Admin Day 1

I really can't help but come up with a post for this particular day of the year. It is the day when, after 2 months of waiting, secondary school grads step into the JC which they are posted to as a student.

Man, this really brings back memories from 2 years ago, specifically on 1st Feb 2009. Not that i remembered much about the Admin Days themselves, since recollections from Orientation Fortitude is totally overwhelming, but the simple journey taken at 6.30am (yeah, i was damn afraid that i would be late. The 40-odd other freshies that were on 81 with me probably had the same worry) from my house's bus stop to MJC is like my first milestone in Meridian Junior College.

One of my first few thoughts for Admin Day 1 was, "damn, these people are long-winded". That was thanks to sitting on the hall floor for somewhere around 3 hours listening to the various HODs and Principals give their speech. I was totally grateful that the first thing Ms Lai did when the mic was passed to her was to tell us to get up to stretch our legs. Score one for respect to her. Hahaha. xD

Apparently, i heard that my batch was the last batch they conducted demo lectures for. Seriously, how could they scrap demo lectures?! That's like so important! Mind you if there weren't any demo lectures for me i might have ended up taking Econs instead of Geog and 4 H2's of BCME instead. Imagine the horror.. o.0

On hindsight, i finally understood why they did not offer BCMG as a 4 H2 combi. The amount of things to memorise would be too much to take. Its a good thing Jansen and i pulled out of the appeal for that combi during course counselling with the Geog dept. If i had stuck on, that class would have been opened and i seriously doubt that my results would have been any rosier. I wonder how the 10S121 people with that combi are coping now..

Darn i'm already feeling kinda nostalgic right now.. =.=

Baldness

Feb 9th is drawing closer and closer. I don't want to go into army, especially not when there are so many things and more importantly, people, that i have to leave behind. 3 weeks sounds awfully long all of a sudden. I don't think i will like army very much. =.=

Jobs: Wanted and otherwise.

The last post felt as if it was done ages ago, even if it was a mere difference of 12 days. The only explanation that i can think of is that work has made me lose track of the days. I swear its worse than school.

In school, the time table for each day is different and there are tutorials to look forward to (well yes, i actually look forward to my tutorials). At work, everyday is the same routine over and over again in that tiny meeting room. In school, there are PE lessons to burn my fats and make my muscles bigger (yes, that's right, bigger, meaning that they are already present in the first place). At work, i get bored easily and get fat when i eat to occupy myself. In fact, i was so bored, i went to the library to borrow a book on chemistry to read on the job so my neurons wont start degenerating from the lack of use.. =.=

I guess these are just one of the few reasons why i won't ever want to get stuck behind a desk in an office job. I'll just get fat and get bored to tears (not literally of course, but yeah, you get my point). A job that requires something thinking would be good, and teaching fits the bill perfectly. A different mental challenge everyday will prevent my brain from getting dusty. Sounds good, no?

Then again, all this is idealistic speculation. Who knows, i might even get bored of teaching soon after joining the force. Well, i guess that's life. People hardly get to do what they like, and those who manage to are the blessed minority. Hopefully one day, i can find my myself in that group. Only time will tell.. Damn that's corny. =.=

Gagged

It sucks when you have something humongous and important to tell but have no idea how to put it into words..
I'm sorry for disappointing you.

Like a bee

I am so busy!! >.<

Done, after 9 long months

I realised, while i was packing up that huge stack of workssheets, that packing is much easily done when you aren't afraid of throwing things away. Of that 34cm pile of revision worksheets i had, i kept less than 5cm's worth, mainly the prelim papers and a few sets of revision notes.

So this is the "Before"

And this is the "After". The pile on the right is for keeps while that on the left is to be dumped. Those to be thrown exceeded the initial height of 34cm because i keep finding bits and pieces of useless stuff inside those files.

Just imagine how much those notes are worth. Just the notes themselves can be worth at least $180 or more. Add in the revision packages, which can cost up to $5 per set, that'll be an additional $50. In short, that's a lot of money..

That aside, some of the few pleasant surprises which i found while packing includes..

I haven't got the chance to read this thing properly ever since the camp ended. Now that i finally got the chance to do it, i found it rather informative. PHOTOG! =D

Graduation seemed so long ago, but yet October 15 was only less than 2 months ago.. This is one of the things that will have to stay in my box of memories.

Having done packing, what dawned upon me is that my JC journey has finally ended. All the frustrations and all the stressed-out-over-sucky-results-ness has finally came to an end. I don't really know how to describe this emotion inside of me right now. It its like a mixture of relief, nostalgia, and perhaps even an inkling of sadness, seeing as we had went through so much in the short span of 2 years. My goal before the O levels had been to get into Temasek, but i'm glad i didn't make it. 

Meridian is the better choice.