Shkool and Yu En Es DaBulYu

I've realised now that you cannot blog about every moment in life (unless its really important). I mean, one can if they blogged every day, but I don't. All that typing is too much for me. Even when I do my weekly (or so) blog posts, I tend to rush the end cause I really can't be bothered to finish the rest off properly. Right now, from a good student POV, I should be doing my History speech and Unseen Companion essay, but I'm not. Ms. Young is gonna be so mad at everyone when she comes back to find out none of us did the SMH light-trigger story XD. I can wait for Term 3.

I went over my history notes from various videos this year. I realise that, unless I remember writing about it, the facts on those pages are left there to metaphorically rot. I don't read them since I tend to textbook study (unless the info isn't there), which leaves me to ponder why I write so many notes during class when others write 5 lines. I guess it's cause I sit next to Kelvin for history. You see, this is how it tends to work. He's often writing notes and, when I find that I haven't written anything in the last 30 seconds or so, I think to myself, "Hey, I better write something cause he is." It's a weird process. It's happened with various people in hindsight, but recently, since notetaking has only been in history lately, I find that that is the most recent case.

Science is pretty fun for me. Again, in hindsight, Science is my most consistent subject (excluding Japanese). Most times, I understand what I'm supposed to be learning. I find, however, if I sit next to Vineet, John K, Charles and/or Chris, my concentration falls A LOT. They are very distracting.
Math? Not too hot. Lately it's been a drag getting through them. They aren't horrendous, but I don't like the idea of going to math. But hey, it's time for me to pick up my game in math. I 'm gonna need it.
Ag is same old same old. Fun in prac, just memorising and learning in theory. Looking back, Ag has been one of the most fun subjects I've had (and I was afraid I was gonna be wrangling animals like a 'farmer' in Year 7), like pulling out the cauliflower out of the garden patch. I grazed the inside of my knees (the other side) and it hurt, and the flies kept going at the wound even after I doused myself with water. I couldn't walk that well for a few days and my mum was really upset that that kind of thing happened at Hurlstone and that Ms Blake let me do that kind of thing and that it was dangerous. At the time, I might have agreed with my mum 'cause I was hurting, but now, I'm happy it happened: it's another memory for me to look back on. It's scary that time has past by so fast. We're almost halfway through Year 10 and soon we'll be seniors. And by the time we get there, we'll be thinking, "what the hell, I thought I was still in Year 10!".

*Tuesday addition* (this post began on Sunday, but because Dite was on the laptop next to me, I was too embaressed to continue as she started to stare at my musings).

UNSW! Very enjoyable, even though I was initially happy about the fact that I missed out on History speech and English essay (oh, what a shame...). For starters, the bus trip was basically the song game for 40 minutes or so. The actual campus at Randwick was stunning: very beautiful. You know how they say, "bla bla bla state-of-the-art" and you think, "I'm never gonna see that," or the like? Well, UNSW was STATE-OF-THE-FRIGGIN'-ART! I mean, their pathways were exactly straight, their buildings abstractly symetrical in their positioning and their lawns were imppecably trim and 'colour-coded' (Kassie: "hey, that building looks like Optimus Prime"). The sessions were pretty okay. The first for me was Arts and Senior Science. That was pretty fun, especially getting to play 'diversity bingo' and listening to graduates' stories. Session 2 was Careers choices. I wanted to swap with someone, but then I thought, why not? It wasn't a bad experience, if anything, it helped me think more about what I wanted to do in the future (ooh, deep...>_>). One of the workshop ladies had a REALLY fob asian accent, but her English was really good, so it was like having your asian mum talking to you with a fob accent but wasn't using bad grammar, in fact, she spoke very eloquently. It was a real "?!" for me. There was also an activity where we were meant to label celebrities as what kind of person they were. A picture of Angelina Jolie showed up and I said she was 'physical'. HOW was I supposed to leave THAT alone?

Lunch. They provided us with a sandwhich, mini Mars and water bottle and mandarin (enjoy Wendy!). Before the sessions started though, me and Elena went with Sandie to explore the campus. We nearly got lost, but apparently, Sandie's "logical sense of direction lead us back to where we were meant to be." I say we were lucky. Anyway, back on track, after lunch was the final session (spicy potato wedges). Mine was Law. As interesting as it was, I was dozing off by the end of it and Rutherford and Kassie kept poking me awake. The whole thing was very nice, the campus was really pro. Oh! I also saw Samantha there too. Her y11 group was there from Mac. Fields. Got to chat with her for a little bit during the day.

Then we went home. Dad picked me up because I couldn't be bothered catching the bus. Friend, I tried calling you and sent you a text, but you didn't reply to either, so I figured it'd be okay for me not to catch the bus, so ha!

On a final note, I'll be changing my blog's title. It doesn't look that nice with the caps and stuff, and the title IS pretty cheesy. Yeah...I figured this out after Dite said, " 'The Life and Times of Patrick'? Who would want to know about that?"

...yeah. I admit now in hindsight it was a good joke, so I'll laugh with you if you laugh at me at school about it. So...I have dinner now, my tummy's grumbling and...I can't be bothered to rhyme anymore. Bye!

Rad? No, Brad. Bread? No, BRAD. Yeah, who Brad?

