Discrimination.

I would like to start off this post with a little heart-to-heart about subject specialisation. It may be a bit vulgar so I suggest turning away for a moment.

Dear people who think not dropping Bio is stupid,

You are not better than us. Just because you guys have a flair for calculations and logical thinking and hate learning about "stupid, useless, irrelevant things" does not mean everyone else does too. Just because you belittle Bio does not mean you should belittle the people who enjoy it. Just because you think your life would be better without this subject doesn't mean the lives of people who take Bio suck. No, don't make assumptions.

Also, just because people who like Bio tend to want to drop Physics, you think you have the right to insult us, to tell us we've made unintelligent, irrational decisions because we're dumb enough to enjoy "mindless memorising" and not appreciate Physics. Why haven't you considered that interests can be different? Maybe we're as uncomfortable with calculations and diagrams as you are with terms and explanations. Have you ever stopped to consider that? Don't we have equal opportunities to indulge in the subjects we like most?

Just because you're geniuses with Math and Physics and are honouring everything sans Bio, it does not give you the right to call us stupid. You are not special. It does not make you smarter than us. It's called discrimination, so go f*ck off and leave us alone. We're not losers, so stop thinking you're better than us.

I hate your mentality.

Sincerely,

Someone who's not dropping Bio.

Okay yeah, now that's over with.

Math test was okay and passable, got let off early during Physics, and played with guppies during Evo Bio. I love Bio.

Also, pretty doomed because I have a Math ass due tomorrow and I realise I'm stuck.

Night.

P.S. But feeling accomplished because I finished a Physics ass. It's times like these when I feel like I want to drop Physics the most, but I'm not, so should get rid of these feelings.

P.P.S. Sudden storm ftw.

Singapore 2011.

In all my almost eighteen years, why have I never thought of the possibility of elven mermaids before? I have been missing out on a lot.

Going to type this post in two minutes with the sound of Rick Astley belting out 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in the background, 'cause he performed yesterday over the course of Singapore's F1 event and someone uploaded it onto YouTube.

Yeah, all the hype about F1 is going to end very, very soon. Also, I just received a tweet about Linkin Park recently bringing the house down during the post-race performance. Great, simply great. Absolutely brilliant. It's bad enough that I'm stressed as hell and have a Math test tomorrow and I'm worried about being careless and losing marks without knowing I've missed out on yet another F1 race just a teeny distance away from where I am, and a performance by a band I used to love to bits.

So yeah, back to the race.

Finger boy is now only a point away from clinching this year's Driver's Championship after winning this race, so good for him. I feel like a proud parent. It's like we've watched Vettel go from promising rookie to epic ownage, and I like that he's not a complete douche like Hamilton is.

Speaking of Hamilton's doucheness, he ran into Massa quite early into the race, punctured Massa's rear tyre, and poor Massa had to finish tenth due to really bad luck.

Button finished second, and shaved many seconds off Vettel's lead before finishing 1.7 seconds behind the leader.

Alonso in fourth behind Webber, because despite somewhat good driving, our car just isn't up to par.

Okay, going off now.

I'm sure I have more to say but I really can't at this moment.

Night.

P.S. Geog field trip was interesting. Know a little more about Singapore now, and it doesn't hurt to know things.

P.P.S. The race also managed to cut our field trip short, which made me love F1 a little bit more.

Humility.

Just got back from dinner out with my aunt, uncle and freaking adorable baby cousin, and Stella tweeted me this link, which plays out the comforting sound of rainfall and distant thundering to create the illusion of a reassuring thunderstorm.

I love it when it rains. The sound, the smell, the temperature, the lack of humidity afterwards. So good.

It's been all cold and rainy for the past few days, and I totally appreciate it. It makes up for all the crap we're going through at the moment, what with all the deadlines and tests and quizzes. Oh horribleness.

And went off blogging for a week, because frankly I manage my time really unwisely, so I couldn't bring myself to come here and procrastinate because that would make me feel even worse.

