Just 1 more day of school before exams start. It seems really quick and it's not a good thing because I don't think I'm ready for it. I know I'll pass, but I really want to score because I'm not just meant to pass, I have to do well or else there's no point in me being here (the guilt is there). Luckily I don't have anymore English or Economics till the end of the year when I have to get back my exams :)

Only left with sciences tomorrow. Then the stress level builds up for exams. Currently, my exam timetable is as such:

THURSDAY
English

FRIDAY
Physics

MONDAY
Chemistry

TUESDAY
Introductory Calculus
Economics

WEDNESDAY
Geometry & Trigonometry
---END OF EXAMS!!---

That was a really good timetable I guess. Intro calc is one of my best subjects so as least it gives me time to revise for my econs which is not my best. Other than that, all my other subjects are one per day. Physics is okay to be one friday because I can just dump in all the formulas and definitions into my calculator so there's nothing to memorise really. Just need to remember and revise how to apply and explaining questions. Hopefully I'll be ready for the exam by then. Okay, I'd better get off the comp and not go on from thurs till my exams are over. That's gonna take A LOT of discipline BUT I'm gonna make sure that I can achieve it. See ya!!

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Can't stand school now... just got back 3 of my tests in 3 periods (one for each subject) Currently for Econs, I'm sitting on 55.2% for the year so I if get zero for the exam, I'll still be passing econs!! Yay! How cool would that be! But I guess I want to do well. I'm just stuck between and B and a C. Goodbye to my A... that'll mean I have to get 75 and above but then the exam is only weighted 20 so it's IMPOSSIBLE to get 100% for someone like me so I guess I'll have to settle for a B.

I'm not sure what I'm sitting on for G & T for the moment. Hopefully it's an A (or else I'd be SUPER upset) That's because I've been getting at least 75% in all of my tests so it's expected that I get at least an A. I think I'm sitting on an A for intro calc too. I'd better be cos I just got 100% in my last 2 tests so it should have brought my averager WAY up heaps. I'm just better at the math and sciences. Can't stand humanities subjects... they're so hard and confusing. Who likes writing essays? Then you'll have to extract the information by READING whereas for maths, the answer is just THERE. No need to go hunt for information and answers cos it's just so straightforward. Maybe I'm just not cut out for humanities... humaninties just absolutely HATE me.

Well, for Chem I'm now sitting on 93% and if I want to maintain my semester 1 mark - 95%, I'd have to get 98.8% in the exam. This is abolutely DIFFICULT but I'll try my best and see how well I can do. I really want to top in Chem again. I shall go study really hard and then PRAY that I do well and top the level again. It really sucks because they only give out prizes to the 1st place. They should have 1st, 2nd and 3rd. So unfair lor. If they gave out 1st, 2nd and 3rd, I wouldn't be so stressed because I know that I'll most likely be either one of them. Now I have to go compete with all the smart people who are good in EVERYTHING and are doing EXACTLY the same subjects as me THUS ruining my chances of getting a top mark in ANY subject now.

*Sigh*.. Still about 16 days till my mum and sister come over to see me and 14 days till the end of my exams. I can't wait for that day to come but that'll mean that exams are even closer! They are OFFICALLY 1 week AWAY!!! At least I don't have 2 hard subjects on the same day. Econs and Intro Calc on the same day = not too bad because I'm really good at Intro Calc but just suck at Econs so I'll just study for Econs so that my hard work will pay off.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CYN-CHAN!!!!

I hope you had a good birthday... especially that your Os here. I wish you all the best and that you'd be able to get into the JC of your choice. I wish I could have been there!! So saddening...

MY PHYSICS ORAL IS FINALLY OVER!!!!

Thank God it's finally over. I don't even think I was sure about what I was talking about. I even answered Mr Eyles question wrongly. How would I remember that his question is NOT part of my research? It was just a BLOODY trick question dammnit! I'll probably end up failing it anyway... but it doesn't matter. After all, it's ONLY worth 6 marks. Hopefully the weighting is not too big.

Today was really boring. Had English first where we watched a current affairs show on child molestors on the internet an d how they can be everyone and anyone. So boring. At least we didn't have to do anything. Just discussing and watching. Wait till the hard part comes in - the essay. We have to compare both of the current affairs shows and how they differ in the harshness of the interviewer and how stereotypes are being used. I just hope I can complete it ASAP. Then in no time, exams will be here and then HOLIDAYS!!! I long for that day to come!!

