Today is the final day of school before the exams. We were still told to bring our Macbooks today for Chemistry, and Keefe had an incredibly bad day today although I won't go into details. We got back our tests. I failed, 7/15. I did not read the information given carefully enough, so I could not solve the 8-mark question. But then, neither could the others.

We were late for SS after Chemistry as we were released late. But we still managed to get some final revision questions done. I think I should be ok here.

As for Physics, we cleared up questions on Graphs and revised the Ticker-Tape Timer, it was ok there, but I'm still not confident of Physics. They're always able to pop up a question you have never encountered before.

During recess, I took my Geography Test. I don't think I managed it in 12 minutes, the teacher wasn't timing as people came into the room at different times, but my points should be correct.

Maths lesson was on Graphs, again. Then he gave us another set of Revision questions, that will definitely help me.

For English, Ms Leng told us again about how we should answer the question for letter writing, along with more stories, and how to write our composition. She told us not to leave cliffhangers, have the majority of the story with flashbacks or end with a dream. I was guilty of the latter two, and for the cliffhanger I suggested "To be continued…" as a joke, which of course she opposed. I gave up on Narratives long ago anyway, Expository essays are easier to write in my opinion. I just can't invent stories.

It's time to go full-force into studying, but I really need my friends to answer my Biology question on FB…….

English - Largest variety of words used
Chinese - Hardest words to write
E-Maths - Worst graphs to draw
A-Maths - Numerous complex formulas to remember
Social Studies - Most common sense involved
Elective-Geography - Umpteen places to remember
Physics - Toughest definitions with similar meaning
Chemistry - Uncountable complicated names of substances to remember
Biology - Innumerable intricate terms to memorize

That was just Wednesday. What was once a test being postponed is now one that will never happen, as we missed yet another 2 periods of Chinese due to her absence. Aaron, Jin Kiat, Joel, Edwin and I, we just talked through 2 periods and laughed every 30 seconds.

Chemistry passed quickly, then it was Geography. We had E Class join us today for lesson, so the class was quite crowded, it would have been even more so if it were last year given that our classes are now bigger. We went through Level Marking, and again, this test, was brought back to tomorrow, during Recess.

As for English, we did our Follow-up activity for ERP during lesson, and it wasn't too difficult, in fact, a lot easier than last year as there were more doable choices. The limit was 1 page but I just had to go beyond that to 1 and a half. I couldn't fit it all into 1 page.

Then for Maths, we did some revision questions and Mr Wu was telling us that we did worse than our rival class in E-Maths and he was quite upset about that, so he suddenly changed from A-Maths to E-Maths. The E-Maths revision questions, however, had mistakes in them, and then we told him that that was the reason we did badly, because the paper had mistakes. He countered that by saying that the paper had mistakes because it wasn't set by him. haha.

After Maths, was a quick period of Physics, after which I went to do my ERP with an additional 3 books, and I really really really have to say that Ms Leng has one of the most brilliant memories among all the people I've met. The number of stories that she can tell in class is enough to prove that her memory is beyond that of an average person, but she just had to increase that by her knowledge of books. She quoted a specific phrase from 1 of the books that I had, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, without even looking at it. I did not even remember reading that phrase, she said it was said by Simon Doyle in the book, after which she followed up with a summary of the book, so it was like she was the one being interviewed, not me.

After my turn, it was Keqin's turn. As I left, I heard Ms Leng say out the name of the book that he was about to show her, and he had not even displayed the book completely. She also asked him if he had read the book or watched the movie, I don't know what the title is, I was too impressed by her epic memory.

Then for Biology shortly after that, we conducted a Data logger experiment where San Zeng wore his hands out stirring for a total of 500 seconds with periods of 100 seconds each. Keefe's cutting of the Agar cubes resulted in uneven pieces, which undoubtedly affected results of our experiment, but we didn't care and altered the results in our favor so as to avoid anomalous results.

I'm now on the top 12 across 3 levels for the Chinese Advertisement project, voting decides the winner. I just hope that this will be over soon.

Our Chinese Test was postponed after the teacher failed to turn up, from Wednesday to Thursday. We did a comprehension passage for English and finished up on Chapter 5 for Biology. Then, we were dismissed. Earlier in the morning on Tuesday, we had been told that there was an opportunity for us to gain CIP hours just by arranging fruits for Fruit Day, but she only had slots for 4. Then on Wednesday morning, she said that the teacher-in-charge had bended her rules to allow any number, but of course not the whole class.

I went to the Recreation Centre with 4 of the scholars to find that the fruits had been delivered so we could start our job early. What we had to do, was to just arrange the labeled boxes of fruits according to classes. There was some amount of confusion in doing so, as some classes had 3 boxes to leave another class with 1 due to mis-labeling. Each class was entitled to 2 boxes, 1 for Bananas and 1 filled with Apples. Eventually we managed to even out the correct number of boxes for each class by taking one away from those who had 3 and placing them in those that had 1.

We had to arrange the fruits for the whole school. No class had 2 boxes of bananas or apples after that, and it was a mere 5 minute job, but I think we're getting 2 hours, which is quite a bargain. When we were arranging the fruits, about 10 other classmates came in to help only to be rejected by the teacher when she said that 5 was enough. Well, when we were done, Ms Leng took down our names to be sure that she didn't select us for the next run as other people deserved a chance too.

Not a bad Monday today. Quite enjoyable. I was told that I appeared in Assembly again. OK that's like the 2nd time in a month. For me, that is a huge achievement, because I have never done anything to be recognized by the teachers. The problem with today was that I forgot my belt, and DK just had to implement new disciplinary procedures today. I managed to get through the day without being spotted though. When he was telling us about these new actions to be taken, he named some examples and I was thinking in my head "Keefe" for each of them, because today, he was late for school, he did not have acceptable hair, he was not wearing his tie properly and he had ankle socks on. Looked really like a bad kid. So it was Keefe, Keefe, Keefe, Keefe, then next one was belt, so I thought "crap" in my head. haha.

Nothing much to look forward to tomorrow, except that it becomes Day 10...

Today was green day. We were allowed to wear home clothes to school, and I have my nice Green Shirt from Switzerland which is very comfortable, so I wore that. Everyone was looking at it and thought that it was Heineken or Carlsberg. I myself, when I saw it first, thought that it was Carlsberg.

The Interschool Nationals Table Tennis Championship ended today with 3 highly contested matches. I don't count ours because we basically got trashed. Dong Shuai lost 3 - 0 in the first singles, and we anticipated that St. Gabriel's would want to kill us ASAP, so they would be sending their stronger doubles first, but we were wrong. It seemed like they had predicted this and knew that we too would be putting our China pair forward, which they did not seem confident of beating. As such, they sacrificed their Local pair, which of course we would win. The 2nd Singles by You Hao was not really a competitive match either although he lost 3 - 1, but we had a chance in the 2nd Doubles when Edwin and Benedict played against their China pair and were losing 2 - 1, 10 - 9. But they lost the last ball. At least they took a set from them.

