To the hell with math and sciences!

My new-found love: Language subjects
The recent slight change in teachers ie Mr Seow -> Mr Benny Ng has really been a source of inspiration. I used to write on the teachers' day card: You are the actually the only truely enjoyable chinese language teacher I've met from primary school until now. Nowadays, if there really is a chance, I think I'll write: You're actually the only truely efficient teacher that seems to make Chinese work out for us. You rock, Mr Ng. Maybe it's because recently most of the things we do during science lessons are SPA and revision, I think this is the time whereby our language subjects seem to be of the importance.

Today, there was this impromptu Chinese workshop for 'neither here nor there' Chinese students to actually learn how to mark questions in Paper 2. It's totally effective but I think what it really did was make all of us avoid choosing teaching as a profession. Trust me, marking scripts are NOT fun at all. (Except for the '0's we had to give some unfortunate students) We had to like really read word after word to look out for wrongly-written words, and since my reading speed was like, 10words/min, it was totally slooowww and boring. However, the occasional jackpot you hit when you find a wrong word was quite satisfactory and it kept us going. And of course, Mr Ng's Milo drinks and Hello Panda was really sweet! 自掏腰包!!

Besides that, the 自由发挥 questions were also really enjoyable to mark, because then you can really start laughing at the questions. Jun wei's motto: When in doubt, give zero! Yes, his marking speed was incredible. When we were just done with the fifth script or something, he'd already finished 15scripts or so! This taught me to pass any scripts I was unsure of to Jun Wei, and it'll just come back with a nice, perfectly-round circle! :)

There was also these questions on giving the meaning of a phrase quoted from the passage. One of which was something about putting in lots of effort just to harm people with your own knowledge of something. Someone actually had the audacity to write "有知识的人用知识去玩他人" and it totally made me laugh for half a minute non-stop!

These days, I feel as though school life has slowed down a lot, and it totally doesn't feel like O levels. At all. Maybe because this week only has three schooling days... And it has been relatively calm and peaceful and the teachers seem to be slacking a little by giving us lesser homework.

I really feel tempted to join the Commenwealth Essay Writing Competition 2010. However, something inside me is shouting, "Don't be an idiot. Join and you'll embarrass yourself with a crappy piece of essay that I'll be forcefully adding redundant things just to lengthen it. Don't forget, 1400 words minimum!"

So, in the blink of an eye, weekend is here! I think I should seriously be avoiding dinners with my family. It's the ultimate way to gain weight man.

I feel like going out tomorrow, but my conscience is telling me to stay at home and do the elearning assignments dutifully. However, my past experience that the elearning portal will just crashhh seems to be an impetus for me to skip this whole stupid idea and have a fun-filled day out. I mean, Ironman 2 and Clash of the Titans are out in the cinemas tomorrow. What can be better than that? Sadly, it seems to me that most teens nowadays don't read marvel or dc comics. No one here seems interested in watching Ironman 2! Perhaps I should learn from Yating and watch a movie myself...

It seems that nobody is keeping an updated blog recently. So for all those who are trying to find an updated blog (like Fiona), I'm trying to keep my blog updated since I really wanted a diary of mine but that doesn't seem very practical and I don't think I'll bother updating it after sometimes.

Had a conversation with Sin Nee on the bus (as always). She's such a great person to talk to. Somehow talking to her just makes you want to tell her all your well-kept secrets and satisfy that burning desire to rant out everything that's within that lonely cortex(or is it cerebellum?) of yours.

I think I'm suffering from short-term memory loss. Haha. Nowadays while coming up with pragmatic ways to improving my language subjects, I just keep losing track of what I just came up with. That day when I went to the kelong with my father, I thought of some inspiring essay that I'll write because I was so touched by something the previous night. The next day however, I forgot what I wanted to write...

I am eccentric. Now and then, I get uncanny ideas for things to do. Yesterday I thought of meditating (for no good reason, actually), because I was just wondering how can anyone possibly think of nothing for a split second? Every single second we think of things, even before our sleep. Maybe that's why we get so stressed after sometime living in a 尘世. So, I decided to meditate while I was studying for A Math last night...

I lay on my sofa and closed my eyes. As I attempt, with my very every efforts to block off distractions from our bodily mind and establish spiritual connection with, ironic as it sounds, nothing, I realise that it was indeed working. I feel so relaxed, tension easing away from every inch of my muscles... I was asleep, mind you.

3 seconds after attempting to meditate I fell soundly asleep. My adventure in lalaland was so exhilarating... yet so peaceful, as I know that my body was starting to recover from the day's work... That was until I was rudely awakened by my mother's loud bellows of "GO AND SHOWER! 10pm at night already and you refuse to shower when you smell worse that a pig! GO GO GO!"

Oh well. That's it for today's post. Anyway, I still haven't got the results of today's interclass basketball match between fabulous 402 and another class, 310. Hope they did well! :)

Monday: Shall bring Ritz Cheese Crackers again to school. :))

To the hell with math and sciences!

