Nothing Like Family

Last month, my relatives came to Singapore for a holiday and my mom and I acted as tour guides. :) Haven't met this uncle of mine for 10 years and never seen his wife and kid. Crazy, right?

Brought them to various shopping malls, to Sentosa etc. My little cousin seems to be a bit over-pampered, being the only child. After interacting with her, I realised that I was the only one who wouldn't let her get away with whatever she wanted xD If I ever become a mom, I will probably be a strict one. Oh well, on the bright side, she's adorable. 

Meet Athena

My cool uncle

I like the above photo a lot! :) And of course, the awesome photographer is me! xD Sorry for the self-praise.

Mom and I :)

I didn't take any pics of my aunt with my phone. OOPS. Never mind xD

In other news, Wendy and Brielle gave me a surprise! I was just sitting at a table at the Foodplace in City Hall, waiting for Wendy and Brielle to come back from the rest room when they came back with a chocolate lava cake. I swear it had 2000 calories in it...not that I don't appreciate it lah xD

I am not big on celebrating my birthday though. Personal reasons. :) So if anyone is reading this don't bother celebrating kay! xD BUT I STILL APPRECIATE THAT B AND W DID THIS FOR ME. REALLY SWEET OF THEM. I DID NOT EVEN KNOW HOW TO REACT. Although when Brielle and Wendy were trying to figure out what to give me as a present I totally guessed it man. xD haahha brush up your acting skills people xD joking, joking!

I feel old but I am glad I am alive xD

Dang it, I am going to turn 19 and I am neither a responsible student nor daughter, and neither have I done anything with my life. :/ I feel the pressure to do something with my life already and I suppose I could start with A levels. I AM GOING TO BE HONEST. I PROBABLY FAILED ALL MY H2s FOR PRELIMS. :( I don't know HOW I am going to buck up in time for As...but I don't have a choice. I WILL buck up in time for As. The only problem now is, how am I going to face my parents and my teachers. Omg I can already imagine all their disappointed faces.

There is this motivational speaker that I always listen to. He is called Eric Thomas and he uploads new motivational videos every Monday(for America)/Tuesday(for Singapore). But even he can't motivate me sometimes :( Oh well, I have physics MCQ tomorrow. Hope I don't screw it up real bad. Sigh :(

Post Exam Trauma

I know I kind of neglected Physics this holiday so if I fail or score poorly I understand. But I did put in effort for Math and especially for chem. I felt that the Math paper was ok but I don't think I will do that great...maybe just average. Chem was a real bummer. It feels like all my effort wasn't paying off. 

You know what that means? That I have to work 1000 times harder D: 

Whoever said in JC it's about studying smart and not studying hard, is clearly being delusional. We have to study hard AND smart. Really a hard thing to do for us teenagers with so many distractions. 

One hurdle down, 2 more to go (prelims and A Levels). Hope I can pull through. If anyone else is demoralised like me, take a look at this video :)

Common Test Preparation

Hey everybody! I hope your common test preparations have been going well! I think this was my most productive holiday so far and YET I haven't finished revision for any subject yet -.-

Been a bit distracted recently because Mabel and I joined this competition to win tickets to watch Haha (from Running Man) and Skull's first showcase here in Singapore. Thanks to everyone who voted though, I really appreciate it. Mabel and I are at the top 2 positions now :) So happy~

Ok not much time to blog already, just wanted to wish everybody all the best for common tests! FIGHT ON! 

Music Is A Luxury

Wendy and I were discussing about how music is a luxury during exam periods if you can't study with it. I feel like I didn't use my March holidays well enough. The exams have already started. General Paper was okay, I did a question on science and technology. Hope I do okay. The AQ was horrible. I didn't have time to complete the AQ and I didn't have any good examples anyway. Couldn't find enough points for the summary and I found it difficult to change/paraphrase some of the words. BUT I guess I shouldn't be discouraged by GP, it's Physics today. I just hope the paper isn't too difficult! Good luck to everyone with their exams!

Ps. I might be going for the Good Friday memorial tonight!

NUS Open House

Met up with Mazi at Buona Vista and took 95 to NUS U-Town! Just alighting at Buona Vista made me all nostalgic about the Adam Lambert concert :( Anyways, U-Town looked nice, hip and happening! Saw a few performances put up by the NUS students. Was particularly impressed by a guy who sang and the NUS cheerleaders! Their jumps, flips, etc were awesome! And they kept smiling throughout so it seemed effortless when I doubt it actually was!

