rants&musings
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
haix. not in a mood to talk about today. so dead beat. screwed up all three papers i guess. amaths was quite manageable. but i couldn't do the straight line graph. worked and worked and worked and didn't noe wad to plot. 8 marks gone, just liddat. haix. it wasn't hard. juzx tt i was so sleepy. thanks to sleeping at 1am the previous night muggin bio.
now the killer.. bio. studied like mad for it. then got hit by a mental block at the structured section. damn. the paper's gonecase la. it's probably like the only paper i feel shitty about even right now. to think i studied and it all went to pot, just like tat. it's quite a waste isn't it. given a choice i would redo it to the best of my ability. it was manageable too.. but thanks to mental block...
lit next. wrote 2 page long essay and 2 page long answer for unseen. probably the only paper i felt somewat confident about. really. no joke. well. at least it's over.
darryl was chasing the sun at 15:55.
Monday, April 26, 2004
ok. killer day tdy. 3 papers. phy + chem, emaths, history. glad to say i managed to conquer all of them, yes, even history. physics was quite ok. it's a very easy paper by TGTS standard. if one is to fail it he'll die a terrible death. no joke, really. chem was reasonable. never seen such an easy chem paper in my life. no calculations, everything in structured was about organic chem and environmental issues. woohoo..
emaths was ok. interestingly paper 1 was harder than paper 2. maybe because we couldn't use calculator for the former. anyway managed to finish everything. was suprised at how easy paper 2 was. perhaps to boost our flagging morale. no idea la. was damn chicken. if i dun get a say, 50/70 for this paper i'll go knock my head on the wall. it was REALLY that easy. you go try it out yourself..
surprise was history. mugged 10 hrs over the weekend for it. in the end source on russia, SEQ on germany and WWI. took the germany SEQ. quite managable. managed to finish the whole paper! (another first!) *clap clap*. hope i do well for this paper. aim to pass history this term. looks like it's possible, but i shan't keep my hopes up too high. hahah. i muz pass. this pass means so much to me.
got a break tmr. no papers scheduled. looks like i'm going to sit at home or some library and study up on bio, amath and lit.
darryl was chasing the sun at 17:28.
Friday, April 23, 2004
Hoobastank - The Reason
I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you
I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with every day
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You
and the reason is You
and the reason is You
and the reason is You
I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know
I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you
I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you
darryl was chasing the sun at 17:38.
prelims for this wk are over. phew. eng yesterday was all right. functional and compo first up. finished in like 1 h 15 mins. was dozing off, lying around, stretching the remaining 30 mins. bored stiff really. compre was relatively tough. whoa.. it's like they are tryin to kill us for prelims. sucks.
after tt was SS. after goin thru danny tan's SS workshop, i felt so confident. really. it's great. i managed to finish the paper for once and i think i might have hit the highest levels for all questions. woohoo. juzx wish he was my SS teacher instead of mdm gay. but somehow luck doesn't go yr way all the time.
chinese today. compo was quite ok. everyone did on Q2 and Q5. perhaps because they were the easiest ones. heh. it was alright. biggest shocker was still the chinese paper 2. kinda chicken. maybe to boost our morale perhaps. i stand a good chance of passing this paper, i really do!
darryl was chasing the sun at 15:19.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
hello.. ok. yesterday was kinda horrible. first 2 periods reasonably ok. a maths with alice long was quite ok too. then came the killer. physics. 14/35. damn it. and i thot i wld have passed. i lost SIX marks due to my own carelessness. this is wad u get for being careless i presume. was really kicking myself after the thing as i knew i cld have done it.. will work harder. muz pass physics and conquer it once and for all.
hist was ok. revised on Russia. jeff goh didn't come for bio because he left to bring NCC Air pple on some excursion. contact time came, mdm sharifah came up and dismissed us, and we went to the canteen. after tt had SS workshop with danny tan. i muz say, danny tan TAUGHT much more in that 1 hr than what gay has taught in the past 1.25 years. shows you the disparity, huh?
tired today. had PE. goodness me. shuttle run + sit ups + broad jump + push-ups. failed shuttle run by 0.3 seconds. not unexpected. partly coz i dun care abt NAPFA. den did 31 sit ups. after tt had to do pumping. so tired i couldn't do a single one (not like i could do a single proper one in the first place). gave up on broad jump and didn't practice. waaaay too tired to.
chem next. wang j revised mole concepts. alice long went thru e maths stuff. shocker of the day : TGTS didn't teach or go thru anything during his lesson. he instead allowed us to do self-study. was falling asleep during the thing considering i slept at 12mn and woke up at 5am (tt's my new sleeping habit. effective for late night / early morning mugging). will train my body to adapt! i'll need it in JC.
pereira lesson was cool.. he broke into chinese again. asked him some lame shit. had assembly after tt. LOTR show on the exhibition at science center. muz give ms saras some credit for organizing this. it was so bloody lame and stupid that i almost wanted to go to the toilet and hide. damn. aiya. wad do you expect frm this kinda shows? moved tables after tt.. shows how close prelims are. urgh.
darryl was chasing the sun at 16:18.
