Holidays

What should I say about holidays? Is it good or bad? Do I enjoy holidays or not? Well, I have to say that I don't quite like holidays. Staying at home doing almost nothing. I'm always lazy during the holidays. Sleeping late and waking up late. Sometimes just because I am so lazy I get sick. Boredom is what I usually face during these times of the year. What do I do to fill my time? Nothing much. Just surfing the internet, doing homework, projects, playing computer games and the PS2. Well, after playing the same game over and over again, i'm starting to get bored of the game. Well, I feel that long holidays are boring if you don't do something.

 

Have you ever got the feeling in school, wishing that the holidays would come soon but when it comes you just hate it and want to go back to school because there is nothing to do? Well, I often get this feeling. Though holidays can be sometimes boring, there are times when it is fun and exciting and whan you can enjoy it to the fullest. One of that time that I have each year is during Christmas. I really do enjoy Christmas. All those carolling and the Christmas mood. My church youth goes carolling for 3 days usually. We get to go to peoples houses to eat and enjoy ourselves besides having a good time carolling. The journey to those houses too are fun. We joke around in the car and play some silly stuff.How I miss Christmas. Well, i'm looking forward to the next Christmas at the end of the year. It is truly the time where I can enjoy after a whole year of endurance. It marks the end of the year and the coming of a new year. The past is behind us. We can look forward to the future.

 

Holidays are supposed to let us have a break after many months of work. Usually, families would go for trips and vacations together to enjoy thamselves and to strenghten relationships. Teenagers go out with their peers to have some fun too.

 

Holidays. Once you enter it, you tend to get lazy and don't want to do your work. Neither do you want to study. Well, that's after it is too late. By right, if you want to avoid from being lazy, you should start working on whatever you want to do right before the holidays start. It would be too late when you start to feel lazy and have no mood to study or do work. At that point, not much can be done because when you don't have the mood to do anything you might as well not do it because it won't be effective. But some people still go on pushing themself to do some work. Not many succeeds but some do. Well it will have to take a lot of will power to do it and the urge to do it. Once you get fired up make sure it doesn't go off till you finished what you have started.

 

Hope you'll have a good time during the holidays and have fun. Don't forget to study and do some excercise though.

Paint job

Went to school today to join the CF'ers to paint the school. Well not the whole school but just a few walls and pillars. When I was at the school, the gardener asked us, "Why are we here? You should be enjoying your holidays in somewhere like Cameron Highlands." Then my friend Joseph answered, "Because we are not good enough so we came back to study." There were some renjers here too painting the wall af the teachers staircase.

 

Well the first thing we had to do was to scrape all the paint of first. Well is was no easy job to do. First I did one wall then another. Well to fill our time besides scraping, me and my friends imagined what we are scraping as making oceans around land, which is the paint. We started joining oceans together and got small islands. We found Korea, Penang, Pulau Besar and other more places. Besides that, we were also observing the previous paint. we saw beige, black, grey, yellow, green, red, blue, dark green, and of course the latest colour, pink. We also saw what seems to be like the numbers '101' and a word 'NO'. Wierd.

 

Then we had a break and had some nasi lemak. Some of us didn't go for the break but continued scraping. Well, I was one of them. I have to admit that I can be a perfectionist at some times. I scraped and scraped until the whole part of paint at my section was completely scraped of. Well I also would like the person who helped me.

 

Then at last we can start painting. Worth the while scraping so hardly till my hands so tired. The amazing part about the scraping is that we got to see sparks flying out. Then the name Jordin Sparks came to me. The latest American Idol. We had quite a fun time painting and we also had a cendol break. Then we had a group photo together.

 

After all the painting was done, another side job was done. We had to carry quite many boxes of tiles from the car park to BIlik Seri Mawar. Oh, this is the hardest part. After the endless scraping, now it is this back-breaking task. The boxes of tiles were so heavy. Indeed, eyes can be decieving. This was no comparison to the carrying of the school magazine last year. After three boxes, I gave up and started cleaning the floor that got paint. At first the turpentine wasn't working. Then we tried to scrape it out. After pouring water to clean the residue, miraculously the paint was easier to come of.

 

After a long days work (actually, it was only 6 hours), I went home. Rested and relax and got a nap. I feeled very tired and my back is aching till now.

I don't like this day

Another boring day again today. Teacher didn't teach anything today. I got back my Science and KH marks today. My Science wan't good. I only got 78. My paper 1 wasn't bad but my paper 2 made me loose a lot of marks. Two questions I got 'telur'. Then, I got back my KH marks. 80 only. Not good. My tradition has been broken. My tradition was to get 90+ for KH. My highest was at form 1, 98. Just because of one perniagaan dan keusahawanan question. That's why I don't like that chapter. Well my formula for success was: liking KH so much. Especially tanaman hiasan, elektrik, elektronik, lukisan teknik and pilihan 3, Pertanian. I like pertanian even though my school doesn't do that. This has pulled my purata down to 80.3. Though I might not get 1st in class, I am aiming to get 1st boy. But I know of two people that got higher than me. Sasvin, 80.8 and Nashvin, 81.5. Now i'll have to depend on my P. Seni. I don't think my BI and P. Moral can help.

 

Then when I was at the KH bengkel, I got shocked when I found that I lost the buku ponteng and the marks for KH for all the boys. I searched everywhere and asked everyone but it was no where to be found. Then I went to see teacher and I found it in his room. Thank God.

