24/08/08

The past few days had been quite smooth, and I will definitely score badly for the biology test. The history and maths test results are quite satisfactory, but I felt my marks deterioriating badly amd I must go on a bull-run from now onwards. Friday was an exciting day, as I had Burger King with Wei Jie discussing the Home Economic Coursework, and munching onion rings, fries, cokes and burgers. My relatives' friend had visited our house and I managed to improve on my cantonese, even though it was very bad. Her point of view of the daily life in France fascinated me and my dream is to retire in a rural village in France, owning a plot of land and doing domestic farming. Exam is coming and I wish the whole class the best luck in the EOY examinations and get into the class of your choice.

Beijing Olympic Games

The last day of the Beijing Olympic games, but overall it was a success. The Games had set up a higher benchmark for the 2012 London Olympic games. China had won 51 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 28 bronze medals, which is an outstanding acheivement. It was just short of 5 gold medals to eclipse the Soviet Union record of 55 gold medals won in the 1988 Seoul Games. The Games had succeeded in opening up China but the western media had been critical of the social and political change in the Communist giant. 'The world has learned about China, and China has learned about the world, and I believe this is something that will have positive effects for the long term," Rogge, IOC president, said. The opening ceromony had made us, The Han Chinese, proud of our 5000 years history and being one of the descendants and I believe the closing ceremony will be as brilliant as the opening ceremony. 中国加油！奥运加油！

NUS Year 3 Selection test

The past few days has been pleasant. My performance in the piano exam was very bad, as I played many wrong notes while doing my piano pieces and sight-reading.The scales, appeggios was very disasterous, and my aural exam was totally a nightmare. The sight-singing and singing the lower part was out of tune and at least I made an effort to get the last few sections correct. I think there is a possibility I will fail. The Chinese test was quite okay except for certain questions. The ACC teacher, Mdm Yeo gave the whole class a packet of roasted dried pork to be shared among ourselves. She also ask us what have we learned today and told me to take a class list to circle those names who had remembered the stories correctly. By the way, I circled the whole class due to pressures from the whole class. Actually, I tried to be fair to everyone and I know that she is detestful and biased. The maths test was quite easy and I was so comfortable at the seat that I do not feel like leaving, as there was a television set showing the live telecast of the table-tennis match between singapore and south korea in the staff room. The CIM was as per normal, but I was screwed when I was told to give the warm-up exercise and lecture for seniors. Straight to main topic, today, I went for the NUS year 3 selection test as I would like to try entering the NUS high school of math and science. Based on reliable sources, I can skip my O level and directly go to university as well as not attending flag-raising everyday. On Friday is a free day in their school and you can do lots of experiments that we might not do in our school. I strongly believe that I will learned lots of fascinating things in this school. The selection test was 51 MCQ questions and 19 structured questions. The questions are very tough and most of them are Sec 3 and 4 science questions. Even if I am not selected, I will be happy to continue my studies in Chung Cheng.

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National Day

The past week has been not bad and my class noticeboard is absolutely brilliant. The home economic class was the most exciting, creating a sumptuous Pasta Alfresco with creamy white sauce, sausage, sliced onion, mushrooms and grated cheese. The national day eve celebration at east coast park or the cross country at East Coast Park. I was doing my St John public duty at East Coast Park for 3 hours, experiencing cooling and windy sea breeze and seeing people running, jogging and strolling. The class tee was perfectly done and I am very satisfied with the class spirit performance even though we did not win the class spirit award. After the closing ceromony, I went to Pizza Hut to have lunch with Wei Jie, total bill $30.60, inclusive of $4.60 tax!! I paid $15.60 and $15 for Wei Jie. I am very curious if he do not have coins with him. The meal was not satisfactory as the beef lasagne was too cheesy, with little beef that taste like tomato sauce.Wei Jie's baked rice was like a cheap rice meal with gravy sauce, and claims it was better than Swensen's. The Ice Lemon tea was very soothing and refereshing, but it taste very sour at first until I saw a bottle of syrup, which give the lemon tea its sweet taste. Wish Singapore a happy 43rd Birthday and properous year ahead! Let us tackle the tough challenges ahead and move on as a nation to strive for a better future and prospect ahead! And wish for the early recovery of our dear form teacher, Mr Davamoni!

03/08

The past three weeks without Mr Albert was very boring, slack and free. The whole class is almost turned upside down. My NAPTA test results is as usual, definite fail.The tea lesson was quite interesting except the taste of the tea is too bland. I would prefer a stronger,much more fragrant and bitter tea. I also need to do cross-country run public duty on national day eve, with my senior which is also a councilor. The worst thing is I had swear at her in front of other councilor and I bet she will detest me definitely. Yesterday,I went for CCA zone activity conducted by my seniors and their peers and witness their promotion ceremony, but the whole day we were just cleaning dunman high school's canteen and playing captains ball. It was quite ordinary and it is a waste of time.Fancy getting up at 6am to attend the activity at 8am and the closing ceremony at 7.30pm. The lunch and dinner were just satisfactory, but they always serve chicken rice with cucumbers and pineapple for lunch.The pineapple taste extremely horrible and I could hear the crushing sound of the unripe pineapple. My squad mates sabotage me by giving their pineapple to me. Tomorrow, I will implement some of the ideas that we suggest during the leadership training and get ready for the arrival of our 'black' teacher !! Good luck to the week ahead!