Blocks have ended! First block test in HCJC, a really horrific experience. Considering it was the very first time taking official JC tests, plus the level of difficulty is also so much higher. Was really demoralising taking some of the papers, especially Chemistry. Seemed like the teachers were really out to kill all of us using that one paper. Either that or they just wanted to scare us or something, so that we'll work harder for promos. Music was the best subject, I feel. Of course there was a level of challenge in the paper, but just the right amount of challenge, nothing too impossible, if you get what I mean. Math and Bio were better than expected, because I was expecting the worst after the Chem paper hahaha. Right now I just hope the results will be reasonable, and by reasonable I mean just passing is good enough for me.

A lot has changed over the June holidays. I realised that when I went back to school on Monday for the first test. In the short one month holiday, the people around me have changed, my circle of friends has changed, I've changed. Going back to school didn't feel the same as in Term 2. My eyes have become set on something else, a greater goal as compared to before. Perhaps that's a good thing? That I'm moving along with time to the beat of life? Everything seems better now somehow, I just hope that it'll stay this way.

On the topic of forgiveness, I wonder how hard it is for people to hold a grudge against another for extended periods of time. Isn't it very tiring? To stay angry at someone for such a long time because they did something that wronged them so long ago. Forgiving is a choice, and a hard one at that. Human impulse tells us to take revenge, to avenge ourselves, to do anything but forgive the other. Forgiving takes courage; forgiving means that you trust them enough to believe that they won't do the same thing twice to hurt you. Forgiving doesn't necessarily mean that you'll forget what they did, but rather it's accepting the reality that they already hurt you, and deciding not to take any action against them for doing so. It's even harder to forgive when someone has wronged a loved one, but can you really stay angry at another person forever? That's tough, too. Why not just make it up to each other so that everyone can be satisfied and happy? Move on with life and put whatever wrongs from before, behind you.

I have this long weekend before school and lessons resume again on Tuesday. Then there'll also be Chinese oral coming up. :/ I know that things will be more stressful when lessons resume as compared to the block test period. Hope I'll be able to cope well and keep up with work and play too. Promos are actually in 10 weeks' time, a really really short time, and we just ended blocks! ): But yeah I've promised to work harder for promos and so I shall. 65% for promos is a lot compared to 10% for blocks.

VOTD:
"but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 (ESV)

Blocks have ended! First block test in HCJC, a really horrific experience. Considering it was the very first time taking official JC tests, plus the level of difficulty is also so much higher. Was really demoralising taking some of the papers, especially Chemistry. Seemed like the teachers were really out to kill all of us using that one paper. Either that or they just wanted to scare us or something, so that we'll work harder for promos. Music was the best subject, I feel. Of course there was a level of challenge in the paper, but just the right amount of challenge, nothing too impossible, if you get what I mean. Math and Bio were better than expected, because I was expecting the worst after the Chem paper hahaha. Right now I just hope the results will be reasonable, and by reasonable I mean just passing is good enough for me.

A lot has changed over the June holidays. I realised that when I went back to school on Monday for the first test. In the short one month holiday, the people around me have changed, my circle of friends has changed, I've changed. Going back to school didn't feel the same as in Term 2. My eyes have become set on something else, a greater goal as compared to before. Perhaps that's a good thing? That I'm moving along with time to the beat of life? Everything seems better now somehow, I just hope that it'll stay this way.

On the topic of forgiveness, I wonder how hard it is for people to hold a grudge against another for extended periods of time. Isn't it very tiring? To stay angry at someone for such a long time because they did something that wronged them so long ago. Forgiving is a choice, and a hard one at that. Human impulse tells us to take revenge, to avenge ourselves, to do anything but forgive the other. Forgiving takes courage; forgiving means that you trust them enough to believe that they won't do the same thing twice to hurt you. Forgiving doesn't necessarily mean that you'll forget what they did, but rather it's accepting the reality that they already hurt you, and deciding not to take any action against them for doing so. It's even harder to forgive when someone has wronged a loved one, but can you really stay angry at another person forever? That's tough, too. Why not just make it up to each other so that everyone can be satisfied and happy? Move on with life and put whatever wrongs from before, behind you.

I have this long weekend before school and lessons resume again on Tuesday. Then there'll also be Chinese oral coming up. :/ I know that things will be more stressful when lessons resume as compared to the block test period. Hope I'll be able to cope well and keep up with work and play too. Promos are actually in 10 weeks' time, a really really short time, and we just ended blocks! ): But yeah I've promised to work harder for promos and so I shall. 65% for promos is a lot compared to 10% for blocks.

VOTD:
"but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 (ESV)