Thursday, November 09, 2006
we're halfway through the A levels already! :D
now's the time i take a little breather, get some rest, then start the engine again.
4 more papers, spread out all the way till 23rd. i'm not sure how many more days till the 23rd because i don't know today's date. oh ya it's the 9th? anyway i keep thinking today's friday.
how were the papers? i found them quite alright. i know some people thought that they weren't but i guess it's all a matter of expectations and standards. to me, being able to do most of the paper, leave no question entirely blank, have some time to check through a couple of questions, that's good compared to the past few examinations. i want to get at least an A since i've never gotten it, hopefully 2 but ABB would be fine by me too. (AAA would be a miracle)
i'm done with math! no more binomial normal poisson hypo testing estimation CLT (but i still like stats), no more differentiation, integration, trigonometry AP GP sigma functions and all that crap. speaking of math, i have one thing to comment on, about the math paper. WHY IS THERE LOG?! i never learnt log in JC, i know i learnt log in secondary school but i might as well have not learnt it because i still cannot do log for nuts. so i managed to recall that log-base-9-nine is 1, so something's better than nothing.
chem paper 3- food chem was good :] i like food. but it just so happened that the inorganic chem that i slaved over didn't come out as expected. out comes one question on AgNO3 and whatnots which was the section i happily skipped because i can't seem to memorise that. never mind about that, but transition elements, beryllium, thermal stability never come out? so much for tutors predicting questions ahemmmm, they better come out for paper 2. i'm going to try to mug hard for paper 1 and 2 because you never know what one mark can do for you.
bio- paper 2 was fine. didn't finish writing my ecology essay though. nothing else to say but i hope i get an A for bio. :/ right now i don't know if this is a little too out of my league but i cherish the nothing-is-impossible hope and will continue to.
yesterday i was daydreaming about christmas. imagine all that christmas shopping, the pretty decorations lining orchard road and that holiday air. :) and our huanggong dinner!
on the other hand, my nose bled last night and again this morning. it was due to the force of me blowing my nose. i have to blow my nose everyday, sneeze in the morning or night or both, and it's something i've grown to live with. i do of course get irritated with this problem, especially when i am in the middle of studying and have to stop and wait for the sneezing to pass then get back to work, after which my nose would either be blocked on one side or i'll have to keep blowing it. tissue paper, i cannot live without tissue paper. but the nose bleed was quite scary because i press my nose and out came fresh red oxyhaemoglobin-ed blood. eeew.
