The Clock Strikes Twelve

For A Reason

shawnhyc — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:05:45 +0000

OMG EVERYTHING I WROTE HERE JUST DISAPPEARED. AND I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO TIME/INTEREST IN RETYPING THE WHOLE POST. BUT I AM SURE… IT DISAPPEARED O: FOR A REASON!

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If I Were To Just Watch

shawnhyc — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:19:58 +0000

If I were to be living in the countryside, a place where the pace of life isn’t that fast, a place where maybe competition is not that strong. Living in Singapore, it’s sometimes really so tiring. Competition is everywhere… you just have to be better than the others. And being born and raised in Singapore, I have already developed a certain something that drives me to want to be the top. And sometimes its just that tiring. Mrs Raymond said that Australians aren’t that hardworking as us… and they have other more important things to attend to. And they don’t have tuition (not that I have any) at all.

You know, after working so hard in school, I sometimes wonder if all this is really worth it. I realised that if I want to be the top, I have to put in so so much effort. I don’t have the discipline, the brains. And I realised how I don’t get Maths so easily. And how my Chinese really sucks.

But this is Singapore, I guess? You’d have to work hard to get somewhere. When I complete my education, I want to be someone who can make an impact on this world. Because I don’t want to be forgotten when I’m gone. But after decades spent in doing these things, I’d just retire in a small countryside (considering they still exist in decades later), and not worry about anything (considering I have enough money).

I think I’m getting stressed… o.o

In fact I am.

Homework’s piling… When I complete one, another comes. When I complete another, two more come.

Signing off,

Shawn!

More Homework Updates

shawnhyc — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:42:42 +0000

And the homework goes like this…

Design and Technology: Shape Borrowing and SCAMPER (04 Feb)
Language Arts: George Orwell and Animal Farm Essay (03 Feb)
Language Arts: Editorial Journal ATT (Week 6)
Reading: “Sports isn’t Just for Champions” Article (03 Feb)
Reading: Personalise the journal and paste relevant worksheets in (03 Feb)
Reading: Fill in Reading Log (03 Feb)
Reading: Finish reading To Kill A Mockingbird (ASAP)
Maths: Test on Chapter 1 Proportion (02 Feb)
Biology: Review Questions on Transport (05 Feb)
Biology: Chapter 12 Theory Workbook (05 Feb)
Biology: Chapter 12 Test (Week 7)
Biology: Cover Page Design (ASAP)
Chemistry: Chemical Changes Project (06 Feb)
Project Work

Right. And I don’t know how to get started on them.

Happy Lunar New Year

shawnhyc — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:55:35 +0000

Happy Lunar New Year!

And… the holidays are drawing to an end. Good thing I done my homework on Sunday, or else I’d be still stuck with homework now.

I think I shall end this post right now, ‘cos I guess I’d have to go visit my grandmother’s house soon!

Signing off,
Shawn

You Know, I Know, We Know

shawnhyc — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:54:21 +0000

It’s Chinese New Year, very very soon. It’s not much of a great thing anyway. Except probably for the Lunar Eclipse tomorrow at 4:30pm tomorrow, if I’ve not caught the news wrongly. It’s the time of the year again… where you (at least I) meet people that I only meet once a year. And I guess it’ll probably be kind of fun. Chocolate coins, chocolate peanuts, love letters, pineapple tarts… I already have a sore-throat (although it was developed more than a week ago.) I think I can’t resist not eating them!

Reunion dinner was niceeee. At least I find the food nice, ‘cos I probably find most food nice. Steamboat is always fun. And… I scalded myself!? But I think it will look cooler if it was shaped/coloured like a battle scar. Anyways, steamboat soup (at Reunion dinners) always taste like the weirdest concoction ever, ‘cos you just throw whatever you can in, and it turns out all reddish-brown, bubbling with foam, and having the taste of… prawn, beef, pork, fish, mushroom, and stuff… all in one bowl.

Some wishes will remain wishes. And some promises will remain promises. Certain promises are like… you can break them. There isn’t any legal obligation for you to fulfil that promise, and you can choose to ignore the moral obligation? I think I’m just crapping.

And I’m eccentric, very eccentric. I (day)dream of one day my non-existent (perhaps soon to be existent) biological elder sibling would come knocking on the doorstep and say, “Hey, I’m your elder brother/ sister!” It’s really, like, I sometimes think of that. I know it’s not possible, but still… I have a fertile imagination. And also when I walk outside, those tiled floors, I always avoid stepping on the “cracks” or something. And I must step on the “right colour combination”. I have weird habits. Thus I am weird.

And I’m Pet Society-ing a lot. I just realised how hard it is to save money there. And it’s like when I earn enough, I’d get a Mystery Box (which costs 500), and soon realise I have no money left. It’s just like real life gambling, and you go addicted and bankrupt in no time. And I have no idea what I should spend on. (Random, random paragraph.)

Shall post more next time!

Signing off,
Shawn

Should Have Said So Another Way

shawnhyc — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:41:03 +0000

I find that after so many months I still hope for the impossible…

As guests stream in the front door in red traditional costumes, hands holding a couple of mandarin oranges, comfortably
“making themselves at home”, I picture myself… doing homework!

Happy Chinese New Year Eve, peeps.

