thursday week As are usually pretty non-stressful, and today was no different...

although my wish for a uber-long break didn't come true, TOK proved once more to be the equivalent of a free period which i spent doing a little for my TOK OP and looking through my Yearbook from 1997... can't believe it's really been 11 years since joining AC...

the lack of a break during TOK was offset by having half of English Practical off, which i spent in the SAC chatting over a bag of rather addictive Paprika crisps courtesy of Asykin...

speaking of her, my class has decided to make Love/Retreat a class outing with supper post-show, so that's one thing to look forward to in 2 weeks' time...

math was kinda funny today 'cos dp3 walked in towards the end of the lesson to witness a classroom of student's bent double over worksheets with a teacher at the front eating CNY snacks... 

it's Friday tomorrow!

and that means week 5 has come to a close, and it's probably been one of the faster weeks to have passed this year... 

have History IA to finish over the weekend (or scratch that, i'll do it during the free periods i have tomorrow) and World Lit 2 outline due week 7, but apart from that i hope to have a relatively work-free CNY break...

study group today went really well, and though i didn't do as much as the last time, i had tonnes of fun with the ppl present...

and i've never watched so much ANTM ever, so i'm kinda looking forward to cycle 10 when it premieres on feb 21...

it's finally thursday tomorrow, and with a bit of luck, b.ng might be absent as he was today and i'll have a break from 9 to 1240... 

and boggle in class today was hilarious x)

oh and i forgot to lament something i've been telling anyone who would bother to listen - 

i find the criteria for making it into the Top 10 in level for Year 5 during the Founder's Day Academic Awards Presentation rather unfair...

this is because they calculate the absolute score, or aggregate percentage of all 6 subjects, out of 100%...

this gives science/math students an unbelievable advantage because it is actually very possible to score near-full marks in these subjects, while we arts students are highly handicapped because the nature of our subjects (like history, economics and most of all English A1) do not permit that kind of scoring... no matter how high one can get, there is always this 10% that is Permanently Lost because it is a sin to give such scores for essays etc...

thus, as an Arts student with 42 points, i feel utterly robbed of an Award...

it doesn't quite matter 'cos its the final IB score at the end of this year that i'm working towards, but it still sucks that i'm not getting the recognition...

i'm just saying, isn't it relevant to use IB scoring as the criteria for ranking students? it makes sense, since this is how our eventual scores will be calculated... 

whatever the case, it happened last year as well, so i shouldn't harbour any hopes that this would change any time soon...

but just to illustrate how wrong this method of calculation is - 

in the Top 10, at least 6 are PRC scholars, and as is their nature, they take Science/Math subjects, and since these are concentrated in the intact classes, at least 7 of the 10 are from intact... 

Yan Ming, who is ranked first with a percentage of 88.1, would have otherwise been ranked third because he only got 41 points, while Dong Liang, who got 42 points, is relegated to 7th place under this calculation system...

Tim, who is now ranked 10th on the list, would not even have been in the top 25 since he lost 3 IB points in one of his SL subjects...

it appears the only ppl who would have remained on both lists in more or less the same positions are Judith and Ian, who have both a high percentage and 41 points each... 

but i guess i'm complaining because with 42 points and being one of 2 arts students (i'm assuming Ian takes arts since he's in point.15) in the top 10 if IB scores were used, it seems weird that the ranking now is even more dominated by the Science ppl who have this strange advantage... 

today proved to be rather useless academically, and lessons seemed short and uninteresting...

but the 100minutes of history was priceless...

or rather, the 5 minutes during which josh cao went completely nuts with his confucian diatribe was the hardest i've laughed in a long long time...

ok not that long, since han an made a priceless joke on the steps up from break yesterday...

but cao was something altogether, and it made what would have been a long lesson pass quickly...

and i spent the break before history familiarising myself with the content mel/nic had prepared the night before on our presentation and cobbling together a short presentation of sorts, only to not get to present, which really isn't surprising...

during the second break we had a little tea party (literally, with shangri-la tea courtesy of han an) which caused me to be slightly late for english...

and math was just the test, which totally psyched me up to finish more math ahead of the teaching...

study group tomorrow, and american idol (nebraska) after that

tired doesn't begin to describe the state i'm in right now

after waking up at 2plus to get today's work/studying done, a rigorous (yet thoroughly enjoyable) PE lesson, and the most unpleasant econs practical, i'm willing to take a detour from my no-breaks-from-school policy and just take tomorrow off...

