Chemistry relief teacher walks into our class 08S41.

[Teacher]: Is this s41?
[Class]: No sir, this is s55.
[Teacher]: s55?
[Class]: Yeah s55.
[Teacher]: Sorry then (turns to leave the classroom)
[Class]: (bursts into laughter)

In the end we told him that we were indeed s41. Haha.

Dunno why some s55 people kept walking into our classroom after our Friday's Maths tutorial. That's the reason why we used 's55' to trick the teacher. Wei Liang, your class leh!

Classroom chairs should have the rubber soles stuck to the legs so that they don't make the irritating screechy sound. It gives one an earache whenever someone stands up and unintentionally drags the chair along, setting off an avalanche of comments like 'WAH' and 'tsk!'

Just had a chemistry lecture test yesterday. Questions were okay, the time allowed was not. I didn't have time to finish the paper and the worst thing is that I had no time to check for careless mistakes, which I made quite a lot. Luckily I didn't fail the test, but I felt that I did not really tried my best. I need to work harder next time :D. Write faster I guess.

Talking about writing faster, I also had a Geography in-lecture essay on Tuesday. Oh man I think many people died because they could not write very fast. In VS, they trained us to write very fast. 1 point in 1 paragraph under 2 minutes. Why bother challenging typing speed? Challenge writing speed instead ;)

Watch this video btw, a prank call on a telemarketer. [link] (from Hong Aik's blog)

2 performances in 1 week.

Rhapsody 8 was ok. Good job VSchoir for its success! Though I don't feel anything much about it. I read my juniors' blogs and most of them are quite high and emo about the concert.

World Voice Day performance was ok. Good job to the 20+ of us who were singing, especially to Zhi Yang and Faith for their splendid conducting. And thanks to the rest of VJchoir for being there to support us.

I think I am starting to take performances very lightly. Too lightly. I don't seem to feel nervous on stage. Neither do I feel like celebrating after the performances. And I feel more energetic rather than tired... maybe not. I'm feel quite energetic now but I don't know if that will happen during lectures tomorrow.

Going back VS tomorrow to collect my O level certificate and other stuffs. Reminder to everyone who has yet to collect their certificates to collect them.

Seldom do you see an "A" grade for a food store. Only those store owners who emphasize much on hygiene and cleaniness will be awarded the grade. In VJC, I am extremely awed especially by this canteen store which received an A. It is so rare that a store serving hundreds of students per day at relatively cheap prices (as compared to outside) can maintain its hygiene standards. I decide to try the food there.

With extreme enthusiasm, the auntie starts to prepare the food for me. She takes so much pride in her work such that she washes her hands every time. I can see that as her whole arm is shiny because of the oil water. And she ensures that the water used to wash her hands do not get into the food, by dripping the water onto the floor...

Wow the floor is so shiny. The floor in my house does not shine so well no matter how much I clean it.

After some 5 minutes of preparing the food, and that is when many people who bought from other stores are already halfway into their meals, she finally prepares her final combination. She pours the rice onto a plate which seems like it contains a layer of dust. She takes a bowl straight from the sink and rinsed with water before pouring curry into it. She collects money from me with the same hands she used to handle food. The coins she returns are oily anyway. Oh the sink is half-filled with orange-yellow water. Yucks...

I have promised myself to refrain from eating at that store ever again. I cannot stand it every time I buy from that store. Like what Ryan said, when you buy from that store, you have to turn your back while the auntie prepares the food.

I am a very civilised blogger. In order to respect the privacy of that stall, I shall NEVER EVER reveal the identity of that stall. Do not bother asking me too because I will not disclose the name of that stall.

On Tuesday there was Chemistry Practical. Miss Lee was not around so another teacher came to take over the session. At the end of the session I was having fun with the bench reagents. I was mixing sulphuric acid with sodium carbonate solution and watching effervescence of colourless gas. And I didn't know when you add sulphuric acid to potassium permanganate solution, you get the following:

It's actually very beautiful. The two solutions seem to be immiscible because even when you shake the test tube, the purple potassium permanganate solution just stay at the bottom nicely. The teacher at the background was the relief teacher. She told me off twice for mixing the chemicals. Our class finished the practical early, and the next lesson was actually chemical tutorial in that same laboratory (but different teachers). She actually wanted to leave early at first but changed her mind later because she "had better stay to make sure that boy does not play with chemicals".

