PRAYER NEEDED

I went to McD's this morning. Met my CF president 2006/2007 there. He told me that SMK Taman SEA's PK Kokorikulum is not giving us National Bible Knowledge(BK) Participants our 17% in our kokorikulum marks.

For years now we've not faced any such problem. All of a sudden when he(the PK Koko) takes over, more and more and MORE problems seem to pop up, all regarding koko. Some people just CANNOT handle power.

Anyway, yes, so this BK quiz is a national level quiz. People fly in from Sabah and Sarawak to take part in this quiz. Suddenly he says that this quiz is not recognised by our government. Which is totally untrue, we hold it in a government school, and teachers are the ones running it! It even appears in the newspapers!

Fact 1: Government servants(teachers) run the quiz.
Fact 2: It is under the Malayan Christian School Council (MCSC), which is a spokesman for many 'Christian events' (for lack of a better word, sorry).
Fact 3: He himself signed all the permission slips that allowed us to go for the quiz!
Fact 4: There has been no dispute that this quiz is recognised as a legitimate, national level event until he suddenly brings it up after so many years.
Fact 5: Bible Knowledge is a recognised SPM subject.

So instead of the 17% we're supposed to get, and about 6%-9% for getting a top 3 placing at various levels, we're only getting 7%. Which means we were just involved at SCHOOL level, not even DISTRICT level.

I'm so frustrated man. No, not so much over the marks. It's over HIM. Every single time he causes so much trouble and stress! He thinks he owns the world!

I've talked to my BK teacher today(incidentally, she's the founder of the National Bible Knowledge quiz). She already knew about it, it's a big issue. She'll be speaking to certain people, and try to get the 'higher people' to change his stand.

Meanwhile, all of us CF'ers gotta pray. Seriously. Maybe most have not realised how oppressive our school has been getting towards our CF lately, only committee members/very active members know. If you do not know, our school nearly disallowed us from even going for this National BK quiz. We could not attend the MBSKL KL/PJ SCF Convention this year. There was so much trouble trying to get the school to allow us to use the hall for Good Friday.

So the point of this post was to tell everyone to PRAY. Persistently, without ceasing. With all of us praying, God will work. In mysterious ways maybe, but he will work. Pray for our CF. Pray for our CF teacher adviser, most of all. She's done so much for us, she does not deserve further stress.

Psalm 12:5
“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the LORD;
“I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

I was feeling really frustrated and angry before this, but as I started posting I seemed to have calmed down. :-)

During BK today one of the girls said that he sounds like the judge in Luke 18:

Luke 18

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, 2 saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man. 3 Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ 4 And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, 5 yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
6 Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. 7 And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? 8 I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”

Hence, persistence in prayer. =)

Take care,
God bless,
Joanne

All 9 subjects are in..

Seeing this may be the last school exam I take(unless I enter form 6).. I'll list down everything.. in descending order =P

English 94% A1
Economics 94% A1
Science 87% A1
Geography 83% A1
Moral 82% A1
History 80% A1
Accounts 78% A1
Malay 77% A1
Math 71% A2

Yeah.. Math so potong steam right. Hahaha. What to do.. I was slightly overconfident, panicked last min, slept 2am, made so many stupid careless mistakes. *Nvm, won't happen in SPM.. I hope..*

Hahaha. Let's start from English.. English 94% okay lah, a 2 mark drop from last term though, from 96% -> 94%. Still, quite okay.. quite satisfied.

Econs.. 94%.. from 85%... Beh Beh grinned his face off man. LOL. He'd better! I sacrificed History and Accounts for him! That's what you get for being an excellent teacher.. =P Edit:Just in case some people think I cheated in this paper(it was a JPS paper), NO, I DID NOT. I got the 94% through pure hard work and studying till 2am.

Science.. 87%... increased from 79%. The reason why I studied so hard for this subject was because my teacher nagged a bit about me getting 79% 3 terms in a row.. no increase at all.. so okay, I decided, this term I'll show her.. make her happy.. =P Edit:Again, I did not cheat in this paper. The paper 2 was set by JPS, I got a 56/69 for it, and paper 1 was set by school, I got a 47/50 for it.

