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A's are officially over! :)

Monday: Econs S on Mon was ok. Quite tough. If I get merit I'll be satisfied.

Tuesday: Went for Ernst & Young job interview. Not bad. I think I got in. And I'm really glad that it all went well! :) The pay's good, and this job is good for my resume too. Now I just need to wait for the confirmation letter. Stayed at home the rest of the day to help paint the walls. Very fun, though it was quite tiring...

Today: I went for dental appointment. Then, I wanted to go donate blood, but I was turned away! Cos they said I just had dental, then to be safe, I couldn't donate blood. I didn't even have any injections or medication for my dental appointment! Irritating! It felt so awkward to walk out without donating blood. I could feel like people were wondering why I was turned away. Like I had AIDS or something. Or maybe I was just imaging it. Whatever...

I feel quite sian these few days. Not because I have nothing to do, but because I feel really quite tired. Just after the A's are over, all my days are filled up. I am officially booked till about the 10th of December. Busy going out with my friends, going out to buy prom stuff, going out with my family, and helping out to do spring cleaning (Ha! My family does spring cleaning damn early). Tired tired... So if anyone wants to go out with me, they've got to make an appointment first, 2 weeks in advance. Haha! I feel so important. :D

When I have time for myself, and also the computer to myself, I'm planning to watch "My Girl" and "Full House" on Youtube. Both are Korean dramas and I heard they're good. Goong was so nice that I still miss it after so long!!!

Anyway, I found a really really funny blog. You should go read!
http://sibehsibehsian.blogspot.com

I met up with Shuwen yesterday, after almost 2 years of not seeing each other! Considering the fact that we are best friends, it seems that we don't meet up very often.

Maybe that's why we're such good friends. If you don't see a person so often, you tend to imagine him or her to be towards the way that you prefer that person to be like. Don't know if you get what I'm saying.

Anyway, we always keep in touch through sms. We sms almost every single week. So although we don't see one another physically, we're there for each other all the time. :)

We went to Junction 8 at 10am, to eat, shop, and just catch up. At the beginning, many of the shops weren't open yet and we just walked around aimlessly and talking at the same time.

Later, we went to Popular and came up with a great idea. We would each buy a small blank book and record the interesting stuff that happened to us during this holidays. Then when the holidays end, we would show each other what we have written. So nice right? I already did my first page, but I don't have colour pencils, got to buy. I want to make mine like a pretty story book. Colourful and interesting. Hehe...

I can't wait to write more stuff in it. :)

Seriously, I've already gotten into the playing mode. I started studying for today's Maths S paper only on Sunday and progess has been terribly slow. I take super long to think through questions (which is kinda expected for Maths S), but the real problem is that I can't sit down for 3 hours straight to do the paper.

I only did 3 practice papers in 2 days.

The paper was terrible! It was so difficult, more difficult than the past year papers. There was very little need to use calculator because somehow, so many of the questions gave constants like a, b, c, etc, instead of real numbers. I could have gone in there without a calculator and it wouldn't have affected my marks! Come to think of it, there was really no question that required calculator! We didn't even have to use the normal table! Argh!

I like calculating stuff. Handling so many unknown constants only makes the working tedious and I give up real soon. I think I left almost half of the questions undone. I could only do the first part of each question.

I felt angry after the paper. Kinda of weird. I don't know what I'm angry about. I bet that even if I did more past year papers it wouldn't help much either, since the paper was so difficult. Anyway, if I found it difficult, hopefully other people will find it tough too. I reallly hope I can get at least a merit. I was aiming for distinction, but I've got to be realistic. I haven't been doing tutorials for the whole year! I'll be really sad if I get ungraded cos it'll be like I took the paper for nothing!

Whatever it is, it's one down, only 1 more to go! I've got a whole week to study for Econs S and I wanna do well for it! :)

Ps: I'm very happy about 2 things. One is that I'm meeting Shuwen tomorrow! YAY! And the other is that I messaged Chef Steven to say I won't be working at pastry kitchen this holiday cos I want to try a different job (since he was so nice to offer me a place there when I went back the other time). And he replied "no problem charlynn... wish u all the best and visit us whenever u can. We will miss u this christmas.." It feels nice to be missed. Haha... :)

The A's are over for the 4 A level subjects! Yay!!!

I thought the Chem paper was pretty ok, and I'm happy with it.

Remember I mentioned about the shuai invigilator? Well, he came to invigilate my class today! A coincidence or what?! I got so, so happy, but I decided to tell the girls later, least they get distracted.

