Sunday, September 4
Ta MA de...I was meddling with my specs when the class photo was taken during the gathering...loL. Nvm there's next year to look forward to! Yesterday went ginza kfc to study with frens for 5 hours straight. I only managed to finish 1 JJC promo paper. It was damn easy. Those answers I had no confidence in all turned out to be correct ...maybe I need more topical revision before hitting the papers to increase my speed.
Thursday, September 1
Yesterday was a night to be remembered for me, or probably every tss 4e1 classmate who went to the teachers' day gathering. Although a handful of peeps didn't make it, hope they'll be fine and remember the teachers and most importantly the class! Awww Mrs Koh our maths/form teacher couldn't hold back her tears...again. She was by far a good teacher, always caring for us. Then there was Mr Chan the Chemistry teacher, still a faithful fan of China ya? Lol...He was like a propaganda messenger for China... keep injecting us with the happenings in that country. "You know huh, in China ......" was his favourite starting phrase to sidetrack from the lesson. I don't blame him now already for not giving me the A1 grade for Chemistry prelims, because I've made it into a comfortable JJC and moreover I got b3 for o lvls! Really don't deserve that A1 chem grade, come to think of it...
The memories of 3e1 /4e1 came back very much yesterday, as I came to realise that there's this group of friends once so close to me and hopefully the class will continue like this or even better. YAY I finally returned Rach her FFX disc! It's like the best game that invoked my emotions. Stanley went crazy yesterday :) He became so playful ! I haven't seen him like this since we joined JJC. Ms Chai was so enthusiastic when she introduced us some orientation-like games. Finian went so boinkers@#$* at it hahahaHA. I didn't went back to tanglin or rulang..damn...I'm like a bad unfilial student! But I went back tanglin for mentoring and met the teachers several times, so i guessed that'll do. I'll win a medal before I see Mr Tham next year!
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE GATHERING LAST NIGHT. YOU PEOPLE CAME AND MADE IT HAPPENED. A BIGGER THANKS TO ORGANISERS FINIAN AND LYNN CHOO. BIGGEST THANKS TO THE TEACHERS WHO CAME AND THOSE WHO TAUGHT ME BEFORE. HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY````~~! AND OH, I HAVEN'T FORGOT, JESSICA! THANKS FOR ALLOWING THE GATHERING TO BE HELD AT YOUR CONDO! HOPE EVERYONE WILL BE FINE AS THEY GO THEIR OWN WAYS TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS (:
Okay, from now on i'll recall my 4e1 classmates whenever I'm in difficulties so as to encourage myself.
The memories of 3e1 /4e1 came back very much yesterday, as I came to realise that there's this group of friends once so close to me and hopefully the class will continue like this or even better. YAY I finally returned Rach her FFX disc! It's like the best game that invoked my emotions. Stanley went crazy yesterday :) He became so playful ! I haven't seen him like this since we joined JJC. Ms Chai was so enthusiastic when she introduced us some orientation-like games. Finian went so boinkers@#$* at it hahahaHA. I didn't went back to tanglin or rulang..damn...I'm like a bad unfilial student! But I went back tanglin for mentoring and met the teachers several times, so i guessed that'll do. I'll win a medal before I see Mr Tham next year!
MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO THE GATHERING LAST NIGHT. YOU PEOPLE CAME AND MADE IT HAPPENED. A BIGGER THANKS TO ORGANISERS FINIAN AND LYNN CHOO. BIGGEST THANKS TO THE TEACHERS WHO CAME AND THOSE WHO TAUGHT ME BEFORE. HAPPY TEACHERS' DAY````~~! AND OH, I HAVEN'T FORGOT, JESSICA! THANKS FOR ALLOWING THE GATHERING TO BE HELD AT YOUR CONDO! HOPE EVERYONE WILL BE FINE AS THEY GO THEIR OWN WAYS TO ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS (:
Okay, from now on i'll recall my 4e1 classmates whenever I'm in difficulties so as to encourage myself.
Saturday, August 27
She caught my eye a couple times this week. SOoo pleasing ! How can I not like her. My super-duper goddess. The other day I even dreamed about saying "hello" to her. This seemingly simple task is so tough for me... What ever the crap, things will go just this way... She goes her way, I walk on...praising she's beautiful in my heart. She's happy, I'm just as good.
Operation Perfection
Aim
- To secure some As for the final academic report, I have hereby chosen to take this gruelling route to score perfect marks across the board.
I just knew I could do it when I got back my grades for common test. The whole thing is as if imprinted in my mind before reality plays it out. I just know what is wrong with my studies. I will walk out of JJC with my task done at the end of the year 2005. I came to realise that I'm a perfectionist because I felt everything I wrote on paper, I want it to appear in its best form. And in some other examples in my daily life, it reflects the same thing. Perfection.
