Wednesday, May 31, 2006

hm...i looked back at the birthday list n realised tt I, if not us, missed jordan's birthday which is on the 26th may. oops. haix...at first we still quite enthu for ben's birthday n now can actually miss jordan's:(...so aniway jord when u read tis pls be wished a happy belated birthday. haha.

rmb our last lanning trip in dhoby gaut? ya rmb b4 tt i went to nus to take a maths selection test... tt was to select 6 pple from the national team from secondary to jc to take part in the 'international math olympiad' , imo for short, tis yr...haha...the qns there is like crazily hard...even our trainer remarked tt all our trng thus far shld haf enabled us to understand the solns of the past imo problems oO....n there were like so mani pros taking the test esp those in j2...so i just go there take for fun....total we were given 9 hours for 6 qns lol....but each qn must write full soln ^^....some qns i dun even noe how to start writing soln...so left them blank...esp the geom ones...1 qn was on sight easy...n a few were doable with the enormous amt of time granted....haha most of the qns i did were quite 'normal' la...as in most others know how to do as well...tink got 1 i tot for quite a while den solve...soln quite nice n mani pros also duno how to do:) ... so i tot got a bit of chance to make it to the imo team la....tot can get 20+ pts...den results get back i only got 11 at first....then got 2 blur markers who marked my scripts tot i was writing crap...den when i pointed out to them den add a few more marks ... then become 19/42 (nice fail wif flying colors) ... haha den i dint make it to the team la....but then i realised i only need 20 to get inside!!! wa lao im sure miss by 1 mark lor....if i nt careless can get my 20 marks liao....den i will be the youngest guy ever to rep singapore for tis competition ....isnt it like dam wasted? dream dashed in such a way.... wa dam xin tong... but nvm la dun complain nxt yr try harder haha. hope nxt yr can get in... but then also realised tt the team must like train 9 hours per day for the whole of june............siao!! the imo standard is too high liaos must train like crap.... so in a way was also quite lucky not to get inside la.

tis wk done the senior n open section for math olympiad. tot can own but got screwed:( i know so little still go n careless. last math competition tis yr sumore (i tink). kwa beng hong dun let me rep school. :(:(

nxt wk is raffles cup....featuring homegrown players like lz, wt, jw, ck n me haha. last yr we got 2nd, losing to n older team. tis yr must pray hard we can win first den will b like first time in 10 yrs oO. haha den it clash with my rc camp sumore....both are dam fun:). den after tt must go for a 5-day simo camp where do nth but mug maths, play soccer and eat. man this rox cos these are my 3 areas of interest:) haha. so 14th june or ard there den start work. sth like going on a holiday....which i tink jord and kovan are going for real ones soon. btw kovan n hyrum dun forget we got our english interview ting to doooooooooooo. MR GLENN LIM. cya.