Some updaates on next week. Kinda sianz actually.
01/11 - Chinese A level paper (Hoorays! My first A level paper)
02/11 - PW from 08.00 - 17.00
03/11 - PW from 08.00 - 13.30, Tech run from 13.30 - 16.00
04/11 - PW from 08.00 - 17.00
05/11 - Deepavali (A break at last)
08/11 - PW again from 08.00 - 12.00
See, all PW! But what to do... our JC1 year also done le, chinese also done le. Left with PW.
So we going to CHIONGGGG!!! PW all the WAYYY!!! till the 10th that is. OP I'm coming!!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Crystal Growing Competition 2010
Tuesday(26/10) - Went for my first crystal growing session with Kee Wei today after school. It was a really short session for me as I needed to work on the WR with group mates. Therefore, Kee Wei did most of the work. Mainly we picked out seed crystals from the solution that Kee Wei had made prior to this and tied suitable seed crystals to nylon strings. We then placed the tied seed crystals into beakers containing solutions of different concentrations to try out which conditions result in better growth. We also placed the beakers containing the solutions into the fridge for faster growth. We also made the shape of the YOG symbol using metal wires and placed that in solution as well. Hmm... the lab techs were really helpful and helped us out by offering suggestions and lending us loads of materials such as the metal wires.
Really envious of the other group's crystal though. They had already grown a huge crystal and decorated their crystal garden perfectly. Our crystals were only still so tiny.. hahas!
Wednesday( 27/10) - Went for slightly longer this time. Helped Kee Wei out in re- saturating the solutions again and dissolving "nuisance" crystals. We then took some pictures of our crystals so as to place the pictures on our poster which we were going to do the next day. I was to buy vanguard sheet for the poster and get an exercise book for the log book.
Thursday
Really envious of the other group's crystal though. They had already grown a huge crystal and decorated their crystal garden perfectly. Our crystals were only still so tiny.. hahas!
Wednesday( 27/10) - Went for slightly longer this time. Helped Kee Wei out in re- saturating the solutions again and dissolving "nuisance" crystals. We then took some pictures of our crystals so as to place the pictures on our poster which we were going to do the next day. I was to buy vanguard sheet for the poster and get an exercise book for the log book.
Thursday
WR final Submission!!! Hoorays finally got it off my mind:)
Hahas... this week was far from slack as I had mentioned in my last post lols! Had to complete our WR for the final submission. Therefore, this meant that we had to work quite late for the last few days leading up to the final submission on Thursday. However, we still had much to complete on Wednesday after school. My group and I stayed back in school until after 9pm working on perfecting our WR and adding any additional points and pictures to it to make it better. It was only until the teachers started chasing us out that we finally packed up and left school for home. Seriously, it was really a great rush.
I went over to help Kee Wei out with crystal growing when I finished lessons at 1.30pm. When I got back to the group at 3.30pm, they haven't started much real work yet. I was really frantic by then.
After we started work, we realised that we needed the original cover page of the WR from the question paper itself! We also needed to include survey and interview results. Lucky for us, we were able to get a spare question paper from some friends and borrow another laptop for use so as to speed up the work. We then rushed through the evening.
Anyways.. it was that we left school at 9+pm and after we got home, we were still working on the WR. Jolyn kept having us edit and re-edit the WR for grammar mistakes and to edit content as well. It was only until late in the wee hours of the morning at 2.ooam that I finally managed to go to sleep. Was to burn the softcopy of the WR into a CD at 6.00am in the morning.
When we got to school, our WR had not been printed out yet and much less binded. I was really worried that we would not be able to hand in our WR even by 12.oonoon. Had PW lessons in the morning and teacher was really pissed that we were still not able to pass our binded WR's to him.
Luckily for us, our binded WR's arrived at 10.30am, way ahead of the submission time. We quickly whisked it off in search of the teacher for him to sign and to hand it in to him with the softcopy.
