trip

trippy

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final post for the next 7 days. leaving tonight at 11pm, but i won’t be having my comp for the rest of the day. so, sms/call if its anything urgent. or if you really do miss me that much. heh (:

BYE GUYS.

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hokkaido

wave

functions

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and with prom over, my journey in acs has ended. its been an exciting 12 years of acs life. the friends, the teachers, the lessons, the distinctive culture. all a part of growing up and recognising yourself. 

prom was fun. performing was exciting as usual, and the nominations were unexpected but delightful. although i had always somehow expected something slightly different, this was just as wonderful. taking photos with friends (some acquaintances). memories are wonderful things, although looking at all the facebook photos and videos is making it hard to believe that this is all over. i don’t even want to think about the prospects of not keeping in touch next year. for now, lets just pretend like life is perfect. starbucks was fun. (:

photos are up, videos are lagging because stupid facebook is giving me 30 kbps and hangs in the middle of each 250mb video. yay.

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today was great. thanks for the lunch people, it was really fun. maybe we should cash in more on the student pricing while we are still eligible. before we become nsmen. such exciting prospects.

the informant! was a fairly interesting show. although at a time like this i might have preferred something requiring fewer thought processes to understand. i got lost on occasion along the way due to the absence of undivided attention. heh.

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please get me that internship. i need some direction in life, eventually.

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lull

surreal

lifestyle

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it’s all over, and we are free.

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the past 4 days have been hectic (happily so) and it feels like IB ended a year ago. and there is so much ahead to do, and enjoy.

18th november: the final paper. to think that now that this is over, we’re not going to do another academic exam for at least another year. and even then, everything will never be the same as what we were trained to expect. university, independent learning at its finest, and possibly most taxing. after math, sitting on a bench at btp waiting for my mum to get groceries while eating mcdonalds felt strangely liberating. posting a facebook status update from my phone using wireless@sg even more so, somehow. its as though everything will be different now, with no immediate academic pursuits looming over us and casting daunting shadows. after which, sprite and lime juice at clementi, which was certainly a. new experience. and then dinner, and happiness.

19th november. waking up early, sending the class off to bintan for 4 days of madness. and then a ride back home, and a day of xbox and movies and shows. its wonderful to just have nothing to do, to just be able to laze around and look for things to occupy yourself with. the only problem was the rain. but ohwell. 

20th november. waking up late, playing, and then fps. its fun to be part of an event but not be a participant. to be free to wander around in the midst of all the programmes, ignoring the out of bounds signs and taking photos of the true participants. it’s easy to get lost in rgs though. at night, 2012 was certainly interesting, although rather illogical. but then again, who watches apocalyptic movies for any semblance of reality anyway. yay for special effects.

21st november. a whole day of fps. again, a nice experience to be on the planning/administrative side of things. certainly a different perspective on everything. and then a nice dinner and just lazy talk. 

i could get used to this.

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i just feel like lazing around. yay.

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in love with  your smile

anticlimax

flux

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it feels so weird, now that there’s only one paper left. for a whole year after wednesday i will have no more academic exams. and as the prospects of a really long, never-ending holiday draw closer, i’m beginning to wonder what will actually happen for the next few months. i predict, time is going to fly, and there’ll never be enough opportunity to do everything i wanted to do. but ohwell, that’s life.

and now, we have to wait for almost a WEEK. before it REALLY ends.

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coraline was pretty cool, despite all the hiccups with the 3d glasses and everything. but nice, scary plot. so much for animated films being for little children. 

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MASSIVE INERTIA ERGHHH. i can’t bring myself to do anything. not even add album art to the 300 or so songs sitting in my iTunes with no cover art. 

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suspense

midway

the battle of

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the first week is gone. chemistry was, okay. mathematics was a killer, but there’s nothing left to do now. other than practice for paper 3 next weekend. but since i can’t do anything about the papers i’ve completed, i shan’t be bothered. all we can do is hope for the best. that and study bio and history. yes louis.

