Monday, September 22, 2008

2008中文B年终考试

9月22日 天气:晴

考试快要来了,压力越来越高。明天,年终考试就开始了,我其实认为自己还没有足够地准备。属于说:“平时不烧香,临时抱佛脚”。我幸好相当早地开始温习功课,但是这也好像是不够的。

然而,我不因该写上个周发生的事情,因为陈老师今天在华文课之中再三讲解各种问题的格式。她在谈日记时,总是强调:要写当天的事情,或昨天的事情;不应该写很久以前的事。

中文B的考试就是明天早上,我希望能得到九十分以上,因为我已经知道口试成绩相当理想,所以九十分不是不可能拿到的成绩。要是我能在理解问答和文章回应考到不错的成绩(不少于36分,满分40分),九十分的可能性就会不错。为了预备这个考试,我不但温习一些虚词,而且也记起各个文体的格式。

今天,在体育课时,我们在水里玩橄榄球。虽然我个人的运动技巧不是那么好,但是我不但发现到个人可以进步的地方,而且玩得非常快乐!幸好我没有受伤;游戏结束后,家荣的眼睛好像有一个小红点,好像眼里的血管有问题,也许是因为有人撞到他的头部。我希望以后有更多机会跟其他同学一起做这些运动,因为运动不但让我增强自己跟同学之中的友谊,而且也让我锻炼自己的身体。

wordless

i guess this is something i've been thinking about for a while, amidst the backsliding of my physics marks (from the practice papers: from 90-ish at mid years to hovering around 80 now).

recently when finding some spare time i've read some of this book - "the race" by the bishop, dr. robert solomon. one of the images that the book painted in my mind, though somewhat cliched, is the idea of a guy climbing a ladder all through his life, only realising at the top that he'd climbed the wrong ladder, largely misguided by others around who cheered him on (probably symbolic of society in general). hence, what the book says (and what we can infer from this) is that we should be careful that we don't merely go where society wants us to go, but rather follow what we value, whether for christians this be following God, or for non-christians perhaps something else like inner peace, an ethical life, etc.

i find that in many ways i'm pushing upwards along a ladder, both in the way i do things as well as in the way i tend to neglect some other things. there've been many things external to schoolwork that i've wanted to do, yet not really considered as they're blocked out by the volume of schoolwork in the foreground. schoolwork in the sense of not only academics but also CCA related work and all. i want to spend more time with my friends, especially some of those i haven't talked to in a while, re-learn piano and guitar, finish scripting a touhou game, et cetera. the list goes on and on...

im not sure how i'll do it. even the holidays / post exam period don't look very appealing, with cas documentation, ee and what other random stuff it might bring.

then again even if i'm generally focusing on the ladder, i know i'm not climbing it properly. the physics paper i did today, or rather yesterday night, made me really unhappy:

Q12 Suppose you have a ball that rolls off a table horizontally at velocity of v. It hits the ground t seconds later at a horizontal distance x from the table. then, you have a heavier ball roll off the same table at the same velocity v. (Take air resistance to be negligible)

a) it hits the ground t seconds later, x from table
b) it hits the ground t seconds later but less than x from table
c) it hits the ground x from table but less than t seconds later
d) it hits the ground less than t seconds later and less than x from table.

i chose b. i feel *very* stupid now. (answer is a. time is same because the acceleration of free-fall, g = 9.80655ish ms^-2 is independent of mass. and then, think of it in the sense of projectile motion - horizontal velocity is equal to v in both cases, so if the ball can travel for the same time, then x must be the same.)

its not just physics. the other subjects are falling backwards as well. exams are starting in 2 days, and i haven't even done a thing for comp science! =x

but worse than that, in other, more important areas, i'm beginning to falter, if i haven't already been doing so. relationships, lateral and vertical, but most importantly, vertical......

was it something i said
or something i never did,
or was i always in the way?

Friday, September 05, 2008

heartful cry

i like that song... from persona 3 fes soundtrack.

anyway.

just figured i should write something.

as for why i don't know.

life's pretty normal now i guess... mostly back to mugging, with a bit of time carved out here and there for friends as well as relaxation, i've been playing some touhou over the holidays as well (grr almost 1cc PCB hard, fail on resurrection butterfly)... work's going not very well but still acceptably.

jk.