Geography.. haiz.. just got back today.. 10 marks drop.. from 93% -> 83%. Quite disappointed. Although my teacher did set it a lot harder this term. I complained about it to her so many times... Haiz... who asked her set so hard. What made me geram was I made this totally STUPID mistake that cost me SIX marks! To put it simply, I mixed up 'ciri iklim X' and 'ciri iklim y', somehow I read X as Y, and Y as X... so all 6 points were wrong! My teacher even had the cheek to draw the arrows between both questions for me! SHEEEEEESH. If that's not rubbing salt unto my already deep wound. After that in class commented, "Some people mixed up their alphabets.." and smiled at me. Ish. I felt like going to her and saying, "Teacher you KNOW I was right, I just mixed the alphabets up!" All 6 points were right too... wrong place. =( But I knew she wouldn't budge and my ego would not allow me to beg for it. Hahaha.

Moral.. 82%. Quite a huge leap, from 65% last term. Not altogether surprised though, was hoping for better, first time I actually read the text book. Well, only form 5 text book, too lazy to read form 4. Lol. Still, 82% has me... well, oki lah.

History 80%. Now this I gotta really tell. Last term I got 83%, but that was different.. last term I had tips on what to study, there was less to study, and I actually studied properly for it. Last term. This term... History paper 1 was the same day with Econs 1 & Econs 2. So naturally I let go of History. So for History the next day I just tembak my way through. Seriously. Never done a test so blindly in my whole life before. Ended up with a 22/40 for it. Never done so badly for any objective paper before too.. well, except for Math. hahaha.

Then for History 2, I had a whole weekend.. I really crammed in maximum that weekend. Well, not really, I had time for a couple of badminton sessions and some shopping time, but hey, I still studied more than usual. I really studied and studied and studied and studied. In my whole life I've never actually studied 2-3 hours in a row without eating, sleeping, onlining etc. Hahaha. But I did. I think. Anyway, Monday sat for History 2.. was quite okay, but was not confident of an A, much less an A1 at all. Kinda gave up hope for an A...

Then today a classmate of mine went to see our History teacher. And told me I got 88% for History. WOW. I would have been overjoyed. But I did not believe her. Seriously. Cause I know if I'm fortunate I'll get a 25/40 for objective, that would mean I would have gotten a 98/100 for paper 2. Which was IMPOSSIBLE. Trust me. So I went to check.. cause suddenly it occurred the possibility that our teacher may have shown us the marks over 140.. not 100... 88/14o sounded a lot more believable, but sadder truth to me. That would have been a 63%. Anyway, went to check.. he checked his record book, yes, 88%.. I told him point blank: "IMPOSSIBLE, teacher". So he said he'll give me my test paper.. I was dreading it, but took anyway. First thing I saw was 22/40 for objective. Immediately my heart dropped.. I knew the 88% was false, with a 22/40, it meant I had scored 101/100. Now this was really IMPOSSIBLE. What would my real marks be now?? My teacher too was confused, immediately checked his record book again. And said, "Sorry!" That one wrong marks... turned out I got 80%. Which still had me OVERJOYED! I got perfect marks for 2 essays, and 15/20 for one more essay. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Now at least I knew it was real... Hahaha. Now if only I had studied for History 1.. who knows, I could have gotten a 90% for History? Nah, no time for regrets. 80% was beyond my expectations.. Seriously. After the test I even vowed to study History everyday. Which of course I've not started. =P

Accounts 78%.. from 88% last time.. this paper I really kena from my Accounts teacher. Haiz. She scolded and scolded me. Which teacher scolds their student for an A1???! I was the only A1.. A, for that matter, in my class too.. She kept going on and on and on about how I dropped. Well, again, I was overconfident.. started preparing only the day before, slept at 2am, made many stupid errors, even ADDED figures up wrongly. =( Okay, okay, I'll admit, it's my bad, I shouldn't have been overconfident. Next time I won't prepare so last minute and won't sleep at 2am. Esp. for Math and Accounts where you actually need to think properly. Lol.

BM 77%... okay, very happy, a mere 2 mark increase from last term though, but my esssay improved a lot.. 102/120. One of the Novel questions asked for the 'peranan watak utama'... got 0/7 for that. Most students too. Even teachers don't know how to answer that ques(JPS set one). So normally I get full marks there.. so even without the 7 marks I got a 77%.. =) Teacher even photostated my whole paper.. he especially wanted my essay. Dunno for what though.

Now.. comes... the horrible... A1 spoiler... MATH. Blogged about it in the beginning.. tis the very reason why I chose to enter arts stream, and after looking at it's horrid presence in my results slip, I feel justified.. people who struggle with maths, trust me, you wanna join me in the arts stream. Lol.

Anyway, average percentage this term is 82.8%. A 0.7% increase from last term.. okay lah.

My class teacher is gonna scold me for the A2 though. :-( She already did for Moral(65%) last term..

