Cheese...uh I mean...chess =P

Added everyone from chess club on msn (if they have it).
And then I got 3-4 replies with "who (the heck) are you?" X_X

There's a badminton outing today again. Didn't stay on long after 12, coz of GP project about Gender Roles of Men and Women. I'm pretty worried, even though there is an extra day this weekend (Monday=Labour Day holiday). I still have the PW IP to polish up, Chemistry Tutorial to complete (don't want to antagonise the Chem teacher and make more trouble for myself, I am already confused with the chapter with Dalton's Law etc...), Maths Trigo (which I have to study and do to understand, there's a test next week Friday with it as one of the topics), and GP homework (a nice set of journal: writing and news)

(>_<);;

And then there is Canoeing outing.

Gotta go, someone is now bugging me to get off (the annoying creep...)

Failures in my life...

~My History of Rejections~
1st reject: Unsuccesful in getting a place to learn Japanese at MOE Language Centre.
2nd reject: AHS rejected application from me to offer triple sciences.
3rd reject: MJC called up to say I was unsuccessful in my appeal (1st intake).
4th reject: MJC did not reply to my appeal for the 2nd intake.
5th reject: Declined a chance to take up 4 A level subjects at TPJC
6th reject (Today): Rejected to be in TPJC's I & E committee.

I really wonder what is with all these rejects. Is it truely for the better?
I really think so.
I kind of saw a pattern just today. All these are probably for my own good as I couldn't have possibly coped with more responsibility than what was ahead for me. Had MJC taken me in during the first intake, I would have never know what Millenia Institute was like (and I never had a day of unhappiness there except for the beginning). Had MJC taken me in in the end, I doubt I will ever have the chance to run for Student Council.
Only 4 persons were selected for the I & E committee, something intriguing to think about.
Maybe every rejection is a blessing-in-disguise...

Today =)

Things are now relatively quiet now that 2 days have past since my short speech on stage.
Reckon it's high time to put up all my lovely posters ^^
btw the URL is http://sctia.blogspot.com

Also found out that there's 5 people who like drawing manga/anime in class: Me, twins, and two other guys.

There's a Biology test tomorrow. Hope that nobody fails, because the remedials will make one a super-dee-duper busy person. And we don't have much life already. Everything is now all about school school and school.

I'm lazy =P

http://www.tpjcian.net/tan_shu_yi_cindy/wordcount.html

Yay word count rocks! Just don't use "Enter" or point form will do...or inaccuracy will occur.

Saves me a great deal of time trying to count the PW thing...

I know that doing this means I'm lazy, but since there's a way around, why not use it?

Holiday next week

Can't wait for the May Day Monday holiday to rest and recharge and go canoeing ^^ Or maybe visit Terra. Or play and hangout and study with Mewie and Twiggy, after being seperated for so long. Or even with my cousin. I've been isolated from my really good friends by fate for a very long time already.

There's just so much I want to do, so little time.
I just have to make the best out of my time, I hope.

What's going on with Life

Some Chess Club E-Mail landed in the Junk folder. Hadn't I double-checked it (I don't usually do so), it would have been gone for good.

Been doing the posters for the elections. Simple but plain.
Still, have to give things a go.

I'm so glad that the PI for Thursday is a draft work.
Still need more time to think of something better than what I have in mind.

And there's the GP presentation next week.

And there's a chess book I need to complete reading this and next week. Want to learn all the openings available: King's Pawn, Queen's Gamble, Ruy Lopez etc...

So many things to do, but JC life, I feel, will be the most enriching ever.

Life is so Extraordinary sometimes...

People were shocked to find that I am running for Student Council...
Even my senior was.
Anyway, speech today was short but ok I think. I advertised my blog haha.
http://sctia.blogspot.com
And I updated it with my write-up =)

Fun day..weeee...

Haven't played badminton for so long already, it like 1 year plus since I last did so in my school. Plus my ex-classmates didn't seem like they want to play with me since I'm lousy at it compared to them. I can sense it back then.
But today was different. It's with some of my classmates (and they are nice people to be with)
More details at ken's blog @ http://snoopalife.blogspot.com/
We met McDonald's mascot Mr Ronald McDonald at a McDonald outlet somewhere near traffic light leading to Tampines interchange...and surprisingly he did magic tricks for us, even though we are a bunch of 16 or 17 year olds ^^;; Cherrlyn thinks the balls may have been modified for the trick...
And then when I was going home from TM I saw the clown (ahahaha...) again at TM Mac outlet...

