some pictures...

These are pretty random~ just felt like sharing. :)
pics are from my phone.


the arch in the middle is the entrance to orchard station... its a pretty bad picture.


this is one if the bus stops i use most frequently... the one near cineleisure.
btw these pics are taken frm the front seat of the a double decker bus. Bus number 7 to be precise (: i was coming home from the library. and here's a pic of the library i spent many many hours in. and will be spending a few more hours there in the next 2 weeks:


its quite nice actually.

and this is me and swati in KFC for lunch on friday after my bio exam.
heyi just realised u can see dom in the background.its actually a mirror...so he's in front of us. haha.

so thats it for my random picture update. :)

oh guess what.
i planned to go to the queenstown library today. took a bus down (bus ride was only about 3 mins. its 3 bus stops away) but to get to the lib i had to walk about 10 mins. well probbaly less if u walk really fast. anyway. so i got to the library and guess what? its closed! so i decided to go to a different library. since i was there, it was easy to get on an mrt and go to jurong or something. the jurong lib is nice. i could see the mrt line, but i didnt know where the nearest station was. i could have taken any bus that goes down that road (which runs parallel with the mrt line) and get off where the mrt station is. but i decided to walk instead. so i walked... and it was a pretty long walk! and yeah... when i finally got to the mrt station i realised: if one library wasnt open because today's a public holiday (because today's voting day...) then all the other libraries would be closed too! so instead of getting on a train, i crossed over to the other side of the road, and waited for a bus instead. the walk all together was about 30 mins long. i wanted to get a bus to go to Holland v instead. i had to wait 15 mins for the bus. but 196 came by 3 times! and 105, the bus that i waited 20 mins for before (after piano lessons) came by twice. well anyway. the bus finally came and i went to holland v to study instead. went to starbucks. since i havent been ther in a while... i was getting my drink when all of a sudden this voice spoke behind me "do you come here often?" so i turned and it was melissa! so anyway. i said hi and i said no i dont. and she was already going home since she was there the entire morning. and iw as just arriving. aah i felt so bad that she was there the entire morning. cuz this uh.. 'morning' i got up at 12.
anyway. in starbucks.. i was sitting on the sofa... reading my english stuff... then all of a sudden the sofa started vibrating! so i thought it was my phone and checked my phone and there was nothing going on. then my chair vibrated again! so i searched around for a phone of some sort and found one in the side of the sofa... its one of those thin motorola ones... so i answered it and the guy on the other side was like "Hi i left my phone somewhere.. where is my hpone??
hahaha. so anyway. i told him its in starbucks. and he asked if i could leave it with the staff so being such a nice person, i did. :) oh and when the staff came to clear up the table and i passed the phone to her, she said "you're so nice!" haha.
so anyway. at the end of the day i did get work done (read through 2 plays and took note of some quotes i should know) :)
i should stop now. its getting a bit long and boring.

oops.

mummy saw that post. thats okay. as long as pa hasn't...
she thinks i should delete it in case he finds his way here. but i doubt he would. plus i dont want to delete my post... theres no point having a blog if its all happy cheery i love everyone everytime. plus im no longer anoyed at him anyway.

my template sorted itself out. its no longer messed up. :) at least thats what it was like when i last saw it~

im getting a headache again. i dont know why... its not like it was super sunny or anything today.

halfway there!

Geog: DONE
Bio: DONE
English: p2 left (monday next week)
Math: p3 left (monday week after next)
French: friday next week
Chem: Thursday and Friday week after next

So counting papers... ive done 8. i have 7 more to go.
counting exam seatings, ive done 7. 5 more to go. :)

This week has been extremely exhausting. I guess so far the worst paper ive done is my bio paper 2 yesterday. about an hour into an exam i got myself a really bad headache. plus i couldnt answer an entire section (they gave us this electron microscope photograph and made us lable to what they're pointing to. and it wasnt a normal cell it was osmething like... pancreatic islet something....) so anyway. i felt like puking halfway through probably cause of a combination of lack of sleep, extreme headache and frustration for not knowing much in the whole section. anyway. i sorta whizzed through the rest of the paper and tried to close my eyes to stop the friggin pain. um yea. so that was my bio paper. didnt go so well. Today's bio paper was SO much better! i love the questions :) just as i loved the first question(only the first.. and sort of the second. but nothing else!) from geography(about drainage basins...) so overall, i can probably kiss a 7 goodbye, but i guess 6 isnt too bad...
Math was a lot better. i guess all that hours and hours of revision really paid off. if i got everything i did right on p1 i might make it over 75% :) compared to the failing grade i was getting during the mocks, thats very good. oh, and i might also pass paper 2. haha. pass....
english was good too. i liked the poem and the prose they gave. i did the poem. it was all good. i think i wrote a lot more than my usual english papers. (i cant really tell cuz they give us official exam paper to write on with very large spaces between lines... )

its so strange to think i'll never do geography ever again. i mean, ifi really go on and do pharmacy (which i most probabaly wil cuz if not i have NO CLUE what else id be doing) then i would never have to worry about geography! bio.. i guess i will be doing a bit of bio. :) i'll miss bio class tho. i like bio. :) in a strange way, i actually enjoyed my bio revision last night. The 2 option units were pretty straight forward stuff. sort of just need to memorise lots. haha. but its satisfying to be able to describe entire processes of things that go on the body from the top of your head! after effective revision that is. so i was glad that the revision paid off and p3 was good. :)

