Saturday, September 17, 2005
I'm losing the motivation to update my blog. I'm getting quite busy lately and I have not really started on my revision for the promotional examinations. I don't think I have enough time to finish revising for the exams already. That accounts for not updating. 3 days to something but yet I have no idea what I should do. Nobody to consult either. Everybody seems to have not enough time for themselves. Why do we have to live in a place where everything has to be done so quickly? The only reason this is so is like one of my teachers said, because we do not have any natural resource. We have to work doubly or even triply hard to make up for the absence of natural resource.
I wish I had more time but yet at the same time, I wished that time would pass faster so that all this suffering can come to an end. Maybe it'll all be better if the whole earth would slow down. There won't be any need to rush to places in a car, no more air pollution and lack of fuel. There won't be any need to stay up late at night to rush and catch up with all the things I've missed. Maybe our lives would be more meaningful because only then, we can stop to admire and appreciate the people and things around us.
I feel quite sorry for my dearest bass clarinet. I don't know how it ended up in such a state. I should have taken better care of it.
I don't think I will be able to remember much about WMC after promos where I might have the time to write about it.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
I've been so busy lately that I forgot that it's now the September holidays. Well, I suppose that as I grow older, the periods where people I used to refer to as "holidays" are merely days for me to catch up with all the work that I did not manage to finish. I have been spending the last two nights rushing through my mathematics tutorial and I only managed to finish up 5.1 and 5.2, with many blank spaces left on the foolscap because I did not have the slightest idea of how to work out those questions. I still have to finish my chapter 4 tutorials and assignments, at least 3 physics assignments excluding tutorials, 2 Chinese compositions and a lot of chemistry tutorials. I even thought that I could get a breather after my piano practical examination last Friday. Well, I had a breather, a very short one. It's only because I neglected all my tutorials for the whole of last week just to make sure that I get as much practice as I can on my exam pieces before I reattempt the examination. Hopefully I would be able to pass it this time round. I had aimed to score a merit but it seems as though I might have difficulty passing. The scales tested were quite easy but I somehow managed to make myself so nervous that I fumbled through my scales. As for my pieces, I wasn't able to be part of the music. I was merely depressing the keys on the piano and producing notes. Even then, I made quite a number of mistakes. Sight reading was quite a disaster. If I remembered correctly, it was in F# minor and somehow I played through playing most of the G#s as Gs. My aural wasn't up to my expectations though I think it will help me quite a lot. Once again, I hope that I can pass the practical.
My new spectacles are ready for collection. My eyesight didn't really worsen as much as it usually do but because the projectors are so frequently used in lectures, I had to get a new pair because the images projected on the screen are not exactly that sharp, and most of the time I'm not sitting at the front of the lecture theatre. I think I will only have the time to collect them on Friday, but it means that I'll have to go all the way to Parkway Parade to do so. It may not be that bad an idea to wait till I get back to school before collecting them.
My mum just reminded me to go to the dentist. I had totally forgotten about that. I hope it will not take up too much time because I still have a lot of of work to do, not counting all the revision that has to be done for the promotional examinations.
I meant to update on the WMC trip on Saturday itself when I said I'll update later but I couldn't find the time to do so. I don't think I'll update on that at least for the time being. When I have the time, I will do so. Pray that my memory does not fail me by then.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
I didn't realise that it has been two weeks since I last did an update. Time really flies. I was rather busy the last two weeks because of a chemistry lecture test and my piano examination. I'm glad it's all over now. Hopefully I would be able to pass my piano practical exam this time round. Just to make sure that I would be able to pass, for the whole of last week, I averaged at least an hour on my piano everyday. That means that I spent close to no time doing my homework because most of my remaining time not on the piano was spent on my computer. Anyway, I'm having quite some problems with my homework already. Catching up is the main issue now. The only tutorial I can follow is mathematics, but I have not done the last 5 tutorials that Mr Wong has gone through in class and the last 2 assignments he wanted us to hand in. I feel very bad now because he is the only teacher who makes special effort to stay back after school just to help me catch up with the lectures that I had missed. All of my other tutors do not even seem to bother. Now I'm almost totally lost in all the other subjects, especially economics and chemistry.
Quite a lot of things happened recently. I find myself spending all my money on food. I can't quite believe that I actually would do this. Last Friday, I went to Parkway's Swensens for lunch, and after band practice and dinner at the hawker centre, went back there for dessert. In total, I spent around $25 on food that day. Then on Wednesday, I ate at a new food outlet (qi ji) at century square and spent around $10. Yesterday, because lao shi was leaving us already, we had dinner with him at Parkway's Crystal Jade Kitchen. I shall not reveal the price of the meal but thankfully there will be dinner provided after band practice tomorrow. At least I can attempt to start saving some money.
As a result of my ultra short term memory, I have been making a lot of mistakes. Just on Thursday alone, I went to play badminton without remembering to bring a change of clothes, forgot that it does not pay to be helpful, and left my keys in the keyhole. Looking back at it now, I think it paid quite a lot to be kind, just that sometimes, it is a different person who returns the kindness. I was at Tampines interchange on my way home on Thursday. As I was boarding 65, there was this man wearing a blue shirt talking to the bus driver. I was thinking why he couldn't wait till everyone has boarded the bus before asking the driver for the route because he was blocking half the passage way. Just as I walked past him, unexpectedly, he said to me, "Excuse me, do you have 10 cents?"I was already quite annoyed with him slowing down the boarding process but I dug into my wallet and shoved him a 10 cent coin. He didn't even made an effort to thank me. I know that it's only 10 cents, compared to the amount of money that I had spent on food but couldn't he at least show some form of gratitude? The worst thing was that he got off the bus 2 stops from the interchange. That was well within walking distance from the interchange. If he knew that he did not have enough money, why can't he just walk that short distance? Anyway, I was too tired to think much at that point of time. When I reached home, I was looking for something to eat when the doorbell rang. I peered through the viewfinder (is that what you call the hole in the door?) and saw a stranger. I didn't want to go through all the talking process because I was already tired enough after the badminton game so I just stayed there and continued looking, in silence. He was very persistent. He rang the bell at least 10 times, with an interval of around 10 seconds. At some point of time, I almost wanted to open the door and see what it was that he wanted but I did not in the end. He took a piece of paper and slotted it on the door. In the process of that, I saw something oscillating. To my greatest horror, it was my house keys! I was momentarily stunned. Images of the stranger outside removing my key or opening the lock and coming into my house ran through my mind. I hoped that he would not notice the dangling keys on the lock. Thankfully, after some time, he finally left. I was so relieved. I grabbed my keys and made sure that there was nothing else that I had left outside.
I shall do another update on the WMC trip a bit later.
