PMR: Day Three

Geography

Once again.. I blew my nose very loudly and laughed to myself.

The invigilators were too tired, they fell asleep (on the chair) o.O

What kinda invigilator is that?

To celebrate the weekends, I made a blinkie!

Oh yeah, two more days of PMR.

I made two actually, but I will post up the other one after PMR :D

Blinkies might be tiring, but they're fun.

I'm so afraid of Maths & Sejarah next week! My two weakest subjects in ONE day. Luckily they gave us 2 days (weekends) to study. I wouldn't be able to cover up both subs in one day.

Praise the Lord, it's almost over!!!

PMR: Day Two - English & Science

HAHA even if no one's reading this, MY BLOG IS FOR MYSELF :D

English Paper 1
Quite easy

English Paper 2
Quite ok. Not sure whether I can score for literature though!
HAHA..
I caught a cold before PMR so I'm basically SICK.
I sneezed, so I took a tissue paper to blow my nose. Apparently, the hall was very very silent. So when I blew my nose, it was kinda loud. But I had so much mucus! So I continued blowing.. it sounded so funny, I laughed at myself. Literally. Hope no one saw that.

Science Paper 1
Also quite ok.

Science Paper 2
All those questions that came out, I have never did them before. NEVER!
So I reckon, that our year's PMR Science, pretty much sucks.
The cross-pollination questions was really hard. I shoot until my bullets no more weih!!!!!

Once again, very blur case. I didn't know that Maths Paper 1 was postponed to Monday! So I thought, oh don't need to study so much for Monday (Maths 2 and SEJARAHHHH). But, guess I have to study more now.

"Do one thing every day that scares you."
....Eleanor Roosevelt

I think I have accomplished that :D

Wow, my first post was on Sept 28 2007. 9/28/07. Almost gonna be 3 years old :D!

PMR: Day One - BM

Why am I not studying for my English and Science tomorrow? Well, am I not writing in English? So indirectly, I'm studying for my English.
Other than that, I really needed to record my expererience on my 1st day of PMR :) One of the purposes of this blog, is to record experiences which I have felt so that I could read it again another day. It's basically like a digital diary, an open one.

OK 1st day of PMR, I felt a bit queasy and nervous. Unsure of what questions were coming out. So many versions of 'soalan bocor'. Gosh, which one to believe?

I was so blur case! I didn't even know we were not suppose to bring our pencil box in the exam hall, cheh.

Paper 1 - Ok loh. Hopefully I get 30+. Raja Bersiung came out for questions 30-35?! Like what thec heck, I haven't read that one yet. So I tembak quite a lot for the komsas part of the paper. Raja Bersiung (I think) is the story about the king who likes to drink blood. A vampire king.

After the paper, we were all so clueless. Should we take our stationary and papers? Can we leave? HAHA the look on everyone's faces :P

Paper 2 - Oh, this one is the one where I got mad at.

Section A
DANGGGGGG! I started writing a few words, and then my pen ran out of ink. Fine, I have another one, thank God. OMGOSHHHHHHHH, it ALSO ran out of ink. And darn it, it's new! Haven't used it before. But I tried out the pen at home (both pens), and both worked perfectly. Now it's out of ink.
I panicked. HYPERVENTILATING...
Ok nevermind, I have a pencil (I actually had 2, but I lent one to Saw o.O). Wait, am I allowed to write in pencil? Darn, there's no time to lose, I'm gonna start in pencil.

Section B
OK, my pencil's running out of carbon lead. I need a PEN. So I put up my hand to ask the kind invigilator whether I could borrow a pen. So, I borrowed Mak Yee Leng's blue pen. THANK GOD FOR YOUR PEN, MAK!

Section C
DANG, they all look hard. So I tried the 'faedah2 memperoleh ramai rakan' question. Well, I managed to crap my way through.

Section D
OHEMGEE, 20 minutes left!!! And all the 'soalan bocor' were wrong. None of them came out xD But persoalan's okay lah. Why did they have to give us 'Kebijaksanaan Seorang Pemimpin' in Pahlawan Pasir Salak?? If they gave us, 'kasih sayang' for Panas Salju.. wahhh I can write so many (quoted by Ysabelle). This is the first time in PMR history (not sure) where they only gave us Pahlawan Pasir Salak as the only choice. A form 2 novel! And I read Panas Salju, didn't really read Pahlawan Pasir Salak. Sighs.

Wanted to rewrite the whole Section A in pen, but darn there's only what.. 5 minutes left??!

And the most ruining thing today and probably the rest of my life, is when Chong Mun Yen told me I cannot write in pencil for the exam. It was written in the rules. T.T
"Calon hendaklah menulis jawapan dengan menggunakan PEN MATA BOLA BERDAKWAT HITAM ATAU BIRU. Pensel atau pena mata bola berdakwat selain hitam atau biru boleh digunakan untuk melukis gambar rajah dan peta."