Both teams had barely any supporters, Anglican had a small group, Cedar Girls Supporters came into the hall at least 6 times, while Hwa Chong and Raffles took up half of the Grand Stand as they evened their numbers. Our cheering was COMPLETELY pathetic compared to theirs.

We were the first to lose, as B Division Girls, A Division Girls and Boys were playing tougher matches between more evenly matched China players in the case of the girls. The boys had more locals playing. Cedar Girls beat Anglican High 3 - 2 for the B Division Girls Champion Title. For A Division, Hwa Chong won the first singles, Raffles won first Doubles, Raffles won 2nd Singles and I don't know if it ended at 2nd Doubles, I wasn't present at that time, but I think it went on to the last Singles as the A Division Boys were playing the last Singles when they were packing the tables, but Raffles won. Raffles won 3 - 1.

We were playing outside since we lost early and it was estimated to end in about an hour, so we scouted the area, went in and out of KFC 3 times in a group of about 15, then we decided to go back to the old days. We played catching. Yes, catching. Freeze-And-Melt, rather. Running around and tapping people in the Grand Stand, then watching that prisoner while his accomplices try to free him. Sean went on to do some parkour moves over metal railings and got himself a wound on the leg, not a very smart move. Well, we came back perspiring, of course

For the A Division boys, Hwa Chong brought the score to 2 - 0 when they won the First Singles and Doubles, but lost 3 straight matches after that in an epic comeback by Raffles although Hwa Chong put up a really tough fight in the last Singles when Dai Ming Lun led 2 - 0, but he was rivaled when it became 2 - 2. However, he won the last set 11 - 9 to claim the Title for A Division Boys.

Today was a very nice day for me. Although I did not take public transport eventually, I was accompanied by many other disobedient students who arrived in cars.

When I stepped in to the class for the 2nd time (I went out to get a drink), I was greeted with a birthday wish. Then they publicly announced it to everyone in the class and I was told that one of the China Scholars in my class became one year older today.

I was wide awake the whole day, managed to keep alive well, until lunch time, at least. I finally got the hang of the Mole Concept in Chemistry. Then for Geography we just laughed again as usual, and then it was PE, which our teacher concluded that our class had a worser attitude than yesterday's class, which I definitely agree to. There was no coordination at all. And it so happened that homework yesterday was a Composition on Dangerous Sports, which I classified Softball under, and that was what we were doing today.

Then during recess, I handed in my Physics worksheet and the Chinese Project :). I hope she doesn't take marks off for being 1 day late, I couldn't find her yesterday. It did not look like she remembered that the deadline was on the 19th anyway.

And then Maths, was again, tiring and fun at the same time. I got back my Base Test result. 18/20, I predicted it right, what I foresaw wrongly was the question that I was denied marks from. My working was perfectly fine for the last question which I expected to be wrong. The deducted marks were a result of careless mistakes. I was told to form a Quadratic Equation, so it will be bla bla bla equals to 0. My final statement was something like "Equation = x^2 + 20x - 4", I can't remember the exact equation. Firstly, I am not supposed to put the equals sign, it's supposed to be "is" in that place. Then, I did not write that the equation was equal to 0. 1 mark taken off for that.

Mistake 2 was that the equation given is always positive, so I solved it with proper working all the way to the end, where I forgot to reject the negative answer. It's always positive, but I left the negative answer there, and k was the coefficient of x^2. Another 1 mark off for that.

For English, we discussed the format of a letter, which was quite interesting when she gave us examples of funny, wrong formats that students had written in the past. When the bell rang, the class sang "Happy Birthday" twice, after which Ms Leng expressed her own wishes to us too. I went for lunch and rushed to the library 2 minutes before the next lesson.

The lesson at 1.50pm was Social Studies. I was late by 1 minute and I went through it with a heavy heart because the teacher was dragging the lesson until 3.30pm. Not that I don't like to stay, but I had important things today, which turned out to be not so important afterwards. She told us that at 2.45, and then gave us a 5 minutes break which was supposed to give us the required energy to last until the end of the lesson, but I suspect that she knew some of us had brought our handphones and wanted to let us inform any important people of the late end to the lesson today. We were allowed out of the class for 5 minutes.

Green Week started today. All classes switched off their lights in an attempt to conserve energy consumption. We left the fans on, though, it would have killed us if we did. Tomorrow, is car free day, so I'll have to get up earlier and leave earlier as I'm taking Public Transport to school tomorrow.

Living without lights on a Monday was perfect, firstly because it's half day for us, and also because of the periods scheduled in the half day, they don't really require lights. For English, Ms Leng just needs her brain, not the lights, to tell her stories, although we did read an article, but that only took about 10 minutes. As for Biology, he was using Powerpoint Presentation, so the lights are supposed to be off anyway. But using the computer isn't really reducing energy consumption. After that, was Physics Lab Lesson. We didn't need the lights here as it's on a higher level, so the Sun shines in. Overall, it was a good Monday. Now I'll just have to think about how sleepy I will be tomorrow. I'm expecting a bad Tuesday.

I had a nice training session yesterday although I was not really on form. I had never fa diu so many balls in one day.

I started off training AT girls to fa quango, and they of course, cheated in their counting. 4 of them counted their outs to have no penalty on them. As for the other 2, after the first successful la, anything that went in during the rally after that increased their requirement. And if they hit out during the rally, they would just add 1. So it was a really really cheap way to finish it, but it did not benefit them afterwards.

Jia Lu turned up and I offered to play a match with him after he had not come for 3 weeks. He declined at first, but 5 minutes later asked me back for the same thing. So we played a nice Left-Hander match that went 1 - 0, 2 - 0, 2 - 1 and then I won it 3 - 1. He asked for a rematch after a 2 minute water break, and this time he won the first set, but again I came back with a 3 - 1.

Next, we were both made to play a full round of Doubles with Daryl and Darren. We were to partner each other only in the final match. I took Daryl first and we started losing to the Lefty pair because Jia Lu's smashes are really fast and the balls go in awkward directions, so we couldn't catch them. Losing 2 - 0, Daryl started to make miracles happen when Jia Lu failed to return his service continuously after that. We won 3 sets in a row. It was Darren and I next, my turn to be with a left hander. This time, we led the match 2 - 0, but Daryl again did some things that let them catch up to 2 - 2, but we had to win the final set 11 - 8. In the last game, I wasted many services, more than that in the previous 2 matches, which costed us 1 set. We won 3 - 1 in a close 11 - 9 for the final set.

I was asked to play against 3 of the 6 AT girls after that. So, having not trained properly earlier, I beat all of them 3 - 0, which marked the end of my training session.

It was a rather nice Sports Day today. Better than last year at least. It is just sad that just 1 more Sports Day remains for me. We started off the day with Chemistry which was supposed to be held in the 21st Century Classroom, but trying to use it so early in the day meant that it was locked. We spent 10 minutes trying to get through a door that wouldn't open, then when Ms Yeo decided to go back, she was climbing the stairs when the door opened and Mr Wee came out with many apologies. So we did have our lesson in the 21st Century Classroom. We started Calculations of Chemical Equations today.

