Sunday, January 3, 2010
Hi people! Long time no blog again. I've been putting off that damned Chemistry and Mathematics Holiday homework package or whatever since last week, and there are only 8 days left to the start of J2. Oh no!!!
Ok for the sake of Hello from my tagboard, whoever he or she is, I am going to recall rather briefly what happened during the year of 2009 in this first post of 2010!!!
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Let's recall the collection of the 'O' levels results. One of my good friends Tan Wee Kiat was the first to go up on stage with a score of 5A1s, followed by Eugene Chew and so on. I hate to admit it, but actually I was expecting myself to go up on stage LOL. Then I figured that I myself didn't work hard enough during the preparation for 'O' levels, so a consolation prize of 3A1s is worth it? Still, the fact remains that all of us born in 1992s is the best batch of students ever! Well, when the 'O' level results 2009 is released in about a few weeks time we shall find out whether the 1993 batch is able to prove me wrong.
Then it comes the JAE whatever thing where we choose where we wanted to go after collecting that slip of paper we have been waiting for 4 years since the start of secondary school. I got 9 points raw and I'm proud to say that it is a single digit raw score. The nice part is that there are only 4 possible single digit raw scores : A perfect score of 6, 1 A2 which gives you 7, 8 and 9... Well whatever. After deducting 2 points from my CCA, I got 7 points, which qualifies me for at most Anderson Junior College, followed by St Andrews, but I still went to St Andrews anyway.
Frankly speaking, I was crazy back in the Sec 3 Sec 4 times, everything is so relaxing as you can get away from not handing in homework with such ease. Let me present to you all a scenario:
Teacher: Hand up your homework
Me: Keep quiet
Teacher: Who else hasn't handed it in?
Me: (Obviously I didn't) Keep quiet
By the next day, if the teacher didn't chase after you for that piece of homework, you would have escaped it totally.
Therefore I sort of dedicated my life in Sec 3 and 4 to be as crazy as possible, doing the stupidest and most unexpected stuff if possible, giving my class some form of crude entertainment for the entire two years of upper secondary. In JC however, there is never such time for such nonsense and fooling around. This is because you only have two years to cramp in all the syllabus into your head and sit for the much killer 'A' levels at the end of year 2. There is hardly time to play around unless you have an IQ above 140 and a photographic memory. Sadly to say, the pressure from the expectations I had set for myself and the abrupt change in environment has forced me to switch from an extreme end of the spectrum to the other extreme end, from being crazy to being quiet and an introvert in JC.
In 2009, what I've certainly lost out is the ability to communicate with new peers in a new environment. Hence I am basically not popular, but I am not unpopular luckily. You know, there's a big difference.
Let's talk about examinations in JC. Somehow when I entered JC, there is this unexplainable kind of feeling that one must do well in every exam and maintain the standard. Back in secondary school, I'm pretty much a last minute person. So I find it very hard to switch, or rather, transform into a hardworking student. Anybody would know that a person who is both intellectually there and hardworking is able to secure the best alphabet there is to represent your progress in a particular subject. For me, getting that coveted 'A' grade is always a challenge for both Biology and Chemistry. The simple reason would be that I am not hardworking enough, and am unwilling or lack the motivation to change for the better even when I am moving on to JC. Sigh...
MSAs, otherwise known as Milestone Assessments are the only tests that I am able to do reasonably well, obtaining above 70 rank points, but for tests like Common Tests and obviously the Final Year Examinations, I wasn't able to meet the 70 rank points mark, reason being that these tests are more of Semestral Tests, summarising what you've learnt into a series of nerve-wrecking questions for you to answer. After a gruelling J1 year, which does not even stand a chance to be compared side-by-side to the year ahead, I got an overall 69 rank points UNREGULATED. Damn it! Why don't SAJC bring me up to 70? Then I would have gotten a free cookie and a more satisfied feeling...
Whatever it is, this is not the time to complain. As this is the first year after we've graduated from our secondary schools, us back in 4L1 are still able to maintain contact among each other. 2009 witnesses the warmest meetings that the guys in 4L1 have went to yet. I can recall the moments where Wee Kiat, Samuel, Eugene Chew and myself sit down on the sofa at my house and discuss miscellaneous stuff like Project Work and random grades gotten from tests. Those are the memories that we should hold dear to ourselves.
Then there are SCS, which stands for Soul Calibur sessions during June and December last month. This is whereby the guys in L1, well some of us, together with Xin Hao and Maliki, come together to play a PS2 game that we can miraculously draw much fun from. During these sessions, when the number of people permits, we also play card games such as daitee and Cheat, the Neopets version, which similarly is very fun to play for all of us. The thing is, we are suffocating from the pressure of JC life so much that even such little things and games are able to relieve the pressure and make us more relaxed to tackle on the workload the next day. And that's 2009 for me.
What do I look forward in 2010, or rather this upcoming year of hell for my batch, it is basically the same old list.
1) Solve a Rubik's Cube in less than 50 seconds
2) Get good results
3) Try to put yourself into the shoes of other people more... not literally
4) Get in shape
5) Work hard, play hard, Own people hard as well
And that's all...
8 more days!!!
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5:41 PM