i realli shld not haf gone to sch today. generally boring, except when we gave the lit tchrs their presents and got to see their rxns. apples, a cow, turtle earrings, digestives... haha left just before the end wif char. waited for a looong time for 156, whereas two 93s passed. whenever i need to take 93 home, i end up waiting ages while many 156s pass. just my luck. at sc met pn, who seemed to be the onli hc person at sc. lots of cj and vj ppl tho. watched some of the concert at the amphi, got bored and felt hot and stuffy. so we went to the bkshop where the bkshop aunty asked us abt jc life and got pn and i to help her fix her blanko. we cldn't make it work tho. then gave ms chua her prezzies. she still looks the same. mrs low is pregnant again. mrs fernandez too. the other tchrs basically look no diff. since we dint buy anyth for the other tchrs, we decided not to wave or say hello to them. when i look to the sky
if not for the fact tt i haf to collect bio stuff and meet char to go to sc, i wont be going to sch tmr. dammit. 'tomorrow' is a word i use most frequently, especially when exams draw near. i haf nvr ever gotten to enjoy writing notes and tchrs' day msgs to tchrs i a) dun like b) dunno much or c) cant stand. even after so many yrs of tchrs' day msgs. shld i get anyth for ms chua tmr so tt i wont turn up empty handed? oh well one accomplishment today: i finally understand the reason for every single bump and slope on the atrial, aortic and ventricular pressure graph. but... what's a phonocardiogram? my life is brilliant. not.
my tchrs are excellent. have I mentioned before that I really really appreciate every single one of them? the lit class received our bribe today - i've nvr eaten brownies with tt much chocolate before. it was almost solid choc. mmm which was why i had no appetite for lunch. so i just ate a sandwich. after a realli draggy pw lesson, went to canteen and stoned ard till 5. went for bio lecture, during which most of us doodled randomly on a piece of paper - carrot man and a very nicely drawn Duke, along with Isabella and Angelo. since i can't draw for nuts, i contributed lots of my ghosts and nth else. i emerged frm the lecture with little gained.
counting down the days... my gp essay is done. extremely short and unreadable, but yeah, it's done. see, i started out attempting to do just the plan, like we're s'posed to. i sat in front of Cider and typed out the essay qn. then i sat there for awhile, staring at the screen. after awhile Cider fell asleep, and there i was, still staring at a screen tt was no longer lit. [digression: 'Cider' is the name my sis gave my iBook. an Aple named Cider, geddit?] then i typed out some points tt i'd be using in my essay. and those points started merging into sentences, then paragraphs. then somewhere in betweenn thinking and typing, i took out my foolscap and pen and started copying out those 'points'. the rest is history. or, to be exact, my completed gp essay. i've gotta admit it can be greatly improved. an essay Lyn did wld be better than my gp essay. seriously. it goes ard in circles, and basically there's just one main point i'm trying to get across to the reader. and it's very short. did i alr mention tt? only 2 sides of a piece of foolscap. but since we're s'posed to do it tmr in 1 hr, i can claim tt i took only one hr to do it at home, hence the shortness. there's smth wrong wif my com. some sites appear in CHINESE. do i look like i can read and understand chinese? i DON'T THINK SO. gotta cut my nails. on fri when i was taking my contacts out when i noticed the one i'd extracted from my right eye looks suspiciously misshapen. i looked closely at it and saw tt i'd only taken half the contact out. (focus dailies are incredibly thin and flimsy, they tear very easily). my eyeball is so insensitive tt i cldn't feel the other half of the contact. if i hadn't noticed the weird shape of the contact i'd taken out, i'd haf gone to sleep with the other half still in my eye. anyway. i stuck my finger in my eyeball and finally located the errant half, stuck way into the corner of my eye. tata[box]. :-p digging up all the reasons to justify all the hurt inside everyone's got a theory about the bitter one they're saying, mom never loved her much and daddy never keeps in touch that's why she shies away from human affection
after the unbelievbly long entry ytd, i'm back once again. woke up at 5.30 this morning in an attempt to get some studying done. did some chem bonding qns [= copying ans] and read the chem bonding notes. still wondering which gp essay qn to do. all of them seem equally hard-to-write. i'll prob end up writing the entire essay instead of just the plan, once i actually start to plan, tt is. tt way i'll be able to stone for an entire hr on mon during gp. tonight going for some music thingy at the nus cultural centre. obviously, looking at my [lack of] enthusiasm, i have no wish to go, and waste studying time. but since i'm the one and only musically disinclined one in my family (my dad's not counted since he's in HK), haf i got a choice? hmm. seems like me and my dad haf some things in common. he and i are the only ones who do not take well to the prospect of going to church. i also can't see him at a musical performance actually enjoying himself. this thing is on the verge of becoming another epic blog entry. gtg before i do any more damage to my hands and your state of wakefulness. p.s. how does a painting hand (i.e. a hand tt looks like it belongs in a painting, as mentioned by clare) look like? just look at the time. i shld still be sleeping.
