2 posts tagged “ms karen tan”

my english had better be good - i have a good feeling about it, that's why. and i finished well before time. (:

i expect to pass my ss, not necessarily with flying colours.

i poked holes in her arguments, at random, and inserted whatever i knew here and there.

i pray for the best, seriously. i used the two sheets we were given, and wrote 3 and 1/4 pages.

people looked as though they were writing masters thesis papers - it was scary. where in the world do you find so many things to write about?! had a sense of DOOM during the test, but i kept going.

my stand was pretty weird. i said her line of argument is correct, as evidenced by lee hsien loong agreeing that maintaining roots when people are flowing in and out of the country was a challenge brought by globalisation and some other stuff that i saw from articles about the methodical removal of cultural sites affected Singaporeans, but said that she made a gross assumption ('an under-performing state, which allows and provokes discontent and thus active civic and political participation" eh, then you are saying places like America are under-performing?) and she has a general lack of examples which could have been more illuminating of her points.

well, ss is subjective, after all, as all arts subjects are.

keeping my fingers crossed for at least a 14 or so. >< i need an A for SS. :|

to quote eileen: i hate subjective subjects.

there's still geography, math, chinese, physics SPA and bio SPA.

i am going to go to sleep now and wake up tomorrow to do chinese and then math and then geog.

i have made some headway in geog, and i am looking forward to drawing somemore tomorrow.

drawing to learn is fun. works the other way round too: learning to draw is fun. :D

if you are what you eat, then in this case, i'm a sweet, so come and get some.

ms tan gave us sweets during our tests today. a merci crocant and a mentos, for english and ss respectively. (:

goodnight. :D

as i eat meatballs from the plastic container with a plastic spoon, i have this feeling that i will be doing such a thing for huge parts of my adult life - eating take-away food for dinner. that calls for something. meaning, i will have to learn how to cook, for real, not just instant noodles that will make my hair fall out prematurely, as my mum insists. i deny this vehemently everytime, because it strips me of any sense of Indepenence, ha.  nowadays, she's taken to stocking up the cupboard with cup noodles. i don't know why i bother arguing.

on other things, i think ms karen tan is Nicest Being On The Earth. she gave us a grand total of SEVEN easter eggs (more than half a dozen) and left us a Cute with the Capital C message on the board, signed off as: "<3, guess who". i would have taken a photograph of the board if i had had a camera, but fact remains my camera conked out. she's sweet, like maple syrup. i swear we desperately need to do something for her on Teachers' Day. like sing her a song of appreciation/affection right smack in the middle of the 3rd floor corridor at the Top Of Our Lungs. it would be mortifying, to a certain degree, but worth it for the greatest form teacher on earth. she's not just nice - she's quite a good teacher. (: i think i am going to like english lessons. a lot.

i am insanely tired today, but i cannot afford to sleep tonight. need to finish up ss pt. hmm maybe i should sleep and wake up early tomorrow to do. ahwell, i should just slack and nap for an hour, THEN i'll get started on ss. ss is getting interesting - globalisation. there are some things that are just waiting to be cut open to be analyzed, like the sheep's heart that we dissected in biology class two years ago.

on an additional note, philosophy was interesting today - determinism. had a good discussion and got some stuff out of it. i kind of regret slacking off previous philosophy lessons to write letters and do other homework now. and another miracle of the day: i paid attention in physics. very muchly thanks to my sense of responsibility towards eileen, who is counting on jiayue and i to take notes for her. since jiayue wasn't in school today and was perpetually and miserably mired in AA work and fretting about QC checks on the souvenirs, i undertook the herculean task of paying attention in class and taking notes. herculean, because i am a delinquent who talks and talks and talks and talks ... and basically misses the entire point of a lesson. (: yes. that's another reason why i like ms tan. she talks a lot too. ;D and she likes people who talk a lot too. and she calls me Cheryl. question: do i look like a Cheryl to you?

i think i shall scoot off, write a letter, nap and wake up later to do ss. i work better at night.

i owe sharon dark chocolate coffee beans. and oh, suvitha too. i wonder where my aunt gets such wonderful stuff. she's just got her pension, so i figure she's enjoying life now. i can't wait for the day i get my pension. i will just take the money, split them up into 10 sums, and use them each once every two years to go on a trip to some place i've always wanted to go to. that'd be great.

oh drats, i need to think of something to do during my june holidays, other than go to Gold Coast and have Robotics June Camp.

shizz, i just remembered, i have a Science Competition next Wednesday, and i know next to nothing about D.C. Circuits. great.

this is dragging on really long, and i am starting to sound like my father when he suffers from verbal diarrhoea (sp?).

edit:

i think i'll start on ss now. i shouldn't sleep - i'll Never wake up at the time i want to. reading someone's Vox is making me worry. no prizes for which. i don't want a re-occurance of last year's events, serious. i know i've been absurdly loud and insanely critical about things. but: it's a temporary thing, i suppose. it'd better be.