Studying is not easy.

Okay, it's Halloween, haven't posted in like, ages, and exams haven't ended yet.

It wasn't a hiatus, really. It was more of a "I feel like I'm dying and like my life is ebbing away and it's become so meaningless I have nothing to post about" thing.

Since our English paper is tomorrow (which consists of an hour's worth of essay writing), I'll launch into a full-scale practice essay for tomorrow.

I have one hour.

So let's start crapping.

As many concerned parents have made a point to constantly remind their children, whatever amount of effort they put into their education will be reflected in their future. In order for one to thrive in the fast-paced, dog-eat-dog society of today, one must prove one's worth beforehand. And one way to do so is to attain outstanding examination results. Consequently, the students of today are told to study, and when they do, to study harder. However, studying is not as easy a task as parents make it out to be.

Studying is defined by parents as simply sitting down, cracking open a textbook and reading, or practicing ironically countless calculations, in order to achieve As for examinations. It is, on the other hand, defined by students as a form of torture, where they are forced to suppress their desires to do more entertaining things and instead subject themselves to hours of being in a single place, struggling to remember and understand names, figures, and concepts. There are many reasons why students absolutely abhor studying, but only a few main reasons will be addressed in this essay.

Firstly, students rarely find what they are tested on easy. Even in the presence of sheer motivation, the most disciplined of students waver when they realise that they are unable to comprehend a single thing, or are getting all the answers for practice questions wrong. The process of studying then becomes more tedious as a result, what with consultations, additional research, and head-scratching. The subject they are supposed to be studying becomes horribly unappealing, and studying is reduced to a chore rather avoided. This causes students to become frustrated and lack the motivation and the self-confidence to reattempt certain questions or readdress the topic at hand.

Secondly, to a student with upcoming examinations, everything else suddenly seems intriguing and requiring attention. For example, a student might be sitting at his desk memorising the names of various granitic formations for his upcoming Geography examination, when the tapping of his pencil on the table becomes interestingly rhythmic, when the book becomes a comfortable resting place for his head, when his stomach becomes empty again, when the world outside seems like a much brighter place than indoors, and so forth. Distractions appear from out of thin air, which will inevitably lead to procrastination if not contained in time by discipline and the urge to pass said examination. It is unfair for parents to blame their children for such "time-wasting", as it is natural for their minds to automatically seek entertainment when bored. The human brain is constantly active, and its two responses to being bored are to either fall asleep, or to find alternative things to do. Additionally, things are made worse when a student feels guilty for not studying, so they wind up torn between studying and not studying. Perhaps if studying were made more entertaining, students would find it a more attractive activity to adopt.

The third reason why studying is not easy is the cause of studying itself: examinations. Exam papers are constantly shrouded in mystery until taken, rendering students unsure of themselves before entering the examination venue; insecure and agitated. Another reflex of the human mind is to simply avoid whatever an individual fears, loathes, or whatever makes the individual uneasy. In response to such a reflex, students shun studying, knowing it leads to exams, and knowing that they will never put in enough effort to achieve desired results in the end. A scenario to illustrate this point may go like this: A student invests much time and effort in a paper, but when results are released, he discovers with much disappointment that he is still unable to improve his score. His confidence wavers and his willingness to work harder dissipates into thin air. To sum it all up, the word "studying" becomes synonymous to the word "unhappy".

Although it is evident from this essay that studying is not the most elementary of tasks, it remains a necessity that helps students survive their future out of school, and also to live up to the expectations of their parents. It is crucial not to forget the importance of a positive school report. Only with good qualifications out of school, then can one find oneself in a favourable position to further one's education and hence climb higher up in society. If a student values momentary comfort and happiness by not making the effort to study over the long-term feeling of accomplishment when he or she looks back at a well-deserved high-paying income, for example, then he or she will certainly live to regret the decision. With this said, it can be concluded that sadly, studying, as difficult as it may be, still has to be done.

Okay, my hour is up.

