Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect

The past two days have been bittersweet for each of us I guess. After all, every single thing that we do in our lives will unfailingly come back and end up nipping us in the... erm... hiney. In this case, that'd be the exams. Yes, guys, the exams. The havoc wrecked in your minds the past few marking days may have removed all traces of bad memories, but they never go away just like that. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, every cause will lead to an effect.

I'll skip the going-through exams part. We all know what it was like:

"Shit, I got 79 only."

"How many hundred you got?"

"Eh I passed leh. Want go buy 4D?"

"Eh how much you got?" "You don't want to know lah..." "Just tell me lah, what you scared of?" "Err... 84." "Walao why you so like that one?" "Tell you you don't want to know liao!"

Bitter indeed.

I flopped both Maths, got a little disappointed with Physics, Bio and LA, shocked that I passed Chem, wasn't too surprised at HCL and realised how God can work in such mysterious ways in History. Overall? I feel indifferent yet satisfied.

I've long gotten over the times where marks haunted my every though in the last quarter of the year. "It's not worth it" was the conclusion I came to after a few days of sulking. After all, in a few months time, the most probable thing that'll happen is that I'll look back, remember my marks and laugh it off. There's nothing to bother me except a few numbers that others share too - It's not a divine prediction of your future.

No, this post isn't really for me, but for those who still that tang of annoyance or are fully concentrated on that possible C,D or F appearing in their report book next week. It's one thing to take your exams seriously, its another to let it take you over. Don't lose sight of other aspects of school, other aspects of life. I failed Maths 2, but I don't see people in the streets holding signs saying "DOOMSDAY IS COMING, REPENT STUDY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE".

So take the holidays to relax, recuperate, restore those heavily abused gray matter. It's a time to have fun and feed our minds and souls for a change, with your CCAs, outings with friends, and stopping2think blogposts. Be ready for the next year. Remember that the grade is not a death sentence - it's an alarm clock ringing for your next year paper.

And don't you dare hit the snooze button after your 2 month nap.

A Little Colour has Returned

A Little Colour has Returned

Yes, it definitely has, and I am in no small way feeling more relieved than ever.

Don't rush to click that X on the top right hand corner - This is still stopping2think. I know I'm so slow with updates nowadays that you check back here expecting to see nothing at all, but all of a sudden there's a post AND a new blogpic. Almost as shocking as seeing Sean not on a bad hair day.

I'm proud of the picture that I made. It was by far the art piece that took the longest for me to make so far, what with spending a half hour each day *coughduringexamcoughperiodcoughcough* just to work on this and destress a little.

The exams are no doubt a darker part of all our lives that we're all happy to leave behind, and I'm sure that there are many of you who are going mad over the newfound freedom. I had a crazy day out too, which summarised into 75 words or less, starting with the words "I went out..." will look like: I went out with Gillian, Tong Wei, Sara, Shuqi and Jia Teck supposedly to watch a movie but ended up walking to NYDC in Holland Village before a sudden decision to go to Vivo where we still didn't watch a movie and ended up surprising Kiat Shing with a birthday cake at Kembengan as well as a muscle cramp before I headed home while they had enough energy to continue chatting at his house.

Exams give us crazy ideas indeed. But yet there's an emptiness left behind by the absence of studying. Whatever will we spend our late nights doing now that we don't have Hitler and binomials to fret over? A few of us have ideas planned out already, while others are still trying to let the truth set in - We have free time now.

For those who haven't thought of what to do, worry not - You are, after all, reading my blog, which will provide a phenomenal amount of entertainment over a long period of time. Kidding. Actually, I have prepared a few ideas on what to do, but I'm sure you don't want to see them. It isn't all that interesting anyway...

Aw, they're not that good... Are they? Tsk, you say the nicest things. Well then, if you insist, then here I go again: stopping2think presents yet another list that nobody will probably follow but read for no reason again.

10 Things to do after the exams

1. Do your laundry. Out, damn spot, out I say!

2. Go to the library, sit at the study section, and point and laugh at every person who holds a textbook.

3. Update your blogs (That means you - Tong Wei, Sean, Sara, Jane etc etc etc)

4. Don't have a blog? Get one.

5. Write a nice play that gets into the curriculum for a long time. Then release a full exam-proof analysis. Wait for profits.

6. Return to school, and start taking photos of your classroom. You'll miss them, trust me.

7. Screw the rules

8. Take that long needed trip to the LAN you've been wanting

9. Pick up that new skill you wanted to learn (Instrument, sport...)

10. Suck up to your parents before you get your papers back.

Whatever it is, please, please, please enjoy yourselves. We all deserve this. Happy after exams guys! We have a whole lot waiting ahead for us.