Here we go again.

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Read me first of all! Although I've opened up access to this blog, and some of that post is no longer applicable, the rest of it is still important. If you don't like my blog or disagree with my portrayal of events, take it up with me civilly and personally, don't go running to authority figures.

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After the disastrous failure last year, I more or less abandoned the idea of keeping my blog alive. However, I recently attended a talk by Neil Humphrey (columnist for the straits times and author of several books) in which he exhorted us to write, and it inspired me to pick up where I left off.

Anyway. Today was the final round of the SSEF, the Singapore Science and Engineering Fair, and my school forced the Year 4s, 5s, and 6s to attend. We were sent to the Science center annexe (where the exhibition halls are) to walk around the SSEF finalists' posters and learn. I had a very low opinion of the (non-NUSH) SSEF participants, as I was given to understand that they were uncreative labtech wannabes; basically doing legwork while their mentors provided all the creative input. However, I must say I was most surprised at the quality of the work and the understanding the students had of their projects. Of course there were the occasional failures - projects that had no theoretical basis, few experimental results, inadequately justified conclusion, and the like, but on the whole the physics and math projects were beyond my level of understanding. Really helped me reaffirm my faith in the project competitions of today. I guess the SSEF really is one of the best project competitions.

Anyway, I eventually got swept up into a group of students touring the math posters, and didn't manage to extricate myself before 5. By then I'd realized I'd be hopelessly late for my piano lesson (thursday 7 p.m), so I called the relevant parties to postpone it.

After that, the rest of my class decided to go on a class outing, so I just got kinda swept along to Jurong Point. As half my class are hostelites, they had to first get permission from a certain hostel mistress to miss a certain compulsory hostel activity. Once they got her consent, we happily trooped off the the golden village theater in Jurong Point and got ourselves 20 tickets to see Rango (animated flick featuring the voice talents of Johnny Depp). Then we went to Banquet for dinner. When we left Banquet, however, disaster struck. The aforementioned hostel mistress called up a representative hostelite and demanded that they return for the hostel activity, as we lacked adult supervision. Now, you'd think that something as crucial (to her) as that would have merited at least a passing mention in the first call, but noo. After much debate, we eventually decided that the hostelites would change their tickets to those of the Saturday screening. A real inconvenience for everyone, but c'est la vie.

Anyway, Rango wasn't bad, but nothing to write home about.

Oh! By the way. My A-Level math results came back! All As, and all above 90 (except statistics, which got 89). Pity, though, as I expected full marks for everything (except statistics). For those who don't know, I took C1, C2, C3, C4, M1, S1, and FP1 at edexcel in January, so now I"m the proud holder of 2 A-level Math certificates, university application, for the use of. Actually, between these and my 2190/2400 SATs, I'm pretty much ready to go for Uni, if I had the balls to apply (and I don't). Honestly, waiting 2 more years (+ NS, 4 more years) would only get me an extra HS diploma (and fingers crossed, AIME high distinction?) and would take the shine off my current certificates.

Also, short-term-consequences: gonna have to bargain harder with my parents to get a new MacBookPro. After all, if I'd gotten 100/100 in everything (and I wasn't too far off, only mechanics, C3, and S1 were below 95) my parents would have been only too happy to get me a shiny new MBP. Oh well. Que Sera Sera.