O well. Finally an end to the week - at least the school week. really tired now, have been sleeping really late the past few days - thereby resulting in me waking up really late today - i basically woke up at 0730 but still managed to b in school by 0740 (tks to mom) and so maybe today isnt tt bad after all.

Yesterday was a sad day for 1S03W. We shall all remember tt day as one full of scoldings. I dont like being scolded. But i dont deny tt we didnt really deserve it. Maybe it is time tt we really pull up our socks.

Besides a whole series of scoldings by sze yi (who scolded us for half an hour without stopping), yam khoon & ter yue (who screamed/yelled/insert verb here at us for the first time), nothing much has happened since the last entry.

Anyway, here's a discovery: MOE has sent a ruling tt teachers r not allowed to sent students out of class! maybe tt kinda explains y teachers walk out instead.

Next week wld b a pretty eventful one - of course starting with Sunday being my birthday. But besides tt, there wld b the most dreaded chemistry spa on tuesday where time would remain a factor as always. It really doesnt make sense y we r only given like an hour to complete our SPA when in the event tt we work as researchers in the future, we wld b given days to work on some research - and in the event tt one cannot complete it within the 8 working hours, he still has the option of doing it into the night. Of course, in the spirit of working fast, thinking fast (something tt i came out wif for moe given tt we nv seem to hv enough time for exams half the time), it probably makes sense for us to do the experiment in a time-controlled fashion. On wed there wld b debates elections (i think) & u-14 comp; as well as SPIC - n i havent decided which i shld go for. Of course, there wld b a most exciting debates finals with ri vs acs(i) on fri at some school tt i havent checked. This sounds like what's on this week doesnt it?

I digress. And there's a ton of work to do - chem tut for mon and pw on thurs and the other tuts to b covered during lessons.

argh. talking about project work, hv decided to deal with the sweden's home detention system ... which does seem remotely interesting ... While researching, i found this article which kinda gave me creeps ... here's an excerpt (disclaimer: can b disturbing to some):

'My name is Rodney Hulin and I work at a retirement home here in Beaumont, Texas. I am here today because of my son. He would be here himself if he could . . . . But he can't because he died in [an adult prison]. . . . [At age seventeen], my son was raped and sodomized by an inmate. The doctor found two tears in his rectum and ordered an HIV test, since up to a third of the 2,200 inmates there were HIV positive. Fearing for his safety, he requested to be placed in protective custody, but his request was denied because, as the warden put it, "Rodney's abuses didn't meet the 'emergency grievance criteria.'" For the next several months, my son was repeatedly beaten by the older inmates, forced to perform oral sex, robbed, and beaten again. Each time, his requests for protection were denied by the warden. The abuses, meanwhile, continued. On the night of January 26, 1996--seventy-five days after my son entered Clemens--Rodney attempted suicide by hanging himself in his cell. He could no longer stand to live in continual terror. It was too much for him to handle. He laid in a coma for the next four months until he died'

it's sad ... these things tt happen. o wells. M in the library right now so shall move back to working on my pw pi. no 1 seems to b released so early. i m getting stupider by the day. Nothing enters tt head of mine.

junyi! posted at 2:24 pm.