Game Without an Aim

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Woohoo!

Woohoo! I'm back! Again, there was too much stuff going on these days and I had simply no time to update. Here's just a short recap on what had happened.

I had:

-played AYE captain (ball) last week with my superb teammates Nicholas, Siva, Jin Xian, Huiqi, Serene and Zhi Han (who sub-ed Nick for the last match). We got fourth and won a $20 voucher!

-Open day last Wednesday! But it was a rainy day and it wasn't exactly a good time to promote OUTDOORS activity club. Anyway, much of the visitors were attracted by the performances at the linkway and we didn't have much people coming to see our structure. Haha, but at least we took a photo with our structure (a bridge) and all the effort was not wasted!

-finished quite a lot of homework last weekend. Finished Superposition, Chem Equilibrium, Permutation and Combination and Differential Equations. I felt it was quite amazing, considering I had an OAC meeting and a visit to my grandma's house on Saturday, which took up some time.

-chem spa on Monday. I was too slow and screwed up the entire SPA. Huang Zhi told me he knew it and had seen that coming long ago. What can I say? I tried my best and I guess there really IS a limit to my speed. Guess how sad and depressed I am now, realising time after time that I can finish on time? Sob Sob ):

-started a new speed writing programme on Tuesday. I tried to write out 3 pages of Econs notes in 45 minutes during math lecture. Failed terribly. Only got to 2.5 pages. But that was because Clayton distracted me for god knows how long. I was planning to do this every day starting today but abandoned the project in the end. (lack of time to practise)

-slept at 5am on Wednesday. I edited the WR from Tuesday night until 5 am on Wednesday morning. Then slept for 1.5hrs and went to school on my own. Didn't ask my father to send me cuz I'm a bit paiseh already. Cuz I have had a lot of late nights recently and he sent me to school quite regularly, sacrificing his sleep in the morning.

-kite making and flying and steamboat after school on Wednesday. Kite making was a very new experience for me and i think my group was quite blur throughout the kite making thing. But we made a nice small kite in the end (to my surprise). Other groups on the other hand seemed quite confident and they made really big and nice kites. A kite was also made for Mr Lum and it said Happy Teachers Day! It was a really nice and big kite.

But to my surprise, when we attempted to fly the kites we've made, it turned out that only our small lil' kite was flyable! Mr Lum exchanged his kite with me and told me his kite wouldn't fly
. After trying it out, I realised that there was a problem with the construction and explained the physics behind why it wouldn't fly. Then somehow after that I became known as the kite doctor and other groups asking me for prescriptions on why their kite wouldn't fly. lol. And Grace kept telling Jessie and the girls how I suited her 'story of Kah Ho'. lol. It was a really interesting story and I think it goes something like this:

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Kah Ho. He came from a poor family and had to sell buns to support his family (this was because every time Claire saw me, I was always holding a bun in my hand). As a result, he never liked the wasting of food (lol, this was because i told people not to waste food during invest) and was also a thrifty person who does not spend excessively. He rides a bicycle everywhere (she read my post about me cycling home in the rain and getting a fever after that) and often had to endure cycling in the rain. As he was very poor, his could only afford to fly kite as his pastime and eventually became very good at it. His childhood ambition was to become a kite doctor who could treat kites and help them fly high into the sky. But despite his sad childhood, he worked hard (somehow ppl always thought that I was very hardworking) for his future and eventually found success.

I was speechless after I heard the story. Claire said it was a very sad story. I think that it was such a nice and touching story(: Anyways, after the kite flying, we had debrief. Jin Xian and Ben Hong tried to be lame and was rather successful in doing so. They were interesting, but the part that was even more interesting was Jessie's expression- She looked like she was very pissed off but at the same time quite helpless at their lameness. lol.

