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Friday, September 29, 2006
The past two days were kinda horrible... My allergy acted up again so for the past two days my eyes have been flicking off their own accord, and goodness knows how many passers-by wondered why this boy kept rolling his eyeballs and winking at them alternately... I'm just allergic to stress that's all.
Results are out... Or rather some of them... and none look too good... For every good paper, there's at least one or more opposite papers to pull the general subject down... And as for GP, although compo was acceptable, summary and AQ totally killed me.... to add insult to injury, the stuff that was on the answer scheme was in my head, just that I summarized too much so that it all became "too vague". I mean, outside of AQ, summary and vocab, I only lost 2.5 marks (of which one was the "why is God a she" question). A B3 is not going to get me into Medicine if I wanted to heh. I mean, not that I see my results as absolute bad, but they're not good enough to get me to where I want to go y'know? So its more of relative bad.
It could have been worst, but for one-and-a-half months of intensive mugging and esplanading, there isn't much improvement from the status quo to show for it yet.
Hope Bio and Physics is better.
Results are out... Or rather some of them... and none look too good... For every good paper, there's at least one or more opposite papers to pull the general subject down... And as for GP, although compo was acceptable, summary and AQ totally killed me.... to add insult to injury, the stuff that was on the answer scheme was in my head, just that I summarized too much so that it all became "too vague". I mean, outside of AQ, summary and vocab, I only lost 2.5 marks (of which one was the "why is God a she" question). A B3 is not going to get me into Medicine if I wanted to heh. I mean, not that I see my results as absolute bad, but they're not good enough to get me to where I want to go y'know? So its more of relative bad.
It could have been worst, but for one-and-a-half months of intensive mugging and esplanading, there isn't much improvement from the status quo to show for it yet.
Hope Bio and Physics is better.
~JcZw~ at 4:50 pm
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Kayaking today with some classmates... Very educational session... And experienced a lot of new stuff...
For one thing, one of the kayaks was full of ants and we only noticed after we had almost brought it into the water.... Enjie's attempt to drown them out ended with patches of ants floating on the water like micelles... As if someone had dropped specky oil onto the water.... Totally ewww-isome...
Also got to use a single kayak this time, which is so much more easy to capsize.... Alon and Mursjid taught me capsize drill which also gives quite an adrenaline rush (as well as water in the nose)... Nearly lost my slippers in the reservoir to boot....
So we spent the afternoon paddling around, capsizing, helping each other recover kayaks, drain water etcetc... All very fun and also quite draining, now that I think about it...
Well, hope there are more outings like it in the future... although it seems increasingly difficult with our break coming to an end.. But still, at least this one pulled off relatively okay...
Next on the list: Fencing tomorrow night heheh... and maybe a cycle to Changi Village in the near future?? Wah... sounds like I'm so free...
Right super tired now... Oh and happy birthday Alon...
For one thing, one of the kayaks was full of ants and we only noticed after we had almost brought it into the water.... Enjie's attempt to drown them out ended with patches of ants floating on the water like micelles... As if someone had dropped specky oil onto the water.... Totally ewww-isome...
Also got to use a single kayak this time, which is so much more easy to capsize.... Alon and Mursjid taught me capsize drill which also gives quite an adrenaline rush (as well as water in the nose)... Nearly lost my slippers in the reservoir to boot....
So we spent the afternoon paddling around, capsizing, helping each other recover kayaks, drain water etcetc... All very fun and also quite draining, now that I think about it...
Well, hope there are more outings like it in the future... although it seems increasingly difficult with our break coming to an end.. But still, at least this one pulled off relatively okay...
Next on the list: Fencing tomorrow night heheh... and maybe a cycle to Changi Village in the near future?? Wah... sounds like I'm so free...
Right super tired now... Oh and happy birthday Alon...
~JcZw~ at 8:42 pm
Whoo... Its been a very peaceful few days... In fact, its kinda unnerving... Spent the day filing all my notes back into their original files for round Two, as well as helping to cook dinner... Oh and I brewed a whole pot of chrysanthymum tea.. haha... alright pretty easy actually...
Its funny when I look back on my notes and, ignoring the copied examples, re-read the frivilous stuff that I and neghbours in lectures have scribbled on my notes in boredom... There is the one on SI units completely adorned with furballs, of course... Then there are those with people who have attempted to imitate my furballs on the paper (its pretty easy to tell which are mine and which are not)... and a classmate wrote "chan you rawk" over a lot of my earlier lecture notes, on which on one of them, another classmate circled the above-mentioned statement and wrote "like real" or something haha... Then there are pictures of epees and pictures of fencers (BAD pictures) drawn by myself in an effort to stay awake... or pictures of the occasional animal, vegetable or mineral...
