june hols

Watched "Windstruck" yesterday night on Channel U from 11.30pm to 2 am! I woke up only at 1.25pm today~~ oh well...
Sure feel guilty for sleeping so long and wasted my time to study. But this is the first time this year that I watched a movie till so late and slept for so long! So i shan't feel so bad about myself.

Windstruck is somewhat similar to "My Sassy Girl". But Winstruck is a SAD ROMANTIC story. Oh my, I nearly cried while watching it cuz it's really sad!

The girl is a policewoman who is determined to get rid of the criminals while the guy is a Physics teacher. One day, the guy was chasing a robber but he was misunderstood by the policewoman as the robber instead. So this is how they met.



The guy later went to volunteer as a police patrol and was teamed up with the same policewoman he met earlier. On their course of patrolling, they witnessed a case of illegal trading of drug and the policewoman wanted to catch them by following a guy involved. But the timid Physics teacher wouldn't want to follow, so he attempted to run away but the policewoman handcuffed him together with her, and both of them followed the guy.




After successfully catching the criminals, the policewoman found out that she had lost the key to unlock the handcuff, thus they spent a night sleeping together while being handcuffed with each other. Thereafter, their love for each other grows and they become involved in a relationship.

After some episodes of life, in a dark alley, the policewoman accidentally shot her boyfriend in the heart in an attempt to shoot another criminal she aimed for. The boyfriend actually wanted to help his girlfriend to catch the highly dangerous criminal, which his girlfriend never knew of. His boyfriend eventually died. The girl wanted so much to die with her boyfriend that she committed suicide but was eventually rescued.

The girl belived firmly that after 7 x 7 = 49 days, the spirit of his boyfriend would come and look for her, as it was depicted in a legend that in 49 days after a person died, the ghost spirit of the deceased will come and look for his loved ones before the spirit leave the mortal world forever.

And on the 49th day, the spirit of her boyfriend indeed come to look for her. The girl was really delighted to be able to finally get to see her boyfriend again. Tears rolled down the cheeks of both parties. After a short conversation, the house becomes brighter suddenly, signalling the boyfriend to leave.

The girl wanted so much to leave with him. But the guy said to her that she still haa a long way to go in life and let him leave with her love she had for him instead.

[Oh man, the scene was so touching.... I wouldn't want to carry on with my life if I can ever follow the person to wherever we will be going, anywhere but remaining in the mortal world, forever.]

Left with no choice, they bade goodbyes with each other.

The story ended with the policewoman met with another guy at a train station. She vividly heard the voice of his dead boyfriend, in the wind, telling her that he will come back to her somehow and belived that she can sense his existence. The guy she met at the train station was clearly the one whom she felt the existence of his boyfriend. The girl, with tears rolling in her eyes, smiled at the guy, knowing deeply in her heart that his boyfriend was near her; while for the guy, he looked puzzled but somehow felt that the girl is special in a certain way...

Perhaps her dead boyfriend left her with hopes somehowwhile she continues living her life.

And the story ended~~



Not bad a movie. Anyway, the point is it is really touching. haha...
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Anyway, 1st week of holiday is coming to an end very soon. Just when I am pondering why I have only managed to finish revising only Chemistry, I found out that I have to study for Bio and Chem SPAs until Wed. So I am actually only free to study what I want only from yesterday. No wonder I thought that I am so not productive. -.-

But that also means that I need to study intensively so as to be able finish my revision for all subjects and am prepared for mid-year exams!
Good luck~~~~

I shall force myself, no matter how, to memorise all the Inorganic Chem reaction equations, to fully understand Vectors and Recurrence Relations, to selectively memorise (not going to memorise poems that have come up last year A level) Chinese Language and Lit stuffs! As for Bio, I will just have to reinforce all those I have understood and polish my answering techniques with details.

Holidays = Days to study except for the need to go to school. (by Ms Amy Phua)
But this will not be applicable to the December holidays this year! I am so looking foward to its arrival~

past week

MY wisdom tooth remains intact. The dentist just gave me antibiotics and medicine which cured the pain around my neck, as well as 2 small bottles of Listerine which contain fluoride -.-"
Hope nothing worse will happen, at least until the end of this year. *cross finger*

J2s went to watch the A Div Volleyball Boys final at Toa Payoh on Thursday. NYJC beat TJC 3-0 to clinch the championship! I would say it was relatively easy for NYJC to win this time round compared to last year against AJC. It was much more exciting last year.
Unexpectedly, the J2s actually cheered loudly. lolx... I thought the SC would have a hard time to making us cheer but most of us were very enthusiastic. Perhaps some of them have never watched a Volleyball match. "N -! Y -! J - C!" Even the primary school kids followed us and cheered for our college.

This 3-day long weekend, as usual, was not enjoyable for me. Had 3-hour CLL paper 1 on Sat morning. After that, I have to crap testimonial for quan hui out... lolx... And need to MEMORISE Chem SPA Skill A for the mock SPA tomorrow. Bio Mock SPA Skill A will be on coming Thursday.. argh.... I just want to get SKILL A over and done with!

Saddened by the many natural disasters that happened recently. I restrained myself from reading too much on the news for fear that I might become desensitized. Oh well, just like a doctor who may have used to seeing life and deaths in the hospital, I may well become numb to such human disasters which I wouldn't want myself to become to be. Life for the affected people would be very difficult. Let us all show our compassion and love for them, perhaps this is the least which all of us can do.

'Wisdom' indeed -.-

ARGH!
I can't believe that the swollen gum at the back of my lower left molar which I thought was a huge ulcer is actually a Wisdom Tooth!
Damn wisdom tooth! Why must you only erupt now? And I miss school today because I know I won't be able to concentrate anyway! And I would be going to see dentist later to see how's my condition.

Unfamiliar with Wisdom tooth, I went Wikipedia to know more about it.
And I found out:
Wisdom teeth are the third molar and usually appear between the ages of 17 and 25.

Most people have four wisdom teeth, but it is possible to have more or fewer. (Oh man, I hope I belong to the minority!)

Sometimes the wisdom tooth fails to erupt completely through the gum bed and the gum at the back of the wisdom tooth extends over the biting surface, forming a soft tissue flap or lid around the tooth called an operculum. (I think I have this problem! Argh!)

Common symptoms include a swelling and redness of the gum around the eruption site, difficulty in opening the mouth, a bad odor or taste in the mouth, and pain in the general area which may also run down the entire lower jaw or possibly the neck. (Yes! Pain!!)

Evolution may be part of the cause of getting Wisdom tooth:
Wisdom teeth are vestigial third molars. In earlier times, when tooth loss in early adulthood was common, an additional molar had the potential to fill in a gap left by the loss of another tooth. It has also been postulated that the skulls of human ancestors had larger jaws with more teeth, which were possibly used to help chew down foliage to compensate for a lack of ability to efficiently digest the cellulose that makes up a plant cell wall. As human diet changed, a smaller jaw was selected by evolution, yet the third molars, or "wisdom teeth", still commonly develop in human mouths.

Other findings suggest that a given culture's diet is a larger factor than genetics in the development of jaw size during human development (and, consequently, the space available for wisdom teeth).

Different human populations differ greatly in the percentage of the population which form wisdom teeth, ranging from 99.8% in Bantu speakers to nearly 0% in Mexican Indians The difference is related to the PAX9 gene (and perhaps other genes).

(PAX9 gene has found to be associated with a number of organ and other skeletal developments, particularly teeth. It transcribes a protein of 341 amino acids from 4 exons and 1,644bps in humans.)

Sigh...Dunno whether I'll be asked to go for operaton to have the wisdom tooth extracted out or not. If I'm advised to, of course I will. I don't want any future problems. Moreover, it takes a shorter time to heal when you are younger. But the healing process will be a very painful one! Bleeding and oozing are inevitable and will last for at least 3 days. =(
=.= I have thought and worried so much about it when I have not even go and see a dentist.

