ok the sleepover was postponed. i though trick or treating was on the eve of Halloween haha. anyway i'm going as a Sith! complete with the lightsaber, which incidentally looks like a fluorescent lamp on good cameras but looks super real on a camera with really bad quality. or a webcam haha. yeah i can't wait to scare the little kiddies haha. well i tried to make it look sinister but i don't think i managed to pull that off. too bad there was no Cyclops costume or anything. expect pictures! bye!!!

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9:24 PM;

that was officially the most fun camp i have ever attended. sorry my batteries conked so i have no pics. i had a really really great time. no logistics, and i got to bond with my juniors. i played soccer and ultimate frisbee with them, and in all modesty, evened out the scores haha. when i was bored i was entertaining myself by spinning bowls. that really is the most therapeutic activity that doesn't involve money. just the spin and the sound is so....relaxing. anyway i got 5 measly hours of sleep and went to play archery the next day. came back and played 3 hours of waterpolo with my juniors again, and that was really really fun. it was indubitably the most fun activity during the camp and the most fun i've had in a week, despite the 4 leg cramps, 2 in each leg haha. we all had so much fun that we lost track of the score. we then watched tokyo drift and a bit of talking cock the movie, followed by the BBQ. curse those smoke-induced headaches. it was tremendous fun anyway.

today i went back to HPPS to help out. the parents were a bit intimidating, but i had fun catching up with my old friends. on a different note, my job attachment is at Changi General Hospital. that's at like the other end of singapore. looking forward to it though. haha i'm going to joel's house on monday for the Halloween sleepover. the last time i did that was in 2003, and i didn't even know we were going trick or treating. i remembered ben was complimenting the people's houses so he would get more sweets haha. haha we watched LOTR and zim till the wee hours of the morning. i wonder why they took it off Nickelodeon though. i'm quite sure this year will prove to be just as or more fun. this time i can safely promise to expect pictures yeah??? if not, i'll let everyone of you slap me 4 times each. ok nightie night!

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9:27 PM;

short post as i need to go for sch. we had dinner with stef and family last night at crystal jade. quite nice to catch up and stuff since she's back off to Wickam Abbey this weekend. got back quite late and only fell asleep at 12am. ouch migraine. anyway i'll be at camp till saturday morning, so to compensate for my abscence, i will provide numerous pictures upon my return. it's going to be a un camp anyway, with water polo, archery, rock climbing, LAN gaming and what not. yay? oh well. see you on saturday!!!!

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6:28 AM;

i know other people have said this a gazillion times but i'm bored. the only thing i was looking forward to today was catching up with my friends on MSN and going to the Esplanade. then all the nice people to talk to either went offline or weren't even online. so i went to play BF2 on my grandma's TV, which incidentally does not have colour when i play xbox. after battling on Coruscant, Polis Massa and Space Felucia, i just lazed around the house and i watched Friends. yeah Friends, as always, was very good. then i left for the Esplanade, but i was a bit self-conscious cos there were many spectators. i met this bboy from France there. super strong guy with bulging biceps and all. quite a nice person too. he's off to Tokyo for a freestyle competition this weekend. the French have a very unique style, and he was no exception. met Gregg and the rest there too. well i got one solar eclipse today, though i could have done it before but just not as well. well with luck i'm going to the HPPS gym on saturday after the camp, then to ben's house for the Halloween sleepover on monday night. i'm going as (surprise surprise) Darth Vader before Obi Wan sliced his legs and arm off. complete with the Force FX Lightsaber!!! my dad got it as a surprise for me last year. wouldn't let me save up for it haha. oh well there's sch and con camp tmr. for the 4th time, i'm really glad con camp doesn't apply to me. night!

