PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS PART 2

ECONOMICS PAPER 1: both case studies on globalisation!!! how much worse can this get?! i know they think it'll come out for A's, but that doesnt mean both has to be that! what if it doesnt come out?
CHEMISTRY PAPER 1/2: paper two was surprisingly easy. and paper one was horrendously difficult.
MATH PAPER 2: i almost died of frustration because of the pure math
PHYSICS PAPER 1/2: paper one was alright. and for once this year, paper 2 was doable!

AND PRELIMS ARE FINALLY OVER! i waited for this day for very long. and now i'm waiting for exactly two months, for A's to be over.

but guess what? after physics paper today, mr ong said "dont go yet. we're returning your paper three". "HUH?!" yeah. think it took some time for us to process that. anyway, didnt do too well, because i was half asleep doing that paper. damn it.

poor classmates had to go home to study. that's why i didnt take h3. yiling, ghis and i went out. tired of town, we went to amk hub, dont ask why. we went to watch evan almighty. because ghis said she could watch ratatouille online. blahs. thought it was quite okay, but what i really took back from the movie was that if you pray and ask God for anything, He won't give it to you directly, but create opportunities to help you attain it. Which is true, because many a times i've prayed and expected it to just come to me, without giving thought to whether there are opportunities to train my character. i've prayed for discipline & perseverance to go through this two months, and what he's given me are situations and temptations to deal with. =)

anyway, after the few days break, it's back to studying. and no. i'm not as free as a bird. they've set us dozens of homework to be done over the weekend. ha. after that it's going through papers and then study break and then the real thing.

and whatever for now. i'm not about to spend all my time blogging. ~

2007 PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS

PHYSICS PAPER 3: i wasn't sure of 40% of it.
ECONS PAPER 2: my hand almost dropped off. i hope i do well.
MATH PAPER 1: i need this A!! a few careless mistakes
CHEMISTRY PAPER 3: i'm depressed.

whatever it is, i am dying from the stress, the force per unit area (pressure), and being unable to go where i want. lucky there's time for me to stone today and tomorrow. before the whole damn cycle repeats itself again next week. i'm letting everything go for a few days after sept 20. if not i'll probably fall into depression.~

yesterday was teachers day! went to school in the morning for teachers' day celebration. ms chua won some award. we went to find all our teachers to express our gratitude to them. haha.


the girls with retro ms chua

some of us were going back to our sec school, including me! met ah ruo and serene first, before mking it back to pl!! yay!! met jaime there. gosh.. it's been ____?? since i met her! she told us that there was a 'seven-eleven' in school... and true enough... omg! pl is rich and it's all thanks to our batch! haha. why didnt we get to enjoy this!!! argh! met glynnis and angela too. and 2 of the sec3s greeted me! muahaha!


does this look like pl to you?


this looks more like 7-11...


and this?? looks more like a gift shop.


no more going across the road to eat cup mee. they have an endless supply.

and what's more... they have a photo printing machine! the one where u upload your photos and print it on photo paper. argh!!! i'm jealous! so i printed out two pictures, one below and the one with s15 above.

ah ruo and i, in our beloved and missed toilet.
(i still cant believe they have such technology!)


this was the grass patch near ebenezer... why wasnt i born later?!

then ah ruo and i went up to the primary school. ah... nostalgia. there were fellow eighteen year olds there as well. felt so old.

our lunch in the primary school canteen


and what have they done to our field?!

so as you can see, pl has changed a lot since we left. and i feel that what pl is lacking now is the warmth that it once had as a school, maybe it's because of the new surroundings, or maybe it's because we left. i dont know. i miss the old pl!

yah. i know. 'i should be studying.' getting back to that right now.~

This is my handphone wallpaper. Sam sent it to fel, who sent it to me. peiyi has it too. yes, it's effective.

gp prelims today. gosh. i'm having a headache. compo was alright. we were spot on about the topic. science & religion. ms chen came to stare at my paper. compre was bad. i had no idea what i was reading nor what i was writing. no wonder ms chen said summary and aq are do-able. because the questions arent! okay. byebye.~

It is officially twelve days to GP Prelims, 23 days to Prelims and I don't want to count the number of days left to A's.~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY XT!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GLY!

okay. that's for today. now about ytd. went for ndc at school!! AQUA WON THE NE CUP! go aqua! some of us were quite high. peiyi and i were blowing bubbles. my childhood. after that we girls went to pizza hut to eat! yum yum.


our hands and peiyi's face. patriotic!


