This author is currently on hiatus for the ignoble cause of mugging. The public is advised to remain calm, as this routine protocol has been shown to have no effect on one's violent tendencies in 96% of cases.
| Thursday, April 05, 2007 |
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Surviving on 12 hours of sleep for the past 4 days isn't a good idea. Especially since im still online and blogging at 1.30 am. All that, thanks to Project's Day and our vunderfoul mentor Mr. Quek. It's like, in the past week leading up to the prelim, he piled us with notes and made us improve our slides every day. And when it came down to the big day of presentations today, guess what? We had 30+ slides to cram into 5 minutes of incessant rattling. Unfortunately i suck at impromptu paraphrasing and summarising of slides, so i ended up taking 4 minutes of our time to run through only half of the slides (my portion). Leaving less than 1 minute for YYY to present. Sorry, Yi Yong. >< So unsurprisingly, the judges seemed rather unconvinced - Mr Cheng was one of them, and he didn't seem like he quite managed to understand the purpose of our project, and considering his influential charm (*ahem*) we may just fail the prelims. And the prelims tkae up 30% of the total score for Language Arts, so to put it all in two words: we're screwed. Of cos, i used milder euphemisms when Mr Quek later asked us how it went and didn't mention the portion about the judges' harping on the fact that we tried to cram too much into too little space. Oh, did i mention? Mr Quek's rationale for all that is: Slog hard for the prelims, and you can collapse for 3 entire days after that. And collapse i shall. At least tmr's Good Friday, so i expect myself to wake up at 2 pm or so. Gosh, im pretty surprised i survived the week, probably due to the fact that we had only 3 actual days of lessons. Although i think Jerrold fared worse than me - slumping motionless across the desk (me) looks more "presentable" than having your head tilted back over the chairs and snoring rather loudly (jerrold). And shaun actually went to take a full-length video of him dropping off to sleep. How stupid is that - though i'll be sadistic enough to post some pics up here if shaun actually sends them to me. D: |
'Twas teh winnar at 10:03 pm.