but i don't think i can, 'cos of the World Lit outlines i need to hand in, the History presentation i need to make, and the Math test i need to take...

i wasn't anticipating feeling like this so early in the year, but i kinda overcame it when this crisis hit me some weeks back...

hope this spell goes away quick...

contrary to what i wished for yesterday, week 5 is starting to look like a week i'd much rather get over with as soon as possible...

saturday was spent in church getting the INFOCOMM booth ready for the Fair today, and it was pretty fun work that resulted in us having the coolest booth of all =)

stopped by the Ice Cream Gallery for some home made goodness before heading back and watching Ugly Betty at the expense of my work...

today was little different productivity-wise...

had lunch at the meepok joint with joanne/pet/sam/josh/adriel/jake/tiff before having dessert at Coffee Club, the back to sam's place for some regular chillout time... watched the Australian Open Men's Singles Finals while there... congrats N.D...

took a lift from tiff back home, and now i'm about to finish the work that's due tomorrow, namely write the last half of my Written Commentary for f.quek's second-period lesson and study for the Econs Unemployment test + touchup&print my Econs IA3 for the last period (econs practical, sigh)

apart from that, week 5 is week A, which is a relief 'cos week B kinda sucked...

got World Lit outlines due on tuesday though, which means less sleep tomorrow evening... 

all in a week's work for an IB student innit? 

cheers ya'll, it'll be halfway through the first term of '08 once this week comes and goes...

check out Kate Voegele, one of the best not-quite-discovered-yet musicians, and new cast member of One Tree Hill...

this week ended slightly earlier at 11am, or rather 1040am since no one bothered to go for 20mins of TOK...

the study group didn't quite pull together 'cos of alternate plans, so i headed home to get my friday shows and other general non-productivity...

but speaking of productive, i've just gotten the list of what i assume to be the top 25 students from IB year 1 2007... 

while the main reason for getting it was for the SPF book prize nomination, i was far more interested on who else was on the list...

it appears my ex-classmate, Dong Liang, is the only other person with a full score and is above me on the list 'cos of his higher absolute percentage... 

in the top 25 are 2 other of my ex-classmates, Ron and YJ, and 2 of my current classmates, Justin and Mai... 

church tomorrow for Fair preparations, and after that i've got to get my written commentary (Corkscrew), 2 world lit outlines and one third of a history "presentation" done for the weekend...

compared to last weekend, this one seems slightly better, but only marginally... 

Feb dawns next week, and with it week 5 in all its academic glory... 

and after that the first break of the year...

OMG Roger Federrer just lost to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Men's Singles Semifinals!!

today passed by pretty quick 'cos i had free periods at the beginning and end of the day, the latter being an executive decision on my part to take a day off Math 'cos i had quite literally been doing math questions the whole day, TOK lecture included...

the only disgusting period was econs, no surprise there, but apart from there, i got home in time for the earlier broadcast of American Idol 7 and some One Tree Hill time...

we're released at 11 tomorrow, which is the school's way of saying that the O level results it obtained are worth 2 hours off school, since we end at 1...

han an and i are trying to get together another study group thingy since wednesday's session was so successful...

check out Kate Voegele - Kindly Unspoken

the best track i've heard this year so far

i'm not sure why he was giving me strange stares today or why the lessons took an abrupt but positive turn today, but i'm glad i blogged what i did about history lessons yesterday...

hope this keeps up...

study group was great today, and dinner was a good end...

American Idol 7!

the 80th Academy Award Nominations were released slightly over 30minutes ago, and it's a pretty expected list of actors, actresses and films... 

apart from that, i've finished the History essay, and i'm about to turn in after a rather exhausting 2 days...

it'll be midweek tomorrow, and hopefully things look up from that point onwards, as much as today was marginally better than yesterday...

damn i hate the down after a high, and i dunno why i can't just seem to get myself to act right when i'm  'round you... 

like you were my favourite drug

oh my head...

i'm so glad that today, with all it's horrendous periods, passed by fairly quickly...

the 100minutes free before math didn't hurt, and math itself was fun, and d.yap has given me permission to take one or two rainchecks from his class if i wanna!

apart from that, i've got to get my World Lit outlines out by after this weekend, and there's a history essay due tomorrow...

and i still refuse to do the econs work 'cos it's so freakin' informal and useless (at least for now)

study group session #1 tomorrow!