Cheesy Fondue.. simply & sinfully delicious


fel & peiyi

then at night, we, the 4a2 clique met up! yay! ah ruo took me on a tour ard srgn before landing up at the mrt station. went to cafe cartel ps... to eat and talk and celebrate xy's, serene's and ry's birthday! had a good time thinking back on our teachers and updating on the latest happenings! found out that mine, shar's and jasmine's prom night is at the same place and one after another!

After eating...


taken by se ying's 'pro' photography skills...


me and my lovely aq ammonia lab partner!


xy, jas & shar


we rock! credits to yq for doing the editting

TODAY, the

Thirty-First of July

Year 2 0 0 7, is J.K Rowling's birthday!

and ALSO,

Harry Potter's Birthday!

okay. i know you don't really care. only tiff and i seemed to care in school today. anne marie knew, but she doesnt really care. well... at least she knew!! therefore i conclude the only two harry potter fanatics in ohsixSfifteen are tiff and i. she wanted to find some form of celebration. and isn't it cooler that daniel radcliffe's birthday is just 8 days before? yeah, i know you don't care.

take it as i'm going crazy. because i really am. i'm cutting off from a lot of things. and the whole nj's stressing the j2s out. jc life sucks. but i have no choice.~

Her Last Three Words:

All was well.

That sums up the whole harry potter series. And i'm sad to see it go! Meanwhile, i took 3 days to complete the seventh book and i must say that JK Rowling is brilliant. how she ties up all loose ends... and how she links everything all the way from the second book. simply brilliant. for those who dont read, you're missing out on something really good. ah. that's your loss anyway.

I'm about to start an anti-spoiler movement, i know tiff will support me. Anne marie and i had to run away from people on monday simply because we havent read the book and didnt want to know the ending. while the others just wanted to spoil it. what's the point of reading if you know the ending already? first it was justin and darren during lecture, then it was zuojie during lecture. i almost murdered him for telling me what happened! my book's been loaned out, and there's still a long queue. wonder when's the next time i'll see it. and it better come back in the same condition as i lent it out! or else i'll strangle everyone.

bye for now. more than 80days left to A Levels. Harry potter rocks.~

Blessed Be Your Name

Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

Blessed be Your name
When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's all as it should be
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name~

okay. confirmed sucky grades, ABCDE. don't ask me which is for what. it makes me more depressed. and yes. the worse i've ever done in jc (and dont expect me to get a U for anything. i'll totally break down) you can say that you've done much worse than that but hey, my expectations are higher than yours. basically the whole j2 batch did the worse in the past 1.5 years in jc... and i think we even broke the record for the most number of failures for physics or something. no one in s15 got an A for physics or chem, As for math were on the low end and no one got higher than a C for econs. bad? worst! i PRAY hard that prelims wont be that bad.

anyway, been going crazy over harry potter again. kinda like the time after o's when we went to watch GOB and i re-read the whole series again. couldnt wait to watch the new movie... think i was going to have a nervous breakdown if i didnt get to watch it ASAP. and naturally, the earlier the better. so since the guys were free and wanted to watch, we booked tickets. and i got scolded by peiyi for abandoning my class girls. oops. haha.

so about yesterday... went to vivo city to watch with edwin, raf & shafik... was there with edwin first.. and he talked the whole way from srgn to harbourfront. he really can talk! edwin wanted to eat sakae, but there wasnt, so he wanted to eat sushi tei ('teh' was how he pronounced it and made me laugh). he said he and i should treat ourselves to good food. lols. but we ended up at macs with raf anyway... and the worst thing was... he had to read out the fat content. haha. met up with shafik who was much quieter than normal... think he was really sick.

