Shuddlecocks fly faster than Tennisballs..

MPTC badminton court booking is so ma fan lah.. first, must make sure u dont come when its closed. u come at 1.10pm on saturday oso cannot bcos it alredy closed at 1.00pm. and anw, u cannot book for advance week..

den secondly must make sure u come early in the morning to book. and den must take q-no. at least its not a dogfight to fight for q-no.s.. hurhur.. den must go pay the money..

actually quite cheap, la.. but onli if u book at the right time.. so complicated larh.. must ask kesmond go book for next time!..

ANW

auntina book for tmr - introduce uncleprakash to the badminton playing family that we are.. and sum more must place bet... tut tut tut. we dont gamble..

she: must put in money to play okay?
me: okay lor i play 5-cent 10-cents.. no problem..
she: as if. minimum bet $1.50..
me: (perplexed..) i dont bet
she: little bit can la
me: i dont bet.
she: how abt dinner..
me: now we're talking.. (licking lips)

so pple out there, u noe how to bribe me.. hurhur.. s'pore gov't definitely wont want me in politics =(..

i jus realised.. sekali one day i want to go into politics and den how? ya right... pple like me? in politics.. worth a joke.. where we living man? amrika?

and i relised.. like so many of my frens flying off these holidays for long long time.. china, india esp. no one gg aus wid me =(.. means no one to go out wid in dec! =(=(..

pple who staying in this lovely country say aye~

*silence* is deafening..

riiight..

didcha know?:

that royalty often refer to themselves in a plural sense.

jus a random fact we wanted to share with u..

k nuff..

cheers~ n peace

Pre-Exam; Post-Exam

Let me jus exclaim something - my exams are over!!!!!!!!

so, as my cuz said, i finally get a whole two years of break after 12 years of not studying... yep, no typo there...

but technically, i did study for the A levels, but perhaps not excessively so as to be branded a full-blooded mugger. i doubt i deserve that term - mugger-club is an exclusive club that doesnt admit many. and so is the closet-mugger-club so yep, i guess i fall under normal.

speaking of which, i tend to realise that the majority of us are generally prone to tend towards normality, in the sense that we tend to prefer to claim that we are normal. i mean, u arent likely to go arnd and claim that u'r very religious or ur not religious at all. or that if ur rich or ur poor. more likely that ur average.

but that just states that the average man prefers to be average.. riiight..

i'm so sure fish wld go "huh?" here and perhaps she wont be alone..

~.~

Anw, back to the topic of exams end. \
There's so many things to be done and so little time (i enlist on jan 7th). and theres a limited time to busy myself slacking arnd. N i have to ensurie that i, as well as others i may want to go out with, have a healthy balance of fun and work.. anw here's on my t0-d0 list:

1. go out with friend(s)
2. spend time wid family (recreation)
3. clean the house
4. get back fitness
5. train badminton
6. go morning mass (this is really hard as daily morning mass at SFX is at 6.30a.m.)
7. learn malayalam (my dialect)
8. relearn all the stuff that i knew long ago when i used to delve into maths o stuff...
9. learn sum physics for help in uni
10. and relax.

now here's the tough part. objective no.10 would come at the expense of the other 9, and hence there has to be a very fine balance. ah..

so, perhaps in this sense after exam is more stressful that before exam.. geez..

i mean, before exam, onli need to worry abt exam, and no one wld bother u to do house work, and u noe u can go out with anyone. so basically, all u have to balance with is study, and relax. but after exam, got TEN things to balance.. haii...

not that i'm disappointed that exams are over. i'm glad.

~.~

after physics S the other day, i heard a chorus going around the hall, so many people screaming "yes!!!" and such.. i didnt join in, but because i had already given a (near-)silent "yess!!!" immediately after i finished the paper... hurhur..

and i was so happy that i realised that i handed in four questions to cambridge. or rather, three-and-a-half. i did one question half way thru, and i accidently sent THAT to cambridge together with the other three option questions..

but mum says cambridge pple are nice. i hope... hehe...

okay.. i'm off to enjoy my post exam time.. probably option 1, with the parenthesized letter included.

cheers~ n peace

Five Ba(re)d Facts...

Yes, i know i still have physics s.. but do i look like i care? maths s was as i FEARED in my nightmares it wld be. arff how horrid. do you know a random point is that its said that u cant read in your sleep bcos u dream with ur right brain n read with ur left.. quite cool..

except that i've read in my sleep before. take that, u scientists and whoever else.. maybe i'm smart.. hahaha.. =P

Okay, anw, KJBow tagged me to do some 5-random-things-abt-me thingie, n it goes that the 5 pple that i tag to do it have to do it too.. i.e. jus write down five random things abt u..

i'm onli doing this because i'm tagged first.. hurhur..

