Wasting time reminds me of what Mrs Lam said in school. She was scolding my class for being too relaxed. Actually what she said is very true. Why must we waste so much time in school doing nothing instead of revising for the 'O' levels and complain about wasting so much time when we get home?

Anyway, we were allowed to go home early today, not as in the whole school but only the secondary fours because all the teachers had to key in the preliminary examination marks and discuss whether to do any moderation to our grades or not.

I should have taken the chance to go home early to study but I went to play pool instead. I went home only around 3 pm. It's the first time I'm playing but I think it's quite easy to pick up the game.

I am so thankful to have been saved by music. It really helped me a lot. It pulled my L1R5 down by one whole point. If not for that, I would be praying hard that the physics grades will be moderated by a grade up. I guess I will really have to start studying a lot harder if I do not want the same thing to happen to me during the 'O' levels.

I'm quite tired somehow. I guess I'll update again when I have the time, most likely in a few day's time. I don't think I will want to use the computer tomorrow.

I'm feeling sort of tired but yet I can't sleep. For the past 2 nights, I have been feeling very sleepy but when I try to sleep, I just can't. I have to lie on my bed till around 12 plus before finally reaching the stage where I do not know what is going on around me, and always, before I am supposed to wake up, I would somehow find myself wide awake. Trying to get back to sleep would only cause me to feel very tired when I am supposed to wake up. This is so strange.

The special timetable for the secondary 4s is supposed to be out today but nobody received any news on it. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow to know what it is like.

Today is a day full of waits. I spent almost the whole of first recess waiting, the whole of second recess waiting, and almost 2 hours after school waiting. Even when I went to meet someone I had to wait. I reached tuition early and waited again. Anyway, lesson today was much more productive. I had managed to complete 12 paper 2 questions in the 2 hours.

I'm losing the motivation to update.

I received all my prelim exam papers today but my English paper. All I can say is that the subjects that I am good in were very well done and the ones I am not that good in were quite badly done.

I think I cannot continue any longer.

I wonder why the world is in such a mess now. There is still the suspected case of human to human transmission of the bird flu and all sorts of things going on. We are all so vulnerable to all sorts of threats and diseases. I don't know what the world is coming to. Were there such things that happened in the past as well?

Anyway, back to what happened today. I did not do much things. I woke up way before my alarm sounded and ate breakfast. I spent quite some time erasing the markings on my scores so that I could get them photocopied later on. Then I had to go to Dunman High to submit the photocopied scores for the 'O' Level practical examination. It was raining quite heavily when I reached Aljunied but I was lucky as it wasn't raining at Dunman High. When I got back to Kallang MRT station it was raining again.

My next stop was at City Hall MRT station. I had to meet someone at 12 pm and I reached there around 10:40 am. I spent quite some time browsing through the books at the MPH bookstore at Raffles City before leaving it without buying anything. The staff were all giving me that "you're not buying anything after browsing for that long?" face. Well, I don't really care much. There were many others doing the same too. The person came 15 minutes late. After that, I went straight home.

I managed to catch the cartoon version of Mr Bean on Channel 5. It is quite refreshing to have a different version screened, but some of it was a little unrealistic, although some parts were quite funny and new. At least it's different from all those that have been screened a million times and you can recite what will happen next.

I heard over the radio that part of terminal 3 of the airport has collapsed. At first, I thought it was in Singapore, but after watching the news just now, it was in France where it happened. I'm so thankful that it did not happen in Singapore. If that happens, nobody will dare to come into Singapore.

I just want my results to be as good as my term 3 results and I'll be happy.

I am quite pissed to find out that the checking of papers was supposed to be on the 23 and 24 September. I actually saw that on Friday but I thought that 23 and 24 September was Monday and Tuesday respectively, so I happily wasted my time doing nothing instead of going to check my music paper. There will be no more changes to my marks after 24 September. How great. I hope that I was given more marks than I actually scored.

Tuition at Mavis today was a total waste of time. Mr Ng did not come and the relief teacher took us again. If I had known that it were to be like this, I would have continued my sleep till I became satisfied. I spent more than half the time there playing with my calculator and doing nothing else. At least that was something I could do do keep me amused. It is not that I am that easily amused or that I have a deprived childhood but the lesson was totally boring.

