Wednesday, October 13, 2004
i'm in the school's Hub now typing this blog... it's a long wait for me now till 5 pm for CO practice. while some of my classmates watch white chicks at tampines mall. humph.
dear mr lion conductor decided that we should play a chui da ensemble Tao Jing Ling for the open house... well this is chicken feet for the woodwind section, but is certainly going to be hard for the percussion section as only i have played this song before during mardi gras way back in march. not that i doubt my friends' skills but they really do not seem to handle the beats well. seems very pathetic as this song is kinda basic for the area of chinese percussion. most importantly, we only have TWO days to practise this new song. expect piles of the lion's mane to accumulate on the floor and pailfuls of blood to be collected later. i'll update u on this.
my CT mr ho 'secretly' returned us our maths marks today. he told leonard ngoei that he got 30+ (no surprise) in the morning and told some of the boys their marks when they asked him. they were anxious to know whether they passed. i didn't ask, but eventually all knew after CIP (cleaning of the canteen in 30 min but registered as 2 hours) when he just shoved us the mark sheet after some prodding. yeah, i got better than expected. ^_^ should be an A. i decided not to reveal my marks here in case someone beats me up -_-" cos there are only 2 As in my class.
the official checking of scripts day is next monday. chinese A paper will be returned tmr though... which i hope i can score an A again. it's certainly an easy to pass/score subject, compared to LEP. i'm really not up to the standard for LEP... being a practical person i guess i can't stand too much chinese literature. of cos chinese A contains chinese lit too, but it's of a more manageable level, lesser in content and difficulty. i think the bicultural studies programme suits me more, which is practical and contains a bit of everything (lit, philosophy, modern history, blah). sadly i'm overaged already.
it seems that the new timetable will be modified into 45-min periods, a reduction of 5 min every period. which means earlier dismissal. actually, what for? lectures are already very rushing before, now they either rush through more, or maybe leave out some details for us to find out so that "teach less, learn more" is applied. i really dun think the traditional spoon-fed crowd of tj, including me, will be pleased with this.
i realised i've typed too much... more later.
~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 3:47 PM