I didn't finish my Maths paper...

  Hello, everyone... I'm just taking a quick break from my full-out study session for Science and I think that I've been motivated to finally study because, for reason number one, I wasn't able to complete my Mathematics paper today because I relied on the topics taught in school too much and didn't look for alternative solutions to the questions. And thus, I was stuck, and I lost 12 marks because I was not able to answer those questions.

  Because of this event, I'm determined to make up for my loss by doing my best in my Science exam and striving for an A*. I've just studied for 2 hours straight, so I'm just giving myself a short break before I study for another three hours with another break in the studying because of dinner and getting ready for bed. My Science exam is coming in three days, so I think I have just enough time to finish going through my two main topic textbooks and to read a bit of the all-topics-book that my mother bought for my elder brother last year. This year, it's mine, though, because now my brother has been promoted to a higher level and his taught topics are much more complex than the already difficult things we're learning now. Hang on there, big brother!

  Sincerely,

Kirsten Clare.

Found my hole-puncher!!! :)

  Heyo everyone!!! :) I'm so happy that I found my long-lost hole puncher... And I have no idea why. I guess it's because I can't file in my un-hole-punched stuff without it. Go figure.

  So... Yeah, I managed to recover my hole puncher, my stapler and my pair of scissors, and I've replaced my old set of highlighters with a new set of the three primary colours from a bookstore in SSC (Sembawang Shopping Centre). I don't know what it is about stationery, but I always feel prepared and... Well, ready, for the next day when I have a new pen or pencil set or eraser, and especially a new set of highlighters. I know I'm weird but... That's me! :)
  So now I have to go and take my nighttime shower. Tomorrow's the Mathematics exam... Yikes! Wish me luck!

  Sincerely,
Kirsten Clare

Portfolio Update

  Heyo everyone! I decided that I should have a portfolio update, just so that you'd know more about me, but I won't say too much, because... Well, I've been brought up to be wary of the internet, and I can't say that the advice isn't worth following, so I'll only tell you the tiniest bits of information.

Name: Kirsten Clare

Age: 11 years, 10 days

Birthday: 1st May 2002

Favourite Colour(s): Dark blue, white, green

Favourite Food(s): Fishball Noodle (soup), chicken rice

Hobbies: Reading, writing, daydreaming, rewriting the day's events into a story format when I have nothing else to do, thinking (a bit too much), blogging, procrastinating...

Likes: Wondering why things are the way they are, thinking about people, overthinking what I do, sitting on the couch in a comfortable position while I'm reading, making people happy, writing cards for special occasions with their favourite colours, eating snacks, listening to music, being cheerful, cute things, children...

Mildly dislikes: Swearing excessively, outrageous clothings/jewelleries, boastfulness, impatience, grumpiness, bursting out in a fit of rage, being too rude...

Wishes: That I could read minds, that I or someone else will find a way to get the ozone layer fixed and that someone will stop the burning of fossil fuels and the cars emitting too many dangerous pollutants and fumes, that everyone would be happy, that smokers would be able to quit smoking in the least hurtful or painful way possible or that drug addicts or cancer victims could be cured and made well again, that I would be able to visit poverty-struck villages and help them out, one by one, until the world was a bit of a better place to live in...

Best friends and very, very good friends (surnames will not be exposed): Akshaya, Jon, Trixie, Rachael, Vanessa, Ain, Chin Yi, Shruthi, Chuen Ling, Hazel, Snow, Samantha, Chloe, Kirsten (another Kirsten), Celest, Michelle, Jill, Lok Yan...

Favourite Teachers (Primary School): Mrs Lim, Mrs Thang, Wen Lao Shi (Chinese teacher for P2), Mrs Lee, Mdm Haryantie, Mr Wong, Mr Lim, Mrs Chua, Miss Lee, Miss H...

  So... Yup! That's my portfolio. Did I miss out anything? I hope not... And I really hope that you know me at least a bit better now! 

Sincerely,

Kirsten Clare :)

Saturday Blues

  Good day, everyone! Today is finally Saturday in warm Singapore, and I can't believe that it's still 3.45pm, especially since I've already been in and out of the house. Ah well... They do say that time flies when you're having fun, but today not everything has been all sunshine and butterflies. It all started as a normal day...

  Today, I woke up at 8.30am, and I had my breakfast and took my shower and went out of the house at 9.45am for my Catechism classes (they're religious classes for Catholics and Christians) which started at 10.45am. It seems pretty early to be heading out for something that's just a while away, but trust me, it takes a really long time for the bus to come once we're at the bus interchange. As a result of the bus's delayed appearance, we arrived at the church just 10 minutes before my classes started. 

  After my Catechism class, which ended at 11.45am, my brother, my father and I went back to the MRT station to visit Ang Mo Kio, where my mother worked. We stayed at the mall there for a while, trying to find a present that my brother would like, but being the gift-refusing kind of person that my brother is, our offers to buy him presents for his upcoming birthday were quickly turned down... And our moods were really dampened because my elder brother looked all gloomy. And that was the start of my Saturday Blues.

  When my parents decided that our time at the shopping mall was up, we headed back home, and I plonked myself in front of the computer as soon as I stashed my bag in the bags' corner and took out my waterbottle to make sure no traces of water would leak onto anything in that blue bag of mine. By then, my brother was in a really foul mood because I kept chattering to him on the way home about unimportant things like what I argued to my teacher about on Thursday (don't worry, it was just a friendly debate) and I think he got irritated, especially when I got bored and started singing "Three Blind Mice". I know because he looked at me with a Really, Kirsten? look when I ended my song, and he didn't look amused. At all. After that, I decided to shut my mouth, and when we had a bit of a petty argument over who should keep the umbrella and who should close the shoe cabinet's door, we were clearly not on speaking terms. And then I remembered that we were celebrating my brother's birthday today, and I silently took the green envelope that the card that I had written for him in it and I handed it to him. Then he read it and brought it to his room, and we haven't directly spoken since, although his voice became a tad bit less offensive after I gave him his card. So now, after this, we're going to hold a birthday party for my brother, and I hope that all the little kids will be happy with playing in the study room, because I'm pretty tired, although I will go and play with them once in a while. I'm not that anti-social... And besides, I've already met them before, so we're already friends.

  So... I guess I'll end the post now. I don't know if it's long or short, but I'm sorry if it's too long, and I'm equally sorry if it wasn't descriptive enough for you. 

  See ya next time!

Signing Off,

Kirsten Clare :)

Date Posted: 11th May 2013, 3.53pm (according to computer clock)

Vicious Exams

  Hello ev'ryone... I've just finished my hour-long revision on decimals and I just stopped by because I was fascinated by Rachael's awesome templates on her two new websites, one of which is called musicpleasetv.blogspot.com, and I decided that I wanted to change my blog template too. So now I chose a calming nature-like green... And by now I suppose that you might have noticed that I like nature a lot. It's so peaceful and calming... You can't even put a word against Mother Nature for sending hurricanes and cyclones and whatevernot to Earth, because nature does have to take its course, and we're the ones doing the damage to ourselves anyway.

  But the main reason why I wrote was to inform you of the stress-inducing exams which are storming my way, starting on the 13th of May (which is also my elder brother's birthday) with the English main paper and ending on Friday, 17th of May, with the Science paper. The Higher-Mother-Tongue pupils had their main papers today, and since I'm exempted, I got to sit in the corner seat with one of my other friends and watch the students do their papers. We even got sent to do some errands, which I admit was fun because otherwise we'd be cooped up in chairs for the whole 1 hour and 20 minutes of the paper. 

  So now it's my turn to suffer... Don't worry, I haven't been failing for my past practice papers, but I haven't been getting A*s, either. I don't want to push myself too hard, but I do want a bit of a challenge, so I think I'm going to go now and revise the leftover bits of my English file. And try to find that hole puncher which has mysteriously disappeared... Again. :P

  Cheerio, everyone... And have a great weekend! :)

 Sincerely, 

Kirsten Clare

(Founder of Kirsten's Blog)

Primary 5 is hard.....

  Heyo guys! Did you know that I'm eleven years old now? Well, I am, and if you're in Singapore, then you'll know that I'm in Primary 5. And what happens during Primary 5? That's right - we poor children get our sudden rush of hormones. :( That's really bad news for some people, and now P 5 is especially frustrating because of everything that the hormones are causing. 

  But I guess that maybe not everything that is stressing me out this year is caused by hormones.

  This year, it's the year before the Primary School Leaving Examination, which is, by my standards, the most important exam... At least for now. So the teachers are getting really stressed up about preparing us for this examination, and my brother is sitting for the examination this year, too! Not sure he feels the stress, though. :/ He's still as playful as ever... I'm not saying that he doesn't work hard - he really does - but sometimes I wonder how he can stand to be so relaxed when it's only three or four months to the first exam, which is the Oral test. He doesn't have any problem with oral either... But anyway, this year, the academics have become especially tough, and I'm getting lots of red X's on my papers. Since my brain, for some reason, has not yet registered that primary 5 is harder than P4, I'm feeling a bit depressed and I keep wondering why I get so many questions wrong. Posting here is actually a kind of way to de-stress myself, but then now that I think about it, I think that I de-stress way too much, because I read for hours (okay, maybe not really hours) on end and I do this and that and check my FB account and the yahoo news... And by the time I revise a bit and do all my homework, which by the way I always do before I do all of the de-stressing stuff, it's time for dinner. I suppose I can squeeze in an hour or two of listening to the teacher on Superstar Teacher, too, but that's mostly mundane and I feel like sleeping unless I actively participate in the lesson and do the questions along with the teacher. :(

  I know I sound like a really lazy person when I say that... But I guess that I kind of am. So to make up for that, I'm going to study now and I might not post until... Later. Anyway, I still have a bit of time to study before the exams, right?

  Oh, and the exams are starting in three days. :)

Signing off, 

Kirsten Clare

(Founder of Kirsten's Diary)

What happened to that comment?!?!?!

  Hey guys... I am absolutely puzzled. Today, when I visited the blog site, I saw that Rachael's comment on my most recent post had been "removed by the blog author". But I didn't do anything, I promise! Now I'm feeling a bit irritated because someone who's not the author of the blog removed Rachael's comment, and also because when I tried to remove one of my friend's other comments, and one that was hurtful this time, it said that the comment was "removed by a blog administrator". :( It's so confusing! Am I the author or the blog administrator??? I don't know... But if you see any comments removed by anyone, just assume that it was removed by someone who is not me and that I don't intend to delete any of your comments... And that I never will.

  Signing off,

Kirsten Clare.