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verses read: Lamentations and Song of Songs 1

Since my last entry I’ve finished reading the Gospel of Luke and the book of Lamentations; very depressing read. So I decided on something a little better, the Song of Solomon. Much better read. Feeling a little poetic lately.

Well, today has been a very eye-opening day. I don’t know what adjectives and adverbs I can use to describe myself and my “slowness” on this. Only found out today, that my partner for the conversation section of the oral exam (see post 120406) for my Bahasa Indonesia course I did just before leaving NUS was the (get this…) former winner of the Miss Singapore Universe pageant! Imagine the shock I had when I found out. And why I didn’t find out earlier, I have no clue! Anyway, have to say that my stereotype of beauty queens has changed a bit, she is really very friendly in real life and the pictures you can find of her online, don’t really do her justice. She is much prettier in real life. Next question I am asking myself is why I’m even writing this into my journal?

More importantly, today, I finally received my SMMT (School Mathematics Mastery Test) results. I passed, THANK GOD! Now I can really enjoy my holidays and practicum a little more! The test was two hours; we had to do the equivalent of about two standard O level mathematics papers in that time. Not too difficult, except that the passing mark was a distinction not just 50%. The paper was okay, save for the terror statistics question, in which they decided to test the whole cohort on something called a “boxplot” some new statistical representation device which will be introduced into the syllabus soon. It is a really stupid representation, to over-simplified. It’s amazing, that we have to teach students how to use something that we don’t know how to use.