the holidays have begun!! yay.
got to know my class nxt year ytd.. i think nxt year is going to exciting but incredibly busy so i have to find a way to organise my life.
later today is my grade 8 theory exam.. going to be guesswork half the paper!! lolol. also got mep exams coming up nxt week and grade 7 guitar in 3 wks time. quite reasonably spaced.
so this holiday, i intend to train my guitar as far as possible b4 sch reopens and also i want to study the Bible more. also, i want to get stuff for youth camp done hahah. also.. i think i better like start running hahah its not a long time b4 army.
yah tts abt it. cya
jay chou had better stop mumbling
updates.
i realli cant wait for the holidays to begin and get away from school.. seriously school after exams is still taxing.. going to sch to do nothing for 6 hours is realli realli sian sometimes. hahah another reason why i cant wait for holidays is that i dun want to hear vulgarities anymore. honestly, the number of vulgarities i hear in one day of school is the number of vulgarities i hear in all the holidays in my LIFE. so u can get the idea. i jus realised its weird to have a word in your brain but not saying it. but i think with persistence and focus on God its possible to not stumble anyone by saying words that we shudnt.
yay the part of my brain that controls my left hand and note reading skills is finally working again!!!!!!! yay hahah so happy cos my mep prac is tml.. and i hope i reach my learning peak tml so i can score well hehe.
kk tts all for now. 2 mou days.
hihi.
was super tired after sch today.. went home to sleep and woke up feeling cranky then went to my guitar teacher's hse for final practice b4 thursday's mep prac. this time lesson was right smack at 6pm (my dinnertime) so i ate dinner at 6:45 after lesson at mcdonalds, first time in a long time ^^ hahah now i feel fat.
but the highlight of my day has to be seeing a real live conman!! LOL.
if i were to write a letter to sunday times forum, heres how it wud be like.
Conmen, please make your motives less obviousone weekday evening i got onto a crowded 165 bus at ang moh kio. behind me, a normal looking chinese man got on and started asking the bus driver to give him a free trip, as thieves had supposedly snatched away stuff like his watch, wallet and ez-link card. so he needed a free ride you see. hahah i dont noe wad the bus driver did, but he had seen his fair share of this sorta pple. but that time i still not sure lah.
later, i heard someone sitting behind me on the second deck of the bus asking the lady in front of him in chinese whether he could have 80 cents cos he dint have enuf to get home from clementi central or something like that. hahah that sorta confirmed it. of cos the lady dint agree, good for her. i think he also tried to ask me by calling 'hello, sir' to me but i daoed him cos can argue that i am not a sir yet. then to my surprise, an elderly man sitting further in front on the second deck came back to the conman and told him in chinese that he had already given him money and that he shudnt cheat anyone else (!!)
hahah so as u can see, conmen all over singapore need to develop new strategies and make their motives less obvious. when u try to con pple, at least try not to do it 4 times on the same bus. this guy seemed more of a joke to me than a nuisance, but for the sake of the general public, what are some of the measures we can take to guard against such pple? and are there any policies guarding against this sort of pple?
-Chen Yi, 16
hahah in my opinion, i think i wud have given him a long long lecture in my suck chinese about why he shudnt con pple. but honestly, i dunno how these pple can afford to lose so much face by trying to obtain small amounts of money from pple which are obviously not meant for bus rides home.
yeapyeap. hilarious. hahahah
oooooohhh!!! my blog's birthday was yesterday!!
HAPPY FIRST BIRTHDAY, BLOG!!
many things, many things.
hahah i've found a way to display my results such that it doesnt freak too many pple out.
average percent: 82.00%
yea so basically i topped my class, thank God for that. and my score is somewhere in the range where it is possible to hit a level position.. but i guess i will onli know that next year near founders day where they present the acad awards.
hahah even tho ive done well i cant seem to be able to be happy.. maybe becos the rest of my class was sulking about their results for the whole week. i dunno.. so it wud be irritating of me to talk about examination results? hahah thats wad i feel.
currently i dun feel that exams have ended. theres like a lot of stuff coming up, mep prac on thurs and grade 8 theory on sat, and u may not realise it, but music exams take a lot of discipline. u cant jus bang anything u want to play on the guitar.. and not all guitar stuff is fun. theory is fun when u get the answer hahah (after abt 15 minutes for a qn).
i think i shall stop here.. my thoughts are too numerous.. if i think if i write out everything i thought about today the post would be like 1k words long. yeap.. so jus trying to find reasons to stay happy :)
yay!! i'd realli like to thank God for excellent results.
