gold record okay!

yeah, this is some competition thingo from creative, stand to win a creative zen x-fi. it's just a game, bejeweled-inspired. i think the person who scored top score's some psycho.

countdown to natl day!

yeah, red blogskin to get into the festive mood. next up will be change in blog song. compilation of national day songs from the ancient times till now. i've got songs from 1988 in my comp.

jj sl meeting tomorrow, i merged the heartware ppt and the original sl handout for my sls. because H didn't show the students the entire ppt when he was promoting connect sg.

i've got a feeling the meeting tomorrow will be fun. but it may drag too. hopefully they'll be motivated enough (with yours truly as the chief MOTIVATOR) to come up with stuff themselves. for the decisions that we will be making.

chem 60% released today. i secured 39.1%, not an a, therefore i'll have to sit for chem promos. not that i mind, lah.

my german entry proof's still somewhere in outer space. C asked the hod about the issue, then the hod's directing it to moe. damn. it's just an entry proof. i was verified to be taking the subject, confirmation slip had german too, which means the amount (near $100 i think) has been deducted from my parents' giro, yet they still cannot produce my entry proof. no entry proof=cannot take exam, yo.

i always like sg when it's nearing national day. how the whole place is decorated, albeit in pretty garish colours, and how national day songs' mvs are shown at regular intervals on tv. this year's mv's pretty good i guess. watched the chinese one on tv mobile this afternoon. it's many short stories combined into one video. i think can download from http://www.ndp.org.sg

preview this sat!

connect sg's making me miss house com investiture, but somehow i don't mind.

lima kosong konsong.

500th post!

the connect sg feeling is kicking in. in fact, everything's kicking in.

school work, house com, cca, heartware, chem o.

it's nice to feel busy, at least i'll feel guilty when i'm not doing work. but too much stuff on my mind de-motivates me to do everything.

which is why i've been sleeping pretty early these days. last night i slept at nine plus.

swtiched over to block twelve for connect sg, so i'll train the jjcians instead. i don't know if it was a mistake from the very beginning, because now it's like both blocks are having problems. and apparently sebas isn't very happy with my rather sudden decision to switch block.

but i guess it's easier for me to work with people i already know. mr ho's in charge, sls are clara wenjie yangping and xianghui.

which reminds me. i need to get their handouts printed out soon. and download the heartware ppt.

getting into house com didn't feel like an achievement or anything. it was just like...an obligation. how council rejects end up in house com. idk. i guess if at any time i feel i really can't do stuff like that, i'll just give it up.

because i guess if i were to choose between house com or heartware, i'll take the latter. heartware or chem o, that's a though one i don't even want to think about.

we're planning too much into the future, i would say. we're always encouraged to plan ahead. but we plan so ahead that we forget what we're currently facing. like, i can say i want to be a plastic surgeon in the future. but first, will i be able to enter a unversity that's good enough? or, will i even get promoted at the end of this year? or even better, will i survive today? what if i die in my sleep?

i guess deep inside, i am a pretty pessimistic person. all these stuff that i'm doing, they're just in hope of making me think optimistic-er.

maybe i'm just thinking too much.

apparently i'm supposed to have a scandal with seb's friend who has fangs and a tatoo on his upper back. and seb can make me crazy by spewing mushy stuff. sounds wrong, but yeah. the unexpected always happens. who knows, i may be the first female president in singapore one day.

look out for changes on the blog. national day's coming soon.

post number 499

twelve days to connect sg.

tomorrow's monday, need to help huilin find mr ho.

cut my nails.

friday was a weird day.

we finished up hotel rwanda by viewing the visualiser image on the screen. we made the visualiser face the laptop screen cuz we couldn't connect the laptop directly to the projector. the final product was like some pirated vcd image.

broke down during math. pace is too fast for me. overload of information too soon. but i'm thankful for the friends and the bodyguard. and the boyfriend who got all worried when i didn't pick up the phone after 4 or 5 calls.

woodlands ring student leaders training was too early i guess. cuz the very next day at our training we received new instructions. so perhaps we need to go back another day. and martin's damn tall.

