Cold Breath

I woke up pretty late today. I only got out of bed at 11, though I woke up earlier on at 8. Honestly, I didn't do much. I tried to do my homework for an hour or so, but I got really frustrated with the new Additional Mathematics topic homework, which is on Integration to find the Area of a Graph. After wrestling with the questions for nearly 50 minutes, I decided to put it away and do my Geography, but I guess from the frustration of Add. Maths, I couldn't take it. My willpower really sucks. Anyway, after that I just surfed the internet for a bit, and then played Maple Story until 4:20, when I started to feel really bad headaches and went to sleep. Woke up at 5 and went to school because of PLC dinner.

Apparently the damn thing starts only at 7:30, so I have no idea why they asked us to assemble at 5. Just kind of lazed around with Jerald and later on Thomas, watching people play soccer and almost getting hit like 4 times. And I don't mean the ball missed me, I mean I had to dodge out of the bloody way of a high speed ball.

Anyways, was walking home from Commonwealth MRT. I thought I could get to the next bus stop before the 105 bus came because I had no bag, and the 105 bus was coming only in 8 minutes as listed by the bus time board at the MRT station - if I got to the next bus stop, I could take almost 7 different buses straight home. Of course, karma decided to kick my balls and it started to rain VERY heavily half way through my walk. I had to run about 5 minutes in heavy rain, it was pretty fucked up in my opinion.

Ah, great DotA games today. Best one was the one where I played Techies, we were (or at least, I was) tearing up the game at first, but we had no hard carries. That was our biggest mistake, I suppose, we didn't end it early. Later on, Phantom Assassin and Sven on the other team got really fat, and the rest of them were also above average. Thanks to a lot of GREAT teamwork and effort put in by everyone, we finally managed to turn the tables in the end (they were at the point where PA could destroy our team in 2 hits if he critical'd, and Sven had 2 battlefuries - when combined with his stun, it was horrible). Honestly I thought we'd lose for awhile, but I figured we still had a chance if we fought well enough - and we did. So yippee.

Yeah.. blargh.

-Haruhiist

Holidays? Is that what they call it?

Term 2 and Semester 1 has ended, and it's time for the supposed Mid Year holidays. Well, for the IP and the rest of the school, it's pretty much a holiday - a time to slack and have fun. For Year 4 Express, it's time to hardcore and finally pull out those books and do them. We have focus camp for the first week of the holidays, where we go to school from 8 to 5 every day and do hard core studying, and for the following 3 weeks we have to continue to study because of the prelims on the second week of Term 3 - where everything from Year 3 to Year 4 is tested and is a monstrously large bulk of information to cramp into our heads.

I'll be studying too, of course, probably not as much as I keep thinking I should be - but I'm aiming to get an L1R5 of at most 18 for the prelims, which is of course a drop of 3 from the much easier Mid Year examinations which only covered Year 4 topics with the exception of Geography Core that also covered Year 3 topics.

Otherwise, I'll still be doing the usual everyday gaming, going out for Dissidia meets and whatnot. Hopefully I have the perseverance to properly pull through for once.

-Haruhiist

MYE2010: Revisited, and other resolutions and events

English: A2, 73%
Chinese: C6, 54%

E Math: C5, 57%
A Math: B4, 62%

Chemistry: C5, 56%
Biology: A1, 79%

Geography Core: B4, 60%
Social Studies: C5, 57%
History Elective: ??, 50%-60%

Best L1R5: 21
Average Score: 62.2%

I've seen my History grades but not the paper, so I can't remember. But I know it's in the Cs. My L1R5 was 32 last term, dropping by 11 is quite good I have to say, even though it's just thanks to a few subjects like Biology losing 4 points and English losing 1 point. Of course, I'll continue to study during the holidays, my aim for the prelims is below 15 for my L1R5. Don't really care about the average, but with an aim of 15, it has to be at least 65%.

Not that much has happened since my last post. I tried to organize a study group with my classmates (Dornel, Darren, Joel, Pavill, Edward). Darren, at first, completely misunderstood what I was trying to say although I did say it quite clearly. It went something like,

"Darren, do you want to do a study group every Friday?"
"What? I'm not free on Fridays. I have tuition."
"What time?"
"11 onwards"
"...But we're holding it in the early morning."
"But I can't. It's quite far."
"So we'll do it from 8-9:30 and you can leave after that."
"But I have tuition."
"..."

After that, I just didn't bother. Dornel also asked me whether I wanted to do a study group when I was going to ask him. Pavill is busy for every friday until the last one. Edward thinks we're jokes, and Joel is just kind of anti-social, doesn't want to meet up for a small 1 hour session at the school library. So I guess that means it's just pointless to try organizing something useful for my friends and myself in terms of studying, since everyone is an idiot.

