HEY!
Z2h WAS GREAT!!
haha.. at least the commencement date was.
i feel really intimated, because i saw how hard the drums actually were. TOOPID EUGENE TAKE GUITAR!!!! haha.. i dont even know whether its confirmed, because he didnt pass me the form back. EUGENE! plz return it to me, and tell me when youre back in singapore :)
they briefed us, played 1 icebreaker game, and ate, then fellowshipped. they arent christians, some of them, but they still fellowhsipped, and that was great :) .. on the way there, i met valerie and isma at redhill, and saw hanwee and garrick and khoon fai at the place itself. COULDNT RECOGNISE HANWEE!! SORRY!!!!!!!! hahahah... anyway, sterotypes, thats our band name, sorry eugene, cannot change to backstage pass, didnt submit the form i think.. donno lah!.. anyway, we got lost, so we cabbed. and it was really a ULU place!!! .. oh man.. industrial park. it was so scary lah, from the outside. it looked dilapated! sorry, but it really did. GRRRH!!!! k... haiz. anyway, inside, WOW. nothing to say. just look at all the instruments i feel like waliao wan die liao. the guitars are so cool!!! and dey got dono how many some more... although im learning drums, there was one person who played guitar with me, and taught me basic barring. he said it took him 3 months to play F chord. well.. his guitar was acoustic. my dumbass guitar is CLASSICAL AND IT SUCKS!!!!! .. haiz.. waliao.. anyway i cant even play. i still wanna be a cg guitarist one day. that person who played wit me said i can be, eventually. i felt encouraged, because i didnt tell him i wanna play for cg. he asked, i think. anyway, wow. the drums are freakin hard. there was one group from manjusri i think.. OH YA! THE MOST DEVASTAING THING!!!...
majority are guys -.-
.... ... .haha...
nah
don really care
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its just abit more awkward. because hello, im in a gers sch. its abit awkward. valerie feels the same, isma.. i donno lalalalal... hahaha! ..isma made alot of new frenz. i din know she was that outgoing, honestly. its good la :) :D .. hahas...
cant wait eugene and janice, who i really have never met before.. to come... wonder how janice looks like.. chio? donno leh.. i hope she don feel intimated by racism.. because some1 thought i was filipino. and.. well.. she will hav more prob than me. -.-.. die lah waliao.
anyway
i'll try my best to commit to this programme, because it is something i Want to do, not something im forced to do. if i have to go for sat services, so be it. i dont care. i want this. :) i'll try.
its really gonna be hard.. GOD HELP ME! :D .. haha....
i will never forsake him ever again.

haha...

met w387 and n402 after the whole thing was over.
went fellowship, watched the full dress rehersal of the children's church drama, WHEN I GROW UP!.. haha.. dey are So Cute!!! .. hahhas... its so cute lahh... can see all the effort dey put into it. i feel so jealous! that the children all have dreams, and i have none. time to start thinking :) ... bleah.... zzz.. hahahaha... :D

haha..
i hope it is a great sucess, the drama. :)

after that, went with shanika home, took bus with her, den met robin.. blah... den when i finally reached home.. was like.. 11?12? .. idk.. anyway, waliao, I HAVE BEEN DOING HOMEWORK!!! CAN YOU SEE HOW MUCH EFFORT!!! ....

kk
this is 1 of the reflections ive done. its the whole reflection for 1 mth, which was actually what i thought would be like extra credit because i didnt hand up at all for 1 mth. PPL, PLEASE PRAY FOR ME. I DON WANNA GET LATERALLY TRANSFERRED! PLEASE PRAY FOR ME THAT I WILL STAY IN EXPRESS!!!!!!!! I REALLY NEED YOUR PRAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THIS IS MY HOMEWORK, ONE OF THE 5 REFLECTIONS I HAD TO DO.
(sorry, excuse the crap that i wrote here. i wanted to make it long.)
Eliz k, 2b07,
Science reflection.

Teacher, this is the whole months reflection combined together. I’ll do my best to make it make sense, because I handed up my reflection late, whats more, I don’t even know whether will it get to you by Monday. I hope it does, I hope the teacher I pass it to will pass it to you, but in the scenario that she dosent, I hope you will forgive me for the late submission with this consolation, this Aces programme science reflection.

