"Not entitled to foreigners"

I just saw how much I have to pay for my Japan trip today. It was $600 more than what locals had to pay. Well, that's not a lot more, althought relatively it is. However, I do wonder why there isn't any internal subsidy. Some malaysian scholar had to pay $5000 for his math camp at cambridge, and according to insider's information there was internal subsidy for locals, if any of them went. But I doubt so. I mean, they are the people that actually win stuff for the school, compared to msot of the school population, but just not entitled to the same stuff. Weird eh? Well, I think the school probably thinks that the boarding school fees are already a great investment on them. $600+ of school fees + $800 boarding school fees per month isn't a small sum. Then, it comes to people like PRs, the only thing I get is the $400 govt subsidy for school fees. I had to pay full sum for my OBS trip aka half Singapore propaganda. Well, personally I don't think that it's a great deal because I'm not the one paying, and this kinda subsidies only exist in Singapore. My cousin also paid full sum of 38000RMB for her trip to UK, (Nice scamming of foreigners' money) which was only 11 days long. Which was more ex. I think, compared to the one-month US math camp which my classmate went. So paying full sum is like no gain rather than a loss. Well, my mom's more worried about my safety, 'cos the recent Sino-Jap relationship is a bit screwed, but I think the situation would die down in 2 month's time. Even the USA's govt's efforts to raise the RMB isn't receiving a lot of attention now despite the authorities being very noisy.

Back to the point, I seriously don't get why the JC practises this kinda discrimination aganist foreigners. Maybe there is a lack of foreign teachers or sth. But I still thank the school for giving me this kinda opportunity, not everyone gets to pay this $1200 for a trip you know.

Joke

The joke of last tuesday was the epic inflation of Jap Prelim. I got +6 for my compo compared to my average score.

The joke of yesterday was Chan Wei drawing a curve for a linear law question.

The jokes of today was Dr. Tan insisting that the resistance of a variable resistor varies in a way in which he isn't certain of himself, and also Dr. Wang giving free marks for CSC to inflate our scores.

Personally I think that school shouldn't be such a joke. Things should be done properly. I do not see how my additional knowledge was on the same level as all those others who copied from the passage. I also do not see why physics teachers insist that they are correct although they are sometimes wrong, especially in the context of setting a question that has a solution that contradicts the value given in the question. In other words, this shows a lack of ENGINEERING. Jun Wei uses this term, and so shall I. Well, I know that Dr. Wang is a very kind-hearted soul, otherwise he wouldn't be teacher of the year. As for others, they use the term "don't think so much" to cover up for their mistakes in the questions. Just like a question which I found in Prof. Xu's booklet for Year 4, which implied something contradictory.

School is fun because of some of these jokes though (I am sure we had a good laugh at CW after he drew the curve), but others are plain stupid and some are meant for you to screw the teacher and get yourself counter-screwed. And too much screwing screws up the content of my posts as well. I think it has been some time since the pitiful reader actually got to read some optimistic/interesting stuff.

Maybe I record down the jokes here more often to create more laughter. Let me think of another one, hmm... go see the last four words on 现代汉语词典 in the explanation of 手淫。

Wonder when I'll actually persuade myself to start mugging

Exams are nearing, and I shouldn't be thinking too much about it because I get more nervous if I do. For some reason I am actually somewhat worried about physics, that I can't hit 80%. Well I think there is always some random reason why I could not get so high for physics. There has to be this mugging component that gives the teacher a chance to penalise me. The worst is definitely biology. So pressurizing zzz. and so stressful. I took it because I wanted to waste less time slacking in school and maximise time usage. But it simply ended up giving me more stress because there are so many topics to study. It's probably time to let go of what I have, which is always a painful experience. However, it's sth that is inevitable because I have too many opportunities now = more responsibilities and more stress. I actually wonder how meaningful is getting a good MSG requirement, but probably it reflects greatly on one's personality, which deteremines one's fate. I've realised that adaptablility is not enough for a very long time now, and I need sth more, that can bring about change so that people don't have to suffer like me in the future, by that's another 10 more years!!!

