I'm not afraiddd. to take a standdd. everybody, come take my handdd.

i love eminem. as you can tell from the title of this post. lalalalala!(:

anyway. something super retarded happened today. i told my dad all of my grades A1 for Math and History, B3 for Lit, B4 for geog and F9 for Science and he was like "Good job! Can be improved but good job! Talk to teacher wendy about your science" i was like. wtf. is this really happening. then i was like WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE:D:D:D:D:D:D:

so yeah. no matter what grades you have, tell your parents. you never know what might happen:O oh fyi, my new favourite colour is purple (Y)

okay imma go copy and paste this entire post onto my squad blog now!

Lovves,

Dharnia!(:

Chinese stuff. STUDY!

词语for CT1

第四课：

× 无微不至：wu wei bu zhi

× 境遇: jing yu

× 求神问卜：qiu shen wen bu

× 祷告：dao gao: pray

× 爱屋及乌：aiwujiwu: love someone so much that you love all their things too.

× 艰险：jian xian: very dangerous

× 挫折：cuozhe: setback

× 一帆风顺：yifanfengshun: smooth sailing

× 嫉妒：jidu: jealous

× 嘲讽：chao feng: mocking

× 尴尬：ganga: embarrassed

× 明哲保身：minzhebaofen: don’t get inbetween quarrels to protect yourself

× 逢人只说三分话：fengrenzhishuosanfenhua: only tell the partial truth.

× 无限：wuxian: unlimited [love and blah], unconditional

× 浓厚：nonghou: deep [love]

× 无拘无束：wujuwushu: very carefree

× 寄人篱下：jirenlixia: don’t have your own home, live under someone elses’ roof

× 束缚：shufu: restrainment

第九课：

× 安逸: anyi : comfortable and safe life.

× 好逸恶劳：haoyiwulao : too comfortable in an environment that it makes you lazy.

× 分析：fenxi: analyze

× 溺爱：niai : pampered.

× 煞费苦心：shafeikuxin: put in a lot of effort

× 关怀备至：guanhuaibeizhi: very caring and provides everything that you need

× 茁壮：zhuozhuang: grow up to be strong and tough

× 无可厚非：wukehoufei : will do something for no rhyme or reason

× 宠爱：chongai: spoilt by parents

× 娇生惯养：jiaoshengguanyang: pampered

× 不屑一顾：buxieyigu: you don’t give a damn.

× 聘请：pinqing: hire

× 剥夺：boduo: deprive others of something

× 引以为鉴：yinyiweijian: take it as an example

× 体恤：tixu: be understanding

× 绊脚石：banjiaoshi: a hurdle; problem

× 棘手：jishou: quickly settle before it turns into a big problem.

第二十六课：

× 血气方刚：xueqifanggang: very impulsive (used to describe youth)

× 近朱者赤，近墨者黑：jinzhuzhechi, jinmozhehei : (-) get influenced by people you mix w/

× 专心致志：zhuanxinzhizhi: insanely focused. You can like get killed and not know

× 魂不守舍：hunbushoushe: not your usual self. Like uh habit the blur one.

× 惋惜：wanxi: don’t mourn over lost people, items, blah.

× 筛选：shaixuan: very particular about your choices.

× 作祟：zuosui: get scared by your own thoughts. Think about it until you think it’s real. Loser.

× 熏染：xunran: influenced by people you mix with (+)

× 素昧平生：sumeipingshen: never came across this person cuz he’s such a lameass looser.

× 真伪：zhenwei: real or fake [friends and goods]

× 咎由自取：ziyouziqu: get what you deserve (never study: fail: abigood)

× 俘虏： fulu: slavery

× 分歧：fenqi: we have different opinions

× 摩擦: moca: friction in opinionish stuff. Aiyoh basically you cannot tahan someone else.

× 罕见：hanjian: very rare.

× 称颂：chengsong: sing praises.

× 融洽：rongqia: live in harmony, get along well.

× 名扬天下：mingyangtianxia: very famous.

× 德高望重：degaowangzhong: someone lookuperrable, respect them like shat.

× 各有千秋：geyouqianqiu: both have their strong points, don’t compare. Showoffs.

× 疙瘩：geda: friction between two people. Goosebumps.

× 东山再起：dongshanzaiqi: make a comeback.

× 切磋：qiecuo: not to compete but to learn from each other.

× 谦虚：qianxu: modest, humble

× 解剖：jiepou: dissect.

× 扎实：zhashi: firm

× 借鉴：jiejian: take it as an example.

FIN. STUDY.

GEOG REVISION!

LOW POPULATION GROWTH RATE.

Causes:

Rapidly declining birthrate:

• The education of women -> late marraiges.
• Preference for a small family.
• More people staying single.
• The higher cost of raising children.
• Successful family planning.

