough, but when the questions came, I was caught unprepared.

"What was the most recent reform on the education system in France?"

And I had to reply in french. O_o'''

My classmates were spontaneous though, asking questions like "do you think the education system here is better than over there?". Haha...

I thought Bryant's topic was the best.

Le Créole Français en Haïti - The french language in Haiti. Woot! Really cool. Like "je me suis en train de parler" is "M ap pale" in the language there. Woah. Haha...Was thoroughly amused. It really shows how much the french language has evolved over the years in different countries around the world. Yay. I love french.

I'm so tempted to do A level french right now, but hell. I wouldn't drop any of my current subjects for it. Perhaps if I had done A level french in VJC and not touched economics at all, I would have been happier. But for now, let me ravish the last of my french lessons. Prelims is afterall, just next friday (*gulps*).

***

My brother is uber funny. We were just joking outside the door two days back. Somehow, he just began to talk about stealing the whole rack of our neighbour's shoes and placing them conspicuously at ours. For what, you ask? Don't ask me, the reason still eludes me. But he's one hella funny guy. We came up with this hypothesised situation when if the neighbour sees you wearing one of his shoes and he asks politely, "Is that my shoe?" You should hesitate a little and while giving a very cynical look to him, say,

"No..."

Oh my goodness. Absolutely mind-boggingly hilarious. Cracked me up for ages until I was in stiches. Sheesh!

A day in the life of Zizoumaki

Yay!! Zizoumaki, which is my online alias on Maplestory, levelled up twice yesterday! I managed to level my magic claw to a level which can exterminate those slimes in one shot. Ha. No more green slimes to stand in my way! All fear me! I'm now working on levelling to level 18, so that I can wear my new magician suit. Yippee. Can't wait. Just 26% more to go.

It has been a fruitful weekend. Ha. Call me the king of multi-tasking. I kill as many creatures as possible until my mana is depleted, then I hide in a quiet corner where I don't get whacked in the face by slimes or walking tree stumps and I do my work! Yay. So far, I've finished my essay plans for the timed assignment tomorrow, my revision on photosynthesis and relevant microscopy skills and also my script for my french presentation! That leaves the graphs for Miss Ooi, which I'm still contemplating whether to do or not. Hm. Let's see, I'm the chemistry rep. I usually do my work. But hell, I think I'll make an exception for the slimes and the tree stumps. BAH. I'll do the graphs after french tomorrow. =PpP

So, I finally managed to make a trip down to Sembawang Presbyterian Church, which is a church just down the road from my house. It happens that today's holy communion sunday, so I managed to partake in my FIRST ever holy communion. Sure was an experience. I was quite puzzled by the fact that they had two offertories though. I gave my money to the first offertory bag and the when the second was passed around, I was like "huh??". But I love the church. It has a small congregation and the english congregation is pretty new - only a year and a half old. I'm like the oldest amongst the youths! O_O''' The second oldest is a secondary three boy called Timothy. Sheesh! The church is in need of a pianist...and voila! Here I am. Wow. God really has His plans. I think I might be attending that church regularly from now on. It's just a matter of how I'm going to break it to my churchmates. Hm.

Tomorrow promises more crap than today, but I'll live through it all. Now, off to more slime-bashing by yours truly. =)

The week dies

Finally. I can't believe it's Friday. It sure doesn't feel like one! Many have critiqued the fact that since we've only had two days of school this week, it's not fair for us to whine about the week. In fact, it felt like I've just pulled through a whole week's worth of lessons. The drag was just simple there. Believe it or not. Sigh.

My dad says I whine a lot, just because I made a comment about me having about one year of maths left before I get rid of it at long last. Frankly, I've bitched a lot less ever since I've entered jc, alright! There's no physics, no literature and for all the flying cows in the world, no chinese. Oh goodness. What could be better? Ok, perhaps if maths wasn't there for a change. =(

Weekend's about burnt already, even before it's even started! I've about planned all my stuff to do during the weekend. Time to spend the time at the Siberian cold library rotting my brain away doing biology (*hollers*!! Photosynthesis to study!) and chemistry. Geeeee. I shall give myself a good break today. Maplestory beckons! Yes, all my slimes beckon me!! All hail the all powerful magic claw! *muahahahha*

My term of being a section leader actually just starts next week. So many insecurities playing in my mind now - whether I'll be able to succeed, whether I am actually committing the number of hours that I should be to choir...And the list just goes on. I don't know. Somehow I feel pressured to sing a lot better than I am now. Choral singing is not an easy feat, just in case you didn't know. =(( Friggin' takes a lot of imagination. Bah. I think only choristers will know what I mean by that. Haha...

