Finn’s A Level Blog

  0100  - I really need to be more diligent with my work. I’ve noticed that my distractions are from 2 main things, ease of access to games/internet (on my desktop computer) and being with friends (I get the urge to ask them for a game). As for today, I did some work, by some I mean almost none. I looked through planning task for H2 physics practical but that’s about it. Oh what am I going to do.. sigh…

  1800 - Hah, skipped a day. Well, a quick summary on yesterday. I've realised that I'm sinking too much time into my H1 Arts. I've decided to stick with doing 1 full paper every week instead of 2. Instead, I would memorise 2 "new" artists everyday and revise all the artists I've memorised thus far. Today's been bad. Had a migraine that knocked me out the whole afternoon and I only started doing work at 1700 . Turns out that switching study locations every 2 weeks is the most idea method to get the most efficiency out of studying (ie. studying in bedroom, then study room). Morning was also not that great since my migraine started then. Had computing supplementary lesson (which I couldn't focus in due to the aforementioned problem, I did get a recording though) and General Paper consult. General Paper consult was useful, as expected. 1915 - Finished 2 artists, still have many to catch up. Nothing much to update. 0200 - Although it’s unhealthy, I’m st...

  1815  - I’m back! I took a break from studies and blogging in general (it’s not really a break, I was just procrastinating so hard that I might as well consider it as one) but I think I’m ready to begin again. For future reference (for myself and for whoever sees this), do try to let yourself take breaks like I did. Let’s address the elephant in the room first, “Finn, isn’t your A levels less than a month away?” Yes, yes it is, but there’s no point crying over spilt milk is there? If I (or you) procrastinated, so be it, get over it, move on. I’m not going to let one misstep ruin my whole climb (and neither should you!). I’ll report my achievements  later tonight. Peace. 0000  - Not much done, yay! It’s fine though, I’m feeling much better about studying. In the end, I’ve managed to finish half of a General Paper’s Application Question (essay). Oh well.

 I lied, I decided to follow a format anyways so here goes. 1130  - Had my tuition and break, feels good. Physics is actually fun when you know what’s going on (who would’ve thought?). Fun fact: did you know that Sour Chews by The Natural Confectionery  has fun facts on them?  Here are some random facts I’ve collected. #453 - The Pacific Ocean is the deepest ocean in the world. #470 - Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. #475 - Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system. #479 - You can only see a rainbow if you have your back towards the sun. I’ll add more as I eat more sweets, yum. 1500  - About to have Math Tuition, ugh . Have I ever complained about how much I dislike tuitions? It really ruins the mood, somehow, tuitions never coincide with what subject I actually feel like doing. Either ways, I’ve studied 2 artists, which is nice. 1820  - I’ve finished tuition roughly and hr ago, had a nice break and all. Not much of an update but here’s m...

 It’s 1228 . I had a physics time trial in the morning from 8 till 10 but honestly, it was pretty unhelpful. Teacher did go through the paper’s answers afterwards but again, it wasn’t all that helpful. So, not much was done in the morning, sigh . Here’s hoping things turn out better in the afternoon. So it’s 2100 . I went basketball-ing for the first time in a while before dinner and it felt great. I’ll probably do that daily now. Sadly, things didn’t turn out much better in the afternoon. I did do a bit of math but that’s about it. Pretty demoralising. I’ll now be doing art revision. Looks like it’s 2 artists today, Teching Hsieh and Joseph Beuys. I’m looking forward to that. Did I also mention that I will be gaming on my computer later? I decided it was unrealistic to completely bar myself from gaming, so I will allow myself to play a bit every Friday night. TGIF, amirite? In the end, I didn’t finish studying the artists. Oh well, guess I’ll be studying 4 artists tomorrow with 2 ...

This is going to be my first blog and I’m interested in seeing how long I can go on with this. Just to start with a brief introduction, I am Finn (of course that’s not my real name) and I’m an A level candidate (in 2021). I’ve barred myself from using my computer since I no longer need to for the rest of my A Level examinations. Seeing as how my only few options of entertainment/distraction atm are phone games, mangas, YouTube and drawing, I would like to cut away at least one of them. I can probably live without phone games. So, this new Blogging hobby shall take over phone games (at least I hope so) Again, I’m new to blogging so I am sure that I’ll be rambling on and on, but this is mostly to cope with stress without taking too much time (sometimes I tend to get distracted in between studies and most of the time, it’s due to some thought/urge I have out of nowhere, so I’ll be mostly writing those thoughts here). Another thing I want to jot down before I continue on my studies for ton...