Assalamualaikum,
It's 31 May 2011, Tuesday, today. This post is written at 10:38PM, I probably just made it the third post for May, one short for my "one post per week" goal. Too bad. I've been busy, as usual. It's the norm to be 'busy' nowadays. Perhaps part of society, to be 'busy'. I finished my prelim papers last Tuesday, so it has been exactly one week since I ended my exams. This week is technically a holiday, but I have school for the entire week; as per normal. Well, these are just some simple sacrifices need to be made.
Important things. I received my papers today! But it's all unstable and subject to change and complex calculations, so I will not dwell too much on that and just wait for the final reports. With the marks and all. Didn't do too shabby for a Prelim paper, in Victoria School, the school with super high expectations and standards. Not to pick on it but I don't think this amount of stress on a student is humane. I pretty much burnt out in the middle of the third week of my exams. I tried my best to study and revise, but the drive just wasn't there. Everything went against my plans during the first two weeks of exams. Renovations and stuff just bothering me. You might accuse me of being too sensitive, well it's true, I'm too sensitive. I'm sensitive to dust, noise and change. Change is needed in life, and I have reactions to it. Well, my point is that I don't mind doing such tough papers from VS, I mean, I asked for it. I really want to do well for my O levels.
I recently read that expressing your life goals to others will make you LESS likely to achieve it. Based on the evidence brought forward, I'm partially bought. Well, in case you haven't realised, I never really blogged about my real goals in life. Nor have I told anyone, except Abdullah, even then, he doesn't know it's my goals, (I think). I only give subtle clues to what I want to do in life. From this post, you know that my goals require good O levels. You can also tell from my concerns that I've expressed in the past about societal, political and educational issues. Alone I may not combat these problems, but I do hope to achieve something in my life. Enough said.
Back to reality, I guess my holidays are gone. The next three weeks will mostly be dedicated to completing my Art Coursework. Not everyday of course, whenever I deem fit I guess. Art is all about the mood. You cannot force someone to sit in a room and make 'art'. Maybe one day it's possible. Abdullah has agreed to act for my video. But I promised myself that I will dedicate MORE time for my revisions. Perhaps do some of the past year prelim papers that I neglected to do. I always assumed doing O levels papers were enough. Well, O level papers are enough for O levels, not for the extremely difficult prelims.
The constantly changing subjects in this post mirrors my state of mind. I type, where my mind wanders. Now, I'm going everywhere. I'm thinking about everything. The day I stop thinking, is the day I die, as a person, a human.
Some rough information about my prelim papers: I did 'above average' for English. You do not want to know what the average is. I was short of one mark for most of my paper to achieve a higher grade, meaning they were all 'high B4s, B3s, A2s' etc. I don't know if you understand. That is all I guess.
Salam...Peace!
A sidenote:
Who is this 'you' I'm speaking to?
I've always imagined 'you' to be the future generation. I do not intend people to read this now. If you do then, fine. It's great. My treasures, adventures and misadventures.I wish to leave some form of knowledge, life lesson for those in the future. It may not be relevant to your time (seeing as times change quickly nowadays), but it may provide insight into the mind and life of a person from the beginning of the 21st century. A brief documentation of my life, in text. (There used to be pictures, but I don't upload those anymore.)
I've been getting ideas about maybe publishing my blog in a book? Hmm? Whadya think of that?
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Singular Matrix
How was I supposed to know what a singular matrix is? Sigh, 4 marks down the drain all because of an obscure sentence on line 7 in page 5 of my textbook that escaped me.
'If |M| = 0, we say that M is singular'
Otherwise, the only thing that could bring me down is my carelessness. Tomorrow is A Maths Paper 2. Been doing Prelim compilations since noon. That's a measly 2 hours and 40 minutes spent.
On a side note, I hope the renovations, drilling, painting destroying will be done soon. It has been extremely distracting since it started two weeks before my exams. In fact, studying in the PUBLIC LIBRARY, that's right the one filled with noisy neighborhood school students, was more productive.
