Saturday, November 5, 2011

Back in Black

*THe following Blogpost was done on the 25th of October...Was planning to add photos but I got a really bad toothache (couldn't sleep for 2 nights) so I'll upload it some other time... Sorry for the lack of photo peeps !*

Yep ! I'm BACK ! In black !! Not intending to be racist though XD I'm just saying my skin got MUCH blacker this time around after my birthday party last week ! YES that is correct. Last Sunday was the 23rd of October. Anyone who is a fanboy/girl of me would naturally recognize the date and quickly send a gift to me ! Of course, I haven't really established much of a fanbase so I guess no MANY remembered. To those who did, THANK YOU :) I'd like to thank those who sms-ed me early in the morning to wish me as well as those who wished me on my FB Wall =D (Although perhaps some of it might be not-so-sincere, but I still appreciate you taking 30 seconds to write on my wall :)

Moving on. Last Sunday was my birthday but I had a birthday beach bash (BBB) on Saturday for convenience purposes... Normally I wouldn't organize a party but since Charis is having her birthday on the 24th, she talked me into having a joint party on Saturday. Turns out it ain't so convenient for people because SPM is only 20+ days away and everybody is rushing to "study" ! Also there was ceramahS going on in school, Sejarah and BM so people were reluctant to come. So once again, I'd like to thank those who attended, it means A LOT to me :) (and Charis)

We got REALLY busy on Friday. We went shopping together and prepared all the food and stuff XD I wrapped Spring Rolls for the first time, and when I tasted the veges it was INCREDIBLY fresh and delicious! Sadly, it didn't taste as good on Saturday because it ain't fresh anymore... But still extremely satisfying, especially when I made it myself :) I folded like 100 rolls and my hands were exhausted =.= Thanks Crystal for letting us cook at your house ! We had everything planned out, the menu, the invites (which were already sent out early on), the games and the etc...Worse care scenario: It rains ! It's been raining for the last few days so we were kinda worried about that happening...PRAYED HARD !

Woke up as early as 7 and fetched Crystel over to start cooking ! Got there at about 10 (party starts at 11) and all the booths were ALREADY reserved ! But we were lucky to find an empty booth on our second walkthough... Dilly dally throughout the whole day and the games were supposedly canceled since everyone wanted to get into the water and it looked like it was gonna rain soon... It really started to rain at 4 and everyone pitched in to help carry all the stuff to the plaza at Beach 1...Including the heavy stainless steel BBQ grill (which WAS heavy)

Stainless Steel is a type of Alloy.
Alloy is formed by adding impurities into metals

Sorry, that was soo random. But I have to keep myself well-versed in this kind of things if I'm gonna wanna pass SPM ! Back to the story, we took shelter at the plaza and had smoothies ! VERY BIG cups of smoothies. Invited Kent, Rodney, JB and Crystel to my place after the party to mess around a bit. Now here's the good part ! We stopped by at Rodney's place to PICK UP HIS XBOX ! Do you know what that means ? It means LIGHTNING ! AHHH ! I was high that night...It was the very first time I played FF13 and I found out I'm bad at it XD Had a little pizza for supper ("Little" because I didn't know NORMAL size was THAT tiny) then just goof-ed off for the rest of the night...Woke up with SUNBURN ! (YEAH BURN !)

Now for the best part, PRESENTS !

After 2 days of being EXTREMELY HIGH, it's back to school. SPM Final Trials just ended 2 weeks ago and we were all eager to look at our forecast ! (Well, I hate using forecast 'cuz school based exams are so tough !) Surprisingly I IMPROVED....Maybe it's because I actually CRAMMED this time. Last time, I'd just daydream when I "studied" but I really wanted to see how good I can be before SPM so I decided to study and stopped goofing around...Well, I STILL goofed off in the afternoon...Weird how I can only concentrate AT NIGHT ! Must be something wrong with my internal alarm clock :(