Recently, I've been infatuated with J pop, much thanks to my dear surrogate daughter, swee! Yay. Thanks a lot for introducing me to this genre of music. Really love the music you upload. =DD

Till the next time I can actually muster the strength to type an entry! =) Have a blasted week ahead.

French AO level exam

Oh dang. I think I'm going to get an earful from the HOD of languages tomorrow when I tell him, horror of horrors, that I haven't been registered for the French AO level exam. ARGH. Georgia told me that he's already reprimanded nagged at her for not noticing the error on the validation slip. Thing is, I didn't even have that problem of not registering for the french exam last year when I was in the authoritarian school! UGh. I was the only candidate sitting for the french exam! And now when there are like 5 of us, they didn't have the decency to liase
with the centre about who's sitting for the exam and who's not. *rolls eyes* I'm not pointing fingers at the school, oh no no no. I'm just friggin' pissed at how the language centre and the school must be two separate entities - no communication between the two at all. It always has been that way, even when I was in ol' rusty RV. Please, for goodness' sake, at least check with the centre about the candidate list? Furthermore, there's always a schedule clash with the programmes at the language centre. Apparently, some people don't even know the language centre exists. ARGH!! Frustrated.

Called the hotline and it sounded as if I was interrupting her coffee break. I kept getting the feeling that she was trying to shoo me away.

"Ok, sir? You just check with your school, alright?"
"But you mean that I..."
"You see, you're a school candidate, so if your school has made special arrangements for you, then you'll have to work with your school."
"But...oh well, ok."
"Thank you, sir."

And she hanged up the phone before I even had the chance to say bye. *hollers*!!

***

That being said, I managed to speak with Georgia on the bus journey back in french! Woot. I can't believe it myself. French for 35 minutes straight! Plus about 20 minutes at the bus stop. I actually survived, albeit lapsing a little into english when I forgot about the registration screwup. But still...oh man, it was satisfying. I should learn more vocabulary. Yeah.

French AO peeps, we should speak to each other in french! As much as possible, anyway. It'll be good practice for the AO oral exam. We all know it isn't as easy as it seems. Gags.

***

Next week will be another week filled with hectic days.

Monday
Biology Science Practical Assessment (dies. I have no idea whatsoever about what to write for photosynthesis. Time to rely on the O level biology textbook.)
Timed assignment for economics (great. I haven't prepared my plans yet!)
French oral presentation on education in France compared to Singapore (As you might have guessed, I haven't started writing my script yet. Yay!)

Wednesday
Test on applications of differentiation ('Nuff said. Differentiation. Period.)

Oh well. Will have to pull through somehow. God, please give me a breather this weekend. Help me keep my hands off Maplestory even though I'm dying to wear the orange split jacket at level 18. Please? Just for this weekend.

I'll just level till 15. Just 30% more to go.

Then just another 100% more to level 16.

Oh, gags. Now you know how people get addicted to silly childish games like Maplestory. I testify to that. Ha. Ha. Ha.

I have no butt?

I was leaning on the parapet of the gallery in the hall today when Nicole said I have no butt!! ARRGGGGH. Ok. I shall do more butt firming exercices. Resolution, BAY-BEH.

National Day concert today was pure hype. I must repeat - SO HYPED UP. Haha...It was great fun jumping around like lunatics during the song session. Yay. Even though the choreographed steps did not exactly come into play as we thought it would, it was funny doing the steps while having people look at us as though we're nutcases. There was this circle of people who were very sporting about it though! They did the moves too!! Yay. Go you guys. =)) Then there was the running up to stage thing - which was a bit drama-mama, I admit, but yeah. The whole hall was so charged up!! Yay!! I love you guys from the choir!! =D

I love Maahi Ve!! Oh my goodness. ICS, you guys rock too! Go bryan and pamela!

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I've been on Maplestory for a few days now. Decided to become a magician. A magician is just soooo me. I'm always like a priest or a magic-aligned character in RPGs. It's innate I guess, to pick such characters. Haha...Anyway, the aim of the game can be expressed as follows...













