I transferred the contents on my measly 1GB memory card to my new 4GB memory card. To my horror, the songs disappeared off the "most played songs" playlist that the phone software maintains. That means that I have to replay my favourite songs (a good number of times) to get those songs back to the playlist. Aargh!
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Just some food for thought from the chorus of today's song:
So give me reason to prove me wrong - Prove what wrong?Today's song is New Divide by Linkin Park. Enjoy the nice MV below!
To wash this memory clean - Memory of what?
Let the floods cross the distance in your eyes
Give me reason to fill this hole - What hole? Caused by what?
Connect the space between - between what (or who)?
Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies across this new divide
What is this truth? Is this divide really "new"?
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A post under the series: Music Monday
I like numbers. Not all numbers though. I like numbers that are "special"; since I'm a number fanatic, it could mean numbers like 28 (my index number and also a perfect number -- The number I like the most!) or 11 (don't you just admire the two parallel lines!). For the three weeks including this one, I am going to post up special groups of numbers.
Today, it's (Sum,Product) . For example, the time that I was born is XXYY hrs. (It's not too convenient to reveal what XXYY exactly is.) XX represent sum of two numbers, and YY represents the product of the same two numbers! Interesting right?
More such numbers coming up in the next few weeks!
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A post under the series: Pairs of numbers
A bit of tenses before I go on, since there will be a test on tenses this week.
"What we could have been" is definitely not the same as "What we could be", sinceToday's song is Pictures Of You, by The Last Goodnight. Note the above. For me, I feel strongly that this is not a "let's work hard for our relationship" song; it's the reverse (well, kind of).
"What we could have been" implies "very possible, but in the end it didn't turn out in the way I would have liked", whereas
"What we could be" is more positive and implies "very possible, and let's work hard together for the desired ending".
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A post under the series: Music Monday
I like number patterns. Such as today's date: 20/09/2009. Take away the slashes and you get 2009 X2. Nice! So many couples have chosen to marry on this date, even more than 09/09/2009! That shows the fascination that people have with number patterns. Which leads me to think: What would be the date of my wedding?
There will be more blog posts about my fascination in numbers (not just patterns) in the coming weeks, before the O levels. Stay tuned! (And Music Monday will be back starting tomorrow!)
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I was down with fever the whole of last week, which explains why there was a dearth of posts for the past week. Well, now I'm back (with a sore neck) but I might have to stay away from the computer as time gets closer to the O' levels.
The last term in my secondary school life just started yesterday. It was a light day yesterday, but the Maths teachers happily *ahem* spammed us with Maths papers from other schools. Guess I'm going to take it easy and do them like I'm strolling through the park. That means no staying awake all the way past midnight just for them. But maybe I have to pump caffeine into my system for the humanities ...
Today we had the career day. A talk from NJC, ACJC and Ngee Ann Poly about their programs, and later on talks from people who are experienced in their fields of work. The Poly talk was interesting (now I am more inclined to choose the Poly route) and engineering seems like a good job for me. I don't mind standing around in construction sites if it brings me good money ;) And psychology is an interesting field ...
But for now, my Fahrenheit 451 book is available if anyone wants to borrow it for notes. Just ask me for it!
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I had the McSpicy McValue lunch today. (I upsized it as well.) So I asked Qing Yu what he had for lunch.
SY: What did you have for lunch?
QY: Mac.
SY: What food?
QY: McScicy. I long time haven't eat liao.
SY: Did you upsize it?
QY: Yah.
What are the odds of that?
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I read the archives of my blog just now and I stumbled upon a post I made last year, an analysis of my EOY (End-Of-Year Exams) '08 performance. I though that I would put it in this post, along with my performance for the Prelim exams this year, for a side-by-side comparison. So here goes last year's post, with this year's analysis.
###A preliminary analysis of my End Of Year exams 08###
Exam #1: English Language (23/9/08)
Ok, so I had originally decided to do the narrative. But, upon seeing the narrative question (I almost typed "sawing") , I thought I had better do something else. Hence, I went to the discursive question. Just hope that my arguments are good enough for the examiner. Also, for the situational writing, we had to select between 4 choices, when I was expecting 2. Of course, this meant more time for thinking. Not to forget, I could handle the comprehension in Paper 2. It wasn't too difficult, so that was quite a relief.
Prelims: English Language (1127)
Apart from the summary, I'm glad the rest of the papers went relatively well. I thought I almost killed my chances of an A when I chose to write the descriptive essay; that turned out better than I expected. Apparently I overloaded on repetition for my speech, and the summary was as good as crap. 3/10 for language? HELLO!
Exam #2: Social Studies (24/9/08)
Pure mugging, this one. Given a choice between a topic with only 2 types of questions and a topic with 7 types of questions, which one whould you want to study? Of course, the former, since you can get away with memorising 2 model essays, while for the latter, there are 7. Hence, I did Q2 in 40 mins, thanks to my memorising. The inference question was okay, but I busted my C&C and left barely any time to complete the reliability question. So that was a lesson learnt.
Prelims: Social Studies (2192/01)
I misinterpreted the Sources C, D and E (half the sources!!!), which meant that I lost a valuable 11 marks here. If not for this mistake, I could have gotten an A1 for Combined Humanities. But how can I prevent such misinterpretations from happening again?