today was an amazing day.. got back all our results today. this was the first time where my mom did not scold me for any subject.. so after 10 years my grades have finally made the mark. yay so happy!!
this exam there was much moderation.. so the teachers told us that the actual mark we were supposed to get is the mark written on the exam paper. hahah im realli contemplating whether to post my marks or not but i guess not as it wud probably freak you out (freaks me out sometimes when i look at it again) so if u wud like to noe u can come and ask me personally :)
hahah but its not over yet.. i've yet to know the final class position after adding in the year's work. currently i lead by 13 marks.. but u nvr noe wad the other 50% from the rest of the year can do to ur marks.
once again, to God be the glory!!
tml is the big day.
hahah im quite impressed with the school teachers.. they managed to get the scripts all marked and are going to give them ALL back to us tml, the 2nd day of going back to school after the marking days. hahah im not realli feeling scared yet.. cos i think i did quite okay, but theres realli no telling wad wud happen with the humans and lang arts. but its all in God's hands now and i cant do anything about it.
but there were a few things that happened today that you could say 'foreshadows' tml. me and my other maths genius fren were told we were among the top 20 scorers in the level for physics final year exam ^^ so it wasnt realli that bad after all. praise God. also the chem teacher suddenly came in and gave us the answer sheet to the final year exam and i did okay for mcq ^^ but my paper 2 isnt as outstanding. but we'll see tml.
my guitar practising is more or less back on track, except that i have sort of lost the barring (is that how u spell) strength that i used to have. it cant just be the tension of my strings hahah. more practice!!
the thing thats at risk now is my theory grade 8.. i realli dunno if i can make it. jus now during piano lesson my teacher was trying to sight read a piece (probably by chopin) to let me hear the mood to guess which composer it was, cos i circled scarlatti by accident, hes a classical composer. chopin is a composer from the romantic period, so the extract had accidentals everywhere. hahah so by the time she reached the end i dint even realise it. like.. AIYO. so jus now i called shawn's teacher, but he doesnt teach abrsm, so i went to the piano sch downstairs to get a quotation, calling them back tml. i mean like.. let me pass theory grade 8 at least.. hahah.
ok. more reports tml. cya
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yay i feel like i made an achievement!! hahah took me 2 hours ytd to do
i hereby declare end of year exams
OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!yay!! hahahah.
day 7: paper no. aiyah lost count: a maths 1
day 8: paper aiyah lost count +1: a maths 2
comments: diao.
but hu cares.. i finished both papers!! an achievement compared to mid year core maths hahah.
heres wad i plan to do now that exams are finished!!
1. stone
2. stone in front of the computer
3. recover from my gastric and recover my sense of smell
4. clean my room and maybe rearrange it
5. practice guitar and own
6. practice piano and try to own
7. sleep
8. draw closer to God
9. wash my shoes
10. go buy guitar strings from town
11. go out wif church frens
12. irvin's stuff to be done by the 16th (no choice)
13. stone in front of the computer some more!!
Day 6:
paper 9: core maths 2
yay i finished the paper!! but with some errors i realli didnt noe so its ok.
BARGH cudnt they have chosen a better time to drill into walls in the unit upstairs?!??
day 5.
paper 7: MT 1.
the school system has now gotten lame and now paper 1 is the written paper. actually we not supposed to have a chinese exam cos our chinese o's are over.. but we need a grade. so wad the chinese department did was to take the IB chinese B paper to do (which is the exam we are going to take in 2 years). hahah u wud never have guessed, but the written paper was like some extract from a PSLE chinese exam. super easy.. yay.
paper 8: MT 2.
u guessed it. this one is the compo. hahah this one was tough cos all the questions were veri vague. we had 4 qns to choose from.. one speech on the 'condition of the youth in your country', which i did, write a short story about an accident that happened to you while playing sports for the school mag, i cant remember the third one and the fourth one was to write a letter to some company looking for bilingual students to apply for some job O.o oh and did i mention we had 1 1/2 hours to write 300 words? hahah i did 1 draft and 1 final.
yea basically today was almost like a waste of our time but it is reassuring to noe that the standard of chinese for IB is like that muhahah. jus now while i was trying to take my nap there was renovation going on upstairs!! ahh during exam period somemore. luckily now they've stopped.. so i can go study.
looking for new blogskin.....
yesterday was day 4.
paper 6: chem
my whole class was anticipating a killer paper like physics.. but forunately a reasonable paper was set so i cud do most of the qns (wif of cos a few careless mistakes that i feel like smashing the paper for). hahah then in the middle of the exam my chem teacher started giving out certs for some austrialian chem quiz we took earlier this year.. and i got quite a shock when i saw 'high distinction' on my cert. hahah gave me a mental block in the middle of the exam for a minute. im going to shake hands wif the principal nxt wk!! hahah. pity im not taking chem nxt yr.