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8:47 PM;

happy deepavali and hari raya! 2 holidays! today was pretty much the same. no classes and extre-long recesses. the only funny thing that happened was when i was playing 'running ji gou pa' with lampy, while running (duh) up the staircase. that was the extent of our boredom. prefect council 2007 was announced this morning too. let's just say people who didn't deserve certain positions got it and those who did deserve it did not. we live in an extremely biased world. 'nuff said. well anyway the haze has gotten better, and i dunno whehther to be happy or sad. haha anyway the scout camp has been shortened! from thursday to saturday morning!! yay!! Halloween sleepover at ben's place! looking forward to that. the camp should be really fun. on a different note, i dunno whether to go to the esplanade tmr or not. the 'rents will be returning from japan tmr too, then we're meeting stef and family for dinner on wednesday night. pardon my insensitivity, but no con camp is soooo sweet for me right now. and harry potter is becoming more and more captivating. ah 7th book come out now!!!! haha enough random rantings for today. bye!!

P.S there's no use going to the Esplanade if you don't even session

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7:51 PM;

haha yesterday and today was fun! vince, dwayne, cliff and chris slept over. we were supposed to go to watch a movie at great world but then there were no seats so we went to the arcade instead. we then rented 'the benchwarmers' from VideoEzy and i watched it for the second time. still quite funny. we then swam in the afternoon today, and then headed to the esplanade to session! quite fun today, although there weren't many bboys there. a bit tired cos of the swim. stace then came to join us, and then we went to subway at suntec city for dinner. we then stoned at a pillar for like 10 mins and then i left for home. i love the post-exam period. i'm going back to the esplanade tmr! night!

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8:39 PM;

haha i'm over the moon. 8 points for the final year exams!!!! A1s in enlgish, lit, SS, a.maths, geog and chem. almost failed e.maths. that was kinda expected. got a 57. considering i left like 1/4 of the paper blank, it went quite well. 67 for chinese, which was quite reasonable. get this, my physics BEAT my bio. 67 to 64. i thought i'd get an A1 for bio, but then i didn't. i thought i'd fail physics, but then i didn't. alls well ends well anyway. anyway, i got 78 for lit, 76 for SS, 77 for a.maths and 75 for both geog and chem. i got an 83 for english. and the essay which i thought i didn't write too well turned out good. first in standard for english!! i'm seriously really happy now. after days of studying (and yes i mean days, not weeks), after a week of endless fretting and worrying, i got to reap the fruits of my labour. a fair bit of moderation helped too. Rockerfella Crew is staying over tomorrow night, to celebrate. we'll then hit the Esplanade on saturday and sunday, since the 'rents will be away. i'm in really really high spirits today. all by God right? He's granted me the concentration and favour for me to do well. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the best thing is that almost all my friends did well too, so that means we can all session together! it'll be no fun if i was the only one who did well and the rest didn't. hoo boy the feeling hasn't sunken in fully yet, but i'm sure it will over the next few days. no con camp opens up myriads of possibilities for me: sessioning, Scouts Camp, Ben's sleepover, IBA and many many more! i'm sorry i'm just so PSYCHED!!! haha bear with me please. my condolences for those who didn't do too well. the bright side is that this is not the 'O' Levels, and there's still more than 10 months for improvement. i'm going to paint this town red. thanx for keeping me in your prayers! whoopee bye!

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5:32 PM;

results on thursday. dreading it. a lot. as in a lot a lot a lot. especially both maths, chem and physics. i usually do well for maths so yeah i'm a bit worried. PE was fun though. it was like a free 1h20mins, and vince and i fake-suicided on the high jump mat, and i think i got a graze cos of that. played Uno and a lot of 'za' and 'ji gou pa' with nic ng, which was quite fun. oh well the haze looks really really bad. couldn't even session for like 10 mins without getting a headache. only cliff and i sessioned after our meeting. we sessioned for like 10 mins, and it was a very bad session. i couldn't even nike properly, and my handstands were lousy. cos of the stupid haze. so we went back inside. and then i watched them play taitee. jasper kept on losing, which was quite funny. cos of the haze, the scout camps and meetings and hikes will be adversely affected. good or bad, i'll let you decide. SAY NO TO CON CAMP! ok bye