More of JX and BH lameness at the steam boat. This time their target was Terence. Poor Terence, he had to endure what seemed like an endless stream of jokes targeted at him. Some of the jokes were quite interesting and they gave me new insights into joke telling (but i probably won't get to say them cuz I dun wanna hurt ppl's feelings). Terence was rather surprised at first when JX and BH said those mean jokes and after a while, he started wondering 'What on Earth did I (he) do to them?'. Haha. Well, all I can say is that Terence didn't do anything to them to deserve this. Rather, it was all jokes for joking sake, no harsh feelings. I guess we'll just have to play along and simply shrug it off with a laugh at times like this. haha.

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And well, that will be our last OAC activity until promos and pw ends. And it looks like the holidays is coming! Time to draft out a plan (intensive mugging camp plan) for my precious holiday!

Saturday, August 18, 2007

A Crazy Week

Sigh, things have gotten really crazy these days and I find my life more and more screwed.

Firstly, I've been sick too many a time this week. First stomachache together with flu and sore throat on Monday. After the stomachache came the fever. Then the flu persisted. And when I finally recovered from the sickness, I became sick of the WR and the late nights.

Secondly, as a sick patient, I should be getting the rest that I need, but the reality is that I've been staying up very late each and every of these days, all because of my EoM and WR. I'm sure everyone else has been staying up just as late as well.

And lastly, my CCA activities these days end late and start early. Especially on Wednesday.

Wednesday

Wednesday, the activity packed day. I woke up in the morning and found that my fever had receded. No excuse to pon school. Or wait, I have an MC, so I can pon if I want. But then again, Nora, Dawn, Suyi and Shelvi are waiting in school for me early in the morning to paint our seniors' pebbles and they are all depending on me for the fabric paint. And I bought it yesterday, might as well put it to use. Sigh...

So I went to school. I placed the materials (for investiture) that I brought in the OAC stall early in the morning (I planned to go home and rest after the 2nd lesson) and went to paint the pebbles. The painting was quite fun and I might have forgotten about the flag-raising if not for Rachel...

Lessons were as normal. I had originally planned to pon school after the second lesson. Then I realised- there was a mock Physics SPA today. Shucks. I've missed the chem mock SPA, I can't afford another make-up if I ponned. So I sat through the whole physics SPA. I actually thought that I had the perfect results after the whole thing. And then my friend told me something. And I was like stun tio. Haha, sry I can't disclose what went wrong, cuz its a national exam and all...

After the SPA, Mrs Teai reminded us about the Current of Electricity tutorial, which is due today. Sianz. I haven't done it. And I was telling Suyi this morning about how I'm going to copy from someone. She replied that I probably won't do it cuz I don't look like the sort of person who will copy. How innocent. Looks CAN be deceiving. But then again, I really don't feel like copying. I would rather not hand in than copy. So sad to say, Suyi was right, I can't copy, its just not my style.

And next was econs lecture. Can't pon again, cuz econs is very important. Surprisingly I held on throughout the whole of the lecture without sleeping.

Then it was time to face the verdict. PW. Sadly, I had to be the one to tell Mr Lee that we couldn't hand in. And I had to stress that it was mostly done, what is left was my part, the intro, and the conclusion, which needs group effort. He gave me an extension until tomorrow. I tried to bargain for time and asked for Friday, cuz I have an investiture later today. He said no and he didn't want to listen to my explanation. Oh well.

After school was invest. Oh well, I did what I did, did my best to stay cheerful too. The whole thing went pretty smoothly EXCEPT for the activities part. The music player was missing during the Parcel Game! Then they impromptu-ed and used a handphone instead. The effect was terrible. Oh well... And the there was also the part on the Awards. I felt that there should be more to the Awards than just announcing the awards and then announcing the name after like, less than 1 minute. We had a photo taking session after the planned activities and the seniors gathered around me and took a picture with me, the new quartermaster. Guess what, after the photo, they simply grabbed my legs and went to pole me. lol. But I put up a very strong resistance (held on to a pole with all my power) and for quite a while they can't pull me away from the pole. They simply got reinforcements and some tickled me while others tried prying my fingers away. When they finally brought me towards the pole, I was so reluctant that I used my leg to stop the pole. But resistance was futile and yea, I got poled.

