And my duty is done (for a day, at least)

“Helping Patients Heal” With My Photography?

This is an abridged version of the post at SIGMA+, my art blog.

Okay, weird but kinda cool.

My dad came into the room holding this envelope from Singapore General Hospital. Being the morbid person I am, my first thought was “oh no I’ve been diagnosed with a rare blood disorder and they’re trying to get samples out of me for research”.

Turns out it wasn’t about anything medical (okay, perhaps it was tangentially related) and instead about three (or two?) of my SYPA 2008 entries, which I had all but forgotten about.

The letter was titled “Help patients heal with your photography works” and said “we had the opportunity to view your submission to the SYPA competition and found them to be most captivating and we would be most grateful if you could send us…Lone Flower Nature and I’m Lovin’ It which would be particularly suitable for our wards.”

Chiachia’s face is going to be viewed by “up to 900, 000 patients” and “over 6000” staff every year! Way-more-than-15-minutes-of-fame beckons.

On another note, the flower being chosen is also kind of funny. That little yellow thing gets far too much exposure for a simple photo with lots of depth of field that makes it look fancy. And with such an uninspired name too.

I’d like it more if my emo leaves, which take the crown for uninspired-name-ness – Untitled (Leaves) – or something else was shown…

The typo error in the list of photos they requested is a bit confusing too. Do they want LF, N and ILI? Or N and ILI? Or LF and ILI? Come to think of it, did I even have an entry titled Nature? Or was it titled Growth? My mind boggles.

I think I’ll send them all three.

EOY 2008: Day 4

Had Chem today. I thought it went pretty okay, but I got 2 or 3 questions wrong in Paper 1 and the ionic equations left me a little confused in Paper 2.

Bio (last Friday) started off ho-hum but Paper 2 was a nightmare. It was like, the mother of all Bio papers. Short-chain amino acid binding and hydrolysis?

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EOY 2008: Day 2

Physics

Argh equations of motion! And Physics teachers’ general tendency to make questions as confusing as possible @__@ “The seat belt expanded horizontally by 0.4m”?

Chinese Paper 2

Erm, well, I pretty much wrote rubbish. Throughout the whole thing I just kept telling myself 不要紧，干脆乱写一通好了 since, you know, I’m pretty much screwed already for Chinese.

Math Paper 1

The first-ever math paper I’ve done with 30 minutes to spare. Awesome!

This Post Has Sixty-Five Words

Obtained 136 for ABRSM Grade 7 piano, distinction, likely personal best.

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Had LA paper today, wrote very short essay with unlinked paragraphs and disorganized points.

Scribbled a fairly short unseen analysis. Did Prose, have uneasy feeling that I veered away from Author’s Intent.

Plodded through a dastardly, disgusting and difficult (alliteration!) comprehension about Alzheimer’s.

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Block Tests 2: Day 4

Hey look, it’s my work from June. Oh gosh, that seems so far away.

I had Chem and BSP(C) today. I had to pin up my fringe during the papers at times because it was getting in my eyes. I look really weird when I pin up my fringe >__>

Chem

Finally, an easy (easier) paper! A bunch of people around me were going “no it wasn’t easy at all” but that’s probably just them. I’m pretty confident I can get an A1 or so for this, which has almost neutralized my distraughtness from yesterday. I’m still distraught, just…less. Don’t worry, it’ll come back in a week or so when our papers are returned. And then that will be very much major distraughtness.

I’ve never failed a paper before. Ever. (If you’re interested, I got a 50 for Math in P4 but it was still a pass) I really, really hope I won’t have to find out what it’s like.

BSP

Well, all four of us Tier 1 are screwed. For Zinc maybe less so. She’s an android, after all. I think what Sal wrote as the answer for the last SBQ question was brill, though the teachers may not be so amused:

Q 以上资料是否让你了解美国在台海关系中扮演的角色？

A这 些资料没有让我理解美国在台海关系中扮演的角色。这是因为这些资料太深奥，我看不懂。

I was going to go home earlier today, but ended up staying till 2:30pm. This was due to two reasons: Discussing stuff and helping Pam debug the insane right-click torture chamber on her blog. There was one instance where it launched with any click, even middle-click. /shudders

Did a test, mainly for my own amusement, after I got home and showered and everything.

Advanced Global Personality Test Results Extraversion |||| 14% Stability |||||||||||||||| 66% Orderliness |||||||||||| 50% Accommodation |||||||||||| 46% Interdependence |||||||||||||||| 63% Intellectual |||||||||| 38% Mystical || 10% Artistic |||||||||||||||||||| 90% Religious || 10% Hedonism || 10% Materialism |||||||||||||||| 63% Narcissism |||||||||||||||| 70% Adventurousness || 10% Work ethic |||||| 30% Humanitarian |||||||||||||| 56% Conflict seeking |||| 16% Need to dominate |||||||||||| 43% Romantic |||||| 30% Avoidant |||||| 23% Anti-authority |||||||||||| 43% Wealth |||||||||||| 43% Dependency |||||||||| 36% Change averse |||||||||||| 43% Cautiousness |||||| 30% Individuality |||||||||||| 43% Sexuality |||||||||| 36% Peter pan complex |||||||||||||||| 63% Family drive |||||||||||| 50% Physical Fitness || % Histrionic |||| 16% Paranoia |||||||||| 36% Vanity |||||||||||| 50% Honor |||||||||||||| 56% Thriftiness |||||||||||||||||| 76%

personality test by similarminds.com

Stability results were moderately high which suggests you are relaxed, calm, secure, and optimistic.

Orderliness results were medium which suggests you are moderately organized, hard working, and reliable while still remaining flexible, efficient, and fun.

Extraversion results were very low which suggests you are extremely reclusive, quiet, unassertive, and secretive.

Results for the most part accurate. Haha I have Peter Pan complex, according to it :/ But I think I act less immaturely than my friends sometimes. Lets see. I’m apparently rather narcissistic and artistic. There was one question that asked something like “Do you love beautiful and artistic things?” and I was like “there’s that mission statement for my art that’s been missing the past n years.”

My New Artistic Mission Statement

I want to create beautiful things.

Oh and – I know physical fitness is missing. The number wouldn’t show and I closed it by accident, so I couldn’t enter it manually.

18:32 WHY WHY WHY

Failed 2.4 by 12 seconds.

Yeah it’s the first time my 2.4 timing has been less than 20 minutes, so it’s cause for celebration I guess.

But -

12 SECONDS ;___________________;

The teacher didn’t tell me the timing when I started my 7th round, so I thought there was still time left because I clocked 13 or something on my 6th round. D: