The Day After Tomorrow. An unforgettable movie, no doubt, showing how a series of dastardly events leave us with a somewhat happy ending, but attached with a stern warning to start anew in order to have a bright future. Its uncanny how similar this probably is going to be like for my exams, starting the day after tomorrow. Talk about freaky.
Today yet another thing appeared in class which I knew about and was looking forward to, Marcus plays in class and then he spreads it to everyone else. It started with newgrounds then an untitled story then kongregate and now spore.
Anyway, exam preparations have been underway, mainly on geography and life sciences. Our of 9 papers, 2 require no studying at all while 2 more require minimal studying, leaving only slightly more than half requiring studying.
About today, it was yet another ultra slack day in school, with self-study occupying most of the time. Word challenge has also spread through a lot more in the class, and if anyone hasn't played it before he definitely has helped someone else by contributing. Even Natty has.
Again about the KKK, the K of the KKK brought chin chow into the toilet and spilt some. So, the rest of the KKK starting shouting in class that Keshav shitted on the floor. I mean, seriously. How much more Adi can you get?
This is the last stretch before exams, the last night before the last day before the exams taking place the day after tomorrow. Will I be left with a stern warning at the end of the dastardly events or will it be a simple happy ending? The latter sounds really promising, but whatever the outcome, I know that I will be buying spore.
Since its about time I go back to geography, I'd best stop typing never-ending-ly.
Signing out,
Thats all.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Back, and finally stressed
Well, I'm back from my weekend, and since I'm gone out of the house most of my weekends. I can officially declare that Friday, Saturday and Sunday are my off days for blogging. Sure, maids only get one, students and most workers get two, but I however, I indulge myself to three.
Well, before the weekend, I mentioned (I think) that I hadn't really felt any stress yet. Well, can't say the same now. I was a permanent fixture in class for doing extremely detailed geography revision and note creating throughout 40 minutes of LA (B), 30/40 minutes of recess, 1h 20 minutes of P Sci Prac, 30/40 minutes of LS. Of course, the time in between lessons was spent improving my vocabulary. Nothing to do with words or challenges or word challenges of course. I mean, my tablet wasn't even on! If you were wondering anyway, extremely detailed means after those 3h of doing it, I only finished creating notes of 5 topics. I am tested on chapters 18-31, meaning that I have 14 to do in total. On the bright side, the detailed note writing means I've already half-memorized everything written down. For someone intending to take geography next year, I guess its quite important for me.
So, I've set up a sort of game rationing kinda thing. So I come home, slack till 5, do the little homework nowadays till 5:30 - 6, have dinner if not do homework till dinner if not slack till dinner, then after dinner is spent revising. This has been due to an onset of stress, realising how far behind otehrs I've been in studying. It might just be how I survive, like while I own others in concept questions because I understood the classes, others own me in memorizing questions. The bad thing is that I have no point of comparison at all. These EoYs are just scarily fast, without warning, but with teachers still struggling to finish their syllabus. During the mid-year papers, most subjects had at least 2 mock tests before the test itself. Sure, many mock tests are given out this term too, but all the answers are put on lms. There is simply no time to do THAT many mock tests and check all of them and be a good student and learn and do well all at the same time.
On exam unrealted news, I have decided that I am going to buy spore after the exams. Preferably during the marking days, but anytime after exams sounds good to me :D However, I don't know if I will be felling happy after all the papers, or diappointed because I know I didn't do well. I was saved last year because the 50% in which I studied for each of the papers was the exact 50% which came out. Was it an intelligent guess by me which was right, or was it just a stroke of luck? I've been transported into primary school more stressed than I should be and thinks too much for own good mode. One thing's for sure, exams have finally taken over my mind completely. And I am not lovin' it.
I'm currently delaying now, for I don't know when to begin doing some history work. This rambling on about everything on my mind for the past few days seem to have a somewhat therapeutic effect, or maybe its just teh music I'm listening to now.
Music. Yet another thing I've been thinking of. With no music, I get distracted easily. With music, I work well for a while then lose concentration totally when I start to get bored. In both instances, I ultimately fall asleep. Bad me. However, it seems that the best time for me to study is early in the day, when I am in school. The bad thing is, I'm in school so there's no time to revise. Which leads to why
I was pleasantly surprised in school today. Most of the periods were free periods, with music allowed. The perfect environment for me (early in day, bright lights, music, air-con) which could never be created at home, it seemed. It was wonderful. One more day like that, wednesday to free study and its the exams already. Judgement day after judgement day, a series of unfortunate events. Can't wait.
