GF'10, Holidays so far

I haven't actually studied yet.
The first week I decided I'd refrain from studying thanks to the Holiday Camp.
Well, I did study on Monday and a bit on Tuesday, but Wednesday and Thursday was GayFest'10 and on Friday, I had to go out until like 6 and I was pretty tired by the time I came back - I fell asleep really fast after coming home.

Anyway, GF'10 was fun. Playing tennis and all that shit was fun, going out with friends to eat was fun, it was a rather refreshing change from sitting there and playing MW2 (which I chose to sit out on by watching Durarara! after playing a few matches) or DotA or whatever. The next day I left kind of early compared to Dornel and Merrill, at 4:30pm.

I'm planning on buying a SOS-dan jacket. It'd be easier to wear in public and still shows the same thing of my person in general. Anyway, need to go to Popular and get an assessment book or five, also need to do A Math and Social Studies homeworks.

Good luck guys, have fun in your holidays. I doubt I'll make a post for the remainder of this holiday, unless something interesting happens.

Oh yeah, I had a dream about L4D where Singapore was being infected and on the way home from fetching me from a outing midway (because of the infection), my mom was infected. And I had to shoot her, the dream ends there. But that was outright traumatic, I woke up really messed up and disturbed. Maybe because the dream ended a few seconds after shooting my mom in the head, and then my gun (don't ask where I got that shit from) gets jammed and the taxi driver goes WTF.

-Haruhiist

End of F.O.C.U.S Camp, Start of Holi-study-days!

Forcing
Our
Children
Undergo
Studying

CAMP!
Engrish!

Focus Camp is finally over, today was the last of it. With my return trip home, I bring a large pile of books - enough to cause me to fall backwards while carrying my bag. And that's only half of my books, I carry the other half with my hands. Going to have study quite a bit this holiday for the prelim examinations, I heard from Darren that people who get over 20 for their L1R5 will have it tough from The Big O.

Anyway, other things to look forward to this holiday?
- SOME RELATIVELY WELL-DESERVED R&R!
- FINISHING OFF FINAL FANTASY XIII
- BUYING NEW ASSESSMENT BOOKS FOR PRACTICE
- FINALLY BEING ABLE TO WAKE UP REALLY EARLY TO PLAY DISSIDIA

I'm looking forward to not having to go to school for awhile. Heh heh.

I thought I had a lot of things to say but I guess I'm wrong.

-Haruhiist

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