Tuesday, October 26, 2004
::2 days work::
An electric lightbulb is marked 120V, 40W. If it is connected to a 240V supply it will work for perhaps an hour as a 160W bulb before it's filament breaks. Suggest a reason why the bulb can operate for such a long time before the filament breaks.
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Didn't blog yesterday because I was too tired and lazy after I reached home yesterday night. So anyway, quite a lot of things happened. Finally I didn't have to go for Economics lessons anymore! I have officially dropped that bloody subject! WAHAHAHAHA! So during that free period, 2 of my friends and I went to the canteen to do our homework. It was raining when we got down and soon the rain got really heavy and the wind blew raindrops at us. My friend took our her honeystars to eat and I was commenting on how much fat and sugar it contains. And there I was chewing on my chocolate. Get it? [No?] The Principal came to talk to the entire cohort during the contact time. Post mortem on the Promos. I did really badly. Well, not that I just realised it, it's just that my poor results are more exaggerated [if you understand] when compared against those who did well. I think most people did well. Except me. Anyway, I suppose my school ranking is 700++ [out of the 847(?) students]. My reckoning is very accurate by the way. It's just so damn pathetic. Our
dear Councillor President got all 4As. I feel so embarrassed and guilty about my results. It's the record low in all my years of schooling. There was some talk about scholarships and 'S' papers. I can't even consider them now. I guess my doors to a brighter future is sealed. Just hope that I will ace my 'A' Levels. That's the most I can work for now. Our civics tutor came to our class to give out the result slips. She talked to me a little and that was when I felt really terrible about my shity results. Truth be told, I indeed improved from an aggregate point of 21 to 34 [out of a maximum of 68]. But with this kind of results, which university can I get in? So now, I really need some strong motivation. Enough of grumbling. There was a Chemistry SPA lecture. And I was totally grossed out by what I saw. My gwad, I don't even know if I should write it here. So let me digress. Van Fan Yi Chen and 6 Plus came to my school yesterday for this NKF performance. My friend wanted to watch it so I went with her. Unfortunately, I was quite unable to 'high' with the artistes as I have zero interest in them. I just sat down there like a block of wood. Anyway, the turnout wasn't impressive. It only managed to fill 5/6 of the auditorium. So this 6 Plus has got 6 persons, 2 main singers, 2 guitarists, one playing the drums and another the [what do you call that? Casio sells them, that I know]. So there they were throwing lightsticks and posters at us, some people caught them, some idoits threw the lightsticks back at them. Now that's really rude. Anyway, there was this point of them when a few girls were entering the auditorium. I was looking at them since I only wanted to listen to the music, not look at the artistes performing. And when I turned to my left, I was totally stunned and quite shocked to see one of the lead singer standing 3 seats away from me, mingling with the crowd. I was like, 'when did he get there?'. Anyway, Fan Yi Chen performed after that and he was given a birthday cake since his birthday was 3rd of November. And the regular gimmicks were performed by the MC and stuff like that. So after that, my House [Beta] would be having a barbeque. I thought it to be rather unsuccessful since there were too many people and we had to squeeze to get the food and even had to barbeque it ourselves. I mean, there's only 2 pits for 100++ people!!! So that's all for yesterday.
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I witnessed another repetition of the same gross incident during lecture today. And I was deeply disturbed, by a reason others would not understand unless you know how truly hateful the person involved is. Had another free period today. Managed to do 1 Math question. Now that was really productive, wasn't it? Anyway, the cutlet I ate today almost made me puke. I am not going to eat it in anytime this year anymore. [Besides, I guess today's about my last chance?] The PE elective I went today was Gym Training. It was rather informative, but not very entertaining. Anyway, there's a lot of mirrors in the gym and there's this narcissist who kept looking at himself in the mirror. Not saying he looks awful or what, it's just that you are supposed to keep our eyes on the teacher, not the mirror. Now I learnt how to use the equipment! And I am thinking of going to the gym for training to practise for next year's NAPFA. I don't really intent to fail Broadjump anymore. And the teacher has got this interesting gadget that measures the amount of fat in one's body. I didn't try it though. [Clearly, I am going through a stage of denial.] And there was CO after that. The new percussion instructor came today. I kind of enjoyed training today because he does not scold us. Now that's a positive change and I welcome it. Now one of my friends is talking about quitting. Not that I have not thought of it before [infact, I think of quitting everytime], but what is going to happen to the rest of us? Won't we just die from the amount of work we need to do?
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Because Tungsten, the material that makes the filament of the bulb, has a high melting point!
