Desperate Measures

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

AHH!!! WHY AM I FEELING GIDDY? IS THE BUILDING MOVING? AHH!!!

oh, so it's the first time i am experiencing tremors from the earthquake at Sumatra. it's really not a nice feeling lor... argh. serves me right for not sleeping early... *yawns*

~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 1:40 AM

Monday, March 28, 2005

oooh, i can actually blog 2 days consecutively. actually i wanted to cover the previous post's bad content... haha.

there's mass PE and we had circuit training... or is it lap training? these professional terms and a super unfit person like me dun go well together (ahh! get away from me!). it's just basically running six rounds, resting 1 minute in between. in the end, we were told that we were supposed to run faster than our normal 2.4 timing. *shudder*

hmm perhaps that was the only thing worth blogging about today. before i forget, i must say mr cheng is a very good chem teacher. it's funny that he lectured chemical bonding only in the entire chem syllabus taught till now...

i'm going to watch desperate housewives later... haha since the heart-wrenching korean drama Glass Shoes has ended... =(

CO tomorrow, mr shen has left with SCO to perform in europe, dunno whether can self-practise or not... i think lion will just make it a da zu...

~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 8:55 PM

Sunday, March 27, 2005

how did you spend the long weekend? as usual, most of it is wasted for me. if i can slack for the entire march holidays, 3 days is nothing to me.

i wanted to watch The Eye 10 with the lyes on good friday but sadly i have to attend my tuition which was supposed to be on saturday. i really dunno why mr chong had to change it, not as if it was an extra lesson. but i still watched the movie on saturday, and it was really a hilarious horror movie. wait a minute, did the "scary movie" series pop up in your mind?

the march results, or rather, report will be coming out soon. i just known some data on thursday: i got F for physics, 38% is the E grade for chem but 400+ people failed. here's a reminder for tj students: we still have to meet the criteria of 1A/2AO passes (even worse for me as i'm taking 4 subs).

in addition i also knew of my chinese grade during chinese class. i got an E... a huge drop from B last year. my chinese teacher is of cos very helpful to announce to the whole class that my results dipped. at the same time, she gave me back a very recent test 2 days ago which i scored 37/40, definitely one of the highest in the class, but she spoke NOTHING of it.

argh, i need to cool off now...

~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 6:40 PM

Sunday, March 20, 2005

the march holidays have come to an END. darn darn darn. i didn't do much studying at all, not even start reading my Death Note 5. but that's because i'm still at the fourth one, haha. so wad did i do during the past week?

monday - shopped around with my mother and watched Hitch with her. bad choice of movie. it really wasn't that funny, u can almost fall asleep during the middle part of the show. even Million Dollar Baby, the oscar best picture which is supposed to be more artsy and boring was more interesting. worse still, it's the first movie my mother has seen since last year's The Best Bet.

tuesday - went to school early for library duties... and learnt that mrs hoo the vice-principal will be leaving soon from the ever resourceful (read: ba gua) library man. it's always like this: VPs will leave the school sooner or later for a "leaders in education" course and before u know it, they will be principals of another school. the library man also pointed out that she has studied too much already since she's a harvard graduate.

then it was CO sectional with mr shen till 6 pm. there was supposed to be games after that but i decided to pon cos it was clearly stated in my sms the practice was until 6, not 7.30. please lah, holidays still want to stay in school till so late?

wednesday - CO again, this time for a longer period from 1.30 to 6 pm. but it was more of slacking for us during the self practice session. that's a huge contrast with ajco.

thursday - it's the 20/04 outing with only 8 people to marina bay to eat bbq steamboat. i guess everyone is just too busy during this short one week holiday. we were the first ones eating there at about 5 pm cos lianwei had syo practice. the food was ok though the beef sucked.

there's nothing to blog about friday and the weekend cos they were more of slacking days...

starting from tomorrow is land mass PE, consisting of running, push ups and more push ups. there's even a make-up chemistry lecture until 6pm tomorrow... argh i still have a chinese test on tuesday. one happy thing to note is that there's no sectional practice on tuesday as mr shen has to follow SCO for their europe concert tour and i can go home early at 3 pm. not very early, but it's better than having maths S last time till 5.15.

notice that i'm even blogging about the new week... haha no time to blog on weekdays lah, until i figure out a way to blog on my handphone, despite hefty gprs charges... =P

~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 10:52 PM

Sunday, March 13, 2005

i realised at about 1+ pm today while reading zaobao that NUS open house is being held today... damn. excuse me for that expletive. yes, 'damn' is considered an expletive to me, haha. of cos i can still go there at that time, since it's until 7 pm. but i have already missed the engineering and university scholars programme talks. even though they are repeated in the afternoon, i can't go cos i have tuition.

i think every jc student wants a place in a local university in the least. but dun be fooled by the Times report published last year that said NUS is ranked 10th in the world. i seriously dun think so. it can't be ranked higher than some prestigious university in the US...

~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 1:13 AM

Thursday, March 10, 2005

hmm... i haven't updated in a long time... this is only my first post in March, but then again, i dun have much postings anyway.

i'll start from last friday, when the A level results are released. tjc really did well in terms of percentage distinctions, with percentage increases that brought the results to a five year high. however, our top students only have 7 distinctions, unlike the nearby jc (the one with the letter 'v', not 'm' =P) which has 9 distinctions. somehow i love to compare our results with that of the nearby jc, but then i think we are not really at the same level as them. dunno how zhiyuan did for his A levels, didn't see his name in the 3/4 distinctions name list posted at the vjc website.

on a personal note, i got A1/distinction in oral for AO chinese, something "not surprising" as chen yu puts it. i do worry for my chinese A though, cos i feel that my chinese teacher is really kinda slack and doesn't prepare us enough in terms of language. literature wise, it's more about the memory work. but i also won't like it if she gives more work to me of cos. i would like to see on the powerpoint slides next year when receiving my results that %AB in chinese A is 100%.

monday was the last swimming PE i had in tj, or more exactly, the last time i had to rush like mad to go to the swimming complex by 7.20, which i never do.

tuesday i went for CO on time, no more maths S for me, hooray! but the big drum was being lent to PA for their upcoming concert this saturday (which i can't go sadly), so i came only for the sectionals with mr shen. he's a nice man who have many stories to tell once he has the chance to say them. haiz, if i have known him in secondary school, i would have learnt from him since then.

yesterday we had a learning journey to the central narcotics bureau, but in fact we were only brought into a meeting room and sat there listening to a powerpoint presentation throughout the time there. nothing really new and interesting about drugs, i think the speaker's own stories were more interesting. there were snacks prepared for us, i think the ISD (internal security department) should really learn from them. the question and answer session surprised me as many questions were asked. all of us left with a water bottle too, but all good things must come to an end. we learnt that there was no return bus trip, so we had to find our way home. poor mr ho doesn't know this also i think, so he had to take taxi back to school.

today was chem SPA skills B & D involving recrystallisation. ms wong was surprisingly helpful as she walked around the lab, telling us what we had done wrong and what we should do. in the end, i was constantly asking for her opinion as i dun want to lose out to the people whom she helped... haha. i didn't feel too good after smelling so much ethanol though. but i felt better after i went for the sterling lecture which was directly after SPA. the angmoh speaks in a clearer way than mr chan although with a heavy accent. the topic was about vibrations and the real life video clips during the presentation were the most interesting. imagine walking on a shaking bridge?

i must study for my maths test now... bye.

~ the @lie[n] landed on Earth @ 9:57 PM