Sidetrack///-/
I hate my class. Especially some of the boys. Nothing wrong with the gals at all. It's just about the boys. Someday I would reall pipe up something like, " Hey XXX, SHUT THE F*** UP LAA !"
Operation Perfection
Aim
- To secure some As for the final academic report, I have hereby chosen to take this gruelling route to score perfect marks across the board.
I just knew I could do it when I got back my grades for common test. The whole thing is as if imprinted in my mind before reality plays it out. I just know what is wrong with my studies. I will walk out of JJC with my task done at the end of the year 2005. I came to realise that I'm a perfectionist because I felt everything I wrote on paper, I want it to appear in its best form. And in some other examples in my daily life, it reflects the same thing. Perfection.
Sidetrack///-/
I hate my class. Especially some of the boys. Nothing wrong with the gals at all. It's just about the boys. Someday I would reall pipe up something like, " Hey XXX, SHUT THE F*** UP LAA !"
Wednesday, August 24
Thursday, August 18
I received my chemistry common test from ms zhang 15mins before lesson ended. She yelled abit at me for leaving my answer blank for MCQ Qn 4. First a 17/30 for MCQ. Lol. Really had nothing to say about this score. I know I didn't do my best at all to study enough but tried to absorb everything I'm not sure about the chapters. Like a sponge. Not spongebob *yuko! hee.
Then when ms zhang handed over my paper 2 and I looked through my marks the 1st time round, I had mixed feelings. 24/50. Failed but I'm not sad. I remembered my classmate Tee Yien saying proudly about his answers for qn 5. He said so confidently about it and it made me so nervous because mine were all so different! He's those kind of abit haolian guy (negatively) though he's quite nice together with me. But I scored 9/11 marks for that qn. I remarked, "Huh. Who said so sure about this qn?" Still, 41/80. Pass for chemistry. Physics would be worse I reckon. Maths...hmm....hard to guess.
I learned a good lesson in sec 1. After I took the first maths test, I told a girl beside me that I will surely score very well(damn haolian la...Regrettably). In the end I failed by a far margin. From then onwards I mentioned my expectations for exam results conservatively.
I bet everyone else had a better chance in the common test than me. I didn't feel competitive enough to get good scores if you know what I mean in implicit terms. Didn't actually study enough! I feel abit like the top scholar(Liu yun) in my sec sch now..trying to be ahead of what the teachers are teaching. I don't want the teachers to set my learning pace. One day I'll be behind time again. There is no way to maintain equilibrium if I follow exactly what the teachers give.
I want to thank my Chinese teacher for her word of enlightenment. She said, "The only difference between you and the good JC students is a word, 'lazy' " From that day onwards I tried really hard to utilize my free time.
`!END!~
Then when ms zhang handed over my paper 2 and I looked through my marks the 1st time round, I had mixed feelings. 24/50. Failed but I'm not sad. I remembered my classmate Tee Yien saying proudly about his answers for qn 5. He said so confidently about it and it made me so nervous because mine were all so different! He's those kind of abit haolian guy (negatively) though he's quite nice together with me. But I scored 9/11 marks for that qn. I remarked, "Huh. Who said so sure about this qn?" Still, 41/80. Pass for chemistry. Physics would be worse I reckon. Maths...hmm....hard to guess.
I learned a good lesson in sec 1. After I took the first maths test, I told a girl beside me that I will surely score very well(damn haolian la...Regrettably). In the end I failed by a far margin. From then onwards I mentioned my expectations for exam results conservatively.
I bet everyone else had a better chance in the common test than me. I didn't feel competitive enough to get good scores if you know what I mean in implicit terms. Didn't actually study enough! I feel abit like the top scholar(Liu yun) in my sec sch now..trying to be ahead of what the teachers are teaching. I don't want the teachers to set my learning pace. One day I'll be behind time again. There is no way to maintain equilibrium if I follow exactly what the teachers give.
I want to thank my Chinese teacher for her word of enlightenment. She said, "The only difference between you and the good JC students is a word, 'lazy' " From that day onwards I tried really hard to utilize my free time.
`!END!~
Tuesday, August 16
Monday, August 15
Tuesday, August 9
Monday, August 8
Taken from the Declaration of Independence of the United States.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."
By Benjamin Franklin Gates' explanation in the movie National Treasure, it means if there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
*I read the full text of the historical paper and couldn't understand who are the people written in it referring to. It's like no other text I've seen. I love the part when Nicholas Cage said that excerpt above. Super cool voice.