Well, I'd best be doing some real studying instead of talking nonsense forever and ever.
Signing out,
Thats all.
Well, before the weekend, I mentioned (I think) that I hadn't really felt any stress yet. Well, can't say the same now. I was a permanent fixture in class for doing extremely detailed geography revision and note creating throughout 40 minutes of LA (B), 30/40 minutes of recess, 1h 20 minutes of P Sci Prac, 30/40 minutes of LS. Of course, the time in between lessons was spent improving my vocabulary. Nothing to do with words or challenges or word challenges of course. I mean, my tablet wasn't even on! If you were wondering anyway, extremely detailed means after those 3h of doing it, I only finished creating notes of 5 topics. I am tested on chapters 18-31, meaning that I have 14 to do in total. On the bright side, the detailed note writing means I've already half-memorized everything written down. For someone intending to take geography next year, I guess its quite important for me.
So, I've set up a sort of game rationing kinda thing. So I come home, slack till 5, do the little homework nowadays till 5:30 - 6, have dinner if not do homework till dinner if not slack till dinner, then after dinner is spent revising. This has been due to an onset of stress, realising how far behind otehrs I've been in studying. It might just be how I survive, like while I own others in concept questions because I understood the classes, others own me in memorizing questions. The bad thing is that I have no point of comparison at all. These EoYs are just scarily fast, without warning, but with teachers still struggling to finish their syllabus. During the mid-year papers, most subjects had at least 2 mock tests before the test itself. Sure, many mock tests are given out this term too, but all the answers are put on lms. There is simply no time to do THAT many mock tests and check all of them and be a good student and learn and do well all at the same time.
On exam unrealted news, I have decided that I am going to buy spore after the exams. Preferably during the marking days, but anytime after exams sounds good to me :D However, I don't know if I will be felling happy after all the papers, or diappointed because I know I didn't do well. I was saved last year because the 50% in which I studied for each of the papers was the exact 50% which came out. Was it an intelligent guess by me which was right, or was it just a stroke of luck? I've been transported into primary school more stressed than I should be and thinks too much for own good mode. One thing's for sure, exams have finally taken over my mind completely. And I am not lovin' it.
I'm currently delaying now, for I don't know when to begin doing some history work. This rambling on about everything on my mind for the past few days seem to have a somewhat therapeutic effect, or maybe its just teh music I'm listening to now.
Music. Yet another thing I've been thinking of. With no music, I get distracted easily. With music, I work well for a while then lose concentration totally when I start to get bored. In both instances, I ultimately fall asleep. Bad me. However, it seems that the best time for me to study is early in the day, when I am in school. The bad thing is, I'm in school so there's no time to revise. Which leads to why
I was pleasantly surprised in school today. Most of the periods were free periods, with music allowed. The perfect environment for me (early in day, bright lights, music, air-con) which could never be created at home, it seemed. It was wonderful. One more day like that, wednesday to free study and its the exams already. Judgement day after judgement day, a series of unfortunate events. Can't wait.
Well, I'd best be doing some real studying instead of talking nonsense forever and ever.
Signing out,
Thats all.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Exams!
Well, exams are "just around the corner", "driving us up the wall", "stressing us out"(less than a week, 3 school days more) and yet I haven't actually started proper revision yet. Sure, a schedule planned out, scraps of information revised a bit here and there, but never a more than hour actually study a lot and memorize things kind of session. Sure, I actually listen to all classes now, but still I see all the usually slack people studying. Now it seems its left to QYJ and me to finally start studying. :(
For one, my time management at home is quite unique. It is based around the amount of homework I have in a day. So, if I need more work, I'll play less. When i try introducing a new thing called "study time", I start getting confused and I just end up slacking while revising at the same time, resulting in not very productive revising. And yet I don't really seem to feel any stress to mug, because my philosophy is that mugging is for the day before, the days long before and for skimming through, organizing chapters, knowing what to do or exams, do homework and listen in class.