Finally, we have handed in our WR after much effort and time. Well, I think it was quite a wonderful team effort! Now, we are one more step ahead to an A for our PW!!! Hoorays!
I went over to help Kee Wei out with crystal growing when I finished lessons at 1.30pm. When I got back to the group at 3.30pm, they haven't started much real work yet. I was really frantic by then.
After we started work, we realised that we needed the original cover page of the WR from the question paper itself! We also needed to include survey and interview results. Lucky for us, we were able to get a spare question paper from some friends and borrow another laptop for use so as to speed up the work. We then rushed through the evening.
Anyways.. it was that we left school at 9+pm and after we got home, we were still working on the WR. Jolyn kept having us edit and re-edit the WR for grammar mistakes and to edit content as well. It was only until late in the wee hours of the morning at 2.ooam that I finally managed to go to sleep. Was to burn the softcopy of the WR into a CD at 6.00am in the morning.
When we got to school, our WR had not been printed out yet and much less binded. I was really worried that we would not be able to hand in our WR even by 12.oonoon. Had PW lessons in the morning and teacher was really pissed that we were still not able to pass our binded WR's to him.
Luckily for us, our binded WR's arrived at 10.30am, way ahead of the submission time. We quickly whisked it off in search of the teacher for him to sign and to hand it in to him with the softcopy.
Finally, we have handed in our WR after much effort and time. Well, I think it was quite a wonderful team effort! Now, we are one more step ahead to an A for our PW!!! Hoorays!
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Relaxation at last - Long week for me!
Phew! Finally got to the end of the week. Even though its after Promos, it seriously does not feel that relaxed.
Well, as the year draws to an end, PW cycle draws to a close as well. With it, comes the OP presentation and final submission of WR. Therefore, my group and I have been working tirelessly this week finalising the WR and OP slides and our scripts. Besides that there was also the preparation for the Sudoku competition I had taken part in this past week. Yeah this is further elaborated in the previous posts.
Furthermore, due to the vendor trainings this week, with NS forum and all that, timetables have been stretched really long such that we end lessons really late on most days.
Oh and I've just realised with shock that Chinese A levels is just a week away from today. I haven't actually started preparing for it. Yeahs so that actually adds to what I had to chiong this week.
Anyways, tommorow will be the last day of lessons and the next week we will be going full force for PW and Chinese only. Therefore the timetable for next week is quite slack actually. Lots of free periods and self study periods.
Well, its reward for our hard work this week right.
Well, as the year draws to an end, PW cycle draws to a close as well. With it, comes the OP presentation and final submission of WR. Therefore, my group and I have been working tirelessly this week finalising the WR and OP slides and our scripts. Besides that there was also the preparation for the Sudoku competition I had taken part in this past week. Yeah this is further elaborated in the previous posts.
Furthermore, due to the vendor trainings this week, with NS forum and all that, timetables have been stretched really long such that we end lessons really late on most days.
Oh and I've just realised with shock that Chinese A levels is just a week away from today. I haven't actually started preparing for it. Yeahs so that actually adds to what I had to chiong this week.
Anyways, tommorow will be the last day of lessons and the next week we will be going full force for PW and Chinese only. Therefore the timetable for next week is quite slack actually. Lots of free periods and self study periods.
Well, its reward for our hard work this week right.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Sudoku Competition Champions!!
Omg!! Omg!! Omg!! Today was a really wonderful day for me! Guess what, I got first in the Sudoku Competition held in school this afternoon. It was really quite a shock. Shall tell you about it.
24 teams were competing in the Sudoku Competition. Each team consisted of two people. I was teamed with Elene from the same class. First came the preliminary round where we had to complete 5 Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. Points were awarded for every correct number filled into a box(this makes the competition so much easier). Anyways,this had to be done in 20 minutes and only the top 10 teams will get into the finals. Well when I started doing the first two puzzles, I thought completing the puzzles in 20 minutes would be a piece of cake. Compared to the expert level puzzles that I had been doing prior to this competition, the ones given for the preliminary round was really easy. It was like every answer was staring at you in the face! Anyways, that was only for the first two puzzles. When I got to the third puzzle, it started getting a little more difficult. However, it still was not a puzzle I could not handle. However with the time constraint, it posed a certain level of difficulty.
