Choices choices...

Listening to "Friend of mine" by Treble Charger

A mere two days ago (or just yesterday), i was getting oh so close to reaching stress level 2 with this escort/ball thing. Mrs. R and her silly rules is stressing me - the no classmates rule. NOW how in Heaven's name did she come up with that one... not that anyone listens... But everyone is taken anyway and Dan does not want to have another run in with her (although he doesn't realise that the most she could do is... NOTHING... he's leaving school *sigh*)

Now that my exams are basically done, i have all the time in the world to resume to full-time stressing over this. I started off with a list of ... i can't even remember how long. But one by one, i had to X the list till i was left with 2. Don't you hate it when the ones you would prefer can't make it and ones you're left with, you can't decide?

Tim Tim and Kaiz... Now, i really appreciate mom's attempt to solve my problem of me finding an escort. It was supposed to be through my own innitiative that an escort is chosen.. But that decision has been taken out of my hands - *sigh* now people are going to think i can't find anyone by myself (worse-case scenario)... It's not really that bad because she didn't exactly ask but yes, both of them are expecting me to ask. *snickers* make 'em wait...

Mom told Sher Sher that i'm *thinking* about going with Kaiz. (which is true i have been THINKING about it... now Sherrie has been trying a matchmaker thing for months now... She told Kaiz) Now 15 minutes into being online, Kaiz pops up.. "so i hear you want to go with me to ball".. lol i have think about this. I hold the power in the palm of my hands.. Hmmmmmm this requires much thought and consideration. *wink*

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CXC came easy this year. I'm not swearing to anything nor am i saying i'm getting all Ones. I'm merely saying that the subjects couldn't have come easier.

Math was easy - sheer baby work. Chances are i'll get almost full marks in Section 2 (not that that was a problem essentially... i'm one of those back-into-front people as i can manage to get most marks in the hardest part and fail the easy part..literally)

English was beautiful.. the exam was nicely structured.

Literature was nice, i ended up doing Romeo and Juliet and it was only by chance that i had happened to have read over my notes for that book. LOL, i had been hellbent on not doing it but after much persuasion from Mr. B i ended up doing it.

(to digress a little - he's calling me Sweet 16 now *grin*. YAY i have a nick name again... when i was in Form 1,2,3 he used to call me Dimples. No that's not what it sounds like before you think it. My school is extremely small - the teachers are like parents, the students like brothers and sisters, most of them grew up with each other since kindergarden and the teachers knew them since then... I've been part of my class family for 7 years)

Art - I should get a One there. The teacher says he doesn't see how i could possibly get anything but... and that our class was more superior to the previous form 5's *thumbs up to Art Class 2004*... see teachers don't understand how vital talking, walking, eating, playing during an exam is to us students *wink* Only in art.. those are the days i will miss...

Information Technology - came easy with the exception of the stupid import in Word. There were NO if statements in Excel, i honestly have no idea how that happened. Our whole life was prepared for the toughest If statement and none came... WTH :P well that was the practical.. The make or break it part was today - Theory. And that came easy as pie (but ofcourse it can go either way, i could fail horribly or pass with flying colours.. it comes down to the legibility of my writing and my ability to sound like i have an idea of what i'm doing. j.k. i think) Questions came WAY different than it normally does. It was more like hands on questions rather than book-knowledge questions.

For example, Ques. 6 - a) List Two advantages and Two disadvantages of using a network in a place of stand-alone computers. b) You have one diskette that you use to store files related to the work you do for school, your club and home. Describe an efficient way to organize the various files on your diskette. c) You boot-up your computer but nothing is displayed on the monitor. List TWO things you would do to troubleshoot the problem... *sigh* c'mon... where's the difficulty...

And another example, 7. b)i) What is a search engine? ii) Why is a search engine useful when surfing the net?
OR 10. a) For information to be useful, it must be organized. List Two other qualities that the information must have to be useful. b) List 3 measures you would take to ensure that your computr system is protected from viruses. c) Briefly explain the difference betweem 'backing up' and 'archiving' of data. d) The election office has a large amount of vital and sensitive information. Describe 3 steps that should be taken to protect the data against deliberate theft or corruption...

Now my what i was expecting was more like... What is a syntax error, or what is the CU and ALU and what function does each serve? And then the algorithms... well that could go either way. I could write programs with Basic which is... 3rd generation langauge i think... like with FORTRAN and COBOL (I THINK!)... but the questions they asked along with the suggested answers for previous papers were structured a bit differently... but all the same, this year came nice. And yes... i'm not that computer illiterate as i lead you people to believe. I love being underestimated.