So now it's a Friday again, and even though it's not such a free weekend, it feels good to not have a test/GCT/something due the next day, even though we have a Geog field trip early morning.

Busy busy busy. That's all we've been. But that's life, and we push on.

Hopefully I'll do all right for our Chem test just now.

Had a farewell party for our Year 6s during CCA, because today's their last CCA session, and we've relied so heavily on them. People like Roslyn and Ash have done so much for us, and because of them we've developed as a CCA and they've set the path of leadership for the rest of us. We all want Media to succeed and be regarded with high esteem, and all my CCA life they've been there. And suddenly they're gone and there's a huge gap that needs to be filled. I'm so grateful for their help.

Okay, yeah, race weekend this weekend, and it's a little closer to home this time 'round. Singapore, so close yet so far.

One day, I'm going to go and watch a race live, complete with tickets and seats and all. I don't know how much longer I can last without the experience.

Going off now. Tired beyond belief.

P.S. New seasons of How I Met Your Mother, Glee and The Big Bang Theory have all premiered this week, and I think I might explode of television series goodness.

Acceptance.

Did two things of significance today, and only two, so it wasn't really as productive as I planned it be.

Slept too much in the morning, and ended up not getting anything done because I was sleeping, instead.

But managed to get my lazy ass out of bed and head down to Bugis to meet Aisyah so we could check out the National Library together and see if we could find any useful material for our Malay debate project. Apparently not.

Despite the non-yieldy trip, we gained plenty of new library experience, 'cause neither of us had been there before. If it's possible to fall in love with a building, I have with this one. I love libraries because they're so organised, literate and smell of books, and I love this particular library even more because the building looked so good.

It was ridiculously professional-looking, too. Great place.

The second thing I did of significance today is draw out this print ad for our English advocacy speech project thing in order to support our cause.

And since I'm posting it here, I might as well get out with my cause. I'm advocating a review of the current sexual education syllabus to include LGBT matters. This is because with education gains understanding, and understanding leads to acceptance, and with acceptance, the world becomes a better place. It sucks to have to go through high school as a student with tonnes of work, and it must suck even more to have to go through it with sexual confusion and unsureness of oneself, risking depression and such.

So once a generation has been educated, it paves the way for future generations to have the same level of acceptance. People shouldn't be defined by their sexuality. They can love who they like.

So there you go. Now I'm off to draft my speech.

Adieu.

P.S. I also like libraries because when a library is new, it smells of new building, and when it's settled in, it smells of books, which are two of my favourite smells.

P.P.S. Workload still dwarfs Mt Everest. Oh help me.

Colour Fusion.

Our school combined performing arts concert, aka 'Colour Fusion' has just ended, and we've just had the most awesome post-event pack up ever.

Hung around in the hall while the PA team cleared away all their equipment from the hall, and helped coil a few wires. Then played around with balloons and had awesome fun with Rania, MJ, Wai Yin, Pin, Shankari and Adrian. Wearing our media shirt lets us do almost whatever we want, because other people have learnt to recognise us as the "backstage people" who do all the technical stuff.

Which is true. Without us managing the sound, lighting, slides, recording and various other paraphernalia, no school event would be able to take place fully effectively. The performing arts CCAs perform, and that's their calling; to be on stage and be seen doing what they love, and we find this special place in our hearts where we find sweet, simple satisfaction in playing huge parts in making things run smoothly even though we're hardly taken notice of. Media club pride forever. I love us, truly and forever.

Last day of the first week of the last term of Year 4 today, and the school was sort of abuzz with it being the first weekend of the first week of the last term of the last year before our class reshuffling, and also 'cause many of the performers had pre-concert jitters.

Had Physics, then English, where I felt kind of bad when 405 trolled 404 during their presentations, then Econs, where Jia Hong kept saying she screwed up although she got higher marks than most of us, then extra Math, where we went through two GCTs, and then Chem, where we went through Ass 4 and a past year paper.