Saw a lot of familiar people yesterday: Rebecca, Nasuha, Jiaxin, Charmaine, Gideon, Afifah, Priyanga, Yu Feng and on the way home we ran into Mr Wangyal and his family. Apparently they were going to go watch The Croods! LOL.

I accompanied Mazi and went for the Design and Environment talk at the Ngee Ann Kongsi Auditorium. Similar to the SMU Business talk, this talk also had a lecturer and some students giving us more personalised details about their courses and their experiences. The talk about going overseas never fails to excite me! =X

After that Mazi and I hung around and waited for the FASS talk to start. But when we got to the queue, we realised the queue had already been formed long ago and it was a very long one! :( So although we still queued up, there were no more seats for the talk :( I was very disappointed. Lesson learned: when I go for the NUS open day next year, I will have to queue up AT LEAST half an hour beforehand for the FASS talk.

After that I went for the campus tour with Mazi and we got to see the School of D&E. We also went for the talk on architecture and got to see the studios that the students worked in. Since archi is not my cup of tea, more than anything else, I was really overwhelmed by the stuff they do. Hope Mazi was inspired though :)

NUS is so huge that we had to take a bus from U-TOWN to the school of D &E and also the Cultural Centre. We were really tired after the studio tour so we just went home. After I came home I was so exhausted that I just slacked and then went to sleep early. I feel so bad for slacking though, since the common tests are coming up :( I'll try my best to make today productive! :)

All the best to everyone for their common tests! :) Don't slack like me! 

Exams have ended

Yay! Exams are over. :) Only problem now is that the grades will determine whether I get promoted or not. Here's hoping I do! 

I went to the Harry Potter exhibition on Sunday with Wendy!! :) Wendy and Brielle treated me to the ticket as a birthday gift. Thanks guys, love you :) Here are some photos:
                                         
                                             Wendy and I on the taxi on the way to HP
                                                                 exhibition 

                                               
                                              Mr Weasley's Flying Car :D

                                                Knight to C5! :D Giant chess piece :)

                                                       Marina Bay Sands: 
                                         I can't help but admire my own photography. 
                                                            LOL, jkjk.

The Exhibition was awesome! The authentic, the ACTUAL props and costumes were there! OMG.  Hagrid's hut was so real like, and the great hall too!! I didn't get to try on the sorting hat though :( 

OK, I've been away from my comp for pretty long. Got a lot of FB notifcations to check and youtube subscriptions to check out. Check email, etc etc. Later going to meet up with gals, and I need to catch up with sleep too. Haven't been sleeping properly for the past few weeks. :(

Toodles, will blog again soon :) 

Exams Start Tomorrow

Whether I spend my 2013 being in J1 or in J2 will be determined by the exams which start tomorrow. *gulps*

I have been trying my best to avoid social media. Stopped blogging for a while, stopped updating my Facebook and Twitter, even stopped calling friends to stop myself from being distracted, and to keep my focus. 

Well, let's see if all these pays off. I am still not done with my revision, mind you. So...I shouldn't be here. Will update more after the exams. Ciao :)

Retain

You see the title of my post up there? That word hangs over my head. I can feel it's weight. All my life, I've never once worried about having to retain. And now, the possibility seems rather high. BUT I don't want to leave the friends I made in J1 behind, I don't want to disappoint my teachers, I don't want to be left behind. I don't want to waste time. One more year...this is no joke is it??

:( 10 more days left to promos and I'm not even halfway done through my revision. So much to do, and yet I just keep feeling tired. And as a result, I end up slacking or procrastinating. The timebomb is ticking, I know it, but I am not doing much to help myself. I tell myself not to give up, and yet find myself giving up time and again.

All my blogposts from now till the Promos will be about...promos. I will come here to de-stress, talk things out, and encourage myself. Jaslin, you can do it. You have done it before. You don't lose until YOU admit defeat. And didn't Mr Tan just say something along the line of you being able to get a B for Physics? How about you cooperate with him and make his words come true eh?

Maths and Physics were your best subjects in secondary school. Why are you letting your fear take away your prowess in these subjects? You're so afraid of failing that you forgot how much you used to actually like these subjects.

As for Chemistry, do you really want to let Ms Aisha down? She's leaving next year. At least give her the satisfaction of knowing that all of us in 12S20 has done well relatively well in chem for the end of year exams.

10 days Jaslin. 240 hours. Tell yourself that THAT amount of time is ENOUGH. It's SUFFICIENT. Time will be on your side, if you're gonna use it wisely.

Shall go study for my mother tongue prelims which is tomorrow. Wish me luck :)