its absolutely hilarious when u think that maybe,
just maybe...
there's a chance that today would not be too stressful...
that teacher's would grow to be considerate...
and not give so much work on the first day of the week...
FAT HOPE!!!!
indeed, it is bordering on comical...
monday started out oddly, with pe being the first lesson...
watched the last of the Matrix for MI, and then came the onslaught of work...
coupled with having not yet completed the rather difficult LA assignment...
and my inability to solve two maths equations...
i could almost die laughing...
ALMOST...
coz i can't afford to just yet...
there's so much to do...
thank goodness they cancelled the extra long thursday...
hmmm...
hows things going for u guys all over the island?
john

congrats to HCJC for winning the SRs....
went for lunch with the ac crowd plus michy and feli at lips cafe...

church today witnessed the installation of the FL leaders...
played for CM worship... hahas...
still haf yet to complete LA assignment...
hope to take a break from debate next week...
long long days ahead...
good luck ya'll!
jlc

i've finally gotten around to replacing my sily tagboard with a doodleboard...
pls tag!!! :D
won the first round of jgs against vs last nite...
for me, its one down, 5 to go before entering the a div next year...
completely excited...
going to srjc in awile to collect certs...
congrats to allt he teams last nite,
and good luck to the four schools this morning...
haf quite a good amount of work to do, so must really get to it...
cyu guys around!
and i'll be sure to tag everyone soon...
its been so busy...
argh..
jlc

my failure to post has been partly due to blogger/tagboard's inefficiency,
and partly due to the stressful monday/tuesday...
haf a tonne of work to complete as this friday is road run, therefore all the weekend work is already piled on...
had training today, so case is sorta finalised...
waiting in anticipation for friday...
wishing all jg teams the best of luck!
the allelujah chorus
jlc

srjc invites today were not too bad...
although we went away with only one win, our points were good...
lost by 1.5 and 0.5 against rjc (chere's team) and wsdc (lucas' team)...
meaning jgs should be a breeze to win...
but that just shows that we need to be less over-confident...
we must not let complacency get the best of us...
thusly, the next week will be spent prepping/debating non-stop...
thanks to yk, jaz, dan and kristi for supporting us in the 3rd round...
to kylie for watching us in the 1st round...
and jia lin, the freak-out reaction wasn't one i expected... x)
good luck to u guys for the jgs...!!!
and to all the other teams as well...
aci, ny, mg, cat high etc...
battle it out in a div...
hope to see ya'll there in a year's time...
jlc

a stressful four-day week it has been...
haf a ton of assignments to complete over the weekend...
and to top it off, i've left my organiser in school...
so haf to recall everything by memory...
but i've decided to be optimistic and count my blessings instead...
smile! =)
went to lunch at serene centre where this weird waiter attracted us to black canyon coffee to try out their student meals... was quite wort it after all...
maricelle!! u're so tickled by nearly everything...
so we spent half the time laughing coa maricelle was laughing as she was trying to tell a joke...
bordering on a comedy act by the six of us at the restaurant...
when we returned to school, the side gate was locked, and those girls scaled over the fence...!!
but darius and i walked the entire perimeter of the school...
after that whole debacle, we had to return to class for make-up bio lesson...
which is an information overload...
so much stuff crammed into and hour-long tutorial...
can hardly remember anything...
debate training was once again subdued, but we haf our jgs motion/case out...
THBT school does not prepare students for real life- prop against... VS!!
hahas.. of all schools in the first round..
i hope we win... (hu doesn't?)
going to prep with the not-so-fantastic sr team tomo...
till another day,
selamat hari raya...
jlc

yesterday and today haf been almost identical...
a lot of new homework and a lot of homework completed...
our atom project is still work in progres...
the orbitals are yet to be formed...
worked on the bio project with darius and jo lynn...
louisa joined us and we chatted for so long...
got some work done...
still haf my LA assignment to complete...
which requires me to obtain a comic book...
which my house contains none...
hahas...
training with teck wee was pretty ok...
our case is taking shape...
putting up an exhibition debate at acjc tomo...
srjcs are in a few days...
and ducro wants to put those new ppl in to speak...
disgusting or wat?
sighs cans...
gotta type alota case...
john

my condolences to mrs c...
church was pretty relaxing today...
sam's still in china...
talked to deb, deb, adriel, jake, amanda, audrey and daniel...
oh and kudos to adriel for his improved drumming... =D
doing my first science project with mel tee and darius and group...
haf trainings the whole week actually...
but taking a break on wednesday to clear up any leftover work...
(which i hope i won't have)
hari raya still haf training for srjcs...
heard that we're sending in a dep team...
so sad i can't join...
anyhoo, jgs motion comes on this friday...
then the real pressure is on...
to win the b div that is...
the team is out...
darius, joel, weige, liang en and myself...
its 4/5 my ideal team...
i've told weige and darius hu i thot should be in...
according to team dynamics...
we haf to work on that now since ducro decided to lump us together.. x))
anyhoo, i'm off to study more a maths...
i echo mel tee's sentiments...
in a loud voice all yee hu feel similar...
"maths be gone!!!"
jlc

had dep today...
watched the advanced exhibition...
thw impose economic sanctoions on non-signatories of international environmental treaties...
used the second last page of my book, thus signifying my need to switch to a new one... =P
went out to town with michy, kal, auyong, terrence, hiutung and auggie...
some others came with us on the train but left...
went around shopping first for auggie's uniform then kal's windbreaker...
ate at billy bomber's at heeren...
but left before the rest to get home...
yongwei's analogies:
squeezing pimples and bursting bubbles...
drinking juice from rocks...
drawing houses, yellow flowers and happy families...