For the sake of boasting and self-satisfaction, I SHALL BOAST:
BM- Borderline B. Thank goodness my essays boosted my score !
BI-92 with bonus...OMG I was so worried, without bonus I only got like 80...
Math- 81, To Teacher:" YOU WANT GOOD GRADES, HERE TAKE IT ! AND LEAVE ME ALONE..."
PMORAL-NO changes...Kinda disappointed in myself for this one cuz I didn't write with correct format. If I did, I guess I COULD get a B
Sej- Extremely happy that I got 90/100 for Paper 2 although I know Jaggil went easy on me (I crammed 3 whole days for this). But Crys, Jeag Man and Charis got higher than me. Furthermore, I got 13/40 for Paper 1...I guess I was overconfident. 3 marks away from an A.
BIO- UNKNOWN
Physics-I alwayyysssss have a happy feeling after doing this paper, thinking it was easy. Well, I was ALWAYS wrong...This time was NO exception. Although I DID Credit, GOOD NEWS =D
Chemistry- 52. CREDITED !!! Awesome, I studied this through out the whole weekend....
Add MAths- FOr the very first time in 2 years (9 papers or so) I FINALLY passed Add MATHS !!! I was high that day too XD  I was only aiming to improve, not pass this time and I didn't do any special (or any sort of) preparations this time but I PASSED (Ooi told us that he went easy on us too, that made me uneasy).

I was pretty depressed when I got 23/80 for Paper 1 but I almost fainted when I got 50+ for paper 2. I didn't answer that many questions... I was DUMBFOUNDED !
Also, before the Physics 3 paper, a substitute teacher came in and told us there was 5 more min until the exam began. She was holding the exam paper in her hand and Crystel (well, me and Charis too) managed to see the diagram for the experiment..It has wires, light bulbs and bla bla...Something from the electronic chapter. So we quickly flipped through every experiment we could find related to it...Sadly, I went into the exam without knowing anything. The other experiment was Heat. I didn't know how to do BOTH experiments so I just picked heat ('cuz Heat is easier to me)..To my delight, I got 10/10 for that experiment...(not boasting ! Just sharing my stroke of luck) If that haven't happened, I probably wouldn't have credited !
After the exam, JB was the one who told me that the 1st essay is taken from the Seminar Skor A's list of questions. Then he examined my Skor A copy and saw I highlighted that essay so he was like "Good lah you, got study dao" and I was like "really ? o.0" I just phased through the whole list of essays on the night before the exam for like 30 min so my memory is pretty blurry. Unsurprisingly, I only got 13/30. Somebody SHOOT ME...
For English, I'm losing out to everyone pretty quickly... I think Kent got the highest in the class for 96...Shoot me...
Sejarah...I got 20+ without studying the last time on my objective so i was overconfident and came out with a 13... SHOOT ME
I relied on Tips for Paper 3 Chemistry so I dunno should I be happy. I didn't really KNOW the questions, I was just told the topics. Which is Alloy and Rate of Reaction...I didn't appreciate the time I had and GOOFED OFF ! Then when teacher told us to pack away our books...I quickly went through the experiments on Rate of Reaction...I just saw a tube being connected to another tube in a upside down fashion... So I just drew that during the exam...
bIO WAS (*^^%(*&)

Well...I won't be very active from now on 'cuz I'll be busy for November ! Maybe I'll update once or twice next month but we'll just have to wait and see :) TK OUT !

5 November UPDATE !!
Last week, I was devastated when a painful sting woke me up from my slumber...UH OH Toothache ! And IT HURTS ! I told mom as soon as possible and she got me an appointment (MIRACLE ! The doctor was busy with appointments after he just returned from his vacation) on Saturday afternoon :) The pain started on Thursday 2a.m. so I had to endure it...It felt weird, like the tooth's nerves are sending impulses to my brain... I can almost feel the transfer 'cuz my ear hurts too (my innermost molar is the rotten tooth) when the pain is going to my brain ~ On Friday morning, it got much worse :( Now, the tooth's surface itself is sensitive to touch and I can't lower my upper jaw without experiencing pain (which I kept doing in a form of ecstasy to stop the "nerve" pain) !

On Saturday morning, I went to school to attend the PSS Farewell party (I almost thought they won't make it this year) but I couldn't enjoy myself to the max (ESPECIALLY WHEN EVERYONE ATE !) because my mouth hurts. A LOT. But it was still a lot of fun :) One of the longest games (2 rounds : 1 hour !) required each team to sing a phrase of a song with a specific word in it like "Love"...