After paper 3 bio this morning i went to jurong point with swati and dom for lunch and a movie. i havent been to the movies for a very long time. i think. i dont remember the last movie i watched. anyway. today we wtached MI:3. it was good. i think i deserve a little break after this week. :) dont worry tho i will resume revision mode tomorrow. might drag myself out of bed early and head to the library.

so anyway. now im home and i feel like sleeping. its already 6. i could sleep til 8? :)

i dont do many posts like this... if im on diary-x it would have been password protected.

After so many times of getting teary eyed and all that about school ending and stuff, i finally cried. But strangely enough, for a completely different reason something almost completely opposite because it made me WANT school and the exams and everything about it to end.

Of all times, he had to choose last night, when he's gonna be spending the next two days at home because its the weekend(o right. and monday too since its a holiday). and what sucks most is that he's partially correct. Honestly tho. i DID try looking for stuff and finding out things but u dont know how HARD it is to find anything on university websites! anyway in the end somehow managed to find something on it when he's there and then he started shouting at me for not knowing anything about anything. and its all so stupid. the whole NUS thing. so apparently its starting in august. i didnt hand in my b2 form to Mary Toh cuz i forgot it on thursday and i thought i would have time anyway and didnt need it. that form is so that my results get sent directly to the universities once they come out. so since i didnt hand it in ill have to send my result to NUS by myself. which is something i was prepared to do until last night. THen again im not THAT keen on going to NUS. k. NUS starts in august. i wont be applying to the 2 other aussi unis until once my IB results are out. but then their term starts in february. so i wont hear from them instantly right?? and if say i DO get accepted by NUS then its not like i have a choice to make yet because i dont know about the aussi universities yet! in a way im hoping i dont get into NUS. to make sure i dont get into NUS i cant do so well in my IB. which is of course an extremely stupid goal. but if i do get accepted thers a high chance ill be stuck here in singapore for the next 7 years AT LEAST. (4 yrs uni, and 3 yr bond) . that sorta sux. and i sometimes see myself trying to find my way around a foreign place already. in australia that is. by myself. cuz its just... exciting. and in a way i really want to go off on my own. anyway. my point is... im stressed about exams and my stupid exam schedule, im feeling extremely guilty for not handing in my b2 form to mary toh, i was working on this (prove RHS=LHS) math question and getting absolutely NO WHERE with it and being extremely frustrated, then he has to come in and ask me about uni and my applications and then blame me for not knowing anything when i have personally talked to the uni people who wont tell me anything! then he goes out saying, "better go sleep early" which makes absolutely no sense at all since it was already about 1am when he came in.

so today, not wanting to spend any time with him, i spent very many hours in the library again (although this time i did so little compared to what ive been doing on other days especially yesterday. i cant concentrate when im pissed off) and managed to escape getting a lift to the library with "the sun's out, i feel like walking" which was actually quite true because the sun does get rid of depression and i like the sun. its not a very long walk anyway. and its 2 bus stops down. i got on the bus listening to one song on my mp3, and the same song was still playing when i stepped offf the bus. the walk from the bus stop to the library however was quite long. but on thursday i actually walked from the library back home and i quite enjoyed it.

tomorrow i wont be in the house again. im getting sick of sitting for hours in the library by myself so instead, im going somewhere to work with amy. somewhere with food and more people. i need to decide what to revise tomorrow tho. i feel like theres so much more to revise. but i think ive pretty much covered everything for bio and math, and geo i need to learn things like statistics and case studies which is a whole lot of memorising, which i tried already, and got memorised, some of them, but i usually forget after a while, so its one of those things i have to learn in the 3 hours i have before going into the first geo exam on tuesday after english paper 1. i need to do the same for biology. ive studied the DNA stuff, muscle and movement stuff, and respiration and photosynthesis stuff (anything with long processes) quite a few times and at times i know them very well off by heart but after a few days i try to write it down on paper from scratch and i have lots of gaps not knowin what enzyme goes where, whats the name of certain things and different number of carbons, getting NAD and NADH mixed up and all that. my brain feels like its overflowing, and all these little bits and bobs keep falling out and getting lost. and it sucks cuz i keep having to go back and look for them in the txtbk and then at the same time, trying to think of that it links to another topic and i realise i dont remmber that as well! and its all very frustrating. and my math tutor wont come tomorrow because he 'cant make it' i dont know WHY. so he's coming on monday morning instead which is a bit last minute! agh. damn him. he gets on my nerves so much sometmes. i hope tomorrow is the last time ill see him ever again. since he doesnt know much about binary operations, sets and groups anyway, for my p3 exam.

