the first week of being a sec 4 student.
it really sucks.
MONDAY, 7 JANUARY 08
okay, so i lugged a bag of record books to school in the morning to be deposited into the cca room. and those books were only half of the stack which i had at home. haha.
met yunqian on the way to school. i managed to spot the people she wanted to look for really quickly. hahaha.
boring boring lessons! and all the fuss over ISPLs.
during literature class, we went through some of the poems in the ISPL package. the poem, 'Lady Lazarus', was an eye opener. the poet sounded wacky and her final suicide attempt was sadistic.
mdm shi xu scolded the people who did not write a single word on their chinese ISPL. she asked each of them for the reason for not doing their work, and vanessa told her of her busy holiday schedule. which was really funny when shi lao shi said that she sounded like she was busier than Lee Hsien Loong.
had miss lim to sign some secretarial forms and asked for the key to open the cca room. then taught my successor some cpbs department work before going back to the staff room to collect the copies of the forms.
was already very tired by the end of school. went to kfc to have lunch with yunqian and josephine. we kept disturbing yunqian about something after invading nigou's privacy a little when she asked me to help her return his phone to him. hahaha. zhiwei joined us at kfc while we were eating.
went home by MRT with josephine.
TUESDAY, 8 JANUARY 08
collected money from people early in the morning. went to the chemistry lab and heard from jiaying that she slept at 6am in the morning to complete her homework. like, oh my gosh. i could never do that. well, not without some coffee.
thankfully, ms lau didn't mention anything about our social studies ISPL for the first lesson she had with us.
we also went to the physics lab for some demonstrations of electrostatics and waves. it was just our first lesson with ms punitha and she already compared us with 4E1.
for PG lesson at the end of the day, we had to decide on our class rules, class motto and learn the school mission, vission, and values. the class gave overwhelming contributions and suggestions for the class motto, most of which were declared as nonscence by mdm yeo. hahaha.
math remedial. yawns.
went to the st john classroom after that to continue my job as a loanshark. then headed to mac to study and pass the forms to ma'am faridah.
WEDNESDAY, 9 JANUARY 08
though mrs toh told the class that i did a good job of my history ISPL, i wasn't in the best of mood.
halfway during english lesson, we had to go to the multi purpose room for our health check. as my index number is now 39, i was ready for a long wait until it was my turn. michelle and i went back to class to take our chinese ISPLs over to do while we waited.
i managed to complete the ying yong wen part during recess. was done with the whole ISPL package by finishing the reflection part before the nurse called for the next five.
eye check up. thankfully, i could read all the letters. then at the next station, the nurse asked lame questions like if i wore spectacles and said lame things like the fact i had perfect eyesight. she advised me to take vision breaks and when she told me to go back to class, i thought i heard wrongly so she had to say it twice.
shortly after i went out of the room, i was called back in as they had forgotten to take my height and weight. then they sent me to the next room which was the cca room. the nurses there checked my records before they announced enthusiastically, "congratulations! you're not underweight anymore!" and they had big smiles plastered on their faces, as if they were full of delight that there is one less teenager in this world whose weight did not fall below the acceptable range.
so i nodded my head and said "okay", obviously amused by how thrilled they were. then they told me to have a regular diet, blah blah blah, and that i could go back to class.
i went out of the CCA room and burst into laughter.
because of the health check, we missed a full lesson of math.
after school, we had super lame chmistry remedial at the lab. just copying answers for the experiment we did on monday. went to the st john classroom, passed a copy of the forms to my successor, the next secretary, and headed off to HQ to teach my other successor to buy badges.
at first i thought it would be weird because it was just the two of us. but on the train back i thought that i should be glad it was him, because the whole time we could just keep talking crap and i didnt feel bored. just tired, due to having three pathetic hours of sleep the previous night.
THURSDAY, 10 JANUARY 08
i didn't know there was a tutorial room 6 until we went there for lit. it was just this weird, narrow room. we got into groups and discussed off centre.
i think i can go and bang my head against the wall because i didn't know how to do a single question in the additional math test.
went to the st john classroom after school (wow, this is becoming a routine) to give out the badges, certificates, and to help check their uniform.
someone attituded me over msn. what gives?
FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY 08
lugged my st john uniform to school, along with the cpbs board to be displayed for sec one orientation. met atiqah and yunqian on the way. atiqah told us that they were presenting the awards during morning assembly.
during mother tongue reading in class, mdm yeo showed us that she was in a foul mood by scolding us that people are complaining about the IBMs (international big mouths) in our class, and that people could get single digit for the additional math test when it was on sec three work.
that couldn't be me, because i don't think i could even get 1 mark from that test.
anyway, she wanted to separate those talkative guys. so she got elliot and i to switch places. then she got kenneth to sit in front and the rest to shift a seat behind. which ended up with ly sitting on my left, beatrice on my right, jack behind and suhailah in front.
whoopee! my life would change forever.
for our first PE lesson, we met our new teacher, mr teh. we say we call him 'cher then he say he call us 'dent. hahaha. while waiting to take our height and weight, we studied for our phyiscs test. instead of playing games, we continued studying for the phyiscs test.
i should go and bang my head against the wall again, for not listening to the hints someone gave me over the phone yesterday.
peer tutoring. surprisingly, jack is a pretty good teacher. which was partly because of the not so surprising fact, that he has tuition. our group was the first to be formed; jack, brenda, nureen and i.
forgot to bring my math worksheet so i did the questions on paper. but as i had a short attention span, lack the interest in additional math and have no confidence to do the questions, i left at 1.40pm after mdm yeo said that if we had something on we could go, and also because the attendance clipboards were with me.
after our first parade, we started setting up our booth and prepared for the CCA showcase.
the first sec 3 D.O.S, leepeng, seemed pretty stressed.
shiya left early. yunqian kept pulling me around. amalina and i tried to pull some sec ones to our booth. atiqah performed CPR. then we did some marching with other uniformed groups before it rained and the CCA showcase ended.
cleared up all our stuff and after the last parade, yunqian, nicholas, zhiwei and i went to koufu to eat dinner before heading home.
oh, and at the 77 bus stop zhiwei stared at me and said that i had cat like eyes? :\
the 23 hours, 17 minutes of cold war has officially ended.
