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__ Friday, July 18, 2008 ;

I am back in HK from my summer trip! I've gone to Japan and China.

Japan was pretty boring, went to my mum's old home town. What a rural place. I have language barrier, so yeah, expectedly, it wasnt too fun.

In China, i made a couple of new friends. One of them was my uncle's friend's son, who introduced me to his group of friends. Had a great time with them. They have quite similar culture and mindsets to Singaporeans, besides they speak Chinese.

They are having summer holidays too, its supposedly to be a 2 months holiday like everyone else in the world. In reality they only get 6 days holidays out of the two months. They have to go back to school every single day, including Saturday. Really horrible competition there, quite vicious i would say.

I am going to buy a snooker cue today! Im going to be quite serious about it, just like bowling. A serious hobbyist.

Here are some photos I snapped during the trip.

__ Monday, June 09, 2008 ;

AMAZING! I slept from 6pm on friday to 10am on saturday... Its my first tight sleep since the end of the exam. I am so stressed during exam period. Its not the physical exhaustion from long-hour work, but the tensed sensation every single second before the exam.... I am just so damn TENSED! probably its because i worry too much and have put too focus on exams, BUT it determines my future!

Im so bored cos there is nothing to study... We are doing higher education all day, but i just dont have the mood to do any work. i promised to give myself a good break of 2 weeks. you guys wont know stressed i was during exams. i really hope my hard work will pay off. the report card will come soon, perhaps sometime next week.

hong kong has been raining all day long for nearly a week. i dont mind raining, but its quite inconvenient to go out in rainy days... so i just stayed at home most of the time. Went out to snap a few pictures at a place not far from my house. i really dont want my beloved camera and lenses to rot at home.... take a look at the work!

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__ Wednesday, June 04, 2008 ;

OMG, its getting really scary these days... a lot of Higher Education talks and research, I really don’t know what do, maybe you people can give me some ideas and guidance.

I have two main ideas in mind.

Firstly I want to do some money related majors, like Economics, business or finance. I am taking business now, and I really enjoy doing it. Its very logical, and I believe I have the right brain for it. In the exam, there was a question on develop a marketing plan and targeting strategies for a small and innovative business which is very keen in product research and develop. I wrote 2 pages for that 8 marks, and I am really satisfied with the answer. Even if it doesn’t score the full 8 marks, I am still very pleased, its really a well written answer. Hahaha!

But at the mean time, I also want to do engineering. I am thinking about automotive mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering. Basically they are engineering involving cars or aero planes. I like machines and I think I can do well in it.

If I major business, that means I will give up on my strong areas, mathematics and physics. If I study engineering, that means I will give up on business. I like machines, and I also like money and managing people.

Maybe you people can give me some comments. Do you think I am more suitable for being a businessman or an engineer?

Really tough decisions.

Here is a formal copy of verifications for 2009 IB exams. After that, I will head to university.

__ Monday, June 02, 2008 ;

EXAMS are finally all over!

I am feeling high from the bottom of my heart… It’s hard to express my joy… I don’t know how to say, but I suppose most of you have the same experience before.

I have my last two papers today, the two sciences, physics and chemistry. They were pretty manageable.

I take 6 subjects, each has a maximum score of 7 IB points; Full marks for IB is 45.

In order to get into Cambridge, for, say finance, I need about 44.

To get into Imperial/LSE, I need about 40.

To get into University of Toronto, I need about 30.

Just a rough gauge of how IB point works.

The results of this EOY mocks will be used to apply university in the forth coming months. And I have a higher education week now, in which we research about universities and make a rough decision about our future academic arena.

English: It was better then I expected, usually I don’t understand the poem, but I did in the exam… I did an impromptu test in class, I got a 2… horrible score, and it’s a fail. That’s because I didn’t understand what the poem is talking about. This time, I understood, and forced in some literary terminologies into the essay. I hope to get a 4 or 5.

Chinese: Was okay, nothing much… just 2 essays, which were exhausting to write. I wrote about 1200 words each, and it’s a 3 hours consecutive-writing exam. Should score about 5 to 6.

Business: It was such a crappy paper! I revised so much for it, devoting 3 full days, memorizing over 18 theorists and their theory, and nothing was tested. My effort and devotion have all gone down the drain and WASTED! But well, I will get 6/7 too

Maths: Horrible! I also put in a lot of effort into it. I finished one whole blank A4 excise book, which is similar to Nan Hua’s. The maths paper was extraordinarily tough, with question styles that I have never come across before and we only have 2 hours to do 120 marks. When I went into the exam hall, I was thinking I am going to ace this paper, but came out sighing. And still sighing now. I left 42 marks BLANK! Will get 5 or 6 because 20% of it come from a coursework, which I did great in.

Physics and Chem: two subjects I spent the least effort in, two subjects in 1 weekend. They turned out to be manageable too. I think I did well on both of them, will get 7 for both. I have the confidence.

So, at ideally, I will score a 38 points, with 2 bonus points, so all together 40 IB points. It can really bring me to elite universities in the UK, but unis like Cardiff or Bristol shouldn’t be a problem.

Well! It’s all over! Now it’s time for the anxiety of waiting for the disclosure of results, which more or less is going to determine my future.

Slacking for a week, and need to start working again, on 2 essays, 1 report and 1 presentation.

__ Wednesday, April 02, 2008 ;

You all say my hair nerd, i changed, look at this!

My crazy 2-month is coming, im going to work my ass off, man!

__ Sunday, March 23, 2008 ;

Okay... Im going to do some work during the hols... as what i have initially planned, rest 4 days, then start working on monday, and monday is tomorrow. And here is what i have to do during the hols,

Physics Worksheet (12pages)
Chemistry study, cos i didnt understand
Chemistry SPA (graded, and count towards the final score)
Maths revision (I want to get 7 for maths)
English World literature title.. (hassle)
Business IA
Chinese essay x 2 (1600 words each)
Read Much Ado about nothing (By Williams Shakespeare )
Read The outsider (by Albert Camus)

Crazy shit... But for my future, i will mug. hahah!

Anyway, went for a studio session yesterday, edited the photos today and im quite satisfied with those. Enjoy. For more please go to my album.

Click to enlarge the pictures, they will appear much better!

__ Thursday, March 20, 2008 ;

Now then I realised why international school graduates have a higher chance to go into elite universities. Because they are trained in the Uni style of learning, researching and writing... I have roughly decided on my Business Essay title, i will be doing something on Human recourses - Motivation and organisational structure, the details are yet to be approved. Still have two more topics to decide, Maths essay and World Lit essay...

I will be spending my holidays thinking of essay titles... Anyway, i have hols from today to next week. about 1.5week hols for easter.

I went to the flower exhibition, which is a huge event in the spring. There are hella a lot of people... like ants... im going to two portraits session in the coming days, 1 studio and 1 outdoor, looking forward to them...

Some pics from the flower show