block twelve's totally vj. and they're motivating jj people. how to come over for sl training? one singapore apart, lol. maybe i'll be nice and do it for them. since it's only sls for circa 50 students, depending on how many mr ho managed to rope in. leading 50 students, maybe only 2 leaders. and considering how many cheers jj has, all that needs to be done is the passing down of info. what will happen, what to bring, what to do, etc.

i'm anticipating a long day tomorrow. i don't know why. did math tutorial but got stuck at question seven. the way it was phrased, it sounded so familiar, but i didn't know how to go about solving it.

i want to get back my econs common test.

and hopefully whatever's wrong with my right hand's not permanent. i'm really scared i may not be able to write.

hello.

okay so my last post was monday. but i haven't been deprived from the internet, i've just been a lazy bum who refuses to select blogger from my list of websites.

i made it for both third lang lessons this week. tuesday because i didn't go for the mock test, got the test papers from mr subash before i left the school. today because i attended the earlier econs make-up session.

tomorrow's bio enzymes essay test. it's only fifteen minutes, somehow it sounds like a bad omen.

for the first time in my life, i'm dreading bio. mdm yong, i don't know if you still read my blog, but i really miss your teaching.

friends issue. i don't know, but i'd definitely feel bad if i were in P's shoes. but if she could be more sensitive to stuff, there wouldn't be any internal conflicts.

W says i owned M. what i did to him was, in W's words, "delectable evil. very good." and he can't believe he's condoning my abuse of his assistant.

perhaps i need to change my way of treating people. i.e., new people.

random thoughts put together.

sometimes i really wonder what's so captivating about this machine called the computer. when paired up with the internet, or world wide web to make it sound more intimidating, it can teleport me to some other dimension that doesn't really exist, and making me spend so much time hovering my cursor to unlimited links and finally applying pressure on a button on what they decided to call a mouse. so much so that homework is usually next in priority. and smetimes, even in the expense of my sleeping hours.

math crash course, i would have to agree with L, wasn't really useful.

and they said that when i have my hair tied up, my back view resembles P.

chemistry mcq test turned out to be common test. only knew it when the teacher said to fill in "chemistry common test" in the space for test name.

and i didn't study much for chem, because i thought it was just some normal lecture test-like thingo. weekend was spent math-ing.

i guess the highlight of today for s25 would be O walking out on us. i don't exactly know what happened, i was sleeping while staring at the screen showing some boring animation .okay maybe it's not the animation that's boring, maybe it's just my attention span. and how complicated photosynthesis is.

tomorrow's math mock test after school, which means for once i'm attending tue's pc lessons. because i'm skipping german. as much as i don't want to. i'm hoping what i'm staying back for's worth it.

because to hand in my germany application form, i'm heading over to bishan straight after one on wed. just to give herr spindler that piece of paper, then return back home cuz there's guitar in the evening.

what, bio test's shifted to friday econs slot? that means i'm only allowed to slck (slightly) after 25th. sucks pretty much.

okay maybe not that much, since agnes planned class gathering after school on fri.

ho wei jie. sat sl training1, then next thurs sl training 2? cuz i think sat can't do much, so let them play play first. thurs i've got 4-5 free, i can go over to ri before heading over to moelc. then we can get them to do work, and if the rest are free, i.e. you and sebas, you two can stay to complete whatever needs to be done. 080808's like, real near.

alot of tag replies.

six posts without replies to tags. the last one i replied to was jon's which is currently third on my tagboard. ahh well.

weien
yeah, here's a very late thank you. and a recent thank you too, in appreciation of how you were there for me even though i pretty much snapped at everybody on friday.
sebas
one day, ONE DAY, i'll teach you h2 chem.
yuhui
you clicked huh. there was a disclaimer there for a reason. haha.
jiabin
whoah. i did leave a pretty huge impact huh.
xingying
it's always more comfortable to do on a familiar topic. but i don't think i'll stick to it till a's.
megan
this blog's purple because the blogger likes purple. i think the b & w pictures are to dissolve the gross factor. did you manage to get police tape when you went to the npc?
weien
only when your words are worth quoting then i quote one okay!
jiabin
sometimes, yeah. but i guess it's part and parcel of growing up. but even when working you'll feel like you're being treated as a slave by your boss right. moral of the story, study hard, work hard and be a boss. and treat people like slaves. haha.
anon
<3 back. i think you should leave your name the next time.
bessy
i go bloghopping very often, since most of the time i don't do my homework. so don't feel guilty that you're not reading my blog, it prolly means that you've been doing homework. i voted for your blog! thanks (:
joy
ahh. hello.

