Monday, 16 May 2011

Mid-Year Examination, Day 4

As usual, my friends came to school with black eyes. Apparently they would rather punch themselves squarely in the eyes that drifting off while revising Biology. A bad choice my friends. Forcing yourself to stay awake to revise is never, never a good idea. Anyway, Biology paper, again, did not sit well with me. I paid attention to form 5 syllabus, and only two questions came out, with the remaining from form 4. The questions about microorganisms came out, and because CSB told us it's an unimportant topic, I never read anything about it. Goodbye to 10 marks. The others were moderate. Anyway, this is Paper 2. If we did badly, we must do well in Paper 1 and Paper 3.



Moral paper was fine. While 5S1 went overdrive because they had done the questions before, I remain unshaken by their ebullience as I believe doing exercises that were identical to the exam papers before the exam does not reflect your true ability in answering the paper. I don't care if I flunk my Moral, as least I answered the questions with my true ability. Likewise, I don't care if I flunk my Biology because I believe we need to know the concept with our hearts and not memorise them. Memorising Biology makes the subject so boring. I never memorise the facts deadly. I don't care if I fail, at least I learn Biology in an interesting way.

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Mid-Year Examination, Day 3

While the two languages were shit, today's papers were the remains of the shit - much better, but still terrible. Paper 1 was okay, at least the questions weren't tough and we could write with our infinite imagination. Paper 2 was moderate. The jargons pertaining to industry flummox all of us. Luckily, the questions are on grammar, so we could answer them if we could block all the jargons out. Information Transfer - as the name suggested - is the part where we transfer the informations from the passage to the questions. There was one question that had me dumbfounded, but it only cost me 1 mark, so I'm fine about that. Comprehension was fine, with a few vocabulary I did not recognise, but the summary was weird. "The description of the event of the jump"?? What description? All there was was the writer's feeling about the jump. Anyway, the answers will be given after the exam, so we'll have to wait. Literature was fine. Overall, the paper did not sit well with me. And I swear to God if I fail my English, I'll lock myself in my room.

Mid-Year Examination, Day 2

If yesterday papers were death, then today papers were tickets that bring you straight to hell, bypassing any deaths or obstacles on the way. Paper 1 was considered moderate. At least the teacher showed some mercy by being a little benevolent - at least we could die with less pain. Paper 2 was analogous to hell. The comprehension itself is enough to bring you down to hell and suffer. The classical part was Tagalog to me - a different language altogether. The last part, or mingju, was the bus terminal, where you'll be sent straight to hell. Overall, the paper was shit and I did very badly.



Lady Gaga - Judas



Nice song! If you're under pressure, give yourself a break and listen to this song!

Wednesday, 11 May 2011

Mid-year exam, Day 1

While the Malay papers went swimmingly for most of the people, it was quite a problem to me. Paper 1 was fine. I finished the paper pretty quickly because I had a problem regarding my bladders. They were near to explosion but I endeavoured not to pee in the class. It's extremely embarassing if you decided to release the pressure in the class instead of politely asking to go to the loo. Paper 2 was the killer paper. Novel was fine, but I wouldn't be confident to get anymore than 11 marks. Rumusan was....outlandish. KOMSAS was terrible. I never read Hikayat Siak, and hence my result will be abominable. Tatabahasa was another problem. Overall, the percentage of passing Malay is 30%, while the percentage to get an A is zero.

Tomorrow papers: Bahasa Cina. Where the hell is my coffin???

Friday, 6 May 2011

Random

1. Mr. Tor will be transfered to SMKTP. He is going to be the principal of the school and he'll be seating on a chair that is highly revered but strongly hated. Anyone sitting on the chair in question is deemed annoying, troublesome, and sickening. Whatever. He's going to transfer to another school, so the position he's holding in our school will be replaced by another teacher, and if the new PK T6 is Pn. Kok, I'll not study F6. Oh, did I mention my father works at SMKTP?

2. Everybody has been lamenting about the incompetence of Mr. Lee, the plump guy (to sound polite) who sits in his office everyday and a person who has piles of work to deal with until he doesn't even have spare time to give us the time table for the mid-year examination. All he does is sitting on his chair and posting the time table on the website and ignoring all the complaints thrown furiously at him. I hate to say this, but he's a lousy PK. He defends his dignity when he's challenged, and does everything he's capable of to make sure school gets the sum of money he aims.

3. My terrible biology teacher has come after her labour and she does nothing except asking us to do exercises while she slowly walks from the basin to her seat to check the PEKA and then slowly and lazily takes the files and open them and then place them aside with a speed almost impossible to be calculated using any apparatus available in the lab owing to its extreme slow movement.

4. Being a monitor is horrible, you basically have to put out with all your classmates. Sometimes they simply do not cooperate and this further exacerbates your already terrible work. And when they don't cooperate and you ignore them, they later put the blame on you. WTF monitors are not people who serve you, they are representative of the classes in any occassions.

5. Mid-year examination is around the corner and I'm not ready yet. Five caskets are ready: three for three sciences and two for Additional Mathematics and Sejarah. First aid kits are already prepared - thanks to my friend who sponsored me, and if you want to use them, help yourself - for the rest of the subjects which have 95% chances of failing.

6. I thought Malaysians are bad at English, but turns out Taiwanese are worse. The way they learn English is totally wrong! I don't know what principal they based on and what grammar rules they use, they 'sophistically' analyse the sentence and end up having a conclusion like "what to do = how to do it", they say both phrase are the same in meaning. Huh?

7. Camping in school, but no overnight staying - what's the point?

8. Realise I've been aggressive and easily annoyed recently. Probably because of a person I've tried to tolerate for months and still continue to do so. Anyway, learning to be patient and calm are also teachings we simply have to learn and apply in our daily lives for a better life.

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Inactive

I'll be quite busy for the next few days, but as usual I'll update my daily status during the Mid-year Examination. I'll regale you with my stories about the mid-year examination, whether I survive the heavy piles of questions or suffocate under the heavy loads of it. Future cannot be predicted accurately, but I sense something ominous lurking ahead and beckoning me to it.

Whatever transpires later, and no matter how horrible your results are, remember: our aim is SPM, not mid-year exam. The result of our SPM is the pivotal turning point of our lives. If we get good results, good future awaits us; If we get bad results, our future ends with 2012.

Anyway, I'll update my blog as usual beginning May 13, if nothing untowards occur.