Everything ended at 9 plus and I asked my parents to fetch me. Happened that they are on the way and the timing was nice. Got home at around 10 (they had to buy my breakfast and send my grandma home). I was damn tired and tried doing my written report. But my tiredness got the better of me and I didn't get to do what I had set out to achieve. Slept at 12.30.

Thursday

I had to go to school early in the morning for an EXCO meeting. I got up late and got there ten minutes late at 7.25am. Discussed OAC stuff and took some pics afterwards. Before going for morning assembly.

GP was normal as usual and it rained heavily during PE so we were dismissed. I took the chance and did my WR in the OAC stall, where no one can disturb me (yes, I can't work under noises and disturbance). Finished my intro and went on the edit some of the grammar and content page.

Slept through the Physics and Chem Lectures without the slightest hesitation. Didn't even care if my friends viewed me differently (I wasn't supposed to be the type to sleep in lectures). Haha. But after 1 hour and 30 mins of sleep, I suddenly felt that I had a new lease of life. YEA! Sleep is best when you need it most. After my sleeping session, I went to Bytz and got Clayton to join me. The reason being I can't read his file cuz its in docx extension. So I got him to type out whatever he had written on the spot. And wow, I realised that he has god-like typing speed. And on top of that, fast thinking speed to match the typing speed as well. Or perhaps it was just me who was slow all the while. He completed his part, but we ate into econs tutorial as well. We walked into class late and Mr Tiew didn't seem to mind either.

After school I got together the group members and told them we need to write a conclusion for our WR. And the thing is I don't exactly know how. I suggested that we could summarise the feasibilities of our showcase ideas and discuss on the implications and future possibilities of our project. Then I can't really remember what happen. All I know is that there are lots of uncertainty and confusion and everything was sort of blurry.

Then the next thing I remember is that I was at the canteen. I don't really remember how and for what reason though. I think Clayton pulled me there or something cuz he told me that we shouldn't always be doing things for the group and they need to do the conclusion at least. Then after staying at the canteen at dunno how long, Shaun came down and showed me the conclusion that he had typed. I felt that it was a poor conclusion but didn't know how to put it across to him. Sigh. But I tried to explain that the tone and content was rather inappropriate and tried to show him what I meant by typing another conclusion.

Went home afterwards and started the editing of the WR. There was much to do, and in the end, I got the god-like Clayton to help me out. I edited an entire part of the WR and asked him to change TWO entire parts of the WR according to my format. While he was doing that, I got my Econs VA group members and discussed about the econs VA. At about 10.30 (or was that 11.30?) Clayton sent me what he edited. WOW! I was surprised. Yep, that was certainly work of quality that I had wanted and NEEDED. I knew he could do it, but certainly not THAT fast. He really is the super tanker. One who can tank entire proposals on his own. I still remembered how he did the entire Econs VA for his group. I admit that was crazy, having done the entire Econs VA for my own group myself too. But at the end of the day, I finally realised, we were on completely different level- I only had my will and my determination for perfection, but he had the speed and the abilities to go with his speed. Our quality are probably the same, mine perhaps slightly better because of my meticulous checking of the link and quality of every sentence. His speed was the clear advantage he had over me. After that, I continued my editing into the morning.

Towards the very end, I looked through my resources again to find inspiration for the conclusion. WOW! I found something and quickly wrote the conclusion. It was a new conclusion, both in content and in style. After a final read through, it was 4.45am. I went to sleep.

Friday

Woke up at 6.40am. My father drove me to school today. Submitted the WR and finally manage to continue from where I left off in Current of Electricity. I am already two days late and I'd better finish it today. I sat with Eugenia, Clement, Melissa and Shu Jun at the round tables. I couldn't quite concentrate with them around cuz I kinda get distracted when there are people chatting.

And a blah blah blah and school is over. Everything wasn't quite in focus throughout the day, people commented that I look soulless, some asked if I were ok (which I bluntly replied, no, I wasn't), others were surprised that I slept through the entire Econs lecture, break time and lunch (basically whenever I could). Other things include being questioned (scolded?) by Mrs Teai by not handing in COE.