Bad toilet experience

This morning I had a very bad stomachache. Very bad indeed. I was squeezing my anus shut on the bus all the way to JP just so that I didn't shit in my pants. Well, the point is, I realised that SG people required some toilet training. Yes, it was really that bad. I think none of the cubicals had a flushed toilet bowl, and you can see the solid brown remains of the person who went before you. But I had to clear my load no matter what, so I had to tolerate the shit and the used toilet paper, until I cleared off most of my load and discovered how to flush it away. Now, I feel much more grateful for the boarding school toilet to be so clean. Although there's someone that doesn't aim properly every morning, it is still tolerable to a great extent. It is also a lot better after the school decided to put soda lime into the urinals recently. Even the toilets in Beijing isn't so bad, with 17 million people sharing the limited toilets in the city area, I really can't seem to understand why the condition in SG toilets could actually be so bad. OK, back to the point, SG people needs toilet training, maybe they should put some sign that says “方便后冲水，文明一大步” or something of the sort to actually help train people for going to the toilet. I wonder why parents stop toilet-training their children after knowing that their children is 50% trained or something. Like when their children knows how to go to the toilet but can't aim properly yet, they don't really seem to care anymore. Random thought: If toilet training skills ever come out for 公函, I know I have a lot of content to write. LawL!

PS: I decided not to put a pic for this post because they are worse than Fanny's unglam photos

Joke

This is just some super sexist joke which someone said at Chem-O when Bomberleer (<--This is to prevent Google Search from working) told the HC dudes to reflect on ourselves for not letting the girls across the bridge add the chemicals first.

Bomberleer: Don't you guys understand the idea of "ladies first"?

Some smart guy (I forgot who that was): Of course! Ladies wait first.

Shows our school tradition of discrimination aganist the opposite gender. LoL! And the girls also took our flask with the bit of remaining extract (I forgot which component of black tea that was because I don't remember these kinda names), causing my group to end up with a little less than the original amount. Maybe Funny (this is pronounced as 'slut') has a pic to show.

Haven't had a lame joke blog post for some time. Hope this revives this place a bit.

来年のこと

今はもう深夜だ。最近は来年のこととテストのことを考えたばかりだ。確かに大事だけど、どの科目を選ぶか今までも悩んでる。好きな科目だけを取りたいが、取らなきゃならないのがある。そして、とらなければ、大学に入るのによくないかもしれない。取ろうと思うのは：

J1
物理H2
科学H2
数学H2
日本語H2
GPH1
PWH1
経済H1

そしてJ2の時、H3取りたければ、経済学を捨てる。実は学校で勉強している余計な科目はたくさんある。H2の三つとH1の一つでいい点数取れればもう十分だが、何でこんなに大変な生活をしなきゃならないかわからない。

二番目の日本語のポストだ。拍手！

Forgetfulness kills

I just lost 100 AUD today because I was forgetful! AIMO was so easy and I could do everything, which meant I could have won a prize, but I forgot to multiply the values back after dividing them by the common factor for easier calculation. Forgetfulness kills :O. I was in a rush to go for Chem-O which was after AIMO, which made me end up staring at the sample waiting for the reaction. If only I rmbed to check! If only... This is one of the few times that forgetting hit me hard. Ouch! The only good news I got today was that I got into the 2nd round of SJPO, which I paid my bio term grades for. I better do well next round too, but there's barely time to study, there's Jap test before that. I can't look down on Cambridge more after looking at the way they set the papers, although it may be the nature of all exams. The reason why I hate everything now is probably because I knew of the virtual world which was heaven to most people, giving people the life which they dream of, but reality is always waiting, and killing you when you forget some stuff.