yeap anyways nxt wk is chinese on monday, and one maths paper a day till thursday then it will be over!!! for the rest of thursday. theres mep remedial on friday morning, our marking day -.- were supposed to be playing lol.
hmm was thinking about music jus now. was playing a bit on my piano then my mom was in the house and she heard my piano playing chopin's nocturne and his fantasie impromptu and was like.. wah he has improved. hahah of cos it wasnt me playing.. wud take another lot of years to master them if i decide to continue piano. hahah so i told her i wud need another 20 or so years to master the first page of fantasie impromptu. then later she was like.. 'u shud have reached grade 5 when u were primary 5'. then i was like.. i have a life u noe. hmm i realli realise the importance of cultivating an interest in music in ur child instead of jus setting the standards by exams.. thats wad my guitar teacher told me. and its veri true indeed. if everyday u scold ur child to practice piano (thats wad sort of happened to me) its no wonder that i got 101/150 for grade 2 and 3 (borderline pass) and 110 for grade 4. learning an instrument is not about exams. its about your desire to learn more melodies to play so that u can enjoy it and other pple can enjoy the music u play. exams are ok if u want to improve yourself and have something to aim for but it shudnt be everything. hahah it wud have helped if there were a bit 'er ru mu ran' involved but im sorta the onli person doing music in my family, aside from ken hu takes pop organ.
and it sort of makes me angry that people think music is like studies and school. in terms of academic progress, i study, i can make it. but for music its different. its not a straight line graph nor an exponantial graph. its a ln graph (or 'decreasing accleration'). grade 1 - 5 for guitar was easy for me. after grade 5 i took a year to progress a grade. hmm sometimes i feel singapore's education realli has no room for aspiring musicians.. the school workload is jus too heavy.
hmm. i realli dunno wad God holds for me. maybe i will not have a career in music as my father shared with me but i will still continue with my interest in music.
but for now.. the guitar and piano sits inactive (and collecting dust >.<) while i study for the maths.
Day 3.
paper 5: LA 2
fortunately wad i studied came out.. and was the most basic question possible for the book i studied so yay. hahah but my mark will be nothing special.. cos i did the qn everybody did but nvm i will get a safe mark.
tml is chem!!! ahh the tys qns are way too easy. i have great fears that a physics paper reoccurence will occur again where the whole paper is filled with thinking qns. well nvm i have studied all that i can and the rest is in God's hands.
hahah today i witnessed an incident on why bus drivers sometimes jus drive off when they see you running to the bus stop. today the 92 driver was at a bus stop and two maids jus alighted. he saw another maid running in the direction of the bus in the distance so waited patiently.. and ended up the maid jus ran past the bus -.-'
lol enuf for today. cya
Day 2.
Paper 3: Physics.
yes i dint get the order of papers wrong this time. buargh this physics paper was an absolute killer!!! there wasnt one question that was taken from a tys. and all the questions were so long and so tricky!! i had to read the qns several times b4 i understood it.. and that lead me to not having enuf time to think about the answers.. i guessed my way thru half of the mcq qns.. and at the end i jus blotted in two boxes which i dint noe with option C when the teacher said stop writing.. :( im hoping for moderation.
Paper 4: Core Maths 1.
ok at least this one was rather doable. quite simple after that killer physics, but the air con in the auditorium was killing me. there were onli a few qns i dint noe and i made 1 careless mistake of not reading qn properly and there was this 4 mark qn i realised how to do in the last minute.. i did part a and started on part b and the teacher said stop writing!! ahh my 2 marks. in this sorta exams 2 marks means a lot.
ahh well. i was realli scared i was going to get this TERRIBLE recurring nightmare of not knowing how to do mcq question after mcq question (u can get the idea where i got that idea from) but it is realli a terrible thought.
i came back home realli tired today and i jus plopped down onto my bed and decided to take a half hour nap. but somehow i cudnt fall asleep.. so i decided to jus continue lying in my bed. after 2h, my brain was completely rested :) wah its realli a gd feeling to be able to lie down on the bed and not fall asleep so that u noe u will be able to sleep at nite and yet rest.
tml is LA paper 2 onli.. supposed to study 2 books but choose one qn in exam. hahah i dint listen at all to the LA(A) teacher so i prob wun study her book.. prob do the LA(B) one.
kk cya.
