Bought a 'No Doubt' CD on Friday. I love it! Friday was a free day for (I think) every JC2 student in the hostel because we had no test on this day.

Last Saturday there was choir practice. Had lunch afterwards opposite school and then went to Simei with lita to buy the material for the hostel's Birthday Board. I was in charge of it while Lita volunteered to help.

Started designing the Birthday Board around 9.45p.m. At 10-something a group of students came to stay a night at the hostel (around 60 people?). I saw the print on their T-shirts It wrote 'hua2 ren2 zhong1 xue2 hua2 yue4 tuan2). haha! So they were from Batu Pahat! 'Hua Ren Zhong Xue' is considered a prestigious school among the Chinese in my place. It's a private school (means that you'll have to pay school fees), and it has a different syllabus from the national one, which is harder. Helped one of the guys to call back to Malaysia...

Nothing much happened on Sunday except that at night (after 12) we celebrated Nguyen's birthday.

'A' level registration on Monday morning.

GP Assignment: Research on cancer, the breakthroughs of Antibiotics, and the accompanying problems. Chem tutorial: Got Paper 1 and Practical Paper back; scored 16/20 for the former and scored 2/20 for the latter (Ouch!)... I'm always lousy with practicals, especially Chem. Anyway, the practical will account for 5% of the total marks only...
Got bouldering as my PE elective, which will start next Mon. Great! I'll finally get to do some climbing...
Went out with Eric and Yi Jian at night. Bought some files at Bedok's Popular and bought some stuff at NTUC to replenish our depleting 'stock'...

Tuesday...
got Physics back... 78%, quite OK, but not really what I expected... oh well... hope it's an 'A'...
Tried to complete Maths 'S' questions before the lecture but couldn't finish in time. Went for choir practice after Maths 'S' lecture. Ate dinner around 9.30p.m. back at the hostel. Claimed money from the office for the materials for the birthday board ($12) and also got back money that Qiaojie ('George') borrowed from me ($15).

Wednesday...
Mrs Lim (Our principal) gave a speech today about discipline etc. in school. She was a bit different from her usual self... she sounded a bit angry and disappointed with the attitude of the Year 2 students. What's more, TJC is losing its appeal fast... also, results have been deteriorating these few years and I think she wants to curb that as well. The school authorities say they will have a tighter grip on the students now to make sure they are in proper attire, well-behaved etc., which I think is a good thing. But sadly, I don't see many students repenting... It's really saddenning... wish I could knock some sense into those people. They are sooooo indifferent and apathetic! Why can't everyone cooperate for the greater good? Argh!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry... emotions flowing...)

Anyway, got back my Chem and Maths results. Got 55% for Chem... I actually expected an 'E' because I just felt quite hopeless when I was doing the test, and I had left one entire question blank (10 marks)because I couldn't start on the first part. Got 71% for Maths C... I actually expected to easily get above 80 but this result really shocked me. I mainly because of my carelessness. But I don't feel too bad because many people in my class (who usually do well in Maths) got marks similar to mine. We will get our F Maths section A back tomorrow.... not much hope for that...

Got to go back to study now...

Haven't written a blog in more than 1 week...

March holidays had started and ended just as abrupt... Went back to Malaysia for 3 days only because i knew it would be difficult for me to focus on my revision back there.

Anyway, after I came back I have been doing intensive revision (from morning to night...). I has helped quite a lot so far... but I'm still rather worried for tomorrow's and Thursday's test (Further Maths and Chemistry).

JC2 scholars were brought to NTU early morning last Saturday. It was just about some talks concerning our ASEAN and A*Star scholarship options after JC... still can't make up my mind if I would like to take those scholarships, but it's not like I have a choice. Anyway, I learnt that the bond doesn't mean you'll have to work in the civil service in Singapore but rather work for any Singaporean-based company and there's a possiblity you'll be sent to work back in your home country to work! Hmm... anyway, there was a short break between the talks and there was free food! (it was delicious!)

Yay! I'm glad BN won most of the seats on the election... too bad they couldn't get Kelantan. Anyway, PAS won a seat in Johor due to technicality (if the BN candidate never made such a mistake, PAS could NEVER had won)... in fact, that state seat (Senggarang) is just south of the state seat that I live in.

Oh well, got to go back to the hostel to study... Further Maths test tomorrow (only 6 questions!.... each question holds an average of 1/6 of the total marks... that's about 16.7%).

Yesterday was a sad, sad day... I obviously had insufficient preparation for the Chemistry test. (We were tested on Volumetric and Qualitative Analysis... done on paper, no visible reagents or test tubes etc.)... Well, I feel a bit better now because now I know many of my classmates didn't do well as well (Hmm... I sound a bit too evil here...).

Anyway, I was planning to go home (Malaysia) tomorrow (Saturday), but my mother suggested me to go back on Sunday instead because I have to attend the NUS open house tomorrow. Hmm... still comtemplating... But I've decided to pack my stuff tonight (And that's one of the reasons why I cannot go to the study group today---again...sorry guys!).

Well, I am supposed to be a part of this Friday study group that was formed by some of my friends. But I'm just a bit too busy today to attend... Firstly, after Physics S paper that ends at 5.30p.m., I have to send my bike to repair. Then I need to pack my stuff to bring back to Malaysia. Then I need to copy down definitions from the lecture notes (I can't do this at the study group because I don't have the material... It's part of my schedule...). Next, today's the only day in the week that I can play badminton in AH, and I haven't played for about a month (Ah!!!!). But I think I can't even play badminton today because I somehow strained my back this morning during swimming lessons and now my back is aching and it's painful to turn my neck...so I think I'll need some extra sleep...