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7:05 PM;

crap results on thursday. and according to the deputy year director, 82% of us are off to con-camp. i hope it's another ploy to scare the living daylights out of us, cos it's worked. oh well. thursday will tell. my form teacher didn't mention anything to me, so i guess that's a good sign. she told luke cheang and aloysius that they failed chemO.O . and the furschlinging haze is getting worse. and i'm hiking on fri. well this week can either go really really well or really really badly. i personally hope it's the first one. and we're still having lessons! and we'll most likely go through the physics paper tmr, where my mind will just shut off and i will not listen to a single thing that my teacher says. as i've said before, only time will tell. if, or when, i don't go to con camp, the time saved will be well- utilized sessioning at the esplanade underpass. on a brighter note i got a distinction for the NSW creative writing thing, missing high distinction by one bl**dy mark. oh well. distinction's good i guess. night!

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8:27 PM;

as ironic as it may seem, i won't be sessioning till thursday. cos of the scout meetings after school till 6pm. crap. i was really looking forward to sessioning, but our scout master couldn't make it on sat. crap. well i'm hoping that it will end early and then i'll be able to session. results will be back on wednesday. my fingers are really really crossed. argh stupid physics. and chem. and e.maths. oh well. i've been really really bored lately. i thought this marking holiday would be uber fun but that it's not to be. no.1: my TV is spoilt, no.2: i can't go to the Esplanade to session everyday and no.3: it's hazy, so no cycling, swimming, playing with the dogs etc. i think the only fun thing to do in my house is either to play Rollercoaster Tycoon or read the whole Harry Potter series again. i personally prefer the latter cos i love the books. it just opens up a whole new world y'know? it's like taking drugs. it's addictive, it's imaginary but it doesn't kill you and it's not illegal. and the plot never ceases to amaze me. not that i'm obsessed with it and walk around saying charms and stuff but just that it's really really good. i can't wait for the seventh book and the fifth movie. all the loose ends will be tied up, but yet i'll be said cos there's nothing left to distract me while i'm studying. it had better be like 2000 pages. oh well. enough ranting. night!

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9:27 PM;

here's a test i got from charlotte. enjoy!

Name: Nataniel Tan
Nicknames: Nat, Didi
Name spelled backwards: leinatan
Name without vowels: Ntnl
Name without consonants: aaie haha
Birthday: 30th June, 1991
Glasses or contacts: glasses
Hair color: black
Hair length: um, short?
Hair style: i say the same thing to the barber, ut it always ends up different. oh well. some variation has never killed anyone.
Pets: Inu, Russie and Swaggy(deceased )
Favourite Animal: dogs
Band: Blink 182, Angels and Airwaves and Box Car Racer
Brand name for clothes: not really particular
Brand name for shoes: Nike and some unknown Converse-wannabe i got in china for $4. edmund loves it haha.
Candy: chocolate and those fruity candies
Cereal: cocoa pops, frosties and honey stars.
Colour: GREEN!!!
Cookie: famous amos
Day: friday and saturday
Disney character: Kronc
Drink: 100+, sprite, zapple +++
Fast food place: all of them, as long as their fries have a lot of salt. haha
Food: Chinese. definitely
Holiday: Crystal Serenity! and orlando.
Ice cream flavor: chocolate and green tea
Month: january, june and december
Number: 4, 8, 16 and 64
Perfume: my sister's. i'm joking. i really am.
Pie flavor: apple
Pizza topping: ham, cheese and pepperoni!
Restaurant: Teochew City at centrepoint. Lawrys iss great too
Subject in school: Math, english, lit, bio and chem
Type of music: anything but heavy metal.
Type of sandwich: ham and cheese!

