One month saved

Didn't expect to take the NAPFA test today...I wasn't prepared for it at all. But anyway I finally passed, after several tries over many weeks. Well, there were some adjustments here and there...so it wasn't a very fair test compared to others. (Thanks a lot to Mr Alex Tan for his kind understanding) Despite passing, I dun feel really good abt it...but it was a nice effort attempting to salvage that one month. Special thanks to Wenjia who cheered me on and accompanied me during the test...Jialing for helping me to train up for 2.4 for the past few weeks and cheering me on...Kaizhi for letting me pace him in 2.4 and his motivation...as well as the rest of my classmates who expressed concern over my results :) With so many ppl cheering me on, how can I not pass? Last but not least Mr Tan of course...he's such a considerate and thoughtful teacher, unlike that !@#$%& Joe Lim. Ask him go and repair pipes lah.

Talking abt tues, the chem s session was sooo scary, esp for ppl who haven't done their work at all including me. Luckily I survived the random spotcheck and avoided the risk of getting called up to answer qns. That night was the concert, more ppl came than I expected but the overall turnout was still quite bad compared to other performances. I think the no. of performers can match the no. of audiences lol. So much for arts fest...let's see the turnout for the 2nd concert tmr.

So my half day was just gone like that, reached home tired and sleepy. Went to bnet (just looking ard) and saw jz, cx, yc. Luckily they had stopped playing due to lag, otherwise...

On the same night, my hp spoilt cos forgot to take out hp from the sch pants pocket and it was soaked in soap water. Zzz. Then went to buy a new one today...hopefully the functions are much better.

Went to watch The Island after sch yesterday with yc, sk and cx... Nice plot! Quite worth a watch in the theatre. However there is still some things in the movie that I dun understand...

Half-day...Not

It was rare to see Mr Ang coming up to the front of the terraces to give a speech during the combined assembly. As he began to talk abt the recent achievements made by the CCA groups, I already knew what to expect. After all the track and field championship is just over and usually around this time the students would look forward to sth. The 'sth' has finally come, but not in a way I desire it to be. It falls on the very wrong day... True that I get to skip the boring GP lesson and mundane (aka tok cok session) phy prac. However I will not be going home early at all. In fact I'll going home even later than usual. My half day is ruined by some crappy concert which nobody, except the performing groups, cares abt. The 3 tickets that I'm supposed to sell were only given to me this morning when the concert is just tmr night! How to sell 3 tickets within 1 day? Firstly, hc ppl will most likely not go for the concert...what's the point of going back to sch again after an half-day to watch a crappy concert? Secondly, the public also most probably wun turn up cos it falls on an odd weekday where ppl might be too busy to attend. Thirdly, wtf is arts fest abt? What's so special abt this concert? Publicity abt this concert is so poor that nobody else bothers abt it. Enough of bashing the concert, I shall see the turnout tmr. Who knows we'll just be playing to a tiny group of audiences like the size of a class. Anyway back to the half-day: Ok, fine, even if the concert is non-existent, another thing disrupting my half day is chem s! Shitty lor, chem teachers are just so persistent to have their chem s lectures regardless of half-days or holidays. If Singapore were to be invaded by enemies, I guess the chem teachers would insist to finish the lecture first before sending us to the battlefield. Yes, my half day is completely destroyed now...it has become my one-and-a-half day. FOS!

Ok, finally got the overall GP result. C6. Lol...this is so expected that I can bet my life on it! As long as I maintain this standard, I'm safe for the A lvls.

I want a longer weekend

I think the weekend is too short, one blink of an eye and it's all over. Even with the 5-day week thingy I still feel that I'm not enjoying enough...cos I've to reserve some time for dota mah >_< I hate it when the weekend ends, cos I've to stay back in sch for 2 consecutive days for s paper. I wonder when would the s paper sessions come to an end, and whether there would be a s paper test/assessment.

Anyway the dota session on fri was so saddening. We were owned in many games...and only won when there were leavers in the opposing team. Dunno why I kept random-ing the melee heros which I'm not good at. So disappointing. Played a few games after I went home that day to regain my confidence. Random-ed melee heros again but was much better.

Downloaded the Harry Potter EBook a few days ago. Finally after several years of abandoning HP books I plucked up the courage and patient to read them. Haven't been reading fiction books for a long long time. For the past few years, there were many times when I tot of reading the HP books after watching the movie. But after reading a few pages, I gave up...lol. Too impatient liao, I'm never suited to read fiction books anyway. Dun want to waste money to buy books, so downloaded them instead...dun bash me ok?