--------------------------------------------- Melsie decided to blog on Monday, October 30, 2006 at 10:15 p.m.
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Don't think I've got much to blog about today. Hmm... lets see what happened in my life today:

1st period was Chem - revisiting redox for ME. Learnt little stuff only (it WAS REvisited anyway, what's there to learn?) Lots of people found it confusing so I had to explain. Redox is really fun. I can't understand why some people don't like it. Wait till they get to the pracs (we're doing one tmr). It'll be WORST.

2nd period was English - we watched a '60 minutes' interview. In case some of you don't know, '60 minutes' is the name of a current affairs show. It's like the news but with MUCH longer interviews and more background info on the people involved. It was about this woman who was 34 when she met a boy whom she taught in her school when he was 12. The somehow 'fell in love' and had 2 kids by the time the boy was 15. WTH!!! That's considered rape by the US government because the boy is considered a minor and therefore the woman was charged for rape. It was ABSOLUTELY SICK. How could she even put herself in that situation that can lead to KISSING & SEX??? How stupid... We have to watch and comment to how her story is being related and shown to us. Meaning how it is being presented to us and what kinds of attitudes that it evoke within us. So boring...

3rd period was Intro Calculus - Learnt about applications of integration. Was really simple. Not that hard. Had to explain to a few people who didn't understand. Spend most of my time shaking in fear cos I was going to have my physics presentation the next period. In the end, I managed to get the stuff we needed to do completed by the end of that lesson. I LOVE intro calc. It's my FAVOURITE subject now... chem is good too but it's not as easy going as intro calc.

4th period was Physics - I was SHAKING like crazy before entering the class. Upon entering, we found out that Mr Eyles wasn't here. Maybe he went home or something? Heng man... only have to present during the next lesson which is MONDAY!!! Hopefully I'll be more prepared and calm then. We ended up doing an experiment with the measuring of resistance or something. Really easy stuff and then after that plotting a graph with voltage on current and then the gradient would be the resistance because V=IR. That was easy... we got it done withing half and hour I think. Spent the rest doing private study and completing homework.

5th period was Economics - Learnt new stuff. I think econs is getting more interesting. Maybe it's because I understand more things now and I'm not afraid to ask questions anymore. That has helped me to make notes more efficiently now. Hopefully I can do better and score really well in the exams!! I don't want to dislike anymore subjects!

Well, that's my school day. Kinda boring and MUCH more slow moving compared to Singapore. After school, I decided to just start my homework so I'd be able to have more free time later to do my own things - revision since exams are coming and more READING!! Ever since I came here, I've been starting to read more books. Maybe that's the only thing I can do since most of the internet sites are all blocked so there's nothing much I can do anyway. 38 more days to SPEECH NIGHT!!! After that, HOLIDAYS!!! Can't wait till then :)

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The 1st week is finally over. Now I'm 3.5 weeks closer to exams but good news is that it'll be 42 days till Dec 3. Hopefully less than that till I see my parents again. At least this is a short term.. and exams make it EVEN shorter! I still can't wait for the holidays. It seems so far away. At least my Econs test is over. Now, the biggest fear is my physics presentation. Once that is over, the NEXT biggest fear would then be EXAMS!!! Luckily mine ends on Wed(22/11) instead of Fri(24/11). Hopefully my parents can come over sooner cos I'll have the whole of that next week off cos it's marking days before going back to school on Fri(1/12)

Spent this weekend at Godma's house. She came on the 14th Oct and just left today. It feels really good to just go out with family friends just to relax and get my mind off school and the boarding house. It's kinda like my second home. Takes my mind off being homesick. Which is good cos I'm not as homesick as before!! Yay~ I just miss my parents and friends but I'm not DYING to go home or anything. I've got to try not to be so emotional about it... it's just home and I'm here in Perth for a reason - to study and get good grades. It's just a few more months to live with before my mum and sister will come and look after me (then leave my dad all alone in Sg *poor thing*) I guess holidays are still the best thing in my entire life cos the WHOLE FAMILY is reunited once again. I really hope my dad has to go to melbourne sometime soon... then he can drop by just for the weekend to spend it with me. Until then, I've got the STUDY MY ASS OFF!!! =(

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School has started... I always feel so lonely, without the love of my family, my friends and my hometown. Just until the middle of next year... then at least mum and mei mei would be here to look after me and the new house (hopefully it'll be built by then) I can't bear separation anymore... it's hurting so much and it makes me cry out almost every other night. I just wish I could duplicate my parents. Then they can come and stay here as a family while the other duplicate works hard in Singapore.