what wasn't supposed to be a dreadful day turned out to be just that, and the awfulness didn't come from the expected sources...

the first two periods passed by pretty painlessly, and then we had PE... pretty tough, but i think it was good to get into the swing of things...

it was like run, stretch, run, pushups, run, squats, run, knee exercises... but it was fun doing it as a class...

strangely i didn't feel completely drained after PE, but the prospect of 100minutes with naresh nearly knocked the wind out of me, so i made a trip down to get some coffee for my Starbucks bottle to sip through the lesson...

in the end, it wasn't a completely useless lesson, and by that i mean more than 20% of it was used for something other than repeating what can be read in the various books...

the real chore for me was the second history period, and that hour really ruined my day...

if anyone was wondering about what TY was referring to when he said someone had given feedback regarding useless activities like group work, it was me...

and i stand by what i said...

seriously, history lessons are fast overtaking econs as my most dreaded class...

this whole split into groups shit is starting to sound like a mantra...

annoyed to no end, i decided to give the Make-A-Wish thingy a miss and go with deon/sean/yewjin to Essential Brew for some post-school drinks and finger food...

and it was a wonderful pick-me-up before i had to get home and do more work...

with EE outta the way for now, i can do (and by that i mean touch up 'cos my drafts are normally done up well so i don't waste time redoing stuff) up my IAs for history/econs, and maybe start on some world lit and translate my TOK outline into an essay, and maybe dig up my TOK presentation slides from last year to work into a better version for rehearsal purposes...

week 4 has just begun, and i'm already tired like heck

wow

4198 words in 40 hours

i'm not regretting choosing English A1 for EE anymore.. x) 

this week has gone by splendidly, and though i don't look forward to my self-imposed seclusion over the next 50odd hours to get my EE done by Monday, week 3 has been a week that needs to be blogged about, if only for memory's sake...

2008 is turning out to be a year of birthdays, in the sense that we're making an effort to remember everyone's birthday in a special way, perhaps because 18 is a big year for most...

after sam's lunch last Sunday (and to follow up from wednesday's post), the next birthday thingy was on Wednesday, when Yew Jin turned 18!

met deon/javier/sean/hanan to get his present before meeting up with him/JML at Lawry's Paragon for what was an opulent meal, complete with wine, steak, waitresses in french maid outfits and a picture of Kelly Clarkson (!!) on the wall of famous customers...

post-dinner, we had some chat time at Starbucks before heading our separate ways back, and han an and i bumped into someone who would make the night very interesting indeed x)

friday (today) passed by quickly, and while deciding whether to go for Anglo Os or not, the heat made me pick lunch in holland v's CJ LMXLB instead, which turned out to be a case study in inflated prices, as are cab fares (from holland v and clarke quay home)

i had planned to watch this week's shows, but the next thing i knew i had fallen asleep and by the time i woke up it was about time to leave for clarke quay to meet the six.nine ppl for dinner, which was in part a celebration of Elliot's 18th...

met mel at Central where we walked/talked for half and hour before meeting up with the rest and waiting slightly more before heading over to Brewerkz... 

with the bill from tonight and the bill from Lawry's, i've participated in over SGD1000 worth of food...

but the real excitement came from some of them doing the reverse bungee and swing thingy, which i opted out of and experienced vicariously... 

the waiting was kinda long, and it took out some of the hype of the initial high, but it was an interesting end to an altogether wonderful night with great company... 

can't wait for the next class outing =)

till then, it's just work ahead...

every inch of you spells out desire

wow

note to self - i'm stressed...

just in case i've forgotten

partly because i'm totally shagged and partly because AMI7 is on right now, watch this space for a recount of what was a thoroughly interesting, amazing day

having my day split into 4 parts did tonnes for my energy level, 'cos that meant i had regular recharging visits to the SAC...
Miss Julie was an interesting lesson that ran right into the SL3 period, so i spent the first period or so doing chem in shunlong's class before deciding to head out and get some history reading done...
apparently i have no idea where the door to the lower level of the Library is, which gives you a sense of how long it's been since i've paid it a visit...
instead i just went to get a drink and prepare myself for math...
and i'm glad i did, 'cos i managed to finish all the worksheets we were given before leaving class...
the first half of last year, math lessons were more like free periods for me, 'cos i had very literally finished the entire book's questions even before kimweng started teaching...
this year is slightly different, but A Math once again proves the most useful subject i took 2 years back, which means i have all the resources i need to finish most of this term's syllabus without attending lessons, and nowadays doing math isn't about being on par, it's about getting as far ahead as i can, something which a select few in the SL2 class have done as well...