ytd gp had some mock conference thing. the consortium of scientists was represented by 5 ppl, but it seemed as if elsie was the only one, cos she answered almsot all the qns fired at her and she wasn't even s'posed to be doing A.I. so it was all impromptu, but then again she's real gd at this sorta stuff. today: lit was the usual - almost done for frost. the gift outright, for which ms veera apparently feels no love. chem, went thru tut at the usual snail's pace. for once i actually attempted a chem tut qn and cld do it. :-D then bio lect - repiration. lots of stuff abt NADH and final electron acceptors and 34 ATP blablabla. so chem-ish. yuck. but the lecturer is ok la. at least i dint fall asleep. the stupid and extremely irritating mango took the seat next to me and as neither elsie, ivan or I can stand him, ivan moved his bag all the way down to the 1st row, hoping he'd take the hint. unfortunately farah/clare/andrea were all speaking wif mr lee and so weren't present to occupy the empty seat, so when he returned frm wherever he'd been he just moved his bag to his original place. but i got to kick him and hit him many times wif my v useful and handy file. math test: first few qns ok. qn 3, at first i forgot wat a unit vector is, and cldn't for the life of me rmb wat the magnitude of a unit vector is. so i was stuck at the v first part of the qn. then i had a revelation tt the magnitude of a unit vector is 1!! so i cld do the qn after all. but, qn 4 was s*a#f^@#!. and at the start of the test i thot mrs khong said 15 minutes, not 50, so i was all happy n everyth. then it turned out to be a 50min paper. sigh. lunch! despite wat the tchr (dunno who) said to us ytd, we decided to continue sitting at our usual place outside the council rm, and eat there. who cares wat ONE tchr says? then, clare started talking abt how archery had given her a tan line, and elsie remarked tt she (elsie herself) was v dark. clare n farah n me went: !!! but you're so FAIR. elsie: but i'm the darkest in my family. clare/farah/me: but tt's just u. compared to us (comparison of arm colour) u're NOT dark at all. farah (upon comparing wif my arm): yy, u must be getting darker! me: no, it must be u getting fairer... [how's it possible for me to haf gotten darker? i haven't been canoeing and the past few times i've gone swimming, there's been little/no sun.] then clare started talking abt how archery had given her arm muscles. then we all started flexing our biceps (or lack thereof) and v randomly, the attn turned to my arm muscles. if i had still been in sc uniform, there wld not haf been such surprise, given the sc lack of sleeves. so clare said she shld haf started learning dance when she was young so she cld get arm muscles too. which brings me to this pt: how come so many ppl seem surprised tt dance does not require arm muscle? dance is not just abt legs and jumps/leaps etc. it involves stomach, arm, back, leg muscle. which is why there's this dancer in sc who has a six-pack. cos we haf to keep our stomachs in and backs straight; our arms haf to look strong (and hence be strong); so... it's not just legs! :-p pe: lecture abt sports injuries and prevention. the prevention part is rather late, considering i sprained my wrist last wk. i've been reflecting on my accident proneness. back in hk when i was v v young and just learning to cycle, i very cleverly hopped onto my bike right at the top of a SLOPE. the result? i hurtled down the slope, which ended at the wall of a kindergarten. so my momentum carried me right to the wall, where the impact of the collision brought me flying out of my bike and into the wall, forehead-first. no kidding! also when i was young (ard 3 i think): i was climbing a jungle gym thing at a playgrd when i lost hold of the bars. i started falling; my chin hit another bar; my teeth clamped right down on my tongue. my mom says my tongue actually had a hole and was bleeding so much, it scared the hell outta her. (un)fortunately there's no scar cos young children are s'posed to be able to recover frm wounds super fast. then in pri sch i hurt my elbow and arm (cos a large girl bumped into me and landed on my arm ) and had to walk ard wif a sling; in sec sch i fell during netball and hurt my knee such tt the bone stil hurts occasionally during dance; i sprained my ankle last yr (while attempting i-forget-what); scraped my shin badly frm cycling this yr; and now my wrist. i've got a sling, an ankle brace, a knee brace and a wrist thing. i'm missing a neck brace, crutches, wheelchair and... wat else? gosh i've realli been rambling on and on and on and on, haven't i?
