Thursday, January 29, 2004
i'm going to blabber.
i'll start on a pessimistic note, that i may end on a positive note.
urgh. yesterday, i got called during tutorial to write the answer to a question on binomial theorem on the board. and i'm not the sort to do homework. besides, this isn't surds or something and the lecture system is such that people are forced to learn at the same pace. for a math-idiot like me? it's hell. so i knew i'd get called and i got my friend to explain her working to me(i did not understand) and went up to write down her answer. the whole class obviously knew it wasn't my answer coz i was hesitating and hadn't the faintest idea what she had scribbled(this binomial is kinda different). and then...yippee! the teacher said that there was an easier way and asked me to erase everything and attempt it the simpler way. i kept turning around when the teacher wasn't looking to see if anyone could enlighten me on that rosteque sum. what i got was a lot of laughs and snickers. and after scribbling some stuff, i just looked at the teacher and said,"i really don't know how to do it." and the laughter kept coming.
chatted with cher on the phone. the usual...i'm always talking. then lili called. gawd i miss her! i was supposed to do my homework which i didn't. instead i spent time online, and chatting. chatted with her for an hour and forty mins. just yakking away like we girls do. can't wait to see her.
i'm hosting our class gathering at my house on 8th feb. whee! just the thought of yakking away for another 4 hours is very entertaining. lili's missing me too. how sweet. i'm actually glad we quarelled majorly last year, coz we've only gotten closer since. not that i actually enjoyed the rough patch.
anyway. i'm kinda 'bad-girl' in class. i mean. there are the 'pai' people and stuff. but they still do homework and listen during class. me? i juggle lecture with homework and most of all an endless supply of mags. the fairfield girls i sit with are magazine racks. the best part? the guys actually are intrigued by the magazines but they won't wanna be caught dead with it. i mean...Female? seveteen? herworld? cleo? haha.
don't really like the lectures. they are too fast-paced. i remember tanleelee's bio lessons, taking 3 steps forward and 2 steps backward. if you miss it today, you can tune in to the next telecast the following lesson. or even better, you can just read the text. here? shut your eye for 3 seconds and chances are, you'll need to stay back and copy notes for like aeons.
my friends and i have been analyzing this girl's behaviour and we're kinda convinced that she likes shannon. like the way she sits(knees pointing towards him) and lightly brushing his shoulder, eye contact etc(got it out of a mag) sometimes, mags say the dumbest things but it's actually quite funny.
i having 3 lectures tomorrow. so glad. maths, chem and econs. yep. i'm happy. no i'm not a study nut. just that i'll get to see someone. and i haven't seen that someone for 2 days(one and a half actually) but still... and.. nevermind.
okie. sshhhh...bye!
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
scratch the previous entry.
correction: my class is NOT hardworking. they are just EXTREMELY OBSESSIVELY hardworking.
it's freaking me. we were supposed to be 04S28 slackers. the people who slouch against the wall in the hall. the people who didn't care. the dead citizens or something. but no. they decide to go to the library every spare minute which they aren't using to eat. and mind you, this ain't no fun st nix library with nice fiction books.
this is nightmare from hell. quiet. squeaky clean and full of tables to do your work at. most of all. the tables are FILLED! durng lunch hour no less! with students doing RESEARCH! good lord.
what happened to the super enthu funky wild dancing?
2 classmates actually loaned the red-spot textbooks(2 inch thick no less) and copied out stuff coz
the notes were inadequate. how does that happen? i cannot fathom. and they were photocopying stuff. and this isn't the first day. and 2 others were zapping past years promos papers. like excuse me? how do you do that? like we haven't even learn 2% of the syllabus! and everyone else began to freak...so they started loaning red-spots and loaning econs texts. and in the end, 4 out of the library's 5 photocopying machines were occupied by my class people.
what was i doing? reading a seventeen mag. and no, the library does not carry anything of that sort. they only have Time, Newsweek, Science and Tech and what have you.
aside from that, today has been rather uneventful. some stuff i shall not mention, i don't want people reading this. scandals are hot in my class. with girls, paired with girls and guys with guys and guys with girls...i gets dry after a while. like what's the point right?
had the first enterprise meeting today. and i'm with a bunch of cheerleaders. who didn't want to train so they ponned their training and came for a meeting instead. how cool right?
to lighter topics..mich, let's go out before we go for unit day. i have flag day in the morning though.
and ex-ma'ams? sigh. never thought i'll be termed that. it sounds kinda ancient to put it that way. i can't wait for unit day anyway. just can't wait. i really miss all the squadmates and the juniors. there's this similarity which we can't find elsewhere. the willingness to go to the max, no questions asked. the trust and the strength in it. most of all, the understanding without words. you just know. and i can't find it here at NJ. not in the CCAs. i guess being in a uniform group surely had its pluses. SNNP peeps. we rock!
Monday, January 26, 2004
bah! when does no really mean no?
shall elaborate further.
my class is actually quite hardworking afterall. haha. shannon came to class thinking that no one did their homework and we could just slack off during lessons. and then he realised that hey! everyone had some homework done! he's the CT rep and doesn't do work!
bio is turning out to be an awful lot like chem. really. stuff about bonds, hydrogen bonds and 1,4 glycosidic bonds and pyranose rings and what have you. i liked nice and simple read-it-like-a-story bio. not memorise-and-regurgitate-like-physics type of bio. else, i'd have taken physics. but i'll stick with it anyhow. i mean bio or physics? bio definitely sounds a tad better.
we had our first mass PE. and i was praying for rain right from the start. it stopped raining though just before our lesson. but it wasn't as bad as i expected. and i'm thinking, if we keep this up, i'll really lose some inches(that is if i haven't lost my wits worrying about it first) we ran a single round for warm-up and did stretches. then we had shuttle run(the NP version) and pushups(not as bad as NP). sorry there, using it as a benchmark. us girls got to do inclined pushups and less than the guys. and there was this thing which i believe NP calls it frog leg(sounds something similar) the thing where you sprint the length and jog the breadth. and crunches. i really felt like i was working some muscles.
my class has this intense chemistry between certain guys and certain girls. and naturally, everyone else just sits and laughs. so we've begun a new episode. *sigh* here we go again. and i'm kinda slow. coz girls in my class are like GUY ALERT! etc etc etc. and i'll go, where where? so i was trying to worm out from the girl(buffy), i'm sorta close to her, whether the guy(gaius) is interested in her. and coz i asked(i mean, hey! it's the most straighforward way of getting an answer when obviously the whole class wants to know!), now they're thinking that i like him! good grief. we should stick to all-girls huh? okay. so great. i mean no anyway.
we had a diagnostic test for GP. and gosh...we had to correct a bunch of grammatical errors. and hey! this ain't primary school you know. the grammatical errors look like stuff i'll actually write. urrgh. give me plain old English lessons any time. Gp is turning out to be rather dry and uninteresting. i like flowery descriptions with words full of expression. not a bone-dry issue of Time. which reminds me that i should be reading the papers(st nix girls don't. we have better forms of entertainment)
can't wait for this school week to be over and done with. then it'll be unit day! yippee. nothing beats having people you really know with you. chatting and laughing over similar memories and sharing the same camping pasts or something. it's good to have a history. and food of course. hmmm...are there unit day souvenirs this year? it's really good that we started a nice tradition. sorta anyway. those pink glitter hearts we made with the quote was so much nicer than the woollen knit balls the year before.
and of course. i really need to shut my piehole. and wash my feet. it don't do good to wear wet shoes after soaking them during PE first period in the morning.
can't wait for this week to be over and done with.
