The Worst Case Scenario

Today, I made a huge mistake. This mistake actually consists of a lot of different mistakes put together at the same time.

It all started when in the morning, due to the train under service, we were unable to use it and the bus that were allocated were too slow. Then my father had to call a taxi to bring me to the school that I needed to go for competition.

The competition was very hard, so I was only sure about half of the questions, which I later was so worried that when I took the bus, I came down at the wrong station, and since I wasn't sure of the surroundings, I walked the wrong way and soon found myself walking towards a highway-like road. So I decided to use the nearest bus stop and took the bus that would soon lead to a train station.

When I finally boarded the train, my parents called as I was obviously late. When they heard my situation, they told me to go to another station for lunch. Sadly, exactly after that, my phone's battery died. Then when I got there, I was actually there before my parents were. I then panicked, because I cannot find them. I tried to call them using the public phone but sadly I forgot their number. I then decided to go to the information counter, where they allowed to to charge my phone. With that, I was able to talk to my parents and later after that, I finally met them.
So from now onwards, I would have to make sure that I have my phone fully charged and powered off when unused for a long time. I also need to remember my parent's phone number and be more aware when I take public transport especially if I do not know the place.

Visiting Ang Mo Kio

This weekend, because my parents are in Malaysia, I will have to stay in the boarding school by myself this weekend. And on Saturday, I have nothing to do, so my father suggested that I may go to Ang Mo Kio Libray during Saturday to spend my time, which I decided agreed. So today at 10:30, I left for the library.

As what my English Drama teacher told my class, whatever can go wrong would go wrong, since I was not very sure of the bus stations, I went pass the correct station. Luckily I realized it quick enough that I was able to come off the station directly after it.
Then when I entered Ang Mo Kio Library, I decided to first check out the restaurant, then I realized that the things there are expensive. Ice cream was more than 2 dollars and pizza was almost 10 dollars, and it's not like it was big and that nice(from the looks). Luckily I noticed a McDonalds across the street, so I decided that I will go there for lunch instead.
After a big 30 minutes of looking for interesting books, I gave up trying to find my favorite books at the ground floor.  However I was not having much luck at the second floor either. I took a whole 45 minutes to find something that I would prefer. However after 10 minutes of reading, I realized that I need to grab my lunch.
As I crossed the street to approach McDonalds, I realized the sign was further than I thought, that's also when I noticed what looked to me at that point in time like a plaza building and some signs saying food centre, so I decided to go back across the street. However upon closer inspection, it was not that all exciting, and the only restaurant I saw was a French one where they also sell expensive food. So I had to go back across the street, where I once again realized another mistake, the McDonalds was not really as far as I saw, it's only the sign that is on the far side. So I got there bought a burger and ate with content.
After eating, I decided to go back to the library. Just a few more minutes before I decide to leave, I found my favorite book. So I sped through it and it was nice. At least I got a bit of what I wanted.
Moral of the story: always have a map, or you'll start seeing(or maybe not-seeing) things that will cause misjudgment.

Project work proposal evaluation

During life in Hwa Chong, there is a type of subject called IS, or independent studies. This is a subject that is graded over the whole year. How is it graded you ask? It is mainly graded on a project called PW, or project work. It is a project that requires 3 to 4 people in a group, and you can choose from over 10 categories, for example there are math, Chinese, art, infocomm and so on. Also, you would also need to have a teacher as your mentor. The one that I chose is math, and what I do is to analyze Bingo using math(that's the simple way of saying it).

So basically, you need your team to come up with an idea which also goes with the category you chose. One mistake that people often make is that they choose categories that focuses on a school subject and have their project on making a product which helps others to know more about that particular subject. Well, if that's what you're doing, my advise is that you convert to the category called resource package before it's too late. The thing about resource package is that it is the project where you create informational products, and if you choose to be in other categories like math or infocomm, you are supposed to use that to do something instead of teaching someone else about it.
Anyway, once you have an idea on the basic structure, you need to have to have a few components, which is around 3 objectives, which is what you would do. Then before March, you much have a presentation about what you would do.
Anyway, on that day, my team have was the fifth presentation. In our presentation we introduced Bingo, then our objectives and questions, rationals and the sort. In the presentation, I was a bit scared, but overall, I had it under control.