Signing off,
Shawn

Stakhanovites

shawnhyc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:37:31 +0000

School has been busy. Over the past week I have completed homework after homework, studied test after test (not really), and discussed projects after projects. And I kinda like the SMB. I think it certainly works much better than anything else, and I think I check it even more often than I check my own emails! And… today was the only day I managed to reach home early at, like 2pm. The recent test on ANIMAL FARM was not as easy as expected, but not too difficult either. They asked questions mostly with almost no important link to the book, should be able to get a 20 at least? Or above?

A twelfth of the year has just passed (almost)… if you just see. I’m saying this now right at the start of the year… but I’m pretty sure the holidays (December holidays) will be here in no time.

Stakhanovites like Boxer in ANIMAL FARM, working for the good of a new nation but did not realise he was being exploited. I think I really really am starting to like Animal Farm a lot. Especially all its links to the Russian Revolution thing. My TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is barely half-way through. I’m at Chapter 3, and I can’t go past that. Actually I can… but, I’m lazy, that’s why I can’t.

Oh, oh, and somehow I’m a great fan of President (no longer -elect) Obama, and somehow he is a symbol of hope to the world. Really, even though I’m not American… there is just that something…

I’m gonna start something I haven’t done so in a long time, and I hope it won’t end up fruitless. And I’m gonna end something I’ve not done for a long time. But life always ends up giving you what you do not want. Or is it just me…?

And… I need to see clearer…

It’s time for a special update on that thing that revolves around a student’s life… homework!

Chemistry Project (Effects of Chemical Reactions) [Week 5]
Reading – Personalising the Journal [Soon enough]
Reading – I Have a Dream [Soon enough]
Reading – Character Web [Soon enough]
Language Arts – Why did George Orwell write Animal Farm? [03 Feb]
Maths – Notebook Questions [28 Jan]
Art – Sketches for My Crazy Shoe [30 Jan]
Project Work – Finalise ideas for project [30 Jan]

Homework significantly reduced!

Anyways, Happy Chinese New Year! It’s probably not too late for some Chinese New Year Resolutions! :X

Signing off,
Shawn

The Homework Conspiracy

shawnhyc — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:18:26 +0000

Chemistry Project (Effects of Chemical Reactions) [Term 1 Week 4]
Chemistry Homework (Entire Chapter 26 of Theory Workbook) [22 Jan]
Biology Homework – Chapter 9 (Diffusion and Osmosis) [22 Jan]
Design and Technology – Cover Page [21 Jan]
Design and Technology – Design Specifications [21 Jan]
Reading – Personalising the Journal [Soon enough]
Reading – I Have a Dream [Soon enough]
Reading – Character Web [20 Jan]
Language Arts – Why did George Orwell write Animal Farm? [03 Feb]
Language Arts – Persuasive Speeches [20 Jan]
Maths – Notebook Questions [20 Jan]
Chinese – Notebook [20 Jan]
History – Journal [20 Jan]
Art – Finishing of Mind-map and Sketches [22 Jan]

Legend:
Italics – added in today (19 Jan)
Bold – urgent (by 20 Jan)

Number of “active” homework: 10
Number of “dormant” homework: 4
Number of “extinct” homework: 0

Signing off,
Shawn

The Lens of the Future

shawnhyc — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:24:50 +0000

I wish I could retype what I wrote here yesterday what was intended to be posted. But WordPress went all cranky and it turned into an empty post. Uhh, but anyways it goes something like this. I prefer the more straightforward, couldn’t-care-less me back in January last year. The times in January, I look back at my blog posts, how I really don’t care what I write there… how I really just write what I feel, and not how I think others want me to feel. The bad thing about me is, I do not dare to make mistakes. I will never let myself make mistakes somehow. Right now, on my blog I don’t really write on my blog what I really want to write, because it’s not what’s really right. I wish I could write what I want, but now I don’t think I can. I’ll try to slowly free myself, but it’ll take long…

With that, yesterday was indeed quite a great day. (Right now I’m actually restricting myself to say a lot of things, but I’ll try.) Got to take a car with famous people! Hah. (Won’t speak more.)

School paces quickly. (Have I said that already?) Deadlines are drawing closer, procrastination sets in stealthily. Bearing in mind my new year resolution of completing all homework and top 15 in the cohort, I must eliminate procrastination. And with that new year resolution, I really am able to try my best not to leave homework till another day. It’s kinda weird, I have a conscience that allows me to do nothing (most) bad no matter how hard I want to.

And I’m posting a homework/project/to-do list (in random order):

Chemistry Project (Effects of Chemical Reactions) [Term 1 Week 4]
Chemistry Homework (Entire Chapter 26 of Theory Workbook) [22 Jan]
Design and Technology – Cover Page [21 Jan]
Design and Technology – Design Specifications [21 Jan]
Reading – Personalising the Journal [Soon enough]
Language Arts – Why did George Orwell write Animal Farm? [03 Feb]
History – Journal [20 Jan]
Art – Finishing of Mind-map and Sketches [22 Jan]

Great! Much work to be completed! Monday’s coming again… the weekends go by fast. Chinese New Year is soon coming! It’s the time of the year again! How quickly time passes… yet so slowly. 2010 will be here, soon as you know it.

Until then… it’s time to bid farewell.

Signing off,
Shawn