And yeah, I really don't like studying, but we've got no choice and what's got to be done has to be done.

So bring it on, world. Bring it on.

Okay, better go now. It's bad enough I don't post for days without me coming up with a ridiculously long-winded post.

Adieu.

P.S. Mystery solved: Kurt Schneider can sing. Made my day.

Detrimental.

Just done watching The Amazing Race 17 episode 5.

Happy 'cause TeamJumba's still in it. You know how he has to compromise the race by choosing less physically challenging roadblocks just so his dad can keep up? I think that's really nice of him.

And I'm kinda glad 'cause the volleyball team got eliminated. They're not exactly the nicest team (in fact, I don't really like 'em 'cause they badmouth other teams all the time).

It's k-k-karma, baby.

Last day of proper lessons ended today.

Nothing spectacular. Had two hours of Chem, an hour of Math and an hour of Malay. Just revision, revision and more revision.

Exams are coming. Oh yeah exams are definitely coming.

And it's scary. Oh so scary.

Like we were saying earlier in the canteen while celebrating Faiz's birthday, "What exams? After all, they only determine the rest of your life. Nothing important, no, not at all."

It's funny how we're able to talk about throwing away our future so casually.

Ugh, pivotal life moments.

Reading days start tomorrow till the day after. Starting 'em off with Geog consultation (why oh why did I sign up for that?) followed by two hours of Physics.

Sounds fun.

Going off now. Have to start striving for that future we talk about but have slim chances of making a reality.

Hm.

P.S. Paul the psychic octopus died today. People say it was too bad he didn't see it coming, but I don't think it's a good thing to be able to predict your own death.

Obscurity.

Loving the weather right now.

Living with no air-conditioning totally makes us more sensitive to weather changes. When you've got air-conditioning, it doesn't really matter what the weather outside is like. If it's hot, no problem. If it's humid, no difference.

But take a look at us air conditioner deprived people.

We definitely appreciate cool, non-humid weather much more.

Thankfully the haze has cleared up, too.

PE today was weird. Last PE session of the year, so we got to play poisonball and monkey and captain's ball. Dr Sun is sexist (for the billionth time, not 'sexy', like Yos keeps accusing me of saying).

He kinda likes to split the class into guys and girls, and encourage ball throwing at girls. That's so unfair.

English was weird too. Did that paragraph development thing. English worries me right now. I don't think I can make it.

Level briefing-ed during mentoring. This year's OBS got cancelled (I'm kinda indifferent, 'cause I wasn't going to join anyway). It's funny how Ms Fong blatantly takes advantage of these things to talk about our impending Bio paper.

Math kinda scares me too, and Geog is just a bunch of stuff to read up on about rocks.

I honestly can't look at anything with the words "limestone" or "granite" without thinking of tower karsts, sinkholes, castle koppies and bornhardts. It's like it's taken control of my brain.

Mr Chia was talking about the CAST diagram a few days ago, and the bunch of us went, "karst?"

Yeah, it is that sad.

All right, better be going now. Last day of proper classes of the year tomorrow.

Night.

P.S. Man, had so much fun teasing Stanley about yesterday's race this morning. Joshua and I were all like, "So, Stanley, who crashed out yesterday? I wonder who. Oh, and who won? Hmm. I wonder who." We're so mean.

P.P.S. Farewell assembly was kinda nice. I think I would've liked it more if I hadn't been desperately needing the bathroom through it all.

Yeongam 2010

School tomorrow. Again.

Exams coming soon. Again.

Listening to songs from KurtHugoSchneider's channel. Again.

Ferrari won an F1 race. Again.

The internet connection is horrible. Don't like it at all.

Don't school authorities know that connection to the internet is probably what keeps us alive? We'd be a lot happier if it was fast.

Anyway, highlight of my day was the first Korean Grand Prix at Yeongam. Took all afternoon, 'cause the race got delayed by the rain, and lap times were a lot slower and there were plenty of safety car entries and accidents.