Interesting how looking at such simple things bring back memories... Like the times we would really really afford to fool around in lectures (that would be, before we realised that one day we would actually have to take As), and the times when the class was like that...
Oh well.... Soon it'll be time to start reading them all over again... So exciting *choke gasp splutter dies*
Oh by the way, there is ANOTHER whiney whiney online! Same song, different dance...
Its funny when I look back on my notes and, ignoring the copied examples, re-read the frivilous stuff that I and neghbours in lectures have scribbled on my notes in boredom... There is the one on SI units completely adorned with furballs, of course... Then there are those with people who have attempted to imitate my furballs on the paper (its pretty easy to tell which are mine and which are not)... and a classmate wrote "chan you rawk" over a lot of my earlier lecture notes, on which on one of them, another classmate circled the above-mentioned statement and wrote "like real" or something haha... Then there are pictures of epees and pictures of fencers (BAD pictures) drawn by myself in an effort to stay awake... or pictures of the occasional animal, vegetable or mineral...
Interesting how looking at such simple things bring back memories... Like the times we would really really afford to fool around in lectures (that would be, before we realised that one day we would actually have to take As), and the times when the class was like that...
Oh well.... Soon it'll be time to start reading them all over again... So exciting *choke gasp splutter dies*
Oh by the way, there is ANOTHER whiney whiney online! Same song, different dance...
~JcZw~ at 12:39 am
Saturday, September 23, 2006
"Gel makes all the difference... One day I'm going to get my hands on your hair'
-Hsia Pin
Hoho... apparently quite a lot of people want to make over my hair... Well, too bad, they're in for a wait... =Pp
-Hsia Pin
Hoho... apparently quite a lot of people want to make over my hair... Well, too bad, they're in for a wait... =Pp
~JcZw~ at 9:46 pm
Friday, September 22, 2006
Put four teenage boys in the sun for too long and they'll go a wee bit crazy.
That theory has been proven by my team plus myself in the 4 years in St. John. Enjie, ChuaH, Alon and I proved it again today... Heheh..
While kicking around in town yesterday we conceived the idea of cycling in ECP, the details of which were quickly thrashed out and the SMSes flew etcetc, although a combination of forgetfulness and lack of sleep led to several CBDs (just like in St. John).
So 10.30 to 11.00 found us at VJ, albeit in mufti, the above mentioned 4 people plus Liling and Christl. It was a huge tactical error on my part to decide to blade rather than take a bicycle (for the novelty of it), but who was to know then anyway?! I even managed not to fall down until I had almost reached Costa Sands Resort! Of course, it was an even huge-r tactical error to decide NOT to bring at least one of my two bottles on the trip, but since every one was travelling light I decided "ah whatever" (which proved to be near fatal).
Bladed and stumbled all the way to the end of the trail at Tampines Safra, then committed tactical error 3, which was tripping and falling along the road, trying to catch the chicken wire to break fall, and ending up turning my ankle, which put me kinda far behind the rest... Happily the structure of the roller blade was so much like a boot that it prevented any sprain or serious twist so....
At the end of the road Enjie got this sudden RUSH OF BLOOD to the brain and wanted to go Changi Village to eat... On the other hand, Christl and Liling had to turn for another rendevous... So at approximately 12.30, with the sun just past its zenith, we were making our way along the side of the airport. Unfortunately the path was littered with the husks of dispersed seeds which made blading a pain in the backside, and even more unfortunately, later on the path kind of terminated, so we had to either ride on the road and get mown down by monster trucks... or walk. But walking in rollerblades over tree roots and with my foot steadily becoming sore was hardly an ideal situation. In the end Enjie kindly offered to scout ahead for Changi Village (cos he was the only one who was good enough with the thing he had rented to ride on the road) while the three of us made an ardous walk... In the end it was just off with the roller blades and I walked on the grass with my socks...
Then we had another brainwave and decided to walk next to the fence where there were no trees = no shade = no obstructions. And we were like -_-"' why didn't we think of that before.. So we did
Oh sorry that no pictures appeared before... Before, I was too far from the group, or trying to catch up. By this time everyone was more or less dying in the sun =D
My two travelling companions. The grass still wasn't very conducive for riding though. And some of it was poky. Blah.
It was not long till we turned back (The sun is now shining on their faces rather than on their backs) after ChuaH and Alon made some enquiries and found out that changi village was a light year away or something... Anyway we started our turn back.
ChuaH and a funny mushroom like thing on the ground which he poked with a stick before declaring that it "looked alive". Happily it didn't manifest its alive-ness by biting us or sending forth a swarm of stinging insects or something. Don't know how we managed to slog our way back when we only had one bottle of water - ChuaH's, which he happily donated to us.
Happily also, there was a water point a few kilometers down set up by an enterprising couple with a truck and an icebox.
