8/1/14

At biomedical training right now. It's a little bit sleepy. Almost finished decorating the notice board. It looks cool. PE tomorrow. I hope the teacher is alright. Anyway I forgot what I'm supposed to put here. Unicorns are fluffy.

I actually forgot what I was going to put here. Bugger.

6/1/14

Chemistry quiz tomorrow. That escalated quickly. Had economics and math and chinese as well. Math teacher spent the entire lesson telling us how to behave and laying out the rules. He seems alright, though I wonder why my classmates say he looks like me. He doesn't, in case you were wondering. Module registration starts tomorrow. I want to try the Nobel module thingys. Economics just taught us about profits and revenues and marginal profits and that kind of stuff. Temperature checking tomorrow. I have been coughing so hard I'm hurting all over.
Everybody is either attacking or defending the student council on the confessions page. How interesting. Apparently there are quite a few people who think those in the student council are twats who want to have fun, and then there are those who are saying you can't expect everything of the student council, and there isn't really anyone suggesting any real improvements to orientation, which is what this debate is about. It would be much easier for everyone if orientation served to orientate the new students with the school and its workings, instead of having a slightly silly storyline, lame jokes, silly water games that acheive no real purpose other than getting everyone wet and walking around Singapore doing activities that are supposed to bring the class together even though a class party/outing probably does a better job and probably costs less as well.
CCA fair on Friday. Wonder who wants to join astronomy club. Funny thing is that it's got a lot of males and not too many females. At least not too many females that contribute substantially during competitions. Actually make that none. In fact, searching for women astronomers brings up only 140 results on Wikipedia, and the only one I actually remembered before doing the search was Caroline Herschel. I have Horrible Science to thank for that. There was also another woman astronomer who happened to be a monk and apparently died in a horrible way. I think her name was Hilda. I do suppose I should stop now. Bye.
Actually no. Module registration starts tomorrow. Oh wait I already wrote that. Oh well. Just reminding you. English, chemistry and math tomorrow. Whee. And I am required to redecorate the astronomy club notice board as well. And I'm with Pei Hui and Simrita for the economics project group thingymajig.

5/1/14

Orientation doesn't exactly orient the new students, does it? Perhaps a 2 hour mentoring session would be nice, as well as tours of the school facilities. Then lessons. Just the basics and what they should expect for the rest of the year. It'll help them build impressions of their subject teachers as well. So far I've realised the only thing past orientations have achieved is tell everyone that a house system exists in our school. And probably tell the new people where the toilets are. I might be generalising. Oh well.
Hi! My name is Joe! And I work in the butter factory! Actually I used to work there. I'm unemployed now. Stupid economy.
Anyway it seems many people want to join astronomy club, from what my friends tell me. But then they don't like the late hours. Whatever.

4/1/14

So anyway we had the campfire yesterday and it wasn't really that big. However, the sky was alright and you could see quite a bit. Didn't get too many people interested in that unfortunately. Biomedical training is alright, if you try not to fall asleep.
Get well soon Shumacher.
So anyway last year I went to Thailand. It was rather interesting. They had cashew nut factories and bees and the beaches were full of people but I didn't do any swimming so it didn't matter. Also, stargazing on the cruise ship was good. Unfortunately there's quite a lot of wind at night so it's hard to keep the binoculars steady. You'll need a tripod. The food on the cruise ship was alright. They had coffee and pancakes. And honey and marmalade. I like marmalade. It's cool. My room was quite small. The bathroom was even smaller so there wasn't a bath tub but at least there was hot water.
I have a really good idea for MRT train carriages. It involves a sloped floor and turnstiles. I still need to work on it. They'll probably never accept it though.

2/1/14

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Gong Xi Fa Cai (that might have been a bit too early). Anyway we had orientation today. The storyline is basically Blackbeard had 4 children (Yellowbeard, Bluebeard, Redbeard and Greenbeard), and they go on an adventure to find treasure. Yeah. That kind of stuff.

Anyway during the holidays I mostly played computer games, but I also went overseas to Malaysia and from there I took a cruise to Thailand and back again. It was alright. There were elephants and beaches.

20/11/13

Went to the library for volunteering work today. Had to find books on a list. Was a bit repetitive, but it wasn't too bad. Also borrowed some more books. There's one called "The Vacant Casualty". You don't get cookies if you guessed it's a parody. Sorry. Anyway yesterday I volunteered at the science centre. Was quite nice. The chicks were cute. I meant the exhibit with the eggs. Shut up. Class outing next Wednesday. Hope most of the class comes.

18/11/13

Went to Sentosa today. Saw the fishes, took more photos because I had a lot more time than the last time I went there. Also went to Orchard. Didn't buy anything though. There's supposed to be a class outing sometime later, but we can't decide on the time.

Coffee machine is still making coffee. Good. Gah there's not much to put here. Relatives and friends visited today. Was alright. I also need to find a proper bookmark. I'm going to misplace that cappuccino receipt someday. Bloody heck why don't more shops sell bookmarks? Not everyone has stopped reading.

Results were fine. Did quite well. Signed up for OSAP to UWA. Can't go for CERN because it takes place during astrochallenge I think.
Kendrick went to CERN instead of astrochallenge, and we didn't do very well that time.