Low Death rate

• Advertisement in medical and healthcare services.
• High standard of hygiene.
• High levels of income -> better nutrition.

Consequences:

Reduced workforce:

• Shortage of manpower for industry and defence
• Under-utilisation resouces spent on the young population.

Ageing Population:

• Increased burden on the working population.
• Increase in taxes to provide more $ to provide social services for the elderly.

Singapore's Responses:

Family-friendly policies

• Cash incentives
• Welfare schemes at the workplace
• Special housing scheme.

Overcoming labour shortage

• Extention of retirement age.
• Re-employment of workers.
• Recruitment of foreign workers.

Caring for the aged

• Healthcare service for the aged.
• Improve amenities in public places and residences.
• Fitness and Exercise facilities.
• Early financial planning.

This is mainly the entire chunk of mindmap from the textbook. Go search for the powerpoint slides on the lms. see i'm so nice that i'll give you the link. http://lms.asknlearn.com/cedargirlss/Web/startpage/Index.aspx#

Lots of LOVE,

DHARNIA.

SCIENCE CT REVISION.

Revision: Atoms and Molecules

1) Atomic structure

• To determine the number of protons, neutrons and elections in an atom, use the Periodic Table to find the chemical symbol. Then check out the nucleon/mass number and the proton/atomic number.

Electronic Structure:

• First shell of atoms can only hold two electrons and the rest can hold a maximum of eight.
• The way the electrons are arranged in an atom is known as the electronic configuration.
• eg: Chlorine atom has an electronic configuration of 2,8,7.

Valence Electrons:

• The shell that is furthest away from the neucleus is called the outer shell or the valence shell.
• The Electons found in this shell are called valence electrons.
• The chemical properties of an element depends on the number of valence electrons.
• This is why elements with the same number of valence electrons( e.g. Gp 1 sodium and potassium) have similar chemical properties.

The Periodic Table:

• Group numbers show how many valence electrons an atom of each element has.
• Period numbers show how many electron shells an atom of each element has
• E.g. an atom of nitrogen found in Group 5, Period 2 will have 2 electron shells and 5 valence electrons.

2) Molecules of elements and compounds

• Atom: Smallest particle of an element
• Molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined together.
• Molecules of Elements: Two or more atoms of the same element chemically combined together. E.g. Oxygen, ozone, nitrogen, hydrogen, phosporys.
• Molecules of Compunds: Two or more atoms of different elements chemically combined together. E.g. water, sulphur dioxide, carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane.

3)Bonding

• Noble Gases (e.g. Neon, Helium) exist as single atoms because they have a full valence shell.
• Noble gases are stable and unreactive.
• Most atoms undergo chemical bonding to achieve the noble gas configuration in thir outermost shell.
• They do so by losing/gaining or sharing their valence electrons.

Recall : How are atoms and ions different?

• Atom: Smallest particle of an element.
• Molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined together.
• Ions: Atoms with an overall charge (after losing or gaining electrons)
• Formula unit: Show how ions in an ionic compound are electro-statically bonded together.

Ionic Bonding:

• Between metals and non-metals.
• Metal atom loses its valence electrons.
• These electrons are passed to the non-metal atom.
• The positive and negative charge on the two sets of ions electro-statically attract each other and form an ionic bond.
• E.g.: Sodium Chloride. Na loses 1 electron. Na now has 11 protons but 10 electrons. Overall charge of ion = (+). Metals form positively charged ions. The electron from Na is passed on to Cl. Cl now has 17 protons but 18 electrons. Overall charge on ion = (-). Non-metals form negatively charged ions.

Covalent Bonding:

• Covalent bonds are formed when non-metals react with one another
• Non-metals bond by sharing their valence electrons
• After bonding, each atom has an electronic configuration of a noble gas( duplet or octet stracture)
• A molecule is a group of two or more atoms held together by covalent bonds

1. Place positive (metal) ion in one bracket, negative (non-metal) ion in another.
2. Both ions should have complete valance shells.
3. The negative ion should possess an electron from the meal atom.
4. Show the charges on each ion.
5. Show the numbers of each ion if there are more than one.

To determine the chemical formula of ionic compounds: All positive charges must be equal to the negative charges.

• e.g. Ca2+ and Cl-
• There needs to be two chloride ions to balance out the two positive charges.
• Therefore the chemical formula for this ionic compound is CaCl2

How to determine Chemical formula of ionic compounds:

• Move the numerical value of the charge on each ion diagonally to the other ion
• In the chemical formula, numbers of ions within an ionic compounf are written as subscripts.
• Between non-metals.
• Valence electrons are shared between atoms.