blogger should merge with hotmail. not google. then i can sign in to both at the same time.

there's been many newspaper articles recently about incentives to be given for working women giving birth. both from the reporter's point of view, which equates to the government's perspective (somewhat) and also from readers.

but firstly, why not let us think, what is the reason for coming up with incentives to encourage birth?

ultimately, it's to hope that women give up their careers for the family. because the government knows fully, that women juggling work and family are not really sought after. because they are seen as less productive then other women who don't have to tackle kids.

bearing children, was, a sign of love between a couple. yet now, benefits have to be given for children to be brought to this earth. is it the fault of our people? i'd say no, it's the fault of the society. how we are distorted to think that males are the dominating sex.

if females taking maternity leave, childcare leave, and medical leave are considered non-productive hence dismissable, what about males having to go for ns and reservice? aren't we both contributing to the country while being away from work? for females, it's for social defence. for males, it's military defence. does that make women inferior?

i understand that women may cause some trouble when they take leaves, especially the long maternity leave, but that doesn't give them the disadvantage of losing their job. after all, it is not worth it for a person to lose his/her job of circa three decades just because of an absence of three months.

i should think that bosses who decide that mother-to-be women are to be done without are those without families themselves. otherwise, i'm sure they'll be able to put themselves in their employees shoes.

so shouldn't the government, or anybody in charge for this matter, make it a rule that all managerial staff should have a family to maintain? by family, i do not mean the mum-dad family, but the husband-wife-childrem family. this would ensure that the welfare of lower-ranking but definitely more important staff is not compromised.

or, if incentives must be involved, since somehow the society loves this word alot, give them partly to employers as well, to encourage them to reserve positions for women undergoing maternity leave, or to encourage them to hire mothers.

hiring mums should be pretty good, since mums are proven (by yours truly) to be more committed to their jobs and more patient to demands. and therefore they are more productive and thus can meet the aim of the firm, which is assumed by economists to be profit maximisation.

if i were to be a mum, while i'm working of course, i'd seriously consider the incentives givento me, in case my boss decides to fire me. unless of course, i'm my own boss. but then, i'd have to consider my oppotunity costs for choosing to give birth. you know, benefits of the next best alternative forgone. imagine if i were my own boss, that'll be prolly of a rather money-making firm, how much i can earn in three months. that will all go to nothing if i take maternity leave and not have incentives. i may suffer from subnormal profits some more, since if i ever become a plastic surgeon, i'd expect my fixed cost to be of a substantial amount.

so if nobody gives me stuff i feel is worth my three months' pay plus all the torture i need through for nine months and the whatever pain i need to succumb to during childbirth and the changing of figure and everything, no, i won't even think of contributing to singapore's population. incentives, i think, are rewards to mums. they totally deserve it, and most likely should be given more.

i shall stop here, this is sounding like a gp/econs essay.

somebody has to make a decision.

i guess when a choice really has to be made, between family and dreams, i'll give up dreams.

yeah. i'm not going to germany.

and racing? some other time i guess. there'll be more races like the nike+ one. the industry's basically made of firms copying each other anyway.

this morning L called for a meeting with three classes, cuz we lined rock bottom for math ct. s25's squashed right below. so therefore, to salvage the condition, we'll be undergoing a crash course on monday after school, followed by a mock test after tuesday's school. all these, to secure us a pass for the lecture test on wed, which constitues five percent of our j1 h2 math grade.

bio topical test on thurs 3-4pm, i already planned to skip german when i knew of this.

but with the addition of math, i guess i'll be degermanified next week.

told my mum my decision, her first reaction was, "then when are you going to hand in the german trip form?"

i told her i've decided not to go. since the family's trying hard to even make ends meet.

she cooked double boiled herbal black chicken soup for dinner. gave me almost half the chicken worth of meat.

and this time yesterday, we were in pretty heated argument.

sometimes i think my mum's a superwoman.