another 18th tomorrow!

when i got back home today, my only thought was how glad it felt to be able to lie down and sleep, and how the day was finally, mercifully over...

it's only week 3, and i'm already feeling like school has tripled its pace from last year...

lessons-wise, the day wasn't too long, but the immense heat outside class and the cold in some classes didn't make lessons any better, particularly after PE early in the day...

had a 100minute break before the econs practical, but i actually felt like just dropping to the ground a little less than halfway through the lesson...

when he gave us a little break, my head just crashed on my jacket and i knocked out for 5 minutes, something i've never done in class before...

EE post-school was quick, and b.ng told me that while having coffee with my ELA1 teachers last year, he was told another person was using the literary term i'm focussing on in my EE... 

well, whoever it is, i wanna make it clear - i came first...

just sayin' yeah..

didn't get to go out after school though deon wanted to during EE, so spent some time in school with han an with some finger food before taking a lift back from clarence...

tomorrow's slightly longer, but at least i have 3 breaks literally breaking up my day into 3 bearable portions

this weekend has been far too short, but it was well spent...
i mean it's been relaxing, but not particularly productive...
that's why i've set aside next weekend to exile myself to my desk for 48 hours to finish my EE first draft before it's due date on week 4...
but talking about week 3 ahead, it'll probably be quite stressful already, but the first study group session kicks off on wednesday before dinner...

celebrated sam's 18th one day in advance at a quaint Italian restaurant's private dining room with jake/adriel/josh/rachh/sher/deb/deb...
went to sam's place for some table tennis and stuff before heading off...

i think 18's gonna be a really special age, and i've never actually felt a change when turning older, even on my 16th...
somehow i have a feeling this year will be something else altogether

considering how this year's gonna be a year of work, i've promised myself to also make it a memorable one, since it IS my last year in school, at least for a while...

and with all the stress that's just waiting to happen, i'll take what down time i can get...

which would explain why i spent an entire Saturday out doing fun stuff instead of staying home typing and whatever... =)

met Sean/Darius/Paul at Pepper Lunch, Shaw Plaza for lunch before we embarked on a 2-odd hour search for the perfect gift...

with a shortlist waiting for a vote, we stopped for tea at Starbucks, HSBC before heading to Wisma to pick up our final choice...

paul left soon after, leaving the 3 of us to head to Darius' place for 2 games of pool, followed by more than an hour of relaxing chat over coffee&tea...

headed off with sean to Sun With Moon, Wheelock Place for dinner...

i have a feeling this weekend won't be too productive, something i'll have to pay for when Week 3 dawns bright and early... 

but i won't have it any other way

week 2 has come to an end, mercifully...

the most important thing i took back from the week was the realization that my final final EE deadline is really quite close - March 7, 5pm

apart from that, it's been a long week even though there were only 4 days of it...

i did math my work yesterday, so that leaves the Miss Julie presentation which i have to discuss with Daryl about, and perhaps finally plough through the unbelievably long introduction to King Lear... 

Pepper Lunch on a Saturday!

ok so i'm not quite sure how to say this, but yeap - 

ONE TREE HILL is the best show ever, period

it's like every episode is just the perfect mix of scene and music...

Season 5 ya'll

there are absolutely no words to describe how unbelievably strange the JUNO soundtrack is... it's just... really like nothing i've ever heard...

heading back to school after the break yesterday completely sapped me again, and like i told nick eng on the way outta school, i had long forgotten we even had a holiday after the day i had...

was moved over to SL2 Math, which is the (nominally) smaller class now, with 17 as to 22 in SL3... 

confirmed my spot doing the life science symposium thingy with carol.low, so i've got another 6 CAS hours down pat... that leaves 20, majority of which is Creativity...

which brings me to the highlight of the day - attending an INTERACT meeting along with sarah/trisha, but slightly under an hour into we we kinda got bored and decided to head downstairs for food/fruit juice... according to han an we can attend an IB-only meeting organized by pete tomorrow, and maybe with deon there my perception of joining will be slightly different... 

b.ng also ditched me for my EE session until next week, so yeap...

