Next was Chemistry, followed by a double Mathematics period, recess, Social Studies, Chinese, a broken double English period, and assembly. The lessons on the whole were boring. There is nothing much to mention about them. The same things always happens every lesson.

Assembly was the highlight for the day. When I stepped into the hall, I was prepared to sleep through the whole assembly, but after watching the beginning of the performance, I started to pay attention to the play. It is something from "Lord Of The Flies". Maybe it is because I can relate to one of the characters that I feel something for the play. I think it is the best play I have watched so far (I have a short-term memory).

I better stop here and continue revising for the Geography test tomorrow.

Tomorrow the school will be holding a temperature taking exercise. Just a reminder for all those who are reading this now to bring your thermometers. Be responsible, bring your thermometers.

I just had a surprise mathematics test today and I realised that I have forgotten so many things already. From now on, there will be at least one surprise mathematics test on top of the scheduled tests every week.

I'd better go now.

Well, today has been a very long day for me and I reached home only at around 10pm. My schedule for today is fully packed with school from 7am to 2.30pm, music lesson from 3pm to 6pm, and tuition from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Tomorrow will be a sort of similar day except for the music lesson being changed to sectional and tuition ending 15 minutes earlier. I don't think that will be of much help. I'm just hoping that I will be able to get the rest that my body needs so that I will not fall sick.

I slept during the double Geography period today. The lesson was just as usual, but I couldn't stay awake any longer after sleeping past 12am last night. Mrs Tan either did not realise that I was sleeping during her lesson, or she couldn't be bothered to wake me up.

There was a change in the class sitting arrangement. Mrs Tan is so creative as to draw lots for the position of the seats. Now I'm supposed to sit at the fourth row of the first column from the right. This will make it even easier for me not to pay attention and sleep during lessons. I hope I can get back my seat in the first row.

I'll continue when I have the time, and if I can still remember what happened.

I still have quite a lot of homework to do. I am feeling very tired right now.

Today's English comprehension test was just like normal. Tests do not mean anything to me anymore. I don't know whether this is good or bad, but I seem to have lost all interest in finding out whether I have the correct answers or not. Speaking of this, I realised that I have completely forgotten that I had a Mathematics test on differentiation on Thursday. All thanks to my carelessness, I have lost at least 3 marks. I am beginning lose my concentration.

After the test, the bulk of my class had to clean up our classroom as punishment for leaving our books under the desks. I think that it is purely a waste of my time because by next week, it will get even dirtier.

Mr Chua had just came when I stepped into band room. He doesn't looks too pleased. I can say that I understand 5 per cent of what he is feeling. He has so many bands, and he has to repeat so many things over and over again, year in year out. In fact, he is repeating himself almost every time he steps in here. I wonder how he can take all this. Anyway, after taking the new recruits for less than an hour, he decided to send them out for sectional. We will have a new piece to work on this Friday. It is something and Fuge by Bach. At first I thought that it would be sight-readable, but just as I took a look at my part, I got a pleasant surprise. This is the first piece ever with so many semiquavers for the bass clarinet. I spent some time reading through my interesting part.

Taking junior band is a lot easier than taking the main band although they can get quite noisy at times. At least they are more easily controlled, and they make an effort to improve. This is one of the very few times I can hear a difference in playing in such a short period of time. I am praying real hard that the positive attitude of the junior band will not change and that the main band can learn from them.

After junior band, my father drove me home where I had my lunch. My piano lesson later on was a little more interesting than the past few weeks partly because the theory portion was omitted. I hope that when the results come out, I won't have to retake the theory paper. I have a lot of work to do concerning my scales and examination pieces. I definitely do not wish to fail the practical examination.

I went to sleep straight after my lesson. I must have slept very soundly because I did not realise that I have received 6 messages and missed a call. I only managed to get back to the person who called me after I was awakened by my mother to go for my tuition lesson. How I wished that the message that was supposedly sent by Estella using Wen Jia's phone was sent by someone else.

Chinese movies are getting irritating. The male actor's voice is as though he is trying to act as a female and all the male voices sound so "gu niang".

I'll stop here for today.

Today we performed at Toa Payoh Sports Hall. It was not an actual performance but rather, it was sort of an opportunity for us to gain exposure. I like the experience of performing at events, but I just hate all the things that come along with it. I always get people not following instructions and people thinking only for themselves. If I am not going to do anything about this attitude, I am very sure that the next BM will go mad within a week.