haha i found ms lye's blog. and she told us she dint haf one... we shld all tag her. today's s-cube seminar thing was total crap. waste of studying time. i fell asleep thru it.
been typing so much tt my wrist hurts more than ever. just when i thot it was getting better. at least i've finished my EOM, which is basically crap. crap at the expense of my wrist. such an unfair exchange. spent more time looking for the stupid article than writing the eom. but at least i'm done. memorised bio skill D alr. also done some math qns in prep for the test this fri. i still haven't started studying for promos. so much stuff in btwn, how to begin? still raining. i like it when it rains and i'm at home. but not when i'm doing math and memorizing bio. okok gotta stop b4 anymore damage is done.
am currently typing one-handed and pausing in btwn to eat grapes, so this will take a long time. but u wont noe tt. pe today was v slack and entertaining. v fun to watch our classmates play floorball. ponned chem remedial today (wat do u call a person who is always skipping sch? ans: a pon star! haha, taken frm yams) and went swimming instead. before tt went to to the new gym at SPC overlooking the pool and played ard on the treadmill. cldn't do anyth else cos of my stupid hand. the equipment was all new and shiny. at the pool this guy kept wading across the width of the pool, back and forth. wat the heck was he doing? i had to swim ard him every single lap. i'm finally done, 20 mins after i started writing this. *massages hand*
today the first person i met greeted me by asking me what happened to my hand. then i met more ppl and they asked me the same. i lost count after reaching 10 and got so tired of explaining tt by the end of the day my reply was reduced to one word. haha. during gp went to library to do compre. first farah n elsie n i decided to go up one floor cos warm air rises and the library was v cold. then on the 2nd floor i was saying hello to someone n farah was being her usual blur self so we 'lost' elsie. we walked abt on the 2nd floor and finally decided to look on the 3rd, where we found elsie already starting. then we looked ard for andrea n clare and saw them on the 1st floor, waving for us to join them. they refused to come up, and since it was no warmer on the 3rd floor, farah n i went all the way down again. thus wasting lots of time. s'posed to finish at 3.30 but i completed everyth at ard 4. the AQ was terrible. the passage was so longwinded, i was bored frm the very first. so i did everyth halfheartedly. after sch went swimming. found it hard to swim properly with only one working wrist. swam several laps single-handed then decided to stop. changed and did some qns frm complex no.s tut, only to find tt many of the basic qns r based on stuff we haven't learnt. there's chem remedial tmr at 4. sigh.
sigh still got PC essay half-done. during break today (nair on MC so no civics!) farah and i decided to have an arm wrestling match. dunno who thot of it first. i trashed her many times (hurray for me, lol) with both my right and left arm. gd training for our arm muscles. tried to get lester and baldwin to wrestle with us but they were too [cowardly] to try. what issit with guys? wrestled again after lit with clare n farah and even elsie. v fun. but i think i must haf weakened my left wrist. cos during dance just now (only 4 ppl attended - where were the rest?) i was just playing ard and was gripping the barre too tight. then i did a little jump and sorta wrenched my left wrist. so now it hurts when i rotate it. anyway for bio we had this horrible tchr in place of nair. as elsie said, he looked like he had a loose jaw. which he did. and he kept staring at the ppl who were talking. wat's wrong with talking during class if u aren't doing it too loudly or u're clarifying smth with someone else? and he actually took attendance. gotta finish my essay, which, as far as i noe, sux. to make it look longer than it is (and to fill 4 sides) i typed out my poem and also made everyth 1.5 spacing. only got abt 600 words so far. arrgh.
