Not eventful these days, but not relaxed either. Sometimes I thought I'm gonna drown into the sea of the overwelming homework. If the dementors could suck dry the happiness of lives and left the despair, I had to say that somehow I felt that all the interesting events disappeared, what left was the boredness.

My brain couldnot relax the whole today, except having breakfast with Chang Long and Jun Xiang during breaktime, having a short chat with Faye, Ellery and Clarence during lunch time. That's it. And this evening was gonna be a busy one. Let's pray for the Chinese New Year coming quickly. At least I could rest a bit then.

;yesterday, things didn't go directly to heaven,
but went directly the other way

I'm not so sure if I should write this post at first. My original thought was to hide this deep in my heart, until I forgot it completely. Still, I changed my mind. Perhaps facing the problem and trying to solve it is must more positive than just simply forgot it.

First, I had to say, was what happened last year, as in the end of last year. You figured out? Yeah, that's why. People always said it was easy to reach a level, but it was too much difficult to maintain at that position. That's what I was feeling. Yeah, it was PAST that bothered me. Because after that, I felt that this years studying was more difficult. Why? Because this years’ stuff WERE difficult? Or there's something wrong with my studying, though I worked as hard as last year. Was I just simply stressed? Or there WAS something wrong? Alas, who knew?

During Oral English lesson, we were supposed to give a speech. And it became a complete disaster, or worse, it went directly the other way. The comments were given, a nightmare, and I DID accept this comment because it was true, so I had nothing to complain. Pronunciation not clear, stiff-faced, no enthusiasm nor expression, lack of description about feelings. That’s it. It might not be a problem for someone, but it was one for me. I tried to do well, but the result was no good.

Been trying to be positive. But what happened was still a pain for me. However, there were two things flashing into my mind. One was a line from a TV play, which was “Never gives up, once you give up, you will never forgive yourself.” The other was from a novel, “Things that meant to happen will happen anyway, we must learnt to face them whenever they happen.” And I started to realize what it mean.

;orientated

Got used to the triple science class already, as in both of the classmates and subjects. Felt Chemistry is a little bit harder than last term, but I'm trying to overcome the obstacles. Started to know the people in the class already, it's not so difficult to memorise their names as in I have known almost half of the class before I'm in the new class.

Today got PDP exhibition, and we art club members were required to distribute flyers to people. Our club stuck the small flyers on to the crayons. Yeah, so our work was to distribute crayons to people. Luping, JiaJin and I were in the same group. We strolled around the school and tried to give out the crayons but didn't know how to say to them. At last, JiaJin suggested to say "Are you interested in art", so we did some attempt. But most people stared at us uncertainly or said no. When we finished one round around the school, Luping and JiaJin's crayons were hardly given out. I somehow gave out some. The strategies were to distribute them to someone I knew or exchange flyers. So I managed to find people to exchange flyers. After exchanging flyers with Izyan, Chang Long and Eran, all of us have very few crayons left. We manage to get rid of them quickly, and JiaJin did a good job of doing that. After chatting with some people in the canteen, we all went off.

Well, I have to do some research for the English lesson tomorrow. Will post later. Cheerio.

;new class

I could see or feel our class is kind of…erm special even before I sat in my new classroom. You will find out the reason if you check the name list of our class. So, only four guys, Jun Xiang, Qi Long, Chang Long and me. Another thing is that, well, let’s say, the lesson was over, and the teacher went out of the room, and I found that our class was so quiet, nobody moved and had their break but all sat where they were doing maths! Maybe triple science classes were all like this? I had no idea.

Seven were the number of people I knew before the teacher asked us to introduce ourselves. But I tried to get use to our new class and tried to memorize as more people as possible. That’s not enough, I had to get use to the lessons. Especially now we have Maths A and Maths B. And after the first Chemistry lesson, I realized I had to do something for Chem. That’s not the end of the story, because, erm, I’m saying PE. Although I DID did some exercises during the holiday to maintain my physical standard, but when I jogged for 1.2km, I was panting as if I was jogging for 2.7km. And the nightmare was the chin-up. Still no progress, and at last with Ellery's help I completed it. So the chin-up is the thing that bother me most now. Alas, who can tell me what to do?

;new year resolution

I took the flight back at 30th December, well, perhaps 31th December because the plane took off at 1 A.M. We arrived at the Airport at 8 A.M. and took a taxi to the Hostel. I went to Parkway before I unpacked my stuffs. Finished unpacking them in the afternoon and went down for dinner.

Went to Suntec City in the evening but returned with empty hands. I grabbed the shut-eyes shortly after I went back to my Hostel.

Waking up at eight thirty the next morning. Well, I think I spent the whole morning doing some English listening practice. Yeah, I think I need that practice really, especially after the one and a half months' Chinese-speaking-holiday. And I decided that I have to work harder on English this new year before I take the General Paper. Listening practice, literature books, vocabulary practice, magazines, classical books are what I need. Hopefully, I can see some kind of progress on my English in 2007.