Alonso first and Massa third, wedging Hamilton in between. Yeah, I admit we kinda got lucky there, but you know, if your car catches fire (Vettel), or if you crash out (Webber) and take someone (Rosberg) with you, or just end up in a really horrible position and can't make it back up (Button), you could always blame it on the driver or the team (which is kinda mean, so I'mma say they were all unlucky).

So yeah, that's how both Red Bulls didn't finish, and how poor Rosberg had his race ended by Webber (Mercedes was doing pretty well, 'cause Schumi got fourth, his best finish of the season so far).

Driver's championship is totally wide open now, with Alonso leading (yay).

Two more races to go.

I wish I could watch races live on television.

Okay, better go off now. Don't want to die during school tomorrow.

Adieu.

P.S. "Your eyes, your eyes, make the stars seem like they're not shining." "Yeah, they really aren't shining, 'cause of the haze."

Year End Boarding Dinner 2010.

Feet ache, but man, we only get to do this only once a year, so totally worth it.

Year End Boarding Dinner 2010 just ended. It was surprisingly shorter than last year's, though. It's like last year, there was plenty more in the programme, and this year it was just performance, eat, some random game, eat, more performances, awards, more performances, disco.

It's almost as if they were rushing to get to the disco bit.

Yeah, plenty of fun.

When you're losing your voice and going deaf at the same time, you can't really tell how bad either is, 'cause you can't hear how bad your voice is, and you don't know whether you can blame that on bad hearing.

Kinda hungry now, actually. Hm.

Okay, the high-ness is wearing off.

Tired.

Night.

P.S. And yeah, totally wore a dress through it all and totally survived. (Quick, congratulate me.)

P.P.S. Wish we could've had the dinner after exams, but what to do.

∆U = Q + W

I didn't think it was possible, but I'm afraid I might have run dry of bullsh*t juice.

Just finished with Geog module journal 2, and I'm totally done with the sixteen journal entries we have to do for English.

And because I seem to not be able to count, I accidentally did an extra article, which makes seventeen in total.

I am such an idiot.

Could've saved me half an hour of my life, but no, I can't count.

So this is why we learn how to count in kindergarden. To prevent you from accidentally doing too much work.

I feel so cheated.

Did our graded class task on our Math journal today during Math (man, I seem to be able to talk about nothing but journals in this post). Was all right, I guess. But as all journals go, bullsh*tted a lot there, too.

Mr Chia asked us what a model was, and he overheard me saying something about people dressing up in clothes to display them and walking down runways. I swear, teachers give me the weirdest looks.

Speaking of runways, I totally miss Project Runway.

Need to catch up with it soon.

Geog was all "do your Karst tutorial" but we kinda used the time to talk about other things instead. Whoops.

Went through two questions on thermody during Physics. ∆U = Q + W -ed our way through. I don't know why Yos gets so agitated when we ask him how to do Physics questions. We're like, "Hey, I don't understand this-" and he's all like, "Howcouldyounotknowit'scommonsensejustsubinthevalues..." and so on.

English, English. Let's not talk about English. Almost failed SA Essay 3. Tsk. Deterioration much. It's horrible and I feel awful about it. It's not cool to suck at something you were once actually good at. Not cool, man.

Time to bring myself to bring on the big words.

Last Bio quiz of the year was okay, and extra Malay was all about us completely failing at cloze passages and imbuhan-ing and recalling peribahasa.

Okay, better go off now.

Need to do something other than typing and writing.

Adieu.

P.S. How on earth does one "walk like a girl"?

20/10/2010

Listening to the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack right now, wishing I could go on another holiday.

But I won't dwell on what can't be done (actually I can, but going off overseas a week before exams is probably just going to get me into a whole lot of trouble), and instead focus on what has to be done.

Exams exams exams they scare me, they do, these exams.

They say that the more times you go through something the easier it gets, but I find that particular saying really stupid.

