Thursday, September 18, 2008
Alright, its Friday and school's finally ended, at least tentatively it is. It's study break, and four days later would be my first period. That's how fast time has passed present days. Technology made everything so fast-paced that you don't realise how quickly each day has passed. So if a question for General Paper's essay happens to be tested for promotonal exams, then perhaps that could be a very relevant point. Technology reduced time to do one thing, but on the contrary it increases the amount of things that needs to be completed within the same period of time, not by a bit, but so much more. So while technology buys us time, it burns out time at a greater pace. That's a paradox.
~Rewind~
Yesterday's a Thursday and as always, the longest day. And somehow it brought me to agree with the saying that man-kinds desire for more once they possess a certain level of certain things. Having skipped school the day before, that thought crossed my mind again yesterday morning when the bed-devil refused to let me off by presenting me with delicious temptation- something I wanted so much at that point of time, that is to sleep. So 530 my sister woke me up, but I snapped, probably very much irritated by her yacking. I was half awake then, but was kind of reluctant to take a step out, so I just sat there, and eventually I was tempted back to sleep. At 630, my sister gave me a scare by flaring up, and I was instantly woken. But 630 was already kind of late, and I have no luxury to bathe. call me a filthy bum if you desire, but that was how pressing time was. I washed my face, changed out into uniform, sprayed some deodourent, and set off hastily. By the time I reached the bus stop, it was still very late- 640, and what's worse was that the bus refused to come. I've always have an issue with Singapore's bus system, but has since given in by leaving as early as I could to catch the earliest reasonable bus, but the system still sucks, since the time at which certain bus service comes differs every other day, making it hard to track. But in any case, I realise I was really late, and situation made me in such a spot that I decided to cab to school. Guess what, the cabby didn't know where my school is, and I had to tell him to take a detour to Tanah Merah MRT before giving him the directions, since that was the only way I know. Hm, now I know my school is in Bedok South instead of Bedok North, at a hefty price of 8 bucks.
Good grace, I was not late. I went into the HC room, and many people were there- Zen, Phay, Tracer, and Mat. First period of the day was used for cohort meeting, and we decided to stick together for most of the day. Wanning joined in soon after. So together we attended to cohort meeting, Chem lecture, math lecture and the break after that. Had fun teasing the girls with out height advantage. Actually I was not really involved, mainly a watcher, Mat and Zen were the ones doing most of the things. Wanning's care bear and Phay's wombat ended up being hung from the ceiling through the aircon's cover. Hahax!
GP was enlightening in a sense that we finally know the basic skeletal structure of how to go about answering questions. But think again, ain't those what we have been doing all aong, or at least what we thought we've been doing. Hm. Maybe this double periods would make me to have greater self-awareness when answering the questions. Mr Quek said it's important to be confident of our answers. Well, I always am, but the faith that I have in my answer was always met with denial from the marker. Hm, but in any case, I will abide more strictly this time round and thereafter.
The rest of the day was fine, except that from the latter part of the break I became kind of sick- bad flu and fever. The mucus just won't stop flowing. Mrs Toh made me wear a mask for fear of me spreading it to the other people, my second time of the year. I reached home at around 1740 and slacked again. It's really bad, I should have started but here I am still pretty laid back. Hm, dear Father, please give me the strength and stress so that I will pull myself together to embark on my revision. And for all the people who are preparing for examinations, I pray that Father, you will grant them wisdom so that they will understand what they study better and apply them correctly. I also pray for good health for all these people. Thank you Father. In Jesus name, Amen.
1400 in the noon, I wanna study already!
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Posted by Judah at 9/18/2008 10:04:00 PM