No one will recall.
August 20th, 2008 , 8:15 pm
I’ve put a new theme up, as you can see. It’s not my original work, but I’ve liked it for a long time, so I was scouting around and searching absolutely everywhere for it. The original site that had it up is kind of dead, so I had to find another way to get it.
I know I should try to make my own themes again, but I just simply am too lazy and it’s not like I have a hell of a lot of time on my hands anymore. Everything is changing and the gears have shifted slightly, so this site isn’t for my celebrity-clad web layouts these days. Anyway, I’d like to focus on the writing aspect her, and I’d like to try to bring you people thoughtful pieces of literature. It means more to me than graphics anyway :)
It’s not like my love for graphic design has completely dissipated. It’s just I’ve never been able to make anything without a celebrity in it, and I always use photos of the same few people anyway, simply because I’m hardly a fan of anybody else or I’m too lazy to get new pictures. And then there’s the dreaded aspect of having to code stuff correctly. I never used to care so much, but I’ve been immersing myself in sites like Jemjabella and Chiklita, where they code right and everything looks good…without a celebrity header. It’s not like I’m opposed to the old way of doing things, but everyone has to move forward someday and I just know it’ll take me more than 6 hours to properly render any layout and these days, I just don’t have the damn time to do that.
Even my weekends are spent just trying to cool down from a hectic week. I’ll be glad for the week-long break after next week, because then I’ll be able to just wind down. Then, the final term starts and things get really busy and I work my butt off. I basically die and get resurrected after my exams. I don’t even really want to think about next year - ‘O’ Levels, which I have no confidence in even sitting right at this point because I’m just about failing all my subjects.
I did get a high B for my Chinese test, which I’m chuffed about. But I’ve already decided not to add Chinese grades into my L1R5 (explained below). *sigh*
L1R5 is basically the way we calculate where you go after high school. The lower the number calculated, the best chance you get of going to a top school. L1 stands for “one language” - which would be English since it’s the compulsory language of Singapore. R5 would be five other subjects which must include one maths subject, one science subject and one humanities subject. The final two are your choice. How is it calculated? Well, our scoring system goes like this (by grades): A1, A2, B3, B4, C5, C6, D7, E8, F9. The alphabets are easy enough, but the numbers are the more important ones. They take those numbers and add them up. I’m working towards an A1 for English Lang, Accounts, History and at least one of the Maths subjects. That’s not even a lot, really. Because anything other than an A1 would mean a really big jump in L1R5 mark and anything over 20 means you can’t go to college. Anything over 10 would almost guarantee you a spot out of a good college.
There’s another variation of L1R4, but that’s only if you plan on going to a polytechnic. Nothing wrong with that, it’s just I don’t plan on going there.
I think I’m just scaring myself at the moment.