getting increasingly stressed day by day now. got the promos timetable today before bio lecture. Lit is the same day as Chem! how cld they do this to us. and it's lit text, not PC, which means i haf to somehow study Frost, Measure AND horrible Chem at the same time! and the day after LIt + chem is a free day. why cldn't they plan it so tt the papers wld be separate? and Bio is with Econs, which is just as terrible for the econs ppl, i think. wat is the sch doing to us? cos of the timetable, i think i was sorta shocked so i dint fall asleep during bio lect. i actually listened about artherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis (more severe than the former) and stents and HP and OP. pretty proud of myself. ;-) just remembered 'woman warrior' all of a sudden. i HATE her style of writing. and some words in it, which she says is chinese, is actually Cantonese. eg, 'ho chi kuei' - she thot it was chinese and said she'd been trying to find out what it meant. when it's actually cantonese and means 'like a ghost'. 'ghost' meaning 'white', or american. cos cantonese call ang mohs 'guai loh' (dunno how to spell la) which can be loosely translated into 'ghost'. but who on earth calls americans 'mail ghosts' and mugger ghosts' and 'wino ghosts'??!! YUCK. and why doesn't she just write 'tell a story' instead of 'talk-story'? i realli think i might fail the woman warrior section of the lit paper. cos i hate the text so much.
yesterday was last day of 2-star. s'posedly we did a 6km expedition ard Kallang basin, but it dint feel like 6km. it seemed so short. before we stopped for lunch the sky turned grey and wind whipped up and the palm trees along the 'beach' were all swaying and stuf, just like a scene from a movie or smth, where a tornado or some enormous storm is abt to hit. sadly, in reality, it turned out to be just a drizzle. did the eskimo bow rescue again - first time successful, so dint need to try and try again. two girls dint dare to do the whole capsize and so haf to return this sun to do again for the instructors to assess them. such a waste of time. other than tt the wkend was basically wasted. dint do any schwk. sigh. i hate mondays. had to stay back after sch (which usually ends at 4, which alr sux) for chem remedial, where I promptly nodded on and off, in btwn (not so) frantically copying down answers.
ponned chem remedial today. dint do the wksht so wat was the pt? wot flowers would you like on your cawfin? carnations, lilies, or jest a bunch o' roses? tell me the difference btwn right and wrong, weak and strong... went to fetch lyn again after 3. saw adeline and michelle frm last yr's 4 SY, and also frm band. r they so dedicated to sc band tt they go back to sc every fri (cos i saw them last wk too) to visit their juniors? am worrying for promos. nope, i haven't started studying. pw is, i must say again, an absolute waste of time. i am not exactly looking forward to the last day of the 2-star course this sun. the entire day gone! hours of paddling under the scorching sun (but i'd rather shine than rain)! i won't mind more capsize drills, tho. they're quite fun. except when i'm submerged, waiting for another person to hit my kayak so i can get out, only to find tt said person is still frantically paddling towards me, too late. yay tmr my new iBook G4 will be delivered. like, finally.
is chem remedial tmr compulsory? cos i haf no intentions of going, or of doing the wksht. watched a.i. for gp today. it shld haf ended after David met the blue fairy. why drag on till 2000 yrs later? so longwinded and draggy. and the aliens look v human, altho much skinnier. damn i dint even get noticeably tanner frm canoeing, and i dint even apply sunblock. must not have been sunny enuff yesterday. altho i saw several of them (those who also went for the course) with v red faces. reminds me of 'Sing to the Dawn' (sec 1 lit text) where the whites were described as peeling 'like ripe mangoes'. mwahahahahaha ladidum whatever. pw how?