went into the cinema... and totally went beserk when the movie started. was disturbing edwin... and i think raf was glad he wasnt next to me... and edwin wanted to change seats. cldnt disturb the sick one. lols. well... i must say... not as nice as the past few... but still nice to me! the action was so short compared to the previous movies. shant discuss it here. in case people complain of giving too much away. raf and edwin kept talking during the movie. bleahs. so i got my wish. seen the movie.. now the book!! argh!!

walked ard at the roof top for a while. raf wanted to ride the horse thing for kids. lols. edwin was looking for girls again. but for the first time he helped look out for hot guys for me. ha! funny people. went back soon after... managed to catch the last ep of shen diao xia lu.

dont know when's the next time i'll get to see them again... or even the clique in 4a2. gotta start studying hard before i totally screw my prelims. well.. the start of another busy week of piles of revision WS and scoldings. how i hate jc life.

bro drove me to church today. from now on, i dont have to take a bus to church! yes! wake up later! whEeEe.. pastor talked about looking for spouses today. and he said that looking for someone of the same faith narrows the range to about 30% of the whole population. that's really depressing. but ultimately it's only within this 30% that i will choose from. for now... it's concentrating on A's!~

my whole life sucks. my grades suck, school sucks, nothing is going right. whatever. everything sucks. and who is there to help? NO ONE.

Let go, Let God.~

burnt, tired and aching. these two days of enrichment week is already enough to kill me.

Bodycombat (5/7)

it was at california fitness at bugis... the five of us, me, yiling, ghis, fel and stella, went there after the uni talks. oh... i'm quite sure by now that i want to go into engineering in the uni.... unless i'm really that stupid. anyway, we had almost an hour to kill there. so went to walk then went for bodycombat. the instructor, june was so hyper. gosh. i wonder how she conducts 3 classes in a day. we learnt the basic punches and kicks before starting on a 10-track exercise, with breaks only after 3-4 tracks. it was tiring but fun! and it was great help to shout at every kick and punch because it'd make you forget that you're tired. really sweated it out after like... 1 month of studying. and gosh... the toilet was so nice! we all went to shower there, shampoo, soap and towel all provided. so cool! it was such a nice bath. and we were taking our time to dry our hair and make it nice. lols. ghis took the longest to come out... as usual.

went to buy tako pachi after the refreshing bath... so i think all the calories burnt earlier was gained back. lol. took a train back to srgn to meet raf... whom i think was rather bored cuz hewas on holiday. sat down and talked to him for a while an waited for edwin, but he ended late and i had to chiong 23 case studies so i went off first.

ok... talking about 23 case studies... what the **** is wrong with nj econs department?! during the holidays we didnt get any econs homework AT ALL. and now we get 23 case studies to do in a week? how can that get us an A? and how can we bloody take it seriously when we have to rush it within a week? we'll just end up doing it for the sake of doing and not for studying purposes. ergh.

Ropes course (6/7)

had to wake up early early in the morning to go all the way to upp bkt timah for the ropes course. sat at the bus stop for quite long cuz i was early. the last time i went there i was sec2. so after stella and yiling came (anne marie was sick), we went in... tgt with 32 other people... we split into 2 grps (mostly guys and girls in one grp)... and then proceeded with what i have loved to do since i joined np. the girls (and 4 guys) did the ropes challenge first... we were under instructor carrie... and she was so funny. forgot how to belay a person already (because atf doesnt work on belayers).. so i slacked. hahas. went up the tight rope one first... and she made us cross the rope within 10sec. so funny. but it was seriously much easier than atf. i freaked out many many times during atf. haha. then we did the net one... just to cross it... i was more tired than scared up there.

then to the zip-line! still wasnt as exciting as the double zip-line in atf (i cant help comparing). but the exciting part was really the intial jump off... because it almost felt like free fall and my heart totally dropped out. haha. if i knew more people there i'd probably have screamed my lungs out for the fun of it. we went for lunch... then rested in the dorm for a while. almost felt like sleeping.