My ways to answering objective questions

Well it came to me one day. I thought about a way to answer objective questions.

There are four ways to answer a question:

1. Question - Fact - Answer (the best way to answer a question. Only if you are clumsy then you get wrong)

2. Question - Logic - Guess - Answer (best used when you totally don't know which is the answer)

3. Question - Elimination - Logic - Guess - Answer (best used when you know which answer is wrong and there are two or three answera left)

4. Question - Elimination - Answer ( best used when you cannot apply the correct fact but know the wrong fact)

It is also better to combine 2 methods(Either: E- Elimination, F- Fact, L- Logic).

Actually you can make a chart out of this formula(like a food chain) but I couldn't show it here because I don't know how to draw it here.

I can't imagine the class after PMR

School today was so boring. The class was in a havoc. Everything is disorganized. The whole class was noisy. Teacher's weren't teaching. It was as if the holidays have just started. I was so bored today. I began reading the dictionary again and then read the form 5 BM novel, 'Konserto Terakhir'. Then, my group made the seni project. It was so noisy. Everybody was so 'excited'. Except for some people behind the class. Some of them were sleeping. Some went 'ponteng'ing, some went for the teacher's day rehearsal. Few people were absent. Then, at a moment I imagined the class AFTER PMR. Oh no. I don't think I can control the class. It would most probably be noisy. All the chairs and tables disorganized. Many people wiil be absent. They're gonna give me a headache. Even the class will be dirty. People will be playing around. Talking, talking and talking to fill their time. I fear the teacher will scold all of us. Hopefully it won't be so bad.

 

Then, a teacher came in and asked me to go for some leadership course. This time it was only me. The Penolong wasn't involved. How lucky. Anyway, I hava been to this leadership course before. Last year it was by Sunway University College. It wasn't interesting and they had some games which I didn't enjoy playing. Then when I got my cert, my name was spelt wrong(Joel Soon CHUAH Xiao). Well I didn't care. Anyway, it happened to me before.

Lucky or unlucky?

Argh!!! got back another test papers. This time BM. When I saw paper 2, I was shocked to see that I got 69/100. This is not good. As expected, Khai Sern beat me in paper 2. Cause of low marks: 'ringkasan' and 'Bahagian B'. Only got 10 for ringkasan. Not good. After calculating my end marks, it turns out that I got....75%(again?). Then I thought,"Am I lucky or unlucky?. Lucky to get just on de line or unlucky because I got so low. Same goes to the other subjects, Geography and Sejarah, both also got 75%. So far all A's. But so low. Wierd?

 

Today, I found some new words while reading the dictionary. Too much free time. The words were:

1. notorious - well known for doing something bad.

2. elephantine - big, huge, elephant like, clumsy

The others I forgot.

What a day

Phew. It's about time I finished this Windows Live Spaces thing. Took me soooo... long to do it and I still haven't explored it yet. It might not be that complete but it will do for me now. Well, i'm not that good at the internet and my internet speed is so slow! Anyway, glad I did it.

Just today my mid-term exams ended. Too bad for the afternoon session 'cause theirs just started(pity). How disappointed was I when I found out that I did not do well for my KH test which I wanted ta get 100. Well, I almost got it last time in form one, just one question away. So close yet soooo... far )-; . Then, I got my Sejarah and Geografi marks back. Well it wasn't bad, right at the line at 75. I could have done better. Then, O My Goodness, I got 99 for my maths exam. What is this? I got wrong for the question I least expect to get wrong(geram!!!). And then, I got a bad news from Khai Sern. Actually,it was Ming Soon who told me.

          "You only got 10 marks for your 'ringkasan' in your BM exam."

I wonder where did they get that news from. Khai Sern was so anxious to get back his BM paper because he did well in it and our BM teacher credited his BM essay. Well, he just wants to beat me in some thing because so far I beat him in everything. Anyway, I am still happy.

On Saturday, wow, my team won for 4x100m. We got gold during an event in Matsushita Sports Centre. Kind'a like a sports day among home schools. How unfortunate for me I didn't manage to win 100m because:

1. the other runners where very FAST.

2. I haven't train for a long time(aiyo, that's why i am aching everywhere now).

3. actually I got agood start, BUT, I slipped and lost balance and also lost time and also dropped to 4th place. But then, I managed to ketchup to 3rd place.

Today was the last exam, which is P. Seni(Amali). I did it quite well. Well, it's because I used crayons, my specialty. But, fuyou, I saw Pei Ning's one extremely chun. Almost like a pro.

I have to admit about my life. I have changed a LOT since I came in to SMKTS. At first, form 1, I very quiet, shy, not many friends, not so active in the internet, not interactive, not known, still very rajin,very angel-like(so it seems) and actually not so smart. Well, I made it through the first year quite well. Suddenly being a Ketua Kebersihan and getting 1st in class. Then in the beginning of form 2, changed to a more interactive person, kena become Ketua Tingkatan suddenly, still not active in the internet, still rajin but not so, had more friends, and became too proud of myself. Then at the second half of form 2, I became more lazy and bad. Then the year ended and I got Messenger and Hotmail. Form 3 came and it was... Oh it was... I was just very different from my old self. I interacted more, became more stuck to computer, became more active in kokurikulum, became a Ketua Tingkatan(again), and became lazy. Seems like I have contracted a virus called 'lazyness'.