Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Wow... finally back to my normal life... had a terrible blackout at 10pm just now... was havin dinner just now (will explain later why I have such a late dinner) when suddenly my whole house turned dark... thot it was like one of those times where my circuit got 'bounced' (can't really remember that exact word)... budden realised that the entire estate was pitch dark... well except for ****y's block... cause that block has its own power generator... well that's the advantage of staying above a shopping centre!! Anyway it was really dark and there were some screams... think its from the people trapped in the lifts...

Anyway, my whole family start scouting around for light source... took out handphones, candles and torchlights... den my dad told me to resume my dinner, and den proceeded to take out a big red candle so that I can see my food... felt really awkward.. cause after all, that kind of red candles are not really meant for such purposes... luckily my sis found a box of birthday candles... so switched to using that...

Anyway, I was really pretty fascinated by the incident, so went around calling people to see if there are any blackouts... realised that the entire Hougang, Bishan, Jurong East and Serangoon had blackouts... den heard from the news (thru SC's phone) that most of the North East region had blackouts... so guess the blackout was pretty extensive... budden after a while it got really unbearable, cause there were no lights, no TV, no computer, no shower, no fan, no aircon blah blah blah... basically there was nothing I could do except to walk around and sit down.. really boring lor... luckily found myself a corded phone so at least I could call Shufen... hahah... chatted for an hour I guess... just xian liao again... luckily got her company... if not I would really have nothin to do... anyway, the electricity got restored after 2 whole hours... think my 'province' (sorry for the awkward choice of words... really tired now) was one of the last to have its electricity restored... then heard a lot of screaming and cheering... pretty interesting to hear such stuff from an estate really.. hahah!!

Anyway, shall reveal why I had such a late dinner today... cause I had such a severe headache from having my econs ct that I just had to simply lie in bed once I reached home... and so I slept for 2 straight hours... till 10pm... anyway, I had a horrible ride home... took bus 854 from Yishun... the bus was awfully hot and I had to sit on the aisle seat... budden my head was feeling really terrible that I had to sleep... so think I started swaying around... so embarrassing lor... the worst part was, I kept on swaying and knocking against the guy that was occupying the inner seat... not once but like 8 or 9 times lor... so pai seh!! Dun even dare to look at him...den later when I tried to get off the bus, the door actually closed on me!! So I was like halfway outside and halfway inside... think I really made a fool out of myself in the bus... but no choice, I am usually very clumsy when I fall sick... and I will start saying wierd stuff that no one really understands...

Finished four papers finally... just one left to go... shall write about my feelings abt them...

Biology
My very first paper... dun really have much to say except that the hall was really cold!! I was practially freezing lor.. and was pretty sick in the morning... had to go to the toilet midway thru the paper even thou I was rushing for time... and I must sae that I wrote down really stupid answers lor... and the stuff that I studied din really come out lor... where is the cheese and yoghurt production?? Or batch culture and continuous culture?? Studied all those for nothing...

General Paper
Think that the essay segment was really tough lor.. din have much choices to write... this was the first time that I acutally took like half an hour to decide on the topic... partly cause I was pretty exhausted... but I was pretty flustered cause only 1 hr left so just anyhow chose a topic.. den realised that I had chosen a really stupid topic that I had nothing to write about... but no choice, cause really no time already... summore I wrote really stupid stuff inside... like "Exercise releases endorphins. Endorphins make you happy." So crap lor!! And it came from Legally Blonde. Yes, the movie. And I wrote "Reseach has shown that reading reduces chances of getting dementia and parkinson's disease" when obviously, I had not a single idea what was Parkinson's disease in the first place... think I really crapped a lot for essay... comparatively, the compre was much easier... think it was one of the easier ones that I have done for compre...hope it can help to pull my grades up... have high hopes on my compre...

Maths
Depressing... in fact I knew I would faileven before I stepped into the hall, cause I was really ill prepared...studied till 3am the night before, but entered the hall with absolutely nothin in my head... cause really was too tired already... and there were so many concepts that I din noe and had no time to ask... started the second half of the paper first.. it was relatively easier than the first half... think I would pretty much fail if there weren't the stats questions... not that I would pass lah... its a matter of failing badly or failing not so badly...

Economics
Fail for sure!! The MCQ was tough!! Din even bother to calculate anything cause really dunno any formulas and stuff... think they were harder than TYS questions lor... the case study was pretty okie... except I din really noe what outsourcing meant... the essay part was pretty horrendous... din even have stuff to write... basically crapped my way thru the last question... first time that I had absolutely nothin to write for my essay... even fin like before time lor...

So... I am left with my very last hope -- Chemistry, which I doubt I can do any better, since I have never passed JC chem before... NEVER.. but will still study lah... hope for the best lah... but nonetheless I will still slack a bit... think will watch a bit of TV tmr... okie, gonna study now... wish me good luck!!