Mr. Pang Sai Heng has been relieving FMaths tutorials for Mr. Wong recently because Mr. Wong's mother passed away recently. Told us a lot of things again today... no time to write now. Try to remember to write when I go back to Malaysia...

Adios!

Finally laid down in black and white my revision study plan for MCT. Not that I will definitely follow it though... never quite works out that way. But it's a good way to scare yourself into studying, haha!

Yesterday the principal announced that it would be a half-day. It was supposed to be an enjoyable day, but the torrent rain spoiled it more or less. Anyway, our GP tutor has gone for some NS thingy so he didn't come today and there was no relief teacher! But after that Mr. Pang came in to relief Mr. Wong whose mother passed away. All the lectures by Mr. Wong will also be taken over by Mr. Ng. Mr. Pang has an interesting personality partly because he likes to deride people with his diatribe but also because he is rather knowledgeable (which he acknowledges himself)... However, we could only get through 1 question for Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies today because he had to stop at some point or another to tell us what the top student in RJC (with 9 distinctions) said and that TJ's results deteriorated since 1997 (before that TJ was always in 2nd position, he said). And as usual, he brings up these stories about students who don't listen to his advice and end up as what he had predicted.

Anyway, when school was over, me, Ching Mien, Wai Kit, Wilson and Yi Cheng decided to meet at 1.30 p.m. at the canteen and then go to Suntec. I borrowed the newest copy of National Geographic from the library first. While waiting for the train to come at Bedok MRT station, I was hit at the back (ouch!) by Winnie. We then talked all the way until I had to come down at City Hall.

We went for the Student's buffet at Sakae Sushi to eat our lunch (it was already 3.00 p.m.). I didn't dare to eat too much because I was afraid I would puke like Yi Cheng the last time he came. I biggest regret was that I didn't get to eat any Tiramisu...

After we had all eaten our fill (around 4.40 p.m.) and paid (about $S80 altogether), we went to catch a movie at Eng Wah cinemas upstairs. Since it was pass 4.30 p.m. we couldn't watch Big Fish and so we watched 'The Butterfly Effect'. I'll try to write more about it later... I have a double GP lesson now....

OK... I'm back. Basically, the movie was named 'The Butterfly Effect' after a certain quotation from 'Chaos Theory' which goes something like this: "It is said that the simple flutter of a butterfly can cause a typhoon to occur on the other side of the world". Basically, the story revolves around this guy Evans (Ashton Kutcher), who has occasionally encountered memory lapses in his youth. When he grows up he realises that he could return to the past, albeit momentarily, and change his actions or speech etc., thus altering his future. He had attempted it many times because everytime something couldn't quite work out. The show can be quite shocking sometimes... I guess it's rated NC-16.

The rain really spoilt everything afterwards though... My bag, shoes and pants (school pants!) were all wet by the time I got back. Had to lay out my stuff on the bed to dry and stuff my shoes with newspaper to dry them up... I also got the National Geographic magazine a bit wet... hope the school doesn't mind...

Anyway, I slept around 1.00 am.

OK, next I'll write about more recent stuff (that is, merely a few hours ago)...
During GP period, got my essay back. the topic was: "The answer to crime is harsh laws" How far do you agree? I got 26.5 out of 50 (highest in class)... quite happy! My last few essays were hovering about the passing mark (22.5).

Nothing much else had happened afterwards... Got to go to the library to do revision now. Maths S paper coming up later...this time I'm fully prepared and I'm glad I could do all the questions!
Mood at this instantaneous point in time: Happy!

Wah!!!
A lot of things have been happening these few days, but I haven't had the time (and interest) to write.

Physical Education this morning was 'Water Rugby' at Bedok Swimming Complex. It was quite fun... I managed 2 touch-downs (Woohoo!)... next week would be our last swimming practice for JC...

Anyway, today the A-level examination results were out, and that includes the results of Mother Tongue, which many junior college year one students took last year. Thankfully, I got what I wanted-- A1, with a distinction in the oral test as well. Some of my friends were thrilled because they scored better than expected, but some of my friends were quite saddened by their results... There's this friend of mine (Singaporean), who almost always score a bit better than me who got B4. He was sooooooo shocked...never seen him so depressed before, as if he would commit suicide or something. OK, I'm exaggerating, but it's really rather sad to see him like that. The worse thing was I didn't dare to console him... oh well, hope he gets over it...

Another sad thing is I know I've lost at least 12 marks for my Physics test yesterday... wah!!!! And to think I was so confident of scoring better than last time... There's another test next week, Chemistry Practical. It would be included in our marks for March Common Test. Have to remember all the reagents and tests.... Arggh!!!!

NUS sent all the scholars letters about their open day that will be held next Saturday. On top of that, I just read off from the hostel notice board that they'll be catering a bus for us and will be giving us a tour of NUS on arrival there. ?? Obviously propaganda to attract us to study there...

Talking about university, I just can't see what's in store for me... I would love to study overseas but I don't know if I can study overseas because I don't know if there is any scholarship that would enable me to study overseas. Scholarships is the only way to go to go overseas for me because I can't sacrifice my parents money too much and I can't expect them to get loans for me as they're nearing retirement. Oh well, I'll just have to see how it goes...

Mood today: Jovial!!