Monday, July 28, 2008

Bright and sunny.

Woke up at 0524 hrs today. I noticed that recently, I have been waking up at around this time without the need for any sort of alarm. And again, when I woke up, I didn't feel sleepy. Maybe this means that I'm getting enough sleep! But I still have these persistent eyebags. They've been with me for like what, over 3 years already? I really want to get rid of them... anyone have any tips?

Dabao-ed a Egg McMuffin Meal with tea to school. For some reason, I find that I am beginning to prefer this over the Sausage McMuffin with Egg. If only McDonalds sold Egg McMuffins without eggs... Hmm, why does that sound familiar? Oh yeah. Who wants A McChicken without the chicken? Or a Filet-O-Fish without the fish? :D

Haha, so like every monday, we had assembly. Except that this one was delayed for goodness knows what reason. The teachers didn't arrive till 0835 hrs.
This marked the start of a very looooooooooong assembly period.
Mdm 'Sharifah'(at least I think it's spelled like that)/Aljunied told us about our agenda for the National Day celebrations. At first I thought we were going to just study, but it turns out that we'll be headed to RI for some event. The students seem to pay attention to her whenever she's speaking. Maybe its because she cuts across as a figure of authority. Then some guy got on stage and practically shouted into the microphone while telling us about the event. Jeez, is everyone deaf or what?He was bellowing so loudly that the floor was vibrating.
So anyway, he told us that the event was a 'first of its kind' and that we would be able to stand on roads while the police blocked the vehicles for us. Then later he contradicted himself by saying that no one would be allowed to stand on the road, and that we would all have to stand on the pavement. Sheesh.
Then we were told about the Straits Times Pocket Money Fund. I know its great, and I would gladly give half of my daily allowance to the fund. Except for a few things. They were appealing on the assumption that each one of us gets $100-$200 a month. Sadly, I only get $80. Not that I'm complaining. Those on the fund get only $60. The irony is, if I donated to the fund, I would end up having less than those on the fund.
Then some people in charge of the prom (I think) informed us that there had been a screw-up (not their actual words) and those those going had to pay an extra $10. Good thing I'm not going.
... and then we were bombarded with yet more announcements. Among them was the plea for more contestants for the Ngee Ann... Talenttime? I dunno.

It appears as though everyone in the class got bronze for an inter-school on-the-spot chinese calligraphy competition. Unfortunately, we were forced to cancel it because we couldn't "take credit" for his work. So about a quarter of the class got demoted down to a B for their CCA grade. Tsk Tsk.
Checking with Mr Ong tomorrow regarding the mini sumo robot.

Because of a stupid careless mistake, I didn't manage to get full marks for the kinematics test
:( :( :( Stupid Stupid. Oh well, I'll just treat this as yet another lesson to learn from. Vector test tomorrow...

Zzzz... Took me hours to get the stupid working drawing done correctly with all the dimensions to scale. And YAY! It looks perfect. Luckily I already draw the presentation drawing liao. But I don't want to colour it cos I scared screw up. The scanner isn't working, so cannot back up.



I still remember that when I got into Ngee Ann, I told myself that I would stop slacking, and put my best into everything I did. This I failed for the first two years of secondary school, and much of sec 3. Good thing I'm much better now in Sec 4. I think it part of the reason why I improved was because I skipped CO to concentrate on my studies. It appears to be paying off now. I just hope that I will be able to get what I want for the 'O' levels. And it's f**king retarded that even if I score straight A1s for the 'O's, I still won't be able to get into VJC. So much for 'Equal Opportunity for All'.

Which reminds me, I need to revise my SS. And chemistry. And biology. And A.Math. And... and...

85 more days to go...
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I hate the school uniform.

Posted by Kelvin at 6:43 PM