blog no.b37086

Before the HSC

student no.b37086 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:39:48 +0000

It is now 9:25 pm, 16th of October, 2008.

There are exactly 12 hours, 0 minutes until my first HSC exam, English Paper 1.

How do I feel?

I don’t know.

Because I know I won’t stuff up.

But I also know I won’t ace the exam either.

So how should I feel?

Preparations are going well, I can manage the time limit.

My short story is good, but not as good as I would like it to be.

This will be the last entry I make for another two and a half weeks until that fateful day, Nov. 4, which I will forever remember as the day I was set free.

Free, haha, I laugh at that word. It meant so little before, and it means so little now. But I’m sure it’ll be a good day.

I doubt any fellow 2008′s are reading this,

but I just want to wish the thousands of HSC students

good luck

and all the very best.

See you all once we come out the other end.

BTran

Posted in Dates/Events/Reminders, Musings, School/Uni Life

The quiet of night.

student no.b37086 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:32:19 +0000

Have you ever been up late at night and just realised how quiet it is? I love it. No cars, no birds, nothing. Everything is still in my house, besides me, typing away at my keyboard. Darkness outside, inside, rather than “scary”, I find it’s like a protective covering. It gives me a kind of strange privacy from neighbors, my parents.

Did I mention how much I like this silence? Oh, I did?

My work rate increases exponentially as the hours go past 11, ticking into early early morning of the next day. From 4 in the afternoon til 8 after dinner-ish, I’m pretty bludgy. It’s just so much easier to concentrate and focus when everybody else is asleep, and it’s all quiet and peaceful. Besides, there’s also the added pressure of “must finish before I go to sleep”.

Well, this concludes my day, got some decent study and work done just a moment ago. Time to go to bed.

Nighties.

Sometimes the title I want to write will get me sued by a major company with its own lawyers.

student no.b37086 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:07:06 +0000

Yesss, well, haven’t been here for a while now. And as you can see, I am evidently quite bored and will post up something dodgy. At least, dodgy-er than usual. “Dodgier” doesn’t seem like a word.

This was ages ago, but most people will recognise this is the 4:30 Channel 7 news. I’m quite a fan of Channel 7 news, I have no idea why. But here’s the pictures I took:

funny facial expression

lol face + typo

SO!

Who here can spell “Adealaide”?

Not only that, but the guy’s face was so retarded when I took the picture. XD Hilarious

I am quite slack.

The Trials are Here

student no.b37086 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:16:50 +0000

First exam from 9:05 to 11:15 was English Paper One today, examining us on a section of Reading Comprehension style questions on unseen texts, a section on creative writing provided with a stimulus, and the third section as an essay question on the Area of Study, which is journeys.

As a whole, it was a fiasco, I didn’t justify myself very well in the first section, while I didn’t finish my creative writing piece =(. The essay question was reasonably simple, without any tricks.

Since 3:00 pm, I have been practising from tomorrow’s Paper Two, consisting of the three modules we have studied this year.

It is now 6:15. Having spent three consecutive non-stop hours of hard work, I got a fright. When I looked up at my computer screen, everything seemed to be unfocused! My eyes appear to have gotten better, but words are still a little hazy…

I must have concentrated too hard on my own writing. This is really scary. I’m gonna take a rest break now, and hope my eyes aren’t f***ed up.

Good luck to me for tomorrow.

On Myself

student no.b37086 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:15:46 +0000

Having achieved poor marks in assessments quite a while back now, I gave up on games (more specifically, computer/video games) for a while, just as one might give up smoking, or some other ‘addiction’ (not that I was addicted to games of course). The purpose was quite obvious: to focus on school work and my studies.

Unfortunately, it seems my marks have not increased quite as much as I would have liked. True, my English has improved quite a bit, but in areas such as Maths and Biology, I am still sadly lacking. It seems that my habit of ‘bludging’ extended past gaming.

I found myself easily distracted. Suffice to say, my piano skills have improved admirably, but my studying skills have not…

With Trials coming up in a week and a bit, it is worrying. What’s slightly comforting, is that there is about a month between the Trials and the real HSC. Time to get seriously serious. Seriously.

Today

student no.b37086 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:34:46 +0000

Today is the 23rd of July, 2008. It is a rather special date, and I’ll tell you why.

- Today is the second day of Term 3.

- Today was @(#&$! cold.