And that's not all, there was Physics make-up class after school. I paid attention during the make-up (due to the sleep I got during lectures, break, lunch, etc) and learnt a lot. Afterwards, we got back our test results for the previous Physics test. I got 20/30. I felt it was pretty ok since I thought I screwed the paper. My target would be something like 23 or something... It turned out that I scored higher than a lot of other people and, well, I had to say I was surprised that I beat Clayton and Shaun too. After that, we had our Oscillation and Waves class test. I was very nervous since I didn't even study for it, but when the test started, everything went ok. I also got to apply what I had just learnt in the lecture and I was glad that I had paid attention. When we peer marked, I discovered I got 11/11 for my test! That's for the peer marking part, but I don't know if I can still keep the full marks once the teacher marked the definitions (i crapped out the definitions). lol. The paper which I marked sadly got 1/11. The only mark that I had awarded him was for drawing a 4mm arrow.

After I got home, I simply ate dinner and slept at 8.45pm. Woke up today at 10am. Wow! The feeling when I woke up was- heavenly! I felt like a dead brought back to the living world.

And hence, I have made up my mind, that I shall be reborn to this world as the super mugger. I'll clear up the mess that this crazy week has brought upon me this weekend.

Watch out for the Super Mugger.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Down with Fever

Sniff sniff. My flu wouldn't stop. Now I've got a really bad sore throat and a fever. Here's how I got my fever:

It started raining when I was on the bus on my way home. When I got out of the bus, it was still pouring heavily. It doesn't look as if it'll stop anytime soon, so i just cycled in the rain to BP Plaza to buy some fabric paint. The paint was for painting the pebbles tmr, which was to be the gift to our Pesek seniors. Yep, so i had no choice but to get the paint. After freezing for some time in Popular, I went to NTUC to get some gummy worms for tmr's investiture activities. Yep, guess what, I froze for even longer in there cuz i couldn't quite find the worms. After the purchasing of the items, I cycled home in the rain again.

Hence the fever.

Sniff.

And the flu still won't stop, despite the flu pills. Just took another flu pill and I'm starting to feel drowsy now. What about the written report?

Ah, can't take it anymore, I HAVE to sleep.

Monday, August 13, 2007

My 'Bestest' Birthday...

Today is my birthday! Ah well, this has got to be my 'bestest' birthday ever! Look at what I've gotten for my presents:

1. A stomachache!
2. Runny nose!
3. Sore throat!
4. An EoM to do!
5. A website to build!
6. A Written Report to submit!!!

Wow, that's wonderful, isn't it? And what's more, I can't even eat my cake cuz people with stomachaches cannot take cream. Haha.

Oh well, at least I'm glad that the stomachache has receded as of now. And I'm glad that there are friends who know that its my birthday today! (Mostly through seeing my msn nick but nevertheless...)

Nothing much to type, cuz a bit drowsy now.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Study Study and More Studying!!!

Wow, 4 days of studying time for me is what I am desperately in need of! I've been so busy and tired the past 3 days that I havent had any time for homework. Well, actually I can burn the midnight oil if I wanted, but it would be really bad for my health. And yes, I'm not a hard core mugger like Clayton, so you really can't compare me with him-our goals are different in the first place.

Well, let's see what happened the past 3 days...

Firstly, there's the flag-raising rehearsal on Monday and Tuesday. Yep, I'm supposed to be the flag-raiser for the NDC! What honor eh? But then again, my timing wasn't very good and it would be such an embarrassment if I had screwed up on the actual day. Throughout the rehearsals I wasn't confident of my timings and even during the last rehearsal, I was still very nervous. Out of desperation, I suddenly had a foolproof plan! At around 30 mins before the start of the parade, I pasted pieces of masking tape on the string to mark out different parts of the songs and paced myself using these markings. After a few last minute rehearsals, I felt that my plan was simply flawless. During the actual flagraising, I simply raised the flag with perfect timing! Wow, that was easy, wasn't it?

