One injury after another

German exam is finally over! No more worries to struggle through german lesson. However I really need to work harder on that language. I get caught at the tongue, lack sufficient vocabulary and forget grammar rules.

But that will wait till next year.

Yesterday as I got home from german lesson, my father urgently rushed my 5 year old brother to the hospital, and I followed as soon as I put down my bag. It appeared that some guy at school punched him in the stomach. After coming home he kept on vomitting and did not want to consume anything. Thus my mother called for my father to come home quickly and ran away to teach tuition.

It was the peak hour, and it took quite a long time to get onto the expressway to KK hospital. Changi General Hospital was nearer, but after experience, we knew it could not be trusted. Years ago, when my other brother took medcine coz he thought it was a yummy beverage, my parents sent him there for an emergency. Apparently emergency meant one hour of waiting, and then getting told that the doctor did not know how to deal with it, and finally dismissed and asked to send him to another hospital.

So we finally reached the hospital as my brother crouched in a ball in his seat not talking at all, which is not common of him. Reaching there, we got out immediately(obviously), and did a series of check ups.

Then, my dad realised that in a hurry, he dropped his wallet, but my brother at home managed to find it at the loading and unloading bay outside my house fortunately.

The nurse gave him medcine but his body rejected anything that enters it, and in seconds he regurgitated brown liquid out. Also, he developed a fever.

i stayed at the hospital till around 10pm, with my mother still not reaching there, and I took a taxi home.

At home was a mess, not entropy, but noise. My mum went home to 'settle some things' first and scolded me when I asked why she was not at the hospital, going on about how irresponsible we are and dependent on her packing our school clothes and bags, and about us not caring about her when my dad shouted at her over the phone because she decided that her income from teaching tuition was more important than the hospital. And for some long story I weedled out of my brother, he got hit by my mum badly...(So as to not cross the lines of family privacy I shall not elaborate too much)

This made me think about how my brothers and I kept on getting injured

My brother hurt his right arm weeks ago I do not know how but the conclusion is that it is now in a cast.

In captains ball today, I fell twice due to the slippery track. I slid off to the drain and rolled onto the grass, grazing my knee, and hitting my fingers. Now for a flashback.

On sports day I sprained my left middle finger while playing basketball.

On monday for physical ed fell and sprained my right index on the basketball.

Today I slightly sprained a few other fingers and hurt my left waist and leg when i fell.

It seems that I have a tendency to get hurt a lot around the limbs. In fact, since young, no where else of my body got injured other than my limbs.

Thankfully so far I have never been punched in the torso. It makes me feel lucky that almost all I have hurt are my appendages. It just seems like a routine for that to happen nowadays.

With that in mind, I continue to live life as per normal.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the first day of school. :)

I am kind of excited now, having finished (almost) all my homework; again I know how I usually start looking forward to the holidays in the middle of school term, and since I can foresee the future I don't know if I am that excited now.

All should go well. :)

Beginner's Luck

I went on another trip to Botanic Gardens for the tour guide programme thingy.

Last week wasn't so bad. This week wasn't so bad either; Terence and I did not get any 'customers'.

So we sat down for one hour and talked rubbish. Then we left.

It must have been beginner's luck last week.

Getting around Curves

I was looking through my Math Assignment. It says you have to create a book cover with functions, not more than 12 curves. So I was thinking about ways to go around it.

1) Technically a linear function is not a curve so we can have as many lines as we want

2) A circle graph is composed of two functions, but it is actually one curve.

3) The more asymtopes you have, the more curves you get in a rational function.

And even if your teacher clarifies that a curve means a function, you can just combine two halves of two functions into one equation.

Using the factor of (abs(-x)-x)/2x). When x is posivite (abs(-x)-x)/2x =0, but when x is negative, (abs(-x)-x)/2x = 1

And thus you can make two halves of two functions into one equation through series of transformations.

y=(((abs(-x)-x)/2x)*(x^2)+(((abs(x)+x)/2x)*sin(x)/(x^2)))

 

So you get two curves you want, but only in one equation

Isn't it wonderful that there are so many ways to get around rules?

First time as a Guide (and first CIP hours this Year!)

Saturday, first day as a guide at Jacob Ballas Children's Garden at Botanic Garden in Bukit Timah.

And the worst part - we are supposed to form our own tour group -.-

So I was doing my shift with Nick, and we decided to do the tour together and so we rehearsed our route. Now the hardest part was to look for people to come on our tour...

We got rejected like 10+times by people with children. Apparently, they either claim that they are attending a course, or seem to be going for this birthday party at the entrance. Two of our potential customers got away by telling us, "oh I think they are too young" and "I don't think their interest will hold long in plannts, but thank you!" and made a quick getaway before we could say that we do not mind their age.

So we were given a table and we sat their manning the sign up sheets, with a pathetic piece of paper saying "Free guided tour for children of all ages" which was supposed to stand up and kept on flopping down.

This is pathetic, I thought.

And on sunday all the visitors will probably be going for this white rabbit drama at the party place, so well wishes to them. I wonder if they managed to do better than us.

Finally the security guard managed to get us an adult couple who was interested in going on our tour. So from then on it was two to two. There is nothing better we could have done.

So we talked and started the tour, and the couple was very friendly and nice to talk to. Soon, 1 hour 15 minutes passed and it was over without us really looking forward to the end. It did not turn out so bad after all:)

Sports Day

Sports day was rather boring. It rained and stopped and rain and stopped, and for going up into the concourse when it was raining, we got shouted at by teachers; how unreasonable.

And so Cmc Ben raynor sourav and I went to play basketball. Later haochun angela and charlene joined. I sprained my middle finger on the left while I lost control of the ball. :( It still hurts now.

Prize giving ceremony was dreadful. My back hurt a lot through it. Standing can be tiring, but so can sitting still.

After sports day half of 205 went to narmahda's house. At first a group of them were really undecisive despite some of us saying that we go to her house, so we ended up discussing about our destination at the 196 bus stop and when it came we boarded it naturally. But we weren't supposed to.

So the atmosphere ended up rather moody between the groups of us.

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We went to the sandpit at narmahda's house and Ben and I dug a hole till we hit the bottom. Then we found lots of wet soil and made several hollow structures of sand around the crater.

Ben and I threw a coin each into the "wishing well" and threw a flower in as a momento, burying it as we covered the hole. Wonder if we will still find it in future...

Then we played tennis and water bombs in the tennis court, which was when some people started leaving.

And then we played uno.

The remaining of us had a rather good time. Or at least I had :)

Then it was farewell.

:) Let's go there again next time.

Drilling

I will not be so serious in posting from now. It made me tired of posting for the last months.

Two days ago, after I came home from teachers' day celebration, I heard noise.

Noise from the floor above.

Renovation.

The next day, I was woken up at 8am by the drill works.

So I played the piano to cover up the noise for 3 hours.

And I was thinking about how school the next day would be hell with all the drilling works outside class.

And surprisingly, I did not hear anything today. :)

I bet it will resume tomorrow.

Physics quiz today was considerably hard. If you would like to compare it to my previous quizzes and tests, it was EXTREMELY HARD.

I "memorized" the value of G wrongly, when it was given in the question paper...

And one of the questions asked for the force needed to tip a block over, and I merely "roughly" knew how to do it.
But at the last minute, it just came and so did a spammage of nonsensical equations and thus the answer.

But I am not sure whether it is right.

Please let me score at least 30/40...