Anyways.. with some luck I managed to get into the finals. Now I had some hope of getting the first place.
Puzzles for the finals were slightly more difficult. However, we still managed to complete at least two of the slightly easier ones and then started working on the others which were more difficult. The puzzles had to be completed in 15 mins by the way. By the 14 minute, we had already completed four out of the five puzzles. The fifth and last puzzle which we were working on was almost half completed. With seconds left, we decided to just spam random numbers into the boxes and hope to at least get some of them correct. Somehow, after handing in the puzzles, I felt quite certain that we were definitely claiming the champion already. Then the third and second places were announced, namely Group 25 and 11. The first place goes to... Group twenty... four!!! Yeahs... finally a first place for a Sudoku competition. I had taken part in two other such competitions before you know. Left empty handed on both occasions. Really estatic I tell you man! However, it was not all my effort though. Elene helped out a lot as well. Basically I started off the more difficult puzzles and Elene completed them. So it was really due to this wonderful team work that helped us win in the end. Really successful coordination.
Oh yeah.. the prize is a $50 CapitaLand voucher and two Sudoku books. Think we'll be using the voucher during the class chalet. It's a class effort anyways... shan't elaborate, hahas !
24 teams were competing in the Sudoku Competition. Each team consisted of two people. I was teamed with Elene from the same class. First came the preliminary round where we had to complete 5 Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty. Points were awarded for every correct number filled into a box(this makes the competition so much easier). Anyways,this had to be done in 20 minutes and only the top 10 teams will get into the finals. Well when I started doing the first two puzzles, I thought completing the puzzles in 20 minutes would be a piece of cake. Compared to the expert level puzzles that I had been doing prior to this competition, the ones given for the preliminary round was really easy. It was like every answer was staring at you in the face! Anyways, that was only for the first two puzzles. When I got to the third puzzle, it started getting a little more difficult. However, it still was not a puzzle I could not handle. However with the time constraint, it posed a certain level of difficulty.
Anyways.. with some luck I managed to get into the finals. Now I had some hope of getting the first place.
Puzzles for the finals were slightly more difficult. However, we still managed to complete at least two of the slightly easier ones and then started working on the others which were more difficult. The puzzles had to be completed in 15 mins by the way. By the 14 minute, we had already completed four out of the five puzzles. The fifth and last puzzle which we were working on was almost half completed. With seconds left, we decided to just spam random numbers into the boxes and hope to at least get some of them correct. Somehow, after handing in the puzzles, I felt quite certain that we were definitely claiming the champion already. Then the third and second places were announced, namely Group 25 and 11. The first place goes to... Group twenty... four!!! Yeahs... finally a first place for a Sudoku competition. I had taken part in two other such competitions before you know. Left empty handed on both occasions. Really estatic I tell you man! However, it was not all my effort though. Elene helped out a lot as well. Basically I started off the more difficult puzzles and Elene completed them. So it was really due to this wonderful team work that helped us win in the end. Really successful coordination.
Oh yeah.. the prize is a $50 CapitaLand voucher and two Sudoku books. Think we'll be using the voucher during the class chalet. It's a class effort anyways... shan't elaborate, hahas !
OP slides success!!
Spent some time perfecting our Oral Presentation slides after school on Monday and finalising it for our presentation on Thursday. We will be presenting our slides for the first time but only to the class first. Vendor training will be in the afternoon of Thursday where we will present to the vendor and get comments on our slides and presentation.
Well, didn't spend very long discussing this time though. Were all quite tired after a long day( yeah timetable has been stretched way out of proportion). Kk, so we decided to return home and each type out what we want to include in our slides and send it to Stella to be done up in Powerpoint.
