Steve Jobs.

It's currently thunderstorming after being all humid all day. Started raining during our Cell Bio prac and made everything all dark and lovely.

Received news during PE on our PE teacher's iPhone about Steve Jobs' death. I feel saddened. He was one man who made an impact on all our lives. It may not have been a brilliant moral impact that makes everyone better people, but it was an impact nonetheless. It may have been solely commercialism, but that man had a goal and he achieved it. Apple Inc. is huge.

And it's epic that many people found out about his death/spread word of his death on devices he brought into creation. That is quite a way to go. I'm going to miss his keynote speeches and his black turtleneck and jeans and nice balding head.

Long school day today. PE-ed, then continued our ujian karangan, then had Geog.

Geog was lecture, followed presentations which took longer than expected so Mrs Lim couldn't continue with the other lecture.

Also played with pens and ink and stuff. Have I mentioned I really like Yos' white pen? It's so good.

Got started on permutations during Math, which means we're really close to finishing off this sem's syllabus.

Counted corn kernels during Cell Bio for our prac. Tedious stuff, but there's this immense sense of satisfaction you get when you finish counting and categorising a rough 700 kernels. Go us.

Anyway, watched the third episode of Glee season 3 just now (because it wouldn't load last night and I decided to sleep early), and I have to say it is quite good. I dare not say it, but the old Glee essence is coming back. I love how Will Schuester is becoming tougher and more assertive and generally a more badass and self-respecting teacher. And Mike Chang finally got some good lines and a singing part, which I believe he nailed. Hooray for Asians.

I also realise that my first term of CCA leadership can be compared to the second season of Glee, because it was fun but hugely messy and pointless and unorganised and really bad without continuity (and season 2 gave us Blaine, too, which made it so much better).

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. How sad is it that the concept of 'A-'s being "Asian Fs" is quite accurate? Man.

P.P.S. I also love how everyone appreciates Coldplay a bit more now that Glee covered 'Fix You'.

Franz Ferdinand.

Waiting for Glee to load right now.

Internet's been absolutely atrocious, and now I have to use LAN connection or I can't get anything done. It's so slow. So depressing.

Short school day today, but spent afternoon sleeping, so I still only had the night to do work.

Finished a Geog poster (again, this time with case studies and stuff). Was less sleep-deprived so it sort of looks better now and contains more information than last time.

Also read through our Econs report and found findings to insert into our report and stuff like that. Kinda looking forward to our presentation because it's some role-play thing where we get to be all foreign and try out different accents. Mm, I love accents.

Okay, so today we had Math first thing in the morning. GCT-ed most of the lesson away, then did even more tutorial questions. Also talked about the Tower of Hanoi, which is awesome. Leyi said that there's a 72 disc Tower of Hanoi which when completed will end the world, but it takes 2^72 - 1 moves to complete, so it's probably not worth it.

Ujian karangan-ed during Malay, which we will continue tomorrow. Oh no.

Also essay-ed during English. Made some ridiculously irrelevant references that don't make sense, and wrote lengthily and stupidly. There goes my English grade.

Did nothing during ACE, because Mr Yeo wasn't in school and I didn't sign up for PSATs and hence didn't have to go for the briefing.

Yeah, that was pretty much it.

All right, short post for tonight because I have to watch Glee.

Night.

P.S. Weather still going great. Yay.

P.P.S. It's like the greatness of the weather is inversely proportionate to the quality of our Internet connection. How sad.

Faith.

The Internet connection's acting up really badly right now. Must be the product of procrastinating Year 5s who're using the Internet to evade studying. Whoa.

Which is sort of good, because hogging the bandwidth means frustrating teenagers into giving up on whatever they want to do on the Internet and then carry on with studying. Or end up being miserable and in no mood whatsoever to be productive. Oh well.

Didn't post yesterday because the really hot and humid weather simply killed my mood. Felt like doing absolutely nothing but wait for the humidity to die down. I don't even remember doing anything fruitful. Either I'm suffering memory loss, or I really do procrastinate a tonne.

Oh yeah, watched a bunch of YouTube videos, because that's what YouTubers do to you. They make you like them so much you can't stand not watching their new videos and stuff. Doesn't really help to follow them on Twitter, either. You're all like, "All right, time to get stuff done," and they're all like, "My new video is up!" and you're all like, "Damn it."

Solution? Get of Twitter. But there was no work in dire need of being completed, so it was excusable. Oh me. Poor me. I'm terrible.

Anyway, the weather today took a marvellous turn for the better, and rained. Multiple times. And it was so beautifully cold all day (don't ask me how cold can be beautiful, but it just was, so deal with me). Refreshing, yes? Yes. There's just something about cold, crisp mornings that get you all galvanised and ready to love the world again.

