O LEVEL RESULTS (:

L1R5 = 7-2 (CCA points) = 5

A1: English, Chinese, Pure Literature, E Math, Pure Chemistry

A2: Elect Geography + SS, A Math, Pure Biology

Oh yeah. Straight As! HAHAHA.

Today I went to school at around 9.40 (was late >_<) to meet dear Jenna. We had planned to crash lessons initially but gave up the idea in the end. We did go around saying hi to teachers though.

We squatted and hid outside Mdm Lim's class while she taught 3S2A'10 CME.

We had fun hiding.

When Azalea and Teryne came we spent more time roaming aimlessly around the school. Mdm Lim said 4S2A&B's English and Lit scores topped the level by the way! We found Mrs Rupa and she said she'd never leave us. Aww man I love her she's so sweet!

Then I met Joan at the canteen and she told me about how she had a nightmare that was both about Saw (the gross movie) and getting 21 points for Os.

Then Teryne, Azalea, Jenna and I crapped and got bored at the piano room (that Azalea and I had only found out about on the last day of school) for two solid hours.

Then Mum learnt how to use "sia" properly. Thanks to me!

And then in the hall we rejoiced because our average L1R5 is 9.7 and we've got a whole bunch of people with 9 A1s - and 3 China scholars with 10 A1s!!!

And yeah L1R5 = 7-2 = 5. I am so so so relieved and thankful that I got an A1 for English - I screwed my Paper 2 up really badly. Thank you God for answering my desperate prayers. Thank you God for keeping me calm right up to the moment I received my results. Thank you God because I knew I could trust in You and I had no reason to be afraid. Oh and thank you God for my A1 in Lit.

Silvana got 8A1s. Wth. I know people who were overjoyed and others who were devastated. More often that not, though, those who were devastated did better than those who were overjoyed. I guess some put too much pressure on themselves and some didn't expect to do so well because Crescent's papers demoralised them a little. But overall we all did well yes? Average raw L1R5 of 9.7! :D We're still a Band 1 school, no doubt, and Crescent's the #2 O level secondary school! (Top is CHIJ St Nick's. Wow.)

So after that Yingyan and I went to Starbucks at Suntec. It was both our first times at Starbucks :O No better way to celebrate good results than to drink good coffee yes?

Do you know what's so unfair? Both Yingyan and I got 2 points off for CCA points, but she only has 23 CCA points and I have 33 okay. I HAVE TEN MORE THAN HER! I deserve more points deducted! >:(

And then we rushed to Bugis to take neoprints before I rushed to IMM to have dinner at The Cafe Cartel at IMM with my happy parents, Rafflesian brother and happy maid (because she didn't have to cook).

This was on Yingyan's testimonial. She was so amused.

"Mature? Wah! I'm mature beyond my age leh! Please lah! I'm damn childish and lame right?"

HELLO WORLD I SCREWED MY ONLY CHANCE

HELLO CHINESE ORAL O'S HAHAHAHA.

Okay, I spent so much time memorizing my pagesssssssssss of yan yus (thank you Luhong!), and when I was doing the conversation thing I couldn't think of a single one. My mind just blanked out.

K I had a lot of confidence in the passage reading bit, because I could read every single word, and I could read it fluently (AND QUICKLY :O) during the practice, but during the actual thing I just on mispronouncing simple words and stammering and repeating the phrase again. AND I was speaking so slowly. The examiner on my left closed her eyes for a while. Was I that boring? D: I guess I must've been, because Jessie (who was before me) talked very fast and animatedly (I could tell from the way her head bobbed and nodded and shook)

Then at the conversation bit, my first question was something like "In your opinion, how is success defined?"

So I said "I think different people see success differently (见仁见智 - the only good phrase I used). Some people think success is having to do nothing and being rich, some people think it's being married to a rich guy (Gosh I must have sounded like a complete idiot), but some people also think that as long as they are in a job that they enjoy, the pay doesn't matter, they would feel they are successful as they are doing what they have an interest for" or something like that. Well it sounded much worse in Chinese (or MY Chinese), obviously.