Social Studies was quite fun as usual. Our teachers are very nice :D. Then it was Physics. We were supposed to be released at 10am today, but she wanted to go through some important things, so the lesson pulled on until 10.15am, when we were dismissed from class.

Meaning to go out with Keefe, I met Reuben and Russell just outside the classroom as I walked out of it. They were waiting for me to end my lesson and planned to go out together. Such wonderful friends :). So 4 of us, we went to J8. They kept pretending to be suspicious characters using their bags as bombs on the train. Reaching there at 10.45am, I realized that Breakfast was still available at Macdonalds, and I wanted to eat that, but Keefe insisted that we go to the Food Junction instead. And I couldn't remember the reason why I didn't want to go there until we entered it. I took Cheese Prata again for $6.60. It's nice, but I wanted to eat Hotcakes :D. But nevermind.

I was about to go to the Stadium, but Keefe wanted to mess around, so he just walked into Popular when he saw his friends in there, and they were coming out. But he stayed in there. 5 minutes later, he went to queue at the counter with 2 blue pens and said that he wanted to buy them. Then he decided that he only needed 1 and spent another 1 minute to put it back and return to the queue which had extended in his absence. When we finally got out of Popular another 5 minutes later, I told them that I wanted a Hot Fudge Sundae and went down, but they found something else to look at. 27-inch iMac with a Magic Mouse and a Bluetooth Keyboard attached to it. Next to it was the Macbook Air, Macbook Pro in 13, 15 and 17 inch variations. Spent another 5 minutes there. 11.40am. In a toy shop, yes, a toy shop, they played around for another 5 minutes. They went in after I pointed out a 5 x 5 x 5 Rubik's cube to them...

Getting my Sundae at last, I finished it in about 5 minutes and needed to wash my hands as they had overfilled it with fudge this time, so when I dipped the spoon in for the first scoop, fudge spilled over onto my hand. And sucking it up just doesn't feel right. Wash my hands = Go to the toilet. And why did the other 3 of them have to follow me there? I managed to slip in there before they caught up, and they went past the toilet in the wrong direction. I just went in there, left my hand under the tap for half a second and came out again. And I did not see them. Waited for 2 minutes then Reuben called me to ask for my whereabouts. After regrouping, we headed back to the MRT Station.

Dropping off at Serangoon to go to Hougang, we reached our destination in about 7 minutes. I don't know why I'm so particular about the time spent in this post, but I guess I'm just trying to see how I spent my 3 hours of free time. So anyway, none of us knew where Hougang Stadium was from the station, like on Wednesday. So we just picked an exit and got out there and as expected, it was the wrong one. Returning to the underground passage to get out through the other side, we met a group of people including Benedict. That made about 15 of us. We didn't really know where it was, but we led the way. When I thought that they were just following us blindly, I wanted to play the fool, so Russell, Reuben and I, we turned into a HDB block, and they followed us. And it turned out that it was the right way. OK so we managed to find Hougang Stadium through a prank. I thought we were already a big group, but at Traffic Junctions, we could Nan Chiau High people in groups of 30, and there were many groups. Yeah, they had been using the Stadium just before us, so they were leaving and we were just taking over their place then.

Arrived there to be greeted by Daryl and Ee Jin. People in yellow shirts filled one side of the place. Benedict was also in the same house. Russell did not know what house he was in and was wearing the school uniform so he didn't care and just sat with us while Reuben stood out in the crowd as the only green among us until our ex-classmates came to bother us. But they found a wide space to migrate to and Russell and Reuben followed suit, but I wanted to stay with my Table Tennis juniors.

We just talked, as they were still preparing for the event. At about 2pm, we found Daryl and Kai Shiun, both yellow shirts too :D and Zi Ping. That's 6 Table Tennis players in the same house :D. Then our fellow China players. Talked even more. I lost track of time after that, but at some point in time the councilors came up with boxes of buns to chuck around to the crowd. Russell and some primary school kids in front of me kept asking for more, and they just gave it all to me. Being a fan of Chocolate Buns, I took all of them like a greedy pig, but of course I returned some of them and kept 6. Haha. And that excludes those that I threw at and gave to other people. But of course I didn't eat all of them there.

They took 2 and a half hours to run through the 100m, 400m and the 4 x 100m Relay from Primary 4 to Secondary 4. Ming Xuan told me that I was to record his 100m sprint, but if he was not in the top 3, delete it. I didn't bother, and he did not get top 3. At 4.30pm when they were about to start the 4 x 400m Relays, it started to drizzle and the lightning alert came on. We were told that the event was to end there due to unsuitable conditions. I was missing the most exciting part of the event where each individual was of vital importance to the team's victory. It was the one that I stayed for and wanted to watch, but they cancelled it.

They dismissed us according to our houses. Keefe asked me if there was a direct bus home and I told him I didn't know, but I had to worry for him since he isn't used to getting around Singapore on his own yet, so when I found that he did not come out with the Blue Shirts, I called him. He had gone on ahead. Kai Zhong, who lives near me, was coming along too. So the 3 of us, we went back to the station. On the way, we found a bus stop and Keefe checked the bus numbers. 165 was on the schedule, but then I pointed out the stop that he was about to end up at. Hougang Central Interchange, 3 stops away. Haha he changed his mind.

We went back to school to take a bus back, on the way meeting Russell yet again, and Marcus. As Keefe had a direct bus, we left at the stop before Coronation Plaza to change our bus. Chatting more about nonsense with Kai Zhong in the limited time, I dropped off at my destination and went home.

It was a tiring day, like all Thursdays are. I'll skip details on today. Sports day tomorrow, yay!

Started off today with double Chinese, we were practicing for our Oral today. Being a chicken, I stayed at the back and did not volunteer myself, instead suggesting for others to do the talking. The result is that I have to do it tomorrow :(. At least I have some idea on what to say having heard my friends' opinions.

Following that was Maths Base Test. The teacher was so kind to forget and only tell us that we had a Base Test today, yesterday. It's not that I can't prepare in one night, but many of us panic when time seems short, especially when most of them are busy 24/7, unlike me. So ok Chapter 4.1 and 9.3, we made sure by asking him several times yesterday. And guess what, he came today and told us that Chapter 1 was included. Now what's chapter 1? Quadratic Equations, the Alpha Beta part of the chapter. I immediately went "Oh shit" in my heart, because as far as I could remember, I was slacking when he taught that as it was just after the Exams. So naturally I was weak in that when it came to homework. But it turned out ok in the end as I asked my friends for help. However, I was still not entirely confident of my ability to solve those questions. That's where the sarcasm ends. Mr Wu gave us a quick 2 minute revision to pity us for keeping from us the fact that Chapter 1 was included in the Base Test, and then I suddenly remembered everything. I was fully ready for the test then.

4 questions, 20 marks. Turned out very good. Confident that my answers are all correct, working-wise, not so much. Only applies to the last question anyway, so I'll just take off 2 marks from that. Should be 18/20 or higher. I'll wait :D.

