So... Fasnacht break is here again, and yes time to bloggg. 2 months alr.

My mum works in Shanghai for 3 weeks, comes back to Basel for a week. Technically I'm like single-parented now. But it doesn't really matter, I find. Soon, I'll be without my parents. And it's pretty soon. Like next year. 2013. When I graduate from high school... Urgh, the future seems so uncertain.

Hmm. Basel MUN 2012 was quite a success! I really enjoyed chairing my Environment Committee, although they were mostly first-timers at MUN. We didn't have the highest quality debates, but they were still pretty good for nervous 8th, 9th, 10th graders. :) Well it was my first timer chairing, so I hope I did a good job to make my committee as interesting as possible. Got some pretty positive feedback from them, so I'm really glad! :D Like about the structure of debates, the topics chosen (I thought of the topics by myself!) :P

And oh, recently I went to The Hague for a Maths competition. Koreans dominated again, but oh well, so many Maths topics such as Calculus I haven't learnt were tested, so I didn't do very well overall. :/ 120th out of 220 students? Ah well... Anyway I had loads of fun with Burcu, my team partner, and we shopped with our teacher in Leiden. Valentine's Day sales all around, so I got pretty cheap stuff. :) Better in the Netherlands than in Switzerland where things are all so ex hahaha. And Stroopwafels are AWESOME; I cannot get enough of them! :D

Currently catching the Korean drama series Dream High 2. Still pretty good, but I think I prefer the Dream High cast. :) I also watched Sweet Spy last week. :P I should cut down watching Korean dramas.

Still as clueless as ever about what to study for university. Registered for the May SAT and planning to take SAT subject tests in June if possible. Sigh. UK or US?? And WHAT to study? :S I'm going on a UK uni tour in mid-March, so hopefully I'll get some inspiration...

I chose to do a Maths Extended Essay. Perhaps in the field of spherical trigonometry. I still don't know what exactly to research on. But first, I guess I have to self-teach the fundamentals of spherical trig since it's not covered in the IB Maths HL syllabus...

That's about the highlights of my life now.

The Enchanting Twilight

Labels: Fasnacht, IB subjects, Korean dramas

Back from Brussels (for a few days already...) :D My team got 9th out of 67 others, which I'm pretty proud of since none of us are smarty Koreans or Japanese! Individually I got a score of 82 out of a possible 160 and my sis got 97. And compared to those Koreans, we're pretty lousy since they get about 130+? BUT never mind. I heard Koreans have the highest IQ average in the world or sth like that. >< Yup, Brussels was pretty fun; watched a lot of UK rugby matches and I think I kind of prefer watching rugby to football now because there's so much more action! :P Sadly, we didn't get much time to go shopping so we returned home with no Belgian chocs... :/ So that was my time in Brussels. :)

Next, I have a load of projects flowing in again. I guess it'll be worse during the IB, which I'll be starting in August. (It doesn't seem that far away!! :O) Oh and on Monday I had my college and IB consultation with the college councillor. Mr Bowen was pretty nice and very knowledgeable. As usual, I'm the undecided kid here who just listed Medicine, Law, International Relations and Business Administration as my interested career choices. Haha. -.- So he had to help me break down my interests into possible IB subjects. Well if I go to the US, none of this would be that applicable since US universities only care about the SAT and SAT subject tests. So, for Medicine in UK, I need to have Biology, Chemistry and Maths at higher level (HL). Then for Law in UK, I need Eng Literature and History at HL. IR and BA perhaps Economics but these courses are not as particular. So... great. I suck at Lit. Can't even get the top grade for MYP currently at Grade 10 level, so I might as well rule out Eng Lit HL because I would be killing myself.

And in the end, I settled with BCME at HL, Eng Language and Literature SL, Spanish ab initio SL. So, 4 HLs to start with, drop 1 later because I only need 3. TSK then I wouldn't know which to drop. :/ Okay if Maths gets too hard, I'll drop to Maths SL.

Well I'm still pondering if it's the right decision to take Eng Lang and Lit or Eng Lit. The difference is that Eng Lang and Lit contains more media and culture-based aspects with some literature too, whereas Eng Lit is fully literature and close analysis of texts.

My father wants me to go to the US. But that means I have to get financial aid or a scholarship because it's soooooo expensive.

Basically I've ruled out Law in the UK.
And I'm not that passionate for Medicine. Yet.
And the deadline for submitting my IB subject combination is on Valentines' Day.

Sigh I'm confused. :(

Won't have much time to think over this weekend as it's Basel MUN. I'm delegate of Lebanon in Security Council. Discussing issues over the Chinese naval expansion over the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. (I seriously think Lebanon doesn't care much over this issue. Or at least I haven't done enough research...)

The Enchanting Twilight

Labels: Brussels, IB subjects, MUN