a week of exams were just way too taxing on my head to even consider blogging mid-week, let alone after each days' papers..
suffice to say that there have been both disappointments and times of relief, though i can't yet say that i'm suriving this year's finals..
Language Arts 1: chose unseen poetry over unseen prose - "like a terrible fish" vs "he was bitten by a snake", two of the most memorable lines in this year's papers
IHS: had no time, as per usual, though i hope i wrote enough to cover 40 marks and 2 essay questions...
Physics: paper 1 was better than paper 2
Core Math 1: made some silly mistakes, but glad i got half of the weird graph question right...
Language Arts 2: picked Things Fall Apart over Four Continents, if only because i'd just memorised the fictional techniques that i wanted to write about... didn't have time to finish my last paragraph, so totally just axed it when tamara went "stop writing"
Biology: paper 1 was better than paper, as was physics
Chemistry: paper 1 was better than paper 2, as was biology and physics, so that makes 3 strikes for science!
Advance Math 1: i thought i'd seen bad till yesterday morning... what a horror! i had no idea how to do the whole of question 10 and i'm far from confident for 8 and 12, so that makes 30 of 80 marks i'm willing to lose now...
What's left: maths paper 2s and chinese...
went for lunch after thursday and friday's papers, to clementi and holland v respectively...
spent 3 hours at the jcrc lounge yesterday with yewjin/ronald/mervyn/ET/daniel/xinquan/clarence/ryan playing scrabble, fooseball and pool (i didn't play pool, i've never even tried)
the haze is so horrible!
i could hardly see my way back from church last night from worship pract...
why do indonesian trees feel the need to spontaneously combust..
new music tuesday for two weeks have been quite lacklustre, and the good debuts doesn't make it past the 80th spot on the billboard hot 100, except for Clay's "A Thousand Different Ways" that was second only to JT's "FutureSex/LoveSounds"...
of the latter, my fave tracks are "Another Song (All Over Again)" and "Sexy Ladies"
from the former, "A Thousand Days", a cover of celine's "Because You Loved Me" and a duet with rockstar: inxs' Suzie McNiel, "I wanna know what love it", which i can't find yet...
Aly & AJ's "Chemicals React" EP have a cool new track "Shine"
Jesse McCartney's sophomore effort "Right Where You Want Me" has 2 good tracks, the title song and "Tell Her"
Vanessa Anne Hudgens gives us "V", though i can't quite stand the lead single "Come Back to Me", i really like "Drive"
OH AND jennifer hudson's "And i'm Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls is really really good, can't wait for the soundtrack and the movie!!
and finally, Asia's best offering since Zhang Ziyi in Crouching Tiger, Philippines' Christian Bautista's "The Way You Look At Me" is just so so good!
yup go catch these great listens!
there's something in the way,
john.