Found time

Finally bothered to revive this place a bit. Last post was in June, some time before SMO, which I failed considerably this year again. I just got C5 for my bio test last week, and yet I am not the slightest bit worried, because I thought that maybe I was just too tired during the test that my mind wasn't in a very good condition. Plus, that week was hell for me. The ups and downs in life, rather distracting I should say. Ups distract you by giving you a false sense of achievement (in fact you have done nothing at all), because things such as mugging for test doesn't mean that you won't forget the facts in the future, it just means that you have remembered it momentarily. People who had only ups in their life realise that they turn into nothing when they look back in the future (and to mention, they would go oh gosh, that's not my purpose in life). Downs on the other hand, are to upset you, make you jealous, etc.. Aren't there always times when you've felt that others were better than you? Truth is, there are too many factors to be compared, people just have to believe that they are the best in life. Now I think I've explained well enough why I am not upset about by bio grades after the drastic decrease. DC says that grades are the responsibility of students, but I think that it's how we maximise our learning in school rather than maxing out our grades. Lastly, not buying to Hon's policies is another reason. We shouldn't be bothered by something that doesn't affect us even if it's screwed. Looks like I can't stop crapping about school. There's simply so much other stuff that I have but can't write it here because it's too personal XD, rather philosophical I should say, and I can't face the dissonance either. Ends here.

假期

离上次写博克有几个月了。由于繁忙的生活，这个地方常从我的脑海中消失。今年并不是很忙的一年，但压力却很大，尤其是两个O水准考试。虽然只是两个，且我也有充足的时间准备，但它们给我的压力可使异常的大。与校内的成绩相比，这可是来得重要，可是校长却整天在校内搞一些乱七八糟的东西，使得我们无法静下心来学习。回想起这四年度过的时光，我不得不痛恨这种精英教育。低年级时，繁忙的生活，的确让我明白了许多道理。做了那么多，得到了那么多，但许多都不是我想要的，都是一些帮助自己吹牛的证书罢了。可是，学校里仍然还有许多这样的人，怀着贪婪的心态，去把握眼前的一切。只懂得为自己的成就感到骄傲，而最后变得目中无人，忘记了“谦虚”。这种人也是我最恨的。可惜学校里这样的人太多，都聚集在一个班里，使得一个普通学生为了面对同学之间的压力，不得不与他人竞争，否则将感到自卑。此外，竞争者多，则朋友少，生活变得寂寞、单调。记得上次凤凰卫视播着关于加藤智大在秋叶原的伤人事件，体现出了一个精英学校里的种种问题。一步不慎，满盘皆输，每个人都必须稳健的踏下下一步。这或许是在亚洲的学历社会中的共同问题。想寻求改变，就必须先爬到顶峰，而不竞争是不行的，也足以说明为什么两个考试能给我这么大的压力。

Sec 4 and onwards

奥化课开始了，没有我想象得轻松，只是因刚开始而正在复习以前学过的东西罢了。今年上奥数班也比以往辛苦，学的东西都没那么容易理解，周末还得复习。快乐的度过了一个学段，到了忙碌的时候。这一学段的主要目标就是考好奥数，毕竟是花了我不少精力的东西啊。校方见到多数学生下午无所事事，想尽办法把我们的课程表堆得满满的，对非游手好闲者的我，实在是天大的不公，这些辅助课程并无太大帮助，没有让我对科研有更深刻的了解，或培养我对科学的兴趣，而且还妨碍我学习自己喜欢的东西。校长也没有发现，我们现在各个方面比不过其他学校，就是应为应付校内的压力就已经不容易的，如果还需要为其他事情感到烦恼，估计多数人早已崩溃。自己学这么多东西，其实也只是因为有好胜的心态，不认同别人比我强。在人生的道路上走了这么久，终于又到了另一个难关，找到了新的挑战。心里感到兴奋，又烦恼，只知道在渡过这一个难关后，更艰险的还在后头等待着我。该信服道教了，“无为而制”无疑在某些情况下是最好的解决方法。