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Saturday, January 3, 2009 ? 0 Atashinchi ?
It feels so weird to be Sec 4! I feel so so old..... And once again we are going to audition for juniors for CO very very soon! Hmmm i wonder what kind of juniors we will get this year. Not that we will really get very close to them since this year we will only be spending about 7 months or less in CO. Plus what with syf and concert and whatever school dunno what stuff. The whole year will probably be over in a rush and then we will suddenly find ourselves stranded from CO after 3 and a half years of good times, bad times, happy times, and sad times together. *cries*Haha whatever shall not be emo. That is my unofficial blogging policy. I think it is so tiring to read an emo blog post! Plus most of the time you have no idea what the person is talking about anyway... Tomorrow will be our CmPS event! I am so scared i will forget to bring something. And a bit nervous with having to face so many strangers too. Plus i think that there is a high chance of the beach cleanup not turning out very well. But i think i really should not harbour some negative thoughts. Anyway today's meeting in school was a bit not very productive, but i suppose we really needed it to confirm the last-minute stuff and get ourselves prepared mentally. Even though we spent about one hour waiting for jiahe and ruchi to confirm some stuff with the NEA person and Mrs Mohd! Oh and tomorrow i will be reading this book titled Mermaid Dreams to the kids. It has really weird illustrations and the "story" consisting of one line per page, is weird too. I hope i don't screw up.
Yesterday was first day of school. So boring. I was falling asleep the whole day cos i stayed up late to read a book. I realise i am very into historical fiction nowadays. And Elizabeth the First was a really cool lady! :) But i kind of didn't really fall asleep during the talks. Maybe it is the "excitement" of the first day of school. But then i fell asleep while waiting for sarah to come back from handing in her SMP form or whatever. Which resulted in me being late for CO for about 15 minutes. -_- And after that i spent quite a long time settling admin stuff, finding people, talking to people, finding stuff... Plus we need to solve the mystery of the disappearing liuqin first strings! When i got back to xiaozu a lot of time had passed and i was quite bored playing the same songs again (although i don't really play very well) and thus did not bother to conduct xiaozu or admonish people for being late (since i was late myself. :P Sorry!) But i mean everyone was praccing quite productive i think.
Dazu was ok-ish despite not having a laoshi. Koh conducting is less stressful i think. And i didn't really screw up too much fortunately. But it was quite scary when we had to play the fast part in heishibing instrument by instrument. Luckily i didn't have to do it too many times. My heart was beating so fast! But i suppose it affects me less than it affected the rest, cos they seriously panicked so much! It's like they obviously can do it. Nicole is pro, and weiyi can play that part! But they stressed out too much and didn't play up to standard. I need to somehow convince nicole that she should keep her cool cos she is good but does not want to show it! And i want tingwei and nicole to go for CNY. (Cos all 3 of us don't want to go.) The last time they went for the concert advertising performance Sarah commented that she couldnt hear them despite being seated right in front of them. Especially as after we leave there will be only the 2 of them left. And of course plus the new sec 1(s). I heard there is a Grade 10 pipa girl in sec 1 this year. *faints*
I took bus home with delia and yunan. Congrats to yunan scoring so well for her kaoji! And yet before that she kept on complaining that she was going to fail terribly. -_- And so sad i think my handwriting has lost its uniqueness! Yunan told me that her friend the rico daji SL has the same handwriting as me. Apparently he sent her a Christmas card of something and she thought it was me until she say the name. So freaky! In primary school i used to have super-unique handwriting. Now i guess it has become pretty normal. :( But well the speed of me writing is still pretty unique. Practically everyone tells me that i write seriously slowly. Which is not very convenient for taking notes during class. :P That's why i always end up having gross handwriting and/or borrowing people's notes to copy after class.
Hmm i think i should list down some new year resolutions. Otherwise i will probably forget next time round. And then at the end of the year i can do the evaluate myself thing. So cool! :)
1. Academics, ie GPA
My goal for GPA since sec 1 has always been 3.6, whether i hit it or not. So i guess this year that shall be my goal again. But my results are deteriorating every year. :( I shall work hard for this year and hopefully can get into RJ with ok-ish grades. Key subjects to work hard in: Chem and Math. Subjects to keep up: Bio, Chinese. Subjects that are ok but can always improve: English, Physics, Geog. Subjects that i screwed but have no idea how to improve: SS. If PE is counted i shall list it under subjects to keep up, ie not fail my NAPFA test. :)
2. CO and pipa stuff
A lot of people are aiming for GwH for SYF, but right now i am not very sure whether that is a realistic goal. I know that i shouldn't really say this but our standard is seriously not good enough to let us stand out from the rest. In fact with the level of playing now we are pretty screwed. So temporarily my goal for SYF is gold, but if we get better in the future i can always raise my goal. I somehow think that this is more practical. Then for my own pipa stuff i hope to not screw kaoji at the end of the year. but that is quite a long way to go and i doubt i can actually put much effor into it before my sec 4 eoys. In fact i don't even know whether i can put in more effort for CO, seeing that i need to pull up my academics, but i shall try my best. I guess it will depend on how everything goes!
3. CmPS
Well short term goal is to not screw tomorrow's event. Long-term goal is to maybe do the event again, and manage to pull off a satisfactory report to hand in. And seeing that the due date of CmPS will probably clash with SYF, i hope we won't have to chiong it so much. Anyway this will be over in April. I really can't imagine having already spent close to a year on this.
4. Other stuff
Eg Service Learning, even though i don't really need to do this. And if my classmates with high ambitions don't manage to pull it off then it won't affect me that much. But if they need more people to help then I don't mind joining. Unless it clashes with my other stuff. Then i may reconsider.
5. Be a nicer person
Whatever. I realise that when i am sleepy i tend to be a bit less nice. Probably cos i have no energy to smile at you and say a lot of niceties and stuff. But does being straightforward and curt really mean that i am scary? Cos i am not scary ok! Plus i am a senior now, so i have the right to be mean. :)
6. Stop being so clumsy
I should do less stupid stuff like knocking myself on a table and getting paper cuts. And i seem to "injure" my hands a lot. The few weeks before my kaoji in nov i managed to cut/bang/hurt my fingers on the average of a couple of times a week. A few days ago i closed the door on my finger and it started bleeding. I should seriously cut down on these incidents seeing that i am growing older and thus should act less stupidly.
7. Can't think of anything else right now. This is a very long post. Shall stop. :) Good luck for CmPS tomorrow!
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