- The bus came on time (OMFG really?), yes it did. But I still didn’t have a seat so anyway…

Among other trivial things, there were more important events.

- I received my Biology paper back (11 for those who understand) o~O

- I received my English Advanced paper back (18/20), thus proving to myself the past three times (14/15, 18/20, 14/15) were not flukes and making myself very happy for the rest of the day. =D

- I realised how screwed I am for Trials. Which is better than realising how screwed I am the day before English Paper 2.

Other things must be recorded here for the sake of it:

- I skipped breakfast, recess and lunch without eating.

- Our hockey game was s***, drew 1-1 with Northmead. And I killed a guy’s finger in the process. Jasper scored. And I dribbled and passed the ball like a monkey.

- I walked home, and here I am now, typing away.

To happen today:

- Will have dinner (I am starving)

- Will have a shower

- Will study my arse off (metaphorically/symbolically)

- Will study my Physics textbook

- Will revise my English essays.

- Will go to bed feeling dead and stoned.

What a happy four weeks it’ll be…

And so many people say “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix is a great song. Perhaps I don’t get it, but I can’t see what’s so great about it. ??? Enlighten me if I’m ‘wrong’. However, the beginning chords sound like “One Winged Angel” by Nobuo Uematsu.

I am defragmenting my Comp at the moment, but it doesn’t seem to do anything. Except lag my comp like CityRail.

Back to studying my figurative arse off. If it hasn’t come off already.

Eggs

student no.b37086 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:21:39 +0000

Who decided to tell me that you couldn’t break an egg by squeezing it with bare hands?! Graaaceee!!!!!

Most unfortunately (and stupidly too) I decided to test that hypothesis. Two friends attempted the daunting task and failed. My first go gave me a surprise! These little eggs sure were tough! Ok, let’s see how hard I can squeeze before I give up…

*Bang*

And sure enough, it exploded. All over my pants. And the floor. And around the sink. Like great…out with the mop, hopefully my mum wouldn’t come into the kitchen…meanwhile the two idiots are laughing…

It turns out eggs have a nice oval-ish structure that provides great strength when pressure is applied. The force is absorbed throughout the shell, “compressing” the material together. So most of the time, people can’t break eggs by squeezing.

Looks, like I have the Iron Fist yes? =)

On a happier note:

student no.b37086 — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:09:38 +0000

My Open’s Hockey team finally won it’s first game of the season. Our record stands at 1:1:3 (wins, draws, loses)

James Ruse 2 : 0 Kellyville

Jasper (1min)

Me =) (40min)

For once our team found some rhythm and we created many scoring chances, while our goalie only had to make two saves. GG.

Coincidence

student no.b37086 — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:00:57 +0000

I had an interesting experience while sitting in the toilet. No joke.

I removed the empty toilet paper roll, and replaced it with a full roll

…

for the fifth time this month.

My visits to the household stink room seem to coincide with a running out of paper. I won’t go into details about who takes the most shats in one day in my family, but this is rather strange. A new record.

Call me strange, wierd, dirty… I couldn’t help noticing. Why did I blog this? Perhaps you yourself are the pre-ordained toilet roll changer and have never noticed it.

Speaking of dirty and distasteful jokes/humour, here’s one to think about:
—What’s the first thing you do after chuck a piss/crap?

You take a look at it. o.O I dunno what people (myself included) expect to see, but oh well.

A Day After Exams

student no.b37086 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:41:57 +0000

Only yesterday, many Year 12s of the grade ’08 finished their term 2 assessments. Needless to say, we were all very relieved, though some were rather disappointed. To those who still have exams on Monday, wish you all the best (Mod, VA, Jap Ext, PE, Drama and French Ext) while those who have finished enjoy their day off.

As for me, I decided to reward myself on the day after exams (today) by sleeping at the ungodly hour of 2 in the morning and waking up a mere 5 1/2 hours later at 7:30 to go grumpily to Maths tutoring. Oh yes, nothing like a day at your maths tutor to relax after the exams. Soothing for the soul indeed. So from 9 am until 4pm in the afternoon, I indulged myself in listening to the grand instruction of my maths tutor. It’s at times like these, we are able to appreciate the meaning of having a life.

It is now 12:30 am local time (E.S.T) and I will happily (for the first time in 7 days) be going to sleep before the time of 2 am. For anyone interested in getting to know me better (somehow) here’s a little insight into my exciting nightlife —-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia.

Goodnight.