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After getting to know that failing exams in JC especially are pretty common after all, I can't help but to feel comforted that I'm not those exceptionally poor ones for flunging tests and exams throughout my JC years. Of course, that doesn't mean you can slack, it just means that you have to work hard to close the gap between your acqured knowledge and the expectations of the teachers.

If asked to do a summary of my results (both tests and exams) for whole of these 2 years, it is not really a difficult task since I can only be bothered with just a few alpahabets (the grades). LOL.
The first thing I would do, or rather I have to do, is to eliminate the first alphabet from the 26 letters. Then, for the second alphabet, it takes no sweat at all for me to tell you the frequency: once. For the third letter in the sequence of the 26 letters, it is relatively easy too since I just have to add just a few more numbers from that for 'B'. I guess it's about 6 ?? For D & E (they do not stand for Diversity and Evolution, a chapter in Biology - they are the grades, for your information), they are perhaps the mode for my assessments results. Let me emphasize, it is 'perhaps'. For US (not United States nor the word 'us', I just group these 2 grades together since they seem to be rather united and are always competing with each other to be imprinted onto my test papers), this might be a bit tedious for me because I can easily lose count of the numbers when counting.

Anyway, I guess you know what I am driving at - that is, my results have LOTS OF AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENTS.
If they were to be plotted on a graph, you will see a strictly monotonic increasing curve starting from the origin. And yes, you will be able to obtain an inverse function. (sorry, a bit of Math here) And the rate of change increases with increasing x. And be sure to leave enough space for the 1st quadrant, or rather the space for plotting y-values, too.

Okay, I shall not disregard your wish, so I am going to stop crapping.

Just watched the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony. I must say that the Olympics, on the whole, had been very successful, perhaps exceeding the expectations of many when they initially thought that China couldn't have been able to host a smooth and satisfactory Olympics. Beijing Olympics 2008 just wowed me, especially the Opening Ceremony. Both the Opening and Closing ceremonies were just marvellous, thanks to Zhang Yi-mou. London has admitted that they are feeling the pressure and commented that the high standard put up by China is indeed hard to emulate. I wonder if Singapore is feeling the pressure too for hosting the very first Youth Olympics Games in 2010. Will we wow the world then?

Below are some burning Bio questions I have. Some people to enlighten me please if you know the answers, either personally or through tagboard? Thanks in advance.

1. Since prokaryotes have no mitochondria, how do they obtain energy? Or do they have other mechanisms which we did not learn?
2. I know that Nucleic Acid Hybridisation is carried out after Gel Electrophoresis. But what's the purpose of Nucleic Acid Hybridisation? I just couldn't recall, suddenly.
3. Why is it that [cAMP] is inversely proportional to [glucose]? WHY?
4. What is the role and function of CAP, as discussed with regarding to lac operon?
5. Is embryonic stem cells equivalent to blastocyst? Does the ovum need to be fertilised before it develops into a blastocyst? I think, for the latter, it is 'no'. But why and how that an ovum could actually develop into a blastocyst?

I guess I just need some good Bio notes.

4 more days to GP Prelim.
And guess what, Chemistry department had actually set the Chem prelim paper pitched against RJ standard. Luckily, the college has decided to reduce the difficulties to VJ/TJ/NJ standard. In any case, it would be more difficult than Mid-year. Good luck to me.
And I seriously need to improve my Math by alot.
I shall abandon my blog from this moment onwards.

Disappointed with myself with my interpersonal skills. I'm just not good at it. Maybe I could truly communicate effectively only when in touch with the soul and spirit. How intangible. I guess very few people, or even none, could ever understand.

像一股清风一样来了，又悄无声息地荡去；而那至深的情丝，竟在招手之间，幻成了“西天的云彩”。那三个“轻轻的”，不忍惊动，不愿惊动。看似安静，实则沉重。
表现出的飘逸洒脱，实际上是难忍的万千离愁。来的喜悦，走的忧伤，如那一缕清风，淡淡的盘桓在似有若无中。

心潮起伏，思绪难平“波光里的艳影，在我的心头荡漾”，恍若回到了从前。
今梦虽破，而那彩虹般斑斓的碎片依旧那么绚丽多姿。梦沉淀在康河里，心也沉淀在康河里。

眼前那一谭青绿的泉水，幻成了“天上虹”，而在这“榆荫下的一谭”中，那星辉的斑斓，不正是被揉碎的彩虹般的梦么？
还能如过去一样“撑一支长篙”漫溯于康河之上，“满载一船星辉，在星辉斑斓里放歌”吗？

将这些都寄托给萧声，深沉舒缓的笙箫“如怨如慕，如泣如诉”。
我梦且未碎，心仍如昨，但站在这梦的胚芽潜滋暗长的康河，怎能不感慨良多“便纵有千种风情，更与何人说”。

就让那份美好，永远积淀在康河，永远尘封在记忆的画册。不要去惊扰，更无需去打破。

内心的苦涩、怅惘和某种难以言说的苦衷与悲哀。
“悄悄的走”如同“悄悄的来”，纵有千般不舍，更多的却是万般无奈。
寂然凝虑，满含着无限的眷恋与期待，心里不舍但故作潇洒，“挥一挥衣袖，不带走一片云彩”，留下那情真意切的依依深情。

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