The rest of the day passed like usual. Ms Leng told us stories during her period, and Mr Teo extended this section by telling us a couple of stories of his own, and he even released us early so that we could be punctual for our NAPFA test! Includes lunch time. Went with Russell and Reuben. None of us knew where Serangoon Stadium was from the MRT Station, but they met a classmate of theirs who knew the directions, so he lead the way. I still arrived there 40 minutes early at 2.20pm. By 2.45, the group that was supposed to start at 2.30pm hadn't even begun. They just kept dragging it. There were 4 groups of about 20 people per group on the track, that makes 80 students running in circles, some sprinting like they can't tire out, most panting for breath and moving at their comfortable pace. When I finally started at about 3.30pm when my class had been scheduled for 3pm.

It wasn't as tiring as I thought it would be, but it wasn't fun to feel breathless either. I clocked 11 minutes 56 seconds, 4th in my group :D. That's a B for me and it secures my Gold. Ming Xuan had a timing of 10 minutes 48 seconds. If I had not sprinted the last half lap, I would probably be position 10, I think. That's how close we all were. It was as if we all had the same constant speed. I jogged throughout the 6 rounds, pausing once for half a second to catch my breath, but then decided that I could not afford to stop, so I continued running. Poor Waise missed his C by 3 seconds, and I told him to beg the teacher to be merciful, but unfortunately for him it didn't work out as he could not change the timing, the receipt still showed the actual time and that would prove to be very suspicious when they came to check. So he is one who has 27/30 points for NAPFA, but has a Silver. That is really, really hilarious.

Went back to school for training, shouldn't have bothered though. If all my juniors skipped it, what's the fun of going for it?

Blogger just screwed up today's post, and I'm not typing it all out again. I'll just make it short

I was puzzling over my timetable in the morning.
Today is Daryl's birthday (my classmate).
Did not run for PE today.
Crapping in Maths lesson (again).
Made Copper(II) Sulfate crystals during Chemistry.
Failed to do the ICAS test after they stole my money.

Taking my NAPFA test tomorrow.

It was a better Monday today then the past 3 Mondays. Maths was fun, Biology was fun, Physics was quite fun too, then the day ended. The problem was that it felt a little too lengthy, but I shouldn't be complaining since it's only a half-day. Assembly filled in the epic part of laughter of the day as Mr C. Kunalan, Singapore's greatest runner and one who set the record for 100m sprint at 10.38 seconds, entertained us with his numerous photos of his life. The caption that he threw in was valuable to causing our laughter as well. He wasn't the average height for a man, but he loved to compare his height with other people so he showed us many photos of himself standing beside people taller than him and there was this one where he was more than a head shorter than another athlete who was 1.95m tall. And with every of those pictures it would have a line above his head that stretched across to his companion in the photo which would show how much shorter he was compared to that person. He is Malay, has 2 daughters, one who married a Scotland guy and the other married a British guy, so he has an International family.

Tomorrow I'll have PE again, I must remember to bring my shorts, and for Chemistry, I must remember to bring the standard file duo and Workbook. And we'll be running tomorrow for PE, I can see through the evil plan of the teachers to tire us out on the day just before the official 2.4km test so that we will all fail to get the grade that is expected of us, but I think I'll still run through it tomorrow anyway. Oh and I had to return a couple of overdue books today...

My performance improved today, but I don't know if it's the bat or I just got lucky. Early in the morning, it's just to practise. But I did get a doubles match with An Qi and the twins, so that's 3 left handers in one match. Still won all 3 times though. Then I stroked with Yi Kar for a bit before leaving for lunch with Julian.

Same thing as last week, couldn't be bothered to get anything else besides a Hot Fudge Sundae. We camped outside the station watching the time. 3 mins on the board. I ate my ice cream and finished it with 1 minute remaining to rush into the station, down the escalators just in time to see the train pull over. Went back to school to continue part 2 of training.

Coach as usual put me at the last table. When I was about to start the 2nd game, he told me to go back down and let Yi Kar take my place. Then I let Xin Wei play. After that, Kai Shiun came and we played alternately. At about 3.30, I think, Coach made me play with Celeste. Celeste and Jia Wei wanted Doubles, but he said no because she has her tournament coming up. So it was Celeste vs me and Daryl vs Jia Wei. That's a 4th Daryl I'm mentioning in this blog. I was full on form then because to be honest, she looked quite tough. First set 11 - 0. 2nd set 10 - 12. Then I won the 3rd and 4th set. There were a number of lucky balls and I had to run around like I always do because of my tendency to fang gao qiu. Daryl won his match 3 - 1 as well.

After that, Coach called for a Doubles match. Si Min and I vs Daryl and Gerrad(is that how you spell his name?). Whatever I'll call him Carrot :D. We lost the first set and I think Si Min was quite pissed after that because I did not match their standards, but after that we took 3 straight sets to win 3 - 1, again.

And then in the final game of the day, I was made to play against the same pair but with a different partner, Benedict. I could just tell that we were going to lose 3 - 0 100% having played that previous match. And we did. I told Benedict that if we won I'll give him 20 cents (I'm a cheapo, I can't afford stuff) but of course I didn't try to lose.

I had extra Social Studies lesson in the morning today. It was supposed to be 9 to 10:30am, but at 10:30 she said 10:45 and that's it, and naturally we were dismissed at 11am. I went to Xin Ten afterwards.

I am really eager to go for training tomorrow. I have got a totally new bat although with the same 2 rubbers, and it feels so much better than my old one, which I got in P3. Maybe the broken wood was the reason for my lousy playing, and people complaining about my "Pirated Anti" should stop that tomorrow, it's new and if it still doesn't act like it should, it's not my fault. And this is the 2nd new thing this week... and I have a 3rd thing in mind although I should stop getting new things.

I finished my Maths homework :D. 9 graphs straight, it was so pissing off and I needed to find Graph paper on the internet that could fit my requirements and it was so difficult to find. I don't have a Graph pad, but I should get one. Anyway, the ones on the internet are either in inches or their width is too small. But I finally found one which was almost like the Graph Paper that I use.

Teacher: Apollos, come out and do question 1 on the board now.
Apollos: *Gets out of his seat*
Teacher: Wait, have you even done it on your worksheet?
Apollos: *Looks at worksheet* Er… I do now. *Sits down*
Teacher: You haven't even done your work and you're talking to your friends like a busybody.
Apollos: No… just… some people give the money already, some haven't.
Teacher: And why does that concern you, Apollos?
Apollos: Because I give my money already, then I scared my name not ticked (on the nameless).

That was part of Chemistry lesson on Friday. I remembered to bring my things this time :D. That 1 period should have been longer, because we had Chinese 听写 next, and I could just tell that I'd fail. So I was desperately but calmly trying to remember the words, then this teacher came in, and the class started to cheer and whoop because it was a relief teacher. In the midst of our shouting, our chinese teacher came into the classroom. The relief teacher looked surprised and they talked for a while, then he left. He was reliving the part of the class that was taking Chinese Literature, that is, our China Scholars (They don't take Higher Chinese). Then the class was in a moody state after that. Temporary moment of triumph backfired completely, it was an epic fail.