Secondly, we (OAC) had to build this structure for the NDC. We had a trial run last Monday and we only got to the first of the two levels that we were planning to build. Well, this time we had two days to build the structure. On Monday, there was labour shortage and two of our scouts couldn't make it. So I finally got the chance to climb on the structure and help out! Yay! It turned out that tying the lashes were much more fun than doing the step-base... And mind you, just because this is my first time doesn't mean I do slip-shot lashings. With every round I make I put in all my strength and energy in tightening the ropes. I also check to make sure that the ropes are tied neatly with no overlapping. Haha, actually it wasn't really hard and there was really nothing to be proud about once you are used to pioneering. But anyway, we worked until around 9pm and by then we had only completed level 1. So we decided that we have to drop the building of the second level and just make do with a one level structure.

On Tuesday, we completed the rest of the structure with two horizontals, two diagonals, the platform and the ladder. It was relatively easy work for most of us (excluding Kevin and Claire who were tying the whole platform) and we went home at around 8pm, earlier than yesterday. On the actual day itself, Trent, the VP of Council, climbed the ladder and stuck the flag in one of the poles successfully. Then Mr Loh pulled a string and declared the start of the NDC. Well, that's all there is to it. The use of our two days worth of effort-described in two sentences! lol! Ok, so our structure has only one minute of fame, but at the end of the NDC, we took pictures with our dear structure with us standing on top! Yea!

After the tearing down of the structure, I heard something from someone about what someone had said. It was sad to learn that some unfeeling dude actually commented that our structure wasn't impressive at all and that it was very messy. Well, we all know that its a fact and that's the truth. So why bother to make such comments? Nobody asked for comments anyway... But one thing is for sure, we are all going to get better in the time to come.

Yeah, that's the major happenings in these few days. My father gave me a haircut too, but there wasn't much to say about it. It didn't come out as I want it to be... And well, my father said he found the haircut ok-short and neat, just like a good schoolboy. Yea, this haircut was probably popular around 30 years ago... But nevertheless, nobody cares about boys' hair (unless they're spiked) so it doesn't really matter.

Today will be the start of my homework spree. So the conclusion is that THERE WILL BE NO SLACKING during this holiday. Just like my usual practice, a list of homework... (be surprised by how much I haven't done)

-Waves (yes, I haven't even started doing)
-Superposition

-Nomenclature (yes, I haven't even started doing)
-Aliphatic Hydrocarbons (same as the above)
-Chemical Equilibrium

-Integration Tutorial 2 (yes, I have been on it for 2 weeks already!!!)
-Integration Tutorial 3
-Differential Equations

-Econs Essay Presentation
-Econs VA Presentation

-Written Report 1st draft
-EoM second draft (Actually it's a redo since I screwed up the first one)
-And a lot of other crap that we have to do for PW....

Although most people would have finished most of the above, I'm still surprised to know that there are actually people going out to have fun during this 4 days of 'holiday'. We only have less than 6 weeks to study for promos and this is probably our best chance to revise.

Oh well, I guess there exist people other than Ivan who has a solid 'plan' to revise just 1 week before the exam and still do amazingly well. Either that or they just love their J1 life so much.

Sunday, August 5, 2007

Freedom

Freedom! At last!

Wow, this has been a very busy week, not just for me, but for many of us (assuming that you pia everything last minute), that's why I haven't been updating. Let's see what happened this past week.

Monday

Maths today was a wow. It seems like I was the only one who finished Integration 1... I'm surprised that even Clayton the super mugger, Hao Bo the mugger in training and Shaun the Maths genius haven't already completed it yet. Anyway, as a follow-up, I didn't really finish my Integration 2 on Sunday, but nevermind that, I'm quite contented with Integration 1 already! Yea!