I don’t expect you to read it if you don’t want to, because its long. Well, I hope you do. Its just a reflection. Honestly, its just a reflection, and.. well. I cant remember when the events took place, so that’s why im compiling everything into this. :)

This science lesson started out normally, it was like normal school lessons. The first experiment we did, which was measurements, was altered, because it rained. We had to measure school benches, and school canteen tables. Initially, on the worksheet, we were supposed to measure the length of the school field. We couldn’t, because of the rain. That was abit disappointing, because it would have been a challenge to measure that distance. It is long! So, it would have been hard to keep it exact, and not off by.. say, 15 cm? but, anyway, the experiment, as I have said in the earlier reflections, served as a good revision exercise.

Some time after that, we measured the volume of an egg, which we brought from home. It was done as pair work. We measured the length, and height of the egg to. We used string. it was hard, because we could not pin point the exact perpendicular direction to the egg, so we estimated. We did it 3 times, and found the average. We found the egg’s mass too. The volume was the trickest. We had to use the displacement method, in which we used a tripod stand, where there was a displacement can above it, and there was a measuring cylinder directly below the displacement can’s spout. The displacement was filled with water, till the brim, all excess water flowed out, and we tied the egg to a string and gently lowered it down. We measured the volume of the egg from the measuring cylinder. We had to write down the steps all on a worksheet, together with diagrams.

Later in the month, week 1 or 2 or 3, I cannot remember, we went to the science center. It was a good experience, we heard a lecture about hurricanes. It was actually quite a good lecture. The lecturer got most of the students interested during the 1st half. However, during the second half, some students, including me, started daydreaming. I tried to pay attention, but it was hard, honestly. He was really saying things that I didn’t feel had any relation to the subject. Things like the names or hurricanes in Australia? Willy willies? That seemed to be crap to me. But it was a good lecture, still. It was not only related to science, but also geography. After that, we went to the Omnitheatre, to watch a show on hurricanes, and the bayou, and how it affects us. It was really touching, because it put a lot of things from his lecture, which was really factual, into peoples daily lives, like how their family could have problems from it. There was a person who lived on the bayou, and his home got trashed by the hurricane. It was horrible. All the wetlands were getting destroyed. It made a point, that video, that we really do Have to conserve our earth, because we never know when we can die, and the wetlands do actually play an important part in sheltering us from the hurricanes. Although Singapore isn’t a hurricane zone, because it has protection from the neighbouring islands, we still shouldn’t be too careful, because other natural disasters could occur, like earthquakes. It will be really bad, if that happened. Whats worse, with the earth’s global warming now, Singapore, being a low lying area, could be totally submerged. Just like that, 4 million people could lose everything they have. Their homes, their families, their lives even. It really was a touching video, that made me think a lot.

That’s not all. We still had an experiment, in which we had to design and create a protection "device" for an egg, so that, when we throw it from a height of 3 metres, (aka, hall to floor) it will not break! I was really frustrated, because, for 1 thing, we had only 15 mins, limited materials, and no clue how to design it. At first, I was thinking inwardly while the teacher was explaining the project, “ok, the formula is written clearly. pressure=force/area of contact.”
These were my inward ideas: 1st idea: Make the surface area large. However, there was not enough newspaper. And since the whole area would not be the same weight, it would be imbalanced, and the egg would hit the ground hard, despite the surface area increase, which anyway, would be minimum.2nd idea: is was to put the egg in a balloon and drop it. This was dumb. Logic can tell you that it will have little difference, because of the imbalance, the egg will be at the bottom of the balloon, since it dosent have helium, and when it hits, it will still break... for another thing, the egg cannot even fit through the rubber tip of the balloon.3rd idea: Tie balloons around the surface area of the egg. The main idea is ,that when the device hits the ground, the impact will go to the balloons, and dey will burst, but the egg will remain intact. So the device would be, that the egg is surrounded by balloons on either side, so whatever side hits the ground, that side will get the impact, and the balloon will burst. At the same time, not all the balloons will burst, so the others will cushion the egg’s fall. We could not use this, because of limited supply of balloons.Finally, we had an idea that we could actually use, the fourth idea.

