I got straight Es for my H2s, and E also ( for the bloody 1st time in my life in JC ) for my compre on the dot. For the H2s, neutral about my grades, it isnt really that bad, physics and chem are above cohort average and i passed maths for the 1st time this year. Then again it isnt really good either. Do i really want to be an average achiever when A levels comes round, i guess not. Some ex student that came to give a short talk yesterday scored DUU for her H2s during her mid years and yet still managed to get into SMU law school. There is more than hope, there is a possibility, a chance for me. As for GP, its going crazily downhill. Something is wrong somewhere, and i WILL find out and knock it back into shape.
After experiencing the 1st day of the extended timetable, and also my earliest day at 5pm, it was sleep inducing, was sleeping through chem, boring stuff going through papers. I'll have to somehow survive 5 days and more of these. Someone out there, start praying for me. Recently in school ( meaning yesterday and today ) i cant seem to get full on whatever i eat during my breaks. Had a bowl of noodles yesterday and a pau, not full. Had noodles today and pau again ( different noodles ) also not full. Dont want to seem greedy by ordering 2 bowls or another plate of rice haha. The portions looks to be shrinking, my stomache can feel it and it wants more.
Something way cool read 'my paper'' online version today and found out that the RSAF is considering buying up to 100 F-35 lightning 2 when it becomes available. Awesome airplane, trashes the F-15s and F-16s. If the black knights acrobatics team switches over to F-35s then their sequences could potentially be way cooler, due to the increased capability of the F-35. Although i cant help feeling that raptors are still more advanced than the F-35. I could be wrong.
Took issue with the answers for one of the physics mcq question. Apparently the annual migration of birds are NOT circular motion. I got the question correct but felt that 2 answers are possible. If you take into the account that the earth is a sphere then if a bird migrates from one part to another it should follow a curved path with the acceleration directed to the centre of the earth. The term ' constant velocity ' in the question also does not contradict this point. Velocity is relative to the observer. In this case, the velocity can be said to be constant relative to an observer following the curvature of the earth but that does not say that the bird may not be performing circular motion when viewed from just about anywhere else in the universe. As for the distance, "Some Bar-tailed Godwits have the longest non-stop flight of any migrant, flying 11,000 km to their New Zealand non-breeding areas (BTO News 258: 3, 2005).' as quoted from wikipedia. Compare this to the earth, which has a circumference of approximately 40,000km, the bird would have travelled the length of more than a quadrant of the earth's circumference, making circular motion having an appreciable effect on the bird's path. If the bird travelled along a straight line path it would have covered about 9000km, compare this with the 11,000km mentioned above, and also note the word 'non stop'. So this should be circular motion.
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The touchstone of goodness is to own one's defeat even to inferiors - Valluvar Tirukkural: 786
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