Maths owned me hardcore!
And I'm not one of those people who say they are going to fail and then get 80%. I woke up this morning from a dream about my Maths exam. Yeah, I know that sounds crazy but I was dreaming that after talking to my friends about the exam, we went back in to do the paper. So essentially we just took a break. I was frantically changing answers and yeah, woke up more disappointed haha. IF ONLY! Anyways I finally plucked up the courage to go through the paper and calculate the answers I missed out on/knew I got wrong and I ended up with just a bit under 60%. Yeah. Goodbye high ATAR, hello mystery mark! Lol so I'm exaggerating but now I'm hoping they do some fancy shit so my Maths marks stays in the 60's or at least my ATAR doesn't turn out so bad! But there is a silver lining...

NO MORE FXCKING MATHS!! ... for now (y) And I am now also determined to own Biology tomorrow!

PS. Goodluck to everyone doing three unit today!

Awesome video! You MUST watch!


I am in love with Taeyang! Haha who knew he was so awesome? :)

"You got bubble, I'm in trouble"

Quick, quick blog. I hope everyone is doing well and for all the HSCers out there, I hope study/exams are going well too :)

English Paper 2
I went in the exam with three prepared essays. I reasoned with myself that not all three questions were going to fit my essay perfectly, but I should get at least one. None of the questions matched my essays and I was sitting there in disbelief because all of the questions were yuck. For me, the best to worst would be Module C, B then A.

Module A: A deeper understanding of disruption and identity emerges from considering the parallels between Frankenstein & Blade Runner. Compare how these texts explore disruption and identity.

I had based my essay on how both texts explore the issue of humanity and how this reflected changing values and perspectives and linked it to their contexts. I was stumped as to what 'disruption' was (seriously like WTF?) so in the end I linked identity with humanity and the disruption with the 'disruption' to nature... as did some other people I talked to after the exam (y)

Module B: Through its portrayal of human experience, Shakespeare's Hamlet reinforces the significance of loyalty. To what extent does your interpretation of Hamlet support this view?

I was screwed because I had based my essay around the theme of humanity and mortality and I wasn't sure what the 'human experience' part of the question was referring to. I ended up taking advantage of the 'to what extent' and wrote instead of loyalty, its portrayal of human experience reinforces the significance of humanity and mortality. I asked my teacher if what I did was OK after and she gave me the 'it's probably better if you didn't' look. Lol good work!

Module C: Analyse the ways history and memory generate compelling and unexpected insights. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.

I was frustrated that they did not ask anything about the INTERPLAY of history and memory as that is what I based my essay on and that's what I believed the whole module was about. Simply, I thought this question was shitty but managed to work my essay around it. I wasn't sure if what I was doing was right though haha

Today I went library with Shirley to study maths. Had lunch with her, Luke and Simon and then went back to study more. It was also good to see Janette going home and make plans for the days after we finish exams and also, thank so much for the gift wrapping job! <3

"I can picture how we touching and, kiss I can almost taste..."

Business Studies
I wasn't too happy with the Business paper. The multiple choice wasn't as easy as 2008 and there were quite a few which threw me off and required more thinking. For example question 9:

A business makes unauthorised copies of foreign movies and sells them at the RRP of the original product. Which of the following describes this practice?
a) Sugging consumers
b) Dumping illegal products
c) Violating intellectual property rights
d) Engaging in resale price maintenance

I know it's definitely not A or D, but what threw me off was C was the most correct option, but it's not a syllabus term! :| Also more than ever, they put more questions on the yucky stuff and by that I mean ethical, social, legal crap. A business student's worst nightmare! The short answer questions also weren't that pleasant and oh god, question 26 was such a killer for me! I managed to answer two components to the question, but I don't know what I was thinking when I didn't even write about standardization and differentiation! I am totally kicking myself right now :( Lastly, I picked question 28 because I knew more about the market research process than the financial planning cycle and also I really didn't want to write about the type of customers (I also didn't have case studies for those). I spent heaps of time on this question and I'm hoping I didn't do so bad here!

English Paper 1
In my reading time I skimmed through the questions and the paper totally screwed me over. The stimulus for the creative writing did not link to my story and the stimulus for the essay also did not make links with my prepared essay. I also thought both stimulus's were quite narrow and I didn't know what to do when they told me to only write with one self-selected!! I prepared two and now I only needed one?! I also hate the fact that there are people out there who only prepared one and have gotten away with it. Argh I'm not gonna be happy if Module C is the same! Anyway I went into damage control mode, added an extra paragraph to my CW to link it to the stimulus, replaced parts of my essay which linked to 'rewarding' to 'understanding' and ended up cutting out one self-selected. It's so funny because I made random links that didn't make sense, for example:

Raimond uses imagery of his father's arm enclosing him to show a sense of protection. In addition, he uses the repetition of 'I remember' to emphasize on the extent of detail in which he is able to recollect. This shows how there is a sense of understanding between Raimond and his father, which fostered Raimond's sense of belonging.

Does it really Rita? Does it really show a 'sense of understanding'?! Also, the reading and responding was my downfall. Haha I suck at R&R so much already and the texts just didn't make it easy for me. I am now dreading paper 2!

PS. I hope everyone else went alot better than I did :)

Glee is on tonight and I spent my time today searching for Glee songs to download! I love their covers of other songs and I am so damn happy right now because I found a couple high-quality songs (y) Anyways I would like to share something with you guys:

Yes, I realise it's not much but it makes me happy to know I'm one little step closer to what I want to do in the future. I used Audacity and just messed around with the pitch and speed. I prefer songs with cute voices anyways :) I would love to learn how to make real remixes!

Ms. Livesey's lovely card:
  

Wednesday 07/10/09
The lady at the news agency at Central is so incompetent. I asked for a blue student travel 10 so she gives me an adult travel 10. This has happened twice (not sure if it was the same lady) but this time I was late so I couldn't be bothered to argue with her. Bussed it to State Library and May picked me up from outside to take me to Mitchell Library. I am so proud of myself because I studied for 4 hours today (y)(y) Thanks to everyone that helped me today! It was also good to see May, Shirley and Jackie and I enjoyed having a lunch break with May eating Maccas haha. Left for home earlier than expected seeing as my phone died (I was timing myself) and I was stuck on both Maths and Business (or I'm just making excuses!). In the end I was glad I left for home though because 1. I didn't want to walk home in the dark and 2. It looked like it was going to pour!

PS. Glee is awesome! I wish we could break out into song and dance like that all the time!


"I need a little laughter and love will follow after..."