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Saturday, April 19

SPAs are supposed to be relaxing and revitalising, leaving you so refreshed. All the REs. But today's chem SPA is certainly NOT the case. Skill A is definitely harder than all the rest of the skills. 1.5 hours of my precious precious time was totally spent on trying to cram the entire (A) Preliminary Considerations, (B) Procedure, (C) Safety Precautions and (D) Reliability of results into a fixed volume of grey matter.




And the bad thing is, whatever I memorised can only be used to answer one certain format of questions. So if the question that came out was altered in any way, I'd sure be dead meat.



Which was exactly what happened today. They changed the question arghhhhh!!! AND I kena a few seconds of panic attack before just anyhow trying to change whatever I can think of to fit the question. Hope that I manipulated my memorised answer correctly though.




Ah wells. No point discussing it here anymore, since its over.



Anyway, after SPA, I went with yiwen, rachel, kenneth and jason to macs and i tried mac griddles!



Okay, why the exclamation mark I really dunno, since the mac griddles is really nothing special. Sure, its not bread on top but some pan cake thing and it does taste quite nice, but the effect wears off after a while. In fact, it kind of became sickeningly sweet and dry the more I bit into it, so much so that eventually I ate so slow that everyone got tired waiting for me. Rachel said that I looked I like eat until very 辛苦, which really is pretty true.



When I finally did finish my meal at last, everyone looked rather relieved, in my opinion, and kenneth started teaching yiwen and rachel how to play bridge. Then this funny woman came in and chased us out with her funny english. Turns out that according to her, its against the law to play card games inside air conditioned places and her boss wont be happy if he sees us playing, so she asked us to play outside, since its not air conditioned but "very windy and cooling also".




So out we went. Bridge was such a mind stimulating game. I love the guessing part the most, the way how every card placed down reveals a bit about whether the person is your partner or not. After a while both yiwen and rachel were hooked onto the game too! Every game was our supposed "last game" until we finally decided to pack up and leave. I suppose this guessing game is something we play in real life too.



Except that in real life, its a lot harder. Your so called "partner" may never reveal himself/herself and you'd probably guess and guess and guess and still nothing comes out of that guessing. There is no way to reveal anything like how the cards does the work. Wait, maybe there is. The cards are just a methaphor of people's actions? In the game, when your partner helps you to win, its for his or her benefit as well. Just like in real life, when others help you out, perhaps there is only the main intention to benefit themselves through you.



Of course, there is no wrong with this. Nobody is unselfish. It just makes me wonder if anyone these days does things out of their genuine feelings anymore. Even myself. Im unclear of the intention I hold. Whether it is intention or motive. Whats the difference?


I've just googled:
Intention: purpose or attitude toward the effect of one's actions or conduct

Motive:
1.
something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
2.
the goal or object of a person's actions


Im still clueless....



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I was just talking to my family about playing bridge just now and then I asked my dad why he didnt want to learn it in the afternoon when I taught my mom and my sis, so that we could all play together as a family. My dad was so annoying. He just gave me that "I don't care about bridge just leave me alone to do my own stuffs" look and commented, "Bridge I dun want to learn, but if it's Stamford Bridge then I will play"



My jaw practically fell open. (I think my sister took that as me not knowing what stamford bridge is which prompted her to ask me, "You know what Stamford bridge is or not?" in this irritated tone she never fails to reserve for me. I think its similar to my tone when teaching her maths sometimes. Ah wells, its revenge. I was a little offended to tell the truth. I mean, if you say stuffs like "Estadio Santiago Bernabeu" then ask me whether i know not, i still wont be that offended since yeah thats a real madrid stadium and I hardly know much about the spanish clubs. But stamford bridge? Thats in EPL and its still the stadium of one of the top four clubs leh. Even football noobs know it la. Bleagh)



Oh Im off track. My jaw fell open because of how lame I thought my dad was. Erps. He never fails to come up with stuffs that are really no lame that you have no choice but to laugh at the pure unfunniness of whatever he said.




To end it off, Arsenal won 2-0 against reading!

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