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Friday, November 10, 2006


Heh finally, a temporary reprieve. For the past 2 weeks my mood has been swinging from either extreme at the drop of a hat. I think it's the stress, coupled with abnormal papers that I felt were horrible.

The following few paragraphs will be dull, uninteresting and are written for the sheer purpose of venting. So please feel free not to read and/or comment. =) And pardon the odd language, spelling/grammatical/typing errors if you are planning to read it, my language skills seem to be deteriorating. =(

Anyway, out of the 9 papers I attempted so far, at least 2 seem messed up and another 2 seem extremely screwed to say the least. Should the markers be kind, for apparently the examiners weren't, my GP will not screw up that badly. Took a risk by choosing a rather different question I guess, as compared to the technology or crises one which I knew people with lots of background knowledge would definitely do better. Decided to do one titled "The world will be a better place if everyone spoke the same language." Discuss. Heh, I guess I didn't know that I was doing, but once I started planning and writing it was too late? Then the GP comprehension was O.o First, I hate one passage comprehensions and this happened to be one. Next the summary was essentially split into three parts and seemed to require everything within the paragraphs indicated.

(Un)fortunately we had our 2 glorious LEP papers the next day. For the last batch taking this syllabus with 红楼梦 and all, I must say it was a blazing end indeed. We had relatively easy 古文s to 翻译 and 词语s to 解释, and even the 理解问答 was reminiscent of our GP, though it was the first time everI tried rephrasing 理解问答 answers.. =S Anyway the brillant part was paper 2 obviously, and like all other years we tried spotting questions for at least the 小说, 红楼 and 茶馆 part. Oh, I was quite proud of myself for regurgitating out the 唐诗宋词 翻译s though =) Don't think I've ever written 翻译s so long before. For 小说s, I was banking on 乔厂长，萧萧，儿子 and 冬夜. 3 out of the 4 came out, but in unexpected ways I guess. 乔厂长，which was the question I eventually chose, asked for 作者的写作手法 ie 艺术特色 and 乔光朴 and 霍大道's 人物形象，which I guess was entirely fluffed up, especially 霍大道's 人物形象 bit. 冬夜 and 儿子 were both too cheem and intimidating to be attempted in an A level setting.. 儿子 asked something about 面具的作用 I think, while 冬夜's was just o.O We predicted 丁宝 and 康顺子 for 茶馆，and we got 松二爷 and 常四爷 instead, with the “一个茶馆等于一个小社会” thing and something about 各时代的特色 or something like that.. The climax of the entire paper had the be the 红楼梦 questions, 晴雯，袭人 were predicted to come out, but we got 林黛玉题帕，贾探春对大观园的改革 (which according to muppet doesn't even appear in our syllabus) and 贾芸谋事.. Hai all in all, it was a case of writing a lot when you knew very little so most of it's just empty, or the ba in ongcg's kong ba pau theory..

LEP S... Don't know how it'll end up, but it was the most relaxing paper thus far, no heavy mugging involved. =) And after that day I managed to stuff all my LEP things back onto the shelf, joining my one or two files of GP and random LEP + GP notes. I can finally see the bottom of my table now. =)

Bio paper 2 was surprisingly ok, by normal school standards except everyone complained about running out of lines. Essays were kept within topics so there wasn't a lot of mixing (unlike what we usually get) and it should be fine if the markers can decipher my handwriting. =)
Math paper 1 in the afternoon was a complete disaster. Didn't know what went wrong, especially since my JC math standard is much better than my secondary school/primary school standard (ie I'm not stuck in remedial and I actually know what I'm doing). Lots of setbacks during this paper I guess, which is why I hope I redeemed myself sufficiently in paper 2.

Chem was surprisingly ok, even by my standard and there were no weird drawings of alpha helices or beta pleated sheets!!! X) Got my triatomic molecule wrong though, even though my Mr was correct. Heh, maybe I was affected by maths paper, then cannot count properly.. =S

Math paper 2 today was quite alright too, I guess. Assuming what I did was correct of course, but the satisfaction of getting an answer and feeling like you did it correctly is always much much better than that sense of dread when you know you haven't done a paper well.

Managed to catch up on 4 episodes of 宫 today too, since I abstained from the show since Monday to mug. I guess xiao lin and 律 are really quite sad, since they both seem to be manipulated by the evil huizheng gong. And looking at it from another perspective, it really does seem that caijing is the third party, although 信 and her are officially married, but that was so entirely random!

Felt this song was quite nice though, and it reminded me of the 信, caijing and 律 triangle..

只能抱着你演
演唱者: 梁静茹 光良
词:瑞业 曲:光良

好想这样抱着你, 我知道你有些在意
给他伤了心, 才想到可以找你
好想这样抱着你, 我知道你现在伤心
想有人陪你, 只是如此而已

你知道, 我明了, 抱着你,我(你)的泪,却为他而掉.
你知道, 我明了, 抱着你,温习拥抱.
你知道, 我明了, 抱着你,我的心有些动摇.
你有的好, 他做不到(他有的好, 我做不到)

还想他(也许他),可能等我回家(等你回家), 在我们(你们)相识的楼下.
还想他(也许他),可能拨我电话(拨你电话)留话.
还爱他(你爱他),我从没怀疑过(没怀疑过),
今晚心底的挣扎,我不说你明白吗?

只能这样抱着你,我知道你有些在意
给他伤了心,才想到可以找你.
只能这样抱着你,我知道你现在伤心,
想有人陪你,只是如此而已.

你知道,我明了.抱着你,我(你)的泪,却为他而掉.
你知道,我明了,抱着你,温习拥抱.
你知道,我明了,抱着你,我的心有些动摇.
你有的好,他做不到(他有的好,我做不到)

还想他(也许他),可能等我回家(等你回家),在我们(你们)相识的楼下.
还想他(也许他),可能拨我电话(拨你电话)留话.
还爱他(你爱他),我从没怀疑过(没怀疑过),
今晚心底的挣扎,我不说你明白吗?
我不说你明白吗

Off to sleep now, then back to mugging again...