I'm typing this post on my class computer. It's supposed to be recess now, after which we have our electives and then school ends. Jourdan and Esmond are busily dancing mass dance songs...and I'm occasionally interrupted when they want to change songs. But that's not the point.
The point is: my physics test has just ended...a 30 questions mcq test. But it's not your average usual test. We answered using the classroom something system...where every student is given a blue remote control about the size of a normal cordless phone, and on it white buttons a-f pops up. Near Mr Boy's laptop hangs a dome shaped blue sensor, in which we are suppose to aim at and press our answer. Each question was permitted 1 minute to answer, so the duration in all was half an hour.
That's nothing so bad...but wat's bad is that i screwed up TWO questions. The test was easy on the whole...but except for two damned questions which required me a little damn bit more time to answer...AND I DIDN'T HAVE THAT TIME!!!!
The disadvantage of that system is that you damn can't change your freaking answers! Once the minute is over, nothing you do can alter your answer. So after that when I checked my work, I found two mistakes! What pisses me off totally is that this accounts for 30% of ca, and I KNOW the answers, but you cannot change it!
But well, like what I always say, what's done is done. So I'll try to ditch my discontent aside and try again next round (if there is). Today I also got back my biology and chemistry class test results. They were mediocre: 15/20 and 12/15 respectively. So very disappointing. Haiz. Oh by the way I got Google Earth last night...tried to locate VJC but couldn't pin point it specifically, then I gave up.
Well, after school ends I'm gonna get the VS school magazine that I designed during the December holidays! Yeah so excited!
Ian
Friday, February 24, 2006
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
My Life
Hi all: I would first like to say a very super mega sorry for not updating my blog. I feel really bad...but finally I am doing so now.
Well, school life is picking pace already...the work load's piling gradually, the pressure is re-emerging, the worksheets, projects and assignments are fast drowning the frail me, and i'm quietly shouting help inside me, to no avail. And the unsettling fact that this is just THE BEGINNING pisses me off totally.
Or I suppose almost everybody is. However, that's does not mean that I'm not enjoying my education. It is undubitably enriching and meaningful, but recently there's this ever-growing opposition inside me towards studying. Sometimes when I flip open my notes to start crackling, an unexplainable sense of melancholy, exhaustion and indolence overwhelmes me. The drive and motivation to study has suddenly deserted me.
Today I had my chemistry test...and I screwed it up substantially. One super careless calculation error on electronic configuration and another question which I had the slightest idea what it meant. Well, the even more disturbing thing is that I have Chinese spelling tomorrow. Mind you, it's not just any normal spelling. She's gonna READ SCENTENCES from the textbook. That's living hell.
But amid all these stressful issues which I have to overcome, there are some more comforting things which I can seek peace in. Firstly, my CCA...the people are great, they are friendly, and I can relate to them. Secondly, and most importantly, my faith.
Amongst all these tough times, I can seek refuge in the Lord...for whatever happens, He will be there for me, His promises never change, He will be God forever...and I rejoice in that fact. In Him I find calmness, assurance and direction. He is the guide to my otherwise messed up life. He is the one who leads me in the right path in this corrupted society, He is the one who controls my life.
Despite all these trying moments, I've an everlasting friend.
And praise the Lord for that.
Ian
Well, school life is picking pace already...the work load's piling gradually, the pressure is re-emerging, the worksheets, projects and assignments are fast drowning the frail me, and i'm quietly shouting help inside me, to no avail. And the unsettling fact that this is just THE BEGINNING pisses me off totally.
Or I suppose almost everybody is. However, that's does not mean that I'm not enjoying my education. It is undubitably enriching and meaningful, but recently there's this ever-growing opposition inside me towards studying. Sometimes when I flip open my notes to start crackling, an unexplainable sense of melancholy, exhaustion and indolence overwhelmes me. The drive and motivation to study has suddenly deserted me.
Today I had my chemistry test...and I screwed it up substantially. One super careless calculation error on electronic configuration and another question which I had the slightest idea what it meant. Well, the even more disturbing thing is that I have Chinese spelling tomorrow. Mind you, it's not just any normal spelling. She's gonna READ SCENTENCES from the textbook. That's living hell.
But amid all these stressful issues which I have to overcome, there are some more comforting things which I can seek peace in. Firstly, my CCA...the people are great, they are friendly, and I can relate to them. Secondly, and most importantly, my faith.
Amongst all these tough times, I can seek refuge in the Lord...for whatever happens, He will be there for me, His promises never change, He will be God forever...and I rejoice in that fact. In Him I find calmness, assurance and direction. He is the guide to my otherwise messed up life. He is the one who leads me in the right path in this corrupted society, He is the one who controls my life.
Despite all these trying moments, I've an everlasting friend.
And praise the Lord for that.