When we saw the slides on Wednesday, it was simply awesome! Quite a success really. We even decided on a spectacular video which we feel was very relevant to our Project Title. Pictures and background done by Stella were also marvellous! What we really have left to do is really to ensure that we are familiar with our scripts. Yeah we each wrote our own scripts.
Should be able to pull off a spectacular Oral Presentation tomorrow if nothing crops up. Really excited about it... hahas!
Well, didn't spend very long discussing this time though. Were all quite tired after a long day( yeah timetable has been stretched way out of proportion). Kk, so we decided to return home and each type out what we want to include in our slides and send it to Stella to be done up in Powerpoint.
When we saw the slides on Wednesday, it was simply awesome! Quite a success really. We even decided on a spectacular video which we feel was very relevant to our Project Title. Pictures and background done by Stella were also marvellous! What we really have left to do is really to ensure that we are familiar with our scripts. Yeah we each wrote our own scripts.
Should be able to pull off a spectacular Oral Presentation tomorrow if nothing crops up. Really excited about it... hahas!
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Random
Sudoku -
Much has happened again this week. One of the more important thing was that I signed up for a Sudoku Competition in school. I formed a team with Elene and will be competing next Wednesday after NS forum. Really hoping to at least get into the finals this time around and hopefully, get into first place? Hahas, anyways going to be doing more Sudoku puzzles over the next couple of days to the competition to be more prepared. Elene has also requested for me to teach her how to do Sudoku. Will try to make time to do some puzzles with her next few days.
PW discussion -
Had another round of PW discussion today at West Mall. It was at 10am in the morning. Was trying to finish up WR so as to send a copy to Mr Ivan tomorrow. Deadline for WR final is next Thurs and so it really is quite a rush as our WR is still not really up to the mark yet. Well, Alan was not around again at the discussion which resulted in Jolyn being very pissed. He was around in West Mall though. Anyways, after 8 long hours of discussions and thinking, we finally came up with quite a satisfactory WR final at about 7.30pm. So what's left is pretty much only OP slides le, which we will try to get everyone involved as it will be really important. Vendor training is next Thursday and we still have not gotten any slides done yet!
Much has happened again this week. One of the more important thing was that I signed up for a Sudoku Competition in school. I formed a team with Elene and will be competing next Wednesday after NS forum. Really hoping to at least get into the finals this time around and hopefully, get into first place? Hahas, anyways going to be doing more Sudoku puzzles over the next couple of days to the competition to be more prepared. Elene has also requested for me to teach her how to do Sudoku. Will try to make time to do some puzzles with her next few days.
PW discussion -
Had another round of PW discussion today at West Mall. It was at 10am in the morning. Was trying to finish up WR so as to send a copy to Mr Ivan tomorrow. Deadline for WR final is next Thurs and so it really is quite a rush as our WR is still not really up to the mark yet. Well, Alan was not around again at the discussion which resulted in Jolyn being very pissed. He was around in West Mall though. Anyways, after 8 long hours of discussions and thinking, we finally came up with quite a satisfactory WR final at about 7.30pm. So what's left is pretty much only OP slides le, which we will try to get everyone involved as it will be really important. Vendor training is next Thursday and we still have not gotten any slides done yet!
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
suay 10/10/10
Yea... today is the 10th of October 2010. Supposedly a very lucky day for many people. Well.. at least most couples decided to get wedded on this day. Therefore, I was supposed to be attending the wedding of Ms Lim today.
However, I went cycling in the morning as it was a Sunday. To cut the story short, I lost my wallet, house key and phone on this cycling trip.