went back to do abseiling. this one was much higher than the sec3 alpha camp's... and i was certainly more afraid. this girl kept screaming... it was funny... but also made us more afraid. haha. when i finally did it it was ok... but i held on to the rope so tightly. lols. then stella and yiling came down. proceeded to the platform for the jumping thing. we didnt do the lone pole one... because i'd have freaked out if we did it. had to jump from the platform to reach a bar...like the trapeze in a circus. freaky!! but i managed to catch it! and the damn rope hit my right ear... which made the last hole bleed like crazy. haha. inst carrie kept asking if i was okay. she wanted to tell mr menon... but of course i wldnt let her! haha. she had 3 ear holes too! so now i know why it's very dangerous to wear earrings for this kinda thing and i finally understand why i have to take out earrings during every np trng session. lols!

although it wasnt as freaky as atf... i still enjoyed myself because i may never get to do it again. but i still miss atf. lol. and i enjoyed the company of the 2 instructors who were so hyper and mad.... haha. really made us laugh. after that stella and i went to the salvation army shop to look ard. the clothes were really weird. and the shop was really weird too. haha. took a bus back home and on the way edwin called to ask to go out for dinner.

went home first to rest for a while... and realised that my nose was burnt and so were my two arms. went out to meet edwin and raf at gardens. ate at chomp chomp. our usual hokkien mee, sting ray and sugar cane and my chin chow which i cldnt finish. haha. went to macs to stone and talk. edwin told a lot of stories.. and raf was enjoying it everytime i argued with edwin. haha. moved outside and raf and i started a singing lesson with edwin to make him sing in tune. hahas. left ard 11pm. i was really tired.... raf kept saying i was a drunken fish cuz half the time i didnt know what i was talking about. haha.
well, i just want to say that both of them and the others whom we hang out with are special to me (and even special-er to me than other aquaintances). i do care what they consider me as.. but i just want to say that each of them hold a special place in my heart. =)

came home feeling the pain of the sun burns... and pain in my ear hole. arghs. how am i going to last the next two days?! haha. oh... happy green earth day! no global warming!!~

____

*why is it so easy to give up on something that i shouldnt give up on, and so difficult to give up on something that i should?-

-I don't wanna fall to pieces
I just wanna sit and stare at you
I don't wanna talk about it

I don't want a conversation
I just wanna cry in front of you
I don't wanna talk about it
Cause I'm in love with you...

News: body's immune system plummets to an all time low in 2007

haha. yes. i'm sick again. sore throat, runny nose. the usual irritating symptoms. lucky there's time to rest these few days. so couldnt go out. blahs. anyway, today's the start of enrichment week. but i have no activities.

5 July: Arts Education Programme, University talks, Body combat
6 July: Ropes course (gosh how i miss atf!!)
9 July: Arts Education Programme, Music Exposure (i've had 10 years of this already), In-line skating
10 July: In-line skating, and hopefully, a successful class outing.

yeah. hope i'll be well tmr. and enjoy before really getting hacked by the teachers. i cant wait for both harry potter movie and book to come out! argh! seriously contemplating whether to watch the movie on the very first day and to pre-order the book. i'll get hooked and neglect my work again. lols.

oh by the way, put your mouse over the picture. the effect is pretty cool.~

no school for a week! and enrichment week for the next! life really shouldnt be just about achieving academics. wonder why society goes by meritocracy. anyway, i'm not about to attempt to write a gp essay here.

anyway, finally got a chance to meet up with edwin whom i havent seen for so long. he was at ps while i was at cine ytd.. such no fate. lols! anyway, guess he wants to kill everyone who was late today. hahas. he was telling me about the busy poly life vs the stressful jc life... while waiting for raf... who was even later than me! we went to macs to eat. raf seems to be biased against srgn macs.

edwin asked: who thinks life sucks say 'aye'. and i was not hesitant in replying. lols. life as a jc student really sucks. i hate everything right now. from the studying to the surroundings to everyone around. i just cant stand it anymore. maybe it's because i grew up in a different culture as many of the rest... and hanging around with the people i keep so close to my heart has made it even more difficult to tolerate other 'cultures'. ah. whatever.

