Astrigue Challenge 2009...

is over! It's been fun and enjoyable, and while we're all tired and busy from organizing and planning the event, our efforts finally paid off! It was imperfect, but it's been a great learning experience for all of us. For one, I now know my juniors better ^^ And thanks to all our seniors who came down to support us! Especially kb who stayed till the end for the dinner and even half-treated us to dinner! thanks to our great chair who somehow got psychoed into half-treating us too haha xD

I hope everyone had a great time and learnt something new, and thank you all! ^^

Congratulations to all prize winners! This is but just a competition, and there are more upcoming ones ahead! Therefore, I hope you have learnt something new that can help you in your future competitions. Remember, everyone is a winner in their own way.

I wish you guys best of luck in your future endeavours!

I recently chanced upon this photo essay called "Days with my Father". It's so touching it made me cry, so I hope you'll take a look at it. Click on the picture below (:



p.s. To read the photo essay, place your cursor at the bottom of the main picture and click. The next picture and entry will come up.

Have a good friday!

PW results were out yesterday, and amazingly, rjc did even better this year with 92% obtaining distinction! fortunately for me, i wasn't part of the minority 8%, but there was 1 guy in my class who was. I have no idea how to comfort guys, so i hope his friends are doing something about it. There's no way one wouldn't be affected when everyone else in your class gets A and you get B, even though he acts nonchalant and all. Now that PW is over, it's a great relief, a burden off my chest. hurray!

and finally, i am better than my brother at something! (he didn't get A for PW wahaha) yay!

Joke:
How many mainstream economists does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to assume the existence of a ladder and one to change the bulb.

Economic forecasters assume everything, except responsibility.
- RECONS July 2008 Issue

wise words indeed.

I finally got down to reading RECONS, and it's got quite interesting stuff in it. do read it if you've got the time.

Anyway, I shall publicise "Dine in the Dark", a charity event to raise funds for the blind, organized by my friend in Interact Club. Details:

Date: Friday, May 8, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Raffles Institution Junior College
Price: $10

you'll get to have a dinner in the dark, served by the blind. There are such restaurants around the world, but they requires reservations like one week before and only allow small groups of customers. Hence this is a great opportunity to have such an experience!

Let me know if you're interested, because i want to go but not sure who to ask xD we can go after astro session!

Yeah, have a good friday ^^

Favourite quote of the day: "Talk is cheap. Supply exceeds demand." xD

End of T2W2

it's yet another end of the school week! Happy end of the week everyone!

As you probably can tell, I'm like in a high mood. My friend describes my mood as a sinusoidal wave, with interesting dips and peaks at odd moments. Seems like im at the peak at the moment. Here's why:

Tomorrow's Astrigue Convention! All the best to everyone and I'm sure it will be a success! A pity I won't be able to make it, but be rest assured, I'll be there for the Challenge 1 & 2 ^^

Instead, I'm dedicating my time and efforts to RJCC day-camp since I'm the one who organised it; obviously I've got to be there. Anyhow, I'm really excited now and looking forward to having a great time tomorrow! I hope all the J1s will enjoy themselves as well, and get to know each other much much better!

Note to self: Remember to bring rice to test the club rice cooker tomorrow.

What's more, the test paper results I got back so far are not bad. Chemistry wasn't too difficult so not bad. Math was super easy so not bad (but i still made stupid mistakes like leave out the modulus and get 2 marks deducted or something) And I've got a L3 mark for one Econs case study question xD How did i know? Because my teacher used my question as one of the better answers from the class for that question! I think that's the first time i've ever gotten a L3 mark for econs. wow monumental moment!

And I seriously can't believe what I got for H3 Physics. It's exactly the same feeling as I had for the NTU Astrochallenge diagnostic test last year in astro! Still, what makes it depressing is that I'm seriously going to do worse for my H2 physics CT than my H3 physics. Looks like my prediction a few days earlier is going to materialise T.T

Anyhow, it can only go downhill from here. The papers left are the ones I know I'm not going to score well for unless some miracle occurs: GP, Econs and Physics. i think i really did badly for these three depressing subjects. ESPECIALLY PHYSICS, which was the most depressing paper I've ever taken in my life! I can't believe i did so badly for it!

how can ppl like yizhen implicitly suan us by moaning, "Oh noooooo, I can't get full marks already! I left out the 'lying at right angles to the magnetic field' for the definition of magnetic flux! Oh nooooooo..." while grabbing his head and pulling out his hair and whatnot. sigh. if no one got full marks for chem ct (which was much easier), how could it be possible for anyone to get full marks for physics ct!!!???

Note to self: Don't ever turn complacent, NEVER again. It's a terrible mistake and it's not something you should do, especially in THE A Level year. i may have done well, but so did everyone else. it's not the best I could have done and it's seriously stupid to make careless mistakes like that! I HAVE to work harder from now on!

i think i just depressed myself. sigh. mood swings back to minimum...

I realised that mrs tan is quite funny when she lectures, so i should pay more attention listening even though she goes through quite slowly haha. Let me end off with one two quotes from her (inspiration from blaws' way of blogging):

"...detectors, such as a thermopile or a bolometer...

What's a bolometer? You don't need to know." haha xD

"We can't use a mercury thermometer as er, things will melt, you know?"

- Mrs Tan on measuring radiation and temperature of blackbodies respectively.

let's all imagine the "things melting". have a great weekend ahead! ^^

Mathmaticious

haha talking to pw just made me rmb about this video. Enjoy!