Impel, down.
I used to like GP a lot. Not because I found the subject easy, but because I found the teachers fun, and lectures/lecturers more meaningful(I like dreaming).
Not anymore.
Approximately 120 students got suan-ed by the bloody lecturer on Thursday I don't know what was he trying to do or perhaps he was trying to be funny when he said that the retest students shouldn't even be in J2 in the first place, probably because some people were sleeping, he assumed that it's all the retest students. Right in my case though. That riled me. I mean like, OK, it may be true that AJC has never organized retests before(citation needed), but I'm quite sure AJC hasn't had retain rate of around 20%. The school was doing us both a favour--no need to deal with retaining students and having to account for the high retain rate which isn't characteristic of AJC, and students don't have to repeat.
So what that lecturer said was kinda fucked up because he seemed to think that the power tilts towards the school and that all of the 143 students owe their lives to AJC, and so they(we) should listen to his boring lecture. He had to resort to suan-ing 1/4 of the student population and attributing his failure to captivate attention on the retest students. What the basket.
Oh well. Not much of a loss anyway. I hardly pay attention during lectures.
Most gamers, or at least people with common sense, knows this: Levelling up takes a long time as you get more and more proficient with the skill you're practising. For example. in Runescape, from level 1 to level 2 requires 83 XP. From level 98 to the highest level 99 takes around 1.3million XP. It gets harder to improve on what you've improved on. So, most people train evenly because it gets harder as you go up.
In Travian, there are resource tiles. Most people would build all their resource tiles up evenly, to earn more resources per unit time and thus reaping in more resources eventually.
To the main point.
I was caught in an argument with our new GP tutor. I'm trying to think where did I not make sense, but I couldn't arrive at a conclusion because I thought(and still think) that I made perfect sense. I don't see a reason for her denial of my brilliance, so I'm going to organize everything that transpired here, and hope that you reader(s) would be the judge. I tried asking a few classmates but none of them really answered my question.
It all started from a friend's use of the word 'inevitable'. He claimed that the building of casinos in Singapore is inevitable. Though I don't really have any reason to help him with his point, I didn't like her face and I wanted a bit of action so I jumped in.
Basically, these are my points:
1) Casinos help bring in tourists, maximizing the tourism industries' ability to earn money.
2) Governments are all interested in maxing out the amount of money they can earn per unit time.
3) So casino = bring in tourists = bring in more money = government want.
This was her rebuttal:
1) Don't really need casino, there must be another way although we both don't know of any other ways.
2) Cash in on Singapore's technological capabilities.
Completely irrelevant. If Singapore is so technologically advanced, it'd mean that it's harder to cash in on that sector because, as mentioned earlier, it's harder to improve on things that you've already improved on. You want more money, you look around at the industry that you think you can earn more from, and then you zam it. That's logical, that's human. She completely missed my point, and accused me of missing her point.
I..really don't know what to say. I was really interested in what she had to say about boosting the tourism industry without the use of casinos(she said that herself, but she doesn't know how to). So I asked her 'How? I want to know', to which she replied 'You have to think , this is GP, I cannot think for you.'
If I could come up with an idea to boost the tourism industry without I'd probably
1) be recruited to PAP or something.
2) not be in AJC.
I remember I got damn pissed with her, but I think I kept my tone even and I asked her this, after she told me to think for myself how can the government boost the tourism industry: Then what are you here for?
She was like 'I'm very upset with you you know Alastair?? Why are you so stubborn??'.
When teachers fail to bring out the best in you, it's time to turn off. Something similar happened to CX(same GP teacher), but at least his class helped him out. My class wasn't so...willing to participate.
I can, however, rest at ease because of my more extensive vocabulary as compared to hers: I know the word 'Impel'.
Handed in some bloody newspaper article which is our weekly assignment, and when I got it back the word 'impelled' was circled and ?-ed. Slightly bemused, I checked with some other friends whether they know the words, and I kinda found out it's quite ulu. So there. Now I've increased your word bank, and your vocabulary is definitely better than a certain GP teacher's in AJC.
-- 1/23/2010 02:43:00 AM
Maths worth mulling over.