'If |M| = 0, we say that M is singular'
Otherwise, the only thing that could bring me down is my carelessness. Tomorrow is A Maths Paper 2. Been doing Prelim compilations since noon. That's a measly 2 hours and 40 minutes spent.
On a side note, I hope the renovations, drilling, painting destroying will be done soon. It has been extremely distracting since it started two weeks before my exams. In fact, studying in the PUBLIC LIBRARY, that's right the one filled with noisy neighborhood school students, was more productive.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
A quick one (GE2011)
Assalamualaikum,
It's morning right now. I'm in the bus interchange and I realised that I lacked 2 blog posts for this month. I guess I'll start with the General Elections 2011. Well, as usual PAP won a vast majority of the seats, but just barely. They got their so-called mandate by winning about 60% of the votes. However, this elections was a reason to rejoice because one opposition party managed to win a GRC. Clearly, right now I'm pro-opposition, Workers' Party in particular. But this is not completely uncalled for.
Many of my politically apathetic teenage peers have asked me,"If its not broken, why change it? Just vote for the PAP." The problem is, it is broken. The PAP has been increasingly arrogant and do not really put the needs of Singaporeans as a priority. The have Singapore's best interest. Unfortunately, in this modern day and age, Singapore and Singaporeans have slowly grown to be two separate entities. The government has been made to be completely dependent on the PAP, by the PAP. All they care about is increasing our GDP and economy. Well, GDP doesn't necessarily mean local-produced/earned revenue. They've been hiring LOADS of foreigners to take Singaporean jobs. Nobody seems to care about extremely high HDB prices or the fact that ministers earn in 2 hours what normal people earn in a month. Actually, we do. The 40%, whom I greatly respect because of their courageous attitude for standing against an oppressing government, cares about Singaporeans. Unfortunately, because of the remaining 60%, 100% of Singaporeans (I mean 51% of Singaporeans (locals)) have to suffer with you.
All in all, I believe that uninterrupted rule and control, corrupts. As the old adage goes:"Power corrupts, absolute power, corrupts absolutely." More opposition needs to be in parliament and allow for healthy debate of policies and bills; to ensure Singaporeans' needs are placed first.
Thank you.
Salam..peace!
P.s. I have A Maths exams today! Extremely nervous!
It's morning right now. I'm in the bus interchange and I realised that I lacked 2 blog posts for this month. I guess I'll start with the General Elections 2011. Well, as usual PAP won a vast majority of the seats, but just barely. They got their so-called mandate by winning about 60% of the votes. However, this elections was a reason to rejoice because one opposition party managed to win a GRC. Clearly, right now I'm pro-opposition, Workers' Party in particular. But this is not completely uncalled for.
Many of my politically apathetic teenage peers have asked me,"If its not broken, why change it? Just vote for the PAP." The problem is, it is broken. The PAP has been increasingly arrogant and do not really put the needs of Singaporeans as a priority. The have Singapore's best interest. Unfortunately, in this modern day and age, Singapore and Singaporeans have slowly grown to be two separate entities. The government has been made to be completely dependent on the PAP, by the PAP. All they care about is increasing our GDP and economy. Well, GDP doesn't necessarily mean local-produced/earned revenue. They've been hiring LOADS of foreigners to take Singaporean jobs. Nobody seems to care about extremely high HDB prices or the fact that ministers earn in 2 hours what normal people earn in a month. Actually, we do. The 40%, whom I greatly respect because of their courageous attitude for standing against an oppressing government, cares about Singaporeans. Unfortunately, because of the remaining 60%, 100% of Singaporeans (I mean 51% of Singaporeans (locals)) have to suffer with you.
All in all, I believe that uninterrupted rule and control, corrupts. As the old adage goes:"Power corrupts, absolute power, corrupts absolutely." More opposition needs to be in parliament and allow for healthy debate of policies and bills; to ensure Singaporeans' needs are placed first.
Thank you.
Salam..peace!
P.s. I have A Maths exams today! Extremely nervous!
