Yew….! You again, SAM!

Today is definitely an exciting day.

Today is the day the man for my form teacher, Ms Dorothea Lim is revealed! Haha…

They are married today!!!

And all the ACJC students that know her are invited to witness her wedding, like 2SA1, 2SC3, 2AD4 and Student’s Councilors.

I have to tell you some info about my teacher to explain why am I soooo….excited today. Haha..

She was introduced to us about the middle of last year. My first Gp teacher was going to study further and hence God had brought Ms Dorothea Lim to our class. Well, she is a pretty lady that one of my friends keeps praising her of her look. He got excited whenever reaching her period, even though her period was what most of the students dreaded of(because it is Gp, you know, Gp..argh..). She is very nice to talk to. She thinks that moral values are very important. She thinks that at this age, we should do things responsibly. That makes her a bit old? I dunno, but I share the same opinion with her. I feel comfortable talking to her and ask for advices. She has taught me a lot in Gp and in fact my Gp was imrpoving under her guidance.

This year, my form teacher, again left for further stdies in NUS. So, she became our form teacher. She has been given us little gifts to encourage us in super hectic J2 years. The consultation session with her has benefitted me in the ways of looking at world issues. In a nutshell, she’s a teacher whom I love. She seldom put on make up, so I was imagining that when she put on make up, she will be a stunning beauty. By imagining how beautiful she is, I got very excited. Haha…

So, today, I witness her wedding. At first I meet up with my classmates in Douby Ghaut MRT, sign the card which will be given to her, then walk to the Weasley Church. On the way, we see other class’s students, I see Tian Boon. Then, we are outside the church where I see there are somemore AC students, the Student’s Councilors and guests in front of the register table. We go in after a few minutes later only to find ourselves having no place to sit. So, we have no choice but to sit seperately and away from the aisle.

I get very excited you know. Haha.. I get even more excited when I see my lovely teacher standing at the back of the church with her friends helping her putting her gown nicely. She is there with her father, haha.. Oh man, imagine myself with my father standing over there, waiting to walk to my husband’s side.. Gosh.. I think I would be very nervous, haha..

Then we sing praise to our all mighty God, "In Christ Alone" and "Reaching For You". Somehow I feel that these two songs are close to my heart.

"In Christ Alone"

In Christ alone will I glory / Though I could pride myself in battles won / For I’ve been blessed beyond measure / And by His strength alone I overcome / Oh I could stop and count successes / Like diamonds in my hands / But those trophies could not equal / To the grace by which I stand / In Christ alone I place my trust / And find my glory in the power of the cross / In every victory let it be said of me / My source of strength / My source of hope / Is Christ alone

How true it is, especially in my JC life. My results are His blessings, my survival is due to His strength.

Next is scripture reading. It is taken from Matthew 6:21 - "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". So the Caplain asks my teacher and her husband, "What is the thing that make you treasure her/him?" The husband answers, "She completes me." and my teacher said, "He allows me to complete him." Isn’t that sweet, oh my, I feel really happy for them.

Then the Chaplain talks about how they met each other an how they fell in love with each other. Also, how he proposed. Haha… he was romantic you know.. He was trying to propose to her when they were scuba-diving. Yet, the first attempt failed. Then, I do not know le, haha.. cz the Chaplain never continues the story.

Then, she talks something I feel is very meaningful. She says that a couple should vow to each other that they will honour each other. She mentions the action of washing feet. This action shows that you honour the person whom you honour, like Jesus honours His deciples. It can symbolise many things, like forgiveness. She says that no matter how dirty the feet are, you still wash them, shows that you forgive the person. She also says that God brings my teacher to her husband so that he will safeguard her heart, likewise my teacher has to keep her husband’s heart safely. Wonderful. isn’t it?

Haha.. then you know la, the "Yes, I do" thing, exchange ring, promise… bla bla bla.. One thing wrth mention is the lighting of the candle. It symbolises long-lasting.

During thanksgiving, one thing very funny is that the groom says it is the time to terrorise parents from both sides as they thank them. They sing a song. They sing a song written by a parent to his child. Ahhh… so sweet, haha…

Haih, I hope I’ll get married soon one day, haha… but who can stand my craziness, I wonder?

Finally finally finally…

It is OVER!!!!

Yet I do not feel extremely happy… I guess that Physics S has scared me for quite a bit..

I just left two days for me to stay in hostel…

Two days…

Feeling sad? I do not know though..

Such a failure huh?

I still remember the day I just moved into NUS High..

OF course I felt sad leaving Oldham hall that time.. Not being able to live together with those friends in oldham got me quite sad.. Yet, the fact that I was going to meet juniors here gave me some joy and excitement.

Some people felt that since we were still in Singapore, we still can meet each other, there’s nothing to feel sad about.. Ah yeah… yet we were not being able to stay together!! The friendships that have been built in the J1 year, I worried, would not continue due to this reason..

Yet, I still had to move. So what can I do is to hope to meet the juniors soon and feel happy about it. Initially I remember, I did not go out since I did not have plans going out. So I stayed back for dinner and of course, tried to get to know some of the juniors.

Luckily I was able to meet some of them and got to know them. What I still remember vividly was Allen ( "Which part(of Msia) are you from?" "Jb." "Oh.. which school?" "Why d’you want to know?" "I am from Jb also you know.." "Oh.. Pelangi." "Pelangi?" "See, everybody’s response is the same.." ) After he knew I was from SSI, he kept being ‘perasan’ by saying students from Pelangi (implying him) are smart. Of course I argue with him SSI students are the best, haha.. We still argue about our sch sometimes after that.

