E-Learning day is as good as it was in March. Really good. Chemistry Practical went well, except for an answer that differed from the rest. I had quite a bit of time to spare, and I still feel that my answer is right.

Despicable Me. To describe it simply. CUTE.

I've been so lazy to post. Sunday was a great one, I got to meet scholars at their hostel and they were really sociable people like one big family. They were very supportive on me in my efforts to take a trophy from them, which I eventually succeeded in.

Not much happened recently, but it's still been fun.

+1 for Weekend already :). So lessons were fine, balancing Chemical Equations now are way easier than last year, because we really didn't catch anything during the lessons then. Now, it's like addition and subtraction. The second half of the day was fine too, more than half the class left at 1.20 for their Oral. Then Joel, Bryan and Samuel had to spend half an hour waiting for me, they were dismissed at 1.20.

We slowly made our way to AMK Hub, then looked at the time slots for Despicable Me. 4.15pm was the earliest, which I refused to wait for, so we picked Toy Story 3 at 3.20 as the alternative. It would prove to be to our benefit, as I was also asked for Despicable Me on the 18th already. So we would catch it on that day, as well as get to watch Toy Story 3. I was a little rusty on the characters, since Toy Story 2 was a 1999 film. But it's hard to forget Woody and Buzz Lightyear, as well as Mr and Mrs Potato :). It isn't exactly a sequel since the Toy Story 2 left no hint of a continuation, so one wouldn't really need to see the previous films to understand this one, but it would prove a bonus. Andy seemed to have grown in real time, he was now a college student. Throughout the movie, there were no sudden shocks and the volume wasn't too loud, but the baby definitely looked creepy. It was very eventful, many of the parts were fast-paced, and the jokes that came up were really original, such as Ydna and the Spanish Buzz. The storyline wasn't complex at all either. It was really well done, this show.

The bus ride back was a filled one, but at least the people knew how to "move to the rear" to make space for the front.

Eighth day of Term 3, getting used to school again. I arrived at school just in time today, thanks to a traffic jam. And Mr Kwok said that in my batch, 4 out of 5 people who were late even once were found to be in the bottom half of the class academically. I got into class half a minute before the first bell, so it wouldn't be considered late.

Today's Chemistry lesson was quite stupid. Class started with a calling out of groups who had not handed in their homework. I was safe in that list. After she was done with questioning those groups for reasons, she turned to those who had handed up but which she found unacceptable. I was found in that list. Apparently, Ms Yeo had been unable to open the google document page with our work on it due to a "security threat", to which she asked if we were linked to any terrorist websites. It was insanely ridiculous. I just checked and it's working fine for me, so it's not my fault. Other cases included one who copied and pasted wholesale into an email, and another who tried to present with Keynote, which she didn't have, so she couldn't open the file. We were asked to see her after school, which Jia Hui kindly asked to come along with me.

Geography was as usual, full of laughter and learning. The last 15 minutes was spent on a video completely unrelated to rivers. It was about caves which were so dark that any lights seen were merely worms glowing due to a chemical reaction in the back portion of their bodies. These worms hung onto the ceiling and let down a long thread of mucus. Flies in the cave would get caught onto mucus and be stuck there to be the food of the worm. Another cave was shown with 3 million bats in it, and the ground in this cave was all bat droppings, a full 100 metre tall mound of it. This served as food for cockroaches, which were seen everywhere among the bat droppings, and they were the meals of centipedes. The producers of the video had to spend one month in this mountain of bat droppings and cockroaches crawling every inch of the cave, and all they wanted to catch on tape was a smooth recording of the full mound of droppings from bottom to top, which failed repeatedly due to equipment failure and several other factors.

The rest of the day passed in peace, nothing too eventful, unless you count a flooding toilet about 10 metres away from my class which we did not get to see and caused quite a commotion. Biology was where the fun started, again. Mr Teo told us that the pig's heart would smell, but no, there was nothing at all. It was soft and slippery. So we Keng Wee cut through the left ventricle to see the Papillary Muscles and the Tendons, then opened the left atrium for the Bicuspid Valve, followed by the right atrium. The moderator band which Mr Teo expected most of us to break, could not be found in our heart. Faulty Pig's heart much? Nicholas's heart was half black, so we joked that the pig had smoked during it's life time. He went to fill a couple of veins with water and blood came out along with it. After the lesson was over, some cruel people decided to ruin the pig's heart completely by tearing it apart with their knife. Maybe they'll learn how to respect other's hearts when their own get played with such brutality in the future.

