Got a little bored of my old blog skin which I thought was rather horrible. Hence, I attempted changing to this new one but oh well.... I am sure it looks better than the previous one.

Wonder how commencement dinner went last night, well, I am sure it must have been fun. And the International Physics Conference thingy was fine except that there were so few ppl yesterday that we almost spent the day playing Plants VS Zombies throughout. But it was an insightful experience overall and we met quite a lot of new people. I am sure we will meet them another day after our projector has undergone another revolution. Well, we have the potential, so why not delve deeper into it?

I really wonder how JC life will be like, either triple science or BCME... As for CCA, well, I think I shall just throw a dice, I would like to focus more on CIP anyway, cuz I don't have that many options for CCA anymore... But first, how will I spend the rest of the holidays?

I think I shall set a few resolutions for myself:
1) Must gain more knowledge on Economics and Chemistry
2) Must run 5 km twice every week, which I have been doing
3) Go to Salt Centre Gym once a week
4) Read the newspapers everyday, well which I have been doing for dunno how long
5) Obtain a $50 model of 1/144 00 Raiser, which I want so badly, even better if it is in Trans-Am.

And I wish Mr Kong all the best in Beijing, I will communicate with him for sure.

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Ok, today's 4th International Conference on International Mechanics, not as grand as I had thought it out to be, I was like imagining a Singapore Expo Hall with a stage in the middle and all the booths with their experimental set-ups. But we were in a hotel ballroom and we totally owned and swamped the rest. Why?

All other groups only had either a ppt presentation or their poster and there was no one there to explain their project to them in detail. But we had Mr Lee, me, Kiat Long, Sutjipto (who was War-crafting) at the booth with our IMBA projector projecting so cool 3D image throughout. So obviously everyone turned to us, Caucasians, Italians, French, Chinese, Japanese, Indians etc. It turned out we had to speak a lot of chinese and I obviously don't know the Physics terms in Chinese, so I ended up mixing a little English Physics terms here and there.

Nevertheless, it was successful, our project has made contact with Beijing's Tsinghua Uni, Australia's Photonics Research Institute, America's MIT, and quite a few other individual researchers who looked quite awed by our projector. Hope one day they will come to us again.

More meaninngful than days spent at home slowly stoning throughout.........

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OK, seriously I think I am pretty screwed up. I think I am becoming mature, why? Cuz I am getting bored with video games, seriously, for the first time in my life, I did not want to play any com games during the sch hols! Instead, guess what I did after Chinese O levels? I played around with 3DMax, Adobe CS4 suite, properly experienced Windows 7, taught my sister Chemistry and Biology, which I think I will be a failure teacher next time...

And the most no life thing anyone would say is, reading a pile of notes. Well, I rmb-ed asking my mum to print this thick reading from the library of congress about the sociology and psychology of terrorism before the IHC exam, but I did not touch it. So, not to waste paper, I shall properly immerse myself in this reading for now....

Hope the what International Conference on Mechanics will be a success and that we will not be wasting 3 days there. Well, if it gets too boring, Sutjipto will be there to entertain us there right?

I really love talking to some people, they are always there to give you new things, give you laughter, give you a shoulder to lie on.... :)

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I think I will seriously be bored to death during this school holidays, it is like there is completely nothing to look forward to at all, other than a little exhibition and maybe watching movies. I don't know what else to do, going to the gym, running in the morning, reading lots of magazines.....

Special thanks to all my teachers who have taught me in High Sch,

Sec 1: Mrs Jaya, Mrs Kee, Ms Tan, Mr Lim, Mr Tan, Mrs Khoo, 纪老师
Sec 2: Mrs Jaya, Ms Quah, Mrs Khoo, Mr Tan, Mr Lim, Mr Yap, Ms Ting, Mrs Chua, 王老师
Sec 3: J Loh (OMG!), Ms Chua, Mrs Khoo, Mrs Koh, Mr Lee, Ms Sunita, Ms Cheong, Ms Yap, Mr Siew, 陈老师
Sec 4: J Loh (OMG!), Ms Chua, Mrs Khoo, Mrs Koh, Ms Sunita, Mdm Chan, Mrs Lee, 梁老师

All these teachers are IMBA! Hope they stay in this school for a long long time to come to give their knowledge to all incoming students...