Then, Esther. I remember that since Allen knew I am from Jb, he brought her to meet me and said she was from Convent. So I asked her for her name, she said she was Esther Chan. Then I was like, "Ooh.. that Esther Chan!!!" Then she was like, "What? That Esther Chan?" Haha.. So I told her that I have heard her name in SSI for many times before, then we started to talk about SSI people, how we may meet before etc.

The beginning of NUS High Hostel life.

To describe the details of the life here, it will be too much to put here until I do not know where to start. It is just wonderful. The interactions with juniors are just too memorable. They are too lively and lovely, making me more cheerful. I become a little bit childish when I realise argueing with them brings me joy. I become manja when I know I definitely can get comfort from them. They are a bunch of kind humans who do not mind to help unconditionally. Staying together with them is not worse than staying with oldham people at all, in fact, I feel better.

Initially we were not close as we seldom went out together and during dinner time, everybody was busy and hence finished dinner early and went to do their stuffs. Then, after our first outing, which was Ronald’s "farewell" dinner, somehow we just started to see the importance to interact more with one another. While they encouraged, comforted and cheered us up during our stressful exams, we seniors did reward them by organising some BBQ, dinner outing and "certificate-and-personalised-present giving ceremony" Everything that has been done in hostel here and with the juniors are just super duper wonderful.

Yet, life has to go on. Just two more days I have to say bye bye to this building. I have said bye bye’s to some of the juniors. Now, I have to say bye bye to the desire to stay together with the juniors. The sweet memory will stay forever in my mind. I will still be able to meet them anytime if I want to.. haha…

Hmm.. the end of J2 year. It just ends like that. Finally I will have long holidays. Unlike last two years, after SPM I was off for Singapore two weeks after the exam. I had not rested well yet.. there were so many plans yet to be done. Then the hectic JC life started. But who will know, that these two years are far more better than the 5 years in SSI. I just feel so blessed by God. It is Him who let me pass the selection test. It is by His will that I am studying in this wonderful college, ACJC.  I am not disappointed for not getting into JCs like Raffles, Hwa Chong etc. Yet studying here has given me so much joy and happiness. It is by His grace that I get to know many wonderful people - classmates, schoolmates, ccamates, Oldham hall people, juniors etc etc I feel so loved by Him.. Thank you so much, Lord!!

Next week I am going to finish my A levels exams.

It lasts for four weeks and now three weeks are down.

I still have Further Maths Paper 2, Math S and Physics S to go… which are the hardest among the four subjects that I am taking.

Well, before the exams, I always had this feeling that I have gone through Prelim which is supposed to be harder than A levels, so A levels should be quite easy and thus less stressful. However, some papers have proved me not…

Gp, not to mention, a headache to me. Because of my poor English that I needed to work extra hard in order to ensure, not a pass for this subject but a pass for A LEVELs!!! To improve myself, I had planned that I would try my best to do well in my four subjects in J1, at least to get a strong foundation in J1 work, so that I can concentrate on Gp in J2. (Actually part of the reason was I would prefer to do the rest of the work rather than Gp, so I chose what I like to do first..) So in J2, I put a lot more efforts on Gp. I went for GEL lessons (which in fact helps me a lot), I copied examples from newspaper (Can you imagine, last time I did not even bother to read newspaper, now I started to like to read news about the world), I did research for essays and AQs etc etc So now it came to the last Gp exam that I hoped does prove that my efforts are worthwhile. The essay was pretty ok, because the question that I did was straight-forward. However the problem was too many people attempted that questions, so.. maybe I can pass but cannot score.. The comprehension, haha, was about FREEDOM.. It followed previous year style which gave us one passage only. (most of the time the teachers gave two passages for comprehension practices) The AQ was, "How far do you agree with the author’s views? How free do you want to be?" Oh dear..

It seemed that the style they set the questions has changed. Maths and Physics especially. I do not know the rest because I am not sitting for those papers. The change in Maths, frankly, did not affect me much for I had learnt many techniques of tackling and answering the Math C challenging questions from Further Maths. However, the change in Physics has given me the greatest shock ever. The paper 2 was a killer. So many things I realised that I did not focus on, the teachers did not too.. I got a bit worried that I did not know enough for this subject, yet I seldom have this lack of confidence in Physics. I complained to brother, trying to get his affirmation that this paper was indeed hard but I couldn’t. Well, I blamed a lot on the teachers for they did not focus on what has come out on paper 2 but then I realised it was not going to help much, I just hoped that everybody has the same feeling that the paper was tough so that I will not fall out of the distinction range. Actually the teachers in the whole Singapore did not really focus on those which have come out in the paper.

Chemistry was pretty ok, except that I was a bit dumb in the sense that there were some questions were super duper easy that I did not able to decipher and answer. This situation happened in FM paper 1 oso… but I think it is better in FM…

Well.. just hope that the rest of the paper will turn out ok…

Everything is in God’s hand.

Haix.. one bad thing has happened.. I am sick!!! Haix… I feel miserable for not being able to sleep well at night, furthermore I have to sit for exam. However, with God’s grace, He has seen me through the exams. At least I was not sleep halfway during the exam or not being able to see and think carefully. This is what I am really thankful of.

On the way of preparing for the exam, I did not have the mood to post something. Therefore I did not write about hostel’s celebration night and some other things that had happened.. Think I’ll continue next time…