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just after i had the above up on the net, my parents came into the computer room to ask to speak to me.

because they have decided that they will let me go for the trip.

how they will come up with the funds, they say they will think of a way.

now i've just got to wait for herr spindler's reply of a detailed itenary, and somebody to help me hand up the form to him, cuz i won't be there whole of next week.

idk, i wasn't feeling any jubilation when dad said they thought about it and think i should go.
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mom says they're willing to fork out at most $2800 if i go to germany. she says she'll try her best to fulfill my wishes, but still need to put the family first.

she sounded like she was on the verge of tears when saying that.

somehow that made me feel abit guilty about my post yesterday, but i'm still not happy about being barred from racing. sent a german email to my german teacher to ask about the expenses problem.

no test tomorrow! but i think it'll be a long day, there'll prolly be hardcore revision of compre techniques for the test on fri.

i wish there's connect sg on sat. i don't really care if i don't have enough time to study for chem, math and bio next week. math's a goner already anyway. i don't even laugh when i complain to Y that the teacher "squay her squay there, i don't understand at all."

but actually i think i'm fine with differentiation, it's more of the inequalities i'm afraid of. idk what i was doing during the lectures, most likely thinking of how to torture L. he ignores me now btw, and goes all sacarstic when i differentiate something correctly. like, "you actually got it correct!"

was supposed to go for cca today but i didn't because econs test ended at a kuku timing of 4.20 and i had to leave by 5. not much point to travel all the way to wherever the rest are doing house visits at and rush back to try to make it on time for guitar. anw i told mel before my test that i'll be absent, i only changed into the youth partner shirt because W wanted to have somebody change with her.

and it was acutally Z's idea that i skip cdc altogether today, cuz i mentioned about my schedule.

today's like, minimum communication with sebas. i don't know why, but it feels weird. no sms replies and doesn't pick up phone. i hope nothing's wrong.

what has the world got against me?

i'm beginning to consider whether taking up german was a mistake from the very beginning, since 2004. for even, end 2003, cuz that's when the decision was made.

in sec two, the laguange centre offered an opportunity for all sec two students to go to germany. mom said try my luck, apply for it.

they didn't even shortlist me for the interview.

early this year, herr spindler was promoting an exchange program with giessen students. we host them, they host us. mom said don't want to host. which means cannot go.

turns out it's because of my bro, she's afraid the german girl that comes to stay at our house will affect his studies. because she can't scold him while the girl's around.

today herr spindler asked if grace and i wanted to go giessen at the end of the year. becuase though germany sent 21 students over for the exchange program (the same one as above), singapore here booked 25 tickets. so they're looking for another four students.

i was so dammit happy that i could go to germany without hosting the student. so i took the form from herr spindler, thinking that mom will allow this time.

she said no, consider the family's finances.

what's with taking away all my opportunities all of a sudden? first running, then this. dad even said, "wait till you complete your studies."

but who was the one who said to make full use of exchange/immersion programmes in schools? and who said that going overseas with schools provide a whole new perspective of the country?

i don't know, is it just me, or the world's coming to an end. maybe i'll destroy my solar system like the boy in the short story kindergarten. then you'll never hear from me again.

because perhaps tomorrow, i may have been prohibited from even blogging.

running.

gp test was okay today. familiar topic because it's too big a risk if i change to something else. common test, leh.

so when we stepped out of lt 5 at ard 6.30pm, weien exclaimed, "you like, always do on ageing one leh! i remember from our first essay you already do on ageing right!"

yeah. i rmb my first gp essay began like this,

"I personally do not have the luxury of grandparents due to their premature
demise, therefore I am not able to witness first-hand problems the aged face in
our society. However, due to exposure to the media, I have come to realise that
problems faced by the aged in my society are quite real, though actions can
be taken to solve them."

topic? Are the problems faced by the aged in your society real?

so yeah. tomorrow's chem lecture test, on energetics and alkanes. idk, suddenly chemistry seems foreign to me, especially after failing so many topical tests.

and my first chem topical test in jj was actually a full-marks piece of work.

class today was pretty mid boggling though, especially the one and a half hours about photosynthesis. and to think when i first came across that term in primary school i thought the most difficult thing about it was to get the spelling right. now all the new terms come in, special chlorophyll a and all, and i think the hardest task will be to link all the concepts up.

but it's h1 bio.

i was thinking, what if i didn't choose this subject combi? what if i risked and took physics instead?

many things would have changed, good and bad.

i miss aaron. like, my best guy friend. i've effectively registered in my bibliography four years in a class of girls. because 311/411's essentially girl (sorry jiabin and yuhong) and 08s25's pure girl power. our only male tutor's mr low. for now.

nike plus had to send me a mail.