We happily hydrated ourselves there before eating at the food court... Sigh, but couldn't really taste the sambal kang kong... Dunno why usually its so nice but this time our receptors seemed blocked... The people selling drinks there really made a lot of money from us that day...
Well, we made it in the end, and we wound up sitting in front of the rental place trying to catch our collective breaths... Quite fun.. heheh
Here's the map of our route... We travelled 20 km or so (the scale reads less, cos I cut some corners while plotting the route).. It must have done some good to the NS related muscles =D... So here's to our next outing before we have to go back to mugging for the REAL THING!
And the next blade I'm touching is gonna be my epee period
Oh thanks everyone who went on the outing, and for accomodating my incredible inability to keep my balance for long periods of time =)
That theory has been proven by my team plus myself in the 4 years in St. John. Enjie, ChuaH, Alon and I proved it again today... Heheh..
While kicking around in town yesterday we conceived the idea of cycling in ECP, the details of which were quickly thrashed out and the SMSes flew etcetc, although a combination of forgetfulness and lack of sleep led to several CBDs (just like in St. John).
So 10.30 to 11.00 found us at VJ, albeit in mufti, the above mentioned 4 people plus Liling and Christl. It was a huge tactical error on my part to decide to blade rather than take a bicycle (for the novelty of it), but who was to know then anyway?! I even managed not to fall down until I had almost reached Costa Sands Resort! Of course, it was an even huge-r tactical error to decide NOT to bring at least one of my two bottles on the trip, but since every one was travelling light I decided "ah whatever" (which proved to be near fatal).
Bladed and stumbled all the way to the end of the trail at Tampines Safra, then committed tactical error 3, which was tripping and falling along the road, trying to catch the chicken wire to break fall, and ending up turning my ankle, which put me kinda far behind the rest... Happily the structure of the roller blade was so much like a boot that it prevented any sprain or serious twist so....
At the end of the road Enjie got this sudden RUSH OF BLOOD to the brain and wanted to go Changi Village to eat... On the other hand, Christl and Liling had to turn for another rendevous... So at approximately 12.30, with the sun just past its zenith, we were making our way along the side of the airport. Unfortunately the path was littered with the husks of dispersed seeds which made blading a pain in the backside, and even more unfortunately, later on the path kind of terminated, so we had to either ride on the road and get mown down by monster trucks... or walk. But walking in rollerblades over tree roots and with my foot steadily becoming sore was hardly an ideal situation. In the end Enjie kindly offered to scout ahead for Changi Village (cos he was the only one who was good enough with the thing he had rented to ride on the road) while the three of us made an ardous walk... In the end it was just off with the roller blades and I walked on the grass with my socks...
Then we had another brainwave and decided to walk next to the fence where there were no trees = no shade = no obstructions. And we were like -_-"' why didn't we think of that before.. So we did
Oh sorry that no pictures appeared before... Before, I was too far from the group, or trying to catch up. By this time everyone was more or less dying in the sun =D
My two travelling companions. The grass still wasn't very conducive for riding though. And some of it was poky. Blah.
It was not long till we turned back (The sun is now shining on their faces rather than on their backs) after ChuaH and Alon made some enquiries and found out that changi village was a light year away or something... Anyway we started our turn back.
ChuaH and a funny mushroom like thing on the ground which he poked with a stick before declaring that it "looked alive". Happily it didn't manifest its alive-ness by biting us or sending forth a swarm of stinging insects or something. Don't know how we managed to slog our way back when we only had one bottle of water - ChuaH's, which he happily donated to us.
Happily also, there was a water point a few kilometers down set up by an enterprising couple with a truck and an icebox.
We happily hydrated ourselves there before eating at the food court... Sigh, but couldn't really taste the sambal kang kong... Dunno why usually its so nice but this time our receptors seemed blocked... The people selling drinks there really made a lot of money from us that day...
Well, we made it in the end, and we wound up sitting in front of the rental place trying to catch our collective breaths... Quite fun.. heheh
Here's the map of our route... We travelled 20 km or so (the scale reads less, cos I cut some corners while plotting the route).. It must have done some good to the NS related muscles =D... So here's to our next outing before we have to go back to mugging for the REAL THING!
And the next blade I'm touching is gonna be my epee period
Oh thanks everyone who went on the outing, and for accomodating my incredible inability to keep my balance for long periods of time =)
~JcZw~ at 7:29 pm
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Ok so prelims are over... Ended by poring over 3 quite lousy Bio S essays, most of which was core stuff, so I'm going to get seriously marked down sighhh.. Bio 1 was ok lar, for someone who didn't touch core Bio after last monday aiyar whatever life seems quite fouled up now...
