Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Once again, I have failed to update. Haha well it's because my internet was down since saturday. Disgusting.... Starhub is really unreliable. The silly modem has spoiled countless times. There's always a problem with the internet. Maybe it's because of the 4 computers that are sharing one internet account. Yup. 4. My sister's, my sister's laptop, mine, and my dad's. It can get VERY laggy sometimes. This is going to be a long post. haha.
Anyway, just finished bio prac. It wasn't as bad as i thought it would be. When i reached the lecture theatrette, Yixin told me that they smelled onions as they walked past the labs. So I took out the drawing of the onion and started memorising it. Then, i thought, "Why would they ask us to draw the onion? It's too comlicated, with the layers and all. And, the onion only gives off the strong smell if it's cut." So i thought that they were going to ask us to do food tests on it. Alas, the moment I entered the lab and saw the slices of potato and a few petri dishes, I knew it. OSMOSIS. My most hated topic for practical. You have to measure everything meticulously and even the smallest of changes in length can make your measurments inaccurate. Well, it wasn't that bad, until I heard everyone lighting up their bunsen burners. I was quite scared, because I didn't know why they were lighting them up for. I flipped through the paper and saw a test for reducing sugars, then i thought "so fast? How come everyone is so fast?" and lighted it up anyway. I found out later that everyone was lighting it up to boil the leaf. AURGH. 2 marks gone.
Anyway, the practical went fine, and my answers corresponded to the readings that were expected. The whole practical was rather surreal. I just went in there and completed it. Woohoo. Anyway, I have to get a new entry proof. Mine's all torn up after putting it into my wallet for a few months. One part of it is actually green. Haha well it's not because of mold or anything (That's disgusting. I would have gotten a new one if it was mold) but it's from the green card that was next to it.
I went to see M.Neo after that. Had to re-schedule my "personal lesson" with her becuase i missed the one today due to my practical and can't make it for tomorrow's cos of maths. It was quite coincidental. I poked my head into the staffroom and asked for her and she was just next to the door. Well, she gave A TON of homework (no surprise there) and told me about friday's lesson.
Hmmm I couldn't blog about friday's graduation so I'll do it now. It was quite ok, quite nice. A lot of people (and when I say that I mean a few of my friends) found it unmoving and "bad" according to Colin Moy. I personally found it quite enjoyable. It was nice to see the teachers singing "Greatest Love Of All" by Whitney Houston. It's especially funny when Mr. Denis Leong sang the verse in the same octave as Whitney but sang the chorus an octave lower, so it's kinda anti-climatic, but funny nevertheless. Well, I really liked the video though. Although some were clearly just templates. I thought Mr Jeffrey Goh's one was very funny and original. How he used the various chapters in Biology and applied it to the graduation theme. "Blue tits". Haha. (It's a name of a bird by the way). Oh and Ms Tan decided not to go through the math paper during "Form teacher moment" (A wise decision) and shared with us her reflections on the 1 and a half years spent teaching our class (only about more than half a year teaching me though). It was quite nice to see teachers who arent' afraid to be more sentimental with the class. She told us she wasn't a very good public speaker but I think she gave a rather heartfelt reflection. Personally, thanks Ms. Tan for being such a caring teacher. I'm sure the class appreciates it.
Then, we watched the video of our class. It was done by Hansen(I think) and it was job well done. It's nice to see people who actually bother to put in effort to do a video and I must say it was very commendable. Then, we watched some hilarious videos, mainly of people in our class goofing around to rock and chinese music. It was very very funny, and I could see Jing Cheng looking very embarrassed about it. Hey, you really gave us a laugh. Then, we watched Andre's group's video for the english project that was made last year. I never got to see it, so it was new to me. It was some sort of rape thing. Yeah, Andre getting raped by some guy(whom I couldn't really identify due to dim lights) That was certainly funny too.
Oh and I was horrified when I saw the pictures that Ms Tan gave out along with the report books. I took a look at myself and felt like burning the pictures. Haha. I looked so sad and depressed in all the photos. AURGH why did they have to take the pictures from the newspaper collection???!!!! I was sooo tired and moody that day and really didn't know the rest of the class looked so happy in the photos. I looked so disgusting in all the photos. Wasn't smiling at all. Oh well, doesn't matter. It was worth a laugh at least :)
I'll definitely miss my days in Catholic High, with all the crazy and fun moments that were shared with my friends and classmates. I love the school, who wouldn't? (After spending 10 years in it, you would either hate it to the core or love it)
Well, I must admit that I didn't study like crazy for the practical. I did study, but not as much as I set to. I ended up watching friends instead. One of the most hilarious lines is when Monica defends herself when the rest were laughing at her for dating her 40+ ex-boyfriend's son. Here's a funny bit.
Ross: Hey, you know, Mon, if things works out with you and Richard's son, you'll be able to tell your kids that you slept with their grandfather.
Monica: Fine, judge all you want to, but... Married a lesbian; Left a man at the altar; Fell in love with a gay ice dancer; Threw a girl's wooden leg in the fire; Livin' in a box!
It's actually much funnier when you watch it.
Another tease.
Monica: He's nice, right?
Phoebe: Yeah, but Monica, do you really want to be in a relationship where you can actually use the phrase, "That's not how your dad used to do it."
Haha.
This has been one heck of a post. Haha. So much has happened since the last time I updated. So, hope you've had "fun" reading it.
:)
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