I believe that drastic actions yield excellent results. I'm only using iPod before I sleep, com after O levels. Blogging is using iPod. Just like in sec3, it was proven that when I only allowed myself to use the com during weekends, results increased, giving me the year with the best results, but others flunked. I am now starting my drastic actions.
Today I took the bus home alone for the first time in a long while. Normally I would find company but today I decided not to waste time. It was a very good opportunity to start my soul-search mode once again, when I sort of talk to myself inside my head (it's weird but hey sometimes it helps okay. Acts like an advisor from your inner self).
So I was thinking about O levels again and the whole studying thing as well as choice of jc. I realized that the little choice and sacrifices we make these 3 months is going to affect my entire life. It's like a major cross junction, just with many more possible routes. I want to go to ac because I really can't bear the thought of hanging out with nsks at ngee ann. Then not really other JCs because half the people there, I probably wouldn't know, and god knows which schools the girls will come from. Then ac? Either barker, or else acsi. Primary school friends, people I've pretty much spent my life thus far with. Girls? Magnesium Sulfide. Great! Set. I finally get to hang around with the people I want to be with, and I HAVE A CHOICE THIS TIME, all in this 3 months.
It's 12.5 weeks to O levels. 88 days, less than 3 months. Prelims are in 2 weeks. That important benchmark which will tell you if you can make it, or can't. 2 weeks to study for prelims. Then, prelims take 3 weeks. 7.5 weeks left for studying for O levels. I have 6 studiable subjects(English and Chinese are out), so that is roughly over 1 week to master each subject for an A1. The time to study is NOW. Not too early, nor is it too late. Just nice.
The steps to it? First, I thought about all my distractions (superseries style). On the way home, there's kap. So I'll avoid that. I can go there everyday after 13 nov. This way, I'll reach home faster. Then when I reach home at 3.30, many many many distractions. Major distractions: 1. comfortable sofa + newspapers. 2. Ronald lee. Method: go home, straight into room. Take out planned study materials, shower. Bring planned study materials with me, go to dining table to have lunch. End at 4.00. Banned from sofa, I'm not allowed to sit on it for 3 months after lunch, straight into the study room, door closed. Fan/air con on( depends on weather), time to study. It's 4-7.30. Dinner till 8.30, study till 11. Prepare for bed and sleep. Thats about 6 hours of study a day. Even if I start my afternoon study session a little later because of bus delay, it's okay. I can catch up using dinner. Worst case, I'll still be clocking 5 hours of study. I'll rarely be seeig ronald since I won't be studying with him in my room. So, that's my plan for 6 points. It's probably possible;)
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
I just recovered from a strange bout of flu. I had fever, and it was below 38.0 all the time, lasting only Friday and Saturday. There was no loss of appetite at all. On Friday it was just fever only, with no other symptoms. Then Saturday was fever+cough, so I went for alex lee remedial (he's crazy, 3 tests in 1 week). Sunday, no fever, but sneezed crazily. Monday, went to school (socially IRRESPONSIBLE :P) sneezed a lot too. Tuesday I went to school with a numb nose and after that nothing happened, just very mild cough. So I probably don't have H1N1.
Lester sits on my left and on Saturday be found out that he had a confirmed case of the H1N1 flu. So no hot guy sitting on my left for 1 week. Under the old circumstances, it would mean quarantine for those around him. But no, there's no such policy anymore since it's so severe the government couldn't be bothered and no quarantine is neccesary. Which is really stupid right. Look: at first, when there was ZERO cases in the country, they raised the health alert to orange, temperature checks, masks, 993 ambulance services, border temperature measurements, quarantine, aloha resort, and a buffet of other "strategies".
Now we see our death toll having some numbers, flu cases stopped tracking because it's "too many to count" and everyone around is sneezing or coughing. What are they doing? No quarantine, no more border checkpoint temperature checks, no more ambulance services, no more safety measures, WHEN ITS THE PEAK OF THE WHOLE FLU PANDEMIC!
That's like saying that they're preparing for "war against terrorism". When it happens and we're all under siege with bombs thrown at us, we're going to stop bag checks and all that airport patrolling since it's the peak of the war and we can't be bothered anymore but to lose, because the situation has gotten "too serious". Yup, comparing the H1N1 and terrorism cases alongside each other, this is what I infer. Super measures at first, but when it happens, all hell breaks loose and we'll just give up all that we've worked for in the past.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
A waiter brings the customer the steak he ordered with his thumb over the meat. "Are you crazy!" yelled the customer. "Sticking your thumb in my steak?!" "What" answers the waiter. "You want it to fall on the floor again?!"
Something I found from my ipod app.
School's been fine. I like this stationary class system a lot. Very relaxing, you don't have to get up and climb stairs every 1 hour or so. And I'm sitting at the back with Ezra, so it's just like in primary 5 where we set-up our own "home". Then we just discuss stocks. It's actually kind of our cosy corner. The only problem is that we don't have a fan overhead. It's scorching in the afternoons. Paying attention from the back isn't as bad as I thought, as long as you make an effort to listen, it's alright. And during slack periods, the fun is right where you are :)
Friday, July 10, 2009
Its ALMOST mid-July. End of second week of Term 3! Thats so fast. Prelims are in 4 weeks. Right after national day.
We had Chinese O level oral yesterday. The passage was really hard to read, but the topic was really easy. Whether teachers should make friends with students. Haha it was okay, i had the points but I couldn't really put it into words. Kept stuttering and was very nervous. Hopefully they'll be nice :D anyway it's understandable to be nervous for everyone since its O levels.
Life's pretty much revolving around the same stuff these days. Stocks, Gym, Studies. Life is satisfactory. But I can't go to the Clarke Quay Central gym anymore. Dad rented out the unit yesterday, so had to hand over the keys. Now there's only my house left, which is worse than shit. Small, old, lousy equipment. I guess I could last like this for the next 3.5 months, till O levels. Approximately 107 more days!! It is THAT close. Then go out, go out, go out, and go out.