110403 Sunday
Warning: Serious stuff. Really!! ================== Sat for my last AIME last Wednesday (and froze to death because of the air-con ). And soon will come the last SMO. My Maths Olympiad journey is drawing to a close (: Still clueless about the next leg of my life journey, but Maths doesn’t seem to be an option, at least not a likely one. I can sense withdrawal symptoms manifesting even before everything ends. When I was in Grade 7 (aka Sec 1), naïve and enthu (I still am btw), perhaps I could never imagine my life devoid of Maths. Yet that day is approaching. Soon. “…Our paths, they did cross, though I cannot say just why …” (Final Fantasy – Melodies of Life ) Once, Maths was intertwined with every aspect of my life. It has brought me friends that I treasure for life. I am just too blessed to be part of our class – 6B, 7B, 8D, 9D. Gone are the days when we did 10 hours of Maths a day (half-voluntarily, admittedly ), switching back and forth between Geom, Algebra and Combinatorics. We flew paper airplanes, played “chết thương”, chapteh, cards and UNO during class. We came up with 3-page long answers for 3-line long questions, laughed at quadrilaterals that went by the name of AMEN, and felt cheated by questions designed to cheat naïve souls (which we apparently were). I remember being so at Giang’s ‘buffalo methods’ (aka brute-forcing/whacking), e.g. adding 7 new points and 3 new lines to solve a Geom qtn . We laughed, played, did Maths, and cared and were cared for. Heheh I always look back on the past with rose-tinted hindsight, I know. I guess I was born a romanticizer. Sounds wrong. ‘Romanticist? (It pains me to see the connection between us thinning year by year. Friendship is diminished by distance, it really is. I have changed so much – my personalities, my perspectives and values are no longer the same. I am no longer the gullible ‘chicken’ I used to be. And you all have as well. I can’t catch up with all the changes, the happenings at home. Will it ever be the same again? Idk, I really don’t know. Yet our memories remain the same – dearly missed, fondly remembered. Always.) I miss you so much. ================= Back AIME. I think I should get 9 questions correct. Not bad, considering that my AMC marks have been on the fall since Sec 3 xD. But happie enough that I nailed all the Geom questions plus question 15. Got wrong answer for the abcd qtn, for which I painstakingly listed all possible cases (*cries* ). ================= SYF looming near. Jiayou Malay dancers, love you all