rants&musings
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
got back my results for overall prelims. guess they decided to be nice and took our best scores, the way it should be. considering we get 3 prelims its more logical to take the best results of all the subjects and put it in. after doing that they moderated the subjects by several grades. pity though. only one A1 this prelim. and 4 A2s. sheesh.
eng - 73 (A2)
chi - 71 (A2)
amaths - 69 (B3) -- grr. one more mark
emaths - 81 (A1)
history - 72 (A2)
ss/lit - 68 (B3)
phys/chem - 70 (A2)
biology - 61 (B4)
giving me a total L1R5 of
12 (subjects used in bold). grossly inflated i feel. two points deducted for getting A1 for CCA so it becomes a
10. what a pity. if i had higher chinese i'd get
8 points, but then again i don't. too bad for me then. perhaps this serves as a form of spurring me to work harder.
wonder how i'm going to get a better score for the o levels. hope to get below 8 points so i still have some hope of going into VJC with O level scores. i'm worried i cannot make it in with 10 points as their cutoff this year is 9 (for arts). hope to get into science although that looks super unlikely. oh well. i guess its another sign.
darryl was chasing the sun at 13:17.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
farewell assembly took place yesterday. relatively simple low-key ceremony which was also combined with prelim results day, making for lots of worried people. many people brought their cameras along, taking photos of the school, their classmates and teachers for one last time. indeed, there was this sombre feeling in the air..
as we entered the hall, t goh started giving out little slips of fancy paper to us. the contents of the paper was actually a poem he wrote himself.
An Ode to 4-1/3/6/8/11
(aka We've had a good run)
I am forever grateful
For this opp'tunity
To have shared this fleeting moment
In your esteemed company
With so many individuals
And as many idosyncrasies
It's been quite a unique experience
Not to say it's been a breeze
Physics was such a challenge
Science made it all the more
English almost impossible
To teach, but not to bore
Some feathers we have ruffled
Some nerves we've worn too thin
Such times have quickly faded
From my memory deep within
But the times of joy and laughter
And the care you can display
Will always seem to me as if
It happened yesterday
So let me put in record
The joy I've felt at heart
When help I could you render
Your growth to play a part
Now when I count my blessings
The goodness that I find
My cup doth runneth over
I have a hundred six and nine
~t.g.~
really started to get me sad.
lhb began talking and told us the good news about prelim results. then came the dedications to the students by the teachers. alice long devoted 3 screens to 4-2 and one each to her other two classes while jeff only placed one photo of our class (considering we never took any photos in the first place). then t goh was asked to represent the teachers as a whole to speak, and he recited this poem:
IF
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
closing the farewell assembly. report books were then given out and we were briefed about the
Provisional Admission Exercise on
25 Nov 2004. thereafter there was a reception set up for us. perhaps as a final farewell the teachers were serving the food. had two plates of food stuffed down me courtesy of ms tan soak cheng and mrs long, the former who *enthusiastically* called me to pass me a plate of food..
goodbye cat high. its been a wonderful 7 years.
darryl was chasing the sun at 22:27.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
never thought i'm going to miss cat high. all the years in cat high (i was from primary section too) have left an indelible mark in my memory. although i do hate the place i guess i will miss it once i leave for good. however bad the school is, some good teachers do make up for it.
farewell assembly on friday. the last time we will see each other until the exams. and thereafter, we go our own ways. i'm not relishing this thought at all.. and i don't want to see my prelim score even though i can make it to a decent JC. i will surely miss the days of secondary school once its all over and after experiencing the JC hectic lifestyle.
darryl was chasing the sun at 14:32.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
got my history results back on tuesday. a B3 for history. 69 marks. just that one more mark and i'll get my A2. grr. absolutely pissed with myself partly because of this. combined with prelim 1 and 2, my overall history grade is a
B4 - 60. considering that i failed history straight from sec 3 straight to sec 4, it's quite a good improvement.
also heard that my overall prelim L1R5 is less than 20. but from my guesses its probably more than 15. hope they moderate at least a grade a subject. unlikely but its worth a try. if minimal moderation takes place, it seems that
Catholic Junior College or
Innova Junior College will be my home for the first 3 months of next year. if i'm
really really really lucky, which i don't think will be the case, i might come close to getting into
Victoria Junior College, which is again very unlikely. so it's the former 2 JCs for me i guess.
3 weeks to o levels and i'm still slacking. simply no mood to study.
WHAT'S WRONG with me!? i seem to lack any motivation to study at all, let alone do anything. i'm totally exhausted.
-out~!
darryl was chasing the sun at 16:19.