A passion withheld

It's been a long time since my last post. And it's tough, no doubt. I can't even begin to describe how tough things are going.

For one, studying has taken quite a toll on my body - I had to take a MC today to get away from that stress in school. And it's a bad and undesirable way - it accompanies flu-like symptoms, incessant sneezing and many other things that impede you from concentrating on what you're supposed to study. It sucks.

That being said, it's CIP tomorrow, and it's Labour Day. Yeah, literally labour day, and I can't afford to stay sick until tomorrow - there's the entire ensemble there, and probably the last time we get to do things together as an ensemble anymore. Really looking forward to watching Iron Man 2 with those folks, and hopefully I can get away with chewing popcorn without falling even more sick than what I am right now.

Maybe I should focus more on the positive side of things - I've been finding myself grumbling over the little negativities of school life so often, it's starting to becone jarring inside my head. ARGH, and there's where probably that nasty unwarranted flu bug came from.

And I can't keep up with Ionic Equilibria. Nuts - if only we were paid $10 an hour to subject our brain to pKa calculation abuse - it's driving me nuts.

Work aside, it's the fact that we're mostly scoring As for PW. Great - that effort finally paid off. No more burning midnight oil for so long anymore - w00tz! Alright, time to study for Econs...

Upward Pressure in a Steam Cooker

If you're talking about guitar playing, yeah I'll agree. But clearing homework clearly isn't.

Source: http://www.mistfall.com/bbs/freetime.jpg

The Guitar Ensemble competition is round the corner, and it's really tough grit this time round.

I mean, there's just so much to do - catching up on JC1 work and trying to catch what the lectures on the new topics are about. And missing lectures is not a good thing at all, to say the least. Especially for Maths, which falls on the same day as our competition - good April 17th. I really hope that all these effort does get us somewhere on par with some of the better JC Guitar Ensembles. After all, we sacrificed our own study and leisure time to perfect on the three pieces we're gonna play during the competition.

Moreover, with that big a Guitar Ensemble now (it is currently the biggest CCA group in SRJC), it gets all the more tougher to choose the next batch of Executive Committee (Exco) members. Sigh, shouldn't have been so happy about having a big group after all - there comes the usual bureaucratic standard operating procedures (SOP) and many complaints. It sure isn't easy running a organisation of such magnitude.

And my school work is getting a bit out of hand - I do a lot on one, and miss out a lot on the other. And for this week, I've been sleeping at nuts-timing - 2-3am sleeptimes aren't that uncommon anymore, and heavy eyelids are the norm. No wonder people can't really think that well in JC, with all that sleep deprivation!

Just the other day, the vice principal's address was pretty uncomfortable just hearing of it. I mean, yeah, who in the world doesn't know that keeping life in school simple is key to doing well in the A level Exams? Yet there's still so much mumbo-jumbo which we can't just simply throw out of the window. Take this coming competition, for instance. It's the critical period of our JC2 lectures, and here we are, being plucked outta our study schedules to feed some competitive energy drain.

Well, I can't really say anything bad about this competition we're gonna participate in. I mean, we've got all that nice looking ties, entirely cool black apparel, even guitar playing and team bonding. It gives us pressure to catch up with school work as well to keep up with some of the best scorers in our classes, and sometimes other classes. And what about that nice SGC that's gonna pop up after the competition?

All I can hope for right now, is for this tough period to be over soon - and surviving it through - so that all of us can focus entirely on our books in time to score those As.