Yes, there are some changes to the layout once again. I did not really like the one I used yesterday so I searched for another layout and edited it. At least I sort of understand how to create my own layout now. The way the code is written for this layout is so much easier to understand than the past 2 layouts. And I can make all the changes I want so that it will turn up the way I want it to be. I am still going to make some minor changes and add some things to the layout.

I think I have said enough for today.

All I can remember is that I went down all the way to the bottom and then the next thing I knew was that I was a the upper secondary block talking to someone. Then I saw a rocket-like object approaching. I sort of guessed that it was the missile and ran for shelter. This time, the bomb shelter was not as big but it was very crowded. Then the missile hit somewhere and there was a loud boom.

Somehow, I found myself in my room and it was night time. There were lots of planes approaching in a menacing manner and there were some hooks outside the window. I tugged at one of the hooks and saw that it was attached to a helicopter, presumably from the Singapore side, helping people to escape.

Then I was walking towards some NTUC that I have never been to with my father. We bought some mineral water and food and then went to the bomb shelter. Nobody seemed to be inside the shelter already.

Anyway, I woke up because of some people slamming the monitor because it won't work properly. I tried to go back to the dream again but I had a dreamless sleep after that.

I think that the dream is quite interesting. Maybe I will not take the peace in Singapore for granted. Also, I think that I am so lucky to be born in Singapore. I read that in Thailand, it is suspected that there are cases of human to human transmission of the bird flu. Let's hope that it will not be another case similar to SARS.

I think I'll update again tonight.

I'm getting a little bored at home. I shall try going to the library to borrow some books on computers. I want to find out more on how to share files and such on LAN or through a router. I still do not know anything about it yet. Maybe it will be useful for me.

I wonder what I can do tomorrow. I have almost the whole day to spare other than going to Mavis for tuition from 11:30 am to 1pm. I might be able to find some time tomorrow night to go jogging again. It has been quite some time since I last exercised. Anyway, I've almost fully recovered and I need the exercise.

I wasted quite a lot of time at tuition today. I did only 47 multiple choice questions in 2 hours, spending most of the time doing nothing. If it carries on like this, I think I would be better off studying on my own. It's a little more productive than that.

I keep on thinking that tomorrow is Monday and I can get back my music results. I just cannot wait to get out of the house for a day. I'm bored.

Today was quite an 'eventless' day. I woke up at 10:30 am and went online till around 2pm before going to meet up with someone at Plaza Singapura. In the end, the person called me and told me that he could not make it and to meet some other day when I was already reaching Eunos interchange. I went to Tampines instead and bought some lens cleaner for the CD player. Apparently the CD player is spoilt so no matter what I try to do to the player it will not work.

I reached home around 5pm and started to search for a nice layout to use but I couldn't find one that suits me and gave up eventually. I tried creating my own but then encountered huge problems. Anyway, the new layout is up and I think it's quite nice. Please leave your comments in the tagboard.

I'll be going for tuition tomorrow. It's a little crazy not to go before or during my examinations but after my examinations. I did not go for lessons on the Saturday before my examinations and on the Saturday during my examinations. In fact, I only went for one lesson on Thursday. Anyway, I have no more piano lessons already. I must find something to keep me occupied for the next few days.

I suppose I will be updating again tomorrow.

Today is the last day of the preliminary examinations. I have no idea how I will fare in this examination. So far, I have not received any of my grades back yet. The first paper I will be checking will be my music paper on Monday. The remaining papers will be checked on Tuesday onwards. Sec 4s need not go to school tomorrow and on Monday. I wonder what I can do at home.

The papers this week were still manageable. Monday we had the Chemistry paper. It should be quite okay other than some questions that I had totally no idea of how to answer. Tuesday was E maths paper 1. I must say that it was an easy paper as compared to papers for other subjects. Wednesday was Additional Mathematics paper 2 and Chemistry paper 1. I pratically threw away 10 marks for the mathematics paper because I did not have a solution to the questions; just a blank space for corrections? The Chemistry paper was quite tricky and quite a fair bit of the questions were new to me. I have never seen that sort of questions while I was doing the ten year series while preparing for some tests. Well, I did not even touch any ten year series for this preliminary examinations. Today I sat for Physics paper 1 and Geography paper 1. The physics paper was quite easy apart from some tricky questions that almost nobody had the answers to. Anyway, I think that I should be able to do quite well for the paper 1. Geography paper was also reasonable. Some were easy and some were real tough. Anyway, it's all over. I hope that they will moderate the Physics and Geography paper.