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Hmmm, I think something needs to be change about marks, it is too cruel and becoming increasingly unfair... Much more not being able to differentiate the good from the very good.

C'mon, if one is gonna rank someone by MSG, a person who gets 10 "75" scores a 1.0 while a person who gets 9 "95" and 1 "74" scores a 1.1, so where is the logic in taking into account MSG? I think they should just add the raw scores up together instead of following a mark range system...

So, today my results, just as expected, stupid chinese A2, I re-calculated, confirmed it as 74.28, and I think the most stupid thing that has ever been done is to moderate the marks obtained in the exam script and to again moderate the damn marks of the same subject for the overall exam grade, this is just bloody dumb. Why am I pissed?

1) ACE and OP have already masked the actual examination potential of a person, using the exceptionally heavy percentage of these as a "safety net". No doubt it is advantageous to have independent learning and speaking up one's opinions in class, but these marks can really cover up one's scores by increasing it by two or three grades. It is not like there are such helpful components in A Levels and O Levels or in other IP schools as well, most of them at least... If someone is going to keep using ACE and OP to get distinctions, how can one do in national exams? And it is not like ACE and OP are given out extremely fairly, objectively, without biasness.

2) Moderation is alright if the whole level screwed up for a subject, A Maths is ok to moderate since the paper itself is too difficult, I agree, but can it be justified to moderate it once and again with another boost in the overall scores by like 5 marks? C'mon, I think thats really pushing it very far, its like giving someone a free-of-charge 2 to 3 grades again!

So obviously some people are gloating over how they beat others unexpectedly, but I think they should think again whether they actually did well in the exams or was it due to SOME OTHER REASONS.....

So obviously my MSG is 1.1, but I am still very satisfied with myself, and I will even find ways to celebrate, why? I think the marks I achieved in my raw exam scores have shown a TREMENDOUS improvement from last year and some are also really high which I did not expect....

English: 78 (improved from 62 last year)
Chinese: 72 (improved from 67 last year)
E Maths: 90
A Maths: 100 (not really fair since there was moderation, 86 actually)
Physics: 87
Chemistry: 92
Biology: 94.5
IHC: 25/30 (tremendous improvement from 17/30 last year)
Geography: 27.5/30
CSC: 40/50
Higher chem: 34.5/40
Higher Physics: 31/40
Higher Biology: 31/40

Take the 10 examinable subjects, total score is 868.5/1000, easily simplified to 86.8/100. So is there any reason why I should be unhappy with my results?

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Finally something good that came into my life, finally..... But then again, I hope it is not ill gain but rather it is something that is well deserved......

Exams are over, finally got some time to take a rest but the life of a typical Singaporean student is that school life is always a hectic one, no time to rest, no time to take a breather. Before you know it, its the choosing of CCAs and subject combinations, then the same old cycle repeats itself again....

Life is never-ending turmoil, full of ups and downs, it is how you cope with these ups and downs that define you as an Earthling :)

And for some weird reason, I have returned back to reading Return of the Condor Heroes, although I made a failed attempt to finish the entire series 2 years ago, reading 50 out of like 1400 pages before I gave up; I shall finish the entire series by this December holidays, I swear, now that I appreciate such stories more.......

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Life is so mundane, I think I just have no zest to study for EOYs at all, although this is the time i should do so....

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First time in my life I have ever felt sleepy while doing Maths, first time ever, seriously......

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Wahaha, exams are coming soon, so soon that I didn't realize it, perhaps I have been too engrossed with Quiz Com, nid to give the Sec 2s moral support.

Anyway, exams aren't gonna be as slack as last year, cuz it takes up 60% this year, and there's no exemption and I need 76 and 78 for bio respectively because of my stupid OP (3 for each), but then, its not that impossible right?

