Friday, October 20, 2006
The Results Show
Well well, it's official almost sad that I'll most likely make the jump over to JC2. And that leaves me one step closer to the As and of course NS. Which kinda sucks since I thought we could just remain in J1 forever. But I'm not here to go on 'bout how nice it would be if we could all stay put and rot or something. No, I'm here today to highlight the highlights of my promos. Yea exams come and go but it's the shit that you (and the markers) write in it which brings back the memories.
For one there was my Maths. The one about m<0. For the record, I still don't know why m<0 and apparently neither does the marker. And just for your viewing pleasure I've decided to upload the answer script here so we could all have another laugh at it.
Then there was GP with some rather cryptic comments 'bout my AQ being very "radical" and I should "go check with my GP tutor's answer scheme." And I've got a copy of it too though the markers handwriting leaves much to be desired? LOL, but compared to mine, guess it isn't so bad after all.
And how can we forget about Dearest Physics. For the record I passed my Physics promos by zero but I doubt I'll pass it overall. But I'll still promote so no worries there. Physics was kind of a joke and there's a hell lot of stuff written in there by the markers and since there's so much I shan't bother putting it here cos it'll take me too much time and effort. (I got better things to do ya know. Like studying for my As....)
So, after all that's been said and done what's in for me now? I guess for many of us, we've yet to recover from the shock our results gave us. Be it an overdose of vitamin A or U. Still it's not the end of the road. There's still a long way to go from here. And if I don't see you next year don't fret. Just pick yourself up and move on. If I'm feeling nice I might just drop by to look for you.
For one there was my Maths. The one about m<0. For the record, I still don't know why m<0 and apparently neither does the marker. And just for your viewing pleasure I've decided to upload the answer script here so we could all have another laugh at it.
Then there was GP with some rather cryptic comments 'bout my AQ being very "radical" and I should "go check with my GP tutor's answer scheme." And I've got a copy of it too though the markers handwriting leaves much to be desired? LOL, but compared to mine, guess it isn't so bad after all.
And how can we forget about Dearest Physics. For the record I passed my Physics promos by zero but I doubt I'll pass it overall. But I'll still promote so no worries there. Physics was kind of a joke and there's a hell lot of stuff written in there by the markers and since there's so much I shan't bother putting it here cos it'll take me too much time and effort. (I got better things to do ya know. Like studying for my As....)
So, after all that's been said and done what's in for me now? I guess for many of us, we've yet to recover from the shock our results gave us. Be it an overdose of vitamin A or U. Still it's not the end of the road. There's still a long way to go from here. And if I don't see you next year don't fret. Just pick yourself up and move on. If I'm feeling nice I might just drop by to look for you.
Friday, October 13, 2006
PW
Just moments ago, my PW leader sent me the WR file which somehow or other was nearly 2mb. But that's not the point. I was wondering why he had sent me the file at all. So he replied that "I should go edit my part" as if it were the most natural thing for me to do. Honestly, I don't give a damn 'bout PW now. Yea maybe I'll regret next year like I did with my Chinese when I topped the level, bottoms up as my then Chinese teacher most kindly told me. But still right now I'm in no mood for explaining why I chose this darn project and give a hundred and one reasons how to improve on it.
Anyway, there's really nothing much more that's happening now in this post promos slump so that's all I guess. Lol.
And I'm proud to add I won't be doing anything to the WR much less edit my part so I'm going to get it real bad next week. But what to do, that's life - the bit on not doing my WR.
Anyway, there's really nothing much more that's happening now in this post promos slump so that's all I guess. Lol.
And I'm proud to add I won't be doing anything to the WR much less edit my part so I'm going to get it real bad next week. But what to do, that's life - the bit on not doing my WR.
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Post Promos
It seems that all things good and bad must come to an end. And so it seems that after all that mugging, the promos are finally over. Sadly for the Physics people like me, we still have the bloody SPA to contend with next week. But that is of little concern to me given that I never really excelled at Physics. Now that the promos are over, I realized that I've nothing to do. I mean there's only that much DoTA you can play before you get bored of it.