my thursday starts much later now 'cos of my new Math schedule, so i'll probably be having a strong cup of coffee downstairs and re-reading siddharta in preparation for ferd.q's mega lesson later in the day... or i could very well sit in during one of the mat lessons and proceed onto the Product Rule in calculus which i refused to do today based on principle... i had done way more already, and i can't believe all that memory work in sec4 has been completely erased... 

might have study group or some down time at the skate rink on friday, depending on how plans turn out... 

so here's how general stationary is classified - 

Bookbinders/Prints planner: can't live without

Your Mobile Phone Calendar: use if in reach

and then there's the new 2008 ACS(I) school diary, which has an appearance reminiscent of the time i saw a 3 year-old stumble upon a bucket of yellow paint and went all apeshizz on the carpet...

classification?

use as frisbee

the first New Music Tuesday of the new year, and though this isn't quite as new as i make it out to be, it's still a pretty good album to check out...

Juno: Music From The Motion Picture

like nothing i've heard before; quirky, idiosyncratically repetitive, sleep-inducing and thoroughly enjoyable...

i was kinda supposed to get myself up early to get some stuff done before heading out this afternoon, but it was raining and everything, so decided to catch some shut eye, and before i knew it, 11pm had come and gone...

had just enough time to watch the season finale of Desperate Housewives Season 4 before meeting sean/yj/deon at Sun With Moon, Wheelock Place...

met Jin while commuting, and he was on his way to meet his class at New York New York...

the food was excellent, reminding me that Sun With Moon is definitely one of the 3 Jap restaurants that i consider my favourite given the places i've been to (the other 2 being Tonkichi and Waraku)

we took a stroll around orchard before getting drinks at Starbucks, Paragon and had a long chat beginning with a glance at today's News which had our school's IB achievements splashed all over the front...

a little over an hour later we went for some perfunctory arcade time at cine before going off...

week 2 resumes tomorrow, and i've got an EE meeting after school, as well as finding out whether i'll be moved over to SL2 math...

the weekend was relatively quiet, and it was kinda different from all the past weeks going out and stuff...

had to take a raincheck on josh's offer to go for lunch etc 'cos i had to finish some work before heading into week 2...

and speaking of week 2, it's turning out to be not bad a week so far, even though it's only been a day into it...

there were only 3 real lessons today, beginning with chem bright and early, and tkh just breezed through a good number of pages of organic chem without taking a breath, releasing us early...

then it was history, which is normally insufferable, but since it was at the lab, the already short 40min period dwindled down to just 15 mins...

for PE, we simply had a briefing, after which we spent the rest of the free hour having lunch before heading up to the audi for the release of IB results...

oh and we kinda formed the 45-pointer club for studying purposes... deon/lucy's idea x)

speaking of 45 points, its just 38 more for me now after getting my 7 for Chinese B...

like i told elendrus, i need 5 more of those =)

english A1 is proving to be the hardest obstacle to that...

and 'cos of the school's good results, tomorrow's been declared a holiday...

econs was next with the annoying M.N., but since i've been doing my Blink&Dorton reading ahead of him, it was an easy lesson to grasp...

had another short history period when i finally got my texts, so HL3 periods won't be entirely useless anymore...

finally arranged a meeting with b.ng for EE supervision on wednesday after school so i can have more time to discuss stuff...

though i was supposed to have some chat time with daryl/melodie, i was furiously typing/calling ppl 'cos i had to arrange some stuff for debate...

eventually got to get some conversation in before heading off with deon/sean to Essential Brew for tea/fingerfood/dessert and arranging a leisurely lunch at Sun With Moon tomorrow...

so including that, i have a nice 4-day work week that will end with 2 more lunches... 

this certainly isn't the pace that represents the rest of the year, but i'll take as much down time as i can get while i still have it before the deadlines become more of a reality...

so for the first (and probably not the last) time this year, allow me to exclaim - 

TGIF, seriously...

as strangely welcoming as these 3 days has been back in school, i'm completely burnt out, and can't even fathom doing the work i need to tomorrow...

which is why i had to take a rain check on deon's invitation to go shopping tomorrow...

