mindless chatter
Monday, March 23, 2009 @ 10:39 pm.
Chapel
Went down to the Bamboo Courtyard to see if anyone at all would turn up for warmups after what happened during Drama week last week.
But no one came.
Met Carolyn going up to the gallery; apparently she got lost ^^~. The band was good today, and so was the message... but yet I feel that there is so much more that could be learned from The Last Supper. I just have to find out what else there is.
Bio
Marksheet; again, my predicted two A2s and rest A1s (see previous post on marks), so quite happy with that.
Ms Lau passed back the slips of paper thing that only 3G would have any clue of. Anyway, I didn't know if we were supposed to do anything so I drew a smiley face in pencil for no reason.
Seating arrangement change; I'm sitting with Glenda now. I think it's the first time ever that I'm actually sitting in the second row. I don't really mind, except that it's a little weird to see the whiteboard and it looks like whiteboard-whiteboard-whiteboard-Wendy's head-whiteboard. But I can still see, so it's okay.
Other than that, went through Bio worksheets etc.
(I don't call Glenda Gand for some reason... I think last year I just didn't want to, and I doubt I'm going to change that now)
Literature
Glenda doesn't take Full Lit so I had a vacant seat again. I think Jardena or Jeanette was going to take it, but Jean was the first to get there. I guess it's because Eleanor's sitting in front :D
Anyway, we were supposed to start on Hilda Taba today, so we were getting into groups to do a class Hilda Taba (grouped with Carolyn, Jelly, En, Tze).
Seriously, I was almost certain that the entire exercise would be a complete flop.
If we're supposed to classify things based on Higher Order Thinking, how on earth can we do it with 20-30 people that we likely only know half of? And how are we supposed to find out which happy little group we belong to BESIDES the groups we usually engage in MINDLESS CHATTER with without actually DISCUSSING amongst ourselves to find out exactly where we belong OUTSIDE our little chat-spheres?
Yun Hua didn't think she belonged anywhere. My sentiments exactly.
Still, most of the lesson was taken up, as many of you might have heard, with the mindless chatter episode.
It amazes me how absolutely all adults can find things to say and target towards us for a solid hour, and how they are almost visibly pausing and looking around and finding something else to say.
Still, after that, I went back to my seat and came the closest to crying in public as I have in quite a while.
I'm so sorry, Mrs Ng. I'm so sorry.
Stayed in at recess to prepare for the Chinese presentation.
HCL
Chinese presentation.
SS
British healthcare, by Mrs Raj.
Somehow I like the chapters that deal with outside countries. Maybe it's because Singapore is a young country, and it's interesting to see what the older countries did.
It's hard to imagine, sometimes, how the government of a welfare state doesn't lose money caring for their citizens.
If those people moved to, let's say, Singapore or anywhere that isn't a welfare state, how would they survive?
Physics
Mr Liu was happy today. Which reminds me, I need to go look up those lens and wave simulations.
HCL
More Chinese presentation. Spent the time looking through Audrey's UglyDoll book and drawing things on the page of my notebook.
I'm not going to discuss anything else.