As mentioned, I am sure I failed, because I forgot at least one of the words in almost every one of them, just can't write the full thing correctly. This feeling of misery was enhanced in the next 2 periods as it was Maths. Mr Wu really went to check that he didn't have our E-Maths Book 2, so he assigned Homework, which is like 15 questions of which 10 require drawing graphs that are not linear, and that's what I hate the most. The flexicurve is one of the most hateful thing to use, it just doesn't cooperate with me and fit the graph nicely, so any part questions after that which involve estimation will be off.

Following that, Recess. Then double English period, where Ms Leng was absent once again. We were so happy for a relive period, but then in the last 15 minutes of the 1st half of the supposedly 1 hour 10 minutes of peace, Ms Wong came in to teach us whatever Social Studies information that she could in that amount of time. Then it was Chemistry, again as Ms Yeo took the 2nd period. I was dying for the day to end as I wanted to do my NAPFA test, it would be fun to see the results of the other students in my group. I endured the final period, Physics, in a depressing state. When it was finally over, my heart felt SO light.

But laughing at others about their NAPFA test isn't a really good thing to do in my case, as I'm not really fit myself. My group of 8 was comprised of 6 Scholars, Kai Xun and I. Of the 6 scholars, 5 had to do their Pull-Ups already. We started off with Sit and Reach, a D grade for me, 1cm more to C, which was same as last year. One of my scholars did not know how to do it and just pushed that metal thing as hard as he could and we were all laughing at him. When he did it properly, it was still 40+cm. Then my Inclined Pull-Ups was A, and 3 of the Scholars failed their Pull Ups, where just 1 was enough to pass. The scholar who did IPU was so tall that he could not lie properly and low enough as his hands were super long too, so he got a free A as the teacher did not know how to handle it either. Shuttle Run was A, Sit Ups A. I was happy with my Sit Ups result as I thought I would die from a weak Stomach muscle having not trained for it properly at all in the past year. Then came Standing Broad Jump. After wa tiao, I expected this to improve, but no, I did worse than last year. Another D. There goes my Gold. Kai Xun is guaranteed his, he has 4 As and 1 B, and that B was Sit and Reach, 1 more cm to A. Unsatisfied with this failure, I offered to retest, but the teacher said that I would have to wait for everyone to finish, which was likely to be at 4.30pm. At that time, my watch showed 3.30pm.

So I waited 1 hour for a retest with Jia Hui, Shawn and Ashley, they wanted to improve their results too. Jia Hui needed to redo sit-ups as I had caused him to get an E in the official test because Keng Wee shouted "Stop" near the end and I thought the time was over, but he actually meant that he was to stop, and I was confused so I stopped holding down Jia Hui's feet for him. He managed a D in the second try anyway, but 1 more to C. My Sit and Reach became C and so did my SBJ, by 1cm. "There goes my Gold" is history. Ashley still failed it after numerous tries and in the end he gave up. Now all I have to do is to get a nice timing for my 2.4km run and I'll have my Gold!

I got a new watch today, the one that I had since P2 finally died out. It has served it's time well though, even after losing the metal casing, which isn't important, and there are a couple of scratches on it, which would be natural since I have it with me for 90% of the time, I bring it everywhere with me, be it carrying it or wearing it. So anyway, it has been a really good timekeeper for me, I grew so reliant on it that I found the 2 days without it to be awkward. It just didn't feel right to not feel my watch in my hand or have an empty wrist. The way that it has become faulty, is that one of the buttons is being pressed in, and 2 buttons cannot be pressed simultaneously. The screen shows the stopwatch, but as I cannot press anything, I cannot switch to time mode. If it was in Time mode, I would consider it to be still functioning since that is what a watch is mainly for, but too bad, it will show 6 zeros on it's face forever in minutes, seconds and split-seconds, each value supported by 2 digits. But I am happy that it survived to date, I actually lost one which cost $104 in 2008, and that model is similar to the one that I have right now, it's still available, but my current one has a base price of $116. Due to an offer, however, the price is a wonderful bargain of just $69. After losing the watch in 2008, I had to revert to the old watch which just broke down today. This new TIMEX watch has a larger face, supports up to 3 time-zones, has 3 alarms and a nice feature to record Occassions on every date, which I can use to help me in my addictive challenge to memorize my friends' birth dates. Only certain friends get to be on this list, or if their birthdate is a really nice date, such as 11th November, which a couple of people have.

Tomorrow I'll be having my NAPFA 5 stations, and I haven't done anything to practice for it this year, but I think I'll be fine, since I never trained for my NAPFA in the previous years, I just did it on the spot and always managed to cover the requirements for Gold, although I missed C for my Sit & Reach last year, after which I offered to try again but the teacher said that he would just give that 1cm to me, so I achieved my Gold. In fact, I expect to do better this year after the more vigorous training that I have attended this year compared to last year, which would naturally improve my fitness, I hope. But good luck to Reuben, whose birthday had to be tomorrow, 9th April, so that puts him with the older age group. We were notified last week that the date of the test had been postponed due to certain important meetings, and it was really unlucky that they put it on his birthday, which means that he'll have to do the harder stuff now. I'm not there yet, but I will next year :). Until then, I won't care too much.

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If you ask why my blog is like a composition, the real purpose of it is because I'm trying to practise my English. Of course it tells about my life like a real blog, but it is more formal in the sense that I barely use singlish and improper English to write a post. It's also important not to use SMS or Chat language too much because if you consistently do that, you'll come to a point where you write it in your school work. Common words such as "You" and "why" will be seen as "U" and "Y" on your homework, and you'll be famous in your class when the teacher decides to show the class your amazing and daring feat to write that in your work.

The Dictionary is a good friend of mine when I'm writing my posts, because my English isn't really that superb and I do check the Thesaurus for synonyms of the word that I'm trying to say, and this widens the range of vocabulary. To a lesser extent, my spelling needs to be corrected sometimes too.

It was quite a nice day today. Started off with Geography, which is ALWAYS fun, and I really mean always. There hasn't been a period where Mr Low has not made us laugh at least once since day 1 this year, which is quite a record. Too bad it was just a single period. Well, it was followed up by Physics, where my test was ok. You just can't be sure if it's well done or not, for Physics. Then we spent our English lesson doing homework, that's how obedient my class is when we're left alone, which is a complete contradiction of my class last year, where every period, there would be at least 1 Macbook out unless a test was presently being conducted, even when the teacher told us to put it away. English lesson was off because Ms Leng had sore throat.

Recess succeeded that period and then Chinese was the next period, which was again, quite good, and after that we had a fun time in Maths Lesson although ironically I told Kaiser just before it started that I hated it because we had to do work all the time. But, like Benedict said to me earlier this week, I will be learning the "Art of Bullshitting" this year and it will turn out to be very good by next year. True enough, it WAS a lesson of nonsense. Firstly, our 2 main rebels of the class, Apollos and Samuel, had been placed far apart from each other in the class, but it just wasn't enough. They continued to communicate by throwing their voices across the classroom, and the conversation was ridiculously funny and everyone in the class could hear it so we were all laughing. Then Mr Wu said that he should ask Ms Leng to put them further apart, at both ends on the classroom.