(we'll go to Pedro soon yeah!)

i've finally met all my teachers, and things are turning out quite alright...

i'm totally digging having D.Yap back for math, and my E.A1 team of Merv.G&Ferd.Q is arguably the best HL pairing, apart from the dean&deputydean pairing that .13 has...

and TKH for chem is hilarious as a chem teacher, and i think his teaching style will be similar to CKC's, which evidently matched me if last year's results were any indication...

additionally, i think CKC is arguably the most committed teacher i've met in all my years of schooling so far - he bothered to come down today during our first chem lesson to make sure we had all our IAs filed before passing us over to the new teacher...

and i'm glad to say all my IAs are neatly in order =)

on the "neutral" list lies history, and although i know most would judge him harshly, wty has actually taught me quite a bit, seeing as i've never taken history before and many of my classmates had the benefit of 2 years of alv.tan or someone similar... that said, he still hasn't taken my feedback about not having superfluous activities during lessons, as he proceeded to promptly ask us to participate in his "word splash"... like WTH??!!

i refused to take down those key terms until he actually told us something about them and what they had to do with my Chinese History knowledge, which i really gathered from listening to my classmates instead of him... and i hope the ppt slides he showed us will be shown again or printed 'cos he totally didn't give me time to copy what was actually useful...

and now i'm down to the one teacher whom i know i'm not gonna be having fond memories of - Mr Adrian Owen Mongan's less travelled, less experienced replacement, M.N.

as i've said, econs has become a self-study subject, as was E.A1's later texts from last year... 

as the E.A1 course companion was my teacher for most of my hols, so will the Econs course companion be for all my long, long econs lessons this year...

2 lessons stand out in memory today - 

the first was during F.Q's 2 english periods today...

in the first, he was talking about how him and M.G make a good team, and the latter is well-known for her feminist advocacy, and to that he replied - 

"sometimes i really don't get it... so you've got breasts, deal with it! it's a natural burden"

but lessons-wise, the second period we had with him is possibly the most intense half an hour i've experienced so far this year...

without any warning, he simply dived straight into interpreting Siddharta, and i found myself furiously making notes without having time to process my own thoughts until after...

i was quite breathless after that lesson, but in a very good way...

the second was during chem, and as KH was leaving, he turned back holding up a file and told us that if we wanted a piece of history, we should take it...

laying it on the table with the name facing us, he said with slightly too much enthusiasm - "it's shyna's"

one of my classmates then replied, 

"so is that why it's empty"

ahh, such wonderfully entertaining bits are what make school fun...

the CCA Fair this year was less interesting that last, but i did get to talk to gareth/ET and some others over the course of that hour as everyone was concentrated around the astroturf... 

headed back feeling absolutely drained, but there's still EE to be tackled before Monday's lesson...

i just couldn't stop staring this afternoon

it finally started to feel like school today...

after a few lessons where i found out my 2 good teachers and 1 ineffectual one, i sat through (unplanned) a rather long lecture before going to help out at the History Booth at the IB Subject Fair...

there were lots of breaks in between which i spent talking to han an/lucy/gen/sarah/trisha in the sac and jim at the benches outside the audi... 

eventually left at about 745, and there were still lotsa ppl around 'cos of rehearsals and stuff... 

tomorrow's the CCA fair... 

there is no rest for the weary...

and for those who are just absolute magnets for teachers to ask for help from...

as i was stumbling out of the audi at the end of possibly the most contrived speech since the communist revolution, i was looking forward to getting some rest before i tried to write an all new TOK essay after some thinking after JC asked me about question 9 and after brian the boring requested that we hand in complete drafts by tomorrow, but i was summoned my the shouts of my CT... 

(ok so i actually knew about it from Mr Tan KC's sms to some of the history dean's list ppl, this makes for better writing...)

i was asked to go see mdm.vij.ranj to get details about helping out in the subject options fair tomorrow evening to tout IB History...

and friday will be a late day too 'cos i've got to get the Debate Booth for the CCA fair together...

far too stressed out too early...

though i had hopes of getting up early so i won't be staring at the ceiling tonight trying to fall asleep so i don't go to school tomorrow feeling like i've just run a marathon, i crawled  into bed a little after 3 early this morning, so that kinda threw my timing off and i woke up slightly after 11 to arrange today's plans...

in the end, i spent New Year's Day in town watching I Am Legend with sean/han an and tea at TCC where gen joined us...

we did a round of Tapz, after which both gen and sean left, leaving han an and i to have a pre-dinner snack at Secret Recipe...

i don't regret not spending the last 2 months in a more productive manner, though it does mean i've gotta kick it up another notch once i head back to school tomorrow morning...

IB year 2's gonna be hard...

especially having to climb all the way to the top of the IB block to get to class... 

no but seriously, it'll be a bit of a challenge keeping myself grounded amidst everything...

the start of my graduation year!