Finished So.Ra.No.Wo.To the other day, a really nice anime, but it only starts getting story-related after the halfway mark. That's when it starts to get nice, the atmosphere of the anime turns from this light-hearted everyday lulz to a more deeper, darker, serious story involving elements of war like death and loss. Admittedly the ending was kind of abrupt, and the scenes for the ending war scene could have been done better, but overall it was fun to watch and I liked it.

Guess there isn't much to say left. I remember there was something else, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe later.

-Haruhiist

Mid Year Exams 2010

These are the results I've gotten so far:

English - A2 - 73.3

E Math - C5 - 57.67

Geography Core - B4 - 60

History Elective - D7 - Really bad, but can't remember

Social Studies - C5 to B3 - I saw it today but I didn't look closely. Can't remember.

Combined Humans - C6 - 51

Chemistry - C5 - 56

So basically I only have my Additional Mathematics and Biology papers left to wait for. I figure I'll get both by monday.

As it stands now, my L1R2 is already 11. The lowest I can get now is definitely 22+, which was my aim for this term anyway. Of all the exams, the only ones I can say I worked hard for are Geography and Chemistry, and I'm rather proud of passing both. Yeah, I know, it sounds really bad but about half my class failed Geography while only 11/28 passed Chemistry in my class, making me top 10 for Chemistry. I realize ranking myself amongst my class is useless, but some encouragement is nice.

I'm not quite sure what went so awfully wrong with Social Studies. Upon finishing, I thought I'd get a B3 at least but it seems I wrote off point or something. I'm waiting for the paper to be returned, probably during the next SS lessons. I was pretty sure I screwed up big parts of History though, taking a source to be something entirely different, but still not acceptable since Dornel made the same mistake as me and got much higher than me (after you change it to %). I am thinking that I should give special attention to these during the holidays, but there isn't a very easy way to train these two. Kind of annoying in that sense.

As for E Math, well, as usual I fucked up all the easy shit. I'm not that worried though, looking at the 2009 'O' Level paper, the standard for 'O's is almost Secondary One level.

A Math was a killer, everyone in my class agrees. Yes, all those failures at A Math were kicked out so these are actually the smart people. It was really devastating, most obviously with Darren. I had trouble and skipped a lot of questions, and at the 30-minute-left mark I had touched the end of the paper and hadn't done enough questions to even pass. But I managed to pull through, and answered about 38/60 marks worth of questions. Worst thing is, I could've gotten one more question but I just ran out of time as I was writing the last two statements. Biology was okay, I skipped an entire section C question (10/80 marks) so I might be a little fucked there, and probably no A. I'm assuming I'll pass though.

I'll be studying during the holidays for sure. I need to learn all the Secondary 3 A Math stuff as well as revise a lot of things. Kind of troublesome, I hope I can do it.

-Haruhiist

Foresight

I entered the exam period thinking I would work my hardest just so I could get good grades and have a bit of fun during the holidays but the only exam I've really worked hard for is Chemistry - which surprisingly has been the worst turn-out for all my exams so far. Of course, I'm not going to take this as 'not studying reaps better results' but it's just kind of frustrating that although I studied really hard for my Chemistry, I still ended up doing badly for it. It's not confirmed yet, but I have that really bad premonition, especially after comparing a few of my answers to my friends. All my other subjects have been okay, I might even get As for my Social Studies and English. Otherwise, it's all been normal and regular. I'm still heavily anticipating my results, I kind of have both a good and bad feeling for my English because during English today, Lisa Lai was talking to us and she was looking at me and smiling and was talking about someone who gave her a surprised and increased by a considerable few marks, but also one other person surprised her as well by going down a few marks.

Hopefully that wasn't me, for the latter part anyways.

After tomorrow, there is only Biology and Additional Mathematics. I'm going to study my ass off for Biology because Terence already mentioned dropping Biology once last term, and I have to get at least Bs. As for Additional Mathematics, I'm mostly worried about the later topics as well as proving which I have gotten rusty on, which kind of sucks because I went from horribad last year to really good at the start of this year in proving identities.

In other news, Darren has been really pissing me off lately. He really doesn't know when to stop doing certain things, like I have told him several times to not offer his food to me, especially with a stupid whimpering as he does it, and that if I want it I'll just ask it from him. But he keeps fucking doing it, at first I was okay with it but now it's just outright annoying. He also doesn't think before he speaks and says the absolute stupidest things, and I'm entirely serious when I say me and Dornel can be talking about one topic, and Darren will go 'HUH? WHAT DO YOU MEAN? DIDN'T YOU MEAN..' and relate it to a whole 'nother fucking topic. And I get incredibly pissed off because he makes no sense. Today he seemed pissed off with me though, which is fine in my opinion since that's a nice refreshing change from the whimpering pathetic form he usually is in. Though if his reason for being pissed off at me is because I didn't want to lend him my PSP or ask Dornel to lend him his PSP, then he's a dumbass either way.