During econs, we were told to prepare for our econs va (varied assessment) presentation. I choose the time slot on week 7, about 2 weeks from now. Sigh, I think the presentation's gonna be a screw up. There was insufficient research done and after reading John Sloman (the author of an economics textbook, but we call the book John Sloman for short), I suddenly had a hundred and one ideas of how to improve on my VA. How should I present my old project when even I find that its not solid? And even worse, how should I start briefing my group about what to present when I was the one doing almost the whole proposal? Sianz...

Attended the talk by HOD of Maths today cuz I didn't meet my subject combination requirements. Well, I find his speaking style quite interesting and amusing, just like Mrs Teai, but one of my friends said that he was sarcastic. I didn't care, I still find it very amusing. lol. He also told us that we have 8 weeks left, so its about 2 weeks for each subject. Haha. If I had 2 weeks for each subject, I would be god-like. The fact is, we don't have that much time. My estimate is that we have only around 3 day's worth of time for each subject. If we go home at 5pm and sleep at 10pm, we would have 5 hours to study every day. And by allocating all the homework to the weekends, it would be something like 5X14= 70 hours, about 3 days every week. When I told my friends about my rough estimate, they were shocked. But I didn't bother explaining too much and just told them glhf (good luck have fun) if they are still planning to slack.

After school I had a talk with Mr Tiew about my econs grade and how to take the shortest route to getting my A. (Yes, I always want shortcuts). We discussed for quite some time and here is what I felt was the main points of the discussion:

1. Read the chapters in John Sloman that he has identified for me. I can start with the current chapters first and go back later when I have more time.
2. John Sloman provides good evaluation and analysis of economic theories (I find this very true after reading through)
3. If I want an A, John Sloman is a necessity, but not a guarantee.
4. Read up about recent happenings and apply my economics knowledge to explain the happenings. After all, questions are usually set from recent events.
5. Practice, practice and more practice. After every practice, make appointments with him and he will go through my essays with me personally.

After the discussion, I felt empowered and confident. Yes, I can do it! I'm going to make John Sloman my Bible starting from today and faithfully read it every night (when I have the time)!

After that, I went for the NDC structure building rehearsal. I was somewhat late, but I still managed to find the others at the spar shed and helped them transport the spars to NJC heights. Afterwards, we were briefed and we got to work. Benedict taught me the diagonal lashing and the timber hitch. He also told me that frapping is the most important and the hardest to carry out in diagonal lashing. And a lot of other things happened, but all I can say is that we got to the first level of the structure (it has two levels) when it rained and we had to untie the knots and lashings immediately. I was wearing my school uniform so you can imagine how jia lat it was...We didn't untie the whole structure in the rain of course, we undid some lashings and brought the structure to the linkway. After undoing the whole structure, it stopped raining and we were all like sian diao. But we kept the spars and the ropes anyway and called it a day...

I went home feeling so fatigue and tired that I didn't have the mood to do my EoM that was due tomorrow. But I read through the article any ways and did some annotations. Then my eyes gave way and I fell asleep.

Tuesday

I woke up at 5am beside the com. Blurrishly, I remembered what happened and in a panic, I started doing my EoM. I chiong until 6am and gave up. I only had 300+ words and those words don't make sense to me at all. Then i did something really stupid. I clicked the cross on the top right hand corner and selected 'no'. Then I remembered staring at the com for a few minutes, after which I began desperately searching for my document. Which obviously I couldn't find.

Went to school today telling all my friends about this incident. None of them believed me. I didn't believe myself either.

Project Work (PW) period. Got scolded in front of the class. Mr Lee mentioned that he won't take any reasons like I'm busy (Not targeting only me but to all those out there) or whatsoever. And he said that group leaders should be leading their groups and he doesn't know what 'some' of us are doing. Sigh, what an embarrassment. Some of my peers took me as role models and yet here I am, shamed in front of the class. Anyway, he gave all those who didnt do one final chance- tmr morning before 7.40. I thanked him for his leniency.

After school, OAC EXCO meeting. Discussed a lot of stuff. I didn't quite contribute much and I was quite guilty being so quiet. But really, if I have nothing to say, then the only thing I could do was to remain quiet. The meeting was rather efficient and all the others were really very good in contributing ideas and there wasn't much that I could oppose to or question. Anyway, we played 'oh-ya-bei-ya-som' and i was the odd one out, so I had the honour of writing out the proposal for the programmes part.

