Mr. Brightside

well, nevermind then. nothing is fine, as well.

secret santa on monday. i've got nothing. i'm sorry. i'm sorry that i did this in the first place. i shouldn't have done this. i wish that they made it so you chose if you wanted to do it, instead of if you didn't want to.

well, i'm a terrible person. i deserve to get nothing. i hope i get nothing. i hope whoever asked me anonymously wasn't my person.

i definitely hope that they don't get me a gaming keyboard, echoes silence patience grace, the colour and the shape, or some chocolate. (actually the chocolate would be nice because it's nothing special). i hope that because i already have two of those.

self-loathing is ez

is canned food day monday as well?



my exams were pretty interesting.

chemistry: just giving the rest of the grade a headstart

2u maths: it was nice, i really needed an ego boost. sat next to the door because this time around, i'm not the first into the exam centre. about 5 mins into the exam, someone's phone began to play some of their terrible music. it went all the way until the end of the exam. stupid. i wouldn't have minded if they had a decent taste in music, and it was slightly louder.
here are some tips: try not to sit at the very front (it's not too bad if you do, though). especially don't sit at the very front left or the very front right because you don't get to see the clock.

ever wonder why the clock has no second hand? because no one thought things through

try to sit in the front half unless you have 20 vision.

so i guess you want to sit at the equivalent of the middle of the second row in a regular classroom.

english: my essay is about belonging to place (character's environment and context). it's also about individuals and relationships (how this is affected by above). it's also about not belonging and belonging (and can be stretched to include the word "choice"). so it says close enough to everything. which is a lot like saying nothing, to be honest.

a lot of the past essay questions were something like "belonging/not belonging, discuss" so i was pretty prepared. when i read the question i smiled. and then i took an age to figure out an introduction.


i finished just in time, within the minute. i also had the optional sentence i tacked to the end of my 4th paragraph.

at the beginning when my hand was still alive, i wrote on top of all the sheets, so it would be neater. halfway to the end, i wrote with one sheet on the table, and i think this is what saved me. even though it's a lot less neater, it just lets me maintain speed. it's like increasing mouse sensitivity (which should be on the 6th notch in windows settings for optimalness)


latin extension: 5 minutes reading time. 40 minutes writing time. it was a short test. it wasn't meant to be hard. i finished in 7, i think v finished in 2. its pretty nice being finished and watching the sea of physics kids still working. we were let out around 20 minutes early since everyone was sitting there being bored.


regular latin: it wasn't too bad. i was prepared adequately for 3 out of the 4 excerpts we were given. i had a general idea of what was happening in the 4th excerpt, so i spent about 7 minutes on the three passages, and 17 minutes on the other one. plenty of time. if it was in the style of english-rush test, i could have done it in 5, but it wasn't. so it was careful translation. unfortunately some words were unknown so there was a bit of guesswork, but i think i ended up translating it pretty well.


i haven't checked. im going to look at the translation we wrote down write now and compare.

not bad

the last sentence was half-right, but the rest seems fine to me.


ext 2: first 3 questions were fine. i think i'll get either 0 or 1 out of 10 for the last question. which is a bit saddening because i could have got 3 if i remembered how to deal with the first type of question, and an extra 2-3 if i remembered how to expand (x+y)^5 using 1 5 10 10 5 1 or whatever it is. instead i did it the long way, screwed up somewhere during the expansion and didnt get what i need. lost easy marks there

but it's fine, i did well enough.


ext 1: question 1b really confused me. was it asking is it true for n=1 or r=1? i figured that i would just pretend it said r=1, since it was only worth one mark and i didnt want to do a complete induction for one mark.

the one where the roots were a, b, a-b, i tried using those to recreate the polynomial, and it wasn't right. oh well, maybe i'll get marks for getting one of them right. or maybe i got 2 of them right, who knows.

rest of it was fine.

i think



in maths tests, i tend to check things on my calculator such as "tan45". i think it equals one, but i'm not sure. maybe this is what slows me down, maybe this is why some finish in 15 mins while i use up all the time.