I met someone on my way up to my classroom this morning at the first level of the higher side of the classroom block. On my way up, I realised that there were quite a few insects which looked like bees on the stairs. It did not seem to bother me any bit. This is strange because I am bothered even by a moth resting on the wall. Maybe my brain is too tired that it has to save energy for more important things than that.

At least half the school was late for assembly today. Usually during examinations, there would be no assembly, or even if there was, it would be held in class. Today's assembly was held in the hall and many people, like me, who were unaware of it were late. I think they made it an exception not to start assembly on time and not to punish us because the number of late-comers was so great. I heard some funny announcement that there will be a cleaning session on Monday. I wonder what Mrs Goh means when she said that. When will the cleaning session be held? After school, during lessons? I hope that it will be after school because I will be leaving before school ends. I would rather do cleaning up than to take the mid-year paper for Music though.

Paper one started with the English language paper. I misinterpreted the question and I spent 50 minutes writing a composition that was out of point. After which, I did the situational writing and realised, only when I had 15 minutes left, that I had misinterpreted the question. The question was "National Service training should be made compulsory for all able-bodied Singaporeans between the ages of 18 and 21." I interpreted it with an extra "male" and wrote out of point. Luckily, when I was writing the composition, I was thinking of what I could write, and it I came out with a draft in my head of what was relevant to the actual topic, but irrelevant to my topic. It is quite ridiculous that I did not realise my mistake when I was writing "Currently, National Service training is compulsory for able-bodied male Singaporean between the ages of 18 and 21." I had thought that I shouldn't have written that because that of my interpretation, and that writing that would be repeating the question. Somehow, I don't feel very secure even after writing another composition. It was rushed out in 15 minutes and I am worried that it also does not answer fully to the question. There is more hope for the situational writing though, I managed to write quite a fair bit more than what I wrote for my composition. It was rather easy to write on as all the points were provided and the only thing I had to do was to elaborate on the points.

The Chinese paper was a little tougher. I did not quite understand the questions and I spent some time reading through the questions so that I can guess the rough meaning of the question, and what was required. I did the gong han and I think that it is too short to get me a good score. My composition was on a newspaper article on more and more maids being abused. I wrote slightly more than 2 pages on it and hopefully, all that I have written is relevant in answering the question.

After the papers, I went to Long John Silver's to eat. Only when I have boarded the bus to the interchange, I realised that I seem to have lost something because my hands were empty. After quite some time, I was able to identify the item that I have misplaced as my file. The first thing that came to my mind was that it must have dropped out of my hands when I chased up with my friends. Coming to think about it now, it is so illogical that anyone with brains would know that that would not have happened. After more thinking, I guessed that I have left it in the D&T workshop. I was right. Not long later, I suddenly remembered that I am going to have a Chinese test on Monday and all my Chinese books are in my locker. I even forgot to fill in the entry form for sports day or bring it to school today even though that was the only thing on my mind when I stepped out of school yesterday. Luckily Miss Lo allowed me to pass it to her on Monday. Somebody please remind me about it because I cannot afford to forget about it again. Just how forgetful have I become?

I have made up my mind to start studying from tomorrow onwards. The countdown to mid-year exams will start tomorrow. Right now, I want to put my mind at ease and sleep peacefully.