Why can't the holidays come sooner? It's so strange... term just started and I'm wishing that it would end. At least this is a short term. Just 4.5 weeks of school before the exams and then the rest of term is exams/day offs. Then at last, Speech Night on Dec 3! Apparently it's going to be a Speech Day this year. Hopefully it doesn't drag too much. I really pray that my parents would be able to come and see me during Speech Day. That would mean that I'll have to work SUPER hard to get the top of a few subjects so that I can receive the trophy for that particular subject. Oh well, I'll just have to try. Hopefully studying can take my mind off thinking about home.

Still about 47 days till Dec 3. I really hope my parents can come sooner. Maybe they can come on friday or even earlier. Then we can go and spend family time together before more separation occurs. How I wish I can have the ability to apparate. Then I won't have to be a boarder. I can just apparate to school every morning and apparate back for recess, lunch and after school. This would save SO much time on travelling time and both parties would be happy!! Sadly, we do not live in Harry Potter's world of magic and spells. How saddening. I just hope all the tests would be over quickly and I can get them over and done with so that they can be out of the way. Especially the physics presentation. I haven't even practised the presentation yet! And we only have 5 min to present (incl experiment) Where got time? Especially when we have to present a new topic to EVERYONE in the class within that short time. And then have to ask questions later. Hope I don't stumble or anything. Hopefully Mr Eyles won't put it this week. Maybe next week or friday would be good. I just need a few days to just settle down for a while and catch my breath. My room isn't even unpacked yet. Stuff is still everywhere... such a mess :(

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I FINALLY FINISHED WATCHING FMA!!!!

Thanks so much for that wonderful anime Aya-san! It was really nice to watch and it's funny and sad at different times of it. I can't wait to go back to Singapore. 4 more days and I would be in my home watching TV... But then you guys have all got your O levels to prepare for. Damn... why am I always having holidays when you guys have MAJOR exams and you guys have holidays when I have my exams :( The timing is always SO bad. Why does it always happen like this? Oh well... there's still end of the year~

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We had the IGSSA Athletics Carnival today!!! At least it was better than having lessons in school. PENRHOS IS THE CHAMPION for the 14th year IN A ROW!!!!
S-U-C-C-E-S-S
S-U-C-C-E-S-S!!!!
S-U-C-C-E-S-S
S-U-C-C-E-S-S!!!!
P-E-N-R-H-O-S
P-E-N-R-H-O-S!!!!
THAT'S THE WAY WE SPELL SUCCESS!!!!
Go.... PENRHOS!!!!

It was really fun and interesting. My first sports carnival. It's like sports day in Singapore except this time you compete with all the other independent girls schools in WA. It was so good cos we were like winning almost ALL the events... hardly much competition. The scores were like 755 or something and only 560 for 2nd place. *sigh*... maybe we're just too good haha

10.5 more days to the holidays!!!! If you're wondering why I have the .5 there, it's because half a day goes to school and the rest of the day is the start of the holidays. I can't wait to go home. I've been homesick the entire term. Hopefully that doesn't happen next term or else... :(

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THE YEAR 11 DANCE IS FINALLY OVER!!!

The dance was really fun! Unfortunately, we spent too much time taking photos that we didn't have much time to dance. The queues for the professional photos were TOO LONG. I wish we could have another one! Oh well, it's only 5 more months to the Year 12 ball!! haha. Too many things coming up every now and then. Okay, I promised that I would put up pictures so here they are. I SWEAR that some of them DON'T even look like me... dammit.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MON!!!!

I now owe you a birthday present. Hopefully can pass to you once I get home for holiday in end September. You poor thing... have to have a birthday during Prelims period... I wish you all the best and do well k? (actually ALL of you do well!!) I can't wait for end of the year when we will all be free to go out!!! It'll be like old times haha. With the PS2, we can 'shrek' and 'guilty gear' ALL DAY!!!