It's not true for everything, you know.

Take breaking a bone, for example. Breaking your leg the second time probably won't hurt any less than the first time.

Or making a huge mistake in life. Making the same mistake again certainly won't be any less detrimental.

And exams. Oh exams. It's like the more you take the harder they get. It's ridiculous.

You can't deny that now, can you?

Feeling super tired right now. Should sleep early tonight.

Had a load of nothingness at school today. Two hours of talking over some Physics past year paper, half hour of break, an hour of non-existent Malay, an hour of "do-your-own-work" ACE, another half hour of break, then our final two hours of Bio for the sem.

Feel kinda sad. I like Ms Fong. She's an awesome teacher.

Okay, can't seem to be able to keep my eyes open.

Night.

P.S. It's been ages since I've made the date the post title, but this was too good to miss.

On a steeck.

Hey world. What's up?

I don't think I'm working as hard as I'd like to.

So why am I not?

Heck, I wish I knew.

Anyway, I think it's about time I upped my game (yeah, it's like I keep saying this but nothin' ever happens).

So, today. Had two hours of Chem. Basically checked our CA scores and went through Quiz 6 (quote: "Tsk, Glenn, Kian Wee, how could you only get 15/15? Shame on you.") and Revision Worksheet 2.

I need to revisit our good friend Organic Chem (remember my plan to name my kids after organic compounds?), 'cause I've totally forgotten almost everything. Sad, huh?

Completely mistook a 3 for a 2 during Math, so ended up squaring instead of cubing. Bad idea. I sure hope there's such a thing as ECF for Math. I mean, like, I totally got everything except from the co-ordinates of the stationary point we were supposed to find which was the whole purpose of the question oh how could I have made this horrible mistake.

Had only an hour of Malay today 'cause cikgu had to leave early.

Stupidly ambiguous kefahaman MCQ answers. I'll probably have to go to my grave not knowing what the correct (not according to maybe-flawed answer scheme) answers are.

Oh well. Some things we're just not destined to find out.

Okay, I'mma be goin' off now.

Adieu.

P.S. Apparently 15/15 isn't considered "full marks" anymore. That's a 17/15, man.

Good news.

MJ just sent me a link to a few pictures of a few Generation V Pokémon, and I'm sorry to say that they definitely are getting worse every generation.

The original 151 was the best, and nobody can deny that.

It's ridiculous. We don't need new Pokémon. Just offer us improved gameplay, or anything, just please stop making up new Pokémon (have you seen the things they've come up with? Gear pokémon. Like dude, come on, gear? Don't you people have standards?).

There definitely has to be a limit to these things.

Tsk, major disapproval.

Nothing monumental happened today.

Felt seriously sleepy all day. Maybe I should start sleeping earlier.

Farewell assembly was in the audi (first boarding assembly in audi ever, so I guess it was sort of monumental).

Talked about how the year has passed, and KT gave this short presentation about Deepavali.

Yeah, the Year 5s get to leave this place after the year is over, but we (us foreign people from our batch) still have three years and a bit to go.

I bet it'll go by really fast, but you know. Everyone has to go through it.

Going off now.

Night.

P.S. Finally verified it, and yeah, I really was born on Deepavali. That's pretty cool.

Spam war.

Was browsing through my post archives and found out that I started reading 'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I' three months ago.

And I haven't touched it since, like, forever.

Man, that's a sad realisation.

Woke up relatively early today. Wanted to sleep in 'cause it was raining, but couldn't get myself back to sleep again, so it was a no go. I love rainy mornings. Makes me feel happy. (Compared to this morning, the weather's been really humid lately. Stupid haze. Stupid Sumatran fires.)

Spam warred with Woan Chyi and Fatinn after asking them to go out with me to get a dress for next week's dinner.

I love animated emoticons. They're probably only useful when you want someone's MSN to lag like hell.

So yeah, went out this afternoon to finally get a dress (the guys have been bugging me about it for the past week, just 'cause they want a good laugh).