So I shall do what the other kiasu Singaporean kids will do - start worrying about promotion. I find it kind of sad that we must waste time thinking 'bout getting retained. Indeed, while no one in their right mind would want to get retained, getting retained isn't the end of the world. And I'm pretty I'm going to draw a lot of flak for that statement since talk is cheap. But honestly, given a chance there're a hell lot of things I wished I had and hadn't done this year. So getting retained would give me a chance to right some wrongs. But that wouldn't be for me to decide, since one can't volunteer to retain. But one can of course volunteer to screw up one's promos which would most definitely get one retained. So to all the students out there worrying 'bout promotion, don't worry too much. Cos if you're going to get retained, you will get retained haha; but the point is taking it in the right spirit and moving on and not repeating it again next year cos for the guys especially that would be no "next year".
And with that in mind, I shall go back to my DoTA and figure out my life after the results are in.
So I shall do what the other kiasu Singaporean kids will do - start worrying about promotion. I find it kind of sad that we must waste time thinking 'bout getting retained. Indeed, while no one in their right mind would want to get retained, getting retained isn't the end of the world. And I'm pretty I'm going to draw a lot of flak for that statement since talk is cheap. But honestly, given a chance there're a hell lot of things I wished I had and hadn't done this year. So getting retained would give me a chance to right some wrongs. But that wouldn't be for me to decide, since one can't volunteer to retain. But one can of course volunteer to screw up one's promos which would most definitely get one retained. So to all the students out there worrying 'bout promotion, don't worry too much. Cos if you're going to get retained, you will get retained haha; but the point is taking it in the right spirit and moving on and not repeating it again next year cos for the guys especially that would be no "next year".
And with that in mind, I shall go back to my DoTA and figure out my life after the results are in.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Promos Day Four
I am frantically counting down to this Friday so that I can play in peace. Well not really since I still have Physics SPA next week but then SPA isn't exactly the most important thing on my agenda right now.
Moving on, there was Chemistry SPA today which I find is getting plain ridiculous. What is the point of doing the same experiment for 10 weeks then do the exact same thing during SPA? It's almost as if the teachers don't teach and just give us the promo papers to do all year round. Then come October give us the same paper but we do it in the hall. Really, SPA makes little sense to me. Anyway, SPA was exactly the same as the previous experiments we did no surprises there. But what was strange was that half way through the paper, everyone had finished. And that was when the fun started. See, since we had to do some experiment first we had a fair bit of chemicals and equipment lying around. And there was this long glass thing either the burette or the pipette which I found very useful for prodding the guy in front of me. Then there was the water bottle thingy. I realized that the more you tilt it upwards, the further it squirts! Imagine how much fun we had. Not to mention the many more titrations we did. I somehow managed to finish all my reagents that I winded up titrating water with well more water? Still, it was a bloody exam so the rules were in place which was quite a pity cos we might have ended up in a war. With the long glass thing as light sabers and the water bottles as guns.
Moving on, there was Chemistry SPA today which I find is getting plain ridiculous. What is the point of doing the same experiment for 10 weeks then do the exact same thing during SPA? It's almost as if the teachers don't teach and just give us the promo papers to do all year round. Then come October give us the same paper but we do it in the hall. Really, SPA makes little sense to me. Anyway, SPA was exactly the same as the previous experiments we did no surprises there. But what was strange was that half way through the paper, everyone had finished. And that was when the fun started. See, since we had to do some experiment first we had a fair bit of chemicals and equipment lying around. And there was this long glass thing either the burette or the pipette which I found very useful for prodding the guy in front of me. Then there was the water bottle thingy. I realized that the more you tilt it upwards, the further it squirts! Imagine how much fun we had. Not to mention the many more titrations we did. I somehow managed to finish all my reagents that I winded up titrating water with well more water? Still, it was a bloody exam so the rules were in place which was quite a pity cos we might have ended up in a war. With the long glass thing as light sabers and the water bottles as guns.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Promos Day Three
Today marks the end of my second last theory paper for promos. Indeed after all that has come to past, it has finally come to an end. What a relief, what joy, oh the freedom and the pleasure until the results return that is. Anyway, I've already started slacking around not giving too much thought 'bout my remaining papers.