Got back home and pia-ed my EoM. Spent all my time at the com and time passes really fast. Finished at 1am. I read and re-read the EoM and was glad that it made sense. All the grammar was correct and there were no spelling mistakes and there was link too. Satisfied, I printed it out and kept in my bag just in case and went to sleep.

Wednesday

Handed in EoM way before 7.30am.

Had Physics SPA skill B today. Didnt even revise. I thought it couldnt be too bad. Turned out that I screwed up my table and redrew my table. In the end, I started the 'real' experiment 15 minutes after the practical started. In this 15 minutes, the two examiners were walking around and I think they looked at my set up for quite some time and was wondering why I havent started yet. Sianz... In the end, I just went on with the experiment. Seeing that there wasn't much time left, I cheated one reading and went ahead with the calculation and the graph. In the end, the reading which I cheated was anomalous. Imagine my horror...Then I sian diao and just wrote my comments on the experiment. Didn't even redo the anomalous point nor even cheat the point. I explained that since we were only given one wire, I cannot redo the point. What crap was that? Anyway no time also, so what can i do?

OAC after school. A storyline of Voldemort disrupting the lives of fairytale characters was introduced for OACians to learn about knots and lashings in a new and interesting way. Initially, I thought that Charmaine and Kai Ting were supposed to be the station masters at all of the stations since they didn't involve the EXCO. But in the end, they unexpectedly got four OACians (Mervyn, Benedict, Shu Ning and Claire) just before the activity and briefed them on what to do as station masters. But nevertheless, the whole thing went quite ok in my opinion. Then we had road run after the activity. All in all, the activities were well received by the OACians in general. After that, in the EXCO debrief, Jessie mentioned that its better for the EXCO to be station masters of future activities. The reasons were:

1. Members came down to enjoy the activities. If we get them to be station masters, we are actually being unfair to them (They are doing what we should be doing).
2. Inpromptu station masters might not do exactly what we had planned out initially and it would have wasted our efforts.

Hmm, her comments were certainly insightful and yep, I think its something we should all keep in mind in future activities. Again, the speaker was right and I didn't have anything to say. So as usual, I was quiet. And that's very bad, cuz I ought to speak out more.

When I got home, I was very tired as usual (Not really the usual, but just for this week.) Made a list of homework to do:

1. GP VA (Due on Fri)
2. Investiture Proposal (Due soon, probably tmr)
3. PW (analysis of surveys and construction of timeline)
4.Waves Tutorial (Going through tmr and I havent even read my notes)
5. Work Energy Power, Forces and Dynamics MCQ Worksheets

Being overloaded with things to do, i just heck care 3, 4 and 5. But even so, to prioritize between 1 and 2 is difficult. I sms-ed Jessie earlier on in the day about the deadline of the invest proposal. She said to do it asap. I guess she's just trying to make things less difficult for me so she didn't give me a deadline. In the end, I did some research for GP VA first and did a part of Invest proposal and nothing was completed. Kept on reading my articles until I couldn't take it and went to sleep.

Thursday

Woke up at 6am as usual. Then I realised that its a Thursday. Switched on the com and did some research until 7. 40. Got to the bus stop at 7.50. I thought I was going to make it on time cuz e bus usually takes 20-30 mins to reach school. Then it turned out that the first bus that came was super full and the driver didn't even bother stopping. So I boarded the second bus at 7.55. Still early, I thought, so I brought out my John Sloman and started reading. When I reached school, I saw Mr Tong and two rows of students. My watch read 8.32. I'm late. Sianz...