It was really quick actually. I was out cycling around Bukit View area and went over a really huge bump due to the cracking of the pavement. However, my first wheel went over one bump but the back wheel went over two bumps. Thinking it was just a fallen branch, I didn't take much notice. After that I crossed at a traffic light and realised that my pouch containing my key wallet and phone was missing. I turned around and went back to look immediately. I suspected that it fell at the bump. However, it could not be found anymore. It took only a couple of seconds mind you. Really panicked then and went about three more rounds around the path that I had taken just to check where it could have dropped. I even went back to the area around my house to check. However, it was to no avail. Really sad over the loss. But it was a lesson learnt nonetheless. Anyways, did not have the mood to attend Ms Lim's wedding reception anymore. So took the time to get a new EZ- link card done, get a new SIM card, cancel library account and apologized to 2Aians for not having met them on time at the station.
Well at least I did not lose any really important things and I have got replacements for the ones that I lost.
However, I went cycling in the morning as it was a Sunday. To cut the story short, I lost my wallet, house key and phone on this cycling trip.
It was really quick actually. I was out cycling around Bukit View area and went over a really huge bump due to the cracking of the pavement. However, my first wheel went over one bump but the back wheel went over two bumps. Thinking it was just a fallen branch, I didn't take much notice. After that I crossed at a traffic light and realised that my pouch containing my key wallet and phone was missing. I turned around and went back to look immediately. I suspected that it fell at the bump. However, it could not be found anymore. It took only a couple of seconds mind you. Really panicked then and went about three more rounds around the path that I had taken just to check where it could have dropped. I even went back to the area around my house to check. However, it was to no avail. Really sad over the loss. But it was a lesson learnt nonetheless. Anyways, did not have the mood to attend Ms Lim's wedding reception anymore. So took the time to get a new EZ- link card done, get a new SIM card, cancel library account and apologized to 2Aians for not having met them on time at the station.
Well at least I did not lose any really important things and I have got replacements for the ones that I lost.
Friday, October 8, 2010
10 hours of NOTHING!!!
Hahas... hahas! Spent 10!! hours in school doing ABSOLUTELY nothing!
Sports Day today den did not take part in any competitions. Not supposed to leave school until 6pm. So stay in school and slack lor.
Den after a while (tat means 1 or 2 hours), Chee Koon ask me wan go see Dota at com lab not. So I went up with him and spent the next 8 hours in the com lab watching others play com, and using the com sometimes oso. Haiz... was really sianz! Each hour that passed was like a day. Finally, six hours had passed. Then 7,8,9 and finally we could go home.
LOLS! Spent almost 10 hours watching ppl play DOTA and I still dun get what the game is about. Sianz... I so noob! Haha...
Sports Day today den did not take part in any competitions. Not supposed to leave school until 6pm. So stay in school and slack lor.
Den after a while (tat means 1 or 2 hours), Chee Koon ask me wan go see Dota at com lab not. So I went up with him and spent the next 8 hours in the com lab watching others play com, and using the com sometimes oso. Haiz... was really sianz! Each hour that passed was like a day. Finally, six hours had passed. Then 7,8,9 and finally we could go home.
LOLS! Spent almost 10 hours watching ppl play DOTA and I still dun get what the game is about. Sianz... I so noob! Haha...
Saturday, October 2, 2010
H1 papers cleared
Ah finally its the end of the first week of Promos. That means all H1 papers are cleared.
Ok first, GP. GP Paper 1 should be quite ok. At least more confident of the content I am writing. Paper 2 should be ok too with some luck.
Chinese oso should be not too bad. Paper 2 was quite easy. Paper 1 might be a little out of point and was also quite rushed.
Physics was at least better than MYE I think. Really hope to pass Physics.
All in all, should be quite okay with half the promotions criteria. Really hoping to pass all of H1 papers. Next week, taking on the H2 papers.
Ok first, GP. GP Paper 1 should be quite ok. At least more confident of the content I am writing. Paper 2 should be ok too with some luck.
Chinese oso should be not too bad. Paper 2 was quite easy. Paper 1 might be a little out of point and was also quite rushed.
Physics was at least better than MYE I think. Really hope to pass Physics.
All in all, should be quite okay with half the promotions criteria. Really hoping to pass all of H1 papers. Next week, taking on the H2 papers.
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