Tuesday, July 29, 2008
i screwed up my biology mock SPA, which was conducted today... skills B and D were tested and out of the many requirements for the 2 skills, i only managed to plot my table, which was not even completely filled, and a line that says: there were no anomalous results. wow... like that is going to help me get the full marks of 16/16... -.-
today was an awful day. i had a lack of sleep and i didn't manage to eat anything in school at all... LEO Club rehearsal for investiture day ended at 6.40pm... i nearly starved to death.... but then again, the starvation was worth it as i managed to hand in my WR today. =)
(though it was quite a crappy work done. lol. )
-siLvia
; 12:09 AM
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
today was racial harmony day. some came to school with really interesting and nice ethnic costumes. apparently only sin yee and wen shin wore for our class. haha. april and kelmen's costumes were really matching. =P
civics lesson was on racial harmony and ms cai tested our class on our national education. it seems like we do actually know a lot. haha. contact time was on the introduction to the mazarin programme of tj, which was a programme only opened to the top 20% of the cohort during the promotional examinations, and outward bound school india and korea!! sigh... if only i'll be able to qualify for both.
tomorrow's half day so i'm going to st. nicks with ying teng. =) yu ning can't go in though. jealous? =P
sigh. the first draft of EoM is due tomorrow. and i'm not even halfway through it yet. i've got to work harder! A for project work here i come! XD
-siLvia
; 11:04 PM
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
got back my progress report for the mid-years today. the tutors' comments were more interesting than my actual results. my comments were generally okay and the tutors were very encouraging. don't worry, i'll definitely work harder! =)
the most funny comment was from my Mathematics tutor mrs leong: "Silvia is a cheerful student who comes prepared for tutorials." HAHA. XD
(if you're not happy with my results, no one is asking you to sign it anyway. don't worry, i'll definitely prove to you that i'm not as lousy as you think.)
-siLvia
; 11:21 PM
Sunday, July 13, 2008
went to support lynn for her guitar concert on friday night. took me and lijun 2 whole bloody hours to get to the place... -.- i swear this is the first and the last time that i'm going there. we even missed 5 songs. luckily we still managed to see lynn perform for a few minutes.
lynn really looked very nice in her costume. =) guess all my friends are good-looking right? haha. anyway, we gave her a famous amos cookie and a stalk of rose. we're so nice to her right? =P
saw him during the intermission. kinda expected to see him there, since he's performing too. but i really didn't know that the feeling would still be there. i realised i still couldn't really face him, so i turned away and pulled lijun away with me immediately. i guess i haven't really gotten over things yet. it still hurts a lot deep down. it's been 3 years already, but why am i the only idiot who still can't seem to be able to let go of things? to me, he was really a very good friend, that's why it still hurts so much. i can't forget how close we used to be and worse still, what he did to me. he mattered so much that i still can't forgive him at all. people always say that hatred requires as much energy as love. that's why when i hate him, it really actually weighs a lot on my heart. i even hate him more than i hate that girl. the answer is simple. because he matters more to me than that girl. i'm sure i'll be able to get over her in a few more years' time, but i really don't know if it's even possible for me to get over him at all. a heart once broken can never be properly mended again...
because of him, i was actually emo-ing for the whole of friday. ironically, it was chee leong, who vaguely reminds me of him, who was trying to cheer me up. haha. chee leong, thanks anyway! i really appreciated it. =)
oh yeah, i know my mid-years results already. GP- D, CLL- E, Biology- D, Chemistry- D, Mathematics- U, CSC- E. i'm quite okay with my marks because i kind of expected myself to do more badly. haha. anyway, when i told my dad my results, he asked me to 保重. -.-
-siLvia
; 5:12 PM
Silvia Yeat
HARMONY
You look for areas of agreement. In your view there is little to be gained from conflict and friction, so you seek to hold them to a minimum. When you know that the people around you hold differing views, you try to find the common ground. You try to steer them away from confrontation and toward harmony. In fact, harmony is one of your guiding values. You can’t quite believe how much time is wasted by people trying to impose their views on others. Wouldn’t we all be more productive if we kept our opinions in check and instead looked for consensus and support? You believe we would, and you live by that belief. When others are sounding off about their goals, their claims, and their fervently held opinions, you hold your peace. When others strike out in a direction, you will willingly, in the service of harmony, modify your own objectives to merge with theirs (as long as their basic values do not clash with yours). When others start to argue about their pet theory or concept, you steer clear of the debate, preferring to talk about practical, down-to-earth matters on which you can all agree. In your view we are all in the same boat, and we need this boat to get where we are going. It is a good boat. There is no need to rock it just to show that you can.
ADAPTABILITY
You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions at once.
DEVELOPER
You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact, potential is all you see. In your view no individual is fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you interact with others, your goal is to help them experience success. You look for ways to challenge them. You devise interesting experiences that can stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you are on the lookout for the signs of growth—a new behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of “flow” where previously there were only halting steps. For you these small increments—invisible to some—are clear signs of potential being realized. These signs of growth in others are your fuel. They bring you strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek you out for help and encouragement because on some level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine and fulfilling to you.