Anyway went out to eat at this Pasta place (which is manned by some very friendly personnel) with some classmates.. Had a near death encounter along the tunnel to Ngee Ann City and one of those people-giving-out-fliers who was hiding behind the wall suddenly shot out a hand and thrust a flyer at my solar plexus.. Its like I was just walking and suddenly this hand comes out at a dangerously low level and you're like "whoa". Quite naturally I started quite violently, and quite fortunately didn't damage myself or my immediate environment.
However what was not so fortunate was that later on at Far East, after speed-window-shopping (well it was more like walking and looking at the same time) with Enjie and Alon, I misjudged my distance from the bottom of the escalator while standing sideways talking to them, with the result that the side of my shoe was hooked in the track and when the segment was pulled under the landing, there was a loud bang followed by me clattering about trying to regain balance... Embarrasing.. And now there are parallel scars on my shoe from the escalator teeth and the lower sole is a little torn... gah. I'm just happy it was not a shoe lace.... Hope my shoes can last me till I go to NS.
I have a distinctly nasty feeling that my neurons all converge on a synapse that links to almost every muscle in my body... If any receptos detects sudden changes in volume, light or sound then it wll cause everything to contract spontaneously... The really powerful triggers include 8 legged creatures, and people who wear white and walk around darkened rooms at night heh. Then upon stimulus its like "Intruder Alert! All neurons fire! *ZAP*"
Oh speaking of which, the entrance to the basement of Far East has walls on which hang magnified strips of tropocollagen... see for yourself.
Alright anyway I'm like really incoherent now... Shall run and go sleep
Anyway went out to eat at this Pasta place (which is manned by some very friendly personnel) with some classmates.. Had a near death encounter along the tunnel to Ngee Ann City and one of those people-giving-out-fliers who was hiding behind the wall suddenly shot out a hand and thrust a flyer at my solar plexus.. Its like I was just walking and suddenly this hand comes out at a dangerously low level and you're like "whoa". Quite naturally I started quite violently, and quite fortunately didn't damage myself or my immediate environment.
However what was not so fortunate was that later on at Far East, after speed-window-shopping (well it was more like walking and looking at the same time) with Enjie and Alon, I misjudged my distance from the bottom of the escalator while standing sideways talking to them, with the result that the side of my shoe was hooked in the track and when the segment was pulled under the landing, there was a loud bang followed by me clattering about trying to regain balance... Embarrasing.. And now there are parallel scars on my shoe from the escalator teeth and the lower sole is a little torn... gah. I'm just happy it was not a shoe lace.... Hope my shoes can last me till I go to NS.
I have a distinctly nasty feeling that my neurons all converge on a synapse that links to almost every muscle in my body... If any receptos detects sudden changes in volume, light or sound then it wll cause everything to contract spontaneously... The really powerful triggers include 8 legged creatures, and people who wear white and walk around darkened rooms at night heh. Then upon stimulus its like "Intruder Alert! All neurons fire! *ZAP*"
Oh speaking of which, the entrance to the basement of Far East has walls on which hang magnified strips of tropocollagen... see for yourself.
Alright anyway I'm like really incoherent now... Shall run and go sleep
~JcZw~ at 6:10 pm
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Well, Physics Paper 3 was more ok than I anticipated... That's not to say that it was "good", but at least it wasn't disastrous... I even managed to remember to convert kilometers into meters heheh... The problem was that my satillites were orbiting at just about the speed of light or something cos I used the wrong formula... Happily that wasn't connected to the rest of the question heheh...
Also thank God that even though I forgot what was the conversion of Electron Volt to Joules, my guess was right! Haha so my quantum isn't as doomed as I thought it would be..
Anyway, again a really bad time, but I found my sister's last Battlestar Galactica CD, a three hour long clip this time, and between yesterday and this morning I finished watching it hehh.. Still, I think I can remember my Option.. or rather, I hope. But they better not ask me what's the structure of a placenta, cos there's no clear cut description in either the book or the notes, and people like me who use visual memory need that.
Well, cheerio... 4 to go... May the force, the work, the energy and the power be with us...
Also thank God that even though I forgot what was the conversion of Electron Volt to Joules, my guess was right! Haha so my quantum isn't as doomed as I thought it would be..
Anyway, again a really bad time, but I found my sister's last Battlestar Galactica CD, a three hour long clip this time, and between yesterday and this morning I finished watching it hehh.. Still, I think I can remember my Option.. or rather, I hope. But they better not ask me what's the structure of a placenta, cos there's no clear cut description in either the book or the notes, and people like me who use visual memory need that.
Well, cheerio... 4 to go... May the force, the work, the energy and the power be with us...