Dear Nike+ Human Race 10k participants,

Each participant must wear the human race tee to run the race on 31st
August 2008, so it is important for you choose a size you are able to run
comfortably in.

We would therefore like for you to re-confirm your tee sizing with us by
18th July 2008,5pm Singapore Time. Please note that all the human race tee sizes
are based on US sizing. This means that if you usually buy from a Singapore
retail outlet a running tee size (L), you might want to consider choosing a size
smaller (M) for the US sizing.

For race tee details, please refer to the human race sizing chart
http://www.nikeplus.com.sg/blog/racedetails/index.htm that will give a more
accurate measurement for each tee size.

Please email us at nikeplushumanrace@nikeupdates.com.sg with the following:

Name:
IC No:
Contact No:
Human Race Tee Size:

Once your tee sizing is confirmed, we will send you a confirmation email.
Availability of sizes is based on a first-come, first-serve basis. If we do not
receive a reply from you by the 18th July 2008, we will provide you the tee
sizing as indicated on your confirmation slip.

Thank you for your understanding and we will, to the best of our ability,
make the necessary arrangements to provide you with the size you have requested
for.

Cheers,
Nike Singapore

i didn't even sign up. unless my mom was feeling apologetic and signed me up. but i doubt. but then again, i hope so.

cuz i like the feeling of running freely.

weien, again, was commenting that i was running very fast during pc today. i was enjoying the spring beneath my new shoes. i was savouring every millisecond of running. but i only replied, "i'm very high today."

fast post, random post.

studying for econs this weekend didn't prove to be very fruitful. haven't cleared up my room yet, though i did attempt a little before venturing online.

tomorrow's paper one of gp ct, essay. i don't know, scoring 34 for the last test does make me feel slightly pressurised for this one. i know i should try another topic, but i guess ct's too big to risk.

went to chinatown this morning, mom bought my brother the lay-on-the-mahjong-table mat. because she found her miniature mj set while rampaging through cupboards two days ago, and my bro expressed his interest in wanting to learn. the mat's so that it won't irritate neighbours downstairs cuz they're playing on the floor instead of a table, since we don't have a mj table.

so now instead of irritating the neighbours, they're irritating people at home, namely me. or my dad, but sometimes he plays too. thankfully the tiles are small, =not that loud. and thankfully my room's pretty concealed from the outside world. and all the while i thought one set of windows (two flaps) is bad.

i have my content pack on my lap, and it's screaming, "READ ME, FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! YOU'VE GOT A TEST TOMORROW!"

but at the same time, the two topics of econs are yelling, "YOU'D BETTER ABSORB MY CONTENTS, OR YOU'LL HAVE A BIG FAT U ON YOUR PROGRESS REPORT."

rahh. there's a lee child book on my bookshelf that looks very tempting.

NO. NOT UNTIL AFTER 24TH JULY.

cuz that's when the big tests end. but then comes promos and everything else.

charmaine was right when she said jc students never have a life. the most we can go is, half a life.

and i'm glad my half involves blogging, friends and heartware. racing may be condemned to the other half, i hope i'll be able to survive without it. mum's not showing any sign of repentance of her banning my participation in races.

i need people online to talk to me. 490th post.

being a faci for cssp earned me 101 cip hours. so this year, up till now, i've got 138 hours under my name. all that's lacking is for the digits to be keyed into jjc's system.

chem olypiad first training was okay. stereoisomerism, pretty much visualising. E-Z isomers are so-called because of the german terms they stand for, e for entgegen (ehn-geh-gen) and z for zusammen (tsu-za-men). but apparently the teacher had zilch knowledge of that.

"why e and z? e is for anti-jen, meaning opposite and z is for su-seh-men, meaning together. it's a foreign word."