MUST WRITE IN PEN?! I WROTE IN PENCIL FOR SECTION A!! So I started calculating how much marks I would lose if the evil examiner did not accept my pencil-written answer. 30 MARKS. 30 FREAKIN' MARKS. Not 10, not 20.. but 30 :O WOIIII! Surely cannot get A or even B already loh like that. CMY, thanks for ruining my life and future :)

You know what I should have did? I should have wrote at the bottom of the paper,
"Minta maaf. Kedua-dua pen saya telah kehabisan dakwat. Harap cikgu boleh terima jawapan saya dalam pensil. Terima kasih!"

Hopefully my paper doesn't get wet or my answer won't get smudged on the way to the examiner. AND ALSO, pray that my examiner is a lenient, kind one. Hope she accepts my pencil-written answer. Maybe she became too tired after marking so many other papers, she won't notice/mind mine is written in pencil! I hate my pens. So much.
I think now, I have developed a fear. A fear for pens running out of ink.

PMR is war; Piano exam gr6 results

So many things happened this week! Gosh, everyday has something new to offer!
Long post.. do not further read if you think your eyes will strain. I'm not responsible for anything! Don't say I didn't warn you.

Thursday...
I got my piano results back! Surprisingly (astonishingly, shockingly, and also fortunately), I got 121/130 for my piano exam, a merit. So close to a pass (whatever below 120 and above 100). I could not believe my eyes when I saw the message my piano teacher sent me. Praise the Lord!!

Friday...
My goodness me, my Cambodian maid ran away today. Seriously! She took her luggage and went out of the house WITH OUR HOUSE KEYS (so technically, she was stealing our house keys). But in the end, she came back after 25 minutes . Then my mom and I talked to her and all.. sighh so mafan to have such a complicated maid.

Hehe, my piano teacher gave me my examination mark form.

A3 (24/30): This was a neat opening with a successful balance between the hands on the whole. You were aware of the various dynamic contrasts. What a pity there were a couple of stumbles in the second section since this was musical playing.

B3 (25/30): You included much of the expressive detail in your performance. Soft playing in particular was well controlled. At times the melody needed to sing more over the accompaniment. However there was much to enjoy with some well judged tempo changes.

C1 (24/30): There was a promising feel for the peaceful mood. You were aware of the tempochanges but there was a need for more flexibility overall. A few small note errors were apparent and from bar 40 needed to be bolder. The ending was musically managed.

Scales or Arpeggions (17/21): Examples were played at a good tempo with keys secure. There was a small slip in E flat minor in contrary motion while chromatics were mainly secure. There was one initial slip in B flat minor arpeggios.

Sight Reading (16/21): You tried to include the detail. There were a number of slips but you settled in the middle. However the ending was not secure with rhythm unsure.

Aural Tests (15/18):
Part A - Well Sung
" B - Partly correct
" C - Well answered
" D - i) Incorrect period ii) Slips in clapping but time correct

Aww, such a lenient and kind examiner :) Thought he was gonna fail me summore!
Read 1st post and 2nd post for more details!

You must be wondering.. what am I doing here, blogging, while I have PMR to study for?!
Well, I'm wondering the same thing too.
NO LAH, now almost 12AM already, have been studying the whole day (almost). Must have break mah, tomorrow no tuition some more.. must take the opportunity to stay up later!

And now you know why I won't get straight As (IF).

But I have tried my best to study to the full. Come on, you tell me. Who wouldn't want straight As for the exam they have been studying for, for 3 years?

Some idiot monkey la

I have honestly, cut down a lot of time on the computer (but not much on the iPod xD). Have been doing my exercises
But right, whatever I study, I seem to forget it the next day. LIKE WHAT THE HECK
If like that, then don't need to study loh. Study last minute better.

OF COURSE NOT. Must consistently and constantly study.. that's the way. Lol, too bad, it's too late already. 4 more days! No time to study detailed things already, it's time to sum up and go through all I have studied.

Like my piano exam, I don't have much confidence. Aiya, I'm always like this, so low self-esteem. Hopefully and prayerfully, in the end, I will get better than I expected (which is straight As!), as I did in my piano exam.

Now I surrender it all to God. "I tried my best" might be an excuse for not doing better to all of you. But to me, it literally means what it says. I don't think I have studied this hard in my life. Yeah, I might sleep in class when I revise/study (A LOT), but.. I didn't mean to.

It's not like, "Oh I feel so sleepy, freaking exercises! To heck with PMR!"
It's, "Oh man, study so long already, feel so sleepy and tired. Must take power nap, then continue studying!" And then someone wakes me up and talks to me, and then I try taking another power nap. Then, the same thing happens again with a different person. How to take power nap, you tell me??! You know me wan lah, don't want to hurt people's feelings by telling them how much they're disturbing me and my attemped power nap..

Okay, it's beginning to sound like an emo post (or maybe it is).

Will be away for 3 weeks. Please do pray for me. It will be greatly appreciated.
All the best to the rest out there! Don't study so hard! Let me score ok :D?