beautiful disaster

'Doomsday is near. Die all, die merrily'. That is probably the only quote from Henry IV Part 1 that my friends and I will ever remember after we've left school.

Tomorrow we get our papers back. They give us everything all in one shot so that "we won't know which paper to cry for", as Audrey put it succinctly.

"Well, at least then we won't waste tears," I replied, and dipped my bead into the glaze. We had been glazing the clay (Aiken...haha...thank Yue-Yi for that corny pun) beads we're planning to sell for the VSA (Very Special Arts) during Fun Fair day.

What's done is done, I guess. I'm trying not to think about it. Today during A Math Mrs. Ang told us the MSG and showed us the bar chart for the A Math results. It was really funny but also quite sad. Our MSG is 6.something, which means that our average grade across the level is a C6. Now if you think that's sad, 25% of our cohort failed. You look at the bar chart and see the short a1, a2, b3, b4, c5, c6, d7, e8 bars in varying lengths (but still quite short) and then when you get to the f9 one, WHOA! It shoots right up. Kim and I sort of started giggling, which wasn't very nice.

I put up my hand and asked, "Have other cohorts gotten results this bad?"

You could sort of tell she was trying to say no in a very nice way.

Practically all the teachers have made it clear that we didn't do as well as expected. I guess...what can we say? We've never had a major Bio, Physics, Chem, Social Studies or A Math exam before. Okay, so we didn't do too well for the other subjects either...

Oh, well. I'd blame it on having no mid-years.

Tomorrow shall be a very interesting day.

In other matters, I am never going to work with Flash ever again after this prefects' website gets set up. I don't want to hear the phrase, 'motion tween' ever again, along with others...

'Bread and butter' (Mrs. Ong, Mr. Loh), 'sets of threes' (Mrs. Ong), 'characterisation' (Miss Ng), 'In x' (Ms. Tan and the countless other math teachers we've had...hate In, hate In, hate In...) and 'manganese IV oxide' (Mrs. Tan, Mr. Tay). But it's unlikely I will ever get rid of these terms because I'm stuck with these subjects and teachers for another year. Oh, well. It's not that bad.

jac was here with you 10/22/2003 05:48:00 pm

My Destiny
Psalm 46 (NASB)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

There is river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.
"Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.