4th idea: was to tie a balloon to the top of the device, and put straws at the bottom.. this was the 2nd best option, considering there were not enough balloons. We did this, anyway, and it was very flimsy, because we had limited time to tie the straw, and didn’t have enough newspaper. So it really looked like something that could break anytime.At the experiment site, we saw alot of other groups’ devices, and theirs were really alot better than ours. Anyway, this is what ours was like. top, balloon. middle, egg wrapped in newspaper. bottom, straws . so, anyway, this is what happened basically. Tharshini dropped it, and by some reason, the Balloon hit the floor instead of the straw! so, all the impact went on the balloon! Our egg didn’t even have a crack!
It was really surprising, and made me really very happy. Because I was expecting the whole thing to just end up like scrambled egg or something. It was the last thing on my mind, that our group was one of the few groups’ who’s eggs did not crack. :D

After that, still some more time later, we learned about density. (g/cm3) I think that was really Good, because I really am not good at all with density. I never understood it, but now I do, better at least. Alright, much better. The teacher gave us an experiment for us to do, to show how the objects float and sink. It was fun! But the only bad thing was that the oil really smelled really bad. We did not have much quantities of the oil, salt solution, and water, because we used a beaker to do our experiment, so we could not see clearly what suspended and what floated. It was overcrowded in the beaker. The teacher showed us a Giant version of our experiment. She still did not use a lot of oil, so we could not see anything suspend. But the water had a blue dye, so it could be differentiated from the salt solution, which was colourless. I wish I could have taken a photo! The teacher also explained about israels’ dead sea, and that we can actually float in it, and it is because of the density of the salt water. Also, during that lesson, the teacher explained to us what maggots were, because she looked in the dustbin and saw maggots on the eggs we threw away. I respect her for that, because not many female teachers are daring enough to touch something that there are insects on. And maggots are very disgusting. She did not seem to care, the teacher, so I look up to her for that :)

We learned about elements also. That was actually quite easy. It was like a revision exercise, because I knew and understood, unlike density, what elements were. It was simple to me. But it was a good lesson. The Density I had problems with. Elements, the compounds, mixtures… were relatively easy. This I had to memorise, “what is the difference between a molecule of an element and a molecule of a compound? Molecules of elements have the same atom. Molecules of compounds have 2 or more of different atoms, chemically fused together.” There was this experiment, in week 4, in which we had 2 substances, iron filings, and sulphur filings. We mixed them, and then chemically fused them together by heating them. It was really a fun experiment, because its not everyday we can see the changes take place up close. The final mixture, I think was.. iron sulphide. The iron was grey, and the sulphide was yellow. The end result was dull black. Some1 stuck the plastic spatula into the substance and the plastic melted. So there were patches of white in the black. Also, the substance caught fire! It was put out quickly though.. :(

What made me really sad was that there was a test on the periodic table, and I didn’t remember anyone telling me about it. So I was unprepared. Whats worse, I apparently was blur enough to wait in class, when I knew there was science lessons. We were relased late, and I assumed that lesson would be held in class. So I waited there, and started worrying, how come only me, arena, and Vivian are here! Where is the class! I was really very scared, because I didn’t go for recess, and instead asked Loretta to help me buy food. In the end, arena and Vivian walked to the sci lab, and I felt like a idiot. Because I didn’t realise that lessons WAS, as usual, in the science lab. I felt really stupid. Because of that my attendance was affected. … the periodic table was hard. I didn’t know many elements. I was panicking so much that I couldn’t even remember what was the name of the weighing scale we used for the measurement of the egg. I didn’t even do a question I thought I could, properly. It was a stupid thing. Well, I feel used to that, that my blurness causes a lot of my problems. Still, it feels disturbing.. that im really that blur, and really that dumb to follow blindly.

Yes, this is all I have to say, because this is the whole reflection of the events that I can remember. Everything else is really a blur. Teacher, if you really took time to read this, thankyou. I know its long, but I feel really bad that I did not hand it up on time. So I feel that this is my punishment. That I self inflicted? I don’t know. But, thanks.

thats it :) ...

please pray for me.. i dont think any1 will actually read this post, because its really damn long. hahaha.. k.. even i see oso sian dao. k lah. i did 5 reflections, and am really dam tired. time to sleep. will wake up in 3 hours. WOW. YAY ME! HALLELUYAH!
GOD I NEED YOU!!

please pray for me.
i really really really am desperate.
God. im really desperate.
PLEASE,
i thankyou in advance.
i know you will not let me down.
faith as a mustard seed moves mountains.
GOD
i BELIEVE, HELP MY UNBELIEF.
I BELIEVE YOU THAT YOU WILL HELP ME MOVE THIS MOUNTAIN.
AMEN.