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and smile.

opening

salvo

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the floodgates are opening at 1300 hours tomorrow. for lack of a better phrase, this is it. truly. the past 2 years, no, the past 6 years of school life (life, basically) boils down to tomorrow. we’ve worked for this, slacked for this, gotten all upset and worried for this. in soon time will make short work of our ib life and it’ll all be over. but for now i’ve got to put thoughts of the post-ib awesomeness out of my mind. because its the moment that matters. 

its a really strange feeling. i don’t know if this is what its supposed to feel like, or if i’m too unprepared, or too un-stressed. i just feel like i’m floating. let’s take this day by day then, shall we?

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all the best guys. slay the monster.

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progressive

count

down

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six

more days to go. six more days to study 5 subjects, to practice 5 subjects, to be fully prepared. somehow i don’t feel like i’ve been working hard enough since after prelims. maybe i can redeem myself in these 6 days.

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five

more hours to the interview. reading through my extended essay now has allowed me to find typos and errors. but its too late to even think about changing anything, so i shall hope it all goes fine. its funny how, as rene said, after the interview all that’s left to do is wait. and hope. and of course, study for the ib exams. but i sure hope i don’t mess up and blank out. or say something stupid. it would suck if this turns out like the last interview. but i’m sure it wont.

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sprint to the line

seven

forebode

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seven is the magic number this year. this month.

we need sevens. six of them to be precise. but from all the may 09 papers, it looks like that’s going to be a tougher job than we were prepared for.

windows seven. it amuses me somewhat that i am blogging this from a windows 7 OS, yet i have not bought one to install. this release candidate will continue to be my alternative system for when i need a quick bootup and less distractions. and for when i forget to select vista during the startup. at least until next year, by which time i would have (hopefully) built a computer with decent specs running the real release (with my own money?)

seven months. it’s been a long wait, but not without its own merits. and at least, its almost over.

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going back to school for assorted lessons and studying slacking sessions has been strangely nostalgic. to feel the wind in our faces along the corridor which we used to walk down every weekday. to see the secondary school block that now seems to belong to a distant past. to eat familiar food in the sac, which somehow, surely, we are going to miss.

but it’s not yet time to let go.

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friends need friends

finito

exeunt, stage right

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tomorrow will be, as a friend has so aptly put it, the “last official day of acsi life”. it’s strange how the past 6 years of hectic schedules and new experiences seem to all end so unexcitingly. if that’s even a word. we probably won’t feel very much different after the school day ends tomorrow, perhaps because we know we will be returning soon enough for extra lessons and eventually, our IB exams. and then what? i’ve grown so accustomed to life in this safe, wonderful little bubble that i wouldn’t feel right without it, to be perfectly honest. the friends, the time tables, the scenery. friends have changed, drifting and attracting. but still we see each other almost everyday. the school tradition remains the same, with proper acs attitude being shown off everywhere. as much as it may sound strange, i really like school. it gives you something to wake up in the morning for. it gives you an identity. it gives you a goal for the year. and structure in an otherwise chaotic and unplanned life. 

what would we do without school.

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i really hope all you people cheer up soon. smile, the sun still shines, the world hasn’t ended. yet. and it won’t, not on our watch at least. so take heart. things might turn out better than you expect, and then you’ll have even more reason to smile. so why not start now and practice that grin. or else when the time comes you may have become so used to a frown and disappointment that you can’t make the change. pity.

now i have to work on that too.

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preparations

release

gratitude

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i’m really thankful for my results today. i wasn’t expecting it, as much as i might have been hoping for it. somehow the debacle of predicted grades has dampened the mood somewhat, but still, i am glad. praise God.

now just to keep it up for the real deal. 

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for all you people who were disappointed today, please don’t let it affect you too much okay? it’s prelims, it might be major, but IB is still the one that counts. and there’s still time, to bring that score up. let’s go people, don’t give up! some measure of sadness is good though, and possibly useful. but still, it’s not the end of the world. you can do it! i know you guys can (: just try not to own me too badly?

CHEER UP PEOPLE

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smile