I wanted to watch "Dogeball" today but ended up watching "The Terminal" at Tampines mall today. It was quite an interesting movie about a man living in the airport and not being allowed into the United States nor back to his own country. It's quite interesting to see how a person who does not understand a language slowly learn how to speak the language and communicate with other people. I think it's worth the money to watch "The Terminal".

I am supposed to go to my mother's office tomorrow to get something but she told me that I needn't run down to help her. I guess I will have some trouble finding something to keep me occupied for the whole of tomorrow. Maybe I can try changing the layout of my blog. It should keep me busy for quite some time but I'm worried that I might get bored halfway through and just give up.

I'll update again tomorrow.

It hasn't been a very good week for me. After the performance on 11th September, I woke up with a sore throat the next morning. It became worse on Monday and by Tuesday, it worsened to a flu. I was down with fever on Wednesday and I slept after having lunch at home from 3pm till 10pm before having dinner and trying to squeeze some time to rush through some of the things I need to read for my literature paper the next day.

So far, most of the papers single paper has been rather unfairly set. It is either too difficult or a little too easy. Not in the sense that it is too simple, but as in it is slightly below standard. The source based questions for Social Studies was quite a killer. So many things that were not found in the textbook came of for the Geography paper. Additional Mathematics one of the easy papers so far. English was quite manageable, only that I had a great deal of problems trying to find points for my summary. Again, it was a double passage. The literature paper was tough. I could hardly think of anything to write before the one and a half hours was up. I did not really answer two of the questions. Anyway, if I were given all the time I wanted, I do not think that I can come up with a good answer for it. Elementary mathematics was average and I did not know how to do a question. I hope I did not make any careless mistakes. Physics paper is another killer. Maybe I wasn't prepared for it. I was careless and made a lot of mistakes even though I knew the answers. If I had prepared more, I would not have made those mistakes.

I hope I did not bore you all out with all those about the preliminary examinations. Thankfully next week will be a slightly lighter week with only four days to go. I must start revising for my Chemistry and not let it end up like my Physics.

Anyway, the results of the Mayor's Innobiz Award are finally out today. My team got the consolation prize. I think that we have come a long way to win the prize considering how simple the idea is. The prize presentation ceremony was held outside The Heeren Shops this afternoon.

I do not know what else to mention in here already. Thank you for all the tags and good luck messages! I will make it a point to update on Thursday.

Feeling guilty for sleeping for so long, I took out my geography book and read through the chapter on weathering before switching to reading the papers. When I stop myself from using the computer, even the things that I find boring become no longer boring, as compared to doing something that has got to do with studying.

I do not know what is with me but studying, or anything that has got to do with it is the last thing I want to do. Even looking out of the window to see people playing basketball or street soccer is so much better than reading my geography book. 4 more days to my preliminary examinations.

Something is wrong with my computer or blogger. Whenever I visit blogger sites, all the fonts that do not have specified font sizes will become very big. I wonder why. It hadn't been like this before.

I've renewed my anti-virus subscription. It'll last me till 1 year from today. Hopefully I can be fully protected against viruses and hackers.

I should try to finish the chapter on rivers tonight. I wonder if there will still be a section breakfast tomorrow.

Paper 1 for both languages were sat for last Friday. I really have no mood to study any subject now. I also cannot force myself to do anything related to studying.

I shall try banning myself from using the modem from today onwards. Maybe I should even ban myself from using the computer. That should bore me enough for me to take out my books to read through at least.

Physics practical will be held tomorrow morning. I am in the first shift which means that I will have to be quarantined till afternoon. How interesting. I hope I can find something interesting to do.

I have already bought next year's syllabus for the piano practical examinations. I wonder when I can find a new teacher to teach me.

Pardon me for the mess. I have no idea what I am thinking of, but bits of everything just come to my mind and I just type it out without thinking.

I feel like sleeping now.

I think I will be bored to death waiting in the holding room after the practical examination. I will have to spend almost 3 hours in there doing nothing.

Thanks for all the tags!