Don't worry if you don't get the title, joke from Maylyn's HBD party. Lot's of fun. Basically DDR, SingStar, Guitar Hero and fishing for tadpoles in her part garbage part lawn part murky, part newspaper pool. Obviously you wouldn't swim in as how we got tadpoles from it. The food was reminiscent of an Asian household version of MacDonald's or Jollibee (for all the Filos out there). All of my HY results have come out now, except IST. Haracic is taking his sweet time marking those exams. Apparently, they had to mark the year 7 and 9 HY DT exams first. COME ON. We got the same excuse years ago, just the other way around, 'we had to mark the year 10 exams first'. Geez louise, I SWEAR! GOD. Well anyway, my average overall without IST is 77. Okay, I guess. Math pulled me down pretty badly and so did Ag. If I took those two out of the equation, my average would probably float around the mid 80s (thank God for Japanese XD).

Just as a paragraph of self-reflection, you can skip this one. Math? FAIL basically. Study and parctice is what I need. English? Writing skills. I need someone to help me write better. Same for Geography and History. Maybe someone to help me figure out how to manage time and writing in exam conditions (I'm in Y10 and I'm still not great at it. It's a sign!). Ag? Well, I failed in the fact that I thought it was AI, not Oestrus Sync, so that's where I lost most of my marks. My fault, my bad, so there's no one to blame but me for that. Jap I owned, so no problems there, just some particles i mixed up (i for got the 'mu' in the watashi kanji). I did well, I'd say, but not good. Not to my likely. I know how people say, "It's an okay mark," or "I got worse than you," is meant to make me feel better, but nowadays it doesn't. I have a bar I set for myself, and whenever I fall short, I know I could have done better and no amount of comforting is going to make me think that it wasn't my fault for doing not so well in exams.

Okay, enough depressment. Just quickly overviewing this week...Cheap Thrills was very good, even though it was just one guy. If anything, it increased the power of the whole act (well, hello! || I know, I know). Go AB and Lucy H. Science has been covering electricity, motors, etc. It's fun and stuff, I just need to concentrate when I'm learning the hardER stuff. We've started waves, and tuning forks are fun to put into water when struck: just don't touch the glass. We made the airpot intercom sound with the C chord and a higher C. PE was 4-way soccer. Our team lost the most seeing as how half of the team weren't bothering to play. We didn't have anyone pro on our team either. Jap...need to practice seeing as how at the rate we are going, I haven't learnt too much from U11. IST is the same, more Flash work, more stupid theory to do. I hate it. Geo and His are the usual. Skills sheets, historical videos, same old same old. Assignments due soon, I better get cracking on those. OMG LIGHT TRIGGER SMH S.STORY! Has anyone done that? I've completely forgotten! D:

Obviously I'm swamped with work now, Sunday night, Unseen Companion to finish and do table on...sigh. That's all for now folks.

"It's cold and there are wolves after me"

End of exams, hurrah! Could have posted sooner, but I was spacing out on my bed last weekend. Lost a quarter of a mark yesterday in speaking exam cause I used the WRONG particle D<. Oh well, I'm not perfect. Getting back the results for my exams is probably the hardest part. I mean, hey, no one likes to think that they tried their hardest in an exam and they end up getting a lower than expected mark. I've already gotten History, Japanese and Math back. Can't say I'm happy about History and Math results. I KNOW I could have done better. People say that my marks are okay because I did better than they did, but that's beside the point. I went into the exam trying to get a solid 80+ mark, but fell short of my expectations on both counts. I can only hope that this experience has prepared me for the Yearlies and that I will more thoroughly prepare for them, and School Cert. Japanese I got...97% I think? Somewhere above 95% overall, so that's very good. I'm still aiming for that 100% overall mark, so I just have to keep going at it: it's not as easy as it was in 7&8 seeing as how there's a whole lot more that you NEED to remember. Athletics Carnival on the first day of winter. I went into 100m, high jump and long jump. I would've done javelin but I missed the opportunity, but I doubt I would have done well anyway. Stacked it in the first event for high jump caused it had rained a bit before and I was wearing flat-soled shoes. Not a good choice, so the event was postponed to later in the day when the ground dried up. I came 3rd (out of 4 people XD) in the 100m and got 297cm for long jump (which isn't very far considering a guy got 500cm+). All I can say is that although I pretty much suck when it comes to Athletics, I try the sport for the fun of it and team spirit. In between, I was basically playing cards, walked by myself and friends on separate occasions. SOMEONE got the idea to tell Courtney and Steven to stop fooling around over the PA. Brendan and Lizzie were told to stop messing around on the benches later on (payback perhaps?). Drizzly day relays at the end. There was more stuff done on the day (like picking at the synth track with Richard), but I can't remember it all...it was a fun day. I couldn't make it to bannofe party afterward because dad picked me up with groceries in the car that HAD to get home first, so I wouldn't have had time to properly enjoy myself there. It was the start of the school week too so I couldn't stay long either. Basically, it's been raining and fairly cold over the past couple of days. It's a short week since there was athletics on Monday and SDD on Friday, and that's why I'm blogging right now. I cleaned out my room with my dad and played a game or two. Subjection Selections were held last night. The DET speaker was very eloquent and fun to listen to, but then some people might beg to differ. I am now trying to figure out my last 2 units and reserves. Unless I have a HUGE parent intervention, my choices are:
EDIT - These are my definite subject selections unless I decide to drop in the first few weeks.
- Adv Math
- Adv English
- Economics
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Japanese Continuers (duh)
We'll see how it goes. I'll talk to you all later!