English is more impossible, I wonder why the school does not accept complete explanations, but rather, only the "half-hearted" kind, so distracting.

p.s to destroy my blocked nose, I need to go for a damn run, which is what I shall do twice a week even if there arae exams :)

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What the hell, my holiday schedule is certainly very efficient, i really cannot imagie living such a mundane life for dunno how long....

0700: Wakes up/ Brush Teeth/ Drink Milk
0710: Goes to gym/ Runs 2.4/ do Weights/ Make hand pain
0820: Reaches home/ Eats Bread/ Starts doing Genetics Worksheet
1000: Reads CSC articles/ Reads a few GP essays
1130: Plays Burnout Revenge
1245: Lunch
1310: Reads through all Sec 4 Chemistry worksheets
1520: Go and buy snacks
1545: Does 1 maths revision paper
1745: Plays Burnout Revenge
1845: Dinner
1930: Comprehension Homework/ Reads newspapers
2115: Quiz Com mugging time
2230: Brain switch off, start watching youtube
2330: Sleep

Luckily such a schedule will only last for 1 more month or so, time passes by so quickly...

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Finally everything has ended, NPCC officially ended yesterday, I am sure it will always be a memorable day for me. Although I still have unofficially one more week to go in NPCC, but oh well! I will remember many people: tiong wei for taking 171 home with me every single training since sec 1, weegod for being the most IMBA leader and inspirational guy, yanseng for being SWAT head, master liew for squeezing my palm so hard, guo chen sir for being all round inspirational in using figurative language to put his ideas across, sutjipto and kiat long, IMBA cadets and also my project mates, zhen wei for being the epitomy of muscular, javan representing the mugger league and heading quiz com, hongliang sir for always guiding all of us, mdm loke for helping out in quiz com and unit camp which i played a role in and everyone else. Oh, and the most important person, DARREN TEOH! THe one who is all round inspiring, always there to inject laughter into our otherwise mundane Quiz Com training sessions and of course, putting his studies aside for QUiz Competition as well. Thank you to everyone in NPCC!

The end will always come one day, sooner or later, another will come...

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Finally, this time round, I will not screw up anymore, thats what I am going to do. I must get at least a damn 90% for the darned Quiz Com MCQ paper. Of cuz I cant beat javan's 101%, but I must at least get that. No way I will let anything get in my way any further!

I will prepare for exams now, so no excuse that QUiz Com will get in my way as well, I will settle everything, all at one shot, in the next 2 months or so! Thats what I am gonna do. Then, the usual chain of cycle will repeat itself, again. Orientation, then tests then tests then tests....

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OMG, cant believe we are gonna take a J2 test for Chemistry Olympiad, sure fail de....

4 years have passed so quickly, I still remember the day when Chong Chen sir was presenting to us at Sec 1 Orientation then me and Hong Kang were in theSPACE. Then, we were listening to what they did and were quite fascinated. Four years down the road, looks like that had not been a bad decision, we are passing out next week and time sure flies! Sec 4 exams, the last stretch, is finally coming, nothing left to spare anymore....

Going forward ahead....

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OMG, cant believe we are gonna take a J2 test for Chemistry Olympiad, sure fail de....

4 years have passed so quickly, I still remember the day when Chong Chen sir was presenting to us at Sec 1 Orientation then me and Hong Kang were in theSPACE. Then, we were listening to what they did and were quite fascinated. Four years down the road, looks like that had not been a bad decision, we are passing out next week and time sure flies! Sec 4 exams, the last stretch, is finally coming, nothing left to spare anymore....

Going forward ahead....

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OMG, cant believe we are gonna take a J2 test for Chemistry Olympiad, sure fail de....

4 years have passed so quickly, I still remember the day when Chong Chen sir was presenting to us at Sec 1 Orientation then me and Hong Kang were in theSPACE. Then, we were listening to what they did and were quite fascinated. Four years down the road, looks like that had not been a bad decision, we are passing out next week and time sure flies! Sec 4 exams, the last stretch, is finally coming, nothing left to spare anymore....

Going forward ahead....

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