The atmosphere these few days is weird. on the one hand, CTs are just over, there's nearly no more syllabus left to cover (save one chapter each for maths and econs) and the school has many scholarship and career fairs (read: slack days) planned out for us, so it should feel like ultra-laxing school days ahead. but on the other hand, CT results are just round the corner, prelims are in week 10 and A levels inch ever closer, so the pressure's really building up. it almost feels like we're trapped in limbo, a no-man's land in the battlefield of the school threatening to break out into gunfire at the slightest provocation. i predict that the hairpin trigger will be getting back our CT results; when all the tears have been shed and the blood has been spilled and the casualties have been mourned, the frenzy of war will descend over us all. and what a frenzy it promises to be!
anyway, it's time for light-hearted randomness about today. we're doing tennis for PE from now on, and right from the start ms eng was very pessimistic about it. well, she had much reason to be. i have to say that i have absolutely zero tennis genes in me. in the short half an hour we actually handled the racquet and ball, i managed to send nearly every ball in nearly every direction except forwards, a few balls straight into other people, and three balls over the court fence into the landed property yard near the school (safe to say i didn't manage to recover those three).
ok and fast forward a bit... physics lecture was spent with the teachers going through the CT answers. as with frustrating NJC tradition, we don't get our results back until they're done going through answers. i know this is completely random and may sound a bit weird all of a sudden but i realised that i really respect mr lim as a teacher. he can lighten up the atmosphere with his sarcastic jokes (which he tells with an amazingly straight face) and then get straight to business, and the students will just follow him. he doesn't have to threaten the students with stern warnings or punishments (which so many other teachers do); somehow he manages to tell the students when to talk and when to listen, and somehow the students obey him. i think it's his general chillaxing approach to teaching. if i ever become a teacher (which i am actually seriously considering :/ ) then i hope to be somewhat like him.
skip a bit here and there... after school everyone went down to the track to participate in The Biggest Wave, a Singtel-organised inter-school competition to form the longest kallang wave. there were a lot of administrative delays here and there, and for the most part we were sitting on the track under the blazing sun doing nothing. the wave got started a few times but died off in the Aerius section >.> but finally we managed to go three complete rounds around the track continuously. i'm not sure if we're gonna win but personally i don't give a damn, seeing as the reward goes to the school and i doubt any of it is gonna trickle down to us peons in the bottom layer.
and Paul the octopus actually predicts that Germany will lose to Spain later! D: bleh what does the stupid invertebrate know anyway. i swear that i will eat takoyaki with extra octopus bits if Germany loses.
now i need to do my GP file, but i just realised that i don't actually have a physical file to store my GP stuff in (seeing as i managed to worm my way out of doing it last year :P ).
