It was probably because I was utterly embarassed or preoccupied with the IB exams that I never posted my SAT score here. Since I just got my Subject Test Results this evening, I might as well put all of them here for posterity.
SAT 1 Reasoning Test: 2110 (out of 2400)
SAT 2 Subject Tests: (out of 800 each)
Mathematics Level 2: 790
Chemistry: 770
Literature: 700
Math was unexpected, and Lit was disappointing. At least this marks the end of my US admissions tests, 'cos I'm definitely not retaking anything.
I'm back from my third trip in less than a month, this time to Bintan with the musketeers and Pet. It was the same location as the first trip, but it was pretty different. We stayed for just 2 nights, in hotel rooms instead of villas, and actually ate all our meals in the hotel's restaurants. Unknown to me, the resort is actually a 5-star hotel, though it's sheen is rusting slightly. Nevertheless, I got to seem more of the luxurious side of the compound this time round.
We met late Sunday morning, whence we were thrown about in a ferry during what must have been the roughest 1-hour ride I've experienced in all the times I've ridden a boat. Crazy choppy. We had three adjacent rooms, 2 of which were adjoining. I roomed with sam and adriel, with pet adjoining and jake and josh 2 doors down. After a lunch stop at the main hotel restaurant, we paid a visit to the lesiure centre, then the field near the beach for touch rugby, and finally the leisure centre pool. We gave dinner a miss 'cos the Singapore-Vietnam game was on, and headed over to Silk for drinks and food and the Arsenal-Liverpool match later.
Breakfast on Monday was actually really decent, a buffet with all the bells and whistles, following which we went to the leisure centre for Laser Quest after a game of Cluedo back in the room, me coming in second to adriel. A few games of pool and table tennis later, we played another round, this time me coming in first. Me, josh, adriel and pet went on an hour-long ATV ride along the coast, then joined sam and jake by the main pool till it was time for dinner, this time room service. Oddly enough, we were all asleep before the day was up.
Post-breakfast this morning, we packed up for checkout, played a third round of Laser Quest to settle the previous day's tie (yay me), a couple of rounds of pool, lunch by the pool, and it was a comfortingly calm ferry ride back.
Because of these back-to-back trips, I've been in this constant holiday mood, which gives me a rather strange perspective of things around me. I find myself more able to look upon the rough edges of the world in a slightly better light, without feeling my usual combination of indifference and contempt at all that is not right. That's not the only thing about these vacations that has stuck with me though. I'm glad to have spent extended periods of time with those who've been with me either through the last 6, 4 or 2 years. Now it's time to spend time with the others back home in Singapore.
All this going away has meant that I've not had the chance to embrace this the most blissful season of the year. Christmas 2008 will surely be one to remember beside all the rest which I've so faithfully recorded in the annals of this blog since '03. Maybe I'll go back to read them before I pen down my thoughts for the next 3 days, from the eve to boxing day, which is usually how long it lasts for me.
