Thursday, 29 April 2010

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.