yeahh...just watched that finale yesterday with 9 of my batchmates...namely HSM crazy JERALD...i-dunt-want-to-watch-HSM YINGZHE...singing-again? ALASTAIR, eric, benni, lucas, ryan, russell, and chinese-newspapers-FTW austin...okay...so thats the finale..thats it, finished...move on to college...and yeah...the series ends...
to be honest, it wasnt as bad as nikhil puts it...yeah, i found it abit too kiddy for my taste, but hey, its DISNEY...you dunt really expect disney to have really hardcore fighting fantastic exciting scenes right?even though they supported nude photo taking by their stars...hmmm, i would give it a 3.5/5 as a movie, and as wikipedia puts it subtly, this movie aint one for the converters...and im a converter...or non-converter to be precise...
WARNING:spoilers ahead...but who cares man...wikipedia has all the spoilers and torrentz.com has the visuals for YOU
we start off with the basketball championshipp...yadadadada...wildcats won...whoots..they sang their way to the championshippp...however unrealistic that is...but they still won...then they went back to schooll..have to do a play for prom..and some guy/girl/teacher signs troy up for some arts scholarship when his dad clearly wants him to go and play bballl...then his girlfriend goes to stanford...then he has to make a choice...and he went to ANOTHER college..none of the first two fits him...the final college offers him bball and arts and is 37.2 miles away from stanford...one wonders why this offer didnt come out earlier...then they graduate...
okay, lets split this up...good and bad...the bad first...there aint alot to be honest...maybe its cuz im too old to really like this...but to be honest, its plot is too too too shallow...okay, maybe musicals shouldnt have too deep a plot as half of the time is spent singing and dancing doing anything that is musical...BUT...a great movie is always different from the rest right???so yeah..HSM missed this chance to be really a legend that is worthy to stand beside mickey and minnie..if they are the franchise of disney, then i really pity disney...its just lacking that x-factor...
okay...the good part...the graduation is really cool...fantastic...imba...out of this world...but pity HSM3 is let down by its plot...really, it could have been great, imba, fantastic and oscar-bound...not just the nominations...but getting the award itself...thats why its only a 3.5...and for your info...no movies has gotten a 4 and above before...so yah...i do rate it pretty high...
David said 9:52 PM<3
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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David said 6:08 PM<3
sigh...so in the end, i didnt get 3.73 and instead managed to hang on to 3.69 by just a tiny-weeny bit...my maths was pathetic, my history was average, my chem was horrifying and my bio was way way way way way under my expectations(which aint very high to be honest)..
k,so we start the day with maths..i had hoped to at least get one 4.0 from maths but, i got none!!damn frustrating...i really really feel damn disappointed...careless mistakes here, careless mistakes there and all of my marks went missing...in...action....im really really disappointed at my maths...when i first walked into RI, i had this vision of defying anyone who said that maths is hard and that getting 70 odd % is really good...well, i did manage that a number of times in these 4 years, but to be honest, this EOYS, i really screwed up big time
then we have history...my next best hope for a 4.0...i missed it by one percent and i am really disappointed at it...my china question went okay, got a 17/20...nothing to be proud of but the comment that it was a refreshing point of view...then i got only a 15/20 for the hitler question...guessed i aint great at doing source-based, but i do feel that i have learnt quite a lot from today's history...at least i know how to conclude now...still wondering if i should take econs or history for RJ(no way im going to call it RI)...well, on the looks of things, its probably 40% history, 40% econs and 20% china studies...
then we have chemistry...granted, i am in the top 5(?) in my class for chemistry EOYS, but hey, 63/80 is nothing to shout about...i was near perfect for the MCQ, a 27/30 is probably pretty fantastic, but i totally died in section B...guessed the culprit? carelessness...again...sigh....if i wanna be a doctor, i guess i will have to work on solving this problem on carelessness..god knows how many marks this problem has caused me...i am really really disappointed...
lastly, bio...i was expecting at least a 70/100 for bio, but it did not come to me...instead, i got a poor 62/100, easily the worst result for this year's EOYs...ok, some people might say to me that 60 is the average of our batch and that to get above 60 is pretty decent...but hey, im not your average joe or wadeva...i dunt aim for the average, i aim for the high flyers...on section B alone, i lost at least 15 marks to carelessness...well, lets see how these 15 marks come about...i forgot an arrow, i forgot to label my inter neuron...so that cost me at least 2 marks...i forgot involuntary, that cost me one mark, i forgot to mention the pancreas detecting the increase in glucose and increases the insulin concentration, another one mark, i totally forgot everything about pure sugars and carbohydrates, that was 2 marks, i totally screwed up my homeostasis question...vasodilations and vasoconstrictions cost me 3 marks, no reference to data cost me 1 mark and an inability to read the graph cost me another mark...i forgot to describe the adaptive advantages, another 2 marks...i stated ONE invalid indicator, one mark gone...i forgot the function of nitrogen in amino acid making, one mark gone...i forgot the differences in the process of antisense RNA and RNAi, 2 marks gone...i forgot wads an antigen...one mark gone...i did not describe the memory lymphocytes correctly...one mark gone..and i did not have time to finish the last question...so 2 marks gone...so in total, thats about...21 marks...okay, plus minus 3 marks,i should have gotten AT LEAST 18 more marks...and thats not including my MCQ screw ups...WAKE UP DAVID ZHAO...YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO SCORE HIGH, BUT YOU ARE NOT DOING SO!!!OTHERS HAVE IMPROVED, BUT YOU HAVENT...YOU ARE SO FREAKING FAR BEHIND...WAKE UP!!...
i really do hope that i am able to make this disappointing experience the turning point in my life...