raf went off to sch... edwin had to go for duty for syf... so accompanied him to ps to walk walk fora while. and to supposedly updating myself.. only to see him bio-ing girls and asking for my opinion. if i ever turn les... i'll know why. lols!!! but had a nice time with them today... making me laugh with their stories of their cadets and others. and raf and edwin are seriously entertaining. haha.

after edwin went off i went to novena and almost rotted there. bought a new wallet. damn it. i think it was a bit on the expensive side. such a sian place. especially when you go there every other week. wasnt in the mood to do much. met grace. yay! seem to meet her everywhere. hahas.

anyways... my brother said he's waited 27 years for transformers movie to come out. me? not so bad. i've just waited 1.5 years for the next harry potter movie! argh!!~

hello again! finally ct2 is over! i can relax for a while. before going for the big one. whatever. i'm going mad because of 1 month of studying.

summary of performance of ct 2
Econs: totally dead
Chemistry: below average
Math: the only paper i COULD do.
Physics: goner. worse than ct1.

so projected grades are probably ard ABCCE. i dont understand why they bother to set such difficult questions. really. as if it'd actually come out in A's. goodbye for now.~

havent used the com for a few days. really going crazy already. my body(esp my head) is showing signs of overloading and stress... just like the time before prelims in sec4. therefore i had to take a day off from studying. or else something really bad will happen.

so anyway, went to school to find mr tan and ms lim last friday. like many s15 people were in school mugging. went to have lunch with yiling and ghis at pizza hut. yays! good food. raf called. asked people to go out. so after lunch i met him and shafik at ps. shafik chiong-ed 5days of camp with barely 6 hours of sleep. so we went to watch shrek 3, because raf didnt like watching any superhero movies other than spiderman (so i cldnt watch fantastic4). shafik fell asleep in the cinema. think he only watch $2 worth of the whole movie. raf was telling me abt atc on the train while going home...while shafik fell asleep.

yep yep. that was basically my WHOLE week. gosh. i hate studying.~

9 June 07
Met up with 4a2 people at cel's house. gosh. her house is like 10times as big as mine. had loads of fun there, taking pics, going crazy... we rock!

10 June 07
Met up with xt and raf. shafik was uncontactable. edwin was at rc. jaime was having school. anyway. havent seen them for a long time too. still havent seen the other 2 guys and 1 girl. when will we all get together? 3 of us ended up cutting our hair. i cut mine much shorter. too irritating. lols.~


altogether!!


in (literally) the swimming pool


in the basement...


my dearest ah ruo =))


lazing on the sofa...


my present....


.... and card! it's most appreciated! =)

Ms Chen's Wedding..


ghis, ms chen & me

B04 in front of the bridal car~

NAG (national age groups) was this week. one comptition after another. was sick on saturday again. severe sore throat and headache. i hate the weather. stupid weather.

monday's singles was okay. i did better at occ than at safra. but people were damn pro. more pro than nationals. oh. playing beside us were ite guys. they're quite nice. anyway. finished relatively early so we left our bags at the storage area and went home. on the way there on tuesday, i met thea... who was going home from work. talked to her all the way to yishun although we see each other every sunday. lols. she kept making me jealous because here i am, slogging my heart out 5 months before A levels and she's having 4 months holiday with nothing to do. and by the time i start my ct she's still on holiday! haha. i always screw my 1st game. team s'pore schools girls were beside us (coach explained that to get in, you have to get an average of 190 and above for A/B/C division) this girl hit a 268 with 4 strikes, a spare, 5 strikes and a spare. think that's great? wait till you see another guy from SBF go striked 10 times... an almost perfect game! everyone stopped just to look at him bowl... and clapped when he striked for the 10th time. on the 11th bowl... he got a 9!! ARGH!! wasted!! so everyone went aWwWww... an almost perfect game. 289. took a cab home.