Spent two whole hours, almost drove Woan Chyi and Fatinn crazy, but in the end they managed to sort of force me to get a dress.

Oh God, I look so horribly girly in it. Like, girly, girly.

I'm going to brainwash myself so that I won't die of embarrassment next week. So here goes: I am a girl. It's okay for a girl to be girly. And therefore being girly is good. Oh yes.

Pfft yeah, like that's going to work.

Queued for KOI on the way back. Bad idea. Never again will I queue half an hour for bubble tea. No way. Not at all worth it.

All right, better go off now.

Arrivederci.

P.S. Man, another weekend's over. That was fast.

Dream On.

Listening to Aerosmith's 'Dream On' right now, both the original and the cover on Glee by Matthew Morrison (I love this guy's voice) and Neil Patrick Harris.

Man, I love the lyrics to this song.

It's like, you never know what's going to happen to you, so better live life to the fullest, huh?

Makes sense.

Turned Lord/Lady in MouseHunt this morning, Man, I am slow.

Chem quizzed during Chem. Hopefully I'll pass this one, yeah?

Spent non-existent Malay listening to Kevin talk about this lady randomly yelling profanities at him in some restaurant about God-knows-what. We should go out looking for her one day.

And yeah, my wish for "cheese fries day" totally came true today. Now I think I'm going to officially call it 'Cheese FriesDay'. Mmm, cheese fries.

Two-hour break with nothing to do gives you one of the most horrible feelings ever. It's like, you no longer have a purpose in life. How sad is that?

I think I need to find a purpose in life. It seems as if all I'm doing now is trying to survive my remaining years here in this school. I have no idea what's going to happen after that. Absolutely no idea at all.

Joshua totally saved our debate during English with his total kickass points (thanks, man).

Went out for dinner with the guys after school. Botak Jones good (not to mention terribly filling).

Listened to KT and Wee Thean plan out some weird "chaos-unleashing" scheme they plan to carry out in a few days. Curious, but I can wait.

All right, I'mma go off now.

Yeah, turning in early Friday night. Plan on being productive sometime soon.

Night.

P.S. If I was a guy, I'd aspire to become like a certain Mr Barney Stinson.

"Though that road may wander."

I've just realised that it's kinda uncool to have Disney songs stuck in your head all day at school (not that 'Hot Potato' was cooler, but you get my drift).

Listening to Michael Bublé now to get some of that suaveness back into my life.

Charm, that's what the world needs more of.

Two hours of Physics was spent doing a Physics ass (God knows what number) Mr Yeo gave out this morning.

Apart from delve into the greater joys of calculating pressure at various points for various reasons, I spent my two hours bugging Stanley for answers, listening to people tell lame jokes about Joo Kee and other random things.

It's not fair 'cause Mr Yeo wouldn't let us go early even though we finished the ass.

Cheese fries day good.

Karangan-ed during Malay. Honestly, I think my standard of Malay has dropped to an all time low. It's horrible. I can't write in Malay. I definitely need a larger vocabulary.

ACE was something about coping about exam stress. Pfft, exam stress.

Got kinda grossed out during Bio, 'cause Ms Fong kept bringing up the subject of faeces. I mean, yeah, that's very nice and all, what with all the great processes concerning the excretory system, but I just really don't like talking about sh*t, thank you very much.

Better get going now. Time for productivity.

Adieu.

Mamela.

Like all people my age or older who listen to songs from old Disney movies, we often find ourselves wondering, "What on earth has happened to Disney?"

Whatever happened to all that Disney magic? Whatever happened to the sheer beauty of the stories, the music, the animation?

I think I know the reason why we dislike Disney "teen sensations" so much now. Growing up, we've held onto and grown with the material Disney has presented to us. Stuff that was good, pure, entertaining, sweet, meaningful, catchy, funny at times, has been replaced by meaningless "eye candy", too much pop in their soundtracks, scandals and gossip.