MYD for this year was way better than last year. I wore my favourite shirt and shorts, it was weird to be in school with them on. Assembly was like normal, except that everyone was wearing different clothes. Then we went back to class to give the representatives time to prepare. At about 8.20, we went out to witness a "mascot" from each class, symbolizing a different country each. I didn't really notice each representative much because they didn't attract my attention and the clapping was so loud, I couldn't hear which country they were representing. I did see Daryl came in with his England outfit with a hat. He took off his hat to the judges like a gentlemen, well done, Daryl :). After that, was my own class. Hong Fu, Wang Lei, Boxin and Jiahao wore some loose-fitting robe (don't know what it's called :P), we were doing Japan. Then Berwin in his ninja outfit with his stunts, all the backflips and stuff drew applause. Some of those that followed were more entertaining, including one particular group representing a Tribe and they had to act like one, which was really well done and really daring. I noticed that quite a few were centered on the World Cup that it seemed like everyone had a soccer ball of their own. After each class had done their show, we returned to our classes for a break before they announced the winners.

When that was done, we were free to roam the school and were trusted to return to class by 12pm. I stayed in class for a while with Bryan because he needed some help. I gave up my coupons, because I thought I would be staying there the whole day, but then decided later that I wanted it back, after being persuaded by Brendan and Yi Kar. I managed to get back 1 dollar and went up to Julius's class. I spent 1 and a half hours there on 4 games, all of which were payed for by Yi Kar, Julius and Calvin, thank you very much for that. And it was really difficult to manage the Administrative issues because Julius did not seem to have the co-operation of his classmates, so things were quite messy but it turned out fine and they really received a lot of coupons, although I don't see why Julius would have to pay to play his own Xbox. There were 10 macbooks side by side, all in for 5v5 DotA matches, along with 2 Xboxes in System Link, and it was a real hotspot for gaming enthusiasts.

After the day was over, I took the Bio test on Alcohol. It went well. Then we were dismissed at 12.45. I took a ride to Bishan and looked through the Bus paths. I concluded that I would have to cross to the other side, but I didn't check, because I decided that I wanted lunch. So I wandered back into J8, glanced at McDonald's, which was crowded, peered into KFC, where all the seats were taken, and went up to the Food Court, which was full. I took a slow walk back down and wanted to get an Ice Cream from McDonald's, which also had a queue, but then I heard Daryl calling my name from the back, so I turned around. Junn Wei was looking into McDonald's, wondering what Daryl was talking about, so I tapped him back to his senses. They were with Kaiser, Samuel and Yuliang, so I asked what they were doing. They wanted lunch too, so we made a tour around the ground floor and deduced that Lunch would not be taken there. PastaMania had a queue while Pizza Hut was not an option for them due to time constraints as they had to get back to school by 2.15 and so could not afford to wait.

I found myself back at the Food Court, which did not seem to have changed in the past 10 minutes. But they went in and found a place to sit, so we had lunch there. They found a better location, so we resettled there. We discussed their Money Investment Program as we ate, then it turned to Council Matters, then food. Yuliang kept insisting that I was being conned because the Cheese Prata was sold at a ridiculous price at $2.20 per piece. They thought it was Egg Prata at first, and felt that the price would be reasonable. But when I told them that it was Cheese Prata, they started to try and balance the price. If cheese was 50 cents, that would mean the Dough was $1.70, which was stupid, and so on. At 1.45, Samuel left us to meet his friend, and at 1.50, the other 4 had to leave, although Junn Wei felt bad to leave me alone. So they tried to drag it a little more, but 5 minutes was all they could manage, and I still had three quarters of my last prata to go then, so they left.

As I cleaned it up, Daryl and friends arrived. Another 5 more people, so all the seats around me were filled up again, but this time, I had finished my meal and they were just starting. So I waited through Round 2 of Lunch with a cup of coke. I was 5 cents short of getting the Large one, but I think it's better to have gotten the Regular one anyway. I was impressed with their eating habits. At the end of their lunch, Kai Shiun and the other 2 guys were gone.