I got back my English comprehension paper and I scored only 29/50. That makes it a C5. I also got back my Chinese paper, this time, not as lucky as the last. 33/50, or something like that. My memory is failing me.

I am beginning to hate school. I don't know whether this is good or bad, but I am sure that I will feel nothing but hatred towards the school if not for band. The first thing I heard when I reached school this morning was that the school had cleared all our books that were under the desks. That is not the end. We had to wait till first recess to get back our books, and help that irritating Mr Teo do some work tomorrow. I lost at least 4 books-- Addition Mathematics text book, Elementary Mathematics and Chemistry Ten Year Series, and Social Studies text book--because of that.

Now what is in my brain is just a whole mass of thoughts, floating around and coming into my attention for just a while, before drifting away again. I am so confused.

Tomorrow I will be having an English comprehension test again. If I am not wrong, Mr Peach did not tell us the venue and time for tomorrow's test. If not for having to take the re-test on Monday afternoon, I would have gone to see a doctor tomorrow. I don't wish to skip a music lesson because of the re-test.

Tomorrow there will be two "concerts" that I want to attend. One is the Hwa Chong Junior College concert and the other one is the one that most of you are aware of. I just found out that someone will not be performing tomorrow, so I guess I'll either go for the Hwa Chong one, or go for my tuition.

The time is 12am now. I should go and have some rest so that hopefully, I can have a clear mind tomorrow.

Yesterday was a very tiring day for me. The school is in quite a mess. The construction work is half completed and they have opened a few new corridors. It took me some time to explore those new passages and short cuts. I still feel that the school should announce these newly-opened passage ways so that everyone will be aware of them.

I can't remember right now, what lesson started the day off. The only thing that seems significant yesterday morning is the Chinese test. I had only prepared for it on Sunday night and I couldn't really concentrate because I was partially too tired to do much. The test was okay on the whole except for the sentence construction section. I could not even remember the meaning of a single one of the three words. After recess we got back our Geography test papers and I scored 18/25. This is the first A2 for Geography this year after 2 B3s.

After school I decided to take a cab to Dunman High as I was too lazy to walk all the way to Tanah Merah MRT station and sweat under the sweltering sun. I had just boarded the cab when Grace used somebody's phone to call me, saying that she will be going for the lesson today. The driver had to make a U-turn back to somewhere near the school and drive us both to Dunman High. The lesson there was as usual. We learnt a little on Japanese Music and revised on Prokofiev's background.

I guess I was a little too tired to do anything much when I reached home, and that explains why I did not blog yesterday. In fact, I did not even do any of my homework.

On to today, the first thing that happened in class was me getting the highest in class for Physics again. I am not too happy about that. I'm sure that those people who already hate me have an even stronger feeling of hate towards me now. Maybe I shouldn't bother about them anymore. Anyway, they are only an insignificant part of my life. I scored 22/25 for the test, and found out much later that someone else also scored the same mark as I did.

Anything that happened after that has been erased from my memory. The next thing that I can remember is me helping to sweep the floor. This is the first time this year I am doing class duty and it is not my duty to do it. Well, it is the least I can do, considering that there is a whole group of people trying their best to decorate the notice boards. I hope that their efforts will be paid off.

I shall stop here for today. I still have to take my bath and do my Social Studies holiday homework. I'll continue when I have the time.

I shall keep this entry short because I am short of time to finish my homework, study for tomorrow's test and to sleep.

I still cannot believe that I went bowling straight after band camp and I played my best game then. I had 115 for the first game and 76 for my second game. The latter is more of a very good usual game for me while the former, I think is something that will never happen again. I had a total of 6 spares, 5 of which were next to each other and no spares the next game. I really can't believe my luck.

I reached home at around 5pm and I slept from 6pm all the way till 11am this morning. After coming home from tuition this morning, I slept a further 3 more hours. I think I am still lacking of a lot of sleep.

I better stop here and start revising for my Chinese test tomorrow and try to complete as much of the holiday homework as possible.

It seems a little strange to be attending a camp that I have planned. It is as though I won't be taking part in most of the activities. Anyway, I hope that nothing will go wrong during the camp.