For those who haven't yet gotten to the nightmarish level of Maths C yet, or have decided to stop your maths studies (*cough*Jingyong, yes I mean you...*cough* =P), this reads summation of "bash the shit outta r^th monster, where r starts from 1 and goes to infinity". It's so simple. The entire aim of the game is really just encompassed in that elegant expression. Oh my goodness. Ms Tang'll be so proud of me - practical applications of mathematics!! Go me.

Off to whack more slimes with my energy bolt.

Glorious start of the National Day weekend

Oh yesssss. The weekend has arrived! Praise the Lord. For the whole of the past week, I've been very restless during lessons, much thanks to the extremely long weekend we're enjoying now. It's almost a good five day break, meaning it's like a March holiday in the middle of term 3, which happens to be the "doldrums" of the school year.

Term 3 never works out for me. It's just the combined effect of the end of the one month break and most recently, the block tests, plus the fact that the promotional exams are just round the corner. Round the corner being about a month away! *gasp* Yes, people, wake up. That includes me, really. Considering the little attention I pay during lectures, I think I'm doomed for the promotional exams. My attention during lectures, especially chemistry (oh horror of horrors!), really wanes quickly...like the graph below.

Note how the gradient is so steep at first? That's because I'm usually too caught up with what to eat for recess...and then it just goes down...and down and down. Until it hits rock bottom when my brain turns into stone and my body just freezes solid. Nothing is gained from that point on. *sigh* The pains of a jc student.

Talking about how painful it is to be a jc student, there is the dreaded subject known as Project Work (aka the subject that everyone hates but everyone has to do it). Yes, I don't know a single person alive who actually enjoys the notion of having Project Work lessons. How artificial can it be? Training us to do a project during class time? Frankly, I can't believe the ministry actually thought this was a good idea. Sure, it helps us to work with different people (you can't choose your group mates, remember?), but that hardly explains for the need for a specific subject to measure "how well you can work with people". My groups's fine, but for people who have utter troglodytes in their group, I feel their pain. Really.

Then again, my group had one very encouraging word from our very own Dr Siva - Good. We almost hyperventilated when we saw that he wrote "good" on the front cover of our written report. Yay-ness. It's rare enough that he tries hard not to defame our group as the group with the "most problems", but to get such a compliment is just...Unbelievable. Cool beans, I tell you.

Maplestory's the new thing on the block. Ok, at least for me. I'm aware that most people there are kids who really have too much time on their hands to burn and I realise that I should be spending my time completing all the undone tutorials that are mounting on my table by the day, but gimme a break! I need one. I was almost looney last week because I felt that I was living in a time warp with each second passing like an hour. The weekends really zoooom past me. I hardly realise that they're even there! Then there's the start of school again. What a bummer.

Gotta stay back in school for makeup biology practical after the celebrations on monday. Yep. A full two hours of practical, after everyone has jumped and gone high on drugs songs that seek to perpetuate the idea of "national identity" and "stayers not quitters", we have to stay back to observe slides of what-have-you. If only it were dissection! =(

Murphy's Law = the Smurfs?

"Oh my goodness. That's such a classic example of Murphy's Law!"
"You mean those blue little cartoon characters?"

Absolutely hilarious. For your info, Murphy's Law states that whatever that can go wrong, will go wrong. Hm. Quite a skeptic. And the Smurfs bear no resemblance whatsoever to Murphy. Heh.

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I've been on an anime fever as of late. I'm not sure where I caught it from, but I suspect it's my uncle. *sigh* Always tempting me to watch anime and play games. I want to do my work! Like evaluation of material which is due tomorrow! But hell. I'll leave that for later.

Download speed is awfully slow. So slow it makes me wanna cry.













Argh. Can you believe how long it takes? 190 days! That's more than half a year of waiting before I even get to watch the first 25 episodes of Naruto. Darn.

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Australian Maths Competition today was quite tough. I'd be glad to be awarded with merit. Seriously. I think the most difficult questions were those dealing with complex equations and geometry, because you really have to know all the formulas that the back of your hand. Thank God there wasn't any differentiation or sigma notation or anything to do with calculus. Amen, thank God.

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Friday. Then the lonnnnng break. I can't wait for it, really. I've been very restless during lectures and I haven't been getting the drive to study. Talk about being in the doldrums. Counting down to the promos doesn't really help. Yay.

Shall be waiting for the weekends. Ah ha.