Monday, April 19, 2004
had a very enjoyable long weekend. heh. sat was quite an enjoyable day. went for my sch's concert wif esther. i know we're nt tt close but we can get to noe each other better ya? it was a splendid, spectacular performance. i know.. all the descriptive words are coming out. :D wad marred the experience was some childish act by my juniors who were filming the whole concert lohx. god knows why but they decided to sms me crap which i let esther reply to. she was kinda pissed lor.. after the thing she kinda black face.. hey, i apologize on behalf of them.. hope u understand. dun be pissed k? really must congratulate the band for putting up such a wonderful performance. pity the sec 4s r retiring le. hope u enjoyed the 4 fab years of band!
sunday ah. spent the whole day doin hw and study, 3 days to prelims. mind u. and i'm still online interestingly. my yesterday was quite boring. actually my life IS quite boring. lolx. today was quite slack. first period chem. somehow i feel as lessons go by, chem is becoming more and more sienz. not tt wang j can't teach (in fact way better than toh yee lin), but i juzx dunno why i keep finding myself trying hard to keep awake. really damn hard. bala didn't come. so slack. 3 days to prelims and she goes on course.. interesting.
mdm gay after tt. continued ranting about her anti-PAP diatribe. had a very fun time suaning her and she suan back. lolx. SS lessons are getting MORE and MORE interesting. nt because we're learning something but we're suaning her. hahahas... forgot we got the SS test back. amazing man. first SS test i passed. and with flying colours. 16/25. great man. but it's a SBCS after all..
alice long after tt. dunno why but alice quite funny. always walk into class, then realising there's still a teacher inside, make some funny face and hurriedly retreat out. heh. rather cute. oh yea, they scrapped the 5 mins b4 and 5 mins after recess rule. so our recess is now back to 1120 - 1145. damn. and the queue's always so bloody long. ended up dieting. thankfully i have some reserves. hehe.
bio after tt. horrible. got the test back. studied 3 hrs for it and got 28/50. moral of the story? NEVER STUDY for tests. god knows why but if i dun study i might actually have got higher. irritating. history aft tt. had to do practice SBCS. first part is easy but i can't really do reliability. haix. sch is sapping my life out of me. getting more tired and exhausted by the day..
darryl was chasing the sun at 21:05.
Friday, April 16, 2004
hello. back again. lolx. 6 days to prelims. eng, SS, chi on the first two days. after that is everything else. can't wait for it to end, and i sometimes wonder why we have three prelims. THREE, mind you? sometimes i wish i was born in 1989 or 1987. 1987 batch only had one prelim. not so stressful. 1989 batch will have prelim but won't need to use them for PAE. damn it. to top it off they get a 3 month break before entering JC. why dragon yr babies always so suay one? why can't they give us some treat just for once?
it is extremely sad that we have to face the whims and fancies of the MOE. it's as if we have to do their every bidding. they like this they implement this. and its always for our batch. juzx because we have the highest number of students they have to screw around with us. it's unfair lohx. totally unfair. why can't they implement the good changes for OUR YEAR, for once?
screwed up permutations test tdy. no wonder alice long seemed so pissed. aiya. my permutation skills are horrible at best. i don't really like word problems and then they dump one set of word problems for us to solve. not to mention the confusion between nCr and nPr. really don't know when to use what. aiya. will have to work harder i guess. of all the topics in a maths this is the one i'm weakest in. not suprisingly alice long said, "for this topic either you understand or u dun understand.. there is no in-between"
after tt had three free periods. TGTS didn't come. apparently he's on MC. second time this yr. wonder for wad illness. jeff goh didn't come because he had to take NCC pple for some trip. ok. slack again. wang j came in, gave out worksheet then left to do sth in chem lab. ok lor.. slacked practically every lesson after recess. went home then brought grandma to SGH. wait so bloody long juz to see a doctor for wat, 5 minutes? totally infuriating i might add. reached home at wad, 5pm. thanks to a 1 hr wait at SGH. shows how efficient public health services are.
darryl was chasing the sun at 18:05.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
ok, i'm back after quite a long hiatus. 8 days to prelims.. really feel the heat man. 25% of prelim grades. damn. tt means if i screw this one up (which would most likely happen) i'd have to work very much harder and get better results. tt means i'll have less time online. tt means i'll update this place lesser and lesser. i might only update once a week, which i'll implement after june. wad to do, Os are looming. see lor. so hard to come online liao so i ask |cE-QuEeN update for me lor.. bobian la..