AHHHH. wenn Sie keine Idee haben, wie diese Worte rechte sprache sollen, dann einfach, nicht sagen bitte.

but i'm still fine with the teacher luh, since she could explain the chemistry stuff and everything. after all, i think science teachers can't do languages like maths teachers can't too.

[edit] hello seb's friends. the link you want, it's below. my friends, if you're interested in seeing the personal recount of a cannibal, then do visit the link. shannon, i know you feel the urge to enter this other dimension, but i highly advise you against it. seb, if you know you can't take it, don't click.

here: http://youcapturedme.blogspot.com/2008/06/excerpt-from-in-fog-sagawas-post.html. credits to amber's blog. [/edit]

i wasn't feeling really good, but your tags brought a smile to my face. thanks people(:

sebas
thanks, i think so too.
weijie
too? who is the other one with horrible handwriting. sebas arh?
jiabin
whoa you actually remember? i'm still using the pen. just that it has aged and has began falling apart.
jeannie
i wanted something to do on saturdays. haha. mum isn't really glad with me devoting to heartware though.
jon
since erm...i don't know. one fine day i just decided to retake the test and phoom! entp. maybe i'll retake another time and the results will change.

okay. so why wasn't i feeling too great?

because my mum sort of banned me from racing.

i don't know, racing's like, my motivation to run. cuz if there's no race i won't run hard. i wanted to join either the nike+ human race 10k, or the great eastern women's 10k, so i consulted my mum. first she said choose one. so i weighed the pros and cons and discussed with weijie, and decided nike+ would be better.

so i went out of the comp room to tell my mum i want to join the nike+ race, then she said no, don't go race anymore. cuz everytime i do so need to pay a certain fee (nike+'s $25, great eastern's $38), and each year i only study for like, seven months (in her exact words), and i'm already spending so much time on volunteering and my dad's the only one supporting the family. she says if want to run go stadium and run.

i've attempted going to stadium to run. the last time i trained at a stadium was the first run of my first week's training for the saucony 10k. it was 3.2k, running eight rounds of the track was torturous because i had to see the same things eight times.

it doesn't make sense luh. if it was about the money issues, why did she even bother to fork out the money to buy me my nike shoes?

today is not a good day. i cried during math, not because i was laughing too much about the class' jokes. the laughing was to hide the tears, to try to find an explanation for the tears rolling down. because if i told anyone the real reason why, i don't think anyone would understand. but yeah, tears welled cuz of what i was writing in my notebook/diary. then i sent out an sms that was never replied.

okay to lighten things up, since this post is sort of gloomy. after gp, i was about to leave the classroom. weien and the rest were outside waiting for me cuz i always take forever to pack. so finally i got my butt off my chair and began walking towards the door. as i walked past the whiteboard, i heard somebody (a guy) go, "hello?" it sounded like it came from the next door (through the wall) or from the wires below the whiteboard. i stopped my tracks and stared at the wires for a moment.

then, "hello?" another time. this time weien heard it, and she was staring at me/the wires. and suddenly i knew what it was: my phone. on loudspeaker. apparently sebas called me and the phone picked itself up and conveniently put itself on loudspeaker so i could talk to sebas while the phone was in my bag.

i made that last sentence up. but sebas really called me, and i think my phone really picked itself up, either that or i didn't lock my keypad and accidentally pressed a button. i didn't feel any vibration signalling an incoming call.

so. after i realised it was my phone i screamed into my bag (cuz the phone is in a pouch), "wait wait wait!" then got weien to help me throw my styrofoam cup away (i brought drinks into class) while i fished my phone out, then tried to explain to sebas(while laughing like a mad woman) what happened earlier.

pardon the many brackets. i got quite excited typing that. like orbitals going though hybridisation. my fingers felt like they were overflowing with energy, like free radicals undergoing electrophillic addition.

asst head of admin

so yeah, after completing modules two and three of cepp today, melissa announced the exco members of cdc. imma assistant head of admin. my boss is sophia.

met with weijie and sebas for dinner, discussed connect sg stuff and joked around. dinner hasn't been this fun for a loooong time. it was subway student meal btw. tuna!

oh yeah, i have my specs on right now. mummy went out with dad and bro for dinner and to collect my specs. not new specs, replace lens only.

okay weijie if you're here, hi. please tag. and sorry for my atrocious handwriting on the meeting minutes today. i think we took like, 7.50-9.15....85 minutes.

lihuan did the class tee design. it's not bad. and it's purple!(:

footnote: welcome back all people who went to zhejiang. you all were greatly missed. really.

no specs!