Anyway, they continued talking crap throughout the lesson about random stuff and when the teacher asked questions such as "Why x could not be 0", Samuel would say "Yeah lor Apollos", and sometimes it would be the other way round. Then when he drew the graph that we were doing on the whiteboard with a black marker, Samuel said that it was racist to do that. They also kept telling Mr Wu that they did not understand his explanation for the same question and he had to elucidate it repeatedly. After a while, more people joined in this unreasonable series of crap talking, all just to delay his lesson. Then when the bell ring, we told him that we had Biology Lessons after that although it had been confirmed during Morning Announcements that Mr Teo was absent and thus his session was cancelled. He was about to give homework, but then he asked us if we had our E-Maths Workbook 2, and I told him I had a book 3, which of course doesn't exist. Then Kaiser said: "Let us go home and check if we have it", and wow, Mr Wu said fine and added that he would check if he had them too, so we were released with no homework. Nice one, Kaiser :D.

Today was quite bad, for the school part at least. Firstly, I forgot to bring my Chemistry Files and Workbook as I had misread my Timetable (That's the result of a 10-day Timetable), so I was in for big trouble. Then during Chinese lesson, I made the first mark of a bad student this year as I had not handed in my homework on time. It wasn't too bad, my teacher gave me another chance, but it would certainly affect her view of my attitude. And I managed to pass off the Chemistry part by
1) Borrowing the workbook from my friend in another class who has the same Chemistry Teacher
2) Photocopy the latest notes from my classmate so that I would at least be able to fill in something when she was teaching later
3) Telling her personally that I had not brought my files,
after which she was LESS happy but not UNHAPPY. So I was quite safe. She then told us that we were fit for the 21st Century Classroom, which has cool IT Stuff, but that she would prefer another class to have that opportunity because lately, we have been upsetting her in terms of attitude towards her lessons. She felt that the other class had better reasons to be eligible for the classroom, but their timetable just didn't allow it to be so. So she had to put up with that, and we entered that special classroom, which was Air-Conditioned, for the first time and told us that we would be using this in the future for her lessons. She also informed us that we would have to learn how to use the equipment next Tuesday, and just 2 people from each group are required. So I'll be attending that session as a representative of my group.

Then for Biology, Mr Teo had a Sore Throat and he wrote on the board “失声”, which meant loss of voice, of course. He then erased the 2nd word and wrote “身” in it's place, and then my scholars were laughing at that because it was supposed to mean to lose one's virginity. Then he said that he was a lousy man who only 失身 at 56 years old. That's how epic our teachers are in MSHS. So anyway, if we are lucky, he might not be here tomorrow as he has MC and can choose not to come tomorrow, which will then cancel our afternoon Biology Lab Lesson, freeing up 3 periods for an early dismissal. He only came today because he had 3 periods with 4L, and they need their teachers more than anyone else right now.

So after Biology, I went for training to find that it only started at 4.30pm, but we could still play if we wanted to. The whole group of us were there, but Yi Kar and friends went to Toa Payoh to buy Table Tennis things, they are all freaks who change their rubber every few weeks. Kai Shiun offered to stay behind to play with me. After a while, at 3pm, I had a match with Kai Xun. From a lead of 2 - 0, the score turned to 2 - 2, then I won the last set with a lucky 13 - 11. He called for a break at the Fitness Corner before we did a rematch. So we went there supposedly to train for Pull Ups which we would be required to do next year, I can only do 3 for now. We also found that training only started at 4.30 because the Primary School had competitions and our Coach would be needed there.

In the rematch, I won again 3 - 2, and we had even better and longer rallies this time round. Then I played with Yi Kar, and when the balls became the long and fast type, I always lost them, he was too fast for me. I lost 3 - 1, but I sort of expected it so I didn't worry too much. I still resent the fact that I could trash him last year and now he's doing it back to me though. But then, I don't get Private Training like my juniors do, so I feel good to be able to learn on my own.

In the final game, it was a San Fen match between the two teams of Ee Jin, Daryl, Xin Wei and Benedict against Kai Shiun, Darren, Zheng Yan and I. I was so grateful that Dawn and Daryl weren't here to kill us like they did previously :). With increased confidence, I pulled the team up but of course had to lose in the end. Our team led 20 - 15, but we lost 22 - 20. Benedict and Zheng Yan left, then they took Timothy, which immediately told me that we had increased chances of losing. Timothy can be brutal when he gets lucky, which he does quite often. We won that game however, I can't remember the score, then we started the third set. In a spree, KS made the score 4 - 2, Darren increased it to 7 - 4, then I made brought it all the way to 19 - 4, when Daryl started his own comeback to pull up his team by a dozen points in a series of lucky hits and well played gao qiu. When he came up, he served a double tyco serve, hitting his own corner to hit my corner. Then a rally was played in which one of them hit the edge of my table, but I was ready to hit it back and I got that point. In the final rally, I lost it when he suddenly sent the ball to my backhand and I was caught off guard. At 20 - 16, I lost but Kai Shiun finished the set with 21 - 17. In the final match, we led 20 - 13. Then Ee Jin soloed it to 20 - 17, when KS finally defeated him. They were made to pick balls while I went home.

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I find that when you're given a worksheet, the hardest and last thing that I always do is to write my Name, Index Number, Class and Date. Also, when this piece of paper is handed out, there will always be someone who asks "What's today's date?". Why can't people get a watch of their own that shows the time and date, because people also frequently ask others for the current time. I should create a group for the part about someone in the class asking for the date when a new worksheet is given out, on Facebook :D. Of course, someone can always do it first. Anyway, I always find it difficult to write my Name, Index Number, Class and Date when a new worksheet comes into my hands, and the sole reason is that I don't like to pick up my pen just to fill in that information. Of course, in the case of Exams, that is the first thing I will do, since we are very time conscious then and cannot afford to waste time. Besides, the invigilator will ask us to write it down just before we start the paper anyway. But it is usually the last thing that I write before that worksheet is handed up, because I will always get it returned with a request to write it from the person who is collecting it, after which I will write it down in front of him as though he is a servant waiting for my permission to allow him to leave with an important document.

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This title fits any post, which is why I use it for sort-of-unrelated-to-my-life posts.

On your birthday, if you have a meal that is undecided, fill up that free slot with a trip to Swensen's. If it's dinner, that's great, because Ice Creams are best eaten after Dinner as dessert, and Swensen's is famous for that. And what is even better, is that if you bring identification, you're entitled to a free Ice Cream in Swensen's, specifically the Firehouse, but it's still free. All you have to do is to go there on the day of your birthday, when ordering your meal, show them your identification card to prove that it is your birthday and ask them if you get a free Firehouse for that. Unless they explain why it is otherwise, it will be a yes.