I have been starving for 2 days already! Because I can't even bite properly as it is really painful!
Including today, it will be 3 days in which I am consuming only a tiny percentage of calories recommended for a 18-year-old. For these 3 days, a bowl of very watery porridge, a bottle of soya bean milk, 1 cup of milk, 1 cup of milo and 2 slices of white bread are what I have consumed in total. And of course drank about only 5 mugs of water which provides 0 calorie.
But weirdly, my stomach didn't give me hungry pangs, or least not those loud ones. It only gives me an 'acidic' feeling of my hydrochloric acid churning air. Guess my body understands my problem well. Much as I want to eat something nice (I want to go try the Fish Zinger!), I am unable to. Hope my body won't mistake me as anorexic though. =.=

Maybe it's a good and rare chance for me to cut down my weight and to become slimer. lolx...
Measured at 55kg when I go weighed myself recently, I wonder how many kilos I will lose after this ordeal.

Perhaps the fortunate thing is that my widsom tooth erupt now rather than during important exam period, though there is GP mid-year exam next Friday and Bio and Chem SPA 2 weeks later. To digress a little, I passed my Chem Organic Test! =] And I passed my NAPFA test!!! I was so relieved!

J2s are invited to go and support the Volleyball boys in the final match this thursday. It's been a long time since I watch a match since last year (only once) and I'm looking forward to this match. But I have to see how my condition is first....=\

Wish myself good luck for the dental visit later ... ... nervous and scared....

'labour' day~

SO I slept till 12pm+++ on Mayday (or Labour Day). Hahax..I admit that I slept like a log~~~
Studied for Chemistry Organic test, started only at 2pm and the rest of the day was devoted to only Chem, only for the sake for the test this morning. I could've gotten more marks, like 5 more marks, if my brain was a little bit more clear and me not getting that nervous and impatient. Passing it is my aim=]

My precious Saturdays are gone, at least for 2 more Saturdays =(
NAPFA 6 stations test tmr! I TRULY HOPE that I can PASS my 2.4km rum! My standing broad jump! My sit-and-reach! Hohoho....I'm really not athletic. That means I need more training...But there's no more time left. I don't want to do retest 2 Saturdays later or do it again in July. And most importantly, I'm not letting mysef to train for 2 extra months for BMT!

CLL P2 test 3hour FULL paper next Saturday! Sianx~
As if this is not enough, CLL P1 3 hour FULL paper the Saturday after next!
ARGH! I hate writing in Chinese now than ever! I sympathise with my hands and fingers! And, well, pen ink -.-"

Bio Mock SPA Skill A next monday...Math Statistics Lecture test next tuesday... Bio Diversity & Evolution test next Thursday... GP essay writing next Fri...
=X

Anyway, I pre-empt that the following 2 weeks is a test for my endurance, yet again. 6-day week for 2 consecutive weeks. I shall tell myself this: "It's Mon. Be happy, for Friday is coming =)"

Alright, I have to and must come to my senses now. Felt kinda relieved for knowing it. Of course felt happy for the parties =] Whatever sadness or disappointment or depression, I shall not risk myself beng embittered and trapped by dwelling too much in these emotions, which I am capable of since I am kind of sentimental person (lolx...), and I shall dip myself in the river of Lethe.

GP lessons are the most interesting ones. In contrast, I dreaded for reporting for PE lessons. Therefore, I must pass my NAPFA tmr yea!

GP tutor showed us a movie titles\d ' The Truman Show'. Damn awesome and cool movie. It exaggerated the consequences of the mass media being so rampant that the private life of Truman, since young, has been broadcasted to the public, and this is kept in the dark from Truman because all the people he met in his life are 'actors' and all the events he had participated in are all 'arranged' by the people in-charge of Truman Show.

This movie provokes us to find out for ourselves does the truth really matter. Why do we want to know the truth, if everything now is, or seems, perfectly alright for us? What if the truth is ugly? Why not choose to continue to live how we are living now? Does the truth REALLY matter?

I got a hard time choosing my stand. Apparently, after careful and thoughtful considerations for both sides of the arguments, I have not chosen a concrete stand which I strongly stand by.

I can't wait to step down from CCA which is on next Wed! It's time for the real thing.

*embrace life =)*