Day 1.
paper 1: LA 1.
or so i thought. i walked in bracing myself for a 1 and a half hour poem analysis and it turned out that IHS was actually the first paper!!!! wah freaked me out for a minute. but luckily i studied last nite.. so managed to get through it, altho i think i will onli score 12/20 for the hypothesis question cos we were supposed to write about conflict resolution in a homogeneous society with reference to Singapore and
one other country. the problem is that i dint learn one other country lolol.
paper 2: the real LA 1.
everyone was rearing and prepared to the the poem. who knew the poem which was set was onli 16 lines long. usually its abt 20+ lines so everybody ended up choosing the prose. hahah but i still did the poem anyway, and dissected every single word in it so that i had a 2 3/4 page essay. but some crazy pple i heard wrote wad.. 4 pages? lol. nvm i felt it was quite ok.
supposed to study physics and core maths today for tml but i realli dun feel like it.. man its onli the first day and ive lost quite a bit of energy liao. luckily i finished my science revision last wk.. cos i sorta knew i wudnt be getting anything done this week.
kk cya.
ahh!! exams are tml. hahah and i cant believe it. the year has flown by so fast. tml i will be going into that freezing auditorium and sit for LA paper 1 and the Introduction to Human Societies paper no one knows how to study for. a few exam details:
a) im sitting right in front!! as in the first row. quite glad.. dun wanna sit at the back cos it causes anxiety when you look up and see the rest of the sec 4 level scribbling viciously.
b) my index number is 0449!! hahah the guy b4 me and after me have such nice numbers.
yeap. and im always doing crazy things b4 exams. i decided to have a super long game of LF2 jus now to destress. cos no more IHS cud go in. and also i want to try to stop the weird dreams i have been having these few days. there hasnt been a day where i didnt dream. ooh spooky. but im betting on that its becos my brain is still moving super fast after all that studying.
ok then.. so gd luck to the rest having exams this wk!!
hello its me again.
hahah care team on friday was veri fun!! happie bday shawnieee!! hope you enjoyed the party even tho the surprise sort of failed hahah.
i spent the whole of ytd slacking.. or rather trying to recover from the excitement of friday night hahah. my jing shen span cudnt last more than 10mins. so i ended up studying for 10mins, then rest wif 2h breaks in btwn. lolol. today went to west mall and i bought 1 chem tys and 1 ad maths tys. hahah its realli A BIT late but better than nothing. and my sis also can use in the future.
wif the exams arnd the corner, i have less time to think abt stuff i usually think about, which are questions pertaining to everyday renewal of faith. i think i do renew my faith and thoughts everyday... but wif all that organic chem and physics and what not inside my head.. i realli dun have time to think abt stuff so heres some stuff i will be thinking abt when the exams end.
oh b4 that i think uncle adrian's sermon was realli relevant to me, about how our feelings affect us. i've been waiting for that for a long time, cos i noticed it changes the way we think, and do stuff. hmm but it is realli not easy replacing a bad emotion (like that bad feeling that you havent studied enuf for exams) wif a gd one. feelings are always goign to be a part of life and we need to learn how to handle them properly, with reference to what the bible says.
anyway back to my thoughts: its realli difficult to see how God works in our lives sometimes, when pple fall away from the faith for example. we still cling on to that memory when they were still strong and active in the faith and wonder why they are the way they are now. not talking abt anybody in particular of course. and also the matter of changing churches and the concept of different churches. does God listen to their prayers? does God acknowledge them as Christians? in that case if someone leaves church for another church it doesnt matter cos we are all going to heaven anyhow right?
questions questions questions. i am onli a person of 16.. and i havent realli seen how someone has done something in their spiritual walk that may appear to be not aligned to the perspective i have of a real Christian, and yet has happened for a greater purpose seen later in that person's life. for example changing churches.. right now when someone leaves church it seems like a real pity.. but who knows God may have a purpose for that someone in another church. but i cannot tell.. i onli can imagine cos i havent seen many things yet.
also, the way things seem to slow down in the church during the exam period. and everything seems to 'die away'. or maybe its onli me hu feels it. and im probably dying and drifting away myself in the midst of my studies. surely there has to be an alternative in life to exams rite? i have sort of enuf of this spiritual up and down thing. there has to be a better way. challenge for myself in the future wud be to still stay spiritually strong despite all that cramping of useless science and mathematical and whatever school teaches 'knowledge' into my head which takes up so much of my mental space and concentration from God.
hmm but then again i look at the frens i have now and see God's love again, and i hang on to that to help me through this stressful period of exams. maybe i can be a strong Christian despite this exams. thanks for reading. :P