Oh ya, I came across an article abt Harry Potter... Here it is: http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1169&srch
I'm speechless... Can't believe there is such stupid ppl in the world. But hor, sometimes I dun really understand why ppl want to reveal spoilers even though they knew it was uncalled for. Are they just playing a fool or trying to show off that they have finished reading the book earlier than most ppl. After the 6th HP book was released, spoliers have been spotted around in online forums and msn nicks. In ALL the forums I've been, there is at least a post which says 'XXX died' without any warning:

Eg. (For the sake of illustrating my point, I shall reveal who XXX is. You've hereby been warned)
(Well...I guess the warning is unnecessary since anyone who even goes online shld know who died by now...)

Topic title: Have anyone read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?
A particular post: Dumbledore died.

Topic title: Can anyone recommend a good handphone?
A particular post: Dumbledore died.

Topic title: Will you still donate to NKF in the future?
A particular post: No, becos Dumbledore died.

Forum title: Dota-Allstars General Discussion
A particular topic: Dumbledore died
Moderator: Thread closed, User banned.

Change subject: Also came across this particular interesting blog: http://www.rockson.blogspot.com/
His entries are super funny...lol...and his singlish is so superb!

Unprepared

Prom night. Seems like very very few ppl in my class are interested in it. Of course there were some who wanted to go very much, but we can't even form a complete table of 10 persons. So far the class gathered abt 4 ppl (including me but I was initially waiting for more ppl to sign up before I join) If the table is less than 10 ppl, we'll have to pay for the empty seats too, which is $80 per seat :S Dun think the scholars will go cos firstly it's too ex and secondly they will return home after the As. Sigh...nvr been to proms before. Back in 4C none of the class went except 2 IIRC. It feels really weird to wear so formally in front of our friends, and heard that some proms there were guys wearing a jacket/blazer too :S

I think my clarinet section is very smart! :) We got a Jeff who scored 4As in the block test, a Wenli who got 3As (including econs and history which i think is very difficult to score well), a Sheryl who got an A in bio clinching the 14th position of the cohort,..., and a little David who can conduct so well! (And yours truly :P)

Today is the full-dress rehearsal for Arts Festival (??? this event just sprang out of nowhere) Didn't expect so many seniors to come...most probably cos they were forced to. Waited for very^n (where n is large) long before the band got to play on stage. Anyway I wasn't really looking forward to it esp since someone casted freezing field in the audi and the band haven't rehearsed the syf pieces for a very long time. Expectedly, the band played horribly (lol at David's expression) and there were several missing parts and screwed up solos. Sigh...seems like we're going to have lots of band pracs soon for the next few days. Hmm...we dun even know who the audiences are and I wonder if playing with such standards can work. Btw I hate the full dress thingy...since our attires wun affect the performance at all, what's the point?

Zzzz

Was so sleepy in school today. Already dozing off at the 3rd period... Hopefully I wun have to stay back again for the rest of the week, but it seems quite impossible cos I've to help my section play for the band. Haiz...so tired.

Planned to run the 2.4km trial again this afternoon but it rained continuously. Sigh, there goes my chance to train for napfa for the last time. *Prays that nothing will screw up on that day*

Chem s ended even later today...7.50pm. Record broken I think. Anyway I'm glad that I made a wise choice of not doing the chem s qns at all, cos I can jot down the impt key points for every qn and understand just as well. Looking at those qns, it will take me a great deal of time to attempt them all.

Infuriating!

I think I'm having bad luck lately. A piece of CD mysteriously disappeared from my com desk, and is nowhere to be found in every corner of my house. 100% sure that I did not bring that CD out of my home, which means it must still be somewhere ard my house. But where??? Searched every nook and cranny but was futile. Now I can fully understand what it means by "bu yi er fei".

Just as I was giving up my search, I realised that my com cannot connect to the internet, but msn was still working...wtf...my luck can't go any worse than that. So I decided to continue my search ard the house again until my head started to ache. Nvm, shall give up for now...maybe I might stumble upon the CD XX months later while packing up.

Received Section B of Maths C and F Maths today. So now my overall results are AAAB. There seem to be some unseen forces preventing me from getting the perfect 4As, BT1 and BT2 alike...the 'B's are always soooo close, 2-3 marks from a 'A'. Nvm...blame my luck, AAAB is good enough...some ppl want also cannot.

Thanks a lot to Jialing and her sis for running with me! Becos I haven't run for a long time, I clocked a very poor timing. Both of them must be so disappointed with me...and I felt so paiseh too for not being able to catch up with them :( Anyway I shld be retaking napfa test this thurs, hope it will not drag any further like the past 2 months. Want to get it done and over with quickly so I dun have to worry abt reporting early (eg. like 1 week after A lvls) to NS for extra training (that will be so so so sad...).

I noticed that Maths S has been breaking the prev record of early dismissal for several weeks already. From 6.45pm, 6.30pm, 6.20pm,..., to today's 6.00pm! It was merely a 20 min session, with us starting late and ending extremely early. Ji slack!!! But come to think of it, everything we need is already in the given solution sheet. Only minor explanations needed. Plus the lecture exercise, it will not take more than 50 min. But since there was no lecture exercise today, ending that early is reasonable. ^_^ A big big contrast to chem s, which mostly ends so late, always after 7pm. IIRC the record was 7.45pm. (abt 2 hr session...sian). Even phy s is so slack now, haven't even started a single session after June hols...haiz...

Shall end my entry now...I think I've ranted enough.

Starting afresh

Haven't been updating my blog cos the com had some problems. Yea...the virus has taken effect after a few days. Threatening to autosend some files to the emails stored in my account everytime I log in. If I disallow it, I'll be disconnected from the net. >_< After many futile scans and attempts to eliminate the virus, I decided to reformat the com to save all the trouble. Now everything in my com is new, with many old files from the past 3-4 years deleted. Yay...a fresh start! With all the junkies gone, I can properly organise my files again. Shall be careful from now on not to get my com infected with virus...

Watched Initial D a few days ago on my com...thanks to Wenjia for burning the CD so I wun have to spend money watching by myself in the cinema. ^_^ Anyway I think with or without the theatre effects, I still can enjoy the movie as well. (But for movies like WotW, I rather watch it in a theatre...hehe) I think the racing scenes are good...but why does Jay keep winning every race??? So predictable! Pity Jay's gf at the end...will they reconcile after that? (shld be lah...the main male lead sure must have gf one)

My 3rd trip to a lanshop on Fri. (Encountered some problems along the way but nvm...not impt) Played dota with Chen Xi, Dawei and Wenjia on Bnet. Haha...we won every of the 3 games we created! Good teamwork mah...as well as noobs in the opposing team. Felt so proud of myself cos I didn't play so noobishly, didn't die a lot also, quite a few kills.

Watched the final match of JC dota competition after college day. Dun understand why so many Singaporeans and Malaysians still play the old imba 5.84c version. Then they use the same imba heros everytime. What's so fun abt using the same heros over and over again?

Virus

Shit...I think my com just kena a barney virus that spreads thru msn. So next time if you see me sending some barney stuff or website to you for no reason, dun ever open it. Those virus makers are getting more and more clever liao...can make msn users auto send the viral files to all of their contacts. Can't detect where the virus is in my com now.

It's coming to the second half of the week and I can finally rest. Cos mon have to stay back for maths s and tues for chem s. (at least my fri is still free ^_^) Will be extremely busy during the weekend doing my s paper homework. Actually I think s paper hw is not really worth much time to spend on. I would prefer to read the qns and ponder abt them. If I know how to do the qn, then I'll pen it down, otherwise I would just leave it blank and wait for the answers to enlighten me. No point doing so neatly with every qn attempted...after all every year the s paper qns are very different. So it all depends on my knowledge on the subject.

As for Fantastic 4, I'll put it on hold first until I receive more comments abt the movie. Hmm...what other good movies are there coming up? These few days I've the strong urge to watch movies...

Farewell

Enjoyed the band farewell dinner yesterday night. ^_^ It was a great experience, esp being in a dim and cozy room interacting with each other, having our dinner together, listening to songs and music as well as playing games! Very sry for not dedicating any songs to the section cos I dunno what song to choose, nor what to write :( And thanks a lot for all the presents! (Esp the comfy pillow/cushion that David and Wenli gave!) I truly appreciate them n_n! Shall miss you all!

Some good news for me today...I scored an A for Phy!! 87% (same as chem...coincidence?) This is the first time my phy ever scored as well as chem! (Is my phy improving? Or the paper was relatively easier?) Heh...must continue to work harder for phy. For those who didn't do well, cheer up! There's still much room for improvement. Now what's left is MC and FM section B (Mr Tan is sooo slow). Baddiley can take as long as she wants to mark GP papers...I dun really care.

Suddenly got the urge to watch Fantastic 4, but dunno who to go with and when...any recommendations? Or volunteers?

*smile

Sry, was feeling a bit sicky for yesterday and today so pardon me if I appear to be very unenthusiastic/dao/bochup. Haven't got that terrible feeling for the long time, probably becos of my poor sleeping habits these few days. Shall stop being nocturnal anymore... Whenever I turn my head, my neck and head will ache. Whenever I swallow saliva, my throat will hurt. Whenever I concentrate and do my work, the headache will start to come. The only things I could do to soothe myself are to sleep, stare around or daydream. Actually all these are no big deal lah...compared to the sufferings of cancer patients. >_> (I think I'm starting to get brainwashed by the surge of NKF programmes)

A lot to blog yesterday but since they are past, I shall not talk abt them anymore. However I wun miss out abt the block test results that have made me proud ^_^ Physics first. We were only given the mcq marks though the entire paper has been marked. Got only 1 mistake...yay! But that's not the best lah, Dawei got full marks lor. He phy pro mah...have affinity to phy, whereas I, not being very good in phy, getting one mistake is already a great achievement liao! Anyway 11 out of 24 got A for phy, almost half the class. So that means there's a probability of 11/24 I can get an A. (-_- Is that a fair assumption?) Before that everyone was worried cos Mr Wong said there were no As, then he explained that it's becos he haven't mark the data analysis question (worth 15 marks) yet...-_____- (dun you think Mr Wong is a born joker?)

Maths C Section A. Not bad, not bad. In fact it's the best it can ever be. For Maths C there's nothing interesting to talk abt cos everyone scores so well. (Now I know why Mrs Yap gave good comments abt me although at the end of term 2 I din do my tutorial/assignment...due to dota lah)

Chem. Heh. Didn't expect Mrs Lee to suddenly hand the script to me while I was busy attempting some mcq qns. But it was a pleasant surprise...did better than expected (or Mrs Lee being more lenient this time?). Free Response not as bad as expected. Minus 5 marks only. Structured minus 7, mostly due to that damn ionic eqm qn. Then MCQ only 1 mistake :DDDDD. Shall I declare myself the mcq pro? (ok i know i very the bu yao lian...) Others did rather well too...congrats to Wenjia :)

FM Section A. Bleh. Shi Bai! Shi Bai! Overall the class did really badly. Even Mrs Yap described the scripts as 'atrocious'. Highest only 37/50, which I think includes Jialing. As for me ah...haiz. Left 15 (!!!) marks blank. Then ended up with some mistakes costing 4 marks. Have to pray for Section B lor, which will be slightly better I think.

Really pleasing to receive so many good results...in one way soothes my headache a bit. The best was I din spend as much time studying during the hols, which made my mum very angry (got scolded for several nights). Hopefully my results can prove my mum wrong.

College Day rehearsal today...zzzz. Super sian. I doubt majority of the school population knows the existence of college day.

Sick

I'm feeling feverish now...shall type the entry tmr.

FM

Sigh...I think the paper is as tough as the promos one, probably cos the topics tested are similar and I can't do very well in those topics. I think this time I did rather poorly, was stumped at several questions and cannot solve them even till the end. I think I suffered some mind block during the test cos I can't even do a simple method of difference question. After that I realised it's one of the simplest qn in the paper. Left many blanks, which costs 20+ marks. To take in account the random mistakes that might have occured in the attempted qns, it may go up to 30+ marks. Whatever...it's not like I've no chance to learn from my mistakes and do better next time anymore.

After that Mong, Say Kai and I went to Cine to watch War of the Worlds. The scenes were great and some parts can be rather overwhelming IMO. It made me quite tense in the whole duration of the movie. However the story and the ending is not that good... Dun quite understand the ending <_<.

Chem

It's an afternoon paper, which I dun like cos I'm always very sleepy during afternoons. Anyway I think the MCQs are fine but structured is some kind of a problem. Already stumbled on the first qn: ionic eqm...didn't know how to use the data to plot the titration curve. I think I'm hopeless in ionic eqm liao. Hope it wun cost too many marks. Free response was bad. Didn't respond freely enough. I always run out of points to write, resulting in a very simple answer which might not give a lot of marks. Just have the feeling that my answers lack depth...haiz.

Now what's left is F Maths...aiming to do better than the last block test.