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finished "The Devil's Punchbowl" but not as gd as i expected. commenting on exam results today...

- english was really good! i didn expect to get A2, cos i usually get a B. i guess my compo and situational writing pulled me up (yes, i didn write out of point, thank God)
- hcl was great!!! i passed :) and i also passed my 片段缩写 for e 1st time in my life! u guys shud treat me to a meal~ i didn 离题 for my compo so that was gd.
- was disappointed when i saw my chem results, got A2. but since i didn finish e paper and prob lost 10 marks cos of that, it's not so bad in retrospect.
- phy was awesome! i got A2 and i'm so proud of myself.
- i got A1 for bio, which i havent gotten in a long time. saw my section C first and cos i didn write abt e carbonic acid and stuff, i onli got 14/30 for it so i was quite upset. but since i did exponentially well for section B and A (i checked my paper backwards), i managed to get an A1! yay...
- e math was okay, i got an A1, my highest subject
- a math was really upsetting. didn meet my expectations, but i didn work hard enough so it's a wake-up call, i guess.
- geog was annoying. i studied everything but almost every question was a data-based question, so i couldn score in them. did quite badly but passed, obviously. i dont feel too bad cos i really tried my best for geog already.
- history was normal. i always get B4. always.
- ss was not as gd as usual, but because my SEQ was quite okay (and that's e only part u can study for), i dont feel so bad.

yup i'm done with e evaluation.

Quote 2 remember: Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. (touché.)

~thx 4 reading!~

The Devil's Punchbowl - Greg Iles

11:18 AM, Sunday, October 17, 2010

muahaha i'm finally reading bks like crazy. "The Devil's Punchbowl" is quite good, but not done with it yet. anyway, i wanna do a facebk quiz xD

Directions: Mark which things you have done, then calculate your score by counting the number of questions you marked. This test is out of 100 questions which means that the number you get as your score is also your percentage.

1. [ ] Forgot to put the lid on the blender, turned it on, and had everything fly out

2. [ ] Gotten your head stuck between the stair rails

3. [ ] Broken a chair by leaning back in it

4. [x] Had gum fall out of your mouth while you were talking

5. [x] Choked on your own spit while you were talking

6. [ ] Had people tell you that you are blonde when you're not, or had people tell you that your blonde highlights are going to your head

7. [x] Been caught staring at your crush by your crush

8. [ ] Have looked for something for at least 5 min then realised it was in your hand

9. [x] Tried to push open a door that said pull

10. [x] Tried to pull open a door that said push

Running total: 5

11. [ ] Have actually believed someone when they said that they knew how to make a love-potion

12. [ ] Have hit yourself in the process of trying to hit something else

13. [ ] Have tripped and fallen UP the stairs

14. [ ] Have actually exploded marshmallows in the microwave

15. [x] Have gotten gum stuck in your hair

16. [x] Had gum fall out of your mouth while trying to blow a bubble

17. [x] Have had the juice from a mini tomato squirt out and hit somebody else when you bit into it

18. [ ] Have had your drink come out your nose because you were laughing so hard

19. [x] Have called one of your good friends by the wrong name

20. [ ] Have skinned your toe because you were playing soccer or kickball with flip flops on or you were barefoot

Running total: 9

21. [ ] Have put a sticker on your forehead, forgot it was there, and went out in public with it on

22. [ ] Have fallen out of a moving vehicle

23. [ ] Have run into a closed door

25. [ ] Searched for your cell phone while you were talking on it

26. [ ] It has taken you longer than 5 min to get a joke

27. [ ] Have gotten your hair stuck in a blow dryer

28. [ ] Have gotten your hair stuck in a fan

29. [ ] Tripped on a crack in the sidewalk

30. [ ] Said o'clock after saying how many min after the hour, example: 5:30 o'clock, or 6:15 o'clock

Running total: 9

31. [ ] After someone told you that there was gum/poo on the ground, you stepped in it

32. [ ] Put on a white shirt even though you already knew it was raining outside

33. [x] Walked up to a stranger because you thought they were someone else

34. [ ] Been kicked out of a grocery store/off their property

35. [ ] Touched the stove, the curling iron, a hot pan, etc when its on, even though you knew it was hot

36. [ ] Taken off your clothes to change into something else then accidentally put the old clothes back on