I was so afraid that I would get distracted during the paper. But instead, I got quite irritated. Tell you why...

15 minutes before the paper, at 2.15pm, he said "come on in". After we took out our stuff and barely sat down, he looked at the clock, and said "the time is 2.27. You can start now." We were all shocked! There wasn't even time to relax. And, he read the time wrongly. Just then, Li Yue came into the classroom. He didn't even check if everyone was present to start the paper!

After she hurriedly took out her stuff, he said "ok, starting in 15 seconds" when the time was 15 seconds to 2.23pm.

When the second hand reached 12, we all started. And it was quite frustrating because the commotion before the paper was really distracting. Not just me, everyone complained after the paper. Sheryl said he made her feel so rushed throughout.

Since everyone was complaining, I decided not to say he was shuai. There was no mood. I got quite irritated as well. Ah, at least he ruined my sily little crush on him before the paper so I didn't get so distracted. Maybe it's good after all. Ha!

There was class outing after the paper. They wanted to watch the James Bond movie but we didn't want to, so me, Jasmine, Li Yue, Sheryl and Amarjote decided to go to Vivocity. But on the way there, we decided to go to Plaza Singapura instead because it was getting quite late and we planned to allocate one whole day for shopping at Vivocity another day.

We took neoprint and had ice cream at Gelare. Damn fun! :)

We are planning to go to Escape another day, celebrate Christmas at Jasmine's house and have a movie marathon at Amarjote's house. I really can't wait! All that after the S paper exams are over.

Besides, Xin Yi messaged me yesterday that they'll planning to meet up. I reeeaaally can't wait for exams to be over!!! :)

The past 3 days were absolute madness.

Monday: Physics papers 1 and 2. It was difficult. The questions were not your usual stardard questions. They even asked "what is radian?" I just tried to explain it in my own way, then after the paper, I realised that I explained degree instead. Haiz.

Tuesday: Chem paper 2 and Econs paper 3. The Chem paper was fine. I really hope I can get A. It'll be my first and only A for JC Chem. I finished 30 minutes before time and checked twice. Found some careless mistakes and corrected them in time. For Econs, I guess I did not bad, though I'm can't be really sure if I answered the essay questions properly.

Today: Physics paper 3 and Econs papers 1 and 2. Luckily, the Physics paper 3 was still do-able so I doubt I'll do badly because of papers 1 and 2. I was having the paper in the hall today, there was this really shuai invigilator! I'm not the only one who thinks that way. I heard some girls talking about him too! Too bad he didn't come for the Econs paper. Anyway, Econs was fine. Better than expected. I suspect this may be the best paper 2 that I've ever done. Haha... Hope so!

I don't think I'll get to see that shuai invigilator anymore. My only other paper in the hall in Maths S. But if he comes to my classroom for the Chem paper 1, I think I'll faint. Haha... No la, maybe I'll just be distracted. Haha...

Right now, I only have 3 papers left. The worst exam days (yesterday and today) and already over and I'm in a semi-playing mode now. Haha... Only Chem paper 1 on friday, and Maths S and Econs S.

This whole A levels is going by faster than I expected. I expected it to hit us like a huge wave. After all, it's what we've been preparing for the past 2 years. But now I feel like I'm just taking the exams as they come. Not nervous. I'll probably feel more nervous waiting for results during the holidays. Weird...

Anyway, I'm quite happy cos I've been shortlisted for a job interview at KPMG. Yippee! The lady said there'll be a group interview followed by an individual interview. I'm quite nervous about it, especially the group one. But I'll think about that only after I finish prom (on 6 Dec)!

I've been talking to Jasmine about all the places we would go to after A's. Vivocity, Escape (there's a $6 discounted entrance fee from now till 2 Jan!), ice skating, shopping for prom stuff, etc etc...

I can't wait! :)

Both the Chem paper 3 yesterday and Maths paper 2 today went great!

Yesterday, I finished 30 minutes before time was up. Complete miracle! I usually don't have enough time. Besides, everyone else rushed through the last few questions. The only person I know who finished early too is Livia. She'e super smart. Hope I can do well like her too!

I couldn't believe that I had finished early, but I checked and I really did all the questions already. I had time to check 4 whole questions.

Anyway, I thought the paper was really manageable. Seems like doing practice papers has really helped! Yayyy!!! :)

Maths paper today was fine too. I had one hour extra to check twice. Luckily I checked. I made some careless mistake. Probably saved myself 7 marks. :D I think I can get A for Maths. Cross my fingers!