~JcZw~ at 11:19 am
Friday, September 15, 2006
Ok, replaced the picture with a clearer one... If Brandon ever finds this blog, he can have the honour of being honoured heheh... Oh I'm the one with the raggedy shoes.. Changed also the smaller fencing picture of Maurice and I... this one is the same essentially, but enhanced by ArcSoft.. Third change is the intro bar below the pics... Decided that I was superly overly chiong hay and replaced it with a shorter one... After all, not like readers benefit by knowing what I like and what I don't...
Hmmm Physics and Maths... are kinda depressing to talk about, so apologies if I don't elaborate.... But HOW do people get 4 As for A-levels... Sighh... Its as though any dream I have of going to medicine or teaching or whatever just hinges on these 8 or so weeks, and that is truly scary...
Talking about sensitive stuff with people, for me, is like walking in a minefield... Or, for the want of an analogy closer to home, like doing Maths... I never know whether I'm doing something wrong until the person shows it overtly, the explosion occurs, or I check the answer at the back of the TYS. That said, I know that EQ-ing is not one of the gifts I possess and its something I would never fathom.
Anyway, I have about a day's respite... really really burnt out, and the ache in my shoulder's increasingly steadily. My mother says its cos I tense up too much when I'm doing work, but that didn't stop her from checking me for pneumothorax yesterday hahaa... Maybe its time to start learning to be ambidextrous. Went to Parkway with a few classmates, and on the way home, I had an encounter with the side of the road, a deep puddle and a fast-moving bus. I thought those kinda things happened only in cartoons, not real life.... Now my jacket is undergoing a thorough DRYING.
Anyway according to Readers' Digest, we're all fundamentally female... And according to our Bio textbook, our sex is determined by a pea sized organ in our brain called the hypothalamus or something like that... or was that the pituitary gland. Whatever. Anyway its off to option. May the next week not be too disastrous, or we've had it.
Hmmm Physics and Maths... are kinda depressing to talk about, so apologies if I don't elaborate.... But HOW do people get 4 As for A-levels... Sighh... Its as though any dream I have of going to medicine or teaching or whatever just hinges on these 8 or so weeks, and that is truly scary...
Talking about sensitive stuff with people, for me, is like walking in a minefield... Or, for the want of an analogy closer to home, like doing Maths... I never know whether I'm doing something wrong until the person shows it overtly, the explosion occurs, or I check the answer at the back of the TYS. That said, I know that EQ-ing is not one of the gifts I possess and its something I would never fathom.
Anyway, I have about a day's respite... really really burnt out, and the ache in my shoulder's increasingly steadily. My mother says its cos I tense up too much when I'm doing work, but that didn't stop her from checking me for pneumothorax yesterday hahaa... Maybe its time to start learning to be ambidextrous. Went to Parkway with a few classmates, and on the way home, I had an encounter with the side of the road, a deep puddle and a fast-moving bus. I thought those kinda things happened only in cartoons, not real life.... Now my jacket is undergoing a thorough DRYING.
Anyway according to Readers' Digest, we're all fundamentally female... And according to our Bio textbook, our sex is determined by a pea sized organ in our brain called the hypothalamus or something like that... or was that the pituitary gland. Whatever. Anyway its off to option. May the next week not be too disastrous, or we've had it.
~JcZw~ at 4:59 pm
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Fighter Status:
Throttle: Open, Full
S-foils: Attack Position
Lasers: Quad Fire
Shields: Reinforced
The problem with running a craft, X-wing or Viper, at full combat readiness is that sooner or later the thing starts to wear out. And after getting massacred not once but a few times, morale for myself isn't what you'd call high.
Bio 2: Was a race against time. I don't see the sense in cracking out our brains to be competing against time.
Maths 1: My first page was nice and blank. Felt totally dumb. Ok not thaaat blank... Heh... but that's what scares me. And to CAP IT ALL, I LEFT ONE SUB-QUESTION BLANK BY ACCIDENT, repeating the SAME mistake as CT 2!!! If I get 67 I'll just kick myself...
And in that one day, I managed to:
a) Leak my bottle into my bag, wetting a readers' digest and a lot of maths notes, some of which have differentiated on me... (Disintegrated... What did I say?)
b) Trip on Nelson's bag, and, as they say in Biggles, "measure my length on the floor"
c) Attempt to click my G2 pen shut... and pressing on the wrong end... with the point still out.
Chem 3: Structural Elucidation was a no brainer... By that I mean it was way low on my list of priorities. So I'll be content if I get one or two marks... It was the kinda paper that's basically simple enough, but you lose one mark here, and another mark there, and in the end you wind up with a D kinda thing... Pah
Tomorrow is physics, which can be unpredictable... We'll see...
Anyway Enjie and I are going slightly mad, if we do say so ourselves... the word "Esplanade" in our vocabulary has become a verb.. i.e. "Are you going esplanading". Went there again today and did a good 6 hours work... Although both of us fell asleep at various times and only I got caught by the librarian... Actually I don't see the point of banning students from sleeping... She waved at the signs on the wall and walked off before I could point out that it did NOT have a sign that said no sleeping... Ticked off the options one by one:
No cameras. My phone was in my pocket and under my jacket.
