~JcZw

Its the last weekend of the June Hols... Yay, soon we're gonna have our midyears.... my foot. I have a morbid sense of humour. Fencing Tournament got postponed 1 week.

Benefit: More chance to train, more time for my n maurice's blades to come
Drawback: IT CLASHES WITH N-COMP AGAIN!!!

Today my brother made a few interesting comments while we were in the room with our sister. I was at one comp, he was at the other n my sister was at the table... "There are only 3 kinds of birds in Singapore: Crows, pigeons and mynahs" or something like that.... Then my sister said "Not true, there are birds like the Oriel".

The Oriel in question is this yellow bird which we sometimes see around. Unfortunately, my brother heard it as "Oreo?" then, his dry sense of humour kicking in "The kind of bird that's black with one white stripe in the middle". Needless to say, the temperature of the room plummetted. My Thermal Properties notes were hardly sufficient to keep warm, despite the topic....

For those exceedingly inobservant ones, note that to relieve boredom, prevent myself from going mad, as well as to express my limited (very limited, as limited as the flight capabilities of an ostrich) artistic skills, I made a few changes to my blog. As said, I don't want to change the skin.... I don't really like those with a lot of arrows here n there... I like this one... haha.... n the words are big n easy to read...

Anyway I'd always like Isaiah 40:30-31.... I'd first seen it when I was Primary 2, in England during my father's overseas posting... the rest of the family had joined him for a holiday after his work was complete. At the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, this verse was there on one of the plagues, a tribute to the RAF pilots. I always thought about "that verse from Isaiah about eagles" but I never really found out about it despite various Bible quizes etc.

In sec. 3 (sec. 3? sec. 4?) It appeared on the walls of the hall in AHS. Very appropriate, considering the Anglican insignia on our badges. I never did find out whether that creature was an eagle or a falcon though.

I also spent a lot of time searching for a nice song for the blog. I chanced across this one "Power of your love". The line in the chorus:

"And I will soar with you, your spirit leads me on"

was a reminder that entrusting yourself to God's love was to let yourself be guided by him along the correct path.. I heard that song many times on the radio, but I never really went to think about it till recently. So i revamped the blog in the morning before I started studying.

When my sister came along, I showed it to her and asked her what she thought. She looked at it, then said "its nice, but you made a spelling error" Turned out I spelt "Isaiah" wrongly. Gah. I had to re-copy the pic, re-crop, put in the words, re-upload and re-link. Completed it just before cell group at night.

And wonder of wonders. We sang "Power of Your Love" during the cell group! WhoA! Haha.. it was like a personal thing from God yeah... Yup... The message was "The secret to a successful life". It got me thinking again.

It was about a successful life in terms of God's way of living. After all, the person that defines a successful life was, at the end of a day, still a person, not God. Take a simple example:
When I was in upper sec, a successful life meant being able to follow my sister to VJ n join their fencing club. When I got that in PAE, there was not really a sense of elation or anything. Then when school started, a successful life meant being able to stay there after 3 months. All of us longed to wear the uniform and truly become part of the college. But now that I look back, whats the big deal? The novelty of belonging to a "top JC" wears away in the face of tutorials, lectures, projects, conflicts, the very same abraisive things that wear down every JC, Poly or ITE student. So whats the big deal of heading to a top JC? Everyone still is stressed.

Sure, now the "successful life" would mean being able to actually do well for GP and get into the Medical Faculty of NUS next time. Then what next? You'd rarely be satisfied would you, if ever at all. The only thing that could seperate one JC from another is the alleged "bias" that RJ n HC students get into Med Fac more than VJ students do. If it isn't true, why worry, and if it is, then its also the fault of the people doing the assessments. All JCs are like gates to the University, except some are decorated with attractive pictures of torches whose flames are replaced by a "J", or with a griffin grasping a shield or something, or something that looks remotely mushroom shaped... No insult intended to anyone, but sometimes don't you find this kind of "ranking" thingy kinda EXHAUSTING!?

The thing that struck me was that I'd been thinking about all these things in the past few weeks. Before school closed I mentioned this thing about "whats the big deal" to a few people too... They generally felt the same. Sure, I'm proud to be in VJ, n I'm happy that I'm here, I'm happy with the school, but I'm not happy at the having to fight for survival to keep pushing the limit blahblah.

Uh huh, I've shot out everything that I felt like saying.... I think I should leave things to God lar... Liling once mentioned before (Not an exact quote) that "If its God's will for you to get into Medicine, you'll get in no matter how hard it is" It did a lot to allay my own worries =) haha... Its interesting how my sister n I started out from the same Primary school, took completely different route (One went through a single-ed Independant school of english background, another went through a co-ed SAP school of chinese background) before winding up in the same JC, with the same L1R5, in the same subject combi. Hopefully, in the same university course... hahaha

Oh yes, just a matter of interest... Dawn pointed out that the hydrophobic / hydrophilic properties of a phospholipid has been spelt both amphiPHAtic and amphiPATHic. Subsequently, Jiamin found out that both words mean the same and thus I think both would be acceptable... Thanks so much both of you... haha.

And just in case I don't post anymore over the weekend,

ALL THE BEST FOR JCT EVERYONE!