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Finally, IOC was over today. After weeks of preparation... it was one of the exams i feel extremely prepared for, and i am glad i did. Despite having to read Wilfred Owen, Robert Frost, Wole Soyinka and Shakespeare, preparing nearly one hundred pages of notes (every single page compiled and typed out by MYSELF) it does seem pretty worth it. I feel this swell of pride when ever i look at my set of notes, or just think about it. i had come a long way. the painstaking reading of King Lear by William Shakespeare cover to cover? well worth the effort:) pouring through senior's notes, coming up with my own--i don't do that every day, but i'm glad i did it. spend the whole day yesterday preparing for poems, but in the end i got Shakespeare. but i am thankful for it. i'm beginning to fall in love with Shakespeare already... and poems are now tolerable, unlike last time when i can't even understand them properly. i seriously didn't learn much about analysing poems in secondary school, or maybe it is something that comes with age? but whatever the case, i am happy that its over. extremely so. but now, more hurdles remain ahead... IB exams? let's deal with prelims first:)

Many others made do with just the notes from our seniors, but i have my own way of doing things, and though i seemed a tad bit longer (a lot actually, to tell the truth) cos i made my notes from scratch, it is well worth it. although the journey was infinitely hard and i just wanted to give up and rely on my seniors' notes, but i didn't. i do think that my notes are extremely comprehensive, if i do say so myself. maybe i can sell it to the juniors next year--donate half the profits to charity, another half to my education funds. sounds like a great plan.

been hooked to the olympic games too, namely three sports- swimming, gymnastics and diving. like, WOW. the standards of the youths who are here for the games are pretty high, and it is so amazing to see them compete-i didn't have time to catch the beijing olympics (not a lot of it) cos of o level prelims, so now i feast my eyes on the stars of tomorrow. australian gymnast angela donald and the chinese gymnast chen sixin (did i get it right?) were great:) especially lived their balance beam performance!

swimmers... well, they're all so well built (i only watch the mens race, haha:D) love the moments when they announce who's swimming in which lanes representing which countries and then the swimmers wave and remove their jackets. what an eyeful:) i sound deprived, but well, someone needs to appreciate those good bodies they got after hours of training right?

and diving? it hasn't happened yet, but i wanna watch the two divers, qiu bo from china and thomas daley from england. the sizzling tension! hopefully daley gets the go ahead from his physiotherapist to participate (cos he pulled a tricep muscle just weeks ago) then my wish will come true! YAY:) it's looking good...

and that's all i suppose. nothing i did was majorly interesting, except that i was a torchbearer for the youth olympic and i ran outside my primary school last thursday:D pic of me with the mp who was running next to me:D all the kids were cheering!! it was amazing:)

oh, and i found a place where i want to go to for a holiday, preferably in the near future- Baa Atoll in Maldives. Look at the pristine waters, and the satin sand. how can anyone not want to go there?

it's nice to have a happy and exciting post once in awhile, don't you think?:)