Back to business now; Physics was on the menu today and what can I say? Or what's there to say? Well for one paper 1 was stupid. See I don't know what's with my current fascination over toilet breaks but the Physics paper 1 was only 40 minutes? That's even worse than the Econs paper because a 40 minutes paper breaks the toilet break examination rule. See for the first 30 minutes we can't leave and neither can we do so in the last 15 minutes. And if you observe carefully, there's a 5 minute overlap. Well it's really nothing much but just a thought.
So, after paper 1 when everyone was just sitting around not doing much, the Chief Presiding Examiner (CPE) just had to say that all students who wished to go to the toilet would kindly step up to the front of the hall to queue. And lo and behold, suddenly every guy in the hall had to go to the toilet! It's as if they've never been to a toilet before. Well they probably haven't been to a toilet filled with so many guys dying to pee. And it was pretty stupid watching the group of clowns waiting for their turn to go to the toilet. Hence I propose that in future, we allow the guys and girls (if they want to) to pee into their water bottles! This makes sense because there wouldn't be any water left in the bottle since they drank it all up hence the need to pee. And if they stayed in the hall to pee we wouldn't have to waste time queuing. And imagine how interesting conversations would get.
"Hey mate that's a big 'un there."
"Crickey, it's waving at me!"
Damn. But that probably wouldn't happen since things would get rather tense between members of the sexes. And let's not bring back the birds and the bees and the honey and what have you back into this shall we?
Back to business now; Physics was on the menu today and what can I say? Or what's there to say? Well for one paper 1 was stupid. See I don't know what's with my current fascination over toilet breaks but the Physics paper 1 was only 40 minutes? That's even worse than the Econs paper because a 40 minutes paper breaks the toilet break examination rule. See for the first 30 minutes we can't leave and neither can we do so in the last 15 minutes. And if you observe carefully, there's a 5 minute overlap. Well it's really nothing much but just a thought.
So, after paper 1 when everyone was just sitting around not doing much, the Chief Presiding Examiner (CPE) just had to say that all students who wished to go to the toilet would kindly step up to the front of the hall to queue. And lo and behold, suddenly every guy in the hall had to go to the toilet! It's as if they've never been to a toilet before. Well they probably haven't been to a toilet filled with so many guys dying to pee. And it was pretty stupid watching the group of clowns waiting for their turn to go to the toilet. Hence I propose that in future, we allow the guys and girls (if they want to) to pee into their water bottles! This makes sense because there wouldn't be any water left in the bottle since they drank it all up hence the need to pee. And if they stayed in the hall to pee we wouldn't have to waste time queuing. And imagine how interesting conversations would get.
"Hey mate that's a big 'un there."
"Crickey, it's waving at me!"
Damn. But that probably wouldn't happen since things would get rather tense between members of the sexes. And let's not bring back the birds and the bees and the honey and what have you back into this shall we?
Monday, October 02, 2006
Promos Day Two
For the first time in my life, I had a chance to sit for a 3 hour Math paper and I must say it's been quite an experience. For one, this being a 3 hour paper, it meant we could all take turns to go to the toilet, multiple times. Doesn't that sound great? Anyway, apart from the toilet breaks there is really nothing very exciting about being seated for 3 hours doing Math. Rather I'm more used to sitting in front of the computer and doing Math for 3 minutes which sort of explained my restlessness during today's paper. All the same I somehow or other managed to finish my paper even if it meant giving wacky answers. For example there was this question asking why m<0. I read it and I asked myself too, why must m<0? Alas it was a trick question or so I thought thus I gave a reply, cos that's the way it is. I mean why else would m<0? Why must we all be so negative? Let's spread some positive cheer around here shall we?
That's beside the point since that m<0 bit was worth only a mark; but the part behind it which seemingly required prior knowledge as to why m<0. Ah, that one I couldn't do either and it was worth 3 marks. Damn. Needless to say, I'm not too sure about Math now that I'm reflecting about it. But it's too late for regrets. Only thing I can do now is to look forward to Physics and see what other nonsensical answers I can flood the examiners with.
That's beside the point since that m<0 bit was worth only a mark; but the part behind it which seemingly required prior knowledge as to why m<0. Ah, that one I couldn't do either and it was worth 3 marks. Damn. Needless to say, I'm not too sure about Math now that I'm reflecting about it. But it's too late for regrets. Only thing I can do now is to look forward to Physics and see what other nonsensical answers I can flood the examiners with.
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