wednesday... had to go to school for math lecture. think a 3.5hour lecture is torturing? try sitting in a 3.5 hour lecture WITHOUT aircon in the lecture theatre!! almost died in there. i totally switched off at the last hour. went for competition at night. it was doubles. also my highest games in NAG, 134, 146. gosh. so lousy. during the games was talking to coach... he was telling us stories of his life and also ghost stories about bowling alleys. so cool!! haha. coach was sick. he had a high fever. and he sleeps so few hours!! so poor thing!! thursday's comp... was quartet. dont know what i was doing. coach mia-ed for the first game. we were wondering where he went. he was really sick and was sleeping in the car. so poor thing!! did really badly for the 3rd game. cldnt care alr.

after that jess and i decided to 'fan lian' at someone. because we couldnt take that person's attitude and character anymore. was quite funny. we went to find coach who went to sleep in his car again. but being almost the last time we were going to see him... he came out of his car to meet us. talked to him for a while... so sad. he offered to send jess and i to the mrt station to take a cab. waited for his wife and son... who qualified for masters today (and who got champion. congrats! so pro!).

anyway, thank you coach for everything that you've done for us! i must say that you're the best coach i've ever had (not to say that i've had a lot of coaches). and i cannot express how much gratitude and thanks because it's really too much. for the time and effort you've put in... coming for extra trainings with us at no extra cost... for helping us in every way that you can... and for just being there to comfort in times of trouble and stress. i really cannot repay how much you've given to us as a team... and i really appreciate it. though it's been just a mere 5 months (and i really wish we had you as our coach last year).. i feel like it's been a long time since you introduced yourself. you've never really scolded us or put us down with negative remarks but have always encouraged us and given us hope in what we did. even when we bowled wrongly... we were always greeted by your smile when coming back from throwing the ball. you never failed to give suggestions on how to improve and really just helped us to improve tremendously from the mess we were last year. i really really really appreciate it and a million thanks once again for everything that you've done!! these words are but the tip of the ice berg as to how much gratitude i feel. the rest cannot be put down in words.

i summarised that and sent a 3-msg long sms to coach... who said made him cry. and made me wanna cry too. ah well... goodbye is never easy.

for now... it's mug mug mug... full time mugging until A's. i dont wanna become a doctor or a banker. lols! good night world!!~


me, jess, coach & ys
-we'll miss you!!~

hello world!

went to school on wednesday to visit ms heng. ha. for econs consultation. was supposed to be 8am. so had to wake up quite early. arghs. lyn, fel, peiyi and anne marie were there. but ms heng wasnt. said to meet her at 8.30. lols. so we sat there and talked. met jess, who was there for gp. met rc too... who was studying with *someone. lols! ms heng finally came at 8.45. lols. so asked her qns till 9.30 cuz we havent really studied. some went for gp lessons... the rest went to the library to mug. was so noisy in there.

after that fel, peiyi, yiling and i went to eat lunch behind school. then went to eat ice-cream at estivo! muahaha. i ate sorbet... too sour for some of them. lols. so ate and talked... then fel went back for choir. the rest of us went home.

thursday was competition... was there quite early. was talking to ck when he showed me a video of the 9 o clock show. lols. competition was bad. gosh. again. this time we were bowling with cj ppl. they're friendlier. and mad. super high and shouted so loudly when they striked. but they striked a lot. lols. but must really thank coach for being such a great help during these 5 months. for his patience and willingness to coach us fo free everytime we had extra trainings... and for the time he spent trying to help us improve.

after the comp we went opposite to eat lunch... ck, ys, jess and i sat tgt... while rc abandoned us to sit with th and the rest. lols. we were teasing him from far far away... and 'gossipping' about how widely he smiled when he was talking to some person. lols! cldnt stop laughing. after that we decided to go to northpoint to watch pirates!! had 45mins to waste before the show started... so we sat at bk...looking at ck's hp videos. lols. the bk ppl were staring at us...so we had to buy food. haha. the show was great!! although i forgot most of part 2. lols. ys didnt watch part 1 and 2... so had to explain to her what happened during the show. haha. and goodness... the way they portrayed s'pore!! gosh. thought it was china or something. the moment chow yun fatt said "welcome to singapore!" i went gosh!!!! haha.

but the movie on the whole was funny!! stayed till after the credits to watch the very end. lols. hope there's a part 4!! after that it was rather late.... so we went home.

NAG is next week. but for now...i want to sleep.~