Sleep More!!

Why?? This post is for those living in A2-04-02 Amanah Apartment.

Of course, in a less busy world we would all grab extra shut-eye. But it could have more effect on your health than you think.

1) It could boost your memory.
Sleeping is a process of making new pendrive of at least 2G in the brain. A Harvard experiment showed that subjects taught complex finger movements like a piano scale recalled them much better after 12 hours' sleep than 12 hours' wakefulness. Another study showed that working into the night slowed thinking skills, both at the time and during the next day. For those who wants to go Harvard, sleep now!! So that you can become one of them... And for JY, sleep more so that you remember someone's face all the time (JY - don't kill me... thanks).


2) It boosts the immune system.
People with insomnia and suffering from depression had fewer disease-fighting cells in their blood. Moreover, melatonin, produced when you sleep, is a cancer-fighting antioxidant.


3) It can slow down ageing.
People who sleep 6-7 hours a night lived longer than those sleeping less than 4.5 hours. So, Kok Bin, dont be so hardworking la... Life is precious, SAT is just a test (LOL...).

Sleeping~

Meaningless Post...

Argh... What the p... Such a cute dog...

(JY - i juz simply use "What the p", hope that you don't mind >.<)

Critical Reading & Sentence Completion

Today we went to ITMS lab for Mr. Yu Jin’s reading class, which was from 14.00 till 16.00. Siva, Chee Wee and I started to walk to IMTS lab earlier than usual because we heard some gossips from our fellow friends from section 2 that we will have some kind of mock tests on critical reading. After arriving there, I chose a seat that was under the humongous air-con so that I won’t feel super duper cold air blown out from it. Just as Mr. Yu Jin stepped into our class, someone shouted out – Mr. Yu Jin, you looked handsome! I couldn’t help to laugh in my heart because for me, I guess that was a kind of sarcasm (NO OFFENCE >.< ).

Anyway, we were told to do McGraw Hill's computer tests. After 279 seconds, there came the atmosphere of silence and horror. Everyone glued their eyes on their computer screens. At first I felt panic, but somehow I just asked myself why am I panicking? Then I reminded myself that it was just a stupid self-assessment exercise. I moved my eyes as fast as possible while reading the passages without understanding them (applying what Mr. Yu Jin had taught us -- skim & scan). I still remembered one of the longest passages was something about Herming… or whatsoever thing like that. That was the one that made me lost my confidence in answering all the questions. This is the first thing I realized: NEVER LET THOSE LONG PASSAGES make you lose your confidence!! OR lose your mind…

Besides that, you must also train yourself to be pro (good) in ignoring all the things around you. This was what I experienced this afternoon. When I was reading one of the passages, a pair of couple in green was sitting in front of me, kept on doing something intimating (NO OFFENCE >.< ), and Teng C.L. felt frustrated too, I guess, because I don’t know whether he is pro in ignoring people or not… Anyway, thanks to Mr. Yu Jin because he helped us to stop them from being intimating the others.

Ok, now talking about my result of the assessments. Shao Shen got 550/800; I got 520/800. I’m quite satisfied with my result as it was my first time to do SAT Critical Reading and Sentence Completion. From the whole assessment, Shao Shen and I think that we should do the sentence completion part faster so that we have more time in reading those frigging passages.

In conclusion, it was a tiring afternoon sitting in front of the computer screen for two hours.


** Equation of the week -- coherence = core + hence (X)
coherence = consistency + sensible (kind of X)
coherence = unity + sentence cohesion (V)

Disgusting Creature

It was Saturday, two days before Merdeka Day (Independence Day). All my roommates went back to their hometown (Kepong guy with Cindy, Bak Kut Teh Town with his loads of laundry, and Historic City with his intention going back to play Dota).

I woke up early that day, opened my window, then I could feel the nature of silence. There was no one screaming in the early morning (because usually the Bak Kut Teh guy will scream in the early morning and I think it is something to do with his testosterone). So, I went to the kitchen and took my mug and prepared a mug of cornflakes + milk.