No eating. I was asleep
No pets. Does Enjie remotely resemble a pet??
No "no sleeping". Yes, I can appreciate the fact that sleeping takes up space at the reading table, but I also appreciated the fact that half the tables were like empty. Singaporeans can sometimes be so narrow minded.. all rules and no such thing as "using your discretion". If civilisation remained like this, the close quarters attacks would never have been invented in fencing.
Anyway, as I said, both of us have started to display the symptoms of concussion, including blurness, forgetting simple facts and such. Some examples include:
"0.3 times 2.7 is 9" -me
"Lets have lunch for waffles" -him
and the like.
Can you imagine if this kinda thing happened in an environment like, say the police force?
"Did you throw the flashbang?"
"I thought you said frag?"
Anyway, its a break for me tonight... I'm not "giving up" per se, but better a break after intensive work than a burn out...
Random thought... A few things I would dearly like to do now is do something physical, other than walking home... Like fencing, soccer, badminton, anything!!!!
Also when prelim is over (if it ever ends) I shall attempt to make a fencing video... heh... using one of the few skills I picked up in PW hahaa
Alright its the bed for me... 9 hours sleep!! Yum...
Throttle: Open, Full
S-foils: Attack Position
Lasers: Quad Fire
Shields: Reinforced
The problem with running a craft, X-wing or Viper, at full combat readiness is that sooner or later the thing starts to wear out. And after getting massacred not once but a few times, morale for myself isn't what you'd call high.
Bio 2: Was a race against time. I don't see the sense in cracking out our brains to be competing against time.
Maths 1: My first page was nice and blank. Felt totally dumb. Ok not thaaat blank... Heh... but that's what scares me. And to CAP IT ALL, I LEFT ONE SUB-QUESTION BLANK BY ACCIDENT, repeating the SAME mistake as CT 2!!! If I get 67 I'll just kick myself...
And in that one day, I managed to:
a) Leak my bottle into my bag, wetting a readers' digest and a lot of maths notes, some of which have differentiated on me... (Disintegrated... What did I say?)
b) Trip on Nelson's bag, and, as they say in Biggles, "measure my length on the floor"
c) Attempt to click my G2 pen shut... and pressing on the wrong end... with the point still out.
Chem 3: Structural Elucidation was a no brainer... By that I mean it was way low on my list of priorities. So I'll be content if I get one or two marks... It was the kinda paper that's basically simple enough, but you lose one mark here, and another mark there, and in the end you wind up with a D kinda thing... Pah
Tomorrow is physics, which can be unpredictable... We'll see...
Anyway Enjie and I are going slightly mad, if we do say so ourselves... the word "Esplanade" in our vocabulary has become a verb.. i.e. "Are you going esplanading". Went there again today and did a good 6 hours work... Although both of us fell asleep at various times and only I got caught by the librarian... Actually I don't see the point of banning students from sleeping... She waved at the signs on the wall and walked off before I could point out that it did NOT have a sign that said no sleeping... Ticked off the options one by one:
No cameras. My phone was in my pocket and under my jacket.
No eating. I was asleep
No pets. Does Enjie remotely resemble a pet??
No "no sleeping". Yes, I can appreciate the fact that sleeping takes up space at the reading table, but I also appreciated the fact that half the tables were like empty. Singaporeans can sometimes be so narrow minded.. all rules and no such thing as "using your discretion". If civilisation remained like this, the close quarters attacks would never have been invented in fencing.
Anyway, as I said, both of us have started to display the symptoms of concussion, including blurness, forgetting simple facts and such. Some examples include:
"0.3 times 2.7 is 9" -me
"Lets have lunch for waffles" -him
and the like.
Can you imagine if this kinda thing happened in an environment like, say the police force?
"Did you throw the flashbang?"
"I thought you said frag?"
Anyway, its a break for me tonight... I'm not "giving up" per se, but better a break after intensive work than a burn out...
Random thought... A few things I would dearly like to do now is do something physical, other than walking home... Like fencing, soccer, badminton, anything!!!!
Also when prelim is over (if it ever ends) I shall attempt to make a fencing video... heh... using one of the few skills I picked up in PW hahaa
Alright its the bed for me... 9 hours sleep!! Yum...
~JcZw~ at 11:44 pm
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Well, as we planned we went to the National Library today, and acting on the exhortations of classmates who had gone there before, we dragged ourselves out of bed very early-ly (I had to force myself to fall out of bed... but that wasn't very useful cos the 4 or so inch drop from the mattress ain't significant) and rendevous-ed at Bugis, where the library was only a stone's throw away...
