Sunday, August 30, 2009
Waazzzzuppp! =D
Around the evening today, I was back from futsal with friends; but sadly, no one was at home at that time and I had no key to enter my house. Haha. So what did i do? I spent the first 15 minutes looking around my house in case of any keys nearby, so maybe i could get something long to get it to me, the next 15 minutes bathing my dirty dog, and another 1 hour contemplating my life.
When I was in form 2, I remember how addicted I was towards games. There was this game of "Dota" from Warcraft III that I played everyday, at least 3 hours daily. @.@. Yeah, you guys can call me a freak.. i don't mind. Well, one of the reasons, was that I couldnt stand my friends when they intimidate me and "bully" me virtually when I lose. Haha. GOSH it sounded really childish! But what I realised from me is that, the way my friends looked down at me, criticised me, called me all sorts of names boosted my spirit to overcome them someday and to prove to them my abilities. From that moment onwards, I played without them with strangers all over the nation online, trying to improve myself and adapt to the game. Time passed with me studying in the morning and games in the evening. I even had to play without my parents knowing; if they know, I'll be in hot soup! x). Haha.. I still remember how I quickly shut down my computer when i hear sounds of the house gate being opened. x)
However, this post is not mainly about me and my games. It is the quality I possess which I think would determine how I shape myself. Maybe in SAT or TOEFL or academicly, I think I should keep up my determination to prove to other people that I am a capable person. DO NOT EVER LOOK DOWN ON ME! I may be dumb or less smart in certain things, but do keep in mind that I never stop improving myself; and maybe with sacarsm and criticism I would be able to work better. =) peace! ahhaahaha...
Saturday, August 29, 2009
PENGUIN 2 reporting in!
SAT- a rather difficult to score test, is harder than I expected it would be.
After suffering from the post symptom of getting low marks in the sat test that day (confident level dropped to 0), I found out that actually I learnt a lot throughout that process. I learnt that the sentence completion part needs more vocabulary knowledge, therefore, I will try to increase my vocab. In fact, after started doing the vocab assignment given by Mr Yu Jin, I think that I have known more English words that I never knew before. Besides that, cause of the critical reading training, I now can read faster than ever, though still very slow, but never mind, I shall improve…
I guess the Toefl critical reading is just a beginning and sat critical reading part is the serious thing. I now realize that how far I must go or how hard I must work to hv gud result of the sat test. I am no more taking it lightly, I think I will work harder now….hmmm….and maybe play less, especially DOTA and Left4Dead (maybe just few hours per day?) haha.
In conclusion, I realize that my English command has been better since I joined this course. It is a gud sign that I am actually improving, even though if compared to others, I am really weak?? But, who cares? U? He? She? JPA? Nah, I dun care, what I care is improving myself.
p/s: to those who got high marks in SAT test : YOU BUGGERS!!! Ehem, I mean u r cute ( dun understand? Check on the Cambridge dictionary, New vocab.)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
F*** the SAT!!
Both penguins got the result ' need more work', how sad @@..
Penguin 1 mainly had problems in Sentence Completion and CR. For Sentence Completion, I actually had almost equal amount of wrongs for both single and double blanks. The vocabs =.= really made me squeezed my brain dry. No doubt sometimes the double blanks give more hints because they have semi colons and transitions in between and longer. HAHA. CR! S*CK MAH B%LLS MAN! Seriously, the score I got was super pathetic. x) there were actually people who gave up right before they finished (including me). haha.. well, the passages are like... !&@$#^%!$!!! complicated sentence structure.. and they require a hell of inferencing and critical thinking to answer. I think if i ever have to spend 3 hours non stop doing this i'll get migrain for sure. x) For the grammar part it was comparatively easier to me, maybe because I only have to be more alert and logical? (sometimes even grammar questions can be tricky) KEEP UR EYES OPEN! x) ok in conclusion, I seriously need polishing on this... if not.... @@ "Hai lat".. x) x) x) I WANNA SCOREEEEEEEEEeeeeee!~ =D
Penguin 2 thinks that the test itself is easy- it is just a matter of carving the answer A to E on an eraser and throw out, the one facing up will be the answer. No kidding, the test is sooooooo NOT EASY, especially the sentence completion. The words given were not at my level of understanding. Most of them, i never seen before. (I really need to brush up my vocab... T.T). Some question i did based on hunch or based on the 'sixth sense' rather than using inferencing techniques, because even if i used all the techniques taught, sometimes, i still couldn't get the answer correct, cause i just simply don't know what the answers meant. Time is also another factor. I forced myself to finish it on time, however, often found myself unable to do so. When the time gonna ends, i got panic and chose answers without proper thinking. Therefore, i think time control is essentially important. About the grammer part, i wasn't able to do well, maybe my grammer is bad?
CR section is the most critical among all. oH mY POTATO! The passages are hard to be fully understood and the questions are rather confusing.
This applies to everyone, don't EVER sit under an aircond or in a cold area, I was freezing while doing the test....( MJB, u wan me die MEH?!! )