Whatever happened to the innocence, man?

I liked it better when we could still believe in miracles, and when we could still believe that believing in something enough was enough to make it happen, when we were taught to dream and hold onto those dreams.

And no, I'm not embarrassed. No, I don't want to "grow up". I'm just disappointed that kids nowadays don't know what they're missing. They aspire to become popular and know how to dance and sing and all sparkly pink and showy (for girls, that is. I mean, little boys can do that too but that's not the point here). I know it's not any better to go around idolising Simba or anything, but you get the drift.

They just don't know what real Disney magic is.

Anyway, today went down pretty well. Chem quiz got postponed, cikgu liked our vid, made lame jokes during Math (and John Huang tried to "binomial expand" something to the power of eight).

Wasn't productive during study time 'cause we spent most of the time talking (nothin' new, really).

Okay, better be off now. Feel the need to do stuff so today wouldn't seem so unproductive.

Adieu.

P.S. I love this guy's voice.

Suzuka 2010

Hey, what up?

It's TEN day today.

Yeah, 10/10/10. I guess since everyone's talking about it I might as well talk about it too.

So what about 10/10/10? Nothin' much, but it's cool that we get to live through a day with a date as cool as this.

Spent my day trying to get onto MSN (again). Finally managed it an hour or so ago, but somehow I can't see nor display any display pictures. Oh well.

Also spent my day looking at my Math notes, not knowing how to do Chem worksheet 9, and not knowing how to do Math ass 5 (well maybe I do, but all my answers look "ugly", as Mr Chia puts it).

Had F1 on my mind throughout everything, 'cause the rain at Suzuka yesterday postponed qualifying to today.

Not such a good day for Ferrari, 'cause Massa only qualified twelfth, and Alonso fifth (but started fourth 'cause of Hamilton's gearbox change).

Managed to gain a podium place behind the two Red Bulls (Stanley's going be rubbing this in my face tomorrow, but I think I'll just retaliate by saying Vettel outpaced his beloved Webber). I have to admit, the Red Bulls were disgustingly quick today.

Massa had a collision with Liuzzi first corner of the first lap. Disappointed I am.

Ferrari is definitely falling behind in the standings, but I think I'll be satisfied if we beat McLaren this year.

Okay, I'mma go off now.

Adieu.

P.S. Korea's got a week for circuit approval. It'll be interesting if they have to last-minute cancel the race...

John Lennon.

Watching MCR music videos on YouTube right now.

It's funny how you can fall in love with a band all over again.

Wondering, should I pre-order the album? Like, I really, really want it. I want to. But should I? Maybe I'll ask my parents *hint hint cough cough mum if you're reading this hint cough cough*.

Ah, shamelessness.

A bit annoyed at the moment, 'cause I haven't been able to sign into MSN since last night. I mean, it's not like I need to talk to anyone, but it's like I feel somehow disconnected from the world that way.

Thank goodness for Twitter though.

Didn't do much today. Wish I did though.

Been trying to find out where I can watch Glee online. I'll probably have to wait for someone to give the files to me, or figure out how to use PPStream (I read no Chinese and I can't be bothered).

Megashare is good, but they removed episode 3 due to infringement issues. Sad.

Went out with Fatinn. Got food at Cold Storage, 'cause there's no way I'll be able to survive solely on hostel food. I mean, yeah, it keeps you alive, but yeah, we gotta know how to enjoy life, yeah? Yeah.

Okay, if I want to further enjoy life I better get workin'. 'Cause you know, if I end up failing all my classes there's no way I'll ever be rich and famous. (Well I can, but the chances will be much, much slimmer.)

See ya.

P.S. It's John Lennon's birthday today. Even Google's celebrating it. Ah, legends will be remembered for a long time.

Awkward moment.

Another school week has come to an end, and exams inch ever so closer.

But that's okay, because it's a Friday night and it's excusable to forget about all your troubles and just chillax.

