Look Back

Finally a new post right after Full Troop Ex (didn't think my hand could see me to the end...). Honestly wasn't as physical as initially thought due to loads of rest time, but staying outfield overtime not doing anything is pure mental torture.

Seating on the A-veh hull, basking under the 12pm sun, unable to fall asleep due to some big shots with first-class persistance constantly annoying us, I can't help but space out back to those days in school, wishing to turn back time, return to those kind old days where we used to talk cock at our fav hang-out, mug hard when exam's near, that mental load was nothing like i experienced thru this exercise. "Come on Joe! All this has passed and gone, it'over let it go and keep walking", me convincing my mind to face up to this harsh fact that we could never walk as closely as we did before, nor understand each other as well as we once did. The friendship now seems bland, we once fought so hard alongside each other for our dreams and future. Sometimes I can't help but feel that this is all in the past, with new people sharing our ambitions entering our lives,and traces of competition setting in. i guess this reduces us to acquaintances. Took me so long to see this, all part of growing up, too much wishful thinking, now all's left are the memories we shared and cherished....sigh

I looked back in my life, thought perhaps I was too stuck up, always putting a strong front and trying to act optimistic and calm, guess i'm quite bad at it. I haven't felt so tired out in a while, manipulated by politics around me and facing people who seemingly have no stand nor idea as which side they're on, sometimes i wonder, why chiong? I ever told myself to do my best in all I set out to do, but i feel so tired of all this, can I go on like this? Guess all I can take comfort that all this ends in a few months and I can look back look to my NS life, proud that i did not miss out on something in life, as though there's an unfillable hole in my heart.

On hindsight, politics is one aspect that one can never avoid when out in society. Time to grow up and muster the strength to face up to it.

This seems like the only place to voice and share my thoughts, doubt if anyone would read this but who knows, 10 years down, i may read this again and laugh at myself, or even to pick myself up again since I've ever been so down and out.

Oh well goodnight
Appreciate the past, Cherish the present, Gaze into the future

Chinese Old Year to my blog

I suddenly realised, I haven’t been writing here for a while, this blog’s dying…..

Ok, some updates….went to London during Chinese New Year, and guess what? I lost my phone on the first day, along with all my contacts…arrrgh! Attended 2 interviews for medical school, and thankfully I got an offer from St Andrew’s University or else, this trip is wasted. Of course, my itinerary included some R&R, check this out!

After I got back, 1 week and whoosh to New Delhi for 2-week exercise. Journey was crazy: 2 hrs coach, 6 hrs train and another 2hrs coach,,,chor. Food taste like crap, curry, curry and curry, erm…..*_* Of course R&R again. The Taj Mahal

BOOK- OUT! WOO-HOO

i finally appreciate the beauty of Singapore, hate tekong and all my hair that went along....CRAP!!
I'm starting to pick up vulgarities unknowingly, with all the "f"s and "cb"s everywhere, from who? my commanders....
Don't ask me about training, it's still bearable thanks to 3 years in Boys' Brigade, the rest is classified as "Confidential", and I'm not supposed to breathe a word under ther Official Secrets Act....kenasai
found the long lost part of me, the garang and kee-siao version of Joseph Wan and of course a new hair-style to go along with....LAUGH!!! hahaha


section-mates, plain guys who are juz BEST, don't think brokeback they are still girl-hungry on that mens' island, reading FHM and maxim....did i take part in the spoils?You guess

Final 'A' Level review

H1 General Paper

Paper 1 (50%): Under circumstances of no better option, I ended up writing question on science and tech vs religion, it was the only thing close to what I’ve studied and I made a point to refer to question. So argument I believe has a balance and the language may be my Archille’s heel when compared nationwide, which has an effect on my grades

Paper 2 (50%): Passage was on history where 1 author values it and the other doubts its usefulness. Questions were ok, considering I did enough practice on other school papers, RJC ACJC HCJC etc. AQ was kinda strange, considering the question asked on applicability on local society 1st before personal views on both writers view….but answer was based accordingly to question order, only I did not have time to write in my concluding paragraph, so that’s where I lose out.

Expected grade range: B to D (prelim D)

H1 Economics

Case Study (70%): 2 CSQ macro Econ question: 1) Inflation, 2) International Trade and Globalisation studied these beforehand in model essays mode from other school’s suggested answers, so points more points to write for lesser marks, and 1^st time in JC life to have completed a full paper in 3 hours.

Essay (30%): I spotted topics this time, placing my bets on microecons topics and we had market failure, the same one as in prelims and I scored big time for it. So the outlook is good.

Expected grade range: C, D (prelim E)

H2 Mathematics

Paper 1 (50%): It was a tough paper to begin with, even pure maths could be tough, brain drain for 3 hours. I did not do 9 marks of questions as I gave up recurrence totally, lovely…Jayakanth found it hard also and I had to reassure him.

Paper 2 (50%): Not too bad, good vengeance for paper 1. Only some probabilities question and approximation were slightly ambiguous, assuming worst case scenario where I got them all wrong, there should at least be some working marks. 13 marks of questions undone, but damages reduced by 1/2 thanks to each paper 50%.