In a dot and cross diagram for a molecule:

1. Each atom in the molecule should have a complete valence shell
2. Shared electrons within overlapping area between atoms.
3. Valency of atom is usually equal to the number of covalent bonds it can form ( e.g. Cl can form 1 bond, O can form 2)

4) Valency and Formula

• Valency is the combining power of an atom
• In ionic bonding valency of atoms is usually equal to the charges of the ions formed.
• The total combining power of the component elements of the compound must be the same.
• The chemical formula of a compund states the number and types of atoms in each compound.
• There are two ways to describe the number and types of atoms in a molecule of a compound. e.g. Water.

1. Using chemical formula: H2O
2. Using words: Each water molecule contains two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen combined together.

OKAY! THAT'S ALL!(: i'll add more later.

HOW TO ACE ENGLISH NARRATIVE! according to ms diana.

Narrative Writing Tips:

-Narratives are written to entertain. (engaging, have an impact or reader)

-Must be focused. (1 conflict, 1 climax)

-A few central characters, a few settings.

-Always think "What's the point of adding this to the story?" before writing.

How to get an 'A'

• Is your language accurate?
• Check that your tenses are consistent
• Cancel out redundant words
• Sentence structure (avoid run on sentences and sentence fragments (incomplete))
• A complete sentence must have a subject & verb
• Use a semi-colon/conjunction/separate sentences instead of run on sentence

Vocab

• Wide and precise
• Show not tell (don't show too much if it's not relevant)
• Quality not Quantity
• When using descriptive language, be imaginative and original.

Avoid:

• Weak comparisons
• Don't be too literal
• Mismatched tone

Punctuation

In dialogue:

• "I love you very much," he whispered.
• He replied, "Well, I'm not gay."
• "How could you?!" He bellowed.
• "Do you think you could shut up?" He asked.
• "If you studied hard, you would turn gay too," he continued, "and we could be together."

Spelling

• No bullet points. This is ironic, cuz there are no points and i'm writing this point. What's even more ironic is i'm spelling because as cuz when under the point Spelling. Wow. Mind blown.

Paragraphing

• Every paragraph should serve a purpose.
• They show transitions from settings or time frames. (for narratives)
• New paragraph to create impact/Turn of events.

Story

• Relevant, interesting
• Take five minutes to plan

Avoid:

• Chunks of 'factual' paragraphs [Ackhem, Renee. who lifted almost everything about Singapore's ndependence and plonked it in her essay.]

Instead:

• Use movement, varied sentence structure, action and some dialogue.

Story flow

• Orientation (Hook your reader, mind you it's not pole dancing)
• Conflict/Complication :Leave them wondering, suspense
• Climax: "WOW" them! (it's not pole dancing again)
• Resolution: Leave your readers satisfied with a final outcome. End with impact/moral to the story but don't make it too stiff.

Word limit (350-500). Advised to keep to the word limit.

Typed of Conflict

• Person vs. Self
• Person vs. Person
• Person vs. Society
• Person vs. Machine/Technology [TERMINATOR]
• Person vs. Nature [I. KILL. FLOWERRRRRRR]
• Person vs. Donkey. or Shrek. or Princess Fiona. I WANNA WATCH SHREK!

Okay that's about it, if you don't ace your test, don't blame lois and I. It's Ms Diana's fault.

WHOOO ENGLISH ENDED. BYEBYE MISS DIANANAANANANANA

PS: Lois was the one who kept talking bout pole dancing.

The Pea.

A pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the legume Pisum sativum.^[1] Each pod contains several peas. Peapods are botanically a fruit,^[2] since they contain seeds developed from the ovary of a (pea) flower. However, peas are considered to be a vegetable in cooking. The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae such as the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), and the seeds from several species of Lathyrus.

P. sativum is an annual plant, with a life cycle of one year. It is a cool season crop grown in many parts of the world; planting can take place from winter through to early summer depending on location. The average pea weighs between 0.1 and 0.36 grams.^[3] The species is used as a vegetable, fresh, frozen or canned, and is also grown to produce dry peas like the split pea. These varieties are typically called field peas.

The wild pea is restricted to the Mediterranean basin and the Near East. The earliest archaeological finds of peas come from Neolithic Syria, Turkey and Jordan. In Egypt, early finds date from ca. 4800–4400 BC in the Nile delta area, and from ca. 3800–3600 BC in Upper Egypt. The pea was also present inGeorgia in the 5th millennium BC. Farther east, the finds are younger. Peas were present in Afghanistan ca. 2000 BC, in Harappa, Pakistan, and in northwest India in 2250–1750 BC. In the second half of the 2nd millennium BC this pulse crop appears in the Gangetic basin and southern India.^[4]

Adapted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea :D

IDEA FOR CLASS TEE/JACKET!(:

Heyya 1P(: maybe the BIGBIG P at the back can be one of those parking signs:) so we don't have to bother with big or small names, just write the names around the sign according to register number(: just an idea!(: COMMENT!(:

dHARniA™(: