Saturday, July 24, 2004
// Photoblog + Service Learning

Today was Service Learning. I had a great time. Oh yes, I've decided to start a photoblog where I'll put photos up. (duh) anyways, go check it out for the photos we took today. It was a blast. Thanks 03S14. Love you guys. :)

Thursday, July 22, 2004
// Foreign Land

Whoa. I haven't been here for such a long time i feel like I'm in a foreign land. School has been nothing but stress lately. With the annoying fact that the prelims are just a month away and I'm scarcely prepared, it is no wonder that I'm stressed.

Had Chem S Paper yesterday, and Maths S Paper today. Wow. Its just overwhelming for me. I think its high time that I start studying smart.

How? I don't know.

But I'll try.

Saturday, July 17, 2004
// Rapture

Just got back from Rapture. Probably the best I've seen so far, maybe because its the first dance concert I've been to. (fine, I'm suaku la ok.) Initially, it was never my plan to go for this concert simply because I just don't appreciate the arts. I really don't. So, my only reason for being there at the Kallang Theatre today was because of my dear Baba who was performing. Oh, and not forgetting my fellow bitch Linda as well. We made her those cards that spelt L-I-N-D-A and the reverse spelt B-I-M-B-O. Haha. Such friends we are.
 
I'm high, maybe even delirious. So much so that I'm actually starting to appreciate Malay music. Those who know me will know that I'm not a Malay music kinda person. But occassionally, once in a while, I'll stumble upon a Malay song that really encompasses everything I have to say. In other words, a really beautiful song. Here's one. And I know just who to dedicate it to.
 

Friday, July 16, 2004
After a long while.

So sorry I could not get down to blog. The past few days have been a serious reality check for me. My BT2 results are far from satisfactory. In other words, its horrendous. the only A I got was for Maths. The rest of my subjects are really poor. I need to buck up.
 
Maths  A
Chemistry  C
Physics  D
F.Maths  O
 
Wow. I wonder which university would accept me as a student there. As you can see for yourselves, my dear readers, I need to seriously buck up. I have to stop making careless mistakes for Chemistry and Maths. I thought I had nailed the last question in Chemistry, however, to my utmost horror, I miscounted the number of Carbons in the unknown compound. The formula stated 7, but i drew 8. That was a critical mistake that cost me ten marks. All in all, taking into consideration my other careless mistakes, I could have gotten an A.
 
Damn.
 
Well, no point crying over spilt milk. I guess I just have to learn from my mistakes and not commit them again. As Mr Stanley Ong said to me once,

"Its better to make mistakes now than in November.."
 
I'm dedicating every hour of the day to my studies. I have to. So I should start by blogging less frequently.
 
 

Saturday, July 10, 2004
// little updates

Ok. Ok. Before anyone starts panicking thinking that i've committed suicide or something, i haven't. Things are fine now. We're ok. I'm glad things are back to normal.

College Day happened yesterday. Somehow, i felt inspired to work hard for my As. Like suddenly. Really proud of the friends I have.. Congrats to Hirman and Ba for getting top in Computing and Malay A respectively. My beloved classmates Marcus, Justin, Edward, Hung Jin congrats for your multiple awards and scholarships. I'm in a class full of smart people. I feel so inferior.

And of course to Halim who was the only reason I was there at college day (besides the fact that ponners would be severly dealt with). I'm really proud of him.. Colours Award for Rubgy. He really deserved the award cause he's a really skillfull player and the best vice capt you can ever find. In my eyes, he'll always be the best. :) Really proud of you, halim. (yeah yeah, sappy stuff..don't read la!~)

Ah. Tutorials are beginning to pile up again. GRr.

Wednesday, July 07, 2004
// green apple or peppermint?

Sigh. I hope days like today will keep to its minimal. I don't know how much more i can put up with days like this. But I guess compromise works all the time. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong. Even if you're in the right, it doesn't hurt to give way. As long as one side gives way and be nice, i guess the other party will reciprocate too. Initiative is the key, i guess, to any relationship.

Was feeling like crap the entire day, until my break which i spent talking to Lydia, Hanis come up to us and asks in a matter-of-factly manner (face damn serious) "Ok. Green apple or peppermint?" Haha! He was so serious i thought it was a matter of life and death. Haha!! Damn cute la that guy, and he had to go around the entire cafe to ask everyone else. So poor thing, but its good entrepreneurship skill. (his class setting up a stall for college day i think..) That really was the turning point of my day, i don't know why. Maybe it showed me that there's still light-heartedness and humour in the people around me and i should stop feeling hurt, wallowing in self pity.

Thanks to the people who stood by me and gave me comfort.. Really the people i truly cherish. My 2 most precious dearies Lydia and Baba, my other adik aizat and his other half suff (its scary how they both go "basmikan ahhh" in that "suara yang bodoh") and of course, my fellow V-noughter Raph who's really Dr Love disguised. We rawked Orientation 2 with out fantabulous keyboard performance!! Thanks bro.

Tuesday, July 06, 2004
// reading

haha! Check out this website people! Trashy, but its funny what they say about the different JCs, including, yes, SAJC.
here

// The aftermath of Euro 2004

Aaaah. The Euro fever is subsiding! I felt that it wasn't too spectacular a season, but hey! everyone knew that this would be the time of the underdogs, and it was. It certainly was.

I'm right back on track to preparing for my A Levels, or I hope, at least. Got back my Block Test 2 results. Not very spectacular too, i must add. Great disappointment for my Further Maths. We got back Sect B which was the statistics component. I managed a B. 69%. Still far from an A. After conducting the necessary calculations, I have to get 31.5 for sect A, the Mechanics component to actually get an A for F.Maths. That seems bleak cause everyone in the whole wide world knows that I suck at Mechanics and I'll get a single digit for it. So there.

Chem MCQ was ok -- still not up to my expectations. With a horrible sect B and C, i need a high MCQ score to at least keep my grades floating. I managed a 17, out of 20. Physics MCQ -- 19/20, Alhamdulillah. I felt like kicking myself for missing that question. I've even discussed it with Hirman before, i think. Emf induced=-dØ/dt. I forgot the negative sign, thus chose the wrong graph. ARGH.

Maths, was Alhamdulillah, I managed to get 85% but still waaaaay below my expectations. I was disappointed in myself for misreading one entire question and not labelling my graphs completely resulting in half marks being deducted here and there. Argh. That sucks.

Less than 8 weeks to the Prelims. A Levels are so close its really biting my butt. And I'm barely prepared.

Monday, July 05, 2004
// Nikopolidis the new Kahn!

Wow, after the disappointing Portugese loss yesterday, I have finally come to a conclusion -- that Oliver Kahn has a successor! Finally I've found a goalie as good as him, or even better. Antonios Nikopolidis was superb.

Portugal didn't learn from the saying "Once bitten, twice shy." Although they seemed to have the upper hand throughout the game, they failed to convert their chances. Ronaldo, Deco and most disappointingly, the Real Madrid midfielder, Luis Figo simply failed to be on form. They were, no doubt, determined to win, but they just weren't on form. Yea, it was frustrating.. very frustrating.

Imagine at about 3am somewhere in Bukit Batok someone is screaming her lungs out at the TV. Haha. I sound insane. Wait, maybe I am. -shrugs-

School's back. Brace yourselves.

// driving drove me nuts

heh. hi people. its 2.05am now. i'm waiting for the match to start. but not quite a gd start. i have cramps! Boo. first day la.

I hope Portugal takes it and i miss Collina! I want him to referee this match! hmmf.

Oh anyways. check this game out. you got to really use your brains and think practically to solve this 12-leveled mind boggling game. I finally finished it today! (after it drove me nuts yesterday..)interesting stuff for those who love to challenge their minds! :)

check it out here

Friday, July 02, 2004
// Harassed!

Ah. The Czechs were harassed by the Greeks! See! I told you. The team I'm rooting for will lose! I wanted the Czechs to make it to the finals, where they would meet hosts, portugal, yet again in the finals. But, a late goal did it for the Greeks. -shrugs- i can't say its not fair. All is fair in soccer. (right)

I would say this match was really good. It was well played, even though the team i wanted to win lost. Pierluigi Collina is still the best referee in the whole wide entire world. Its sad that he's retiring. I still felt he should have refereed the final match. Gaaahh. oh well.

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Nuff said about soccer. The block tests are finally over, though the feeling of it isn't very fufilling. I thought i could have performed better. Here's the scoop. Maths was ok, haven't lost any major marks but I did commit a careless mistake (ah damn!) due to my careless reading of the question. Gah. Physics was a major disappointment. It was the subject that i was banking all my hopes on. I felt I could have done better. Sect B was a killer.

Chemistry was surprisingly ok for me. I didn't manage to solve the NMR question though. For the first time i was dumbfounded when the spectrum indicated that there were 6 Hydrogens. It slipped my mind that it was a split methyl group on both sides of the carbon atom. DAMN.

Oh. And I seriously didn't know that I have two papers in GREEK! I got frustrated after both papers. GP and F Maths were like greek to me. For GP, the essay was ok, but the comprehension was total Greek. And F Maths. Statistics was ok. But Mechanics was hmmm. Lets just say it was as good as all the 5 questions being set in Greek. Higher Greek, for that matter.