Finally the end of a week. Today, I helped out in the Sec 2 Parent-Teacher Gathering after my EP3 ended at 12.00p.m. For this PTG, Mr Lee Kheng Seng is in charge and the students helping out comprises of people from the four consortiums. Alvin Kuk, Seng Yeow, Liangxun and Guo Yean also went for this event, and Yuan Chang also helped out a bit even though he is not involved.

For Aphelion, Xuan Yi is in charge and I was assigned to be stationed at the entrance of LT4, where the Chinese Session is held. Of course, we had to be polite to the parents and guide them. But at 2.00p.m when the PTG is supposed to officially start, we had to direct the parents who are late to the back door of LT4, and the same for the Auditorium (English Session). After that, basically there was nothing much to do except to wait for the sessions to end and carry on the the next part of the programme: meeting the class teachers.

Finally, that time arrived where we had to guide lost parents to find their respective consortium teachers, since teachers from the same consortium are stationed at different locations, as well as telling the parents where the specific subject teachers teaching their son are. I finally saw my mother at the concourse where she was meeting Ms Sim. We continued searching for lost parents we might need our help and we rendered our services to them. The whole event finally ended when all the parents went home. Mr Lee.K.S was happy with our performance and commented that the principal and dean was also pleased with the sucess of the event. After packing up, we went home.

Well, actually it seems that this is the first event that I have experienced where there are no glitches, not even minor ones (unless they happened to other helpers).

Besides the PTG, I would like to say that my last year's class mural is finally hanging on the walls beside the two table tennis courts above the canteen! This mural was done by a few of us from last year's 1A. However, the finally touchup was done by Kai Yao and me. Altogether, the mural took more than 5 days to complete, with each day working about 3 hours. There is inevitably a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction seeing the fruit of our labour being put up, and I will like to thank all who had contributed to the mural, no matter how small the effort. Of course, Kai Yao must be praised for helping out as both of us worked on completing it the day before the Maths Test.

Mainly, this are the major issues etched in my head for today, which is fun-filled and joyful. By the way, I will most probably not post anything tomorrow as I had said earlier, I had to come home at about 10.30p.m every Sunday. I hope Mrs Chai and the rest of you won't mind.

posted by Gimmicker at 8:43 PM

Still troubling over my results. And now it seems that the best I can get this term is 2.0 for msg. How disappointing.

And the 'O' Level results are out! As what the principal said, it is remarkable to achieve better results while the teachers had to deal with IP and the new changes in school system and at the same time helping year 2003's Sec 4s prepare for the 'O' Levels. Once again, we have produced two top scholars of 11 A1s! And the number of 10 A1s had also increased. The most remarkable subject was Maths, where year 2002's msg was already an impressive 1.15, the batch of 2003 managed to achieve 1.09!!! And out of the students who achieved 11 or 10 A1s, about 40% are from the Chinese Orchestra, including the two top scholars. Maybe i'm sounding like spreading propoganda... but I'm speaking the truth!

Okay, the results are really too exciting, even though it does not concern me directly. I hope the last batch of Sec 4s who are taking the 'O' Levels, which is this years batch will obtain even more commendable results to bring glory to Chinese High. Three Cheers for CHS!

posted by Gimmicker at 7:12 PM

This may be the one of the most memorable days of my life.

Well, I got back my Science and Maths Tests papers today. My Maths marks were the worse marks I had ever gotten so far. 23/40, or 57.5%. C5. This came as a tremendous blow to me. Needless to say, I was totally devastated. But this was not over, I came in last in class for the Sicence Test, even though it was still an A1, or rather, it was 40/50. And the class average was about 45 (I think). I really felt like dying. It seems the only thing to do was to drown myself in sorrow. Honestly, I was quite confident of getting 47/50 for the Sicence Test at first, but I threw away marks for plain CARELESSNESS. What did I do! Maths was worse, I threw away 7 marks out of the 40, for CARELESSNESS!

CARELESSNESS
CARELESSNESS

Even though my Science and Maths are always my worse subjects, I really made stupid mistakes that are totally unforgivable. I almost had a breakdown when I got home.

However, my cousin made a big difference in how I felt. This cousin is currently in NTU studying to be a teacher. I told her about this disastrous day, and she really gave me good advice. After hearing my woes, she gave an analysis as to why I did not do well in both tests, or rather, any tests this year (even though the other tests results are not out, I don't think I did well). It was extremely accurate and precise. Hit the problem with me which I had been trying to figure out since the beginning of this year. i will not elaborate, but it has something to do my change in attitude towards tests and exams as compared to last year, which put too much stress on me. It is pratically draining my life of energy. She then gave good solutions to the problem.

I will like to thank my cousin for all the help, I am definitely feeling better and more peaceful now.

posted by Gimmicker at 9:11 PM

Very sleepy today again due to staying up late yesterday to complete my MRP as well as Chinese Presentation.

Anyway, I forgot to bring my PE shirt and shorts today, so have to buy 1 more set. We played "beginnner's" volleyball during this period. It was quite fun, but actually the only good players in my team were Chen Feng, Han Lin and someone else, which I cannot recall right now at all. Hmm, I think I must go around to ask who he is.

After PE, the next memorable event was the writing of Chinese Composition for hua2 gang3 wen2 xue2, which I had no time to complete. It has really been a long time since I had the chance to write this type of creative writing. Very enjoyable, except that someone beside me was talking.

Besides that nothing much happened really.

posted by Gimmicker at 11:57 PM

Today is my birthday! But as I have said earlier, my family and I had already celebrated on Saturday.

Well, today was quite a good day, but due to the Science Test, the morning was quite stressful. I had slept at 1.30a.m the night before which resluted in a lack of concentration in assembly. After the test, I was actually in a good mood.

However...

I forgot that I had EP3 at 3.00p.m! My Erhu teacher was quite angry with me for not bringing my instrument. So I had to rush back home to take it and come back to school again, wasting about 1.25 hours. Futhermore, this is the first time the new Sec Ones are meeting us, the Sec 2s, 3s & 4s. So I think I left a bad impression on them. (Sigh), what will happen to my reputation?

Anyway, I had loads of things to complete after I came back from school at about 6.30p.m. Like MRP, Chinese PPT Presentation, Literature Assignment...

Well, actually this is actually quite a usual workload but I will have to stay up late to complete them.



posted by Gimmicker at 9:35 PM

I apologize for not posting yesterday. Perhaps I will not be posting every Sunday because I will return home at about 10.30p.m due to some lessons. However, I will try to post on Sundays if possible.

Hmm, tomorrow is our Science term test. Quite a lot of things to do today, of course including revising for the Science Test. Nothing much happened today as well, only that I lost the name card that Mrs teo asked the class to do. I better create another one before the next Science lesson.

Also, someone asked about the name for my blog. Its just that Mg (Magnesium) is similar to my surname Ng, and that CO3 (carbonate) sort of represents my EP3, Chinese Orchestra (CO). If you check the dictionary, assiduous will mean "diligent". Maybe you will find this name awkward, but this is wat I can think of.

Well, this is enough for today, I will continue to revise for the Science Test now.

posted by Gimmicker at 4:03 PM