David said 5:50 PM<3
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
RESULTS!!
lol...today was damn nervous...cuz i was afraid for my SS, english, physics...ok, everything...but when i got back my marks today, it wasnt that bad, except for physics...i got back SS english and physics and welll...lets talk in order of merit...
english was really really really really really ^n(where n >infinity) unexpected...i excepted to fail my AQ cuz i kinda digressed into ageing population rather than UNDERpopulation...but hey, it was still pretty well done and i got a 9/10!!yayy:)then overall i got 37/45 for english...wouldnt that say this result sucks but hey, there's always room for improvement...so now my english should be arnd 78 % for the entire year...crossing my fingers for moderation...comeon!!2 marks!!
then we move on to SS...i got 23/30 for the paper which put me at a nice fat 80% for the entire year..OH YEAHH!!...okay, so i should have gotten higher for the first question on neccesary evils and what not, but to be able to learn something yet still get 10/15 for it is really beyond my imagination...yeahh, should have gotten at least a 25/30, but im not complaining...
then we have physics...at first, i thought i did badly for physics, but still in contention for a 75% for eoys..well, you take 10% points off 75% and you get 65%, which is wad i got for my physics EOYS...to be honest, the questions that i did not know how to do were pretty rare in the paper and i have to say that carelessness cost me at least 14 marks...hmmmm, talk about complacency...so yeah, i screwed up physics big big time and got only 71%..others might think that i shld be happy at being so tyco and getting such a grade, but to be honest, i know that im capable of much more...so yeah..i will try to redo this paper and see where my mistakes lie...i really got to be more careful now...
anyway, tmr is JUDGEMENT DAY for me...i either get a 3.69, a 3.73 or a 3.78 for the entire year...well, im hoping to get the 3.78 GPA but to be honest, 3.73 is much more realistic...hope for the best!!!
David said 6:32 PM<3
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Recap
lol...this semester has passed damn quickly..but before i forget, lets do a recap of the EOYS shall we?..okay, i have screwed up big time this EOYS and yes, i have woken up...last time, i always have this feeling about how people can screw up tests and exams, not knowing wad to do etc...well, i have experienced it first-hand this time and yeah..i will make a come-back, i SWEAR...granted, my GPA will prolly hit 3.69 or even 3.73 if im lucky this time, but HEY, its not down to my EOYS, its down to what i have done over the past year...and when push comes to shove in A levels, not many will look at your overall grades, but they will rather look at your A levels...so yah...gotta work harder, be less complacent and become a model student again. COME ON DAVID, YOU CAN DO IT!!
haha...okay, lets do the recap..chinese was fantastic, got 73 percent for EOYS..cant say that was my best though..screwed up paper 2 and the letter part of paper 1...but HEY, i got 55/70 for the other part of paper 1..so yah..i am quite happy with the results...then come english..i sincerely hope that i will remember that interference=meddling in the future and read the question more thoroughly..just hope that they dunt penalize me too much for reading underpopulation as an ageing population...then come SS...omgzadhjahgjsahgujjashg...i dunt know wads a necessary evil!!!ARGHHH...well, just hope that they will be a lil lenient and give me the benefit of the doubt...then we got chemhistory!!History was average, leaning towards the good side...chem was BAD..big time...okay, so i dunno alot about why certain organic chemicals contribute less to global warming and give out less light...but HEY, i could have guessed right...but maybe shld just listen to mrs kua's explanations...then the electrolysis question...sigh...could have gotten some marks there...but just totally screwed up...
okay...now we have erm physics...sianz...section A is okay, but section B isnt...i could have blamed it on time...but i would rather blame it on complacency..i was too bloody complacent...sigh...i feel really bad...shld have really aced this physics test...okay, then we got bio...i did really well given my expectations...dunt think i can get a 4.0 but shld be able to get at least 85% for this test...then maths...arghhh...maths paper 1 i screwed up big big big time...i forgot to add 4 to a certain question...sigh....shld have done better...anyway...paper 2 was much better but shld have remembered cone surface area...arghh...well..just hope that i can get one 4.0 from maths...
so now we have the break down...4.0 for chem confirmed, SS on a thread, maths on an even thinner thread...then 3.6 for the rest...so yeah..that makes me on course for 3.73...but really, i shld have done much better...
anyway, this is just the first part...the second part will come out soon...it will include EVERY non-academic stuff that happened...and trust me, its pretty interesting..for me at least...
David said 9:22 PM<3