Been lazy, and busy to blog...

It has been really hectic. I signed up for Teachers' Day Ad Hoc, and I got smothered by the chairman who tasked me with the duty of both publicity AND gifts. I learnt a lot though. I pretty adept at adobe photoshop now... to a small extent. I now know how to design my own merchandise. And I got a really good contact for doing that heh.. For teachers day I designed a mug and a lanyard which was given to every teacher. I can even see many teachers walking around with the lanyard I designed.

The mug is really nice. I'm serious. It's basically the modified superman logo to contain AC with the phrase "I'M AN (AC) TE(AC)CHER", (AC) representing the logo. Of course the (AC) and the (AC) in teacher is the logo. So it's more like I'M AN on top and then AC logo below the TE on the left and CHER on the right of the logo. The title ACcolade: Our Heroes was suggested by me, albeit reluctantly because I actually wanted a medieval themed concert. Oh wells... that was the 4th of august. But because my partner was struggling with her studies and violin exam, I pretty much did all the work. But hardship makes a person stronger. I now believe I can do much more.

I sacrificed a lot for teachers' day. I didn't do any kind of studying for a month thanks to it. And because of that I failed Chinese and GP mock tests. But, I still got an A grade for Chemistry, Math and Biology tests somehow. Ok, maybe not somehow. I am somehow highly inclined towards the Math and Sciences. But I completely fail at art subjects and languages.

Went out during the september holidays with my group of friends from FMSS. It really brought back memories about how they were always around to keep me company while the rest of the class ignored my existence.

After being in council for a few months, I have comed to realise that I am pretty much an oddball in the council. Practically everyone there was once from some sort of prefectorial board. I have noticed something; councillors are fundamentally differently in their personality. They are almost always a high E and have rather high EQs. The biggest and most obvious point I noted was that a high knowledge of pop culture and celebrity trivia (which includes knowledge about american music and movies) correlates to extraversion. The most outgoing is the person who has the most topics to talk about, relevant to today's youth and to today's pop culture. And guess who's the most out of sync with pop culture? haha...

Been really stressed lately by Chinese. I just don't get it. Why do I need to learn literature in Chinese when what the government wants is for us to do business with China or in China. We should be learning how to write argumentative essays and understanding relevant terminologies rather than learning expressions that will be of no use in day to day conversations. There is something wrong with the education system. If the purpose of the chinese syllabus is to create a generation that can discern ideas, I believe that the educational system already imbibes this ability through all arts subject and GP/English, hence the chinese syllabus should be changed such that it involves just pure memory work. Languages are best learnt through the repeated process of memorisation, application, memorisation... something I learnt from a friend who managed to digest Japanese to a surprising eloquence in just half a year. Furthermore Chinese is absolutely complicated. In english, our vocabulary consists of alphabets --> words ---> sentences where words can be classified more or less into adjectives, verbs and nouns,, or course there are others like conjunctives. But they are basically words. In chinese, words (zi) are the basic building blocks. On its own, it has meaning, when paired up with another it will probably have another meaning, some come in triplets and most come in quartets (ci yus) and even more taxing are the proverbs which are unlike english proverbs and idioms, the words of a chinese proverb will have the meaning of the proverb only together and you cannot vary it, whereas in english, the component words can allow a small degree of freedom, such as "love me, love my dog" can be "one who loves me should love my dog", in chinese its ai wu ji wu and nothing else. the equivalent of word in english is equivalent to the single word, the double, the triple and the quartet. This means a larger bank of meanings as compared to english. The chinese language is full of redundancies too. Many words are simply too specific with all sorts of unwritten rules. Two different pairings can have the same meaning but one of them can only be used in a certain context which just makes me completely annoyed. Chinese has a really disorganised sentence structure that is radically different from english. To exacerbate that, expressions (1,2,3,4) are not classed as adverbs adjective or what nots in a dictionary, leaving you to guess. Some expressions can't be used as both adjectives and verbs, and adjectives and nouns or any combination, but nothing states so. Completely frustating... I have no idea how I will ever master chinese to a reasonable eloquence...