Today, the unexpected results became true. Our C Division beat RI 3 - 0, which was a really great surprise to me as we had lost to them 4 - 1 in the first round of the Nationals previously, even with our China players. Again, I was not there, so I could not witness this unforeseen endeavor. They will meet SSS in the finals on the 13th.

As for the B Division, we had a somewhat narrow win against Cheung Cheng High as the score was 3 - 2. Of course, China players did all the work again. After what happened last year, my Ex-Coach was determined to beat us yet again, but he failed this time. It will be interesting to see, however, if they manage to defeat RI, and we will be up against St. Gabriel's once more in a contest for the 1st place in the Nationals. RI lost to them 3 - 1.

As for school, Chemistry Lab Lesson was quite fun. We were testing for the properties of Acids and Alkalis today, which proved to be interesting when the chemicals reacted. And I found out that my Physics Gradient of 7500 was completely wrong, I had plotted the graph inappropriately. I had swapped the X-Axis and Y-Axis, so my rise over run was very off.

Then for PE, I forgot to bring my PE Shorts. In the morning when I was packing my bag, I wondered if I would go for training after the competition, then when I decided I wouldn't because my bag was getting quite fat (I've got a number of files in there and my Macbook), I took out the shirt and shorts. Thus, I was made to do 20 Push-Ups. Not that it was hard, I just didn't want to sabotage the class just because of my mistakes, because they do punish the whole class just because of a couple of people sometimes, and there were 2 yesterday in my class.

I love Mondays, and for the third time I'm saying it on this blog, thank god it's Monday. There must be some link, but I kept drifting off to sleep. To commemorate Easter Monday, every student in the school received 2 chocolate eggs which tasted alright, but not quality chocolate. But they had 1500 students to give it to, so they probably can't afford it. Well I love English lessons because my teacher is very good at telling stories, and that's what she does for English lesson, be a story teller. She always seems to have something to share on every topic, which range from information that we did not know to her own experiences, that brilliant mind of hers.

Biology was a nice lecture, I was tired there though, so I think I did not pay attention to today's lesson. My ears can work with my eyes closed, but teachers don't think so, so I was sort of struggling to keep them open, which resulted in only 50% concentration, the other half of my body was spent on preventing my eyes from shutting. It isn't fun or easy. His lessons are supposed to be enjoyable anyway.

Then, of course, you have to pay full attention in a Physics Lab lesson. You just can't sleep when you're standing and carrying out the procedures of the experiment. My data was a lot more different compared to my friends though, and I ended up with a gradient of 7500, something tells me that's wrong.

And then again, because it's Monday, the day was over by then. The rest was just listening, which I enjoy. Listening is fun :D. Tomorrow is Semi-Finals, but we again are doomed.

For today, training was below average. So I practiced with Julian in the morning. He fa qiang and I dang lor, as usual. Then An Qi had to fa qiang also, but she was hungry and then jiao lian told her to play 1 match with me before she could go for lunch. Won her 3 - 1, made a mistake on the 3rd set. Then I went for lunch with Julian. He suggested Macdonald's and I went "What?" because I had had it for dinner last night and breakfast this morning. So he pestered me on where else there was and in the end I said ok to Macdonald's, but too bad for him Macdonald's was full. So we brought back KFC, just 1 large box of Popcorn Chicken each. That's about the only thing worth eating from KFC beside the Mashed Potato and the big chicken wings. As a result of his pestering, I forgot to get the birthday present that I was supposed to buy.

After lunch, back at school, jiao lian told me to wait, then 30 seconds later asked me for my bat. After positioning us nicely, I was going to start, then he told me to wait again. Was out of the system for 2 rounds, then he put me at the last table, which was table 8. Climbed all the way to Table 3, met Yen Kar, lost to him 11 - 9 and 14 - 12, then I was asked to tui sia again by jiao lian. It was 3:15pm then, and for the rest of the 45 minutes I had left, I talked...

Dinner was Sensen's at West Mall. Omelette with chicken ham and cheese, I loved it. Then the Ice Cream was nice too. After that, we went to bata to buy shoes, my current pair had a small hole that could rip open any moment. After a little bit of pickiness, I finally decided that Size 9 (yes, 9, it's that big) was suitable for me. But guess what, when I unpacked it to retie the shoelaces at home, 1 of the shoes was the Size 9 and the correct design, the other was Size 8 with a different design. OK bata fail, I'll have to do with my tattered shoes tomorrow.

Sorry for this slacking mood :).

Instead of going for school's training, I went for my friend's brother's training. He's in NUS High, and his training was apparently unofficial, arranged by him and a group of friends. He was the best of them all, they had competition on Monday and their coach did not train them as he was helping the better players now. So he was on the weaker side, but he was still playing because they were short of players. He coached his friends, and they were quite new to Table Tennis. At least his brother could do some nice rallies. I played with them from 9.30am to 2pm, at which time I was asked to go home, to slack for the rest of the day and that's why I am posting now...

Wow today actually turned out to be fun. It's a public holiday (Good Friday), but I usually treat my holidays as weekends. Today was different. It was the first time this year that I was outside with friends for a casual outing, but the problem was that everything I did seemed to be wrong.

I left my home at 12.50pm, was dropped off at Newton MRT Station to take the train to Dhoby Ghaut. 3 stops only, but the train was super crowded. Without the Circle Line, this would be worse. So I arrived at 1.25pm, then I found Daryl waiting. Without a clue where the correct exit to Plaza Singapura (It's the Dhoby Ghaut Maze) was, we asked a security guard and he pointed us to the right direction, which appeared to be where Daryl had previously come out from. Then, finding Dawn and Hanzhi was the next problem. Which part of Basement 2 would you be at? We met up anyway. With just 5 minutes left to the start of the film, I did the queuing for the tickets, Daryl lined up for the food and the girls went to the Arcade, how nice of them. Of course they paid their own share for the tickets, but Daryl sponsored the food completely. The first mistake was to watch Jack Neo's film, which I was supposedly banned from after his scandalous act, but I forgot that he directed the film Being Human although Daryl had mentioned it before. $10 gone to him just like that.

It was ok, I suppose. The storyline was not very exciting, but the jokes that they cracked up were quite good with a nice balance of English, Mandarin and Hokkien. It was basically a story about a man who cared only about his wealth and in the process, caused hurt to others and even lost his loved ones. He had no conscience and did not care about the lives of other people and thus did many wrong things. I shall not go into details, but it was a really dumb ending where the whole film was rewinded very quickly over a period of 10 seconds and the main character decided to do the opposite of what he wanted initially. Daryl bought 2 boxes of popcorn, one which was fully salt popcorn and the other which was mixed. We did not finish it, I can't stand Salty Popcorn. The sweet ones were consumed by the girls.

After the movie, we decided to walk around. Went to Carrefour, looked at things a little, then we visited the Arcade. Misdeed number 2. Play in the Arcade. Dawn was emo-ing over the numerous failures to catch that little plush toy and she looked really sad, so I went for a go. I got it on the 5th try. She didn't seem too happy with that as she wanted to do it herself, but I made her take it anyway (You know you wanted it). I accidentally wasted $1 worth of Daryl's tokens after hitting the wrong button in Time Crisis 2, so sorry about that. Then we did a couple of games in Spot the Difference, which seemed incredibly easy to them, I couldn't see anything! We spent about 45 minutes in there, then we went to Burger King to eat as Daryl had not taken his lunch and it was 5.20pm.