LIMITATION ERRORS

inaccuracy in temp measurement, due to the use of 1 deg. c interval thermometer.
using a 1 deg. c thermometer which measures to the nearest 0.5 deg. c to measure a (small) temp change of (insert temp change here) is inaccurate. as a result, there is a high percentage error in the temperature measurements. hence, the calculated enthalpy change of (insert rxn required) is unreliable.
% error= interval/temp change x 100%
improvement: use a 0.2 deg. c interval thermometer which measures to the nearest 0.1 deg. c to improve the accuracy of the temp measurements.
using this thermometer, the % error is reduced from (insert above value) to (insert following calculated value)
% error= interval/temp change x 100%

inaccuracy of vol measurement due to the use of a 50ml measuring cylinder.
the use of a measuring cylinder which measures to the nearest 0.5 cm^3 to measure a (small) vol of (insert volume measured) is inaccurate. as (insert chemical name) is the limiting reagent, the inaccuracy of this vol measurement will cause the calculated enthalpy change of (insert rxn) to be unreliable.
% error= refer to above formula.
improvement: use a burette which measures up to the nearest 0.05cm^3 to improve the accuracy of vol measurement.
using the burette, the % error is reduced from (insert prev % error) to (insert following value) and % error= use that formula again

PROCEDURE ERRORS

difficulty in monitoring the max temp reached while having to stir continuously with the thermometer
the actual max temp reached may have been missed while stirring and hence a k=lower temp could have been recorded. as a result, the calculated enthalpy change of (insert rxn) is less exo.
improvement: use a magnetic stirrer for continuous stirring to ensure that the thermometer is solely used for temp measurements.

the rate of stirring is not constant throughout the whole experiment.
as a result, the rate of cooling is not constant. hence, the cooling graph obtained is unreliable and the max temp derived by extrapolating the cooling graph is therefore inaccurate.
improvement: use a magnetic stirrer to ensure the rate of stirring is constant throughout the experiment.

okay i typed that without my glasses. my eyes are super stressed now. i'm going to sleep. prac tomorrow, in case you were wondering why that chunk o junk's there.

and because i need to get my speacs done, i'll be skipping a portion of scdf training tomorrow. thankfully it's cpr and fire fighting.

i got myself a dad. ho wei jie. waimun's the missing sister, jun guang's the long-lost brother, and seb's the cousin. meeting dad and cousin tomorrow for dinner, after cdc.

gute nacht.

alaris

i got new running shoes!nike air alaris, wanted to get another pair of saucony but the ones at the store either weren't the colours i wanted or didn't have my size.

i'm hoping this pair of shoes can take me through more races. my last two pairs each accompanied me through one race, first one 5km, the prev saucony pair 10km.

wore my sauconys to buy this new pair, sort of like passing-on parade. but i won't make the saucony pair obsolete.

pre-farewell party

all right this sucks. i'm still awake now and tomorrow later's a long day. there's connect sg press mock up on sat, so i won't be able to go down for excel fest. rahh. there's econs make-up before i head to connect sg too.

but wells, at least i got my wr draft one settled. though i cheated abit here and there.

ala first aider, "everything will turn out fine." no murphy, you will not be my friend.

cssp crapping

time spent online today was....crapping with cssp facis and campers. i don't know why tertiary students can still spend so much time online crapping when we're supposed to have more work to do.

scdf training today was fun because i could practice my active participation, esp in the first aid module. farah's hot guy came. he recognises me. to the extent that he refused to let me take off my head bandage. he said, "all can take out! except her!" and points to me.

i'm taking over huiyan and fanddly's place for emcee-ing on friday. super impromptu. but i'll manage.

school's taking its toll on me, i finally found myself swarmed with undone tutorials and miscellaneous tasks. esp project work, dang.

oh yeah. liberation from malay lessons since today. what the school will plan for us for the rest of our time in jj, i think it's better to leave it to fate.

i want 7 july to come soon.

sebas i hope you're not meddling with wires.