Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Last Days of Alvls
Two Worlds Apart
Blackspectrum is about to start his hardcore blogging again.
After months of burying my head in those detestable books and lecture notes,
its finally a new lease of life again.
Ok, so, A lvls is not officially over.
Who cares anyway?
Alright, my form of celebration after such a major examination was rather weird, but I went to the theatres to observe the world ended (or will be going to end) in 2012.
It so totally makes sense.
The fissures rupturing the earth, towering tsunamis sweeping cities and volcanoes spewing fireballs were just some of things that endangered the hopes for 'the continuity of mankind'.
Devastating as those effects were, I actually found it gorgeous to see how Mother Earth threw her biggest tantrum of all.
That I can ensure the audience in the cinema couldnt agree more.
Other than that, it was still your typical, predicatable, feel good movie.
I enjoyed it nevertheless, after all, what could be more catastrophic than my messed up chemistry paper?
Cambridge offcially has dropped their bombs on the current batch of Ajc studensts by giving 'the worst batch in four years' the 'hardest chem mcq paper' of all time.
The first was a quote from our principal while the other was a quote from Clarence Lee Wen Jin. LOL
Nonetheless I would dare say that the entire cohort of Jc students will help out if i needed anyone to support my point.
My wish of having even a 'B' grade for chem virtually grew wings and flew away the moment I realized my folly.
HOW CAN ANYONE BE SO FOOLISH?!?
Yong chee said i sure full marks one.
Let me do something to that statement now.
Yong chee said I sure get Fool marks one.
ah, thats much better.
The past few days had been rhetoric.
It was the process of meeting yc, exhange opinions on how we were expecting to fail every subject, and going into the exam hall with little or no confidence, and then emerging from the exam venue affirming each others failures.
Absolutely brilliant, aint it? =x
Math paper 1 was particulary tough on us.
Not the paper, of course.
It was just the stress stemming from the expectations that it was a Must to obtain an A grade for it, since it was famous for being an easy paper.
Even Wei Jian smsed me telling me he was under pressure few hours before the actual thing. Which was. BALONEY. LOL.
But after the first shot was fired, the magazine depleted quite swiftly.
I quote,
Wei Jian's statement on facebook:
"A lvls is gone in the blink of an eye. You dun believe you blink now!"
Try it, it works wonders!!!
=.=
And so at last, the pressure was lifted almost as quickly as it was applied.
I only hope that my back which Ben described as having loads of "constellations" can get better soon, a consequence I had to bear for worrying too much about everything.
Cheers, my frens, to the end of your nightmares.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Joke of the day
For each of the following questions in this section, one or more of the three numbered statements 1 to 3 may be correct
Decide whether each of the statements is or is not correct (you may find it helpful to put a tick against the statements that you consider to be correct).
The responses A to D should be selected on the basis of
A: 1, 2 and 3 are correct
B: 1 and 2 only are correct
C 2 and 3 only are correct
D 1 only is correct
1) In the Periodic Table, oxides of Clarence show distinct characteristics that makes them easily distinguishable. What characteristics are they?
1. Clarence is a loser
2 Clarence is a hopeless loser
3. Clarence is a hopeless loser that cannot shade MCQs correctly
Thinking process: Wa paing, this one i know one, this one so easy! confirm is 1, 2 and 3 all correct la no need to think one. aiya no need refer la. No time liao crazy. Like that option is D la confirm. Whoo easily one mark! ^^
"(D)"
Proceed to do other 10 questions with the same mindset.
.............................
Few minutes after exam
"Fuck"
Monday, October 12, 2009
Blackspectrum is official closed for a month
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
At world's end
"When panic runs amok, and urgency turns into desperation, to strike fear in every cell of one's body, will he discover that he has truly ruined himself through his own disintegrated self confidence, and tragically undermined his real potential."
-Blackspectrum's Self Reflections about his Prelims, and perhaps all major examinations that he has sat for--
Yes, after nearly a month of not logging into my blogger account, here I am again.
The mounting stress has taken a toll on everyone, I'am sure.
However, to work so hard and yet yield any visible results is simply infuriating, unsatisfying and ultimately demoralising. At least, that has been my experience so far.
All it has churned out is weariness and a changing view on how one perceives failure and success.
The very natural way for people to do it is to just label one according to the mark they have on their papers.
But is it, the best way to do it?
I feel stretched in everyway possible right now, and the bad news is its probably not the darkest hour yet.
Just two forthnights away, and I'll be sitting for the most testing moment in my educational path.
Which unfortunately will dictate where I go, what I do, and who I will be as I proceed up on the stairways of adulthood.
I do not deny, I have high hopes for myself.
Its just a basic requirement most people want for themselves.
Dignity.
We want to do well.
We feel the urge to outdo and outrun.
It is Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
Survival of the fittest.
And we enslave ourselves in the strictest of ways...discipline ourselves with the most unthinkable of methods.
And at the end road, we reach a final destination that we sometimes find deeply troubling and dangerously disturbing.
Thing is, it doesnt really lead anywhere, this mindless pursuit of qualifications.
But we jump in anyway, trapped in the whirlpool of forces in the form of societal expectations, peer pressure and the need for some self worthiness.
Maybe all we can do is to hang on to something sturdy so that we can not get sucked too deeply in.
On the other hand, the A lvls are ariving at full force, Clar.
You know that you have no choice.
You know that you have to take the dive.
Tuesday, September 08, 2009