"Lunch" turned into Dai Di as Daryl had brought a pack of Poker Cards. So instead of sitting there and eating, we were using the space to play Dai Di. Wrongdoing number 3. They had their suitable reason of "I'm still eating" albeit at an incredibly slow pace. But it was true, the food was not completely devoured until about 7pm. Hanzhi kept winning, then when I finally joined in Daryl started winning. Dawn failed miserably with Triple Di in one of the games, screwed up big time near the end. I, of course, did not win at all, I was not familiar with the rules of the game. We eventually broke off from hogging the table at 7pm and went home.

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The thing I hate about April's Fools Day, is that when someone asks you to do something or tells you something, you don't know if it's an April Fools joke or a legitimate statement, and moreover is when it's at 12am on the 2nd April and someone tells you something that could be an April Fools Joke, but they were just late by a few minutes. You still can't be sure if it's real. And when you ask them if it IS indeed an April Fools Joke, they'll tell you that it's already the 2nd April. And so it's sad for people who are born on 1st April, they get loads of jokes for their birthday present which might not be considered fun to them.

Maundy Thursday was started off with service. During the service, they were talking about Servant Leadership and how Jesus was a leader who came to serve and not be served, which he evidently displayed when he washed the feet of his disciples. That particular incident aroused his disciples and caused them to think that Jesus was wrong to be serving them in a way. They went through "Stations" when Jesus made his way with the cross to the place to die. In each "Station", they described the events that happened such as the fact that he fell 3 times and Simon helped him carry the cross. In them, they represented the values of Jesus, of his love and perseverance, his willingness to die for the people and other inspiring qualities of Jesus. They followed it up with Marists who exemplified Servant Leaders, and apparently my form teacher felt that I was one of them, after observing my behaviour for a while, so she had nominated me. There were about 7 people whom they mentioned, and in the 30 seconds where my name, class (put wrongly) and picture (A 2009 picture, they couldn't find any other photos of me) was revealed to every single student in the hall, I became more famous than I ever had been. Random people whom I had never met recognized me even after the Service, I don't know how they did it, I would not even be able to identify who the other 6 Servant Leaders were in a group of 10. Well, I had one day of "fame", if you could call it that.

For Geography lesson after that, we learnt about Biomass. My teacher told us that everything that we ate could be traced back to plants as plants are the core units of an ecosystem and if we lacked them, the whole population of animals would be affected as they are the start of almost every single food chain. So my teacher came up to me, asked me what I ate for Breakfast and I told him I did not eat Breakfast. He then told me I had eaten air, which was what I did say previously, then he asked me why I did not eat, was it because I was too poor, I could not afford food for breakfast and in the midst of all that he was saying rapidly without waiting for an answer, he withdrew a $10 note and put it into my pocket and walked off. My classmates started shouting that they had not taken breakfast either, in hopes of free money. Naturally, I returned it to him, but if I did not, it would really have been mine. When he asked me again why I did not eat and gave me a chance to answer, I told him that I barely took Breakfast.

After lessons, I went to make up for a couple of Biology Lab Experiments that I had missed when I had attended the Table Tennis Competitions. Kai Xun came as well, since he had missed them too. The very first two food tests... Mr Teo gave us the answer sheets to save time. Experiment 1 was ok, but when we were doing Experiment 2, we found that we were short of Dry Test Tubes. So Kai Xun asked for extra Test Tubes and returned with 4, which we split evenly. After doing the first part of the Experiment, we found that 2 was not enough, we needed 6 each. I still had 1 dry one since I reused 1 of the Test Tubes in the first Experiment, so I went to ask for 3. I told the lady that I needed 3 Test Tubes, and she took out a book, flipped it to the last page where any entries were made, and asked me to fill up the slots. It appeared that I had to write my details when I borrowed test tubes, so I did that. Date, Name, Item, Quantity, Signature. When I wrote my name, I looked at the slot above mine and wondered why Kai Xun's name was not there when he had borrowed 4 test tubes 15 minutes ago. Nevertheless, I filled up the rest of the required blanks. While writing the quantity, she asked me how many, to which I answered 3 and she looked shocked. I supposed no one had borrowed that many from her simultaneously before. When I was done, the lady told me "不用现在赔钱“. I looked at her, thinking "Why do you think I would pay money to borrow 3 Test Tubes?" Then when she made no effort to get 3 Test Tubes and repeated her words, I suddenly knew why. The book had been to record down the details of Broken Laboratory Apparatus. That's why I needed to write my name, which item I had broken, how many of them I had damaged and my signature to confirm that. It would then make sense for her to say what she had said about paying for the Test Tubes and the reason why Kai Xun had not filled up the blanks. It would also then explain why she had been shocked when I told her 3 Test Tubes. Hence, I told her again that I was there to borrow 3 test tubes and she looked at me for a second before taking over the pen, striking off what I had written and then going to get the Test Tubes. I was right, she had misunderstood me, or maybe I did not make my point clearly. She told me that she thought I had broken 3 Test Tubes, and I corrected that.

Now with an adequate number of Test Tubes, we conducted the 2nd Experiment and finished it up. It was 3.40pm then. Yan Tian had told me earlier before my lesson that he would wait for me before going for the Competition. He had skipped his Chinese Lesson. Walking out to the Porch where I had told Yan Tian to wait for me, I found Jia Ming and he too was about to make his way to PLMGS. We went to find the missing Yan Tian who was supposedly at the Library while I was doing my experiment, but failed to do so. Returning to the Porch, I felt my Phone vibrate and found that it was Yan Tian calling me. He told us to go to the Rock Wall. So he had decided to take a step further and leave us misinformed.

Making our way to Serangoon, I realized the mistake to go with Yan Tian and Jia Ming. They both jaywalked like before. Again, I disregarded them and took the long way with a run. Upon reaching PLMGS, we saw Dong Shuai starting his Final Set. After watching him lose that, our China Doubles went up. Losing 2 - 1, it seemed like they could not make the win, but they were the Miracle pair that made a 10 - 7 become 10 - 12 in the match against RI, and that was what they did again. With a comeback, we won that Match 3 - 2, and at that point Daryl was telling me again about how they were wasting time by playing all 5 sets. Of course it was not on purpose, each side wanted to win ASAP, but too bad it was true and it really consumed a lot of our time. You Hao gave us the 2nd point in yet another 3 - 2. Looking over at the Sports School vs St. Gabriel, we saw Pang Xue Jie lose to one of them 3 - 1, but there were incredible rallies which involved remarkable reaction time and speed as well as skill, which both players had. Anyway, Edwin and Benedict assured our win and Yan Feng just cleaned up to make it 4 - 1. We're now in the Semi-Finals, although with relatively low chances of winning, but then again, I expected a loss today, and it was a reverse outcome.