I finally fixed my blog up. Something mysteriously 'ate' my blog up on 11th of Aug. Wonder what happened. I couldn't fix it in school because the IDIOTIC network blocked the archives section so I can't see how my old settings looked like. Am glad that I finally fixed it back to normal. I wish the school wounldn't block LJ... it's one of my GOOD sites to visit! Glad they didn't block this and fanfiction.net or else I will surely DIE cos I wouldn't have an outlet to release feelings haha :):) Hope to come home soon... only 33 days to the holidays! Starting today that is...

--------------------------------------------- Melsie decided to blog on Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 02:36 p.m.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEI MEI!!!!

I hope you had a wonderful time on your birthday. I wonder if you will ever be able to see this post (Cos you don't even know I have a blog haha) Well, hopefully mum and dad made this day extra special for you. How I wish I could be there with you when you cut your cake... What I wouldn't do to be in two places at once... and that the two places are as far apart as Singapore and Perth... Or if only I could have a time turner. Then I could spend one year in Perth and turn back time to have one whole year in Singapore WHILE my other body is in Perth! How cool would that be? Oh well, I guess it's impossible to have items that belong to Harry Potter's world because they don't exist AT ALL. Dream on...

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Today was SO fun!!!! Sak, I wish you were here - It was PINK day!!! Everyone could wear pink accessories and stuff but I didn't have anything pink so Rosanna lent me a ribbon to wear. Haven't returned it to her though... Shall do that on Monday. Argh.. I forgot to take photos of ALL the pink (Mon is SURE to run away!) It was so cool seeing all the pink stuff that people have. Even the male teachers wore pink! (Mr Ebert and Mr Urbini had pink socks! haha) It was so interesting. I wish I had a camera to take photos.. shall save up then go and invest in one when I have enough $$$ to spend on it.

This week has gone by so fast! I SWEAR, last week was SO much slower than this. Maybe cos Mrs Taylor wasn't around most of the time for Economics so lots of time was wasted during thost lessons. Hopefully next week would pass just as fast. Only have to go to school till thursday cos it's mid-term break so no school on fri, sat, sun and monday! *sigh*... I wish I could go home... still 6 more weeks till then! Seems only yesterday that term 3 just started... I guess I just have to wait then.

I can't wait for my dad to drop by in 2 weeks! I am DEFINITELY going out and I hope I can spend some time with my dad. I wish the whole family was here then I could stay at a proper HOME because I miss everyone!!! I think I'm getting really homesick... I wish I could just APPARATE home. Then it'll be SO much better than staying here. Then I would have weekends free to have QUALITY FAMILY TIME. Oh well, I guess that life isn't perfect in any way :(

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Urgh... My blog is seriously screwed. I tried changing something small yesterday and it ended up deleting EVERYTHING so I had to re-do the ENTIRE layout again. This really sucks so bad.

Oh well, it was my birthday yesterday and it was so fun cos we had 2 chocolate cakes - Jenn baked one for recess and then Rosanna bought one for lunch. I think I've had too much chocolate that I'm getting a sore throat. I hope I don't get sick because now is NOT the best time to get sick anyway. But yesterday, the funniest part was that they ended up decorating the WRONG locker! It was one locker to the left. I was laughing so hard cos it was someone else's locker that they were designing haha! I wish I took a picture before I took it down. Anyway, I keep some of it so I might take pictures of that and post it here.

Till then, Jia Ne~

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SINGAPORE!!!!

It's Singapore's 41st birthday today. No fair... everyone studying in Singapore at the moment is having a school holiday today AND tomorrow but I HAVE to go to school here. Jeez... I guess it's better than studying in Singapore now because I would have to sit for prelims in 16 days time (I think) and O levels soon. I can't wait to go back. 51 days to the holidays...

I had a physics test today. On Nuclear Physics. Some parts were easy but some were just so confusing and I wondered if our teacher actually taught us those topics or not. Hope I pass though... Also, during Chem today, we were deciding on our goals for our organic chem test this Fri (My birthday too!) I told my teacher I'll aim for 90% but she went and put down 95%! No fair! She always wants me to do better than I can (just because I'm good at Chem) That's gonna be really hard. Oh well, shall just go and work really hard for it.

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I'm finally out for the weekend!!!! Feels so good to get out of the boarding house. It can sometimes make you sick from being cooped up in a place for too long. Guess I'm getting claustrophobic then.