Exam #3: Higher Chinese (3/10/08)
The letter was okay, but I'm not so sure about the compo. Just hope it doesn't fail. And Paper 2 was relatively easy, true to Ms Qin's words!
Prelims: Higher Chinese (1111)
After throwing all my firepower in for the 报章报道, I still cannot get at least 50/70. Looks like I need to replenish all my weaponry for the O' levels ...
Exam #4: Elementary Mathematics (6/10/08)
This is like riding a bike up a rather hilly terrain, before descending down gentle slopes. But it's okay.
Prelims: Elementary Mathematics (4016)
Didn't hit expectations. Though my expectations are rather high.
Exam #5: Chemistry (7/10/08)
This left me with time to sleep, but Mr Osgodby woke me up, so I decided to run through the Fahrenheit 451 quotes I'd memorised instead.
Prelims: Chemistry (5072)
Nice to know I didn't drop too many marks. Though I still made a few careless mistakes here and there, my MCQ still managed to make me happy ;)
Exam #6: Literature (Elective) (7/10/08)
I was expecting a thematic question, but that was about censorship by the dystopian government in Fahrenheit 451. I had prepared for other themes, setting and style, so I could not do the Beatty and Montag question and did the Faber question instead. And I wanted to do poem, but it's tough to me, so I did the prose. I hope I can get good grades, since I have 3 personal feelings (a personal best) !
Prelims: Literature (2192/04)
Good to know that I didn't screw my F451 essay on the "Development of Montag", but the same can't be said for my unseen prose ...
Exam #7: Geography (8/10/08)
Having prepared for plate tectonics (my bet was the questions would weigh heavily on volcanoes) , weather and climate and natural vegetation only (rivers and coasts had quite a lot to memorise) , I did Q1 and Q2. I'm feeling confident about this paper.
Prelims: Geography (2235)
I am VERY pleased with my results for this. It feels nice to be on the top of the cohort, especially after overcoming failures in the start of Sec 3.
Exam #8: Additional Mathematics (9/10/08)
Stumped at the first question! Fooled by a +/- sign! I have to find a way to reduce the occurrence of such errors that have to be corrected by checking the answers thoroughly.
Prelims: Additional Mathematics (4038)
Didn't hit expectations too. While working through the paper, I also made a few errors that could be easily avoided if I checked my paper. Time to work on error prevention ...
Exam #9: Biology (9/10/08)
I would say that this paper is definitely for someone who did not study in depth. Also, I had hinged on an enzyme question to come out. it did not disappoint, but it brought along a fresh twist to it. I look forward to such questions that allow me to learn new things from exam papers.
Prelims: Biology (5094)
This fared the worst among the sciences. I should have studied more thoroughly on ecology and Man's impacts on the environment, but otherwise it's OK.
Exam #10:Physics (10/10/08)
A killer, I admit. I thought the paper (specifically Section B) could be improved. So little space to do any calulations! Also, there are questions where a question is at the end of a page, with lines at the next page. Darn, I wrote under the question itself, and so I had to happily copy the answers onto the lines. (The "happily" was a sarcastic remark, if you do not get it.)
Prelims: Physics (5058)
I'm really surprised by my results! I had expected a rather low mark (low A1) for I encountered totally unknown questions, and I felt that I was answering them crappily, so I wasn't expecting much from the paper, like last year ...
For the September Holidays, it's time to strengthen and upgrade existing weapons, acquire more advanced weapons, and to test fire them thoroughly. There's lots to do in the September Holidays ...
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It's nice to watch Year One.
A synopsis from Youtube:
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Black and Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
My synopsis goes below:
Think of two people (one fat, one thin), who set off from their tribe to explore the world. Along the way, they meet various kinds of people: People who f*** with sheep (no joke! Later in the movie someone commented "this sheep has a damaged rectum") and a person who stones his brother (accidentally) to death ("I didn't do it!!!"). They go on to save their crushes (from their home tribe) who are being used for slaves, and bring rain (they are godlike!) for the village they are in. (This village has suffered droughts for a long time already.)
The interesting part of the movie that I particularly enjoy is when Oh makes love with Eema at the climax of the movie, while there was chaos right outside where they were. Talk about contrast! You can't get a better contrast than that; chaos, making love, chaos, making love - the alternation was awesome! And the way Oh did it, that was hilarious!
Anyway, this movie has helped to relieve some of the bad feelings in me, which is good. Hopefully this good feeling lasts ...
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I dreamed a dream last night. Just thought to put this up too.
Susan Boyle's I dreamed a dream on Britain's Got Talent
I might reveal the contents of my (super weird) dream if you ask for it personally. Other than that, this dream is (1) very crazy and (2) virtually impossible to replicate in real life.
Susan Boyle probably did not even dream of passing through the many rounds of Britain's Got Talent. And look at her now, she did not just reach the finals of Britain's Got Talent, she also became famous worldwide. Did she dream of becoming famous all over the world? Probably not. So do dreams come true in real life? I don't think so.
But, do you think that dreams are possible to repeat itself in real life?
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