i loved the weekend. first superlong weekend in dunno how long.. took this opportunity to study and relax a bit. probably one of the last weekends i can relax someone. better than nothing. hahah. too bad i'll have to mug this weekend before and after CHSSB concert. haix. sienzx. but muz go and support frenZ la.. it's only my second time going so yeah.. but why VCH.. dun realli like the place, so ulu and small.. drinks so ex somemore. but wad to do.. esplanade concert on aug 1 tho.
yepps.. monday had two tests. bio and SS. damn la. i dun like SS.. bio still ok. hope i can at least pass this SS test. will be the first time i ever pass an SS test dis yr. i juzx begin hating all my humans subject except lit lor.. dunno why la. for tt lit test i got 18/25 lor. kinda unexpected. didn't noe my lit standard was tat good lor. totally shocked. also my highest lit score ever.. haha.. lit rox.
this week has been quite good somewhat. no teachers have been screaming at us except for auntie long occasionally lapsing into PMSy antics.. but its our fault la.. lots of us neva hand up homework.. its natural for her to get pissed lor.. and thank god she haven't give up on our class yet.. otherwise gone liao.. but dunno why jeff goh so bad mood ytd, scream at those pple who neva do bio workbook.. but after tt seemed to calm down.. he's quite sad la.. form tchr of such a sucky class..
darryl was chasing the sun at 16:37.
Monday, April 12, 2004
.: When you think you have done your best. You will be at peace with yourself :.
Arlow people... This is not me. Meaning this is not Darryl. Lols... He ask me help him update... Don't know update what... Hmm... Anyone can give me any idea? x P Anyways, he says hes kinda busy these few days so he can't come online. Yups. He say he will miss you guys. (I added that in for him) x ) And he wants you guys to miss him too! (I added that in too). Eh well... According to him, Cheng Wei's back and well... Cw called him. Yups. Lets wish him good luck for whatever he is busy with... So there. Good Luck! = ) Btw, if you guys are interested feel free to go to my sister's bloggie www.silentyin.blogspot.com to check out an article. "Leaf departure is because of the wind pursuit or because the tree didn't ask her to stay?" dated 21st March Sunday. Its kinda nice. Darryl: I hope this is not crap. x P
darryl was chasing the sun at 19:54.
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
hello all. 3 days of auditions are over! the performers were fabulous this time round. especially loved wilbert's performance. made everyone laugh till they were in stitches after the performance. looks like the finals will be wonderful this time round. 25th may tickets cost $4. buy from me hor..
bought new CD ytd. something by five for fighting. they are a nice band. haven't listened to it yet but i'm sure it'll be quite nice. quite tired today. 2.4 plus chin ups. haix. can't do a single one. honestly not suprised. lolx. had a physics test then. it was a little challenging but i managed to complete everything. i got hope of passing le. following tt was quite a hard lit test. *yawn*. prelims are only FIFTEEN days away. ):
darryl was chasing the sun at 19:50.
Monday, April 05, 2004
okie. had a gr8 weekend. bought a new CD again "the diary of alicia keys". been a very long time since i bought an album, last was in feb with blink 182's untitled album. CHMA auditions today was quite good, better than last yr's batch. there were one or two tt cldn't make it lor. potential william hungs? X: dunno la. wonder why i didn't wanna participate. too paiseh or juzx dun wanna?
darryl was chasing the sun at 20:17.
Saturday, April 03, 2004
i'm back online! haha. long time since i last touched this place. lolx. thurs was quite a slack day. usual lessons and no sciences. haha. pissed off the chi compo teacher big time by playin a fool in her class. IMO she deserves it la. its such a waste of time. i could have finished my hw by that time already and still have some time for rest. damn it. thankfully there's only 2 more lessons.
friday was ok also. TGTS came in and screamed at us for nt being able to draw diagram correctly. its not in the book so how we noe? ok it was in the notes but the notes are hard to sift through. aiya. rest of the day was quite all right.. slacked a bit in the afternoon and did homework later in the night.
had CIP today. collecting old newspapers and clothes. assembled in sch at 8am. and waited. and waited. wait till 8.30am when the MP arrived. then he made a short speech and we went off. finished my block by 10.30am and thought we could go home when all the papers were collected, bundled up and the van came. how wrong. the van took forever to arrive. so we juzx milled around, read, walked around the estate.. did anything we cld do to keep awake and not bored. haha.
van finally came at 12.30pm, and i was damn pissed 4-2 actually left at 10.30am. damn la. cld have gone to XMS funfair lohx. in the end i didn't go.. too tired to and there was too little time left. not tt i dun mind doin such work but at least coordinate properly lohx.
darryl was chasing the sun at 16:36.