Hahaha. Well, overall superbly satisfied with results. Aside from Math.. but hey, I can always work on that. Plus SPM Math standard is very low. Hopefully. =P

Honestly, I can say I've never studied so hard in my whole life before. Most of the subjects were last minute, aside from Econs and Science. Even that I started studying it 2 days before, most subjects only had the honour of being studied 1 day before the paper. Lol. Of course, I studied until 4am for some papers. That just required vomiting out info, not thinking.

Still, it helps to do your homework. Hehe. I think that's what makes the difference in marks between us all last minute studying kinda students..

Of course, I always had badminton as my stress reliever... my sprained ankle is much better now, still slightly swollen, ever so slightly, but no more pain during training.

After 5 days of exam, you have no idea how wonderful badminton is. Lol. Each weekend brought something to look forward to. Although I don't have enough sleep.. cause the whole week I'll be sleeping between 2am-4am at night.. no time to recover. But I broke record this term.. Usually I'll study until I sick in the middle of exams, then I'll spend my time sleeping, hence less studying. Didn't happen this time though. Hehe. Praise God!

First time in 3 exam terms I had my parents around though. They went to US last year during my 2nd term, and Europe last term. So this term it's such a relief not to have to worry about your food, transport etc. Just had to study. Hehehe. It's such a hassle to have to worry about food and transport to places when you've gotta study. Wastes so much time.

Yay God is good! =)

Although I know trials doesn't matter at all.. since I'm not applying for early intakes. Lol.

Will blog about HELP's SASA scholarship interview another time. And no, I did not apply for Principal Awards by Taylors College, I know I do not want January intake, for SASA I do not intend to study in HELP at all.. but I may consider Taylors. Hence, I don't want to be rejecting them IF I get the scholarship, they may not consider me again when I reapply after SPM. =P

All the best to those who are attending the interview in Taylors this weekend though!

Eeks. Such a looooooong post.

Take care,
God bless,
Joanne

Edited my post a bit, don't want people to even suspect that I cheated. Yes, some people are capable of that.

Hmm.. Form 5s seem offline...

Most of the form 5s on my MSN list aren't online.. kinda unusual...

Eeks. Think everyone's cramming for trials. What am I doing here??????

God bless
Joanne Lim
Webmaster@joannetmj.tk

SPM Trials...

The final test before the real exam...

SPM TRIALS!

Started on Monday with the MALAYSIAN Language paper. Sorry, had to type that, the change of title from 'Bahasa Melayu' to 'Bahasa Malaysia' really strikes me as.. I don't know. A good move? A bad one? I speak Malaysian sounds better than I speak Malay anyway, gives you the more 'muhibah' feeling. LOL.

Anyway, wasn't too bad, wrote about the advantages of knowing many languages.. for one who only has a strong command of English and Malay(oops, Malaysian I mean) I felt highly inadequate to write such an essay, but the other choices were even worse.. thus what I wrote was truly not from my heart. Lol. Hey, all I want is the marks. =P

Tuesday was English.. the essay I wrote on was titled 'Beauty'. Yep, one word. So I wrote everything I could think about.. Beauty everywhere, Helen Keller's famous quote:

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”, people who emphasise on exterior appearance.. etc lah. But I didn't write that long because I know my English teacher's preferences... she prefers short and sweet. So I wrote only 3 pages. =)

Wednesday was History paper 1 and Economics 1 & 2. Wow... I tembak the Sejarah paper all the way man.. hahaha. No time to study for it, cause I knew was multiple choice questions so no need to worry that much. Nevertheless, the paper required minute details, so even in tembaking I had a lot of trouble. Lol. Was too busy cramming for Econs.

Encik Beh(affectionately known as Beh Beh) is my Econs teacher.. we took the paper on Wednesday, by Thursday he had marked everything.. wow. Efficient eh? And I got my aim... since the beginning of form 4 I have been targetting to get 90% above for Econs... I failed the past 3 terms... Then I found out I got a 94%!!! for Econs! I was overjoyed.

So overjoyed I even decided to at least try for Moral. Haha. Moral was today, it's a really dreaded subject, and usually destroys my straight A1 streak with not just a A2, but sometimes a B3 or even a B4. For monthly tests I've barely been passing! Hahaha. Hopefully I get an A1 this time lah..

Anyway. Yeah, that's all.. won't be blogging for a while, till trials are over.. 19th September. Haiz. The torture... oh the torture...

Btw, I'll be applying for a teaching scholarship.. =) after SPM results of course. With an aim, I've gotta study for real now.

Take care,
Joanne