Then she asked something about what I would like to do to be successful in the future, and I said I wanted to do something related to media. I SAID THE STUPIDEST THING EVER. I said "我要做关于媒介的东西". I SAID 东西!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd meant to say 工作 but before I had the time to change it, she went on to ask something like "what kind of media?" And that was the problem. I'd learnt the word for "communicative media" earlier on but couldn't remember it, that's why I said 媒介 in the first place. So when she saw my panicked expression she said "传媒还是..?" then I said in a relief "啊对对传媒!" HAHA.

AND THEN HERE'S THE REALLY REALLY BAD PART.

She asked, what would I have to do in order to achieve what I want?

And I said "我觉得我的语言要..uh..我的语言要..uh..我的华文要..我的语言要..舒畅"

LIKE GREAT LAH. I'd meant to say "I need to be fluent in my languages". AND THAT WAS HOW I SAID IT. It's like punching myself in the face lah. HELLO, I SAID SHU CHANG! WTH!?!?!?!!?!

I think she got the idea lah, and she must've been laughing inside, really. She must've been like thinking of asking me "So, do you think you've achieved that yet?" GAH GAH GAH

Okay, then she asked if I wanted to add anything else. I think the sleeping invigilator woke up before this because she realised I was staring at her.

I panicked so I said something like "我觉得如果我要成功的话, 我必须在学业方面必须多努力, 因为很多人要做关于媒介的工作, 所以竞争很激烈, 但是我觉得如果我努力"钻"的话, 一定会成功的."

Of course, I didn't say it so well. I mean what I just typed above isn't proper either, but I said it really really badly. But I think it was better than my previous YU YAN YAO SHU CHANG shit lah. -.-

I waited for Kelly, she was crying. D: It's okay Kelly, they probably gave you high marks because they were feeling high from laughing at me. HAHA. *hugs*

Okay now I need to work really hard on my A math and Chem to save my L1R5 I guess, 'cos I can't count on Chinese anymore.

HELLO I NEED COMPRE TUITION I REALLY WANT TO GET AN A1 FOR ENGLISH I CANNOT FAIL COMPRE ANYMOREEEEE. What's the point of getting A1s for Compo and Oral when my compre's a FAIL? There goes my A1, hello?

AM I DEAD? AM I DEAD?

Chinese O's are over.

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CHINESE O'S ARE OVER!

Or Paper 1 and 2, at least.

Paper one was okay. I did 私函：试写一封信给你的朋友，谈谈小组专题作业的利与弊。

My pros were: 1) We learn to work together, 2) we pick up debating skills and learn to stay strong in your arguments but accept others' opinions at the same time, and 3) we learn how to do research. All will help us in the future.

Cons: 1) We end up relying on others too much and might not be able to handle large tasks on our own in the future, 2) some people might refuse to chip in but they still get the marks anyway which is unfair.

And then I did Narrative for the compo. 有人做了一件令你感动的事。试写出这件事的经过，以及它对你的影响。

I wrote that I had gotten into an accident and was only released from hospital 2 weeks before the CHINESE O'S (hahahaha), so I didn't really have time to prepare and was lagging far behind everyone else, then one week before the O's the most hardworking girl in class made a folder of notes for me, because she sympathized with my condition. So I was very touched and blah and it motivated me to work really hard for my O's. Mmm.

I used the idioms I learnt, but in really stupid places, I just kept trying to squeeze them in wherever I could. Hope I get an A1 for the Paper 1, it's the paper I have the most confidence in.

I actually think I'm quite dead for Paper 2. For my close passage, I have 5 answers that are different from Cuixiao's. FIVE! And for the MCQs, Jessie and I have 2 different answers for 5 questions (I didn't check the other five).

SO LIKE I'M DEAD LAH! D: D: D:

Okay I really hope I get an A. AHH!