Ian
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Something and cross-country
It seems to me that there’s a new disturbing and uncouth trend surfacing amongst us teenagers: the too frequent use of the f-word. I completely abhor that crude word; it is, and will continue to be, denuded from my relatively clean vocabulary. This word is only reserved for vulgar, thoughtless souls who have, quite obviously, a limited range of vocabulary.
What’s more disturbing, saddening and upsetting is the fact that once ‘innocent’ people close to me (which I shall not mention) have also began following the herding instinct, proclaiming that disgusting word with such commendable fervor and without even embracing the slightest feelings of guiltiness. Well, under such an influential environment, it would be a challenge for me to remain faithful to my vow: not to use the f-word ever.
Well, I guess that once we get promoted to upper sec, this trend is rather inevitable. My schoolmates curse the f-word over almost anything that might upset them or cause them unhappiness; it is rapidly becoming a daily phenomenon where I witness people use that word a few times. Yes, although we may have the liberty to use whatever language pleases us, we must realize that our language reflects strongly on our character and family background. It is an inaudible way of conversing to others about your moral values.
So I strongly urge these corrupted souls to put a stop to using the f-word, unless you absolutely completely do not mind others regarding you as a vulgar entity.
Now after I have said so much, I shall move on to something lighter: today’s annual cross-country.
It is obligatory for every student to take part in this event, which robs us, to our utmost happiness, ironically, of our usual lessons. So it was a rather short day for us, the event ending at 11.
The boys had to complete a 4.8km route at East Coast, and the girls, being the ever-fortunate gender, a comparably short 3.2km course. The girls commenced their jog first, followed half an hour later by the boys.
Indolence got the better of me; I didn’t really have the motivation to run, so I just jogged along with one of my classmates. He stopped for a few times to convert to the less tiring way of running (walking), and I dedicatedly followed him and encouraged him. The result? A college position of 490 out of roughly 950 males. Haha, he clinched 491, because he lost to me in the dramatic final sprint to the finishing line.
After the cross-country finished, I stayed back for a while to eat with a few other classmates and to play the piano. Recently, there’s this class obsession with the pianos, and I, having the ability to play, have been one of the class ‘stars’ when it comes to piano. I think they are particularly interested in my uncanny capability to play virtually any known song to me without scores by ear. Well, I have just got to admit (with a tinge of egoistic-ness), that it is unexplainable talent.
Haha…well, that’s all for now after my quite long absence from blogging. Somehow I’ve sensed that my readership has deceased, but never mind, this is more of a personal online journal. I definitely don’t fancy my blog being bombarded my scores of comments like Wendy Cheng’s, or better recognized as Xiaxue.
This said, however, doesn’t translate to me not wanting a teeny bit more publicity.
Ian
What’s more disturbing, saddening and upsetting is the fact that once ‘innocent’ people close to me (which I shall not mention) have also began following the herding instinct, proclaiming that disgusting word with such commendable fervor and without even embracing the slightest feelings of guiltiness. Well, under such an influential environment, it would be a challenge for me to remain faithful to my vow: not to use the f-word ever.
Well, I guess that once we get promoted to upper sec, this trend is rather inevitable. My schoolmates curse the f-word over almost anything that might upset them or cause them unhappiness; it is rapidly becoming a daily phenomenon where I witness people use that word a few times. Yes, although we may have the liberty to use whatever language pleases us, we must realize that our language reflects strongly on our character and family background. It is an inaudible way of conversing to others about your moral values.
So I strongly urge these corrupted souls to put a stop to using the f-word, unless you absolutely completely do not mind others regarding you as a vulgar entity.
Now after I have said so much, I shall move on to something lighter: today’s annual cross-country.
It is obligatory for every student to take part in this event, which robs us, to our utmost happiness, ironically, of our usual lessons. So it was a rather short day for us, the event ending at 11.
The boys had to complete a 4.8km route at East Coast, and the girls, being the ever-fortunate gender, a comparably short 3.2km course. The girls commenced their jog first, followed half an hour later by the boys.
Indolence got the better of me; I didn’t really have the motivation to run, so I just jogged along with one of my classmates. He stopped for a few times to convert to the less tiring way of running (walking), and I dedicatedly followed him and encouraged him. The result? A college position of 490 out of roughly 950 males. Haha, he clinched 491, because he lost to me in the dramatic final sprint to the finishing line.
After the cross-country finished, I stayed back for a while to eat with a few other classmates and to play the piano. Recently, there’s this class obsession with the pianos, and I, having the ability to play, have been one of the class ‘stars’ when it comes to piano. I think they are particularly interested in my uncanny capability to play virtually any known song to me without scores by ear. Well, I have just got to admit (with a tinge of egoistic-ness), that it is unexplainable talent.
Haha…well, that’s all for now after my quite long absence from blogging. Somehow I’ve sensed that my readership has deceased, but never mind, this is more of a personal online journal. I definitely don’t fancy my blog being bombarded my scores of comments like Wendy Cheng’s, or better recognized as Xiaxue.
This said, however, doesn’t translate to me not wanting a teeny bit more publicity.
Ian
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