On unrelated new, our school day today was yet again slack, which isn't actually good because not much learning is done. Teacher Terence yet again took over another class that would be about the same as a free period, this time computer sciences. Not many complained, because you could both sleep and use your tablet without supervision in the former's class.
As with exams, there is subject choosing. Unlike almost all in my class, I am taking combination "D".
On totally unrelated news, I realised that this weekend is the F1 race! I'm not a fan of F1 races, but now that its in Singapore, me being the patriot I am, i can't help but be excited.
On even more totally unrelated news, I just watched China's second space mission launch into space, for a walk on the moon. Well, Americans have astronauts, Russia has cosmonauts, and apparently China's are called taikongnauts, tai kong being chinese for space or sky? (My chinese is not near powderful). Sounds weird. And if I'm not wrong those are the only countries who bother sinking their money into a business where spacesuits alone are like 23 million each.
Lastly, as I write this post, I am contemplating whether or not to study for a while or to go to sleep immediately. Having just finished my history work (do or get out), I'm not exactly tired but not in the mood for studying (most of the time I am not anyway).
Having decided to sleep early today, I have nothing more to say.
Signing off,
Thats all.
For one, my time management at home is quite unique. It is based around the amount of homework I have in a day. So, if I need more work, I'll play less. When i try introducing a new thing called "study time", I start getting confused and I just end up slacking while revising at the same time, resulting in not very productive revising. And yet I don't really seem to feel any stress to mug, because my philosophy is that mugging is for the day before, the days long before and for skimming through, organizing chapters, knowing what to do or exams, do homework and listen in class.
On unrelated new, our school day today was yet again slack, which isn't actually good because not much learning is done. Teacher Terence yet again took over another class that would be about the same as a free period, this time computer sciences. Not many complained, because you could both sleep and use your tablet without supervision in the former's class.
As with exams, there is subject choosing. Unlike almost all in my class, I am taking combination "D".
- Language Arts (English+Lit)
- Chinese (Mother Tongue)
- IHS (Introduction to Human Societies)
- Enriched Mathematics
- Advanced Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Geography
On totally unrelated news, I realised that this weekend is the F1 race! I'm not a fan of F1 races, but now that its in Singapore, me being the patriot I am, i can't help but be excited.
On even more totally unrelated news, I just watched China's second space mission launch into space, for a walk on the moon. Well, Americans have astronauts, Russia has cosmonauts, and apparently China's are called taikongnauts, tai kong being chinese for space or sky? (My chinese is not near powderful). Sounds weird. And if I'm not wrong those are the only countries who bother sinking their money into a business where spacesuits alone are like 23 million each.
Lastly, as I write this post, I am contemplating whether or not to study for a while or to go to sleep immediately. Having just finished my history work (do or get out), I'm not exactly tired but not in the mood for studying (most of the time I am not anyway).
Having decided to sleep early today, I have nothing more to say.
Signing off,
Thats all.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Apocalypse Day
Today started out fine, with me getting to witness spore being played for the first time. (The game I've been thinking of getting)
From there, it became freaky. While walking to the audi with CK, QYJ and Marcus, something was very wrong. For one, the sky on our left was bright though cloudy, the sky on our right was dark and cloudy, while the sky straight ahead was YELLOW. Extremely freaky colour for sky, no doubt. While Marcus was then saying how we needed to speak swahili because some creature (or something somewhat similar) was causing it, my extra blocked up nose still managed to detect a very strong smell of MEAT which was just very disturbing. This was then explained by our combined effort as "A fight between light,darkness and yellow." The smell of meat was still unexplainable though. =P
As if that were not enough, I had to sit next to my CLASS TEACHER for the entire duration of the farewell chapel (to bid farewell to the yr 4s and 6s who are leaving the school even though we will still be seeing them for the next month or less). This included her staring at me (face 10cm or less away) whenever she thought I was not singing any one of the hymns. This also included her staring (face 10cm or less away) at people next to me, such as "Quek Yong Jian stop scratching like that" or whats Adhika doing? Freaky.
It got better after that, thankfully, except that Honours Day just never seemed to end (ever). However, I managed to spend a bulk of it fighting over the two armrests from BC on my left and Faiz on my right. Surprisingly, I managed to control both armrests for a surprisingly long amount of time. (though BC was a big problem).
