My 18th Birthday
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almaviva90Yay, I'm 18 today...well, techincially, I was born on Wednesday, 7th March 1990 at 2:57pm at St. Paul's Hospital, Causeway Bay, HK so I was actually really 18 at 2:57 pm today but maybe that's more than everyone needed to know, lol.
Apart from having birthday wishes from my friends (who needed a little reminding after the catastrophe of the previous day's exam results -__-), random people (a.k.a people who I normally don't talk to) wished me Happy Birthday as well (even on Facebook). Thanks again everyone!
Had dinner with my mum today at Bistro Delifrance at Times Square...that was a nice family thing. She gave me a card as well, lol. And the the pizza was good too! =)
Being 18 means a couple of things for me...
1. University freshers
2. Driving License
3. Right to vote
4. Having to replace ID card
Being 18 does NOT mean...
1. Go into random frenzy and throw yourself into the nearest bar/pub/club and get sloshed.
2. Go into above mentioned frenzy and get a pack of cigarettes and light up.
No idea why people go clubbing...I still don't. I mean, why would you want to spend time in a noisy, drunk-infested place where you can't relax due to the deafening music which seems to make the ground vibrate beneath your feet and where you can't even hear the person next to or in front of you, seeing only frantic gesticulations of the hands in some bizarre sign-language.
Anyways, now I can open my presents since it's actually my birthday now although I have no idea if I have enough time to watch the DVDs. Maybe during Easter when all the C/W (or nearly all of it is out of the way). Gah, note to self...have to send Mrs Mathieson a draft of History assignment over the weekend (it felt slightly weird asking her about the IA when everyone was asking about resits...XD). Maybe, I'll try to memorise the key points and pray that I can do it in the 3 hrs allocated to us (now I'm not really sure if the splitting of 3 hrs into 2 manageable 1 1/2 hr sessions will work...since maybe I'll lose concentration!) Crap...I'm PRAYING that I can squeeze all the stuff I need to mention in 3 hours...since I finally spent nearly 2 hours during my free period today working on it and ended up writing about 650 words. And on Tuesday, it basically has to be done from scratch. You get your plan, notes and appendix...they give you a laptop, you open up Microsoft Word and write frantically from the word 'go' on a blank MS Word page. And crap, I haven't finished making my notes and appendix while my plan is done.
*sigh* So stressed. And my exam timetable this summer is as follows:
15 May - GS (Scientific Horizons)
12 June - History - Synoptic Paper - The Cold War
13 June - English - Wider Reading AND (!) Ecobus - Synoptic Paper (with two modules in it and 4 bloody questions!!!) - Options 1 and 2
19 June - English - Genre Studies - Synoptic Paper
You have no idea how scared I was when Mr Campion suddenly said in History today that the Cold War module was on the 13th as well. O.O! ...but he was checking the Edexcel website and not the school one so I'm praying that the school one is right...because 3 exams (with 2 being synoptic papers) on ONE day will kill me...
But it's my birthday so I'm not bothered to be stressed today...that's for the weekend, lol!
Apart from having birthday wishes from my friends (who needed a little reminding after the catastrophe of the previous day's exam results -__-), random people (a.k.a people who I normally don't talk to) wished me Happy Birthday as well (even on Facebook). Thanks again everyone!
Had dinner with my mum today at Bistro Delifrance at Times Square...that was a nice family thing. She gave me a card as well, lol. And the the pizza was good too! =)
Being 18 means a couple of things for me...
1. University freshers
2. Driving License
3. Right to vote
4. Having to replace ID card
Being 18 does NOT mean...
1. Go into random frenzy and throw yourself into the nearest bar/pub/club and get sloshed.
2. Go into above mentioned frenzy and get a pack of cigarettes and light up.
No idea why people go clubbing...I still don't. I mean, why would you want to spend time in a noisy, drunk-infested place where you can't relax due to the deafening music which seems to make the ground vibrate beneath your feet and where you can't even hear the person next to or in front of you, seeing only frantic gesticulations of the hands in some bizarre sign-language.
Anyways, now I can open my presents since it's actually my birthday now although I have no idea if I have enough time to watch the DVDs. Maybe during Easter when all the C/W (or nearly all of it is out of the way). Gah, note to self...have to send Mrs Mathieson a draft of History assignment over the weekend (it felt slightly weird asking her about the IA when everyone was asking about resits...XD). Maybe, I'll try to memorise the key points and pray that I can do it in the 3 hrs allocated to us (now I'm not really sure if the splitting of 3 hrs into 2 manageable 1 1/2 hr sessions will work...since maybe I'll lose concentration!) Crap...I'm PRAYING that I can squeeze all the stuff I need to mention in 3 hours...since I finally spent nearly 2 hours during my free period today working on it and ended up writing about 650 words. And on Tuesday, it basically has to be done from scratch. You get your plan, notes and appendix...they give you a laptop, you open up Microsoft Word and write frantically from the word 'go' on a blank MS Word page. And crap, I haven't finished making my notes and appendix while my plan is done.
*sigh* So stressed. And my exam timetable this summer is as follows:
15 May - GS (Scientific Horizons)
12 June - History - Synoptic Paper - The Cold War
13 June - English - Wider Reading AND (!) Ecobus - Synoptic Paper (with two modules in it and 4 bloody questions!!!) - Options 1 and 2
19 June - English - Genre Studies - Synoptic Paper
You have no idea how scared I was when Mr Campion suddenly said in History today that the Cold War module was on the 13th as well. O.O! ...but he was checking the Edexcel website and not the school one so I'm praying that the school one is right...because 3 exams (with 2 being synoptic papers) on ONE day will kill me...
But it's my birthday so I'm not bothered to be stressed today...that's for the weekend, lol!
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Date: 2008-03-08 07:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-08 04:22 pm (UTC)You: You're kidding, right? -____-;
Nah, it's just me...I could never compare to you, Reg. You're the exam machine and you still got pretty impressive grades this time seeing how MANY you took! *thumbs up*
I find it so weird when everyone looks at me in English, History, etc when I say "OMG, this is sooo hard...blah, blah, blah..." and they say: "OMG, if CHRISTY finds it hard then WE'RE DEAD!!!" XD
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Date: 2008-03-09 09:01 am (UTC)hahahah XDD