EMPATHY
You can sense the emotions of those around you. You can feel what they are feeling as though their feelings are your own. Intuitively, you are able to see the world through their eyes and share their perspective. You do not necessarily agree with each person’s perspective. You do not necessarily feel pity for each person’s predicament—this would be sympathy, not Empathy. You do not necessarily condone the choices each person makes, but you do understand. This instinctive ability to understand is powerful. You hear the unvoiced questions. You anticipate the need. Where others grapple for words, you seem to find the right words and the right tone. You help people find the right phrases to express their feelings—to themselves as well as to others. You help them give voice to their emotional life. For all these reasons other people are drawn to you.
POSITIVITY
You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation. Some call you lighthearted. Others just wish that their glass were as full as yours seems to be. But either way, people want to be around you. Their world looks better around you because your enthusiasm is contagious. Lacking your energy and optimism, some find their world drab with repetition or, worse, heavy with pressure. You seem to find a way to lighten their spirit. You inject drama into every project. You celebrate every achievement. You find ways to make everything more exciting and more vital. Some cynics may reject your energy, but you are rarely dragged down. Your Positivity won’t allow it. Somehow you can’t quite escape your conviction that it is good to be alive, that work can be fun, and that no matter what the setbacks, one must never lose one’s sense of humor.
; 1:29 AM
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
supposed to do CSC now. but i really don't have any ideas for it at all. -.-
today was just like any other day, so basically nothing special happened. hmmm... was thinking about whether i should apply for the National Youth Forum. i'm quite interested in it, but i'm not really sure if i'm suitable for it.
i REALLY need help for mathematics... don't understand anything at all and don't even know how to go about doing the tutorials... sigh... maybe i can get yingteng to help me. =p
and yu ning, you'd better stop talking about that perosn. if not i'll smack you in the head someday.
oh yeah, i'm going for lynn's guitar concert on friday! going with lijun too! can't wait to see the two of them. XD
-siLvia
; 10:52 PM
Sunday, July 6, 2008
i'm finally back to update after a week. have been wanting to blog since monday, but i've always either ended up sleeping or wasn't given a chance to use the computer. =P
FINALLY managed to complete my current affairs quiz. i almost wanted to pull out my hair over it..... ready to let the other 33/08 people "refer" to it now. haha. shall talk about some interesting things that happened for the past week.
monday:
biology practical turned into an unexpected home economics lesson. i practically spent 10 whole minutes TRYING to cut 4 pieces of pathetic potato chips into the same shape and size. was so pissed off with it that i started chopping them violently into smaller pieces when i was done with my experiment. after the chopping, having been able to use my all-so-wonderful-and-sharp scalpel for the first time and being all so bored from the experiment, i resorted to peeling off the skin of my potato. i was doing it happily until shi min said 'you do know that we have to return our potatos right?' o.0
wednesday:
got back my chinese literature paper. i passed! 49/100. really didn't expect myself to be able to scrap a passing grade. =)
now kelmen and i both owe yu ning a starbucks drink. =(
biology wasn't as wonderful though. i only manage to hit a S grade with a score of 36/90, which is 40%. sigh. i'll just have to work harder.
thursday:
i only manage to score 47/100 for chemistry. it's still a E grade, but it was really a lot worse than what i expected. made a lot of careless and stupid mistakes that make me feel like slapping myself. sigh. don't really know how to face zhi hong....
wanted to cheer myself up during lunchtime by getting a yoghurt ice-cream. didn't feel much better even after eating it, so i practically just wasted my $2.50...
friday:
manage to pass the second portion of my china studies in chinese paper. =) so now my total score for csc's 27/50, which i think is reasonably okay, considering the fact that i failed to hit on quite a number of key ideas and requirements for the questions.
skipped biology lecture just so i'll be able to complete the preparations for project work pilot test day. heard from grace and min yu that mrs ng knows that someone skipped the lecture. PRAY that she won't pursue the matter. sigh.
pilot test day nearly killed me. had to handle the two laptops most of the time as i was the only one who knew how to play both of the games, and also explain our activity to a lot of people in order to obtain the survey results. my dear group member yu ning practically just asked people to fill in our surveys randomly. -.-
i swear i'm SO going to get revenge on that kevin yeo. he made me repeat my explanations and read out the survey questions to him verbally. all these just for 1 survey result! u would think that when you're so tired your friends would not make things harder for you right? never mind, at least i won him by 1 mark for csc. =P
went back to Zhonghua to collect my graduating certificate with kelmen and yu ning after the whole thing was over. i definitely must ask ying teng to remind me to NEVER walk alone with the two of them again. they kept tackling me regarding the two of them. so much for the fact that friends are supposed to be understanding and encouraging. -.- nevertheless, it was fun chatting with them on the way there and back home.
met hui ling and sze ting at Zhonghua too but they had to leave early. =(
oh yeah, yu ning already lost the first page of his certificate. all because he was having fun swinging the booklet on the way home. haha.
saturday:
met ying teng and yu ning at serangoon macdonalds to study. was chased out of the place as the crowd was getting bigger. wanted to go study at nanyang jc but we got intimidated by the amount of people there. resorted to studying at a void deck where we played a few games of stress with yu ning's mini poker cards. it was more fun watching the two of them play, compared to me playing it myself, as i lost to ying teng in barely 5 minutes time. haha.
watched lord of the rings: the return of the king on channel 5 a few hours ago. aragorn and legolas are really good-looking. haha. i still love the classic line from the movie. 'witch king: you fool. no man can kill me. die now.eowyn: i am no man.'oh yeah, my mathematics score is 23/83. sigh...-siLvia
; 2:44 AM
