For everyone who thought I looked very sad (as in to the extent of wanting to harm myself), thanks for your concern. I sincerely appreciated that. I’m not that sad. That’s just my face.
I’m fine. Just disappointed. When I hear so many getting what I missed, it just hurts somewhat.
Grades are only grades. And I’ll leave it at that.
The teachers of VJC are really hardworking. Let’s get down to analysing each department that is worthy of mention.
The Chemistry Department comes to mind first. They decided to compile 15 years worth of MCQ questions and answers and compiled the answers in a piece of terrifying looking piece of paper with all the answers to both the June and November Chemistry Paper MCQs for the past fifteen years. In addition, they managed to set five practice papers for the sake of revision. I really applaud them and thank them for their efforts.
The Math department is not any less hardworking. They compiled two volumes of practice questions for all the major topics for practice and even went to the extent of analysing the Paper 1 questions to come up with a list of topics that are out or in for paper two. (Go to Blackboard to find this under the section “Just for A”). They even scanned the H1 Paper for us and mentioned something about a H2 Mock Paper 2 soon. Wow… such dedication.
(On a side note, I screwed up the first Math paper. Been feeling sore over it. I shall pwn paper 2 next.)
The Economics department didn’t come up with such gimmicks but the fact that they compiled more than 20 essay questions and outlines for us deserves some credit. And I heard they are rather accurate in spotting questions. We shall see.
The Physics department compiled an archive of selected past year questions and solutions that is kind of nerve wrecking to look at. The General Paper department conducted a mock examination which I guess was good extra practice.
That’s all!
P.S.: Tomorrow is going to be the subject I’ve studied the most for - Chemistry. I hope I don’t screw it up.
Tags: a-levels
Firstly, I’d like to apologise for letting this blog sink into the abyss of desolation for a while. I simply lost any interest in blogging and I guess this happens quite frequently. But now, I’m back.
Anyway, I have upgraded Wordpress to the latest version and finally, WordPress supports tags.
Today was effectively the last day of school for my JC life. I think I will miss those days of having lessons in the future but for now, I’m not feeling particularly sad or any sense of loss, because I know we will continue to keep in touch with each other 
Anyway, I’m bad at writing emotions-related post so I’ll stop here. The previous paragraph sound kind of cheesy though…
Tags: Wordpress
For those who still check this site out once in a while, I only have to say that I’ve lost the drive to blog, for now.
Anyway, here’s the schedule, coupled with venues for download!
For those of you who saw my Organic Chemistry Reaction notes, rejoice for I am posting it up here. It was mainly done for my own use because I was simply daunted by the seemingly streams of reactions. Do note the following:
Get it (Updated 10 June 2007 0042h)
I left out a few topics for Math in the original file. I’ve updated it already. Please tell those whom you know have downloaded the file about the update.
Download (Updated 27 May 2007 8:15 pm)
Primarily as a way of reminding myself of the tests, I’ve created a document with the topics, times and venues for the various papers. The venues are 06S56 specific. Due to popular demand my spirit of sharing all the good things of the world, I’ve uploaded it here.
I haven’t blogged for a while. If you’ve noticed, I’ve just changed the site design. It’s called Redoable and is kinda cool. And since there was a new version of Wordpress being released (2.2), I thought it might be a good chance to do a mini-revamp now. Some minor problems with the theme though they should be solved soon.
It was kind of sad that VJ soccer boys lost to RJC yesterday. I’m sure they’ve tried their best and let’s hope they can at least win the third title.
There were some people from Millenia Institute yesterday at the above mentioned match who sat at our side and decided to jeer and create trouble during the match. At the end, some of the male teachers who were there and some ex-victorians went ahead and gave them a piece of their minds. I’ve been reading this person’s blog recently regarding the students from the school he teachers. Coupled with the recent posts about the “parents’ letter” issue, I wonder what the hell our education system is moulding us into.
This morning at Jalan Besar stadium, our soccer girls managed to win TJ 1-0 to get into the finals. Good job girls! The goal was pretty cool. A long range shot. I’ve just realized that even though the stadium is relatively nearer form my house than any other places, it still would have taken me 15 minutes to walk there. Add the blazing sun into the formula and… you get the picture.
I’m sure that for most of us who went down to CCAB yesterday and for those that went to the stadium to support today were not thinking about half-days or full-days when we were cheering for them to win. Those who are seriously do not get the point. It was more of school spirit that drove me to support them in addition to reasons like our class were supposed to go and because Jalan Besar stadium is so near my house.
There was this lack of spirit for Dunman High and I could feel more of it here. Time passes really fast and it is six more months before we are out of the school and into world of National Service. I hope I can still remember my time here vividly when the time comes.
Now, time to start work on the stacks of things I plan to do. Any one has extra time to sell? I’ll buy them!
I heard of the news yesterday. A girl fainted during PE and had no pulse. She was resuscitated and then sent to the hospital. I passed it off as just a normal incident of over-exercising. She passed away in hospital yesterday at 5 pm.
We were told this this morning when we went to school for SPA. They cancelled all the SPA this week and we had no lessons today. I heard from a friend who knew the girl that she probably passed away because of Brain Haemorrhage (bleeding in the brain, i.e. stroke).
It’s saddening to think that she’s so young and yet she wasn’t spared from this sudden attack. Indeed, life is fragile. ‘Nuff said.
So, it has come and gone again. With this, the common tests loom ever closer.
I managed to snatch a 182nd this year, less than half of last year’s ~500 position. No, I’m not disappointed because I didn’t get a two digit position like what some of you might be thinking; on the contrary, I’ve met my target of being below 300.
But honestly, I would say I’m not satisfied yet. There is still room for improvement. My current record stands at approximately 25 minutes now. I’ve never really timed it. I just took some estimates from the others’ timings and subtracted/added the time the elapsed while I/they were waiting for them/me after the runs respectively. What a mouthful. But nevertheless, I’m still like 10 minutes behind the record breaker if I’ve ran today at the same pace. Much more room for improvement. (Not that I can reach that standard - at least I could try and close up the gap 
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An interesting tidbit: Apparently, the Mathematics Department in VJC is pretty good at running. The top five male staff runners were all from the Mathematics Department. (Yes, GISC is included as well - there’s no such thing as a “computing” department.)
And a word of advice: Sometimes it’s better not to comment when you have nothing constructive to say. Thank you very much. AND NO! I am not some ignorant kid who stays at home the whole day sitting in front of a machine doing nothing but play games. You know who I am talking about.
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