Physics and Chem lect was after PE. Late nights + early mornings + PE + LT5 + hypnotic voices =? Need I tell say more? Yes, I slept. Its the second time that I've slept so soundly through two lectures (first time being the day after the fateful night where I pia-ed the entire gpp for my group). When I woke up after one and a half hours (around 10 mins left before Chem lec ends), I realised that the lecturer had already finished the entire lecture notes! 20+ pages in ONE lecture?!? That was unheard of! I was amazed and a bit disappointed that I had missed out such a turning point in nj's lecture efficiency (from as fast as 3-7 pages a lecture to 20!). I guess that spells lots of hard work this weekend...

Had a Chem lecture test after school today. Although I didn't really study, I was able to crap something out for most of the questions. MCQ was zzz. Made the same mistakes as common test. After I have fixed my Econs, I'm seriously going to start doing my chem TYS and make sure I don't make stupid mistakes again.

Got home at around 5+ today and pia-ed my gp va. At around 11pm, Jessie called me asked me how was the proposal going. Well, I told her the truth- it was half complete and I was rushing through my gp va. She said she's planning to submit the proposal tonight and ask me to send her what I've done already. So I did. Imagine the relieve. Its like you suddenly had a 1000 ton burden lifted off your shoulders. I am immensely grateful but at the same time, guilty of letting her do my portion of work. Sigh... But I didn't have much time to think about guilt, I just tried to focus on my gp va.

Friday

Finished gp va at 4am in the morning! Hooray! Why did it take so long? For one, I had lots of trial and errors and after halfway, I decided that doing on the computer was impossible and did it on paper. Then I redid the mindmap on paper and I was very scared that I would write something wrong and I would have to liquid paper the errors. It was a really scary process. But as the mindmap develops, things started to get easier. In the end, I only used the liquid paper once for a very minor error. I was very satisfied with the final product and felt that as someone who didn't have any artistic talent, I did ok. Here is my final mind map:

Then I went to sleep and woke up at 6.40am. I thought I was going to be late just like yesterday but when I reached school, it was only 7.23am! Whew, what a relieve!

First period, econs! Free period. What a pity, I was chionging to school and because John Sloman was a big and heavy book, I didn't bring it to school. Second period. Mrs Teai didn't come cuz she had to accompany her harmonic band to dunno where. A relieve teacher took us instead. Maths lecture was easy to understand. Econs lecture was easy too, cuz I had been reading my bible and everything was just like a revision to me. Chem tutorial and maths tutorial was smooth flowing as well!

Wow! My day was so smooth that I was surprised! Got home early (ponned chess training), got complacent and started reading a new manga series by CLAMP called X/1999. Got addicted to it pretty soon but I forced myself to stop and go to sleep.

Woke up at 9pm. Ate my dinner and read X/1999 at the same time. I forced myself to stopped again at 11.30 and went to sleep.

Saturday

Life had turned into heaven and not hell. I was reading manga and playing games the whole afternoon and was lazing around, eating snacks and wow, it was hard to imagine how a slacker like me had actually endured such a terrible week! I was so lazy that I wasn't willing to even update my blog.

But then I remembered self-discipline suddenly and took out my bible and started reading. I read and I was enlightened by the teachings of various economists. Before long, I was so engrossed in reading the bible that I forgot all about the manga and the game. I read on and on until dinner.

After dinner, I had a talk with my parents about how they can help me in economics and I also told them interesting stories about my form teacher, Meena Kaur. After that was a night of great sleep.

Sunday

Ok, I haven't been doing much homework and I will finish most of them by today (hopefully)

Here's yet another homework list:

1. Econs Essay
2. WEP, Dynamics and Forces MCQ worksheet
3. Waves Tutorial
4. Nomenclature Tutorial
5. Aliphatic Hydrocarbons Tutorial
6. Read up on Superposition
7. Read up on Chemical Equilibrium
8. Finish Integration Tutorial 2
9. Finish Integration Tutorial 3

Wow, that was really quite a lot wasn't it? And to think I have spent half my day reflecting on the past week... It's 3.30 now. If I chiong now I think I could finish up to 5. That would be 5/9, a pass already...

Yep, so that's it for now. Gotta do my homework already, if not I'll fail all my subjects... And wow, if anyone actually managed to read up till here, that's really impressive!