Spanish - Orals was lovely. Piece of pie. Yo hablo espanol muy bueno. Me encanto la idioma espanol. Je parle francais aussi (But i dropped it... Stupid history... Gave up 2 of my fave subjects - Physics and French - for one that wasn't that high up the list of favourites. BUT back to Spanish. The long answer paper was pretty good, kept my letter short and sweet. M.C. is till next week.

Caribbean History - came easy as well, couldn't ask for a nicer paper. The part i flunk on comes next week (M.C. paper)... I mean its easy to write 3 pages worth of information and try to convince the marker that you have a pretty good knowledge of what you're doing... But to choose one answer out of four? Nope, i lack skills of reasoning. Martin's theory comes in here "Every answer you don't know put C".. j.k.. i'll try a thing.

Principles of Business - Came lovely. Short, sweet and to the point. *stupes* After just searching for about a half hour, i've come to the realization that i have misplaced most of my CXC papers that Tina asked for... and i can't even give a preview of the questions that came.. *sniff* i hate it when i can't find stuff... drives me crazy... The M.C. was ok as well *frown*... where oh where could it be...

Geography - at first look, i thought it was the hardest Geo paper i had ever come across... but then i looked at it again and it was easy. The last questions in Section C proved difficult in that i couldn't decide which question to do... I'm a SOS student so the Tourism part looked a breeze, the only down side that it was paired with fishing and i hadn't done fishing in over a year... BUT i remembered most of it.. The other question was based on NY and the advantages of it's location as a port, as a city, etc.. paired with questions on CBDs etc... Choices choices

Biology - biology biology biology... This and computer were on my "weakest subjects" list.. 2 weeks of pushing CXC past papers paid off. Thanx to Mr. Abe for using all his breaks to go through answers with me. Infact, pieces of questions i did with him came. The M.C. was alright, the theory was pretty good and the Structured paper was ok.

Examples of the questions that came:- 8. a)i) The products of asexual reproduction are referred to as a clone. Explain why all the members of a clone have the same genetic makeup.
ii) The following events take place during meiosis:
- separation of homologous chromosomes
- separation of chromatids

Explain carefully what each term above means and WHY these two events are important.
b) In many societies men are disappointed when they have too may female offspring and they tend to blame their female partners. Use your biological knowledge to explain why this is an unreasonable position to take.
c) i) It may be possible to use genetic engineering methods to remove a defective gene (for example, the sickle cell gene) from a zygote or gamete and replace it with a normal gene. What would be the advantages of developing this technique instead of trying to develop better treatments for genetic diseases?
ii) In the future, parents may be able to select certain characteristics that they want their offspring to have and have the appropriate genes inserted into the chromosomes of the embryo. Suggest ONE advantage and ONE disadvantage of this possibility.

And another one i did... 4. a) i) A child involved in an accident with a motor vehicle and was lying on the road, bleeding profusely. What would be the likely effects on the body, if bleeding continues for some time?
ii) On arrival at the hospital, the child was immediately put on a 'drip' ( a solution of water, salts and glucose in a specific proportion) as an emergency measure. Why do you think this was necessary?

b) i) In order for the child to survive, a series of blood transfusions were required. The child was of blood type O, while the blood groups of the parents were different from that of the cild. Ise appropriate diagrams to show ONE way in which the blood groups might have been inherited by their offspring.
ii) Many persons are reluctant to donate blood. Suggest TWO reasons why this may be so.

c) Scientists are now conducting experiments to make artificial blood. What should be FOUR essential components of the 'new blood'? Explain the function of EACH component.

And last of all... Social Studies - SOS came alright this year. Many questions came based on communication via computers.. And ofcourse i did those questions - it would be just wrong to not show that all those hours i spent chatting were not useful.

As mentioned before, i'm not saying that i got all ones. I know me, i perfected the art of making simple mistakes that result in losing a good 10-30% of the grade i should have gotten. I feel optimistic about my exams and i'm expecting ones and twos but.. you never know... Ones and Twos are As and Bs equivalents.. Hmm but CXC feels like an ordinary exam not like the exam that we were told that is so significant in our lives, and all the work we did just for that... One day, here today.. gone tomorrow..

(LOL, i started typing this up 5 hours ago.. thank God CXC is nearly done)