Girls' Brigade Win

My sister was the only one from her Girls' Brigade who went to church this morning. Irony much? Anyway, their group won some badge thing which she was pretty happy about and asked if it could be my photo of the day.

On my way home from ballet, there was not one, but two people smoking at the bus stop! That angered me much more than I expected it would. I was angry at them for killing themselves (one man actually couldn't stop coughing once he lit up his cigarette) and angry at the government for introducing a policy that is simply impossible to regulate. No one cared that they were smoking, burning NHS funds and making my clothes smell disgusting, and I wasn't exactly going to ask both of them to either stop smoking or go away. When the bus came, I accidentally tread on one of the smoking men's heel and made him trip up. He gave me the most horrible look ever as I apologised. I did though thank Karma afterward, even if it's a bit mean of me.

Little Star

The little boy I tutor has managed to learn Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on both right and left hand today. Now onto Picadilly Circus... His sister, although extremely cute, brutally tackled me to the ground and started punching me because she wanted my badge. Unsurprisingly, my own sister thought she was very win. Luckily, her brother then came to my rescue.

Today I managed to lose the parking ticket for the car park. My mum was really angry with me. That was not win, at all. Ahh just remembered, I was in Romford and this man said Hi. I don't actually know him - I just get the bus with him once in a while. I was just surprised because there are other people who get the bus in the morning who I see almost every single day, and they never ever say anything. I don't see this man nearly as regularly, yet he still recognised me. Anyway, I'm probably just being weird.

Einstein's *Special* Theory of Relativity

Today we learned about relativity, time dilation and length contraction. It just so happened that today was one of the slowest days I've ever been through; triple economics, double maths and physics. Economics was the primary cause - I think I actually dozed off within 10 minutes into the lesson. The topic we're doing now is unbelievably boring. Anyway, it also gave me time to think - I'm hoping that relativity is actually the reason why I am so slow at doing everything. Just this week, it's been shown that I walk, swim, clap and text slow. So, how likely is it that relative to everyone else I'm moving at near the speed of light? 
This is kind of where my argument fails.
Ah, also, I do feel a little bit sad (as discussed in physics today) that I am actually discussing relativity and what not in a blog post. 

New York, New York

Today I went with Shiran and Layla, and Layla's Mum, to see the New York Philharmonic play at the Barbican. It was absolutely amazing; Haydn, John Adams, Schubert and Berg, and two encores. The conductor had a really cool American accent, and really cool hair also. The orchestra was outstanding - huge numbers but played like a tiny ensemble. Apparently my violin teacher sang in a choir for John Adams, which I think is pretty awesome.
On the way home, we had an intense debate over world issues and concluded that trees are cool. Yes, that is the solution to all world crisis; debate about trees.

Wanted:

I've lost a toe pad for my pointe shoes. I don't use them anyway, but it saddens me greatly since now I only have one, not a pair. If I were to use pads, it would only be for my right foot (since my right foot is just marginally smaller than my left, and so doesn't fit my pointe shoes as well; my left fits perfectly so needs no padding at all.) So, technically, I do only need one, but it still bugs me that I've lost the other one. 

Anyway, I think overall, today was a good day - I got to go home early due to a free period for the first time in months. I hope to see many more occasions like this in the future...

Just Keep Swimming

Iodine Clock is slowly but surely becoming the (new) bane of my life. Everything about it is fail - it's a first order reaction wrt both reactants, yet I managed to get a perfect second order graph. I poured potassium iodide into my stock of potassium peroxodisulphate, which is not good when my whole investigation is about the reaction between these two compounds. Also, car mechanics may be the most ridiculously boring topic in the whole history of forever, especially when we spent about half an hour of a lesson sitting and looking at the same few pages in the textbook. 

Today I went swimming with Francesca and Katrina. To those who didn't go, you're missing out! It was really great. I learned something there also - I'm an even slower swimmer than I am a walker. Those who know how slowly I walk may indeed find it hard to believe this I know, but to quote, "Cheng, you swim like a Hawaiian". Never mind...

Binomial Expansion

This day feels like it's been binomially expanded, i.e. it's been a long day. Binomial expansion in maths today was uber fail. There wasn't a single part of that lesson that wasn't fail, including my phone deciding to call people on its own accord. Chemistry was fail - I basically spent nearly 3 hours making solutions and sighing. Then there was the 4 hours of orchestra after school. I think it's pretty epic that there are no violin auditionees for the Young Musician awards.

There was one single win today - that late detention I got last week was a mistake - I really have never been late! Unfortunately it was meant for Chloe, who now has detention after school tomorrow.