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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Whoa i'm back after messing around w/ the class blog bcuz ppl need 2 tell me their blog links so that we all can get ACE points !! ;P

Anyway, today was rather hectic, so i will take a massive, whopping post to describe it. Hmmm.

Firstly, in the morning we had our 华岗论坛, or Chinese discussion. It was supposed to be about teacher-student relationships, but then the material changed due to some apparent "unsuitability". 房老师 told me yesterday that she was so pissed off. (Okay, she didn't actually say that but that's the main idea) I completely agree. That's why today we were in complete chaos, and spent 3/4 of the time going thru the materials. That left us with almost no question-asking time, when usually there would be more than enough.

房 老师 came in later and said that we were very co-operative. That...was surprising as a substantial number of people were doing homework and other stuff.
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For Science today we did some experiments. I didn't expect it to be much; just the usual boring stuff. What was shocking was that we got to play with some magnesium.

Now, as we all [read: I] know, magnesium is a very reactive metal not to be played with. But that's what we did.

We heated up a magnesium ribbon, which was a really tiny piece of Mg. With strong enough heat, the Mg reacted and produced MgO2, giving off a lot of heat in the process. Also, it gave off a lot of light. Here are some quotes of pepole's descriptions of it:

It looks like a torchlight!

Wah, just like a mini-sun!

ARGH MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay the last one was fake, but you can probably understand how spectacular it was. It's fun burning stuff.

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After school I had my EP3, HCISO. [read: STRING ORCHESTRA] Today we played some piece called "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" which you can hear here. Sounds awesome, eh? Each section individually was fine, but when we combined, it was total chaos. The rhythms were completely different. In the end we were dismissed before the problem could be resolved.

BTW we were playing at least one and a half the speed of the YouTube video. It sounds really slow.

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i'm alvin.
i come from hwa chong institution in singapore.
i'm in class 2i2. yes, i'm a sparkie.
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