37. [x] Wondered why something wasn't working then realised it wasn't plugged in

38. [ ] Put the cereal in the fridge, or put the milk in the cupboard

39. [ ] Walked into a pole

40. [ ] Wore two different earrings or shoes by accident/stolen someone's shoes by accident

Running total: 11

41. [ ] Put your shirt on backwards/inside-out without realising it then left your house

42. [x] Tried to take a picture of someone's eye with the flash on

43. [x] Gotten a ring stuck on your finger because you put it on even though you knew it was too small

44. [ ] Walked out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe without realising it

45. [x] Went to go do something/go get something, then when you got there, you forgot what it is was that you were going to do

46. [x] Picked up someone else's drink and drank out of it by accident when your drink was right next to it

47. [ ] Fallen out of your chair while trying to pick something up

48. [ ] Have poked yourself in the eye

49. [ ] Have gotten in the shower with your socks still on

50. [ ] Melted your hairbrush while blow drying your hair

Running total: 15

51. [ ] Have done enough stupid things to take this test

52. [x] Have accidentally stabbed yourself with a pencil

53. [x] Have sung the wrong verse to a song without realising it

54. [x] Have given an odd answer to a question because you didn't hear the question in the first place

55. [ ] Told someone you were the wrong age because you seriously forgot how old you were

56. [ ] Looked into an overhead purposefully while it was on

57. [ ] Got up early and got ready for school/work, then realised that you didn't have school/work that day.

58. [x] Forgot your own phone number

59. [ ] Have tripped on a cord after someone told you to watch out for it

60. [x] Have ever laughed at a joke that no one else thought was funny

Running total: 20

61. [ ] Done the Macarena to the electric slide or vice versa

62. [ ] Said funner then had someone make fun of you for it

63. [ ] Have repeated yourself at least twice in the same sentence

64. [x] Brought up an inside joke with the wrong person

65. [x] Didn't do the backside of an assignment because you thought that there wasn't one because you had already looked and forgot that there was another side

66. [x] Did more work than you had to on an assignment because you didn't read the directions

67. [ ] Corrected someone's grammar/pronunciation then figured out that you were the one that was wrong

68. [x] Put something in a special place so that you would remember where it was, then forgot where you put it

69. [ ] Put ice in your drink after the glass was full of liquid and had it splash out

70. [ ] Told a lie then forgot what it was that you had said and got caught

Running total: 24

71. [ ]When wearing goggles, you pulled them away from your face and let go so that they would come back and snap you in the face

72. [ ] Forgot to make sure that the lamp was off before you replaced the light bulb

73. [ ] Ran into a door jam

74. [ ] Told someone that you hardly ever do stupid things, then immediately did/said something stupid

75. [ ] Told someone to watch out for something, then you were the one that ran into it

76. [ ] Have licked playground sand

77. [ ] Have purposely and repeatedly flicked yourself with a rubber band

78. [ ] Gotten so hyper that someone actually thought you were drunk/high when you weren't

79. [x] Have been so hyper you actually scared people

80. [ ] Put duct tape on your body then pulled it off to see if it would hurt

Running total: 25

81. [ ] Put duct tape on your hair/someone else's hair then pulled it off

82. [ ] Put a clothes pin/hair clip on your lip, figured out that it hurt, then did it again

83. [ ] Sat and wondered why men's dress shirts have a loop on the back

84. [ ] Made up a code name for someone so that you could talk about them to someone else and no one else would know who you were talking about

85. [x] Have gotten a hairbrush stuck in your hair

86. [ ] Used the straw to blow the straw wrapper at someone

87. [x] Laughed out loud in the middle of class over something you just thought up in your head

88. [ ] When at a restaurant, you used your spoon to fling stuff at people

89. [ ] Have flung forks/spoons at people in a restaurant

90. [ ] Tripped and made the waiter drop the food.

Running total: 27

91. [ ] As you are writing, you move your head back and forth with your pen/pencil

92. [ ] Have drawn finger puppets on your fingers then named them

93. [x] Have wrapped someone in a roll of toilet paper

94. [ ] Have used somebody else's toothbrush without even realising it wasn't yours

95. [ ] Have started telling a story and forget what you were talking about or what happened in the story

96. [ ] Read a whole book but during the whole book you weren’t even paying attention

97. [ ] You have spelled your own name wrong before

98. [ ] When lying in bed you look for pictures in the texture of the ceiling

99. [ ] Have used your calculator as a form of communication in a class

100. [ ] Have popped a balloon in your mouth

Total: 28

great, so this means i only do stupid things 28% of the time.

okok report on my exams. they are officially over!!!

