Day 1 -

I just think I did badly.

IHS: rawr. 20 mark question on conflict and governance which I didn't expect. i agreed with the statement to a small extent, and put forth well, not many points (that it is counterproductive - votes for services scheme, presentation as being distant and instilling a fear syndrome; productive - NMP/NCMP, GROs, and the economic, crisis and ethnic management policies put into place.)

the problem is there is some ambiguity in the question - 'wooing opposition voters' can mean 1 of 2 things - causing more people to vote for the PAP, or alternately inclining more people to vote for the PAP. Similarly, counter-productive can be either way - more votes, or more inclination.

i think i should have chosen to write on votes. because if you write on votes, you can bring in the fact that complaints do not transmit to votes ('whinging and winning'), and the depoliticisation of the electorate. since i wrote about inclination, there wasn't much to do really in the ways of challenging the question - i could only push in some bits on possible future speculation in the conclusion, supported by some evidence from the passage and my own knowledge.

i had no time anyway. bad time management.

good/ok/bad/die: 0/0/1/0

Lang Arts - unseen: I did the poem - Seamus Heaney's "Digging". then i went to read some online analyses on it, and i feel that though my analysis is ok, it's very superficial. i wrote something on the importance of discipline and toil for one to develop expertise - then when i read analyses online i found that most of them seem to be some kind of commentary about the relationship between the father and son. so, i'm quite screwed.

good/ok/bad/die: 0/0/2/0

and now i slept rather than mugged physics in the afternoon, which was what i was supposed to do. i'm gonna do quite badly this time round =(

thank you.
you might not know it, but your words really touched me somehow.

jk