*---------Checkmate.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

9:56 AM

A warmed Heart on Teachers Day Eve
Before calculus exams, I went to my sec school because of Teachers day. As I stepped into the school, I recognise the familiar smell. Its not really pleasant, but its familiar. Walked to the benches outside teachers' room. Sat down and waited a while before I see familiar faces. Rather crowded and some teachers are just so popular. Waited and finally, 2 teachers that taught me before, came over. Talked for about an hour.

Then we were talking about relief teachers. I think I'll work as a relief teacher when I graduate from Temasek Poly while waiting for enlistment. So how do you actually prove that you are capable of being one? My teacher replied:"I'll recommend you and that'll do." And as I was leaving, (they knew that I am having an exam soon after that) I said:"Miss Choy, why didnt you wish me luck?" She replied:"You exams where got depend on luck."

Im not here to sort of "hao lian" la, but its the heart warming part I want to share with you all. Being back in school, the feeling is nice. I have lots of memories there. Being at least to Reminisce is great. My school will be demolish by 2010 and they'll build a new one.

And one day, I'll visit my primary school teachers.

Happy Teachers Day to: Clare Choy, Lee Poh Lin, Anne Quek, Wu Tian Hwee

Exams over and I have 2 days of holidays before internship starts
For my last paper, the one on calculus, I've discovered that I had 6 marks deducted so far. The following 2 paragraphs is dedicated for Mary and Mx. I'll share with the both of you the mistakes that I made.

There is this 3 marks question on limits. My answer is 1. As I thought infinity divided by infinity is 1. But note that it is, 6infinity divided by 2infinity. Therefore the answer should be 3. (the 1's are neglected cause infinity is in place)

Another 3 mark question on logistics curve. I think it is question 4, last part. This question actually tricked me. When I was reading the paper during the 10 minutes reading time and when I saw the question, I knew that it was a logistics curve but when I was doing the first 3 parts, they only require us to do differentiation and substituition. Therefore, it didnt occur to me that we need to apply logistics curve formulas for the last part. They asked for the rate of change at the maximum. It is actually at the point of inflection. But I put infinity as my answer. Dumb!!

Preparing for Work
Cut my hair. Shorter and thinner on the back, sides thinner so it'll be "stickier" to the head, fringe remained with only some minor touch-ups. I am ready to work. But come to think of work, I will have to wear shirts everyday. And though I have quite a number of shirts(my cousin passed them to me), they dont quite fit me. And hence Im only left with a few choices.

By the way, Do you all think I'll have my own workplace?

That'll be nice :)

Happy Holidays