HAVE-YOU-EVERs
Asked out a crush: nope. not yet at least ;)
Been on stage: yes and i can't wait till the next time
Been scared to get a shot: at first, but then i've outgrown that
Cheated on a test: not that i remember. haha
Cried during a movie: yeah. lilo and stitch, and the fox and the hound. if you didn't cry after watching the fox and the hound, you're not alive.
Felt like you didn't belong: yup.
Fought a black belt: yeah. the belt didn't even fight back! haha nope.
Gone to camp: yup!
Kept a New Year's resolution: i promised myself to break every resolution i made. i kept that one!
Kept a secret from everyone: i tried, but leaked it out to 4. haha
Stolen anything: NO.
Told a girl you liked her: maybe once. haha
Won a trophy: yep. many in fact. haha i'm so modest!
Written a love poem: i think that's a yes haha

The Last...
CD listened to: Angels and Airwaves
Movie watched: Talledega Nights
Person that's called you: Clifford Lek Cher Kan
Person who saw you cry: God
Person you went to the mall with: chris, dwayne and cliff
Song listened to: Scratchin'- Magic Disco Machine
Thing you ate: Fried rice!
Thing you drank: Water

Others
If you could describe yourself in three words: i can't think of the threee words)
Is your computer in your room: nope
Is your room messy: it's an organized mess
What are some of your favorite junk foods: double mushroom swiss!
What color are your bedroom walls: white but it's covered with posters, so yeah it's not white.
What do you do when you're bored: loosen and tighten the screws on my specs
What makes you happy: loads of things like my friends, sessioning, talking to God and other stuff
What makes you sad: sick old people
What's your favorite thing to do on the weekends: sleep in!
Worst feeling in the world: Love. really it's the worst.

hope you liked it! i visited my old house today, and i was flooded with so many old memories. nice to know that i had a really happy childhood! night!

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10:20 PM;

today was my second time at the esplanade, and it was one of the best sessions ever. no nonsense, and still not extremely serious. just all-out, dancing fun. haha gimmicky. anyway yeah met a whole lot of new people, and they're all super nice. they'll like come up to you and shake your hands and stuff. met a Bgirl called Zoe, who's going to join Kyensai. s0ng and edmund were there too. and so were singapore's finest in bboying. it was a totally new experience for me, and i couldn't help but just be amazed and what they were doing. seeing an airflare in a video is one thing, but it's much cooler up close. it was more of an exposure trip than a session, and i was really awed by the atmposphere, and their crazy powermoves. since a picture is worth a thousand words, let me leave you with 4000 words!

the pros at the esplanade, with some from singapore's top crew, Radikal Forze

s0ng, who after all i've seen at the esplanade, still has the best toprock. vince and dwayne at Macs hope you liked them!

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9:21 PM;

well today was fun. we went to The Pines to session. most were quite hyped but some just weren't. ciphered and battled a bit. quite a unique experience. one thing, however, irked me quite a bit. half of the people who went didn't even want to cipher or anything, which was just plain stupid. and one particular person just blew $8 and he didn't even do anything, save a bit of toprock. this, to me, was just plain dumb cos then you might as well not just go at all right? oh well. we then went to orchard cinelesiure for lunch, and watched Talledega Nights. haha it was a very slapstick and predictable, but still very very funny. i'd rate it 7/10, for sheer comedic audacity. chris, dwayne and i went to Heeren, and we window shopped for a bit. then i came home and swam in the rain. it's quite a nice feeling actually, because it's nice to be in the serenity of the pool and hear the rain beating overhead. a totally unproductive day, but those days are the best right? picture time!

Airfreezes

Rockerfella Crew posing, except dwayne and i who just look plain geeky

The 4 who were willing to take pictures. haha

have fun!

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10:55 PM;

final grading!

Geog 1- 3/10. very easy, but our teacher said it was easy cos many people failed paper 2. uh oh.

A.Maths 2- 6/10. quite reasonable, but i've lost 6 marks cos of careless mistakes. like 1/10th of the paper.

