A Productive Day Of 06S71

//A Productive Day Of 06S71//

Weixin asked me to post a blog entry entitled "A Productive Day" today. So..why not?

It was a nice and sunny day. The beautiful day started with a productive 2 hours, from 8.15 to 10.15 in the school hall as 06S71 sweats it out in our final paper for Block test 1. I remembered when Mrs Foo asked us to check if we have the correct number of pages for our scripts, I was excited to reach the last page, where I can have a quick glimpse of the essay questions. My heart sank when I saw the topics tested for essay. And I vividly remembered someone from S70 saying "F*ck" (or shit, or something to that effect) very loudly. Ha, I was kind of comforted for that split second, I wouldn't be the only one who would die in essay.

So after the productive 2 hours of stimulation of our brains, we spend the next 1.5 hours from 10.30 to 12.00, productively stoning, and deciding what movies to watch and where to go.

Oh, and by we, I mean xinyi, pauline, cheryl, everlyn, me, mitchell, wilson, edmund, zeqi, weixin and gary.

After we finally decided, we made our way to Cineleisure, and we all look like its our first time in Orchard. First of all, when we reach the bus stop we are supposed to alight, most of them were so engrossed in their productive conversations that we almost forgot to alight. At the road junction, we upheld the 71 tradition of lagging by not crossing the road when the green man is on.

Inside Cineleisure, we all did pretty 'smart' stuff. First, we took an escalator down to the basement, where we can buy tickets, only to realise that the ticket counter is close. So too bad, we have to go to level 5 to buy our tickets. Logically, we would take the lift to level, instead of using the escalator, right? So we did that, and we were so smart that we took that lift take serves from B3 to level 1. So effectively, we took escalator down to B1, and took a lift back up to L1. So when we finally got to L5 with the correct lift, we were all relieved (it rhymes!)

So after buying the tickets for the movie "Music and Lyrics", we went back to B1 for lunch at Kobayashi. Things went pretty smoothly from then on, no wrong lifts, nothing. We were even on time for the movie *gasp*. This was a historical moment for 06S71, as we were hardly on time for lectures and tutorials.

Movie was pretty funny in parts, but the most funny part was when the movie suddenly just shuts off, and we were left staring at the blank screen. So we waited, and waited, and stoned in the true spirit of 06S71. After around 15-20 minutes of waiting time, the movie came back on! So back to watching! Or so we thought. It blanked out 10 minutes later.

So Cathay decided to give us all a complimentary free ticket, and to quote the person "You are allowed to watch ANY movie, ANY time, ANY day". So zai right? Then she added "But it only lasts for two weeks." So I guess any time any day is not so unlimited afterall.

Then came our favourite activity. If stoning and lagging at the class bench was not enough, we decided to just stand right in the middle of L5 of Cineleisure to lag and talk productively. Apparently, we all prefer to stand and lag, rather than sit and lag, as can be seen in this example, and our previous record, where we stand beside the tree outside Curry Wok to talk and waste time away for around 1-2 hours. This time round however, we only lasted for about half an hour.

Sadly, Zeqi and Edmund didn't get to enjoy this favourite 71 activity of ours, as edmund gotta leave for piano lesson and zeqi have to leave for tennis.

So as smart people, we took a lift down L1, and we continued our productive stand-lag exercise there, while blocking the main exit and entrance. The girls finally decided to take neoprint after a further stoning of 15 minutes. And off we went. So while waiting for the girls to finish taking their neoprints, the guys spent our time productively talking crap inside the neoprint shop.

1 hour elapse. Ok, maybe I'm exaggarating, but they sure took long to take those neoprints.

Then after this, we decided to take the lift down to L1. As we entered the lift, we saw 4 RI/RJ guys. So we're all sardined packed in the lift. And down it went. When the door opened, we realised we were already at B1. That's what happens when there are too many smart people in the lift, we all assumed others will press the buttons, when in fact we all didn't.

So it's ok, we took the escalator back up to L1, only to realise it's raining. So we went back down again.

So from around 4pm to 6pm, we productively spent our time together by stoning, and erm, 'fumerating' and 'alpha-ketogluterating' each other. Of course we didn't forget to 'malate' and 'succinyl-CoA' each other.

So there it was. What a productive day.

I think I deserve a "A" for this narrative essay.

Fan

//Fan//

The fan in my room siao liao.

It seems fine...till it suddenly makes weird noises.

Then it slows down.

Then it makes more weird noises.

Then it speeds up, and return to original state as if nothing as happened.

And the cycle continues. (for at least 3, 4 times since I came home).

I think I am like my fan.