I watched Dirty Dancing today. It was supposed to be another section outing but again, there was only the four of us. The show is quite nice but I think I might enjoy myself more watching someone else dancing instead. We also went to Singapore Shopping Centre to take a look at the branch of The Band World. It is a little small and it seems to be rather short of stocks.

I want to start on my holiday homework now.

Later, the liver, kidney, stomach and appendix were cut open for us to look at the insides. After that, we moved on to see the lungs that were collapsed and the heart, which was cut open. After finishing with that, we looked at the brain of the rabbit and the eye. It is so amazing that the eye is actually made up of fluids and the membrane is so hard that it is quite difficult to pierce through it.

I think that the session would have been a much more pleasant and enjoyable one if only had they restricted it to the secondary 4s. The primary school students are just too young for that. They keep on making unnecessary comments and noise. Some of them even made sadistic remarks. I just can't wait to get rid of them.

When I reached home, the first thing I did was to switch on my computer. This is becoming a second nature. I did not do anything much. In fact, I slept on the floor beside my computer for about an hour because I was too tired from the lack of sleep. After that I went for Mathematics tuition. We completed most of the things on basic integration.

After tuition, I came home and again headed for the computer. This is my life, revolving round school, band, music and the computer.

How I wish I can just walk on and on in the cool night with the cold breeze blowing against me. I just like that feeling. I can forget about all the things that are bothering me.

I now have to worry about how I should complete all the holiday homework I have. I have two Chinese compositions and a Chinese test, Social Studies that has to be handed in today, Mathematics homework including filing up all the worksheets, Chemistry test to study for and an English composition that is long overdue.

I'll just try my best to do all that I can.

I had quite a fun time cycling, only that the park was a little too small, we were not cycling fast enough and that my butt hurts now. Maybe I should try renting better bicycles. Later when we went back to White Sands mall, we met a group of 4D people at NTUC. This group of people were quite okay with me but the other group of 4D people we met at the interchange excluding the first group, were the ones I would never want to meet. Anyway, I am so delighted when it started to pour. I think I'm being a little mean here. Hope that they will have an enjoyable time at the chalet.

After that we went to Shirely's house and did nothing much other than play some games. I think that if I had actually have to spend a whole day playing all those games, I would have no brain cells left even to speak properly. I could see the drastic drop at the rate that I was progressing.

I walked to my grandmother's house after that because I did not like the idea of changing buses. It is not that far after all, walking from Aquarius to Bedok North. I think that will be enough exercise for the day.

After dinner, I went out to Parkway Parade with my mother and sisters. We did nothing much there other than walking and walking. It is so much better to walk around than to sit at home and do nothing.

I watched the last few minutes of Rhythm Nation and almost the whole of Min: Beyond words. I think she is a sadistic violinist. Her technique is so good that I can barely see the bow when she is playing fast passages. I am beginning to like the low notes of the violin.
Tomorrow there will be another clarinet outing. I don't know whether it can be termed as a section outing because only a quarter or less of the section is going. Anyway, I hope that it won't rain tomorrow.

I wonder how I will spend the rest of the week.

Sometimes, I just hate malay weddings held at the void deck. It is so irritating. The people can't sing, and they even use speakers to amplify and bring suffering to the residents. Of course not all malay weddings are this bad. The last one was quite pleasant, with a live band performing. Those people should go for training for singing before singing at weddings.

I tried to entertain myself by playing gunbound but the game somehow quit by itself in the middle of the match. It must have been my lousy computer. I already had 1 kill and the next turn, I could kill someone.

I did some playing on the piano after that. If I am not going to make it for theory, at least I can compensate by passing the practical exam right? Right now, I think I can only make it for Sarabande, and that is only half of a piece out of 3 pieces. My playing for the rest of the examination pieces are too bad to be expressed in words. Anyway, I only did the first two pieces twice over. I don't think that can be considered as practising the piano.

I wasted quite some time on the computer before my family came home to have dinner. Dinner was a simple meal. I am thankful for that. It is better than having so much for dinner that I can even skip breakfast the next day.

I managed to convince my mother to go to Parkway Parade tonight. I was asking her whether we would be going out tonight so much that she decided to bring us out. I guess I will be bored to death at home if I had to stay at home. I can't be bothered with the television. They always air some boring programme. The only more interesting ones are on arts and nature are aired only late at night and on certain nights only. Maybe they should also air basketball matches more frequently.

I am still wondering what I can do when I come home tonight. This blog still has not seen its first visitor.