I then wasted the entire afternoon away looking through hundreds of blogskins, before choosing this one. Though the text,proportion and layout are what I feel perfect, the design could be better. Good enough for me, though...
Since then, nothing much has really happened, til about 6-6:30pm when the smell of meat came back. Worst still, it seemed only I could smell it. Freaky.
Now, I must again attempt to start doing homework to survive another day in school. Now, to me, doing homework is like trading in work for tokens, only to exchange them to be spared a life during actual school. All I look forward to are weekends, yet I'd ratehr have no weekends because it ends so fast and I feel even worse about the next week of school. Neverending cycle of surviving, I guess. The only thing that seems to prevent me from total craziness is game breaks in between homework (Homework in between games? :P) and others in school who are undergoing the same cycle.
Signing out,
Thats all.
From there, it became freaky. While walking to the audi with CK, QYJ and Marcus, something was very wrong. For one, the sky on our left was bright though cloudy, the sky on our right was dark and cloudy, while the sky straight ahead was YELLOW. Extremely freaky colour for sky, no doubt. While Marcus was then saying how we needed to speak swahili because some creature (or something somewhat similar) was causing it, my extra blocked up nose still managed to detect a very strong smell of MEAT which was just very disturbing. This was then explained by our combined effort as "A fight between light,darkness and yellow." The smell of meat was still unexplainable though. =P
As if that were not enough, I had to sit next to my CLASS TEACHER for the entire duration of the farewell chapel (to bid farewell to the yr 4s and 6s who are leaving the school even though we will still be seeing them for the next month or less). This included her staring at me (face 10cm or less away) whenever she thought I was not singing any one of the hymns. This also included her staring (face 10cm or less away) at people next to me, such as "Quek Yong Jian stop scratching like that" or whats Adhika doing? Freaky.
It got better after that, thankfully, except that Honours Day just never seemed to end (ever). However, I managed to spend a bulk of it fighting over the two armrests from BC on my left and Faiz on my right. Surprisingly, I managed to control both armrests for a surprisingly long amount of time. (though BC was a big problem).
I then wasted the entire afternoon away looking through hundreds of blogskins, before choosing this one. Though the text,proportion and layout are what I feel perfect, the design could be better. Good enough for me, though...
Since then, nothing much has really happened, til about 6-6:30pm when the smell of meat came back. Worst still, it seemed only I could smell it. Freaky.
Now, I must again attempt to start doing homework to survive another day in school. Now, to me, doing homework is like trading in work for tokens, only to exchange them to be spared a life during actual school. All I look forward to are weekends, yet I'd ratehr have no weekends because it ends so fast and I feel even worse about the next week of school. Neverending cycle of surviving, I guess. The only thing that seems to prevent me from total craziness is game breaks in between homework (Homework in between games? :P) and others in school who are undergoing the same cycle.
Signing out,
Thats all.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
How I've been
Well, this blog is meant to show how I am, so I best get started.
Today was easily the best school day during curriculum time since year 1 when all teachers were gone for OEP. The only proper lessons were mother tongue and history, which means 2 hours out of 6 hours and 40 minutes were not slack. As if it were not enough, the tomorrow is honours day/farewell chapel, so there will be no lessons and just an IT fair-like crowd going to the toilet to engage in activities such as PSP gaming, gameboy gaming, not to forget handphone and MP3 player gaming. Followed by a PE and physical science practical dominated day and a short friday, before another weekend.
Today, some very specail events happened, like ISO (Individualised Study Options) (Research Project) lesson when only two groups out of four completed everything today, which was the deadline. When our teacher said we were free, our group's response to her "You can do self study now" was "Madam can we slack?". Ten minutes later, during the arrival of the other group who finished their work (2.12), she said the same thing, and received the reply "Madam can we go to class and take textbooks to study?". Tsk. To think teachers wonder why our class is the worst.
Not to forget teacher Terence's lesson, always brightening up our day for all the wrong reasons. He does this in all kinds of different ways for different people. Firstly, during his class, there never fails to be at least five people sleeping. Much needed sleep nonetheless, brightening their day for other teachers who care if their students sleep during their class. Though there are many more reasons, I cannot ever finish listing them out.