So perhaps you've decided to condemn me because I've traded my real life in for a virtual life on Runescape, and that I'm wasting money by becoming a Runescape Pay-to-play member.
I quite agree that I'm slowly losing my life, but who is to say that the life on Runescape is not as real as the life we're leading now? Perhaps you readers are all programs in my brain, we won't ever know and there's no way of proving it. We could all be living in the 'Matrix' and not know it. So we're all 'Runescape characters' in a way, and why can't Runscape characters play Runescape?
But that's not the intent of this post today, to decide whether all the people around me are fake or not. I went for Lawson's birthday dinner/party thingy just now(just now meaning Saturday night), and we had dinner at Fish and Co.
It cost around 17bucks, and 4bucks for pool. That's a total of SGD 21.
That's roughly twice the amount of Runescape membership per month, all spent in one night.
Is paying to play really a waste of money? Perhaps it is, to the people who are that frugal. I used to live off 50cent meals(in primary school), but I grew up and had to eat more.
So anyway, after last night, I've decided that perhaps I should start learning how to trust the digitalized world, and start learning how to use credit cards. I have this inane fear of losing all my money in banks, because I don't trust a bunch of codes to store my money properly. I am the kind who would rather keep my money in biscuit tins or below my bed, because I am this paranoid. But it's time to let go of this paranoia and help myself with all this Internet bullshit in the future. I can't possibly remain a P2P now because of A's.
Wow. I still have common sense.
-- 1/17/2010 04:09:00 AM
Don't see how this works.
Seriously, the school is retarded. I told my Runescape friends, and now I'm telling you people that AJC is retarded.
First, I distinctly remember the dates.
Retest dates: 28-28th Dec 2009
Release of results: 8th Jan 2010.
It's 11th Jan 2010 if anybody's blur.
What the school did on 8th Jan was to inform the PARENTS of students who took the retest papers. They wouldn't even deign to deal with the students personally, for some obscure reasons(perhaps we're too noob for them), but instead choose to deal with the parents themselves. I didn't receive any notification at all, only a message forwarded from my mum by the school informing me that I have to attend a principal's talk on Monday morning, attendance is compulsory, parents are invited to attend.
Monday = work starts. Monday morning = the morning when work starts.
Parents? Free enough to attend?
And school reopens on Monday. I don't know about other retest students, but I know that I haven't done any holiday homework because I'm scared I'd get retained and if I am retained then what the fuck is doing holiday homework for? To waste my time? I planned on chionging homework in the last 3 days, namely Friday Saturday Sunday, but the school decided to be considerate by leaving the retest results unknown to us all, so that we'd be forced to get friends to come to school early in order to copy.
Fuck AJC.
That's one point, about how considerate AJC is. Wow, releasing the results on a Monday when school reopens, so that students don't know whether to do holiday homework or not. That's great, AJC, very considerate of you, and inviting parents who probably have to work on a Monday morning. Very nice.
Wonderful.
Moving on, point 2:
AJC doesn't stick to schedules and dates. It was supposed to be released on 8th Jan 2010, WHY IS IT 11TH? You may think that this 3 days isn't really something that huge, because '3 days niah', but think: Is it really that hard for them to mark around 130 students' work from 29th Dec to 8th Jan? A normal teacher can mark around 70 scripts a day(I think), so even if it's just ONE NORMAL TEACHER, he/she can mark around 700 scripts. If all the students taking the retests have to take 3 H2 papers, that's 420 papers in total.
Does AJC only have one teacher marking the papers?
I don't see how it can't release the test results on 8th Jan itself.
It really pisses me off that I have to go back to school to take it. If I were to retain, wouldn't I look like some dumbfuck, getting prepared for school when I can simply go home halfway? Wouldn't it be retarded if I were to turn up with all my holiday homework done when I have to retain and the holiday homework is NOT GOING TO BE MARKED AT ALL?
AJC. Damn dumb.
I think it's just the principal feeling talkative, and wants to give us retest students a talk. And because she wants to talk but is too lazy to turn up on Friday, she wants everyone, all the 130+ students to go back to school and for some of them(perhaps me included though I hope that's not the case) to listen to her dumbfuck speech and go home because fail retest papers.