Expected grade range: A, B (prelim A)

H2 Chemistry: the least worrying of all…

Paper 1 (20%): couldn’t finish for the 1st time in jc life, 2 questions undone shaded “A”s at last minute. Was in a total gloom on way home, but after calculations, I realised I only had 7 “ambiguous” out of 40, meaning those with at least 50% chance of getting it wrong, including those I did not have time to solve, so now I can eat in peace because I was studying for Bio Paper 3 and did not even practise a single paper.

Paper 2 (25%): 4 questions surmounting to 60 marks, last question was a killer, but I could at least secure 10 out of 21 marks, the rest are ambiguous and error could be carried forward. So worst case scenario, I lose all “ambiguous” marks + careless mistakes in front, marks range from 40 to 49 out of 60.

Paper 3 (35%): mutilated this paper as vengeance for bio, finished all 5 questions when I have to only attempt 4, and had 15 minutes to check all 5 and decide which one not to hand in....what an issue i have...haha

Expected grade range: A (95%), and B (5%) thanks to SPA

H2 Biology: the one that I feel that I’ve wasted money and effort

Paper 1 (20%): finished in 30 minutes out of 75, redid again, changed a few answers, on the whole easy

Paper 2 (35%): KILLER PAPER!!! Ridiculous questions + contextual ones, no time to read nor analyse damn it! Free-response question: door 1) respiration and photosynthesis, door 2) Darwinism and Phylogeny. Yup my choice is obvious….screw this paper, 6 marks of unattempted questions out of 100

Paper 3 (25%): Structured is a breeze if you have had enough practice. FRQ: human genome project a) aims (6m), b) benefits (8m), c) ethical issues (6m). Assuming 1m per point, I do not have enough points. I seriously believe it is 2m per point+substantiation, judging from their loose allocation of marks, 5m for just asking how to clone in a gene in a plasmid vector when normal sch papers only awards at most 3. Also typical school FRQs also lump everything together (aims, benefits and implications) for 10m, and the points in my notes come in ratio of 3:4:3 for each segment. Thus, think of empirical formula from chem, there is a consistent ratio of 2:1. Thus conclusion is 2 marks per point+substantiation

Expected grade range: A to C (prelim D) hopefully higher with spa

That’s it for my ‘A’ level reviews, Thanks for reading!!! Time to enjoy post A retreats….overseas

Gundam 00 s2 ep7

SPOILERS ALERT!
turn away if you have yet to watch ep7

first things first: 00 gundam was owned by bushido's ahead, cos twin drive can't take trans-am and kinda overloaded and got busted...now understand why bushido has so much authority, he's an ACE!! he is actually able to go on par with 00 in trans-am mode and catch up with its speed!! FULL-TIME HENTAI!!!

Worse thing is...he doesn't destroy 00 after its drives were busted simply cos he sees 'no value in it', no wonder his unit is samurai-customed and note how he wields his beam saber, juz like samurais and their principles and spirit. Then, he juz leaves...wow,that sentimentalism's gonna cost him




Between Saji and Louise, Saji still didn't pull the trigger till the end and Ian took over...firing GN missiles. Louise really suck big time, her unit was damaged the missiles and lost her right arm and her GN lance. On hindsight, if she was killed, that's the end between them, but she was protected by Andrei from the last missile that almost did her in....something may happen soon....






Alright the main scoop this week, Allelujah and Soma, Allelujah grabbed her unit before Arios busted, and both went MIA on an island, like Gundam Seed. Guess what, Allelujah tried to get her out of her Ahead, but se got aggressive and pounced on him literally like a wild cat!! But just as she wanted to kill him, she got interfered by flashbacks and regain her other personality as Marie Perfacy...what a change!...Aggressiveness to the gentle her, calling her lost friend in a never-before heard tone and fainted. Take a comparison...

Soma peelies VS Marie Perfacy

Soon after, sumeragi awakes and order a retreat and search party for allelujah, while he is reminiscing their past in the HRL lab until Colonel Smirnov turns up
wow 1st time seeing the GN-X in federation colour!!! COOL!!










So Smirnov shows up, trying to rescue peelies from allelujah, whom he called a terrorist only to realised that she has returned to her original personality as marie. After a struggle to retain marie by his side, Sergei eventually decides to let them go and leaves the two on the island with soma saluting to his leaving unit.# quite touching as it shows his position in her heart as a father noting that the soma character had the desire to be his daughter# that's where the title comes in.

The two are rescued by Lockon, and became the first to see them in a kiss, while Tieria gets a shock from his clone, the Innovator Regene Regetta, who finds him on the island, leaving it as a prelude to the next episode....seems like Ribbons has his own unit, green as his hair

CONGRATS TO THE LOVEBIRDS!!

ok i got this blog looking like something now...and i learned how to add links properly
now's the tagboard that is left

A-Level Day 7

H1 Econs yesterday was surprisingly easy, smells kinda fishy
for the first time i completed a full paper in 3 hours, not bad.....i didnt manage to in prelims, but i still clinched my first econs pass in jc lilfe
like government always say,"prospects are good, we are in a good position to secure ...."
....at least a "C"
4 more days to go till bio paper 3 and the self-declaed liberty....