My new-found love: Language subjects
The recent slight change in teachers ie Mr Seow -> Mr Benny Ng has really been a source of inspiration. I used to write on the teachers' day card: You are the actually the only truely enjoyable chinese language teacher I've met from primary school until now. Nowadays, if there really is a chance, I think I'll write: You're actually the only truely efficient teacher that seems to make Chinese work out for us. You rock, Mr Ng. Maybe it's because recently most of the things we do during science lessons are SPA and revision, I think this is the time whereby our language subjects seem to be of the importance.

Today, there was this impromptu Chinese workshop for 'neither here nor there' Chinese students to actually learn how to mark questions in Paper 2. It's totally effective but I think what it really did was make all of us avoid choosing teaching as a profession. Trust me, marking scripts are NOT fun at all. (Except for the '0's we had to give some unfortunate students) We had to like really read word after word to look out for wrongly-written words, and since my reading speed was like, 10words/min, it was totally slooowww and boring. However, the occasional jackpot you hit when you find a wrong word was quite satisfactory and it kept us going. And of course, Mr Ng's Milo drinks and Hello Panda was really sweet! 自掏腰包!!

Besides that, the 自由发挥 questions were also really enjoyable to mark, because then you can really start laughing at the questions. Jun wei's motto: When in doubt, give zero! Yes, his marking speed was incredible. When we were just done with the fifth script or something, he'd already finished 15scripts or so! This taught me to pass any scripts I was unsure of to Jun Wei, and it'll just come back with a nice, perfectly-round circle! :)

There was also these questions on giving the meaning of a phrase quoted from the passage. One of which was something about putting in lots of effort just to harm people with your own knowledge of something. Someone actually had the audacity to write "有知识的人用知识去玩他人" and it totally made me laugh for half a minute non-stop!

These days, I feel as though school life has slowed down a lot, and it totally doesn't feel like O levels. At all. Maybe because this week only has three schooling days... And it has been relatively calm and peaceful and the teachers seem to be slacking a little by giving us lesser homework.

I really feel tempted to join the Commenwealth Essay Writing Competition 2010. However, something inside me is shouting, "Don't be an idiot. Join and you'll embarrass yourself with a crappy piece of essay that I'll be forcefully adding redundant things just to lengthen it. Don't forget, 1400 words minimum!"

So, in the blink of an eye, weekend is here! I think I should seriously be avoiding dinners with my family. It's the ultimate way to gain weight man.

I feel like going out tomorrow, but my conscience is telling me to stay at home and do the elearning assignments dutifully. However, my past experience that the elearning portal will just crashhh seems to be an impetus for me to skip this whole stupid idea and have a fun-filled day out. I mean, Ironman 2 and Clash of the Titans are out in the cinemas tomorrow. What can be better than that? Sadly, it seems to me that most teens nowadays don't read marvel or dc comics. No one here seems interested in watching Ironman 2! Perhaps I should learn from Yating and watch a movie myself...

It seems that nobody is keeping an updated blog recently. So for all those who are trying to find an updated blog (like Fiona), I'm trying to keep my blog updated since I really wanted a diary of mine but that doesn't seem very practical and I don't think I'll bother updating it after sometimes.

Had a conversation with Sin Nee on the bus (as always). She's such a great person to talk to. Somehow talking to her just makes you want to tell her all your well-kept secrets and satisfy that burning desire to rant out everything that's within that lonely cortex(or is it cerebellum?) of yours.

I think I'm suffering from short-term memory loss. Haha. Nowadays while coming up with pragmatic ways to improving my language subjects, I just keep losing track of what I just came up with. That day when I went to the kelong with my father, I thought of some inspiring essay that I'll write because I was so touched by something the previous night. The next day however, I forgot what I wanted to write...

I am eccentric. Now and then, I get uncanny ideas for things to do. Yesterday I thought of meditating (for no good reason, actually), because I was just wondering how can anyone possibly think of nothing for a split second? Every single second we think of things, even before our sleep. Maybe that's why we get so stressed after sometime living in a 尘世. So, I decided to meditate while I was studying for A Math last night...

I lay on my sofa and closed my eyes. As I attempt, with my very every efforts to block off distractions from our bodily mind and establish spiritual connection with, ironic as it sounds, nothing, I realise that it was indeed working. I feel so relaxed, tension easing away from every inch of my muscles... I was asleep, mind you.

3 seconds after attempting to meditate I fell soundly asleep. My adventure in lalaland was so exhilarating... yet so peaceful, as I know that my body was starting to recover from the day's work... That was until I was rudely awakened by my mother's loud bellows of "GO AND SHOWER! 10pm at night already and you refuse to shower when you smell worse that a pig! GO GO GO!"

Oh well. That's it for today's post. Anyway, I still haven't got the results of today's interclass basketball match between fabulous 402 and another class, 310. Hope they did well! :)

Monday: Shall bring Ritz Cheese Crackers again to school. :))