Finally did some filming during CCA. Ever-so-grateful for the help of Kat and Stanley, who were nice enough to agree to appearing in our video and contributed even more awesomeness.

Going to edit soon, hopefully, really soon. Workload needs to be cleared first, though. Go me, I can do this.

Okay, have to go and watch House now.

Night.

P.S. Our performing arts CCAs improve every year. It's even lovelier watching them after realising that.

Newton-Raphson.

I love how when you Google the words "cunning" and "plan", the first thing that pops up is the Wikipedia page for 'Baldrick'. It's brilliant.

I miss watching 'Blackadder'. Each episode was simply packed with wit and fun and Rowan Atkinson genius. I love British humour.

But I'm watching 'House' at the moment, so I still get huge doses of Hugh Laurie. I adore Hugh Laurie as House. He's the perfect combination of utter asshole and wit. And those moments when he impersonates a British person while playing an American by faking a British accent while in his American accent make me admire him tenfold, because it's so ridiculously convincing.

Was a Monday today, but felt like a Friday because of all the people heading to CCA and because it was near the end of the school week. But it's a Thursday. How confusing.

GCT-ed again during Math, which was better than yesterday's. Thank God for the availability of "upgrading".

Physics prac-ed with Kian Wee. Was fun because we're Chem prac partners and I feel okay even though I'm horrible at practicals. Sometimes I don't like working with people I've never worked with before, or with people who you know will judge you for being stupid.

Finally had Evo Bio. Spent less than an hour listening to Mr Soh talk some more about allele selection and stuff, and then Mr Soh spent more than an hour listening to the class to our assignment 3. I say "listening" because Chee Seng came over to sit with us and we couldn't stop talking and ended up handing it in after class ended. Whoops.

Then hung around 06 for a while, waiting for rehearsal.

Rehearsal was fun because we've finally figured out where to place the cameras. Oh joy.

Going to talk about the concert tomorrow when it's done. I actually enjoy rehearsals because I like to see how much improvement has been made on the actual day, and seeing things refined after days of practice is satisfying.

Okay, need to go now.

Adieu.

P.S. Need to know more songs.

Scrambled egg.

Something's wrong with Blogger today, but I can still type here, so I figure it's safe enough to post.

Ended class ridiculously early today, because Mr Chin wasn't in school for English and Mr Yeo wasn't in school for ACE, so kinda had to wait for a few hours after Math and Malay before going out to Seoul Garden with MJ, Jia Hong and Deborah.

Totally died for today's Math GCT, and I swear I'm not going to screw tomorrow's up as badly, because the one we're having tomorrow isn't upgradeable. Mr Chia thinks it isn't excusable for us to not know our Newton-Raphson method. Anyway, did some stuff about expressing some equations in power series afterwards and that was it.

Still just hung around and talked during Malay while doing random bits and pieces of work. Really unproductive.

Lunch was awesome, because we ate and ate and ate because it was a buffet and we wanted to get the most of our money. Decided to head out to Seoul Garden even though Subway was having a tempting one-for-one deal at all outlets (heard tonnes of people say this today, and then saw tonnes of people leave school for Subway), 'cause we wanted to treat Jia Hong for her birthday (although really belated).

And it was so good. Hadn't eaten there for quite a while now, so it was fun and we got to play with food. Scrambled eggs on the hotplate and then asked for a new hotplate shamelessly. And then kind of over-ordered food and didn't finish some stuff, 'cause we sacrificed meat for dessert.

Walked back to school because I was so ridiculously full.

Have this huge dilemma over camera placement during the performing arts combined concert on Friday. I prefer the audi over the hall because it's more comfortable there and it has a slope which raises the seats so we can get a good look at everything, but it had to take place in the hall and now I don't know what to do. Hopefully we can solve this problem by Friday.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Awesome weather today. Really, really awesome.

P.P.S. Realised ice cream and Koko Krunch go ridiculously well together. Why haven't I noticed this before? All these years.