It tires me to no end. Is AJC trying to synchronize retest results release time with O levels? Does this make them feel empowered? Does this satisfy a certain warped thirst of theirs to relate to a certain mainstream event because AJC is too retarded to be considered 'mainstream' so they have to resort to synchronizing a test release with O level release?
I really don't see how this works. Using the most rationale way of thinking, I don't see how I would come to this conclusion as a principal. Is it me being childish or selfless(in a way)?
-- 1/11/2010 02:00:00 AM
I know the rules, but I screwed them all up.
Hello.
In case you felt like an idiot for the past few updateless days, I'm here to confirm your suspicion. I'm a P2P player on Runescape right now, and I have a lot of homework to do, namely to get all the P2P stats to level 70.
I have 25 more days left, and around 600k EXP of each P2P skill to hit. It sounds very much like my own holiday homework--near impossible.
But, justice shall prevail. My love and passion for Runescape will triumph over the holiday homework, so I shall neglect those.
Well, holiday homework provided I pass my retests. =\
Life.
Let's talk about flirting.
I think that flirting isn't a physical behaviour, it's a psychological warfare. For me, flirting is when you're slightly interested in the other party, be it male or female as according to your orientation, and you want to show it to the other party.
But you don't want the other party to know what exactly is on your mind(which would probably be the victim of your flirting).
Caught in this dilemma of wanting to show yet not showing too much, you resort to flirting to sound the enemy out.
How?
1) Use sexual language. Like:
'Hey hun, you wanna go out for some hot sex---I mean, a movie? (;'
To be used only if you know that person well enough, which would probably fit in most scenarios because why flirt with someone you don't know well enough to flirt with?
If that person responds positively, like:
'Sure honeybunch, want some lipstick on your cheeks? (;'
Then you can play on with this sexual flirting, it's fun. At least for the guy.
Treat every advancement in this game as a level up. So if you're flirting with a make-out, and she flirts with groping, and you reply with a blowjob, and she says SEX,
you can at least expect a make out session. It's free of charge anyway, but you'd have to settle it personally thereafter. Always try to get the level of flirting as high as possible, so when you cash in you theoretically get more.
I make so much sense.
2) Expression of exasperation.
'Omg I hate you lah! Wahlau :c'
It is flirty, you're doing something that you don't normally do and aren't doing because you don't hate that person at all. You just want the recipient to show some form of concern or apology, and it's more of a playful kind. It's flirting anyway, like how girls always whine and sa-jiao to their boyfriends/friends for things they want. It's still flirting anyway.
3) Hypothetical scenarios:
'OK treat this as a ring aahhaha I'm marrying you with this. (:'(ring = grass)
There are other variations, like posing hypothetical questions: 'If you were to look for a boyfriend what kind of qualities do you want and do I fit in?'
And as you people can observe, this approach is
very obvious.
There are other kinds but I'm kinda rushing through this post because my mum would de-skin me at 4.45AM when she comes out(she can wake up earlier, she's a weird woman), so I'm just going to the point of flirting.
Basically, flirting is the mating game. It's like pick-up lines, basically just anything that can get you laid. What you're trying to do is, like I mentioned before, show a bit of your interest, wait for opponent to reciprocate, then show more, and if the opponent follows, show a bit more, opponent follows, and you've gotten yourself laid.
If you blow your cover too soon and the opponent knows for sure that you like him/her, the game's over. If your heart is that easily taken then there's no kick in getting it, and if there's no challenge there's no one interested in taking up this lack of challenge and there's no one TAKING UP YOU, so you don't get laid.
Life's harsh, deal with it.
Rules:
1) Reveal a little at a time.
2) Make sure your opponent reveals more first.
3) Get into a bargaining position, get him/her to make promises. Like, ask her to promise not to scream no matter what she's going to see, she promises, and you show her your dick. She can't back out.
4)Outshine and outlast, get the opponent to reveal completely first.
5) Keep your options open.
I know the rules, but I screwed them all up. :c
-- 1/07/2010 04:12:00 AM