oh well. what's done is done. had a short Dragon Patrol meeting after the papers, and then we sessioned for like 10 mins, and then headed out to Far East Plaza. quite fun, cos everyone was very hyped, and countless lame jokes ensued. we were reduced to a laughing bunch at Subway, attracting stares from onlookers. ha. we as in chris, cliff, dwayne and i. which turned out to be the whole of Rockerfella Crew. chris then got laces, and we walked around a bit, and tried to restrain dwayne from sessioning. unsuccessfully. haha yeah we walked around for quite a bit. up and down and all over the place. i was supposed to get my sneakers but they weren't on offer anymore. well they were the last time i went but $49 is a bit much to pay for sneakers, considering my fake china one cost only $4. haha. anyway yeah tmr is the day of numerous battles! Rockerfella is going to cypher again, and then we'll have one-on-one battles. looking forward to that. 3h full of hardcore-sessioning. we're gonna catch a movie after that, most likely tallegeda nights. then we're going to the esplanade underpass to see the pros session on friday. yep. you know what they say: word hard, play harder. happy end of exams(unless of course, you are stacey goh, who's exams haven't started yet. sorry stace)!

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9:54 PM;

grading time!

E. Maths 2- 7/10. easier than paper 1. didn't manage to complete it though.

Biology- 6.5/10. bio has redeemed my other sciences! i had enough time to do paper 1 twice! quite a fulfilling paper, but my only fear is that i didn't write enough. oh well. time will tell i guess. the good thing is it was more manageable than the other 2 sciences.

after bio, 1 and a half hour session ensued. chris, dwayne, cliff and i had a cypher: an open battle, but no burning. just for fun. and it was a lot of fun. pity GK, fred and vince didn't take part though. oh well. thursday will tell. geog paper 1 and a.maths 2 left! then i'm going to watch tallegeda nights on fri. fun fun fun!

Rivers Crew at BOTY 2006. pity they lost to Drifterz. this is their opening item. enjoy!

born's shoe fell off halfway. either it was planned or he's very good cos he didn't miss a single beat! well i guess that's expected from the best stylist in the world.
the born and physicx duo was very good too. hope you liked it!

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4:03 PM;

grading time again.

chinese 1- 6/10. quite reasonable, but it's chinese. anything can happen.

chinese 2- 6/10. when i saw last year's super super hard paper, i thought this year would be the same. thank God i was wrong. half of my answers for the close passage were same as the class' resident chinese whiz, so it's ok.

tomorrow's my only chance of redemption. for both subjects. my bio has to redeem my both sciences. not that it will make any difference academically, but it'll let me rest in peace (ha!). it is also imperative that i do well for e.maths 2 as my e.maths 1 was an utter and complete diasaster. yeah so i'm hoping for the best. sessioning for awhile tmr. geog's already all in my head and i'll be having maths tuition after that. then it's time to PARTAE!!!!! night!

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10:01 PM;

ok so i may not have done 9 chapters today. but i did 6! 6 whole chapters! in my book, that's a new record right there. and 6 is good considering that i went out for a 3h lunch with the rents and their friends. leaves me with 3 and a 1/2 chapters tmr. digestion, half of nutrition, the eye and the endocrine system. should be down in 3h. chinese tmr. stupid stupid close passages and other stuff. just hoping for a 60. 3 more days. 5 more subjects. or should i say, 2 more subjects and 3 half subjects. thursday will be so fun. dwayne has already challenged me to a friendly battle, and there will still be many many more battles going on that day. our first taste of battling. well my second, cos dwayne challenged me sometime ago. oh well. chinese tmr. keep me in your prayers!

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10:03 PM;

well i should have covered 8 chapters of bio by now. i've done a grand total of 2, and half of 3 other chapters. tmr i will attempt to complete 9 chapters of bio. in 12 hours. not entirely impossible. considering the last few chapters are like 6 pages each. oh well. thursday session will be great. total will come up to $7.50 for 3 hours of sessioning the Pines dance studio. i can predict that everyone will be very very hyped up and there will be many battles. yeah i'm blogging for tmr cos i should be busy studying tmr. and if you see me online ask me to get off please. thanx a million.

here's something i found on YouTube. the RGS performance! our first performance and we didn't win. lost it to RI. haha the famous (or infamous) performance with chris (haha he's going to kill me but i don't care) and his mills. he's in black pants and white top, i'm in blue with my very useless and awful-looking waves, jasper is in white, cliff is in black and dwayne is in brown. haha it's nice to see how much we've improved over 4 months. enjoy!

really brings back memories. the cheer of the crowd, the feeling of embarassment and the feeling of defeat. notice all the falls and stuff? haha yeah. these are the type of videos where you look back and laugh at yourself for how silly you look, and in this case, dance. cheerio!

