20 days were far from enough to get me back on track, after a year of no academic motivation, the cause of which i know not, though i guess its another of those hormonal phases ppl have to go through once in their lifetime, just that i hope it passes by in 14 hours so i can take the next 10 days of papers with determination and gusto.
alright that was a rant...
its been refreshing not using the computer so much, lots of time to listen to the radio, something i stopped doing since sec 1, and to check out new tracks, both local and international, though i must comment that post-clay aiken's "a thousand different ways", there's been a noticeable dip in the number of credible new outputs in the recent weeks...
i guess fall is well on its way already, and the justintimerblake/beyonce september music release period is over, and all i can do is wait, albeit impatiently, for the winter releases in november...
my exam schedule has quite a steep gradient to it, picking up really really quickly with two papers a day from tomorrow right through to wednesday...
of special mention is tuesday, coz i have c math 1 AND physics 1&2, so that's like 5 hours of exam...
wednesday's less hectic, though i really don't quite like bio, but it comes paired with language arts 2, so that's a good sign...
tomorrow's just essay-writing, with unseen language arts and IHS...
from thursday onwards its just 1 paper a day, starting with chemistry, which rounds up 3 consecutive days of science papers...
friday brings a maths 1,
the following monday chinese,
tuesday c math 2
and finally, just as in every exam, the a math ppl have to stay back one more day to finish up paper 2, but it does end on a happy note coz a math doesn't befuddle me as much as the sciences this year...
the year has gone by exceptionally fast, and i must say being in IP makes it seem a lot faster and insignificant, coz it doesn't mark an end to secondary school life, unlike express ppl who do the o's and then start a new period of life in jc...
hopefully the last 3 months of school will make 2double06 memorable...
i do have to take the oct30 chinese o level paper if i want a nice grade transcript after the may31 horror, and it does seem quite possible what with my 74.25 (darn you 0.75marks to A1) in the prelims two weeks back...
but after that, there's a class chalet in bintan!
really looking forward to that, though right now, it seems really really far away, blocked by a rather large hinderance, aka the EOYs...
if it seems that i'm complaining excessively this year compared to the past 3 about the exams, i guess its part of the above-mentioned phase i was talking about...
many sighs?
nah, it'll just ruin my attitude...
honour's day was on friday, and went to study for the FIRST time this year at guthri house's quintessential venezia with sam/paul/seb...
shoulda done that more, but it seemed harder coz of paul's art and stuff, though i did manage to study with yewjin/ET somewhat at the boarding school some time in that week...
"Strategic Economic Plan: Singapore aims to achieve the per capita income of the US by 2030"
channeling my IHS notes as i type...
(PS: i'll be 40 when that comes!)
if this post sounds more of a personal ramble, i do apologize, but its the result of not blogging for quite some time, and needing to distract myself from the sciences/languages/mathematics/humanties that i 've been surrounded by in the past 3 weeks...
i'll update after each day's papers, if only to reflect on them myself...
so as per my usual ending, a line from a song that's been playing in my head...
(unlike what jitwei thought it was, some poetic lines of wisdom)
i'm walkin' on sunshine,
and it's gonna feel good!
Jlc.
