Thursday, March 5, 2009
It's raining right now, and I find it partially significant and amusing, but I'll say why later.
Today was possibly my last day at the clinic, though it wasn't particularly different. I left at 3pm to go to Plaza Singapura to meet Xiaowen and Elizabeth, to watch the Japanese movie Suspect X!
It was quite a good movie, in my opinion, though not quite what I had expected. From all synopses seen, I thought it would be some cool mental game between the physicist and the mathematician trying to cover up the murder, with a lot of false alibis and misleading information and tricking the police here and there.
It wasn't quite so much of that, though the alibis were really boggling me, until of course the ending part where the physicist Yukawa manages to solve everything and tell it to the mathematician Ishigami, who says by the time he finds proof to turn the hypothesis into a fact, it'll be too late anyway.
The actress playing Hanaoka is pretty! Besides that, I think I understand why one review said one thing the movie might have lacked was what it was supposed to be talking about, in terms of theme. Is it about logic, crime or love? You watch it and desperately want to know just how it was done, even though you know the murderer from the beginning but sympathise greatly with her, and even the guy helping her cover up.
At the end, really the only character I didn't like was the guy who was killed in the beginning! I quite like the policewoman Utsumi, who's being unfairly treated by those chauvinist men she works with. I think it might have been better to be like Elizabeth and actually have watched the drama first, which stars the same actors for Yukawa and Utsumi.
Afterwards we went to the Ichiban sushi to eat with Kaixin, Sheryl and Rachel. The three of us started ordering and eating first, and I abandoned my previous plan to eat this sashimi rice set. Sheryl came by 7, I think, but Rachel only reached at about 7.30 because of bad traffic.
We ate lots of sushi and sashimi, and I got my chawanmushi and agedashi tofu, and we talked a lot about many things, including Kaixin's accounts of how NJC has changed, people's work experience, and a lot of other things that I can't quite seem to remember now. The dinner cost more than I thought it would!
I'm supposed to meet Kaixin and Liu Xuan for lunch at school tomorrow at 1pm before our results are released at 2.30pm. Though most likely they'll spend the first 15 minutes waiting for people to arrive, and the next half hour talking about how 'well' we've done, and who the top students for each subject or stream are.
And that brings me back to the rain. I'm guessing all the thousands of JC students and private candidates who sat for the 2008 GCE A Levels are experiencing some degree of nervousness right now. The rain just adds to the mood and signifies the worry and anxiety felt all around the country at this point.
Personally, I'm not feeling worried. It's not because I'm supremely confident about my results, but more like I've handed it over to God, and anyway worrying is not going to magically change my results to suddenly get 6 'A's or something. Why worry over what you can't affect, or rather, couldn't affect ever since you handed up that exam paper?
I have a sneaky feeling my results will be average. I always have these imaginations before getting results, such as the miraculous 4 'A's, and the disastrous 4 'D's. It happened when I was waiting for my PSLE results, when I swung between worrying that I wouldn't get above 200 and wishing that I might get 270. In the end I got 263, which should have been roughly expected.
Then it happened again when we got back our O Level Higher Chinese results. I was both dreading that I got a D and wishing that I would somehow scrape an A2, but in the end I got a B3, which was also to roughly be expected, a B at least.
Maybe my idea of average isn't the same as everyone else's. Perhaps ABBC? I'm not contemplating getting an A for GP, since I never have, but I really hope I can at least get an A for math. I've never not gotten an A for math in a final final exam, I think. My mum would probably be so disappointed she'd disown me, but not before my older sister did. Haha!
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