*Whine… whine*
As mentioned in the previous entry, I am truly hard-up for time. Why can’t each day have 28 hours instead of just 24? At least there would be more than enough time for me to settle everything which I currently have on my to-do list. But if that happens, the average lifespan of a human would decrease drastically due to the extra hours added per day. Furthermore, I myself would suffer from a very bad case of sagging eye-bags…
At this current moment, I still have 6 incomplete items left on my schedule. The number stood at 3 yesterday but more assignments were added to that growing list after attending lessons yesterday and today. I do not even have time for any other activities at all and even so, I would have to rush just to get my assignments complete. How on earth am I able to complete a piece of work with my best effort if I am always in a rush for time? According to what Mrs Lim (my Physics tutor) said today, “If you do not work on your tutorials and assignments with the best of your ability, you are shortchanging yourself. That way, you will never improve at all…” Sadly though, the list just keeps on growing due to excess assignments left over from a particular day which I was unable to complete.
If this carries on, the number of items on my to-do list would just keep on expanding and increasing until it hits a three-digit figure… If that really happens, I would definitely explode, due to stress as well as work overload.
I have mentioned to my friends before that I am planning on transfering over to a Polytechnic, where the workload is less harsh. Even Hui Hoon has thoughts of transferring out, thanks to the hectic schedule of a typical JC student. I totally agree with that. I have already sacrificed 80% of my free time to just college assignments and tutorials and yet I am still unable to complete everything within that time slot. Moreover, many of my friends in JC have already left JC and are currently freeloading at home…
However, Hui Hoon suggested that we should wait for the outcome of the JC1 Promotional Examinations before making a decision on whether we should transfer…
Have you ever had the feeling that time is extremely short? or lack thereof? Sadly though, I experience this every single day. As loads of tutorials and essays are being piled on helpless students like me during each and every school day, I soon find that I am at a loss for time for other social activities as well as home revision. Some of you may recall me mentioning a daily revision regime of 5 Mathematics Ten Years Series questions a day. I have managed to keep that regime going until last week when workload started to increase.
These days, all that I have been doing upon arriving home was to head straight to my desk to complete all that excess workload and assignments in order to get all that stress off my back. However, the “stress-free” mood will only last for a maximum of 10 hours before more workload gets piled on me again the next college day. These days, my life can only afford to revolve around Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and nothing else. Even the pile of TIME Magazines, a essential reading for General Paper has been lying in one corner of my room, gathering dust.
I used to like college life, but every ounce of that enthusiasm has literally been squeezed out ever since the workload has started to increase. Furthermore, the deadline for my Project Work Task is drawing closer and closer. The results of my group’s first report draft were released yesterday and my group did the absolute worst out of the rest in my class. According to the annotations made by the supervisor, everything was out point and deviated from our project’s main focus. Now we have no choice but to re-do the whole report again. :-x
On a lighter note, my C.G was involved in CIP today (Community Involvement Programme) which involved some school cleaning and litter-picking. Initially, it sounded like a dirty job to us but soon after, we were moving around in groups of six, happily working together as we cleaned up our designated areas. Swee Wah, Jia Hui, Hui Ting, Hui Hoon, Jenny and I grouped up together and armed with a small blue plastic bag, we scouted the entire area for pieces of litter, chatting happily at the same time. We completed our cleaning way before time and thus, we sat together outside the school foyer in the light drizzling rain, chatting away. Later on, Kevin and Zhi Qi appeared and started to taunt us as they thought we were slacking. However, the true slackers turned out to be the boys in my class as they hadn’t even done any cleaning up at all. Instead, they remained in the foyer, playing Chateh with a badminton shuttlecock.
I have just arrived home from another bowling session with my father’s friends. Sadly though, I arrived home with a broken fingernail. My first two games went well, obtaining bowling scores of 120++. My third game was getting even better with quite a number of spares and strikes until the fifth frame. However, my right thumb-nail broke after I released the first ball for the sixth frame. As the nail had broken quite badly, I had no other choice but to cease bowling. As for the remaining four frames, I used another method of releasing the ball with less pressure on the thumbnail. Surprisingly though, I managed to obtain a handicap of 100 for that very last game, despite that “minor injury”.
So many people skipped GP (General Paper) tutorial today. Miss Nuraidah seemed pretty frustrated with the class when she saw the poor attendance. Personally, I think that my GP group seems to be “bullying” her, especially since many of them were goofing off and daydreaming during her lessons and are not taking their GP assignments seriously. When Miss Nuraidah questioned my GP classmates regarding the disappearance of the other boys, they tried to cover up for them by saying that “they were sick”. What was Miss Nuraidah’s response?
“You mean all eight of them are sick? Yeah right, I’m so sure that they are…”
Such an excuse was pretty unbelievable. However, they carried on saying that some of the boys had stomachaches, some others had headaches and the rest had a fever. Hui Hoon and I were giggling to ourselves as the rest of the class bombarded Miss Nuraidah with more and more outrageous excuses for the absence of the eight students. However, Hui Hoon and I had come to a conclusion: They have definitely ponteng-ed (Translation: skipped) lessons.
Later on, when the GP group were analysing similar word phrases, we encountered two similar phrases, namely, “scandal-mongering” and “muck-raking”. Miss Nuraidah caught Alex staring into space and decided to ask him a question.
Miss Nuraidah: Alex, what is the meaning of “scandal mongering”?
Alex: Er… (gazes at his worksheet) It means “muck-raking”.
Miss Nuraidah: We all know that. But what is “muck raking”?
Alex: It means scandal-mongering…
Miss Nuraidah: Thanks a lot, Alex!
What a catastrophe! Thankfully, the rest of my GP groupmates were not from my Civics Group. Otherwise, can you imagine the confusion which would be going on during every tutorial periods?