hate hate hate hate hate

prelims.
the way it's going,if i rate my performance upon ten,in relation to what i want for the o's...
i'd get a -10000.
I've been coughing since the beginning of the prelims, and doing nothing about it. Maybe I'll do a Juushiro and my hair will turn white and I'll cough blood someday and get two swords and talk about waves being my shield and lightning being my blade. In any case aside from continuously coughing during the prelims and occasional shortness of breath as a consequence, I'm good and well, in whatever way 'good and well' doesn't mean 'scoring straight As' because my grades these past four years are about as good as Shikamaru's. I've only scored one A1 in my report book all my life here in Cedar, and that was in English last year.
Let's have a little breakdown shall we.
ENGLISH - Very manageable (and still my saving grace). A little too classic for my liking, but it should do.

HIGHER CHINESE - Not as manageable, but not dying.

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS - PAPER TWO - Expecting a B. It felt better than any A. Math test I'd ever taken before.

SCIENCE CHEMISTRY/BIOLOGY - PAPER FOUR - Remind me never to put all my eggs in one basket again. Though it wasn't that bad.

COMBINED HUMANITIES - SOCIAL STUDIES - Not getting a B. May pass but a B would be utopian.

SCIENCE CHEMISTRY/BIOLOGY - PAPER THREE - Remarkably easy for a maths paper, but I wouldn't bank on it too much owing to Biology.

COMBINED HUMANITIES - GEOGRAPHY ELECTIVE - Caused me to give up hope of counting Combined Humanities in my L1R5.

ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS - PAPER ONE - Good good. I knew almost everything, the only problem was there was no time.

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS - PAPER ONE - Sickening. The questions were miraculously harder than Paper Two.

HISTORY - SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY - Laughable. Will pass, but not with a B. Must count on Modern World History for backup. Serious backup needed.

What remains...
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS - PAPER TWO (Which I don't expect to be too much to handle.)
HISTORY - MODERN WORLD HISTORY (HAIL JAPAN!!!)
ENGLISH - O-LEVEL ORAL (which I plan to pass, flanked by much キラキラ)
SCIENCE BIOLOGY/CHEMISTRY - PAPER ONE (MCQ. Easy pickings.)
SCIENCE BIOLOGY/CHEMISTRY - PAPER FIVE (Practical. HEATING! SCALPELS! OHNOESSSSSsss!!!!!!!!111)

(If you're wondering why I don't have a Paper Two for Science, it's for Physics students, and I don't take Physics.)

But yes.
I want to retch.

On a separate note about the Beijing Olympics, having gotten past the whole ZOMG KOHEI-KUN! madness, I wasn't at all surprised at Lin Miaoke's lipsynching. Stretching your facial muscles like that and trying to sing at the same time is potentially bad for your health. Just look at the Earl of Millennium from D. Gray-Man. He smiles so much that I don't even know what the inside of his mouth (which is the size of roughly 75% of his face) looks like. He smiles so much he talks through his teeth. And his voice isn't exactly the clearest thing on Earth. If you smile that much I don't think it's possible to enunciate your words, or even to project your voice far enough to reach.. wherever your microphone is.