Okay we've gotten most of our papers back, ie. Math (M1 and M2), Chem, Bio, Physics and SS. English and Chinese will be given out during the hols/Term 3 and Lit will be returned next week.

I have only one 4.0 :/

And it's so tragic how I lost my 4.0 for Physics. I got back my paper and aha, 4.0 for Physics! Then I flipped through the paper to check if the marker added the marks correctly.

Well, he/she didn't. I was supposed to get 2 marks less.

If I wanted to be melodramatic here I could say that I painfully raised my pencil to cross out the 4.0 mark and slowly wrote the 3.6 mark in really faintly in erasable pencil. Sigh. Either way, buh-bye 4.0, hello 3.6.

But it's not that bad a mark, so...whatever I guess.

I benefit from the new GPA calculation system :D

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I've absolutely no idea how Xinyuan manages to squeeze so many shifts in for Open House. I'm doing like 3 booths and dying trying to make them not clash X.x

A certain teacher we all know and love was super classic today lol.

"Oh, most of you will be quite happy with your marks. You met my target, right? 4.0. You're my strongest class so I'm not worried about you. I'm not worried at all."

Thing is, she apparently tells every one of her classes that. (:

And the "IF YOU GOT 81% STOP COMING TO ME FOR MARKS ALREADY! I'm only going to look at your marks if you're a borderline 2.8 or 3.2 and need another mark to go up to the next band. 4.0 still need marks for what?"

Lol!

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Oh and we had our RALA individual talk with Dr Sakhar today.

And, well, there are some things I hate to admit to myself, but he got them spot on. That I should talk more in class, that it is true that everyone there is smarter (he tried to be nice by saying "just as smart, if not smarter") than me, that I should pretend to myself I don't care about all that and just voice my opinions, speak up, share my views with a class of way-too-intelligent people.

But I realised today that I truly am intimidated by my beloved RALA classmates. They're sweet and everything, but they're just so damned SMART. Am I secretly scared of people who're smarter than me? Scary thought, that is.

And I need to improve on my insights in my essays. Which basically means I need to improve my quality of thought, because I am too shallow. Or rather, my thinking's too shallow. But how? My mind really IS filled with all sorts of unimportant things like calculating my GPA 10x to check how much I've deproved, or finding out what happened to Mia in book 10 of The Princess Diaries, or how to make Japanese potato salad.

Maybe I should start reading Intellectual Stuff. Yawn.