We reached there at 9.10, a mere 10 minutes after opening and to our SHOCK and AWE the study lounge was already full!! It was like.... well, you could almost see the speech bubbles with the "......" over our heads... We must have been mad... But then, those people were probably madder... It was so early and we were like "ARGH!!". But just as well, sort of, cos neither of us had breakfast, so it was off to Bras Basah Macdonalds (I realised with me eating only breakfast and dinner, my diet is half of the super-size-me diet) before going to the Esplanade, the sure-fire location of getting a seat.. haha...
Not that the basement of the library looked too forbidding, but... well, Esplanade has more ambience... and probably better toilets... hahaa...
Chem Prelim 2005 was a massacre... I would have probably gotten a nice O if I had sat for it last year, but whatever...
Then came the HIGHLIGHT of the day (I told Enjie I would write this, so here goes). In trooped a bunch of Caucasians (ok, I think there were only two of them, but given the noise they made I would assume there were more), who started to ooh and ahh over the displays of the figurines of various Indian gods in the library... and not mere tourists either... These people were well dressed and the synapse in my head with "ang-moh" immediately lined up with that saying "IMF". I may be wrong, but I don't think so... Neither does Enjie...
And then just before they left, one of them said to her companion, with a Posh English Accent "What are they doing? Studying? I've nothing left to study, I've already gotten my PhD." and walked off.
The entire block of tables containing students from all kinds of junior colleges (especially mine, cos she had been standing right next to us) fell silent. I wonder if there were any of us who were not tempted to let fly the nearest pointy piece of stationery, pencil or eraser, blanco or pen. THE-SHEER.... THICK-SKINNEDNESS really got our collective goat especially since our nerves were already stretched (the Esplanade always seems to have this air of controlled tension with people rustling papers or asking frantic questions in low voices). She said it SO LOUDLY even those listening to music stiffened up. The quiet library became even quieter and all that stuff... What the... Well, I'd say one thing, in such situations, visitors aren't going to get "3 million smiles". I mean, it's simply not done y'know... and especially not with a Posh English Accent, which while ok on television, sounds so irksome when it conveys such content.
But enough of that... its back to the Loop of Henle... Cheerio
We reached there at 9.10, a mere 10 minutes after opening and to our SHOCK and AWE the study lounge was already full!! It was like.... well, you could almost see the speech bubbles with the "......" over our heads... We must have been mad... But then, those people were probably madder... It was so early and we were like "ARGH!!". But just as well, sort of, cos neither of us had breakfast, so it was off to Bras Basah Macdonalds (I realised with me eating only breakfast and dinner, my diet is half of the super-size-me diet) before going to the Esplanade, the sure-fire location of getting a seat.. haha...
Not that the basement of the library looked too forbidding, but... well, Esplanade has more ambience... and probably better toilets... hahaa...
Chem Prelim 2005 was a massacre... I would have probably gotten a nice O if I had sat for it last year, but whatever...
Then came the HIGHLIGHT of the day (I told Enjie I would write this, so here goes). In trooped a bunch of Caucasians (ok, I think there were only two of them, but given the noise they made I would assume there were more), who started to ooh and ahh over the displays of the figurines of various Indian gods in the library... and not mere tourists either... These people were well dressed and the synapse in my head with "ang-moh" immediately lined up with that saying "IMF". I may be wrong, but I don't think so... Neither does Enjie...
And then just before they left, one of them said to her companion, with a Posh English Accent "What are they doing? Studying? I've nothing left to study, I've already gotten my PhD." and walked off.
The entire block of tables containing students from all kinds of junior colleges (especially mine, cos she had been standing right next to us) fell silent. I wonder if there were any of us who were not tempted to let fly the nearest pointy piece of stationery, pencil or eraser, blanco or pen. THE-SHEER.... THICK-SKINNEDNESS really got our collective goat especially since our nerves were already stretched (the Esplanade always seems to have this air of controlled tension with people rustling papers or asking frantic questions in low voices). She said it SO LOUDLY even those listening to music stiffened up. The quiet library became even quieter and all that stuff... What the... Well, I'd say one thing, in such situations, visitors aren't going to get "3 million smiles". I mean, it's simply not done y'know... and especially not with a Posh English Accent, which while ok on television, sounds so irksome when it conveys such content.
But enough of that... its back to the Loop of Henle... Cheerio
~JcZw~ at 11:17 pm
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Esplanade again today with Enjie... and ran into Aaron-the-fencing-treasurer and Izam-who-took-MTL-with-me-and-Alvin. So we sort of studied together, right under the air con vent. Somehow I've never noticed the drop in Esplanade temperature until the past two weeks....