Again, class spirit was shown in our class for all the wrong reasons. Last year, every thursday, Nancy Kang would attempt to enter the class, onlyu to find the class empty. Or just the whole class hiding against the wall, with all lights off. Except for *cough* Jamin *cough**cough*, to whom Nancy Kang would give a motherly smile. (Which would make you vomit like vomit boy, needless to say). This was repeated again today in class for the greater good of the class.
"Sir, can you release us ten minutes early for recess?"
"But I want to go through the past yer papers"
"Erm... sir, we didn't bring them" Class nods heads, all with paper in their bags.
Sir thinks for a while, starts to pack bags. We just leave happily.
On unrelated news, the KKK has started a new activity- using a glue stick to put glue on chairs. I'm sorry, but I must describe this Adi-like event. They put glue on teh etacher's chairs, and start imitating teaher's reactions. Then, one guy says to the other "Wait, put it later, if you put it now it will dry" The otehr guy's reaction? "No lah". It dried. They tried putting some on my chair too, but i just sat at the edge of the seat and they thought i didn't know. *sighs*
As there is nothing else to post on, I have nothing better to do but
Signing off,
Thats all.
Today was easily the best school day during curriculum time since year 1 when all teachers were gone for OEP. The only proper lessons were mother tongue and history, which means 2 hours out of 6 hours and 40 minutes were not slack. As if it were not enough, the tomorrow is honours day/farewell chapel, so there will be no lessons and just an IT fair-like crowd going to the toilet to engage in activities such as PSP gaming, gameboy gaming, not to forget handphone and MP3 player gaming. Followed by a PE and physical science practical dominated day and a short friday, before another weekend.
Today, some very specail events happened, like ISO (Individualised Study Options) (Research Project) lesson when only two groups out of four completed everything today, which was the deadline. When our teacher said we were free, our group's response to her "You can do self study now" was "Madam can we slack?". Ten minutes later, during the arrival of the other group who finished their work (2.12), she said the same thing, and received the reply "Madam can we go to class and take textbooks to study?". Tsk. To think teachers wonder why our class is the worst.
Not to forget teacher Terence's lesson, always brightening up our day for all the wrong reasons. He does this in all kinds of different ways for different people. Firstly, during his class, there never fails to be at least five people sleeping. Much needed sleep nonetheless, brightening their day for other teachers who care if their students sleep during their class. Though there are many more reasons, I cannot ever finish listing them out.
Again, class spirit was shown in our class for all the wrong reasons. Last year, every thursday, Nancy Kang would attempt to enter the class, onlyu to find the class empty. Or just the whole class hiding against the wall, with all lights off. Except for *cough* Jamin *cough**cough*, to whom Nancy Kang would give a motherly smile. (Which would make you vomit like vomit boy, needless to say). This was repeated again today in class for the greater good of the class.
"Sir, can you release us ten minutes early for recess?"
"But I want to go through the past yer papers"
"Erm... sir, we didn't bring them" Class nods heads, all with paper in their bags.
Sir thinks for a while, starts to pack bags. We just leave happily.
On unrelated news, the KKK has started a new activity- using a glue stick to put glue on chairs. I'm sorry, but I must describe this Adi-like event. They put glue on teh etacher's chairs, and start imitating teaher's reactions. Then, one guy says to the other "Wait, put it later, if you put it now it will dry" The otehr guy's reaction? "No lah". It dried. They tried putting some on my chair too, but i just sat at the edge of the seat and they thought i didn't know. *sighs*
As there is nothing else to post on, I have nothing better to do but
Signing off,
Thats all.
The post before all other posts
Well, before anything other occurences occur here, I'd like to declare: First Post!
I'm excited already. Reading some other people's blogs, I notice how they try to make their blog posts longer. I would like to take this paragraph to declare them hopeless.
Next, I would like to lay ground rules. (This term gave me much interest after reading the ones in Golden Village which have disturbing looking characters all over)
Signing out,
Thats all.
I'm excited already. Reading some other people's blogs, I notice how they try to make their blog posts longer. I would like to take this paragraph to declare them hopeless.
Next, I would like to lay ground rules. (This term gave me much interest after reading the ones in Golden Village which have disturbing looking characters all over)
- No gyrating. Seriously.
- No spasticity, utter stupidity, mindless braincrushing, or anything which might have Adi-ish connotations or may be related in any way to the cause which Adi lives for.
- No smokers.
- No spamming
Signing out,
Thats all.
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