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today was not bad, except for when i woke up and was really so dead tired and could feel the eyebags - like ultra eyebags. blame ee. but once lessons started i was pretty awake. we learned about the circulatory system today - it was more like a big recap.

i remember when i was in primary four, and i couldn't for the life of me remember the cardiac cycle. so my mum made me draw a diagram of the heart and use blue and pink highlighters to mark the flow of deoxgenated and oxygenated blood. i think i had to sit there until i finally remembered and understood it. and the worse part was: it wasn't tested!

i don't think i can ever forget the cardiac cycle, also because i spent ages making notes on the circulatory system for o levels. it's there to stay.

math was interesting, learnt some new ways to solve revision questions. econs - i understand macro quite a fair bit better now. english was quite funny with all the jokes ('stand up, yao ming!') and i felt the same way i did in sec two when we started our bio module after finishing the life science module - optimistic and more ...reassured? i think i trust my gut feeling.

chem: we got free mentos! (if i ever get hungry in the dead of the night, i'll have something to eat, haha.) started on equilibria. i feel quite grateful that we did equilibria in chem olympiad even though it was a mad roller coaster ride, trying to do questions while not knowing the basics.

i started to feel kind of 'ohmygoshdeadlinesandmoredeadlines' during the tok briefing. i think, if and when i do survive ib and come out alive, i'll look back on these times when i felt like that, and think 'WOW I MADE IT THROUGH IB!'

our class is aiming for an msg of 45 (: jia you, everyone!

training was quite fun - more fun than normal. except for the 8 sets of 1 minute suicides. the new style of situps were pretty cool (: more interesting than the normal ones.

ee and ssef report due tomorrow. at times like this when there are so many things to attend to at once (ee experiments, ee report, ssef report, assignments, etc.), i keep telling myself, it's okay - once these 2 weeks are over, things will be less hectic and demanding. but what happens is that during those 2 weeks, we just get more work to do and the initial workload doubles.

2010 is going to be a really busy year - the time when everything just keeps falling from the sky into your backyard and you can't do much to stop it except clear it bit by bit. when you're trying to work out what on earth is going on for ee, you get a new english assignment due the same time your ssef report is due, and find out that chem design prac also happens to be the day after that. then you remember there's an econs assignment due the week after that. not to mention bio design prac is coming up once again. and that tok presentation should be coming along the way. and that everything else is on its way to meet you - even though you're trying to avoid them.

the beauty of it all, is that there's no such thing as no time. make time.

unbelievable, we still don't have our school diary.

(and even more unbelievable! the 'fun with mee' store is closed. gone. forever. my hakka noodles with chili padi!!!! how can it close down when i've been so faithful in patronising it all these months??)

that's life.

off to work.