Did Geography today. SS tomorrow!

I did a whole full day of A-Maths and E-Maths today. My formulas are completely correct, but my answers end up wrong because of careless mistakes or inaccurate working. For the latter, I decided to put down every single digit displayed on my calculator from now on, and I'm still working on my careless mistakes. Other than that, I'm ready for my Maths papers. That's 4 subjects down, 5 remaining, first one of these 5 comes up on Wednesday.

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.