I've got no more papers till next Monday. But next week is when all the stress will start piling on. All the Physics plus Econs papers and Chem paper 2 in just 3 days! Got to go into intensive mugging mode soon!

But now, I'm going to relax and take a break. I'm tired...

The paper was great! This is the only maths exam that I've studied so hard for. The previous ones, I just read through my notes. This time, I actually did 4 years of practice papers! Haha... I'm so proud of myself.

Anyway, the paper got off to a bad start. The teacher started us too soon, only after we had time to write our names on the question paper. I felt there wasn't enough time for us to relax yet. And, he forgot to remind us to surrender our handphones, so he was still talking even after the paper started.

Then, Li Yue started complaining to the teacher about the air-con. She wanted to switch it off cos she was too cold, but it was really quite hot. Then, after some more commotion, the teacher asked Clarissa to change places with her. It was so, so irritating! The teacher sounded super irritated with her too! After the paper, Li Yue said it was because the aircon was blowing directly at her head and it was giving her a headache. I guess that's quite a valid reason, but it was seriously very distracting!

I couldn't do the first question, and I got a little afraid. I skipped to the second one, but some how, my brain couldn't focus and tell me the answer. I roughly knew how to do it, but my brain just couldn't click.

So, I decided that I would jump to another section of the paper that I would probably be more confident in. I started at question 9. And from there, things went quite smoothly.

For the option question, I did OR first, but somehow I got stuck so I did EITHER.

Then, I went back to do the questions in front. I didn't know how to do 3 questions, but luckily I figured all of them out after I finished the others. I had time to check and I'm really pleased with the paper. So far I knew how to do all the questions, and I haven't had any wrong answers. After the paper, the teacher told us the answer to the complex numbers question cos he saw some of us using long division. I got the correct answer and that was actually one of the question I had trouble with, so I'm glad I got it right.

Hope paper 2 on Thursday would be great too.

Tomorrow's Chem paper 3. It's only less than 12 hours away! So little time, so much to study...

It's finally here. The A Levels.

GP was the first paper, and I actually think I did not bad... :)

For the essay, I did the question on technology. "Does modern technology always improve the quality of people's lives?"

All thanks to the essay practice I did on Tuesday, I reused some relevant points and Mrs Ch'ng actually gave me 33 for that essay so I'm hoping I didn't do too badly on this one. Plus, I had proper points to write and didn't have to squeeze out some irrelevant points into the essay. Turns out that majority of the people did that question too. More than half I think. I'm hoping to get like one or two marks above the average marks for that question because I'm really quite confident about it.

Comprehension was ok... Questions weren't that difficult, but I found the summary and application question a little tough though. Didn't have enough time to finish properly and had to rush through the AQ.

I really hope I get B3. The best grade I ever got was B4, during prelims. I think it's possible to get a B3, and I really, really, reeaallly hope I do.

Somehow, I don't feel as nervous about the A's as I thought I would be. It all seems so normal to me. Haha... Maybe that's a good thing. :)

Ok, let's not say steal. It's such a bad word. It was more of borrowing without asking. And yes, I have intention of retuning, so it's so wrong to classify it as stealing.

Ok, so what did I steal, erm, borrow?

A copy of The Economist from VJ library.

Ok, I know it's lame. How many people actually read that magazine?

I "borrowed" it because I wanted to brush up my GP and I wasn't going to school today so I couldn't read it there. So, I took it out of the library yesterday, together with the rest of my books and I'm planning to return it tomorrow. I was actually worried the alarm would sound when I went out. But I already checked the magazine for any barcode thingy. There wasn't any, obviously.

We're not allowed to borrow magazines so I decided not to try asking.

Besides, no one reads it, ok! So I won't be depriving anyone of the magazine. Almost everyone who goes to the library these few days go there to study, and only 1 or 2 actually read The Strats' Times. When I sat at the couch reading Economist, no one even went near the shelf for the magazine.

So there! I'm not doing anything wrong.

And I know I sound quite defensive, because I actually feel a little guilty. Blame it on me being too goody-goody all the time.

Tomorrow's the first day of A's. It's GP in the morning. I'm not that nervous... yet. I'm just going to read loads of Economist, newsapapers, GP notes, and some chim words today. Then I'm gonna go to bed early. Yay!

Ps. I think The Economist is kinda interesting. Haha... I'm such a geek.