omg omg omg, i'm so happy today! the Singapore round for WSC is finally over and after a few months of hard work (particularly the last few days :P) we are going to KL! yepp, with the rest of the teams from DHS too YAY. you cannot believe how nervous, how afraid, how frightening it was when the results were released this afternoon. it started with DHS team 62 (which was zeng's group) being announced. followed by a zillion other schools. as there were only about 18 places (top 50%) for the global round, i was literally praying for a miracle to happen. for us to say hello to KL. my heart was pumping at its fastest rate ever. and i almost hyperventilated.

it seemed like years had passed until they finally announced: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL TEAM 63. so that was my cue. okay our cue, and i (with siow and linny) started screaming hysterically, the loudest and the highest pitched scream i could force out. i knew we attracted loads of stares and perhaps even glares from the others, but that was the least we could care about. WE GOT IN, WE MADE IT. so all the hard work had paid off, mugging the resources till my eyes were dry and sore, till i saw stars, and finally till i fell asleep on the table. i love you guys, this was the moment i was waiting <3 we passed through the debate round exceeding our own expectations (2 out of 3 possible rounds!) and the scholar's bowl was kinda awesome (sorry about the part on modern metropolis, i promise i will strive to recite to you the entire resource by the global round XP).


i was also really happy to be able to get third for literature! zomg literature! for a student who takes geog, this is really a feat haha :D i'm really really shocked when my name is called and i could have probably asked is that me? and before i forget to mention, Mr Ken is a lifesaver gosh. thankfully, the lit session was postponed to last friday. thank goodness our team didn't miss it. perhaps it was all fate? because that session really helped; especially or my essay! haha, "Forrest Gump would have never agreed to go for the operation in Flowers For Algernon" ZOMG. he totally went through that on friday <3

i'm really over the moon right now! perhaps even on cloud 10 hahahahahahaha. i love today. everything's definitely worth it. i will treasure this opportunity.

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so don't stop, believing. credits:leilockheart.me

omg, i know i should very much be doing more productive stuff like reading the WSC notes but today is both great and disappointing. really, ironically. went to eat lunch with friends and i really enjoyed that :D it's really great meeting you guys again hehe. can't wait for the next time! and then met with ching my twin and JC for the glider project.

after spending like 4 hours on the thing, we made 2 prototypes with 2 different kind of wings but both kinda failed. i'm not even sure if it passed the 12m mark zomg. i'm really really quite disappointed. like after stopping at 8pm to try our gliders below JC's block of flats, i was totally like D: will this ever turn out fine? sigh, i think all 3 of us were pretty demoralised and okay i'm still quite unsure what went wrong with our glider so that's the scariest part. it's like material prob? wings too flimsy? glider too heavy? wtp there are a million possibilities. :X

reached home at about 2100 and bathed plus ate dinner. ouch, my leg hurts like crazy too. trust me to forget the number of steps i walked up D: pls ease with rest pls pls pls. i need to be able to walk and not wear slippers to the competition :X pls don't let history repeat itself.

on a side note, i suddenly recalled one of the quotes from forrest gump (oops, one of the very few that i'd remember.. better do more research! XP) "Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far. Far far away from here" -Little Jenny


If i'd had a wish right now, i wouldn't wish for a perfect glider to appear before me, i would just wish for a longer holiday and more time for me to think about it! coz as much as how tiring it might be to do a project, i really kinda enjoy the process. it's like you can't deny that you have had some fun completing the darn thing, you were laughing and you found joy while doing the saikang :D (i'd so rather be doing this than mugging 24/7 seriously)


idk how the others are feeling about this but.. let us get back on our feet and try harder :D (come again?)




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it's gonna be real hard, but i'm gonna be okay http://photosandquotes.net/

at least I got the chance to do stuff that I wanted to today. woke up slightly later (9.30) in months like really (trust that we were still discussing about having a life yesterday wth) it used to be sleeping in on most saturdays since sundays are for me to do stuff but ever since the WSC competition trainings started, i had to forgo that D: but i guess it's sth worthwhile? okay technically, i would have to make it worthwhile this saturday and sunday. gahh stressed ttm and there's still a stack of notes i have yet to study like art and music o.o those two are like the hardest subjects for me zomg.

and last night i'd just finished watching forest gump! okay the movie was alright and i seriously feel sorry for that guy :X he didn't get to have his happy ending after all and although i have yet to read the analysis given by the organizers about this film, i felt that most of his successes were actually because of his personality, his willingness to sacrifice for others. i.e. the reason why he got that medal was because he wanted to rescue his friend and in the end although his friend died, he managed to save a bunch of other people AND the reason why he was able to become a millionaire was because he wanted to fulfill his (dead) friend's wish of setting up some shrimp company :o (and of course investing in Apple's shares LOL)

so it did make me think. perhaps sometimes it doesn't happen that often in real life. like even if you sacrifice so much of your time and effort for others, you might not even get the kind of 'success' that you want. and this is reality. (and that's why it's called a film. fiction fiction and mere fiction).

ahh, tonight i'm gonna finish my LA report and hmm should i send it for vetting? i really cannot take anymore hostile replies or i might just blow my top zomg. maybe i should, maybe i shouldn't but whatever. flip a coin! and tmr, before going to science centre i'm going to finish my summary for the WSC notes on modern metropolis (thankfully it's geog. geog that i learnt last year :D) yepp, hopefully all the stuff i have learnt from all the training sessions (which i sacrificed so many other things for) diffuse into my head when i sleep on my notes tonight. from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration LOL.

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i'm a fox on a mission you're challenging the best here


p.s. OMG, and will you pls just stop preaching about stuff which are so so so so unimportant to me (okay to make it fair, maybe it's important to you but gosh, it's so freaking not to me)