The performance theatre is a good place to sleep. On Tuesday the whole year 1s went there for Civics Tutorial session. They talked about leadership in VJC. There were 8 to 9 year 2s talking to us about their experiences, and I fell asleep while the 5th one was speaking. Hey at least I persevered for the first 4 leaders before falling asleep. There was also Chemistry lecture there on Wednesday instead of LT5 for some reason. It was super nice to sleep. The air-con was just right, the seats were comfortable, the lecturer was boring. Those were the conditions to induce drowsiness. Maybe the lecturer was not boring, but she speaks in one pitch (quite high pitch) so that's more than enough to knock me out. At the end of the lecture, she commented that we were very well-behaved and should deserve a round of applause. Guys, we can all keep up the good work! You should encourage others to sleep as well!

Thursday was awesome. I skipped Geography lecture because I did not have the powerpoint slides. But that's not the main reason. I stayed in the computer lab to finish my Preliminary Ideas for Project Work, which was actually due on Tuesday. I only started working on it on Wednesday night so it was kind of a rushed job. I just got it back today and Miss Ng (my Supervising Tutor) wrote many comments on it. Oh btw I think Miss Ng is a very hardworking teacher because she writes many comments. In our Physics tutorials and laboratory reports, she will write down many things that she thinks we can improve on. This is what I believe a good teacher should do because if we don't know our own mistakes in the first place, we will hardly improve.

I passed the Physics Olympiad selection test. I don't know how I did it, maybe my luck was good at that time, or the calculator's random function worked marvellously (all the questions were MCQ). But the trainings are on Mondays which clash with Maths Olympiad trainings (which I have already pushed) and choir practices. I know next Monday there will be a Singapore Maths Olympiad selection test (which I hope to pass so that the school can sponsor me for the SMO competition). As for the following Monday, I have still yet to decide whether to go for Physics training or choir practices. Maybe I will go for an hour of Physics, then take a short break before attending choir practices.

Talking about Maths Olympiad, my Saturday trainings will end after 2 more sessions, with the last one being on the 12th of April! That means I can finally go for morning choir practices which I have never ever gone since I got into VJC. Oh they gave us this "take home test" last Saturday to test our ability to solve questions without the constraints of time. They told us to hand in on the 12th. There are 10 questions, and I spent 5 hours working on them. Managed to successfully solved 3 of them, then I laughed at myself because my solutions are actually very easy. I don't know why I spent so long on them. I wrote on no more than 1 side of the college foolscap per question I solved. Going at this rate, I don't think I can finish the test.

I think some of our class tutors are quite pissed at our class. Or I should say that they are starting to have a bad impression of our class s41. Our GP teacher Mrs Ch'ng was quite carefree because nobody commented when she asked us a question during GP. She went, "Oh, so nobody wants to say anything? Let's move on..." She sent a few people out of the class on Thursday by the way.

"You didn't do my homework? Out!"

"Where's yours? Out!"

"Out!"

"You don't do my homework, you'll get out of the class."

Our Maths teacher Mrs Ang was feeling quite helpless because few people did the tutorials. "I know term 2 is a busy term... ... blah blah... ... Don't let your work snowball!" I love that phrase a lot, I don't know why. She was very funny during AP-GP lecture. She greeted the lecture hall (but didn't really expect us to greet her back):

[Mrs Ang] Good afternoon.
[Students] Good afternoon Miss... ...
[Mrs Ang] (suddenly very agitated, pointing to herself fiercely) MRS ANG! I am Mrs Ang.

Reminds me of Miss Lee, our Chemistry practical teacher. "I am Miss Lee, not Mrs. Miss!" Why is she so proud being single? For those who don't know who she is, she is the lecturer for the Atoms, Moles and Stoichiometry, so let's call her the Mole teacher (pun intended). It's just diagonally below her nose by the way.