Talking about my classmates, there are some weirdos in there. The twins in class can be classified as that, since they like unconventional stuff like guy x guy shippings (aka homosexuals), blood-filled scenes, etc. But thinking of this good friend I know of who likes blood and claims to be psychotic, I really wonder if their childhood experience has something to do with it. As long as they are harmless, weirdos are still human, we've got to learn to accept them.
I dunno if I'm one anyway. I'm slightly a nerd (thanks to homework---it keeps reminding me to think about school stuff almost all the time), slightly a computer geek (thanks to my interest in Pokemon which leads to an interest in making websites), and a girl who plays International Chess (no one else is for now in chess club maybe)...
Or maybe I'm just a "Multi-talented" individual...

For now, I'm stuck at Question 5(ii) of the Trigo tutorial while helping someone with it...still trying but taking a break to blog for now.

I'm running for SC...

Oh yeah...~
I'm running for SC.
I don't know what the heck I'm doing.
I don't mean that I don't have a very good reason to join it, but I usually assume that SCs are popular people in school. And a girl like me seems out of place. I'm quiet and reserved. Just like in Secondary school, but by stupid circumstances. There isn't any good friends from my secondary school here to hang out with.
Yet I really have a desire to do something to improve the school. And I can talk if I want. The stupid tutorials have been the problem. And it is going to be over very soon...
I walk around the school and found some more campaign posters. 3 girls so far from S08, the class I'm supposed to be in. And then I happened to overhear that someone is aiming to be VP of SC.

Oh yeah, and here's my SC Election Campaign Blog at http://sctia.blogspot.com
Please visit and drop me a tag!

Reflections...

Sometimes I just feel like a "blur sotong"
Don't understand Biology too well. What intrinsic or extrinsic stuff?
Plus I will definitely flop Chemistry Practical if I don't improve by next week. I'm clumsy with the apparatus.
I believe I can sort out these problems once I can finish all those annoying but neccessary tutorials. Haiz...

Chess

Nice game.
But sometimes I wonder if I should have ever joined a club about it.
I'm the musical type.
But I have had enough of the long gruelling hours to practice.
And being un-appreciated for my efforts.
And failing Piano practical twice already due to neglect.
The group has more girls than guys.
Now things are totally different.
This group has more guys than girls.
And I'm the only girl who's taking up International Chess.
Is my world going nuts or something?

Restrictions X_X

Sometimes I wonder why there isn't much progress for the setting up of JCC. The situation somewhat to me now seems as though it is going through a lot of red-tape.
Firstly, it cannot exist as a CCA, but only as an interest group. Secondly, it cannot be publicised around much. Thirdly, JCC have to be under a CCA. Fourthly, a proposal for JCC to be an interest group under Art Club is still pending. And it goes on.
Are they just trying to make us give up on the idea?
Same goes for the Polo Tee issue on the forums, although I felt there wasn't really any need for it, at least for myself.

There are so many things similar about the both of them:
1) They are both not original, other schools have them.
2) The previous cohorts had actually proposed them but had failed in their attempt.
3) The so-called "practical people" don't see a need for them.
4) Probably a lot of red-tape to be overcomed in the process.

I just wonder.

Homeworking @ Sunday

Most of the homework due for Monday are done.
Been waiting for 1 week and 2 days for the webhosting already. When will they ever reply?
Hopefully their servers and DNS problems have been fixed by now.
Time to work on the news journal X_X

Weekends are back!

Yay again! Time for some serious rest today.
I am having problems with Biology especially, all about the hydrophobic and hydrophilic etc is confusing me, and I will need to revise the Chemistry topic about the whatever spdf stuff...forgot what it really is. Also need to go through Trigo of Maths, there are some stupid equations that have to be remembered for convenience sake X_X
Plus I'm going to have to do the 3 GP questions thing. May have to do extra since I'm the one compiling them :-P (haha...) Also on the list of homework is GP news journal. And I need to bring some photograph. [Putting a note here on what's needed on Monday so that I can be self-reminded =)]
Really wonder about my 2 very-very-very-good friends at MJC, going to meet them this weekend. I can't wait. It has been some time since I last met them. The last time was when we collected results.
btw, drew something using the write function on MSN. It's awesome.

Time to de-stress!