sad news
jlc

my new desktop just got delivered...
haf yet to configure it...
school was long todae...
but there were 3 free periods...
so got quite alota work done... x)
got dep tomo...
can't wait to meet up with all of the debaters...
hahas...
aci sec 3s on oep...
happy birthday sam!!
jlc

now certainly there is a problem with studying in nj...
the modular categorization, though organized as it may be, is so confusing!!!
i'm the rep for IS1101...
haf to buy twelve ring files for the class tomo...
so difficult to carry can... argh...
began proper maths lessons today...
and it was boring...
one slide read "example 1: revisited"
sounds like a making the movies thingamajig...
training tomo is at 530...
5 hours after school ends...
btw we only haf 4 hours of school on thursdays...
830-1230...
we haf quite a number of assignments already...
must complete them asap...
and there're so many files to buy and organise...
very tideous, but it'll be helpful for those help-sheet tests...
till tomorrow,
jlc

met a few other teachers today...
and they are as weird as ever...
my gosh... we dun even haf one peudo-normal tutor this year...
special mentions to our language arts tutor...
she is old... but is such a drama queen!!!
so much energy in her words...
quite scary really...
we haf a few new assignments to complete...
but i'm most worried about my maths...
already in the emaths txt i can't do 2 qns in the first chapter...
samantha pointed them out out to me and now i'm totally freaked...
will ask teacher tomo...
ended school at 1230, coz we didn't think there was gonna be any electives...
i hope thats true...
but tomo i haf a long day till 330..
friday till 430...
hahas... but thursday haf only 5 hours of school...
nothing more...
jlc
argh...
still fear the year...

academic day 1 @ nj...
got our timetable...
we finish school pretty late on certain days...
but thursday is really short (yippee)
met some teachers...
argh!
can't imagine how i'm gonna survive with some for so long...
haf chinese homework...
plus the maths test was so difficult i tell u...
thats why i'm learning sets now...
so complicated...
not sure how u guys are coping...
but from what i heard, ac ib is superbly stressful...
relax everyone...
and i sit back to take on joel chan's philosophy
"smile more"
=)
john

"every blessing You pour out i'll turn back to praise...
even when the darkness closes in Lord still i will say...
Blessed be the name of the Lord, Blessed be your name...!"
i really like that song...
played it for worship today...
hahas...
talked to all the church ppl before going for the ecp luncheon...
then talked more before coming home...
yesterday met darius and paul to shop for awhile...
before meeting michy, kal, sam, weilin and rebecca for dinner at sakae...
met val & alessa at borders as well...
not to mention yujin tee (hi after 2 years!)
good luck mcelle for ur various competitions... x)
a new week awaits...
the academic workload all but gets ready to pounce...
good luck!
jlc

a good morning/afternoon to all...!!
blogging after three long, long, long days...
so sorry....
thanks to all those hu've tagged... i'll reply asap ks...
on tuesday i updated saying that oreintation was way too long,
and the only saving factor was my class...
today, i feel the latter is still so true...
oreintation was still too long...
i wasn't properly orientated at all...
but haf u ever experienced hafing one final event
after a very long week of boring stuff...
and that one event is so great that u forget the boredom of the past days?
it just happened to me last nite...
i was absolutely reluctant to return to school after weds/thurs of boring
games, talks, cheers etc...
i only went coz i thot maybe i would get something impt i might need to noe abt monday...
and the fist half of the day went as boring as it could get...
then the class went shopping for stuff for the bbq..
and when we got back, we just sat around listening to johnson playing his guit...
singing, humming, not really caring what everyone else was doing...
then as the dance party came around, i was part of the bbq crew (weiliang, mcelle etc)
who were constantly fanning, poking, tong-ing the food...
till mel tee (by far the maddest of the lot) dragged me to dance...
and after that, there was no stopping our whole class...
jamie and her crescent friends also joined us...
towards the end of the party,
we had one last meeting with gaius (pronounced guy-us, not gay-us) and runyu...
they, along with sharon, haf become somewhat permanent members of our class...
so the last time meeting with them was like so sad lor...
hahahahahahas...
its a nice end to a long, long week...
what's more to come of the nj curriculum and lifestyle?
its another thing left for 05ip04 to find out...
cheers,
jlc

is it me or is my class just mad??!!
as in completely off-the-wall crazy...
along with 02, we definitely are the most
NONSENSE-SY...!!!
we scream on a regular basis,
play silly games,
make ppl to silly forfeits...
its a good class...
but thats just a comfort from the orientation...
which is too long, too boring and too game-sy...
altho today my class won all the games we played...
but yeah... isn't orientation suppose to orientate u?
i want to noe more impt things like where's the rooms etc...
till i do get to noe more abt nj,
jlc

first impressions count?
i dunno... still can't tell...
will nj be good?
will it be conducive?
its just orientation for this week...
boring, non-academic, long...
not sure how relevant everything will be...
but i guess its part of the parcel...
"its hardly simple, just simply hard..."
thanks adriel, michy for the sms-es...
thanks jia lin, yk for the cds...
thanks mel for the pressie...
will pass u guys ur cards/cd asap...
music now: destiny's child: "soldier"
jlc

i declare the new academic year
BEGUN!!!
(the real excitement i feel is a few notches lower,
but hey, i need the moral boost as much as you...=P)
jlc

wishing one and all a blessed 2005!

its been a fulfilling 04...
now to get ready for the new year...
of studying (again) (groans)
but of much fun as well...
i guess?
looking forward,
jlc