Thursday, August 24, 2006
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pain, destruction and imperfection have been crawling over my mind the past 2 weeks as i received back all the remaining ct3 papers ... sigh ... while i was reflecting on my results, my friends were like "hey mike, what's ur average??" and i was too sad to reveal, simply replying "it's not up to standard, please don't compare, don't demoralise me any further ...." but they still insisted on my results ... to stop the frustration ... i revealed to them and SOMEONE in class was such a pain ... after comparing he did not consider my thoughts nor feelings and said "haha, i beat u ... haha ..." this kind of singaporean is very TYPICAL and UNSYMPATHETIC at all ... not worth BEFRIENDING. but days later, i forgave him ... (without telling him f.y.i) and leave that bad day behind because i know that there will always be a better day ahead...
I prayed that night and true enough ... a week later ... which was yesterday ... the Term Report and IB Results were released con-currently during English lesson. We did not expect that it would be out that quickly and we were all worried, tensed and went around to wish people good luck. I was like the rest very concerned about our future and did not know what's to come ... mdm told us that out of 20 ppl who applied in class, only 5 got through and this was when i felt even more nervous. only a quater got through and now that's scary. mdm phua called my name first, i went up, hoping to receive my results, but only to give out sweets to the class. my other friends were like did he get in? she firstly said no ... but very softly she whispered ... actually Michael got in ... I was like so HAPPY, yet had this undecided-feeling = bittersweet. it was such a relief!! very very lucky to get in. so friends from the ip currently, see u in the new pre-ib life experience next yr.
what you did not know ...
my friends who did not get in came up to me and nagged ... "hey ... not fair, why could u get in and not me when my average was higher" ... some even slapped me on my lap (not that hard though) ... venting their anger or rather bitterness. i could understand how they feel especially when that SOMEONE made fun of me. but all was explained during the ib briefing about why some of them did not get through or were put on probation ... i hope that they are recovering from it now ... I pray that GOD will gide them through and comfort them.
special mention of the post: mdm ann phua
she is the kindest teacher that i've ever seen. you are simply young at heart and very active in spirit too!! happy teachers' day 2006.
thursday, 31 august 2006
M!©HæĹ at 9:28 PM
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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have been busy lately and got back my CT3 results this week - rather dissapointed my results and very jealous of SOME people in the class who got a higher average (out of the 4 subjects that we got back), would not like to name them though. also, i have not been attending canoeing trainings cuz' mr see was so kind to let the yr 2s off to study (special mention: thanks mr see, ur so kind, ur da best in da world, oops ... i forgot that he'll not be seeing this, but who cares anyway).
juz b4 the rugby match, my friends n' I went to the crystal jade at holland V for a scrumptious lunch, and i was so grateful to "twanger" for giving me a treat (for a bowl of Century Egg Congee). but even so, i didn't know what i was ordering as i simply copied what my friend ordered (cuz' he was saying in cantonese to the waitress and i didn;t know a thing, but since his judgement for food is like usually gd, so juz agreed) then when slurped the century egg, i could feel like this funny 'jelly' and the yolk. it was like so "eww" and i almost spat it out, but said to myself "this is posh, high-class restaurant, so must have high-class attitude and eating manners".
the c div' rugby team of my sch went to the finals ytd and defeated RI 15-10, actually i expected our team to win anyways, so i was studying when ppl were crazily shouting their hearts, lungs, mind, soul, body (face n' spa...) out ... those super-enthu ppl even when to the grass patch to get a closer view of the match. but on a lighter note, all i care is the flipping of the score-cards as the match progresses, but it looks like it didn't happen this year. no, but seriously, i was not all-prepared to cheer because of the four-week exams (...must be trying to copy the great s'poe sale record of eight weeks).
today, when i heard that 2.1's geog marks ranges from a 65 to 17, i was thinking ... they are really too stringent ... even a discount is 75!! so was very scared for the results after receiving a half-past-six marks for english. and tomorrow is a holiday thanks to the "cool-breezers" for their great accomplishment. because of this: we've got 12 golds this yr, 10 yrs of c div' rugby gold, 10 yrs of top boy sec sch.
thursday, 17 august 2006
M!©HæĹ at 5:17 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2006
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the week has been rather strenious, yet very very meaningful ... let's recall back on the past few days -
tuesday was the nat'l day celeb (with all the singing of chapel songs + 2005 theme song "reach out for the skies" .. again, cuz' our sch music teacher composed it ... i was wondering she must have a super hyper-active baby as she still has the energy to dance around!! but seriously, she's a wonderful and creative ),
wednesday was the actual nat'l day (yay!! finally got the chance to eat popiah, my fav since young, but juz that when i wrapped a few rolls ... most of the fillings dropped out and i was like diao... |||)
then thurs was the 22-km round ubin "rehearsal" (sounds kinda like a musical - we rowed n' rowed n' rowed ... got to row in the straits for the first time and i encountered some dirty rubbish floating about ... and i think i saw an underwear juz next to my boat)
k, let's cut the crap and move on to today ... we had the ROD parade for BB and the "eagles" were flying for the final time (adapted from p.d.2 movie). it was rather emotional for me to see the outgoing admin (yr 4s) in their smart full-u and hearing their painful experiences over the last four years in the old cpa + got to watch the video presentation they did. even though mr prefect (zac) thought that it was boring (the speech), but i found what mr snr prefect a.k.a w/o wesley chan said was very true "the sec 3s admin must work 2gether and care for their sec 1s next yr, one year is very short indeed, before you know it ... the new admin for 2007/2008 will arrive".
but the highlight of the day was mr ivan sim's talk ... he mentioned that he regretted having not to choose to handle this yr's batch of sec 1s and that he cried when he went back home... mr sim is kind by nature and very "quiet" in the sense that he rarely shares with us abt his personal life - almost everyone knows this by now. during the video present., we watched and laughed and laughed - and we found out that mr sim was FAT last time 4 yrs ago ... but a yr later reduced to his current size. later, it was the incoming admin's official installation ... they were flying high and i dunno why but i keep feeling that every yr's csm is a prefect + in the bb band (0405's daryl chia, 0506's wesley chan and this yr's one also) ... anyways, it's been very touching = the words that wesley + mr sim said have touched my heart and i will work on my attendance for bb, i feel guilty whenever i miss a parade (i know ur laughing there in front of the screen, stop it .. nope, dont argue with me - ahh .. stop, NEXT!!)
next - courtesy of high sch musical
saturday, 12 august 2006
M!©HæĹ at 7:43 PM
Friday, August 11, 2006
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today, i've finally got through some obstacles which are really freaky ...
it was life sciences exam today and i strolled in class as usual ... then a "pock" person came to class bugging us abt the test later on ... moments later, the class fell silent as though no one was there, a rare thing for a class who doesn't really bothers about studies - "look not on the outside but the inside..."
blah blah blah ... during a break between classes, i was singing at the back like every other day with my friend, as though we were singing a duet (song - breaking free - abit oldish but who cares), anyways ... yeah my friend stared at me halfway through the chorus. he gave that blur look like the one in manga with three stripes on the face and i had no choice but to hide my face behind my literature book...how dumb can i be?? (errr...)
friday, 11 august 2006
M!©HæĹ at 5:58 PM
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finally, after much efforts, i've finally managed to launch my successful blog which took much time to plan and prepare ... hope this will be much far apart from my MBS website
thursday, 10 august 2006
M!©HæĹ at 5:43 PM