So lets see..

one: I sometimes exercise during baths. yes. it maximises time usage, plus i don get sweaty. yes, i know its unhealthy.

dua: when i hear music sumtimes i shadow play imaginarily on a shadow piano. yes its quite fun..

mune: i like to make up words periodically. yes u just saw it right?..

vier: i sumtimes enjoy typing in the symbol font. I know it can get rather annoying but its quite fun to try and decipher it. anyone share this enjoyment with me?

lastly: i enjoy hanging upside down.. haha.. yes quirky.

okie.. cheerios~ have fun reading abt my quirkiness.. haha..

and oh yah.. those five unlucky souls who are tagged to continue this chain and write smthg abt themselves are...

...drum roll please...

1. vibha
2. joy
3. walaa
4. sha
5. N. (whoever)

up to u if u want to do it.. but seriously.. its quite fun examining your quirky self.. =P

cheers~ n peace

Premature Termination of Hiatus

Question: Why do i have to pick the 3 hours before the F-Maths paper to end my hiatus on this blog?
Answer 1: After FMaths is Maths S
Answer 2: After FMaths i'll be too tired
Answer 3: After FMaths no kick
Answer 4: I'm fed up of FMaths
Answer 5: If FMaths is easy, good, i can do. If FMaths is hard, good, i cant do, and then i can go sleep early during the paper.. muahahaha..

Anyway, the variation in difficulty of FMaths Papers can be shocking. The Specimen papers are like.. close eyes or open eyes either way oso cannot do, den some other papers are close eyes or open eyes either way oso can do. arf.. i hope the actual FM2 will be closer to the standard of the latter.

And today's entry will be very brief, seeing as i need to go get ready for school and the horrors of the FM2 paper.

But i'm looking forward to S papers. though i do NOT appreciate the mini-break of two days that i have between tuesday paper and friday paper. its torturous because they force you to wait more than 48 hours for a 3 hour spell where one probably ANYWAY isnt going to be able to solve many problems..

But once the papers are over, ah sweet bliss.. though i dont know what i'll be doing on friday itself. perhaps hallie-podda (harry potter). but rumour has it that those who vowed to keep virgin of the harry potter sequel by refraining from watching it jus to watch it with us have broken their vow. oh well.. they hv money to watch it twice perhaps? or time.. haha.. me have neither.

things to look forward to:

1. birthdays! (singularise)
2. end of exams
3. end of schooling
4. end of core papers today in 6hrs time.
5. beginning of final core paper in 3 hrs time
6. s papers
7. a break between s papers - jus to contradict myself. there's always reason to look forward to smthg.. i think..
8. HALLIE-POTTA n gobret of fier!!! yayy!!!

Okaaay..

cheers~ n peace

Generally Prepared. I Hope.

to my sudden dismay i read my entry proof. 5 down. how many to go? oh my goodness - thank goodness my brain's too fried from maths to count exactly how many are left. but its a scarily large number. in estimation. (maths again).

technically its only three down - the other two are jus spa practical papers. but what the heck, 5 is bigger than 3 - it sounds nicer.

Quick Update on the papers

Maths? hmm - harder than expected. but then, what was i expecting? sec 4 e-maths standard? hmm.. its gotta be harder than that innit? so fine. i'm ok. jus hope that further maths aint tt hard - i know it has the potential to be. but anw, we neednt worry abt THAT till next friday. Man, tt seems really far.

But think abt it. after tmr, i'd hv gone thru one week of exams - which means that i've already gone thru a third of my exam. 0_0... yep.. one more week and ah sweet bliss.

but before we can say that.. ARGH.. GP!! the damned subject that has nvr seen a blue mark. okay thats an exaggeration. but anw.. GP is sooo boring, and yet it can be so fun at times.. weird contradiction?

About GP

it jus depends on whether i'm at the crest or the trough of my mood swing.. u noe.. "m = k sin t"? haha.. not many pple WOULD get that, but yeah..

if i'm happy (crest) i am so absolutely thrilled by GP and the excitement of the prospect of examing the issues of this world that we live in. Globalisation, Education, Family Life.. all so enticing - how each event affects each other, how we are all connected in the chain of life.. How the world is so interconnected. what one person does affects another, how a slight event can trigger such a huge counter event (a.k.a. the butterfly effect).. beautiful...

if i'm down (trough) i am so disgusted by those exact same two letters and the constant reminder that the world we live in is soo damn far from perfect, and all the stupid things gg on in the world. and why cant we jus let the stupid pple doing stupid things in the stupid far reaches of the world go abt their stupid lives and leave us be? why do we have to examine yada yada yada shit? disgusting...

and the worst part is i seem to be soo fickle. (as demonstrated in the above two paragraphs..) my mindset can sway so easily.. oh well.. not good.

and the wave analogy (for those who cant see it, the wave crest and trough) is a nagging reminder that physics is on next monday. but well, its a weekend away.

and a weekend is such a great time for watching "avatar: the last airbender" and catching up on lost sleep and studying... preferably the former two.