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10:01 PM;

well it's the weekend again. 5 more days till my freedom. here's my paper rating

E.Maths 1- 8/10. one of the worst papers. seriously messed it up. and it was supposed to be EASY! paper 2 will be hard. that's it. maths and bio this weekend.

Lit- 5/10. the passage-based question was our term 3 class test question. what are the odds huh? generally easy, but the unseen prose was a bit difficult.

A.Maths 1- 6/10. i added one point cos i've already lost 8 marks out of 60. a generally easy paper. not to mention satisfying. on the other hand, trigo identities did not come out. which means it will be there in paper 2. yeuck. well i have the weekend to practice!

this weekend it's all bio and maths. my next fear is chinese cos my close passage is horrendous. oh well i'll be praying for the best. that's all i do nowdays anyway haha. stayed back to practice flag raising and for a half-hour session. kinda broke my resolution, but what the heck. it raises my immunity and it helps me de-stress. and since now ang mo kio secondary has 300 cases of gastric flu, you can't be too sure. jonathan ng ADAMANTLY says that we're not relaxing and that we're dancing. he said 'rubbish. dancing does not de-stress you'. lol he's one of the funniest teachers to have taught me. and good geog hints too. got me an 86 last year. anyway yeah cliff, dwayne, vince, fred and i just sessioned for awhile. great fun. i'm going to session till 7pm next wednesday. after the exams.

Look to the past and remember and smile
And maybe tonightI can breathe for awhile
I'm not in the scene, I think I'm falling asleep
But then all that it means is I'll always be dreaming of you

that was the second part of the 'Feeling This' bridge. i dunno why i like it so much though. i guess it's just so rhyme-y. and good. now for matters at hand. 12 chapters of bio by monday night. not impossible if i start....now. till sunday then. bye!

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2:22 PM;

ok chere's a rating of all the papers done so far, 10 being the hardest and 1 being the easiest.

EL 1- 7/10. considering i only had 20 mins to write the 2nd essay. i seriously messed up my essay. crap.

SS- 5/10. reasonable, but i almost ran out of time and had a neck cramp.

PHYSICS- 10/10. GG lah for physics. i found out o got 22/40 for MCQ. as long as i get a 40/80 for paper 2, i'll be content.

EL 2- 4/10. quite easy.

Chem- 8/10. NO TIME!! and i don't think i'll do well for MCQ. i'm praying that paper 2 yanks me up like a bungee cord.

Geog 2- 7/10. i added 1 point cos of the serious lack of time, resulting in my answers for natural resources to be very scrawled. and another point because of the HORRIBLY DRAWN diagram on coasts. @#$%. stupid thing lost me 5 marks. oh but the last question was very fulfilling. 'describe the advantages and disadvantages of renewable resources.' man that was so good. i just regurgitated everything. 6 marks in the bag i hope.

well that's all so far. desapite the difficulty, i'm still kinda optimistic for some reason. just no failures and i'll be quite happy. doing well for EL, chem, geog, and chinese will make me even happier. anything can happen right? and in case i fail anything (which i really really hope i don't), i'm gonna session my (ego ego) considerably large brains out on the days after the exam. and i'll welcome any and every single form of moderation with open arms. keep me in your prayers!

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8:42 PM;

so tmr is the SS and english paper. crammed 60 pages worth of SS in 4 hours.i'm not too worried about enlgish. come wednesday the worse will be over. physics the bane of my existence is on tuesday. and then chem and geog.yeagh. i don't like mass exams. i somehow feel more assured in the safety of my classroom with 35 boys who i have spent 9 months with. and plus we get let off earlier if we start earlier. that never happens for mass exams. and we also don't have to move our tables back and forth. oh well. i'll blog again on wed. by then the worst will be over, with only chinese and bio to deal with. for the record, i don't sing. all the best for your EOYs!

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7:41 PM;