Yay! De-stressing time! I've got AP/GP maths assignment plus Biology essay to do later on. And I'm flooded with homework and stuff for this entire week X_X

Slightly burned

Yet more homework to complete. Chinese, GP, Chemistry... And the first three months of tutorials are still not done completely.
Hope I can complete them quickly or it may affect my mental state. How I hate to worry about stuff that is not done...
Also been having problems with SPA, like time management, standards of recordings (how many decimal places) and calculations. Hopefully once I get used to the lab settings I will do better at it.

What's with me?

I feel that I'm behaving like a blockhead in school, staring at invisible stuff sometimes.
Also, been plagued by a problem of being too quiet among my class people. I'm beginning to like my class by the day and this feeling is one of the few encouragements that I have to keep going on every day.
Maybe I am just thinking too much of things that shouldn't be thought of much.
In this school, neither my previous enemies or friends in my secondary school are here. All either have gone on to better JCs or poly. Maybe this is for the better, since everyone here is new, but it comes with a heavy price tag. All my best and close friends have gone on to another JC. And there's one new CCA club there which I wanted to join.
Yet by a twist of fate, I came here. Missed 1 point to get in there.
TPJC's facilities are not new, the school started in 1988. And students here complain of the canteen food which is said to be worse than their secondary school's. Which I have to agree somewhat. The CCAs are not very unique or interesting, and I did not want to rejoin my previous CCA, because it has tired me out way too much back in sec school.
However, when I think about all these, I think of MI. Compared to TPJC, it is more shabby (more than a hundred years old), the canteen food is even worse (two canteens stalls only). And most of the CCAs are held in the other Jurong campus, which means long school days for their students.
This makes me appreciate what I have, although I'm still feeling a little upset about why I cannot take a fourth A level subject. Really feel that my first three months grounding in economics is all wasted away.
Yet I consider myself to be lucky that I have more free time than my friends who are taking 4 subjects.
A tarot reading some time ago mentioned that a great sacrifice has to come with success. Is that what it means? I really don't know.

Learning styles...

Got to know somemore of the nice and interesting people in my class ^^ Plus we girls managed to get 2nd place for the 12X10 metres relay! Hurray! (The boys fared worse but it wasn't their fault, since they combined with another class for it)
Been somewhat lost during lectures so far when it comes to Chemistry and Biology. The handouts lets you fill in the blanks but this isn't really suited to my learning style. I prefer to sit through the lectures listening to the teacher and not double-tasking through it. I am just not the type who learns through writing stuff down.
I recall a seminar I attended last year whereby they analysed your learning styles:

• Visual: Learner who is good at memorising with picture aids.
• Aural: Learner who is good at listening for details.
• Read-Write: Learner who remembers best by writing down notes.
• Kinestic: A usually inqusitive learner who learns best by exploring on his own and doing hands-on modules.

For me, I'm the Visual/Aural learner. The shared problem with both learning styles causes me to be easily distracted. And that means I cannot multi-task well. And I really dislike jotting down notes unless it's a practice on some new type of questions. I'm just simply not the read-write type of people.

Today's GP lecture was about education, and it brought up a point which stated that the Asian system of education was more structured than the US system. There is also criticism that education is just not catered to the various possible learning styles of the students. I really can't help agreeing.

What a week...

What a week. Been signing up for all sorts of stuff, but in the end, I had to give up some. Especially the opportunity to join the debate club. I have always marvelled at how people in my secondary school can speak and debate really well, and thought that I can try it out in JC, after having not much of guts to do so at AHS, but alas, I found it not as easy as I thought that it would be. Maybe it was a special case for that day, but I found that I do not have the courage and the "rebellious attitude" I usually/sometimes have to speak up when I was at MI. And the same goes for the next few days.
My CCA now is Chess club, yet I keep wondering if I should have chosen Chinese Orchestra. I really miss playing my erhu and it has been left to rot at a small inconspicuous corner of my room. Yet I can't afford to give up 3 days a week for it, because I've to rest and to concentrate on Piano stuff X_X
Homework-wise hasn't been smooth-sailing but I hope to catch up ASAP.
And I'm still waiting for the free webspace of 500MB I signed up for. They hadn't sent me a PM yet. And then it's time to design somemore websites and forums ^^
Plus I've got news that JCC (Japanese Cultural Club) will be allowed to exist as an interest group first. Once it's more established we can officially become a CCA. Only 20 members can join the group and they must be committed. The only headache we are having now is what kind of activities we can conduct in the club.