Saturday, August 6
From the Movie, Saving Private Ryan
My dear Mrs Ryan: It's with the most profound sense of joy that I write to inform you your son, Private James Ryan, is well and, at this very moment, on his way home from European battlefields. Reports from the front indicate James did his duty in combat with great courage and steadfast dedication, even after he was informed of the tragic loss your family has suffered in this great campaign to rid the world of tyranny and oppression. I take great pleasure in joining the Secretary of War, the men and women of the U.S. Army, and the citizens of a grateful nation in wishing you good health and many years of happiness with James at your side. Nothing, not even the safe return of a beloved son, can compensate you, or the thousands of other American families, who have suffered great loss in this tragic war. I might share with you some words which have sustained me through long, dark nights of peril, loss, and heartache.
And I quote: "I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the alter of freedom." -Abraham Lincoln. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, George C. Marshall, General, Chief of Staff.
Facts:
The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Sixty years later, the Normandy invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, remains the largest sea borne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in occupied France.
The Normandy invasion began with overnight paratrooper and glider landings, massive air and naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious assault on June 6, famously known as "D-day". The battle for Normandy continued for more than two months, with campaigns to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Allied beachheads. It concluded with the liberation of Paris and the fall of the Chambois pocket.
Statistics
Army Strength
Allied Forces: 326,000 (by June 11, 1944)
Germany: unknown
Casualties
Allied Forces: 37,000 dead, 18,000 missing, 154,000 wounded
Germany: ~200,000 dead or wounded, 200,000 captured
Afterthoughts :
It was a great victory over the Germans that the world will remember. After watching Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers(series) , I salue the Allied troops for their boldness and determination to free Europe of Hilter's vicious grip. Many documented brave souls have died, while others live on to tell the tale to their grandchildren. A hard-fought war that granted freedom for the world, indeed.
In memory of the atomic bomb released on Hiroshima which flattened the whole city exactly 60 years ago (Aug 6, 1945). The United States were not to be blamed fully for what they've done during WWII. The army got to do what it has got to do as a superpower nation. Moreover, Pearl Harbour was attacked with utmost brutality by the Japanese. Millions of Asians were suffering under the evil war campaign of Japanese, obviously trying to conquer Asia. Had the atomic bombs not been used, the whole asia will be called Japan. Peace talks at that time is impossible because the ambitious leaders only had one thing in mind, to kill and conquer. My stand is that the Japanese deserved the bombs and my fingers point to the generals who started the campaign.
My dear Mrs Ryan: It's with the most profound sense of joy that I write to inform you your son, Private James Ryan, is well and, at this very moment, on his way home from European battlefields. Reports from the front indicate James did his duty in combat with great courage and steadfast dedication, even after he was informed of the tragic loss your family has suffered in this great campaign to rid the world of tyranny and oppression. I take great pleasure in joining the Secretary of War, the men and women of the U.S. Army, and the citizens of a grateful nation in wishing you good health and many years of happiness with James at your side. Nothing, not even the safe return of a beloved son, can compensate you, or the thousands of other American families, who have suffered great loss in this tragic war. I might share with you some words which have sustained me through long, dark nights of peril, loss, and heartache.
And I quote: "I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the alter of freedom." -Abraham Lincoln. Yours very sincerely and respectfully, George C. Marshall, General, Chief of Staff.
Facts:
The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between the German forces occupying Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Sixty years later, the Normandy invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, remains the largest sea borne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in occupied France.
The Normandy invasion began with overnight paratrooper and glider landings, massive air and naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious assault on June 6, famously known as "D-day". The battle for Normandy continued for more than two months, with campaigns to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Allied beachheads. It concluded with the liberation of Paris and the fall of the Chambois pocket.
Statistics
Army Strength
Allied Forces: 326,000 (by June 11, 1944)
Germany: unknown
Casualties
Allied Forces: 37,000 dead, 18,000 missing, 154,000 wounded
Germany: ~200,000 dead or wounded, 200,000 captured
Afterthoughts :
It was a great victory over the Germans that the world will remember. After watching Saving Private Ryan and Band Of Brothers(series) , I salue the Allied troops for their boldness and determination to free Europe of Hilter's vicious grip. Many documented brave souls have died, while others live on to tell the tale to their grandchildren. A hard-fought war that granted freedom for the world, indeed.
In memory of the atomic bomb released on Hiroshima which flattened the whole city exactly 60 years ago (Aug 6, 1945). The United States were not to be blamed fully for what they've done during WWII. The army got to do what it has got to do as a superpower nation. Moreover, Pearl Harbour was attacked with utmost brutality by the Japanese. Millions of Asians were suffering under the evil war campaign of Japanese, obviously trying to conquer Asia. Had the atomic bombs not been used, the whole asia will be called Japan. Peace talks at that time is impossible because the ambitious leaders only had one thing in mind, to kill and conquer. My stand is that the Japanese deserved the bombs and my fingers point to the generals who started the campaign.
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