Photo-taking early in the morning, so had to be in formal in order to look less like the mess we actually are. I love my class. I'm going to miss it, so badly. Mrs Chong told us today our class was like a kindergarten class, but it's not like it's a bad thing. It isn't.

Didn't have Malay, so sat strangely silently at the bench near the netball court doing our own things. Sometimes you just need the company, even if you're not in the mood to talk.

Borrowed Faiz's Time magazine to read. We get our own issues but it's like I never have the time to read them. Picked up a few English-y words to use for tomorrow's SA essay. I fully dislike writing essays for the sake of satisfying teachers. I want to write to make me happy. But that's not how life works, and I suck at thinking up points, so I write long, contentless essays. Depressing stuff.

I miss narrative writing. Not only because I was so much better at it, but because I think up unreal things better than being organised and listing out supporting arguments.

Tutorial-ed during Math, which meant we spent our time attempting tutorial questions. Mathematical induction is just a really tedious process, but less tedious than binomial theorem, so I'm okay with it. Very wordy, too.

Had Chem and got our tests back. Did all right, but not like complete ownage. Thought I'd did worse, actually. Then had nothing to do, but Mrs Chong kept coming up with excuses to make us stay in class for as long as possible. But we finished assignment 5 last weekend (discussion over Twitter with Kian Wee and Daryl was so convenient), and our project discussion was all confusing, so in the end she relented and let us off half an hour early.

Did random stuff during the PPV break.

Talked about essay-writing and structure during Econs. It scares me. I haven't been doing brilliantly.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. It's officially official. Monsoon season is back, baby.

Indulgence.

Dun dun dunn, it's already October, and here I go again on a post about how ridiculously fast time travels and we're all doomed because it'll be the end before we know it.

2012 is coming fast, my dears.

Just finished drafting my speech for our advocacy project thing. Left the Word file there for ages to like, ferment in the depths of my computer memory, and then finally opened it up to finish what I started and finalise things. Revised it a thousand over times, and now I have quite a wordy speech I need to cram into six minutes. I don't want to rush things, because this isn't a race to rapid gunfire. You want to make sure every single bullet hits its target with impeccable timing. I'll make timing my b*tch, man.

Also sort of tried to fit in almost every speech device we learnt about during English into my draft, so I'll at least score points in that area. And I like a challenge. Feeling super proud of myself because I managed to sneak in a Spiderman reference to make it even more epic.

Sometimes I think I'm afraid of making serious speeches.

Wasted a whole lot of time yesterday just sitting around, catching up on television shows and thinking about the amount of work I'm stupidly not doing and stupidly haven't done.

I think they plan it just so they release new seasons of everything right when our workload is going to reach its peak. It's scary. The universe is out to get us.

Hopefully Glee will be able to return to its old, season 1 continuity and not the bunch of random randomness and relationship-trading stuff we had in season 2. I've missed it. I don't ever want Kurt and Blaine to break up, because it would've been too fast and too soon.

How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are as funny and nerdy (for the later) as I remember, which is good because I enjoy their consistency.

Okay good night.

P.S. I strongly feel like having a LotR movie/book marathon. Oh December holidays, let me indulge.

"I wear this on my sleeve," -MCR

Last day of September today, and I just realised. And there I was thinking we were still sometime in the middle of September, but apparently not.

Week 3 is over, and it was over so fast yet so gruelling.

It's also the last day of school lessons for the Year 6s today, which means yet another batch is graduating; bringing us closer and closer to our graduation, in turn. The prospect of being out of school and into university life just scares the hell out of me. I'm growing old and what if I can't accomplish what I want to accomplish in the short time I'm given here? Oh no.

And when I recall when we talked about not leaving this place soon enough, I really want to go back in time and tell myself to pull myself together and simply savour everything and go along for the ride.

Okay, so, yeah.

Rained superbly in the morning, so went to school contented and feeling great. Also, it was a Friday, and Fridays are good days because there's no school the next day and we get to sleep in.

Talked about AC and DC circuits during Physics, which makes me wonder why I really never bothered to look up how these things work. I mean, we see them everywhere, and electronic devices and appliances basically rule my life, so why am I not the least curious about them? Maybe it's because they're everywhere, they've become un-fascinating. That's kind of sad. These things need to be appreciated more, I think.

And I'm simply shallow.

Two of the remaining groups finally presented during English (my group presented a week and a half ago), and I have to say, the guys really impressed me with their 'love and marriage' presentation. Yes, it's true that pop culture destroys the meaning of traditional marriage, but true love can never be destroyed. I love it how the guys seem to be more clear about these kinds things than girls are. What can we say? We're erratic.

Also, got marks back for summative compre and essay. Compre was great, essay was better than last time (and last time was a C+, which was depressing beyond words).

