The A*Star buildings, the rather long walk from the bus stop to Nanos, the crazy crossing of the road, the matrix food court, even the egg tarts sold in the food court, all triggered memories of last year. Rather interestingly, I never exactly encountered the "I miss IBN" feeling the way Theo did after we finally ended our 5 week (actually 6 for him) attachment with IBN.
I was suddenly reminded of the whole long, arduous period spent in IBN, from 8 am to 6 pm each day, with lunches being the most enjoyable thing we do each day. I kind of miss those times, and thinking about probably having to do another attachment this year makes me wonder how things will be different, without Theo talking non-stop and bugging me to go for lunch. But of course, if I do get my first choice of research institute, I do think it'd be quite a good experience, or so I hope.
Apart from the sudden thoughts about my IBN attachment last year, I pretty much re-met the group of friends I made during the HK/China trip. Well, not everyone, but many were there. Joshua, Victor, Wei Sheng, Xiao Xiao, Benjamin, Meng Yuan, Michelle, Jing Wen were all there. It was quite nice talking to them once again, pretty much being reminded of the time we spent there. Well, the desperate attempts to find Joshua/Paul for comic relief, the mad bridging on the train and in the hotels and on the bus, the full house addiction were all remembered. It's nice to know too, that all these people are excelling in their own ways, either being among the smart bunch of people from their schools (like HC and RJ) or being the sole proud recipient of the award from the school. It's nice to know too, that after 3 weeks, our friendship and the bonds that were continually made stronger over a short span of 10 days have not yet been forgotten.
It's just nostalgia once again.
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6:10 PM
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Double post, I just felt like it.
Best of the best.
It was one of Nat's msn nick, something rather impactful? I don't know, it just suddenly popped up in my mind.
Guess I'm just on a really really down side right now, losing confidence maybe? It's just like Calculus all over again.
Here we go again.
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1:35 AM
Mel was telling me about the junior trackers' performance at nationals this year. It's really amazing, the way they improved so much. They didn't win, but I think they shocked many, and it just goes to show how much NUS High can really do. The school has lots of potential, it's curriculum is crazy, but I'm rather thankful for what I got to learn here. I don't know if eventually surviving this school is going to be what I'm proud to have done, because I do not think it is that difficult anymore.
Many people talk about bringing about changes in the school, massive attitude changes and all. We do have big dreams for the school at times, I do imagine how the school will be like in years to come, a brilliant Math and Science school with state of the art laboratory facilities, numerous paper-publishing research groups, international olympiad medallists and so on. But eventually, I guess I just wish for everyone to believe in the potential of the school.
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12:50 AM
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Shall help publicise a bit, though I don't think many people read my blog (yay) ------------- People (year 5s esp), DONATE BLOOD! 2nd week of September, i.e. Sept 8 to 12 (first week of term 4). Forms are at the PE noticeboard area, the place where the NAPFA criteria is (there's a big box that says completed forms here or something like this, the forms are next to the box). Go get and go donate blood. (: -------------
Yerpps. Today triggered a series of emotions (not exactly pleasant, but not totally unpleasant).
It seems too late to take any action and no one knows can be done, but I'm not yet ready to just heck and let things be like this. Something needs to be changed, now.
I spent almost the whole day either in class, studying for bio quiz and bio-o quiz, or doing the Faraday mascot. I'd get to bio-o later. (I have no idea why I'm blogging about my day again, just felt like it)
FARADAY (: For all the efforts the juniors have put in, I certainly do hope that we don't get disappointed next Friday. Let's do it Faraday. (:
That was interestingly short and I ran out of stuff to write, first time I can run of things to write about for Faraday related issues. Hahahah. Bio-o was totally bleargh today. Well, first, I SO CANNOT DO ANIMAL PHYSIO, or rather, I'd need to put in like dont-know-how-many-mad-hours-or-days to study it. Mr Tham's nice though, and he was shocked when we told him that this module was an elective (bleargh) and not an enrichment so it's included in our semestral CAP and also included in our transcript (you can not include it in your CAP calculation but it'd still be reflected). It just didn't make any sense that the supposed better students in biology (supposed because some of the really good biology people dropped biology!) are going to get a lousier CAP with Bio-o being a total killer.
Honestly, I don't know why I'm so concerned over my CAP. Well, I can't say I don't give a shit about CAP, even though often enough, I want to. It's life, face it, our results are like the first line of entry into university. Or maybe I'm just concerned with understanding what I learn in school and not sweeping things under the carpet. That's partially what coming to school is all about, no?
I realised, that teachers are like one of the most common topic among students. No surprise that often, teachers gossip about students too. No surprised as well that we can barely understand our teachers but neither can they understand us.
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8:33 AM
Sunday, July 20, 2008
My brother has this in his last post on his blog: Time's relative, not to any space continuum, but to what you've spent it on. And of course, his ever so favourite line: time flies when you're having fun. Need I say more? I do not like the way time flies so fast, though I know, the faster time seems to fly by, the more I have spent my time well. Still, I yearn for more time to have fun.
I haven't been very efficient considering the amount of work I need to clear and of course studying for the ever so lovely biology olympiad quiz. It's madness, if I had chosen to take physics honours, I would totally have traded this for physics olympiad. Poof, I'm so thankful that ChemO just started and hasn't gotten to a mad state yet, heard it's a lot of organic, in a different way from what we learn (mechanisms and more mechanisms). Hopefully I wouldn't die tomorrow, and whee there'd be Renee to survive with me. (:
Yeah, so as I was saying, I haven't been very efficient and I pretty much hate that. And of course, I do know that the more I multi-task, the slower I get with things. But when everything comes together at the same time, hahah I'd just train my multi-tasking skill if there's even such a thing. So basically, I was discussing some stuff with Zhong Ming, helping Bihyee with biology (reproduction and the oh-so-annoying hormones) and doing my super duper backdated English journals.
And I'm so full from lunch, I'm starting to get a little sleepy. Annoying. I should have just starved then I wouldn't have ended up cooking too much. Yes, I am stuck at home on a wonderful Sunday morning and afternoon while my parents are out and my brother's learning how to drive. Nevermind, I'd be the first to benefit when he successfully passes his driving test.