The internet connection's been acting up for the past hour or so. Couldn't sign into MSN, and hardly any web pages would load right. But I'm cool with that because they suddenly decided to stop "Access Denied"-ing Megashare so I can watch the second episode of Glee season 2.

It feels horrible that a lot of people have watched the first few episodes and I haven't. It's like I'm missing out on life. I mean, even Yos has seen it.

School today was fine. Had a straight three hour break 'cause Ms Lau wasn't there, which was spent talking about volcanoes and Indonesia, eating, watching 'Better Off Ted' in class with Kelvin, finalising our Geog report, printing it (albeit without images) and handing it in, and hoping Physics would get cancelled (but wasn't, unfortunately).

And yeah, I think I'm starting to enjoy Math. It's a scary thought, but it's not a bad thing now, is it?

Spent CCA browsing random websites and discussing various ideas for our SDMA video thing. It's like we can never be satisfied with what we come up with, 'cause we have absolutely no idea what other people are doing, and for all we know they could be so, so much better than we are.

Had pizza for dinner 'cause that's what cluster birthday celebrations are for (I love cluster celebrations).

Then hung around the music room and TV room with Ly En, Woan Chyi, Wee Thean and Colin.

And yeah, that was pretty much my day.

Better be off now. Glee awaits.

Adieu.

P.S. Rick Astley is in Singapore. Which means I'm on the same teeny island as one of the most famous internet memes ever. How cool is that?

P.P.S. Trying to get people to do our Malay project is like herding sheep. Find some people, lost some people, and when you get them together, they wander off. Interesting.

Third derivative.

Taking a break from our Lusi report right now.

It's kinda interesting to see how things are all carried out and how it happened and stuff like that. I'd be so more willing to do this if the internet connection actually allowed images to load.

It's 1800 words maximum, so I figure the 1400 I have now should be good enough (not done yet, though. Need images and references and reasons why our fictitious watch centre deserves continued funding).

Second derivative-d during Math today. I don't understand why we can't just use the first derivative to do everything instead.

Had Geog on my mind while Mr Chia was telling us about how "it's okay to use the first derivative for everything, but where's the fun in that?" (he didn't actually say that, it's just a translation from Math talk).

Test went down fine though. Didn't really know what to talk about for the second question, so just made up some stuff.

Went down to one of the labs for Physics, where Mr Yeo attempted to show us some "cool" demonstrations concerning pressure and buoyancy.

Okay, it's seriously late. Better sleep lest I GG tomorrow.

Adieu.

Stethoscope.

And so (taking a leaf out of English), tomorrow's my brother's birthday.

I bet they'll be having cake at home. I love cake, especially birthday-celebration-in-Brunei cake. Man, that's good cake.

Didn't post last night 'cause I was too caught up in watching The Amazing Race Season 17 and didn't really have anything to say about yesterday's Chem prac (achieving consistent results is probably one of the best feelings ever) and two hours of Malay.

Go TeamJumba.

Talked about fish, pipes, and blood during Physics. Nothing new. Mr Yeo's lame jokes, Joshua's even lamer jokes, Ryan's failing at making jokes, Yos trying to eat Glenn (I still don't know why), Kian Wee having mood swings, et cetera et cetera.

Nope, nothing much.

Spent Malay in the canteen 'cause cikgu's on holiday. Cheese fries day but no cheese (sad face). Still wish cheese fries day was a Friday so we could call it Cheese Friday.

ACE was about self-talking. Never heard of the phrase before, but there you have it. I totally talk to myself (excessively, I think). When I write these posts it's like I'm talking to myself, 'cause if nobody reads 'em that's what it'll be.

Measured blood pressure during Bio. Grouped with Yos and Insan, just so we could check if Insan's high blood pressure was still working up. We all turned out to be pretty normal though.

Ears still hurting from stethoscope. Don't know how doctors can stand it.

Geog test tomorrow. Fun. Mass wasting, here I come.