I Pray for all the things in this world, and believe in the power of our LOVE !
Taken from New World by Charice
After Team 1 sang their's. Team 2 has 5 seconds to sing another song or be disqualified... My team won 1 round (There were 3 teams)... Apparently, our team was known for Old Chinese Songs... The others were known for Malay/Foreign Language songs ! It was really interesting to see all the songs thought off. I contributed too of course XD

Fast forward to the dentist's appointment, he said the nerves in my molar are the problem and nothing is wrong with my tooth...There wasn't anything like a cavity or a hole in my tooth caused by the bacteria. But the bacteria is the one that's INSIDE my fully sealed tooth ! The dentist (Doctor Richard) deduced that it may have went in the last time I had a filling on that tooth by accident (I filled that tooth last year at April)... He said my body's immunity must have went down these few days so the bacteria got active (Yes, beach birthday party and study group when sick is REALLY torturing !) so a root canal procedure is required.... Coincidentally, I saw a video about root canal when I was in the waiting room. It said the doctor will drill out my tooth until it's hollow AND PUT SCREWS IN IT.... I thought it was really ****-ed up ! But the Richard reassured me no screws are involved ~ Much to my relief.

I had 2 options (with the appearance of my wisdom TEETH):
  1. Get a root canal which means hollowing out my tooth till the pulp (the core with the nerves) and remove the nerves (THAT MUST HURT !) and fill the entire tooth back. Therefore, I wouldn't be able to feel much with that tooth anymore. In the future, if my wisdom tooth grows out, I may have to extract the Wisdom T.
  2. Extract the tooth directly and let my wisdom tooth grow out (I'm not sure if it'll grow out). Then, put on braces (optional) to try to straighten it together with my other teeth..
The doctor and mom both recommended the root canal operation which costed RM800 ! Mom said it was ok so they started the operation. Firstly, NEEDLES already !!! Injected numb-stuff into my inner cheek...That STUNG ! Then the rest didn't hurt much anymore, but I still kept my hands in knuckle form in case a surge of pain suddenly arose. Well, it did... I assume that's when they removed the nerves...Then the rest was ok. I'll have to head back there in 2 weeks to REMOVE THE FILLING AGAIN... If everything inside is ok, then I'll get permanent fillings for my tooth...Dang, I didn't manage to ask (because my mouth is still numb) the doctor for my nerves ! I WANNA SEE !!!!

2 hours later, when the numbness is almost gone, IT CAME BACK ! THE PAINNNNNN.... swallowed a panadol and slept from 5pm (Saturday) until 10am (Sunday, woke up for a while at 11pm for dinner and 5am for another round of panadol)... I relied heavily on Panadol for the next few days since I acted as a painkiller after the operation (before it had no effect)... I seriously thought the doctor didn't get all the nerves out (he said he only got the major ones and it was already decomposing) but it was back to normal by Tuesday ! Reverse to Monday night, I watched Astro 180 to cheer on my friend (I guess we're friends) Valerie who was in KL for the finals of a drawing contest. She was the youngest and only female among 8 finalist and they had 30 minutes to draw 1 picture with the topic given on the spot for 2 rounds. The show REALLY dragged on, in the end, she got Most Creative Sabah art (I think, NOT SURE... But the topic was to draw a poster about a Sabah OR Sarawak legend) and the consolation prize which totaled up to RM6000 !

SPM is approaching ! ONE MORE WEEK ! And I'm also graduating next week ! I seriously don't know how I should feel now... happy ? because i'm graduating ? sad? because i'm graduating ? I've come to realize that high school really isn't a cup of tea especially when some teachers are slightly biased and some just jump to some BIG conclusions without getting the point... I understand that bad students might have affected a teacher's way of looking at us students but they didn't have to jump to conclusions. You can order me around with a stern voice because I might've unintentionally made a mistake... But you CAN'T just TELL me what my mistake was without even LOOKING, right ? And this is by far the worse year for kokum mark/involvement ratio (my marks in Form 1 were much worse but it was because I didn't get involved)... Not much to say about Wushu although JB forgot to mention to Teacher Bevina about the China Wushu Culture Exchange Program. T.Claire gave me VERY little marks even though I organized the ONLY event we had this year, attended all the meetings and became the MC/planner of our ONLY event this year... I got somewhere around 60 =.= OR WAS IT SOMEWHERE AROUND 55 ! Oh and NO MARKS FOR HARI SUKAN....WTF.... PSS went from 8 marks to 6 marks because we had to follow the rules set by the government ! Well, at least I got 500 merit marks. EXACTLY 500 ! I was so exhausted looking for it that I overlooked the dimerit part of it... Hope I won't have any problems (although I think I was late for school once or twice this year !) Well, I dunno what's gonna happen now ~

Well that's all for now, don't know if I'll bring my camera to school to record my final week in High School... Oh well, TK OUT !!
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