so if uve read the entire thing (and i thank you for that) then u could probably see why i finally had a breakdown. The last time that happened was before mocks. mocks was pretty stressful too. since my first exams in grd 11 was pretty crap. i managed to improve a lot, so that was very motivating. but now that motivation is sorta fading especially with the thought of going to NUS if i miraculously do very well.

dont tell me its silly. i know.

jie/hl, if u read this, dont u dare breathe a word to mum or pa or i will personally strangle you when u get back. i guess i should get rid of my blog address on msn...

i'll get over the frustration and anger at(?) him after a while.
or so we hope.

btw, if u have to look good the next day for some reason, crying yourself to sleep the night before is not a good idea. unless u desperately want a double(for those who dont have) or even triple eyelid.....

goodnight.

exam exam exam exam...

ive been reading lots of blogs with interesting things but guess what? i have nothing interesting to say. so instead ill be complaining about exams.

Revision isnt going as well as planned. im STILL behind schedule. its scary how much we've learnt over the past 2 years. and to have to remember everything for an exam where less than half of everything we've learnt will come up just sucks. o ya, i was looking thru my bio notes from GCSE cuz i remember having a really good diagram in there i could learn for IB... instead of their complex diagrams in the txtbk cuz its the same thing anyway. so i got out my bio folder from GCSE and i just realised how litttle we had to know! my entire gcse bio folder is less than half of whati have for IB. for gcse i had one folder. now i have 2. and they're over the top full... ok. i guess if i organised my notes a bit id have a bit less but most things in ther are very useful!

this is my exam schedule...

Week1
Tuesday: english SL 1h30m, geo HL P1 1h30m Total:3h
Wednesday: GeoHLP2 2h30m, mathHLP1 2h Total:4h30m
Thursday:MathHLP2 2h, BioHLP1&2 3h15m Total: 5h15m (DIE! *cry*)
Friday: BioHLP3 1h15m

Week2
Monday: EnglishSLp2 1h30m
Friday: FrenchSL p1&2 3h

Week 3
Monday: MathHL p3 1h
Thursday: ChemSL p1&2 2h
Friday: ChemSLp3 1h

ok so it gets A LOT better in week 2 and 3, but i dont get how the IBO managed to get all my higher level subjects on the first week. ITS NOT FAIR!

maybe i should go and stop complaining. im sure lots of you hvae heard enough.
bye.

graduation is in one month...

more pictures

Instead of posting everything on the blog, i decided, or rather mjelva decided i should get a webshots thing.. which is what i did. so here are the rest of the pictures:
http://community.webshots.com/user/enarual

yea it proved quite useful since its easy to use and takes little time to upload.

enjoy. :)

oh, and thanks sheila for the pictures u sent.

-laurane

So this is it.

Our last day of school.
We had the awards assembly today. Us grd 12's are on the bleachers! it was quite fun to watch the rest of the school squish uncomfortably on the floor... :) after all, i have done that for 3 years. (then again there are people in my grade who's been here since grade 4, so they must have been more satisfied than me!) After the assembly, we had our final tutor group session where we finally got our Footprints book. then we had our own grd 12 assembly, and we watched this video made by some people.. there was a videogame fight sorta thing (think streetfighter!) that they did which was really good! and funny. :) and stuff... then we had a barbeque at labrador park, west coast. and it was all good and fun. haha.
so anyway... my camera sort of died after monday*cry*... so here are some pictures from Rockstar Day (monday). and as soon as i get pictures off people for the other days i will post them up!


katriona, me and jasmin

dom as Billie Joe (Greenday) and me


me, maya, rachel


sheila and i


the village people :) (jason, stefan, arnout, mjelva, adam) did i get the names right?


wanda, amy, me


me and swati looking uber cool


the girls


yj, cinnie, lyn, maya

jo and i


oystein (not sure dressed up as who...)




helen, aashima and ritz


me and melissa (as blondie)


Dudley (as Kiss band member)

so. like i said, my attempts to dress up sorta failed, but it got better over the next 2 days so u need to wait for pictures.
hope you liked the rockstars! next set of pictures will bring to you people like mahatma ghandi, victorian maids, and chinese zombies. haha

-laurane