Joy, let's hope it isn't shortlived
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Well, these past few days have been hectic. For starters I would like to say I was mugging that night owing to the fact that I failed my prelims A Maths, and had to take a qualifying test to make the cut for H2 maths or not my A Maths would've gone down the drain.
Silly, really, because they only told us one day in advance, and I found myself cramming slightly over a year's worth of A Maths into an hour. Thoroughly exhausted. But anyways, I MADE THE CUT! I managed to pass the qualifyings with Cheryl, and it really made our day on thursday when we got the call.
I also sat for Knowledge and Inquiry qualifications, and it's kinda like philosophy. If anyone knows much more than I do about it, kindly advice me on whether it's an advisable subject. Lectures started on firday, mostly introductory, but H2 maths lecture was dead boring. We were taught partial fractions, a subject that has been pushed down such that sec3s are now studying it, while us JC1s are just starting. It's appalling, the workload that MOE keeps dishing down to the younger generations. Much too taxing, but at least they take out some topics like the retarded relative velocity.
Moving on, I'm really glad a large bunch of us Damaians got posted to TPJC. (comparatively, unlike Pionner JC which only has Heng Chang there, Innova with two Damaians and Meridian with what, 4?) It makes adjusting much easier. But I hardly like the 5.30 wake up time for every morning. Horrendously early, luckily I never got posted to Innova. (woodlands)
Few bengs in TPJC, as far as I currently know, so it's tolerable. But there were a couple of overly enthusiastic pompous persons in my house, (family, as it is called acutally) who volunteered for everything and tried to act all friendly and councillorish. They should be shot. All you can do is roll your eyes at their know it all behavior. How do they get friends? Sheesh
Thursday and friday were long, going back to Damai for the sec one orientation as tradition, and actually because I kinda missed my juniors and the old school too. It was warming to see them take over what we were doing last year, akin to the all-grown-up feeling parents have for their kids. The kids looked doe eyed and all, some like me back in sec1, bored and unenthusiastic. It seems as if Winners had gone on a downhill tumble from the time we entered, best house to worst.
We couldn't stay long, however, due to school and lectures the next day. The whole concept still seems alien, but I'm glad some close friends came along to TPJC so at least i wouldn't be alone. Breaks in between classes urge you to eat, and the food is almost double the price of secondary school. There goes my hope for a jacket for the freezing auditoriums. Long days await on this mugging journey, but at least there'll be some getting used to, with this one month PAE period.
I joined 4 CCAs, on encouragement from a senior who advised joining everything you have an interest in, cuz for this one month the CCAs aren't serious and taxing. Soas to explore your possibilities on which to join. I took tennis, badminton, shooting and the students council. The SC isn't like secondary school, whereby you're picked councillor through recommendations. Hence this SC could have quite a few rotten eggs breeding already, but I'm willing to give leadership another try, after 6 years of it.
An evenful and exhausting 4 days, but the hurdle is far from over. Lesson proper has already begun, so I'm only looking forward to the CCA tryouts for some fun. I would still be aiming for Meridian JC, but for now, TPJC seems good enough.
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