Daryl and Kai Zhong almost made a bet (maybe they did) on the forced withdrawal from the Arcade if Kai Zhong were to enter it. He was made to leave. Daryl failed with his tokens, miserably. So did I anyway. After that, we left for home. Slight flood today, it was obvious that I had walked in the rain when I boarded the bus, and during the ride, I seemed to dry up, but I was drenched again as I ran home, worse than before. Almost slipped and fell at one point, but friction prevented that :D.

Eye hurts right now. Going to finish this up quick. Today we had 5 free periods in a row, which I spent doing the Maths Benchmark Tests on Hardcopy. Got Hong Fu to give me 2 sheets of Graph paper, thanks :). Wouldn't have been able to hand up the worksheet if not for that. Bio Lab was a comfortable session about the Heart, that's all for today. My eye can't stare at the screen much longer. Yay for MYD tomorrow.

Wednesday started with a good night's sleep. I survived the day well, enjoyed all the lessons, but didn't feel well in the first half of the day. Kept sniffing. But other than that, the day was fine. Our Chemistry lesson in the 21st Century Classroom was... reasonably fun. Kaiser said that his Macbook could explode at any time due to a Battery Overcharge, so the teacher was wondering what his next story would be because his previous one had been a faulty keyboard, but it was really just his bad luck. Then we had a couple of other funny cases for reasons why they had not turned up when Ms Yeo had called for them. The rest of the lesson, majority of the time was put into setting up the Interactive Screen for most groups.

Final period was slack, then the day was over. I went to eat with Ming Xuan and watched Choong Meng pass by the same route 4 times and then when he threw away his food, I took his bag and ran off with it :). It took him 5 minutes to find me about 20m from the original point, and I thought he had known where I was all the time. Turns out he did not, and he only found out when he caught me staring at him, because he wasn't wearing his glasses. No wonder he kept looking around the same spot.

So we slacked until 2.20pm then he left for his CCA and I went to the hall. Whole team was there already, the problem was that no one else was. We waited, doing stupid stuffs until 2.50 where Yi Kar told us that Coach would not be coming, which basically means CCA is cancelled. One possible reason was the Nationals Inter-School Tournament for the Primary School, so yeah, we left. Daryl and Kai Shiun must have been unhappy because I just wasted their time by telling them to stay for training. So we went to the Fitness Corner, did even more stupid stuff. We didn't mean to disturb the Band but I think we did. Some people just can't keep their eyes off others.

My Pull Up fails. Hanging doesn't help, so a tip is if you have to hang, don't do it. We fooled around with the Rock Wall, Kai Shiun couldn't get up. When Timothy came I told him to shut up because the Band was nearby. haha joke of course. Spent 20 minutes at that corner fooling around before we parted ways and went home.

First day back, yay for Monday :). Keefe dyed his hair, it's really cool, but... too bad, he has to change it back to black. Bio teacher was not in the mood for teaching either, so we went back to revise a little on last semester's topic. Lazy to post about today, and nothing much happened anyway. Everyone was talking about World Cup. And then we had to look into this:

All lies are just. Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Holidays coming to an end, but at least it did feel like one month. I could do with more, but this much was good enough this year, I don't know why. Ending it being sick was not what I wanted, but it gives me a reason to sleep and get enough rest, not that I couldn't during the holidays, I just didn't try.

So the day started with a Flash Flood all round the coutry, replica of last Wednesday's event, except that this time, SG was more prepared for it. But, that "theory" about the flood occurring one time in 50 years proved wrong. I arrived at 9.05 in school, already 5 minutes late. But there was someone else, of all people, who wasn't present, and that was the teacher. He came into the room 1 hour later at about 10.10, and quickly got started. Another hour later, one student stepped into class but was rejected by the teacher, told to go home, for he was already at a stage where he could not catch up.

Appcode Programming was similar to ActionScript, but the functions are different, and naturally, the way to present the code for these functions differed. But, a standard procedure across these kinds of programming languages is that a semi-colon has to be put in after every line, and this was the most common mistake among us students. Programming languages were also ultra-case-sensitive, which would be the 2nd typical mistake next to the absence of the semi-colon.

Throughout the day, we created 2 really simple apps, but that was not the end of the Basic Course. We were told that the full course was 18 hours, just to get through with the Basics of Appcode Programming. At 2 hours per session, we were told that we could sign up for it if we wished by asking the teachers. Not what I would look forward to, so, no for me.