Friday, March 11, 2005 @10:55 pm
It is now 11th of March. The excitement of talent time has been overshadowed by interclass debates and those dreaded common tests and not forgetting eds.
I'll start with eds. SYF, so PF does the same thing. Comes in, goes through blocking, dismisses some peole, and then proceeds to waste the time of the others. But at least we're making some headway now. Its like he has finally realised how little time we have left and is trying to get everyone to learn their lines and remember blocking in split seconds. Oh well, I won't elaborate too much. And by the way I still think he is gay. As a common test destressor, this is what I've been doing:
http://sg.geocities.com/cchmseds/Home.html do have a look and sign the guest book.
Now common tests. These are the most dreaded things, even worse than exams. The weeks before are all filled with activities (ccas, competitions, remedial and whatnots), whatever time you have left, you use to finish the mountain of homework that is increasing its height at unbelievable rates. Its wonderful how teachers except you to finish the homework they dump on you and study at the same time. So, I've always told myself I'd start preparing 2 weeks before. But guess what? No prizes. I studied for everything subject the night before. Thank God I'm a fast reader and studier, or I'll end up like some people (sleeping @ 4am). Even then, its a super fast lightning train I was on. And although it was an exciting ride, I'm glad its stopped for refuelling. And while the train refuelles, passengers can come out and take a stretch.
And last but not least, the thing that was in possession of my attention was interclass debate. The first one against BN (that animal testing is too cruel), we won. Today's debate, against JT (single sex schools are becoming obsolete) we lost. In both cases, we were opposition. The truth is, I thought that BN did a better job than us that day and that we did a better job than JT today. Oh well, its a lopsided world. Oh, by the way I got best speaker.
Ok, thats a summary. But debates though much much fun, are horrible horrible things to prepare for. You have to do research, which is easy enough, and then you have to collate and organize the research, thats the tedious part. This takes like forever. And then you have to find time for the team to discuss, and then write the script. And most importantly find someone to print it. In a world where everyone's printer was either not functional or had no ink, this was no mean feat. Finally comes the debate itself, when everyone is super uptight, and pessimistic. And then the results turn out to be the opposite of what you expect. Oh well. We'll probably get into the semis, cause they don't have enough classes. Hopefully we'd be able to redeem ourselves, but it doesn't really matter if we don't. Our main energies won't be focussed there.
And after all these serious stuff, I've an announcement to make: ITS THE HOLIDAYS!!!!!!
Bliss for a week. I'm off to enjoy it!
you know you love me