things started off today with the NE club meeting in the morning, which was pretty intense O.O for some reason, the exco decided that today was the day to crack down on all the problems of attendance and participation in club activities (and in case you couldn't guess, those are very big problems for NE club). so we were lectured first by eunice, then ms lim, but the KO move came from ms phua. we were handed out the orange racial harmony ribbons that our classes ordered, and after a while she flared up again because nobody took the initiative to wear the ribbon and "personally support racial harmony" -.- and her explanation for not wearing the ribbon herself? "for personal reasons, i don't wear anything colourful." seriously, like wut? don't wear anything colourful? sure goes a long way to explain how she turned out that way. anyway, i expected the ribbons to be similar to the small little anti-drug abuse ribbon pins they give out, and i wouldn't have minded wearing something like that on my collar for the month of july, but it's an actual ribbon with a safety pin on the back, a full 3cm X 3cm, and we're expected to wear that glaring neon-orange monstrosity of a pin on our collars every day for the rest of the month. come on, one look and common sense will tell you that it wasn't designed to fit on a collar, but ms phua is absolutely adamant about this, despite other teachers already wearing it on their chests or pinning it on their bags. personally, i don't want to look like a mutant butterfly is aiming for my jugular, so i have it pinned on my bag. and on a random note, joy is literally the only person i know right now who thinks that the ribbon looks good on the collar, while everyone else is just trying to find the most inconspicuous place to attach it.
perhaps mercifully, we didn't go through CT answers during math and econs lecture, but that came at the price of having to cover new topics for both. for maths we started on hypothesis theory, which is... ok honestly i don't know what it's like because i fell asleep the moment mr chee said "ok so this will be an easy topic..." i think i freaked qihui out a little cos my head kept tilting backwards lol. because of that, i was (mostly) wide awake for the econs lecture, which started on international trade, but in hindsight keeping awake wasn't really necessary for this lecture since they were just going through comparative advantage again, but in more detail. argh, my heart bleeds for time that could have been better spent sleeping :(
went to the library with lionel, edmund and j.tan after school to kill time. my initial plan was to sleep and/or listen to music, but since mr low was also there giving yicen consultation and he made eye contact with me, i became morally obligated to do the chem assignment due tomorrow -.- anyway, lionel, yicen and i came up with a very rough and very tentative plan for a year-end class chalet which goes something like this:
- Use whatever remaining class funds we have to bet in favour of Paul the octopus in the 3rd place match
- Win the bet (currently the second-biggest uncertainty in the plan)
- Use the winnings to book a chalet sometime after Grad Night
- Blackmail, peer-pressure or otherwise convince a significant portion of the class to attend the chalet (currently the biggest uncertainty in the plan)
we actually were not entirely joking with step 1. if all the willing people in the class (which we're estimating to be just the guys in the class) contribute a mere $4 each (which by the way is actually less than the minimum bet with Singapore Pools) and we win, we could easily earn enough for a 2D1N chalet (maybe even 3D2N if the odds are good), and we'll only have to pay a nominal sum each for BBQ stuff. in any case, hopefully the plan comes to fruition, with or without Paul's help :)
instead of going for the H2 maths consolidation to go through the CT answers, i had to go for the H3 equivalent, which was just that much more depressing. mostly i was just copying down answers for questions i was completely stumped by and just left blank, but here and there were a few questions i should have been able to solve, that i could have gotten the answers to if i just thought them through, but ultimately just didn't. frustration and disappointment have been my good companions throughout H3 maths, but the fact that this was a past-year A level paper just made my "friendship" with them that much more intimate. and now i know just how badly i did for H3 maths, which i was expecting to flunk anyway, while having no clue how i did for H2 maths, which i feel could have gone either way.
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