Fascination

//Fascination//

When was the last time you were really fascinated by something?

Looking at how the kids get fascinated over every little thing during Interact March camp makes me wonder that.

And no, I am not fascinated by the multiplier effect.

I don't go "wow". I go "huh". So I'm confused, not fascinated.

Doing a whole footdrill procedure again with the team felt so good.

Tiring, but good. It's been 2 years. We even got the full AA (ambulance adult) team, including number 5.

AA power! Muahahahaha. Ok. Random.

And going to lunch at SIM after training on Wednesday really relt like the good old days, where we would go there for lunch after Sat training. Except we don't mug together after lunch at SIM last time, which we did on Wednesday.

Awww...st john :)

Ewww...econs :(

Not making sense already.

When The Lights Go Down

//When The Lights Go Down//

I think I appear so stoned most of the time that I display zero emotional range at all.

Looking at how some people apear when they are stressed, or how some others behave when they are pissed or emotional, and mosty importantly listening to people talk about other people's behaviour...made me wonder how I behave around others.

Some people mask their saddness with laughter and smiles. Some wear their emotions on their sleeves. And my conclusion for myself: I am just stoned.

Like a stone.

There but not there.

One of my friends once told me I look tired all the time. Like a lost sheep. So I tried to be more lively. It worked, here and there, once in a while, but most of the time, especially recently, I would just slipped back to my stone-y self.

It is just tiring to be someone I'm not.

Maybe that's why I feel most relaxed with meng, cheng and rence. It almost seems like it's alright to stone all I want when I'm with them.

When the lights go down
And there's nothing left to be
When the lights go down
And the truth is all you see
- Faith Hill

But it's not as if there's like nothing underneath the stone-y surface. It's not like my mind will switch off automatically when I'm stoning.

Was feeling rather moody and kind of sad in a way this 2 days...over something really small...

I'm not a particularly reflective type of person, but it's amazing how some movies can get me really emotional. Not in a "omg that's so sad" one dimensional kind of emotion where I will start crying, but rather mixed emotions, that makes me feel happy and sad at the same time.

Weird, but there are movies that can do this to me.

The film can be really lousy, but as long as it strikes a emotional chord with me, I just can't really get out of the movies. It took me a couple of days to get over the movie"Noel", cause right after watching it, the feeling of loneliness just gripes me so strongly...

And movies like these will just get thinking about my own life, how I want to lead it and so on. And somehow I always get kind of depressed just from thinking about it.

I guess that kinds of explain my emotional state of mind for this past 2 days...

Ok, I think I'm getting kind of incoherent and rambling.

I really need to get out of this mode and switch gear into the mugging mode soon.

Hess' Law

//Hess' Law//

It's kind of amazing how different J2 life is from J1 life.

It's the same school, the same class bench, the same classmates, same tutors (almost) and so on, but life is just so different.

I don't think it's the influx of tutorials or work or tests like some people said, cause seriously the workload actually didn't change much in my opinion, other than the fact that there are more Bio essays to be done, there isn't really much difference in terms of workload, like compared to term 3 of last year.

It's just the mentality that have changed. I can no longer slack in school at the class bench after school without feeling guilty. I can no longer dao all my tutorials and feel like it's ok, I can cope. And I can see that I'm not the only one feeling this change.

The A Level release of results really sort of freak me out a bit, maybe cause I never did O levels...I just look at the seniors, and you know I actually felt my heart beat faster when I was imagining myself in that same situation. I didn't felt a thing last year seeing the seniors collect their results, but this year is different, it's actually my turn to take the A lvls.

Plus the constant harping by the different teachers about A lvl results, how 9 out of 10 students get A for Bio, how many 4 As students there are, how all the students in her class get at least a B3 of GP...it sounds really easy doesn't it?

Ms Lim said Hwa Chong students somehow have the ability to step up and rise to the occasion, and Miss Wong showed us the article on how this girl from ACJC managed to get her 4 As despite less than stellar results from Prelims...

Well the fact is it's not easy at all. Not at all. I even have difficulty finding the motivation to study and work slightly harder at the beginning of the year. It's gonna be a tough year ahead. And the last year in school too. Mixed emotions.

Anyway after half a term of lagging in work, and half a term of maniac catching up, I can finally proudly say I'm more or less catching up in all tutorials (except Econs)...the next big step for me is to listen in ALL lectures...since the beginning of the year till now, the only lectures I listened to was Kinetics Part I, Photosynthesis (till the light dependent stage) and Respiration. That's it. i MUST change. i WILL listen and pay attention.

By the way, the title of this entry has absolutely nothing to do with the entry itself. I'm just in a chemistry mood.