Anyway, it was so funny on Thurday! We played a trick on Mr Ebert because he made us wait for him outside class for SUCH a long time. Nicola wanted to go to the toilet, so we decided to follow her down so it seems that the whole class just disappeared! (there were 8 of us at the moment ANYWAY) Then we saw Mr Ebert on the above floor walking towards the class so we just ducked under the stairs on the ground floor. Then we saw him walk in the other direction (to senior school reception perhaps?) and we realised that we probably pushed it too far so we decided to go back. We were in class for a while and then the PA went on and said, "Could a runner from Mr Ebert's G & T class please come to senior school reception and tell us which room you're in?" We were literally LAUGHING non-stop when we heard this. Imagine what the other classes would be thinking? Mr Ebert losing his class? The funniest joke of the century! So Alison and Irene decided to just go to Senior school reception when they saw Mr Ebert standing at the corridor with his hands in a what-is-going-on? position. Jeez... it was funny though. Then later he came back with a surprise EPW (extended piece of work) THAT SHOULD BE MADE ILLEGAL. School rules say that EPWs must have at least a 1-week warning before it is to be carried out. But we still did it anyway. Guess we deserved it anyway from how we treated him. It was fun though.

Oh well, I can't really say much cos I don't know what to say. Damn school network blocked livejournal so I can't access it! Not fair! Can't wait to go home on 29th Sept! P.S. I need to make a new layout...

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I FINALLY GOT TO SEE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST!!!!

Saw it with a few of the boarders today. Just came back not too long ago. The movie was so-so I guess. Quite funny at times (the marvelous job of Johnny Depp) and really gory with all the blood and half-dead bodies (Mon will DEFINITELY love that!) But all in all, I think it's not bad. The ending was really abruptly cut off so a lot of them didn't like it. Seemed like the story didn't go anywhere. Just cut off so suddenly that you MUST go to watch the third one next year when it comes out just to see the end of the story.

I MISS HOME!!!! Or maybe I just miss my parents and family. Everytime I sit staring at the window, I always end up thinking of them and how much I actually miss them even though I've only returned back for less than a week. Time passes by so slowly here. I wish it could go faster and I could go home for the next holiday. The best would be end of the year because I would be back for 2 months and all of you all studying in Singapore would have finished your Os and then we can PS2 all day or hang out at kino all day! That would be like THE best thing on earth! Can't wait for end of year holidays. Term 4 hols only start like 5 Dec for me so it's like in 4 months and 8 days from now.

Jeez... I would do ANYTHING just to go back or for my parents to come here. I just miss their presence. Maybe it's just me cos when I first came here, I didn't feel a thing but now, I feel really sad whenever I have to go back to Perth to study and I don't like to leave home just to do this. Maybe I should just try to get a scholarship for NUS in Singapore then I can go study there. No separation of family required. I think that's a really good idea. Shall work towards that then!

--------------------------------------------- Melsie decided to blog on Friday, July 28, 2006 at 09:43 p.m.
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School has started in Perth. I feel really homesick. Was tearing in my room yesterday when I started thinking about my parents. Miss them so much. Oh well, maybe I'm being too emotional. Hope this will settle down over time.

The Year 11 dance is in 6 weeks and 3 days!!!! Can't wait. Still need to find a partner for the dance. Will borrow a camera or something and take photos to upload here:)

All in all, I just wish that this term will end quickly and the holidays will come soon. But then term 4 will come. I just want term 4 to go pass quickly too because then the hols for me will be 2 months till the end of Jan next year. The best thing is that term 4 only has 8 weeks but there is no mid-term break so I don't have a long weekend in week 5. Can't wait till 4th Dec cos that's speech day and it's our last day of school. I think I just want to go home. It's so much better at home than here. Even though my sister really irritates me a lot but I think it's just part of life so I should just learn to live with that then...

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Felt like doing a quiz at the moment so here it is:-

Which Guilty Gear X character are you?

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New Layout!!!! I found a whole lot of pictures for Path Of Neo (Damn... I want that game!) Shall try to save up so I can buy it some day.

Holidays have just started for students studying in Perth and it includes ME~ Actually I started slacking off like last week already. Came back from school just to go for guitar night. Jeez... I'm gonna have a lot to catch up on when I return to school next term. Go me :(

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