just returned frm day 2 of canoeing. quite fun today - did lots of rescue drills and i got to swim loads and act the 'victim' cos the other girl i was pairing up with can't swim. also learnt some eskimo roll-rescue thingy and I was successful my first time! yay. also won lots of 'pts' against Mango who was also taking the same course. got to poke him many times with my paddle and also capsized his canoe once. hahaha :-p sigh sch tmr. this nat day holiday seemed so short. haven't done much schwork. yesterday went swimming early morn. then went to bugis to get my sis' phone fixed (corrosion frm sea water!). also bot new box of focus dailies cos i've used up my contact lenses. found out i hve astigmatism - used to be 100, but now improved to 50. dint even noe i had astig la. okok feeling sore from fibreglass cuts on my rite foot (how'd they get there?)
glad i was 'sick' today. heard tt the celebrations was a bore except for those who took part in the games. hmm. went for day 1 of 2-star course today. not too sunny - in fact there was hardly any sun by the time we actually got into the water. today quite slack. just paddled ard and learnt edging, which is basically using ur hips to tilt the kayak to turn. also tried the eskimo roll, which is s'posed to be for 3-star. quite fun. went to national stadium changing rm to bathe. saw several disabled ppl on wheelchairs going round the track. after tt went to busstop. changed bus at suntec and waited ages for 196 to arrive. then stopped before queensway shopping centre and waited for ages again for 153. taking the mrt back is way faster. sigh. wed will be gone.
am i gonna fall sick on mon? tt is the question... so much stuff to do over this wkend. math tut 10b, which is haven't touched. chem equilib tut. pw. pc essay (by when?). plus i shld be studying for promos. how to start when i've got so much other stuff to complete? went to fetch lyn frm sch today. made me realize once again how much better n cheaper (keyword) the food in sc is... bah.
after reading Jasper Fforde's (yeah, weird surname) 'The Eyre Affair', i'd luv to be able to jump frm one bk to another, to be able to change the plot. altho... wat sort of a name is 'Thursday Next' for a woman, or any human being, for tt matter? and Jack Schitt (yes, it's pronounced exactly as u see it, no schitt. hahaha). and Victor Analogy. weird. imagine if i cld get into the original manuscript of Measure for Measure - i'd kill off the duke in act 1 scene 1 so the rest of the pages will be blank (just like wat happened in the eyre affair when Jane Eyre got kidnapped) then no one wld need to study it! i'd haf to get hold of the original manuscript, tho, if not i'll onli be able to change the plot in my copy of the bk. i'd also luv to travel to 'Woman Warrior' and get hold of tt idiotic rabbit in 'White Tiger' to prevent it frm leaping into the fire as a sacrifice for the girl in the story. then the girl wld starve to death and so... no more story! 'my father's face could stop a clock' also, interesting poem/watever in 'The Bad mother's handbk': i'll tell thee a tale about a snail that jumped in t'fire and burnt its tail i'll tell thee another about its brother did t'same silly owd bugger haha. found it amusing. :)
my new rm is finally ready. looks wonderful. managed to move all my bks over the wkend and i still haf space left. last fri i left during pe, thinking tt there wasn't gonna be tt extra PC lesson. unfortunately, i realized only later tt there was PC after all! bleh. anyway i dint miss much. i think. chem skill A SPA today. ok la, i just regurgitated everyth i'd memorized frm the mock. no more skill A! bio test tmr. dunno how to study evolution. genetic drift - bottleneck, founder's effect. wrapped ard ur finger, always on my mind... is the interhouse competition thing compulsory? cos i definitely dun wanna attend. such an extremely idiotic waste of time. the entire house sytem sux. i'm glad SC abolished the house system even before it really began, if not i'd have had to suffer it all thru sec sch. yesterday went for 2nd n last day of the one star course. v sunny. i dint put on sunblock at all. kayaked under the sun. my face was red for awhile but fortunately no sunburn! i haf yet to get a proper sunburn. not even in OBS. lucky me! hopefully i nvr will. frm wat i've seen, it looks painful. i seem to haf rambled on n on randomly. |
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