Insights and Reflections

PW is finally over. It is now time to reflect back on this memorable seven-month long journey.


23 March: we all gathered in the hall to listen to a boring talk given by mrs choong - the first pw talk of the year. the question paper was distributed to us, and that was the first A'Level paper that I received.


April came. and we met a new tutor named MR FORREST LIM. my first impression of him was A WEIRDO. he told us that we had to finish something called PI by the first week of April, while we actually still had no idea what PW was all about yet.


5 April: the first annoucement of PW groupings. there were 5 people in my group: Maureen, Shiyun, Veluri, Alvin and me. At that time, I only knew Maureen. I didnt even talk to the other three at all in class, if i remember correctly.


12 April: Shiyun left for PJ. The class was re-arranged [one group was broken up]. The new member of my group was Shiyi. I was overjoyed, 'cos she was from my first three month class, so at least i knew her a bit better than all the rest.


18 April: Maureen left. This time, the class was not re-arranged anymore. So the members of my group were Alvin, Hari [by this time, i already knew that Veluri was his sirname], Shiyi and me. AC117 was born! After three rounds of drawing lots in room A4.08, Alvin was chosen to be the group leader, and I was the secretary.


After several heated arguments, we decided to choose Laurie Baker as our groundbreaker. We somehow managed to rush through GPP drafts and submit the final copy on time.


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EoM came next. We anyhow designed a survey which consisted of ten questions, and went to Somerset MRT station together to distribute those useless pieces of paper to random passers-by. However, the survey we carried out was an utter failure. As a consequence, we struggled to choose sources for our EoMs. In the end, all four of us ended up using articles we found from the Internet.


Then came WR. Having seen a sample of one of last year's WR in the library months before that, i seriously doubted if we could produce something which would be of the same standard. We went online to discuss how to do WR several times, as we were all too lazy to meet up. On realising that we didnt do anything for our project at all, we decided to construct a house model [which was a complete failure as well, just like the survey].


Continuous stress and pressure! emo day came after emo day. numerous evenings were spent in front of the computer screen. complained, whined and cried both in school and at home! but thanks to Alvin's and my classmates' encouragement, i overcame those emo moments. and yay! WR was submitted and re-submitted, and OP slides were finally done after several times of editting.


31 October: OP day! i wasnt nervous at all initially. Alvin made me nervous when he kept behaving weirdly while Sock's group was presenting. as usual, Hari told us "why are you so f---ing nervous? just anyhow whack la!". haha but what was actually more worrying was that i was damn high before our presentation! :D


i kind of screwed up q&a, as they all laughed at me when i answered the stupid question! but never mind!


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i am happy that pw is finally over. but somehow im missing those days when we rushed through WR together, the OP practice sessions and everything else. AC117 has gradually become something very familiar to me. if given a choice, i dont know if i would mind doing pw again! haha :D


Alvin told me the other day after OP when we [Hari, Alvin and me] were eating lunch together that it would be the last time he talked to us. and he also said there would be nothing to talk about after pw, since pw was our most frequently discussed topic, and we seemingly only talked about pw everytime. Hari also told me that he enjoyed working in the same group as me, but he was more than happy that he didnt have to anymore! haha isnt it saddening? argh x(


anyways, i'd want to thank all three of you for the past months. although we really sucked, we made it through as a group! you all love AC117, dont you? and dont you all agree that Laurie Baker rocks? yes, he obviously does! haha hope we'll manage to get Cs for pw! haha :D


[AC117 secretary]