Later I took out my sister's clarinet to play. I had nothing much to play because I don't have any scores and I cannot memorise any clarinet part from any of the pieces we are doing because I don't play them. My fingers are still very clumsy. I can't even run a scale properly. Anyway, after that I used the computer again. It seems as though I have become addicted to using the computer.

It was not my plan to go for the Mathematics tuition today as I wanted to go somewhere. I guess that going there is not what I should do because I can't find anyone to go with me.

Anyway, I went for Mathematics tuition at 11.15am. Today we did nothing else but basic integration. I started off with an amazingly fast pace but soon slowed down to a crawl. I think my attention span has shortened quite a bit because of yesterday's theory paper and also the lack of sleep.

I suppose I will spend the rest of the day sitting in front of the computer, staring at the monitor, unless my parents decide to bring us out tonight, which is quite unlikely.
I've not told anyone about this new blog up to this point of time.

From now on, I will be blogging at here. The old blog at http://chenghuat.diaryland.com won't be in use anymore, unless it is to trick those people into believing that I have not got a new blog. I finally got the time to switch hosts and to spend so much time using the computer because of the term break. This is the first time that I am grateful for the one week school holidays. It actually really gives me some time to spend doing some things that I like although there is homework. The best part of it is that there won't be any tests throughout the whole week and I can get back the sleep that I have been deprived of.
Today isn't a very good day. To begin with, I had to wake up at 7am so that I can reach school by 7.30am for a foot drills training session. Thankfully I have my father to fetch me to school or I'll have to wake up even earlier. Considering the wonderful weather for sleeping and that I slept only at 1.45am last night, I think that having to go to school for something extra requires a lot of determination.

There was slight drizzle when I reached school. Thankfully, the drizzle was very light and it stopped in time for us to begin our training session. I was put to be in charge of training Janice, Xin Ting and Koh Shing. The first half-hour was quite frustrating, trying to get them to execute the commands with a certain standard. How I wish that they could be more enthusiastic, only then, it would be much easier to teach. After we were done with the few most basic commands, things started to change for the better. Although it was getting more and more challenging, I think the reason why they are willing to put in their best only then is because they find it new. I believe that for every thing that you do, it is the beginning that is always the toughest. Once you get over the basics, everything will be fun and enjoyable. Well, drills were supposed to end at 10am but we ended only at 11.30am.

I had my father to drive me home after that. I think he waited more than half an hour for me. Anyway, I had my lunch at home before taking a short nap on the couch, as I was afraid that I might fall asleep during the theory exam later. I took a bath after resting for about half an hour and went to the examination centre that is at MDIS building at Changi Road.

The theory paper (grade 8) was super tough, not as in I don't know how to answer a single question but in the sense that 3 hours was not enough for me to be satisfied with what I answered. I spent around one and a half-hours on the first question alone. That question was to complete the missing parts for 2 oboes with a basso continuo. If I am not wrong, the person sitting next to me had already completed 3 questions by the time I started looking at the second question. I skipped question 2 and 3 and went on to answer question 4 and 5 first as my brain couldn't function properly after thinking and thinking of how the parts would sound like. There was one question on how the composer creates the effect of alla marcia and I wrote that the dynamics of the extract is mainly soft, the quavers are played short, and it is syncopated when alla marcia means in the style of a March, which I did not even have the slightest idea of. I did not manage to write out a good melody for question 3. It was in triple timing but I was thinking in compound time. I could not get my brain to think of triple timing and the phrasing went off. I think even a high fail is very far away.

Of all the theory papers I have sat for so far, this is the only one where I sat in for the whole duration of the paper. In fact, I spent 3 whole hours staring at my script and cracking my brains and not even satisfied with my answers. I think it partly accounts for my low sprits after that.

Once again, my father drove me home. After using the computer for not too long, we went for dinner at Pizza Hut. I wasn't really looking forward to it partly because of the theory exam and because we were going to the Bedok branch. The food was quite delicious despite the lousy ambience. I think I ate the most. 1 beef lasagne, half a plate of spaghetti, 3 slices of pizza, and quite a few side dishes. It is at least 4 hours after eating all those now and I still feel as if I have just eaten. Maybe I can skip breakfast tomorrow.
Now, I'll be doing some minor changes to this blog to make it better. Hopefully it will not take up too much of my sleeping time.

That's about all for today.