Time passes so horribly fast that before I even know it, Im already 5 days into the new year 2008.
Here's an over-view of 2007 before I continue with the new year's stuffs.
Things I've learnt:
1) A change may not have been a bad thing after all. Getting booted out of hc was a sort of a major set back for me and I had made myself so miserable for the first few months in NJ over it. However, I've come to realise that whatever is taken from you shall be returned in different ways. I got my compensation-my nice, supportive, helpful and encouraging friends in NJ.
Not to mention that at least, when I entered NJ, I was not totally alone. There was still Huifang to accompany me. Thank goodness for that. I simply cannot imagine going to NJ all by myself, knowing that I am all alone to fend for myself....
2) The side effects of procrastination: Too much to study within a short period of time. The one is something that I really MUST change this year or else I'd be seriously DEAD by the time A levels come. Im not sure if I can manage that but Im counting on everyone around me to help out in one way or another and force me to go and study or do homework....*Hint hint to those who read this*
3) Listening in class helps. This is something I've been telling myself ever since Sec 1 and up til now, I haven fully grasped its meaning. Maybe this is THE YEAR for me to learn this finally. I haven exactly slept in any class so far! (Other than the first econs lecture which doesnt count:P) Hurrah for me!
4) Liking/loving a subject helps you to improve. This one is SO true. At the start of the year I had absolutely no interest in Econs and medium interest in Maths. But after entering NJ, I started to develop more interest in those two subjects(no, its not because of NJ that I started becoming more interested...) and the results show! An A for maths promo and a B for econs promo. On the contrary, Bio and chem could hardly hold my attention for more than a few minutes. and results, once again, show... An S for bio and a U for chem. Extreme ends mann.
To sum things up, 2007 has been a relatively great year. I've made so many new friends and I actually began to enjoy going to school every morning and seeing those classmates of mine. But of course, there were a few parts of the year whereby everything seemed bleak and hopeless, but thanks to 07S24 and other supportive friends I overcame it. There were sweet moments, sad moments, happy moments, angry moments.....etc. In chinese, its probably called Suan, Tian, Ku, La. And in 2007, I've seriously experienced all.
Alrights, now to move on to 2008.
First Day of school had been horribly boring. Teachers enter and gave us prep talks. New teachers introduce themselves and start lessons. Last year's teachers came in, asked about our holiday, then proceeded to telling us what a tough year 2008 would be and how hard we would have to work. And then me, yiwen and qiao went for our admin duty at bukit batok. We had to do phone calls and I was having some sort of a cracky and hoarse voice. Its a wonder they actually heard what I was saying at all.
One malay woman I called actually thought that I was going to her house! Me: Good afternoon, Im calling on behalf of XXX, will you be able to come for this XXX event on XXX date? Her: Huh? wad? Me: Um, will you be coming for XXX? Her: What? You're coming to my house?!! Me(shocked cos I don't think anything I said sounded like that. Surely no matter how bad my voice sounded, it cant have been that much of a change in words right?): Uh, no...Im not coming to your house. Her: Then you said you coming to my house? Why're you coming to my house? Me: No no no, I mean, are you GOING to XXX? Her: Oh...i see..yes.....
Is it some problem with my grammar or something? Whats the difference between coming and going? Hmmm...
Thursday, on the other hand, was a super interesting and funny day. I perpetually laughed until my cheeks were aching. First amusing station was GP lesson. Our GP class had 6 of S24 people-Me, yiwen, yi ni, jessica, chewy, jason. And we all sat in one row. I was half dreading GP because I got myself so worried about whether our GP tutor would be some super fierce teacher that would make life hell for us. Thank goodness I was so very wrong.
When my gp tutor stepped in, my first impression of him was-TINY. He was relatively short and compactly built and his black specs coupled with a balding head made him look like a character out from a comic book. Example: Lao Fu Zi. This tutor came into the class and the first thing he did was to flash us a wide smile and then he wiped off some sweat of his brow. Then he proceeded to look at the clock. And then back to looking at us. His face had this blur expression as he stared at us almost quizzically.
"what are you all waiting for?"
And that was when we realised that he was waiting for us to greet him.
"Good morning Mr....." We trailed off.
"oh!" He hurriedly toddled to the board and scrawled his name.
After some brief introduction and all those administrative stuffs, he started telling us about J2 life, as usual.
"By the end of term 2, you guys are no longer going to be NJ students. You will be an organism absorbing information with no aim, no nothing except your A levels"
Sounds familiar doesnt it? Reminds me totally of Sec 4 O levels, although I have to admit that, no, I hadnt been absorbing much info then.
Urgh. Try as I might, i still cant put his funniness into words. But in short, yeah, he is a really funny GP tutor and Im really glad we got him. Although I heard from Jason that he gives terribly low marks for essays unless your essay is the really good kind. Hmmm, I guess life is all about giving and taking?
Econs was another interesting lesson. Interactive and amusing. I wish all lessons could be something like that.
After school I went over to HC to collect my 7C class T-shirt. Chatted with cheryl, peijin and jolene for a while before spotting munyee. I almost couldnt recognise her. Then I sat with her and talked for almost one hour before she had to go for her fencing.
Sigh. I have this bad feeling that life's gonna be really hectic and centred around homework from now on. Okay, its no feeling, its fact. Sad sad fact. But this year Im really gonna have to put in effort. Will NOT repeat the mistake of yesteryear. I don't want to cry again.
