「 dancing away 10:17 pm 」

What is the main job of teenagers? Study! Of course, we have to enjoy ourselves in the process too. As the saying goes, “Study hard, play hard.” Sadly, I just can’t keep the balance. As such, I went to pay the library a visit recently. It was the very first time I went to the library to study properly at the tables. I must say, it gets quite competitive trying to find a good seat and keeping it throughout the day. It was indeed a memorable day for me. Having slept well the previous night, I had no difficulties keeping awake. Also, because I went alone, there was no distraction, not even a single person to talk to. As a result, I accomplished quite a bit that day and I was really happy. Really recommend everyone to give it a shot one day. You won’t regret it!

Too early to think about filling up your subject combination points with a H3 or two? I don’t think so. Selection tests are already taking place for H3 mathematics and I was sitting on the fence, deciding whether to give it a shot. After giving it some thought, I decided not to participate. Hope I’m not missing out. I don’t have a passion for mathematics and I just want to pull through for A’ levels. However, I do have a genuine interest in economics! I enjoy learning new economics concepts and am really keen to enter the business sector in the future. However, I just can’t get the hang of those economics tests. In fact, I’m not doing well for Any subject test for that matter. I’d really like to fill up that last subject combination point with H3 economics. As such, I really need to buck up to make it through any selection test in the near future.

Here comes the topic that I never miss out – Choir. This week, we got blasted by our conductor Ms. Lim. It was hell, yet it felt good. I’ve never seen any teacher scold college students to this extent before. As usual, we didn’t do our homework of memorising the scores. However, this time, we were told not to refer to our scores. Furthermore, Ms. Lim suddenly wanted the choir to sing on its own without a conductor. I then realised that we were always relying on the conductor, be it Ms. Lim or our student conductors, to provide us with the feelings and emotions of the song. We crumbled. It all came crashing down. She didn’t stop to encourage us. No, she didn’t. She went on, and on, and on. Since there wasn’t any sky, it felt like the ceiling would fall. Yes, I was affected like everyone else and we sang badly, again and again, song after song. However, a part of me was smiling. “We need this wake-up call,” I told myself. It was just a week to our concert and we have not even internalised the songs. We were trying to refine them. It was all a big joke. Clearly, our foundations were not set right. I could feel it “shaking” then. Wow, never had such dramatic CCA sessions. We’d better do something before its too late, before we tarnish the Hwa Chong brand.

Scary.

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「 dancing away 12:18 am 」

I’ve been bragging repeatedly for the past few weeks about choir and how it takes up so many hours a week. My father had already anticipated this since the start of the year and has been reminding me time and again to manage my time wisely so as to keep up with my lectures and tutorials. Of course, I didn’t. He wouldn’t have to keep reminding me if I could. However, when I look around to the other choristers, they never seem to have a problem about turning up for extra practices sessions to meet those unreasonable deadlines. In fact, they are the ones who initiated these sessions. Are they coping well academically? Or is it just me? I don’t think they would want to fail their tests too right? That’s why I keep thinking I just need more time to study than they do.

Speaking about studying, it just turns me off. It’s not just about finding time to settle down and study. Even when I finally do find the time, focusing is an even bigger problem. Furthermore when I get stuck at a question, there is a high tendency to spend even more time revisiting the question again. However, I always console myself to the fact that I’m not alone and many other people face the same problem. Then again, that’s no excuse.

Not long ago, Wentao, our class assistant CT representative, sent an SMS to our class regarding Miss Tengara wanting our class to carry out a class CIP project that I, as the welfare representative, would be in charge of. Until now, I have not approached her regarding it. Over the weekend, I have thought over what we as a class can do. I must say, our class, 06S64, is quite a unique class. From an outsider’s point of view, we are a bunch of lazy people who cannot be bothered to do anything other than those which are compulsory. However, as an insider, I feel that our class is a very mature and fun-loving class. I enjoy being in 06S64. But taking everything into consideration, I feel that it would not be appropriate to organize a trip out of school to carry out CIP. After all, the turn up would not be good.

As such, I have two proposals. First, we can find a way to sell food items in the canteen like how the netball team has sold ice-cream. Another feasible food item would be waffles (yum-yum). Then, the profits received would be donated to charity. Secondly, we can invite external vendors such as Bread Talk or Old Chang Kee to bring in their products into the school canteen and we can sell them as a class. Before they step in, we could arrange a deal with them to donate part of the earnings to charity. I feel that the idea is brilliant! We do not even have to step out of school and we can do our part for the community. After all, money does make the world go round. As for the other aspects of CIP where service is involved, we’ll leave it to another time when the class is ready.

That’s all for now!~

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