Oh well, how to prepare for GP? How to prepare to ensure i'm in a good mood (wave crest) tmr? well, while i think abt it, let me indulge in some movies on star world.


P.S. if i were a foreign student taking the A level paper after the Singaporean students have taken it, would i profit from surfing blogs where Singaporean students complain on how hard the statistics Question [Whatever] about [Whatever] was? You know, i think blogging has made it possible for such a variety of cheats.. hehe.. the only reason i didnt succumb to my desire to publish some of the questions online is because i revealed my lack of ignorance. and besides, would i be that daft to help another bloke i dont know cheat?

but seriously, i believe (probability suggests) that there would be a few out there who dont mind revealing questions. so go find them, not me.. hurhur.. i cant be bothered..

Okay Add Oil for the last few Papers..

cheers~ n peace

Where Does Lightning Strike?

Its been a whole week since i last came here and talked rubbish as i so often do. So let me make up for lost time, by bringing this domain of people i.e. my readers up to date.

I shan't go through a list a la last monday, but i shall just briefly cover random points.

Liverpool finally achieved what was deemed impossible by virtue of statistics - they finally manage to win in the EPL following a champion's league match. Watching both the matches i begin to suspect a trend that the EPL is likening to the NorthZone Badminton Scene. Except for the fact that while the NorthZone has 3 powerhouses in SSS, MSS and MSHS, whereas EPL only have Chelsea. and Wigan. lol.

Note: That's the first and probably the last time you'll ever hear me using those initials. i'm not anti-conformist; i just think those initials dont bear the same impact as "haha" or "hurhur".

The North Zone used to be quite easy, if truth be told. Only MSS and MSHS competing for top two spots, leaving the wide assortment of other schools to vye for the third and fourth spot. And the fact that AndSS used to be one of the few 'coached' schools, it did seem relatively easy. But competition has heated up - every tom dick and harry team has a fighting chance. oh well..

But i digress. But where elitism is concerned, there's only Barca (touted by yours truly to clinch the ECLC this year) and Chelsea and maybe AC Milan. The rest, pretenders. Oh yes, maybe Lyon, but i'm not entirely sure.

But if lightning can strike the shortest tree in a forest (a metaphor describing Liverpool's win last year as a highly improbable event), i'm sure it can happen again. riiight.

Now to an event closer to home. Technically since the A levels are being marked way over in British Country, its technically NOT closer to home. But well..

Latest update on A levels.
Although i now realise that I am taking my A levels in 2 days time, I havent come to terms with that fact. I look in anticipation to 25 November, when poor unfortunate me hears the first piece of good news i would hear in the next three weeks - "The exams finished! My, that was fast..."

You know, technically exam period flies by much faster than any normal period, let this be some delight that one can derive from this terrible period. What prompts this Wild statement?

Well, we generally accept it that Time is a cruel thing - it crawls when we dread it to crawl (i.e. when we're anxiously sitting outside waiting for a disabled toilet, walkin' around, grabbin' our you-know-what); and it flies when we dread it to fly (i.e. when we're on a tight budget for time). Exam period is spent EITHER sitting at the accursed seat doing the dastardly paper and counting the dismal marks, OR preparing to do the abovementioned activities.

Both these options involve a serious budget for time - the actual exam itself comes with a deadline, usually X+ 0300hrs where X hrs is the starting time of the paper. (in simple terms, the exam usually lasts 3 hours.) And secondly, in the preparation time, we obviously have to be adequately prepared BEFORE the exam starts - its quite pointless to mug after the exams, right?

so any anti-conformists out there, if you want to do something nobody else would do, just mug after the exams. (and not before them)

OH well, i have to start training myself to wake up early - lately i've been quite nocturnal. not for long. hah..

okay...

Good Luck my comrades-in-arms. Brace yourselves for the briefest period of your lives.. A'levels, O'levels, PW's, etc.

cheers~ n peace

and note, in the light of the upcoming GP exam, i have refrained from initials and the so-called and widely-critiscised "sms-lingo". N so tt u guys out there wont think tt i'm sum neighbourhood sch reject. (note, i intentionally used that abovementioned lingo in the last line.)