Report due Friday, and I still haven't written it yet. Adithya's in Australia, so not much discussion done. We'll see how it goes. Still have Insan.

All right, time for Geog.

Adieu.

P.S. Spent my entire afternoon subtitling Malay. Hope it'll turn out okay.

Hoboes.

I don't like iMovie.

There, I said it. I've got no choice but to use it until I acquire (or someone gets me *cough hint cough*) Final Cut Pro, but I would definitely prefer it if I could use something more flexible and precise.

It's just so easy to use, you can't make all those adjustments you want and you can't fine tune anything.

It's horribly. I want my freedom of creativity, thank you very much.

Anyway, the reason why I'm here ranting about iMovie is 'cause our project's due tomorrow and we're all doomed.

I think there's a growing trend on YouTube to post videos obviously edited with Final Cut Pro. Sigh, I am envious.

Finally presented during English today. Can't say it went well, but at least it's over for now.

Loved Joo Kee's speech. Great choice of topic, I think.

You know, no matter how confident I try to tell myself I am, I still find myself shaking when I refer to my script. It's scary.

Or maybe it's 'cause I have nerve problems. Who knows.

Geography is getting more and more pointless by the day.

Sad.

Okay, gotta go now.

Night.

Mashed banana.

Hey, it's post number 800 today.

Didn't post yesterday 'cause it was pretty uneventful. Spent my entire day watching KurtHugoSchneider's channel on YouTube. I didn't know anyone could be this perfect till I realised Kurt Schneider not only produces and arranges the songs Sam Tsui sings and edits the videos, he plays an assortment of instruments and majors Math at Yale. He's ridiculously talented.

Why aren't there more guys in school like that? Sigh.

Planning on getting my own pair of drumsticks some time sooner or later (preferably sooner). School drumsticks are killing my fingers. Maybe it's that I don't know how to handle them properly, but it'll be nice to own my own pair either way.

Not been as productive (schoolwork-wise) as I'd like to lately, but will get stuff done tonight after I'm done with this here post.

Been totally productive musically though. After two years, I finally feel as if I'm advancing in life. I need to up my game and there's no better time than now.

It's not all about being good academically.

Went out to Vivo today with Colin, Kelvin and Brendan today. Lunched at Marché and completely failed to find a suitable case for my iPod nano. It's sad that you see iPhone cases everywhere but not the slightest hint of nano cases.

Oh well.

Okay, back to work now.

Arrivederci.

P.S. Finally get to do our presentation tomorrow. Fingers crossed and hope it goes down well.

Cold spaghetti.

It's the end of the first day of October 2010, and I'm here listening to Scorpions take it away with their No. 1 hits.

'You and I' is like one of those songs you find middle-aged men singing drunkenly during karaoke sessions with drinking buddies. Like, wave your arms in the air, we're going through mid-life crisis and we don't care.

This guy is cool. I kid you not. Go check him out if you have eight minutes or so to spare and have at least a slight interest in accents. I love how he can do a Chinese accent way better than I can (and that's saying a lot, man. I'm Asian).

Thanks to constant reminders from Joshua, I've had that 'Hot Potato' song stuck in my head all day. It's been butting into my train of thought since Yos sent me the link two nights ago.

Yeah, it's catchy. So catchy I couldn't stop singing it in class and annoy the hell out of everyone else.

It's fun to watch how it gets stuck in other peoples' heads too.

Ah, the power of a catchy tune.

Went through Prac 3 in Chem. Not so good.

Understood during Math. Good.

Didn't have to present during English. Good and not so good.

I would have liked to have presented, just so we wouldn't have to do it at a later date, but I think it's better now that we're doing it on Monday instead. More time to figure out what to talk about.

Yeah, I like English now 'cause I prefer assessed talking than assessed writing. I'm shameless enough, yes.

Gotta go now. May the force be with you (this is how Mr Yeo's making us greet him after class. It was "may you live long and prosper" the day before and now this).

Arrivederci.