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"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." — Amelia Earhart

take me to the sky

12:58 am Hah, when I was typing the title to this entry, had to go to disctionary.com to check if I got the right spelling for sinusoidal. My English! ): Anyway, other than them haunting me during math test, I think today was quite a reminder of how life really is a sinusoidal curve (as my physics tutor always tells us), with it's many ups and downs, only thing in life amplitude is not constant, and this sinusoidal curve is decided by none other than

Today (yesterday) was wednesday so school started later at 9.00am, but we had to be down by 8.30. Woke up kinda late so decided to give breakfast a miss today, thinking that I'd be going down to NUS for training, hence would be having good, cheap food (compared to school).

During mentoring they showed us "Pay It Forward" (the one we watched in sec 1 or 2 for CME), and today when I watched it, it definitely didn't set me thinking as much as when I first watched it, today it was more of a reminder, and even then, it didn't have that great of an effect.

Hah, but we were made to write on a piece of paper our dreams. It really seemed like a kindergaten assignment but why is it that when we were 5, it was so much easier? Hahahaha, I know Cheryl and I stoned for a goood 3 minutes before we were able to start writing. Strangely, (maybe it's cause they showed us a video of Martin Luther King's speech) the first dream I talked about was that one day, NUS High School students would be able to look Raffleeeeesians in the eye and tell them that the (NUSHS students) education and their quality of their school life was comparable and in fact better than that of these Raffleeeesians. I truly hope this happens within my lifetime, so that I can tell myself that I didn't take the risk of studying for a nearly worthless diploma for nothing, I hope to see the day when Stanford or Cambridge comes down to NUS High school to recruit students.

I dream of a school where, we don't study math and science to ace exams, or to pwn olympiads, but maybe, just maybe, we want to make use of the power (and brain) within us to improve the lives of those around us. To help genuinely because we do, to serve because we know it's the right thing to do. I dream of a school where teachers teach not because they are trying to get recognised, but because they want to, because they want to impart knowledge, because they want to inspire and touch lives, for the benefit of science, and ultimately even for the benefit of mankind.

Yeap, I think I'm dreaming of a perfect world, but that's something to work towards, no? I wonder why the school never talks to us about matters like that, are we really so tunnel-visioned that we can only have a vision that fits into PATH? Hah, this is probably a bold statement that will get me into trouble (hmm, then again, not many people read this), but I still have to say it, why aren't we thinking of being of use to society, when are we ever going to stop thinking of ourselves?

Well, yeah, actually life becomes MUCH easier if you just stopped for a moment, and realise that we are part of one huge gigantic world, and that the world doesn't revolve around any particular individual.

Anyway, on a lighter note, during a visit to one of the A Star labs today, managed to get my hands on Josae's paragraph on HIS dream, and this guy's amazing. :D His ability to never put a smile on my face (maybe cause I don't have to take him spamming me on msn) is just great. And the visit to the lab lasted real long, which meant that I couldn't go for training, which was a real bummer at that point, but really, I reasoned that maybe someone up there's just trying to help me with math. :D Also during the visit, got a message informing me of SIM 2 tomorrow. Sortie 1 coming. Exciting!

The math test was alright, and we (baozi and I and some other people) celebrated Mr Ng's kindness (HAHAHAHAHA) by going down for a run. Managed to do 8 rounds in lane 4 today. I'm gonna take it slowly. :D I shan't comment on what happened at 10.30pm, but let's just say that that was a sin(270deg), of a sine curve.

Yeap, and Mel's feeling puky, get well soon mel! alrighty, it's time to go to bed. :D