Oh and looks like we're gonna try the National Library at Bras Basah for wednesday, just for the sake of trying something new... Also, esplanade is getting very crowded... The seats all filled up within... I'd say, 45 seconds of the door opening.
Finished physics today, but when Enjie asked me some questions, of ALL the questions he asked I could only answer one, and I can't remember which one... Aim to finish Chem tomorrow, but my brain is not retaining anything... Its like a wooden box which is badly nailed together, and everything's bursting out... Two thirds to go for Bio... Genetics and Biostats give me the willies... And there's more to come... especially option... then again, Bio's the paper you don't need to practise so much...
As for maths, I sort of haven't specifically revised everything, just that I'm doing papers...
Anyway its down to papers to HAMMER everything into the various neurons in the brain. Yet i still feel detached, as though the prelims are not very real or important, although I KNOW THEY ARE!!! And again, some papers seem to be printed just for the sake of demoralizing the students.... ArghH!!!
Still, we'll see how it goes... Alright stop for now.
Oh and looks like we're gonna try the National Library at Bras Basah for wednesday, just for the sake of trying something new... Also, esplanade is getting very crowded... The seats all filled up within... I'd say, 45 seconds of the door opening.
Finished physics today, but when Enjie asked me some questions, of ALL the questions he asked I could only answer one, and I can't remember which one... Aim to finish Chem tomorrow, but my brain is not retaining anything... Its like a wooden box which is badly nailed together, and everything's bursting out... Two thirds to go for Bio... Genetics and Biostats give me the willies... And there's more to come... especially option... then again, Bio's the paper you don't need to practise so much...
As for maths, I sort of haven't specifically revised everything, just that I'm doing papers...
Anyway its down to papers to HAMMER everything into the various neurons in the brain. Yet i still feel detached, as though the prelims are not very real or important, although I KNOW THEY ARE!!! And again, some papers seem to be printed just for the sake of demoralizing the students.... ArghH!!!
Still, we'll see how it goes... Alright stop for now.
~JcZw~ at 12:17 am
Friday, September 01, 2006
Yesterday was indeed groundbreaking... an unprecedented SEVEN hours at the Esplanade.. Although it was relatively not efficient cos I only studied inorganic chem and I still don't like transition metals... Oh and a little while more at home... My MP3 player ran down from 3 bars to zero charge, probably cos I was using a lot of .WMA files which eat up more battery...
Oh yes... Enjie and I met (or rather, ran into) Christl and Charmaine at City Hall MRT, although a combination of myopia and lack of sleep meant I did not recognize them until Enjie kinda talked right into my ear telling me who they were... And I was like ooops...
And it was FREEZING in the Esplanade, even though I had a jacket... We owe this to the rain
And you can see that it rained so heavily that the CBD skyline was almost completely obscured, and it can't have been all that far away. I thought the world was coming to an end... with one third of the light blocked out and whatnot..
Also unprecedented is that I went to the Esplanade two days in a row, and today was even MORE not efficient... Seven hours and all I did was a couple of RJ revision tuitorials on complex numbers and vectors.... Well, I'll take consolation that I have more or less finished with two of Mr Teo's "Big Five".... But RJ's tuitorials are really good.... You feel more confident after the thing, and you realize that actually the questions more or less repeat...
Well, one more week to go... In this one week, I'll probably get to eat an increasing amount of food from
a) MacDonald's in Marina Square
b) The food loft at Marina Square
And there goes my notions of going running during the... what's it called... hols?
And oh.... the Esplanade is not haunted... Sorry for any mental or emotional trauma caused... heheh... And yes, I think both of us are going mad...
Oh yes... Enjie and I met (or rather, ran into) Christl and Charmaine at City Hall MRT, although a combination of myopia and lack of sleep meant I did not recognize them until Enjie kinda talked right into my ear telling me who they were... And I was like ooops...
And it was FREEZING in the Esplanade, even though I had a jacket... We owe this to the rain
And you can see that it rained so heavily that the CBD skyline was almost completely obscured, and it can't have been all that far away. I thought the world was coming to an end... with one third of the light blocked out and whatnot..
Also unprecedented is that I went to the Esplanade two days in a row, and today was even MORE not efficient... Seven hours and all I did was a couple of RJ revision tuitorials on complex numbers and vectors.... Well, I'll take consolation that I have more or less finished with two of Mr Teo's "Big Five".... But RJ's tuitorials are really good.... You feel more confident after the thing, and you realize that actually the questions more or less repeat...
Well, one more week to go... In this one week, I'll probably get to eat an increasing amount of food from
a) MacDonald's in Marina Square
b) The food loft at Marina Square
And there goes my notions of going running during the... what's it called... hols?
And oh.... the Esplanade is not haunted... Sorry for any mental or emotional trauma caused... heheh... And yes, I think both of us are going mad...
~JcZw~ at 8:28 pm