Made tonnes of LotR references during Econs with Clarice and Verena, 'cause we had to do this discussion and presentation about the trade of certain countries, and we chose New Zealand. Awesome fun.

Almost managed to finish off our notes during Chem, but we've got one page left before we're done with this sem's module completely. I like Chem.

Edited stuff during CCA. I want to remain president, because I feel as if I need to make up for this horrible year of non-leadership. I believe in me.

Then had dinner out with Wee Thean, Kelvin and Lee Ji-Hyun while we discussed our Econs project. Yeah, busy day.

Okay, going off now. Need to watch the latest episode of Glee.

Night.

P.S. And, if anyone wants to stalk me further, here's a Tumblr account.

P.P.S. The rest of 05 gets to go for the Geog field trip tomorrow with the 04 and 02 Geog students, while Daryl, Zhi Yao, Ryan and I are able to spend our time doing other things tomorrow morning. Whee.

Guppy report.

Sometimes, I feel like I need to assert my girl-ness, so I'll post a link to this insanely hot GIF. It's a matter of taste, really, but I know thousands of other people around the world think Adrien Brody is great, so it's no matter if you think he looks terrible. It's fine.

Slept quite late this morning, rushing a Geog poster-presentation thing that we only have to present next week due to certain reasons I can't recall so will not disclose. Partly why I don't want to remember is because I probably wasted my night. But no regrets, oh no.

Forward and onwards, mateys.

Played random games during PE, because it was peer teaching.

Then finally had our Malay debate, after weeks and weeks of dragging and postponing and changing dates and topics. I must say it's like a great weight has been lifted off our shoulders, because it's something that's been pending for such a long time, and now that it's gone it feels good. I can not speak fluently in Malay, which is quite a shame, considering it's been part of my life for many, many years now.

Talked more about proving in Math. It's sort of magical, really.

Did more inheritance stuff during Cell Bio, which reminds me, 'Inheritance' is coming out on my mum's birthday, which is in a month and a half. Oh I'm so excited, but then I'd have to re-read the previous three books first because I have obsessive issues so I'd have to wait until I got back home.

Dinner was surprising, because it was surprisingly good. Like, puffy, crispy prata with curry sauce. Felt good not having to eat rice for hostel dinner for a change. And the look on Adithya's face when he realised what we non-Indian-vegetarian people had was just priceless. Poor guy gets pretty much the same thing every single day, and they won't let him switch to regular food (because he's not vegetarian at all).

Okay, more stuff to do.

Guppy report awaits.

P.S. It's super humid tonight and I don't like one bit of it.

Entropy.

As good as rainymood.com is at helping one pretend it's raining, it isn't as good as real rainfall, which is why it feels amazing right now because it actually is raining.

It seems like I talk about the weather all the time here, but I honestly can't help it. I love almost everything about rainy weather. The darkness, the pitter-patter of raindrops, the occasional assuring thunder and lightning, the cold, the way the wind blows and kisses your face with a slight hint of wet, the smells, the sounds of cars driving through water and making little splashing noises. Is that selfish? I know a lot of damage can be caused by storms and relentless rainfall and stuff like that, and even so I still seem to love it to bits.

But you can't always see the bad side of things, can you?

Okay, printing my Math journal now, because Joo Kee just tweeted about having not finished his and I almost totally forgot about it. That's what I love about the Internet and social networking, even though it's a huge waste of time and causes us to procrastinate so much. I enjoy feeling connected.

Had Malay first thing in the morning today, and I'm pretty sure I'm not going to fare very well for this test either. This is it, I'm going to fail my O-level paper and end up having to take Malay until I graduate at this rate. Better start crackin'.

Had Math afterwards, where Mr Chia gave us sound advice on choosing our honours and majors for next year. Everyone obviously wants to choose the subjects they like most, and yet not want to die of work overload. It's a hard balance to find. Then he told us stuff about our future Math modules, which pretty much scared off or tightened the resolve of Math-honour-takers.

Statements is an interesting topic because it's been mostly words, so far. Converse inverse contrapositive maybe yes no perhaps just kidding. It sure doesn't feel like Math.

Finally started on our last topic of the year for Chem, but then got reminded of how much we didn't like entropy. Oh, entropy. Entropy of the system, of its surroundings, of the universe. Time going forwards and entropy increasing until equilibrium and so on. Deep stuff, man. Existence is a scary thing.

Need to get started on our Econs project. So far we've only distributed roles. It's hard 'cause we aren't in the same class and have other things to think about.

Okay, going off now.

Night.

P.S. Need to brush up on my pool skills.

P.P.S. You know the awesomer half of the year has arrived when it starts raining a lot more frequently.