As for the anime side of life, I'm waiting for May 26th when the Angel Beats OP and ED will arrive. I really like those songs, if only KEY didn't like to release their singles so late after the start of all their animes. Or is it the artiste's fault? Well, can't beat Bakemonogatari's single release 7-8 months after the anime stopped.

If there's anything else I'm looking forward to that isn't related to anime, it's the Dissidia meet-up on Saturday and the inhouse DotA match I have on Friday. Those will pretty much be my breaks for the Biology studying, and both sound like an awful lot of fun.

-Haruhiist

My Class

Well, today I'll be studying from about 12 noon to 5~6PM, play one game, then go for tuition from 7:00 to 9:00 and then resume last minute revision and relax for a bit, so I have about 24 minutes left before my study period starts, and I shall use this time to do an obligatory blog post. :)

So, anyway. The topic for this post is about my class.

My class is separated in to several groups. The first is the ruggers - the hardcore muscle people, and wannabes. The second is the more laid-back sports people. The third is the really weird and kind of quirky group, and finally the rich fags.

Let's look at the ruggers group first. This includes people like Vanzino, Ethan, Winson, Alex, etc. Actually, upon first inspection you'd think their a bunch of stuck-up jerks, which I have to admit they are sometimes. But out of the 4 I mentioned, the only one who I think really deserves the title of a stuck-up jerk is Ethan. If he's acting nice to you and you're not a rugger or sports person, he just wants something from you. Otherwise he'll be an asshat, his apologies mean nothing. Well, I guess Ethan fits under the wannabe muscled people, as well as Keshav. Those two are the only ones I'd give the title of jerk to. Keshav just doesn't know what he shouldn't say, and when he should just shut up and stay away. I'm never lending my stapler to him again.

The casual laid-back sports group is like, Benson, Chriss, Surendran, Daniel, Lester. These guys are just generally okay, nothing much to be said about them. They don't do anything noticeably wrong, they just kind of go with the groove and know when to stop following the stupidity of the ruggers.

Eh, the weird and quirky group obviously consists of me, Darren, Dornel, Edward, Joel, Joshua, Pavill, Andrew, people like that. There are some of us who are more famous amongst the class, Joel for being the strict and merciless Class Chairman last year, Edward for singing a song on FaceBook or something, Andrew for being a total dumbass, Dornel for being a Eurasian. We mostly stick together in school and stay away from the other people, except for Dornel who has no choice because the sucker is in a corner dominated by sports people. And Joshua, who chooses to go there. I don't think we really affect anyone though, Winfred told me that no one really cares about people like me in the class (so I guess that includes Darren to a certain extent too, but he's more approachable to the ruggers I think) because I don't interact with anyone but my own friends, so no one dislikes me but no one really likes me either. Oh, but I think some of the sports people find me hard to approach or something. The other day, they were discussing about something and they were like "Go ask Sheep lah, I'm sure he knows the answer" and then it was like "No, no, don't want to ask him." Either they think I'm a dumbass, or they think I'm not approachable. ):

The last one is the rich fags. Marcus, Shaun Seah, Winfred. It's like, what is there to say? Winfred is okay, he's sort of mature but he's sort of bloody stupid at the same time, too arrogant for his own good. Marcus is a total immature whiner bitch, but he's got a decent heart where his friends are concerned, not so much for people he doesn't know - and this is where his comments will piss me off, he doesn't think about the people he's commenting on. Shaun Seah is a total pathetic loser, he tries to fit in to like every circle. He's a wannabe cool rugger or some shit, he badly tries to imitate the ruggers sarcastic responses and all that (e.g. "HAHA! OK! OK!") and does it so badly it makes me laugh. I think he needs to buck up and be himself - and if that's really his true personality then I feel sorry if he ever gets a wife. The world is fucked up where he is concerned.

Not much to say, but I think this is how it goes.

Hardcore Muscle and the Wannabes: Louis, Ethan, Keshav, Winson, Vanzino, Marc

Casual Sports People: Ryan, Jing Long, Aaron, Shaun Ou, Lester, Surendran, Daniel, Chriss, Benson, Lester

Quirky, Weird: Nicholas, Darren, Andrew, Edward, Pavill, Joel, Timothy, Dornel, Joshua

Rich Fags: Marcus, Shaun Seah, Winfred

If I had to put hybrids, Shaun Seah can go into the Wannabes (a very pathetic one) and Keshav can go into the rich fags group. Benson and Chriss can be considered Weird and Quirky, but they hang out with the Casual Sports people more.

If this ever gets found out, I don't think I'm coming back from school in one piece.

-Haruhiist