- english was hard, hope i dont write out of point for e compo.
- hcl was... well, i hope i pass. and i dont 离题.
- chem was gd but didn finish e paper gahh i think i lost 10 marks already.
- phy was better than usual but didn finish e paper either.
- bio was great, i finishd e paper!!! :D but i completely forgot to write sth v important wich i studied!!! (yes, it's e carbonic acid crap)
- e math was okay, i guess
- a math was disgusting. i prob lost at least 8 marks already, and i worked super hard for it
- geog was gd, didn finish 1 and a half paras of my LRQ but whatever, everything i studied came out (okay, okay, so i studied everything)
- history was gd, didn finish e paper, but only e purpose paras so it's okay
- ss was okay, dont think i finishd e paper either, but only e purpose paras too

so... i'm blogging now and listening to xmas cantata songs cos i hav rehearsal l8r. and i have a sore throat, so how to sing? sigh.

Quote 2 remember: I have had more trouble with myself than with any other person I've met.

~thx 4 reading!~

still no book, reading "The Pill" Time Magazine

4:16 PM, Thursday, October 7, 2010

ahhh exams suck. in e midst of e FYEs, i have found it in myself to post this, which i found on facebook and do not own, but thought was SO COOL:

Don’t write zephyr when you mean wind. Don’t write fart when you mean break wind. Don’t write azure to describe the sky or the sea. Don’t write menacing to describe clouds or guard dogs. Don’t write plethora when you mean many. Don’t write altercation when you mean fight. Don’t write quixotic when you mean brave.

Don’ t use your finger to try achieving equal spacing between your words. Don’t be demoralized by the hidden word fool in foolscap paper. Don’t use more than three dots when you want to write your ellipses, it doesn’t mean that the more dots there are the more mysterious your sentence, nor does it mean that each dot is equivalent to the root of every hair follicle you expect to incite to horripilation. Don’t write horripilation when you mean standing on end.

Don’t make your ellipses rise and fall like the flight path of a butterfly. Don’t use three apostrophes as a quotation mark even if what is said was told by a friend of a friend. Don’t forget to use commas even if you have set the class record for holding your breath underwater.

Don’t write Suddenly at the beginning of your sentences when you want to introduce one surprise after another. Don’t write the full moon/the creaking door/the cobwebbed room/his bloodshot eyes/her cackling laugh in your horror story. Don’t write horror stories.

Don’t end with I woke up and it was all a dream. Don’t end with lying in a pool of blood your eyes growing heavy footsteps fading, which is the same thing.

Don’t write sleepy when you mean tuition. Don’t write fear when you mean forgetting to bring your PE attire to school. Don’t write jealous when you mean mummy has brought home a new baby. Don’t write longing when you mean daddy has not come home from work and you are counting the cars in the car park from the window. Don’t write loss when you mean the smell of the batik hammock stretched between mummy’s knees. Don’t write shame when you mean daddy heading straight for the bargain bin when he buys you your first pair of track shoes. Don’t write loneliness when you mean the woolly crayon scrawling in an alphabet book you once owned.

Don’t write about the saddest day of your life, unless you are able to dapple your sheet of paper with tear stains, as proof.

Don’t write about the happiest day of your life, even if this is the assigned topic, because it is possible that the experience exceeds language, your language. Don’t believe those who say write what you know, the more important thing now is to write what you have, so choose a day when you were moderately, not indescribably, happy.

Don’t assume however that your life means only the one that others have witnessed, and not the lives you have lived in your head. Don’t hesitate then to write about the hundred-balloon birthday party/the beach picnic where you swam to the horizon and touched it and swam back/the suicidal goldfish revived by water/the first prize, although it would be more convincing to the marker to say second prize, because there might be one more deserving of being first, but you are no less deserving of the happiness you feel by coming in second.

Don’t keep choosing to write the argumentative essay, again and again, unless you are certain that one day you will write fiction and find your freedom ignoring the tips above, again and again.

AWESOME.

Quote 2 remember: Happiness is a continuous creative activity.

~thx 4 reading!~