After enjoying my breakfast, I walked around in the apartment and noticed that our apartment was damn dirty. There were so many aherm aherm on the floor, and I was thinking that those must be belongs to Bak Kut Teh guy. Therefore, I decided to clean the house since the one who always dirty the apartment was not in the apartment. Or else, usually after we clean the apartment, it only needs 2 seconds for him to dirty the floor.

Then, I went to the sink beside the toilet and I squatted down. I opened my search engine (my eyes) to search for something that can be used to clean the floor. Yes! I found something that can be use to clean the floor with, that is something called “EXTRA 500ml! Free 33%. Dettol. KILLS 99.9% of GERMS. 4 IN 1. Multi Action Cleaner”. I was murmuring to myself: “**What the P??… There is no such thing as KILLS 99.9% of GERMS lar~”. Anyway, there was nothing more in our apartment and I decided to use it. When I took the bottle of floor detergent, there was a cockroach. I was so scared when I saw the cockroach; the cockroach was so scared when it saw me. Both of us scare lo. I stood there like a tree trunk, doing nothing, just staring at the cockroach. After 5.69 seconds, I woke up from the shock. I quickly ran to the shoes’ cabinet to take the world greatest invention – RIDSECT and ran back to where the cockroach was like Usain Bolt so that it won’t escape. I spayed at the cockroach non-stop for 4.74 seconds.

After that, I checked on it. It was struggling there, haha… and 13.52 seconds later, it either fainted or died. I quickly put on my gloves and threw it into the toilet bowl and flushed it away… But I felt guilty too, NOT because of I killed that little creature, is because of causing depletion of ozone layer… What a sad world…

** What the p = abbreviation of What the potato = someone in our class like potato…

~ 1st Attempt~

Last week, our sensei had asked us to compile a journal to write about reviews of the questions. Well, both of us started at the eleventh hour, causes us to burn the midnight oil. Consequently, we woke up late, and was rushing for the bus.(if we are late for the BUS, a 30 minutes walking journey to IKAL awaits us!)

Then we had our classes like normal days(we think is normal) till 10 minutes before our Reading ToeFL and Sat class. We realized that we forget to bring the journal that we worked out whole night long! Then, I had to go back to Amanah to get that journal as it was left in my room. Walking back to Amanah under the hot sun is really.. OMG! Opps..! OMP!!

Fortunately, Colin borrowed me his bike and i cycled back to Amanah. The journey back was enervating! i could not afford to have a leisure biking, as the time is going to struck 2pm!

After getting my journal, i went back to IKAL and that is when another misfortune event occurs! my class had went to ITMS and i will had to walk there..alone>.<

My leg is so sore because of the biking. Yet, i had to walk to ITMS with all the strength i left. i was feeling really tired and lethargic.

Soon i am inside ITMS, we goes on with doing SAT Critical Reading section in the computer. Well, it was another bad experience of course. we did it together at the same computer and our score is terrible, horrible and...

we did our own analysis and this is what we found out that :

1) - vocab questions with 2 blanks is easier because u might know the answer for either one of the blank.

2) - Make an "educated" guess if u don't know the answer

3) - Time is really insufficient, hence try to do more 'timed' practices

4) - Bring jacket.

5) - Rest more before u had the test

6) - Well, think positively!

7) - when u did something wrong, laugh at yourself ( according to our sensei, it's good to laugh at yourself @.@)

And of course, listen raptly to Mr Yu Jin!

Let's Get It Started ~ >.<

it was a beautiful day.

it was Monday.

it was again Mr Yu Jin's day.

it was supposedly a lame day,

BUT!!

our sensei (Mr Yu Jin) had turned it to a damnedest day.

he gave us an assignment, an extraordinary one of course.

and that is what we are doing now, BLOGGING!!!

ps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTdGJuDZp4I

( Let's get it started, by black eyed peas )