Storms rock. There's the sunshine afterward to look forward to.
Monday, June 23, 2008
The Time We've All Been Waiting For (kinda)
JCT has started. It started around one and a half hours ago, with the Physics paper. And so the Bio student takes a break from the revision to blog.
In order of the papers, for my batchmates, the J1s, may God bless us all during the week, such that:
Monday: Our minds will be illuminated by the charges of knowledge passing through the circuitry of nerves, that the pressure of knowledge will crash through the mind's walls and all will flow out as our pen converts all our potential energy into kinetic and heat energy - For Physics
Our minds be matured, as we learn to see things from a broader perspective, in our time, and times past and yet to come, that we remember our week's news, and the condition of the world's economics and economists, and apply all the language skills we have honed over the years, that English be not a burden, but a boon - For GP (see if you can spot all the current affairs magazines in there...)
Tuesday: Our minds be open, as we attempt to dive into the minds of literary geniuses, who have proven that the English Language is a raging force that must be gentled, if the writer's intended meaning is to be clear, that we shall see into the minds of the poets of old as clearly as we see into our own, and that we are able to command the language to express it in ways they have not done so already - For Lit
Our minds be sharp, our reflexes at their peak, our fingers agile, as they peruse through the stormy processing of jumbled notes, or the mechanical symphony of programming code, that masterpieces will flow, maybe not in execution, but definitely in conception - For Music and Computer Studies
Wednesday: Our minds be imaginative, as we seek to visualise the present, as well as the past, that the earth's secrets be unearthed, that the gentle breeze of relief rain be felt on our faces, that no archipelago, estuary, dictator or war be left forgotten as we call to memory what is needed to answer the great questions of time - For Geography and History
Our minds be calculative, so we will always be in constant awareness of the cost of failure, and the rewards of success, but also the difference between the two in terms of work put in, as we seek to find a way whereby the supply of knowledge we put into our minds will suffice for the demands of the paper - For Economics
Thursday: Our minds have understanding, as we aspire to gather enough knowledge so it will act as a catalyst by lowering the activation energy needed during the paper itself to achieve the desired experimental results, and also that our experimental procedure, our studying, be efficiently planned out and executed, so that even sulphuric acid in the eye won't hinder progress - For Chemistry
Our minds be malleable, so we will not process thoughts strictly by only the English Language, but that the mind will be fluid enough to think in other languages, that our second vocabulary flourish and reinforce that mankind was always meant to understand one another, but in the absence of a common language that fell with the tower of Babel, developing different vocabularies must suffice - For Mother Tongue and the LEPs
Friday: Our minds be methodical, as we differentiate what needs to be simplified and what need not be over-expanded, as we integrate all the concepts we have learnt into the paper, that we will function during the paper not with only a fraction, but calculate with the entire circumference and area of our being - For Maths
Our minds be reflective, as we turn on our microscopic vision and, more so than the other sciences, look inward rather than outward, that our nerve impulses do not run overboard with nervousness, that our cerebral cortex calls up the correct information, and our muscles contract and expand in tandem without fear to transfer thought onto paper - For Biology
