The end draweth nigh

Sorry for having abandoned my blog for the past year. Doesn't quite feel like a ¾ of a year's gone by, but it has, and Year 11's drawing to a close in 7 days. It's just started to strike me that from now on, everything actually counts which really scares me (and also the fact that I really have no idea at all what the future holds). No more staying up doing nothing but Youtubing, Facebooking and chatting. My results in HSC Ag trials and my prelims really aren't as great as I would really like them to be, but at least I have another year to fix up my routine.

Got Maths 3U paper back today . . . and everyone failed. Not like the Asian "fail" where 2 marks off means not passing; this is REAL failing, where you score below 30 out of 60 =O

To put that into perspective:

• 1 person in Maths 7 passed (i.e. 50% or above)
• The highest mark in the grade was 80%
• Maths 1 average was 62%
• Maths 2 average was 58%

Apparently the first question (3 marks) was like a past Westpac AMC question, which is just stupid, totally not worth the marks and purposely put there to throw us off. So many people wasted like 4 minutes on it, and in the end got ½ a mark (like me). Ultimately, Question 1 ended up being the toughest section ==;

My marks weren't all that great, but funnily I don't feel as disappointed as other people. I think it's because I've just been completely numbed by this barrage of bad marks in other subjects too.

Anyway, what's happened this whole year? Nothing much to be honest. I swear this whole year we've literally learnt nothing at all (except for maths); everything's just been a revision of what we learnt in Yr 9 and 10.

We got to start the year off with Crossroads though, which was pretty awesome. Went to Collaroy again but it was way more fun than the Peer Support training camp we had last year =P

Hehe accidentally got a shot of Daniel and Bella.

Our group letting Kevin do all the hard work as usual xD

Went to this cool retro movie theatre at night and watched that cartoon Dragon movie - that one with the really cute black dragon. Can't remember the name of it anymore...but everyone was pleasantly surprised but how good it turned out to be. Just again shows that cartoons aren't just for little kids =)

Speaking of which, I can't wait to see Despicable Me! It looks so hilarious and adorable - especially that trailer where you see Agnes with toy unicorn screaming "IT'S SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE. IT'S SO FLUFFFFAAAAAY >=O" while furiously shaking it up and down.

Walked back to the camp in the dark. Managed to get this really nice pic of the dining room:

I love how they put Christmas lights around the balcony all year round. Makes the atmosphere feel so much warmer and happier =).

Next day was pretty freaky for me, seeing as I'm not really that much into that adrenaline stuff and we had to go on the giant swing. Ended up screaming like an idiot the whole way down xD

Jero looks so sad in this photo ='(

Anyway to summarise what I did in Year 11, 2010,

I basically:

• Touched my first ever Agricultural newspaper
  
  
• Learnt nothing in Physics
  
  
  
• Actually learnt something in Chem from the beastly Kevin Lam!
  
  


• Watched the sun rise many times
  
  

The sky here is actually a much more brilliant red than the photo shows. My Olympus is mediocre at reproducing colour.



Once again not one of my greatest shots. Thought this looked really cool with like these bands of white arcing through the blue sky (more obvious in the 1st photo), however failed at keeping the camera still when using Night mode ==;


• Saddened and amazed by the greed of some people
  
  When this poll closed, the numbers were still 50/50. It's quite sad half the people would steal the $100,000 and run
• Got a green tick from BitDefender Antivirus! These ticks are not given out liberally nor are they easy to get.
  
  
• Watched unhealthy amounts of Big Bang Theory
  
  
Rubik's cube tissue box

Leslie with a Domokun T-Shirt!



Sign reads: Please keep your clothes on while doing laundry



And I never realised they have a nice passage at the end of every episode!
• Owned the computer in chess. BOOYEAH satisfying
  
  
Quintuple KILLLL
• Learnt that SMH and co. are actually terrible newspapers ==;

Because there's nothing I like more than a huge helium balloon hovering over the text when I'm reading.

• Finally cleared my inbox of 4000 unread emails
  
  

And yeah...that's about all I did LOL. Gonna go sleep now, so tired - there's been this pipe construction thing going on outside my house for the last 2 weeks . . . and they ONLY work at night from 9pm-4am when the traffic is light ==; It's been impossible to sleep with the huge trucks banging and stuff.

It's bright as day =O

Off to sleep now . . . goodnight ppl!!!