Results

Well today threw up a....mixed bag, if you will with some interesting results.

Beforehand i predicted myself to get a B or C in English and a B in Media.

Close but not quite.

English was an A.

Media was a B....sort of.


But as i said it is quite interesting.

English first.

They have a strange way of marking the papers. We sat three different ones.
Two essays and one Close Reading.
What they do is take the mark from Close Reading, multiply by 5, divide by 3. (Dunno why)
Theeeeen, add that total to the two marks from the essays.

So, my Close Reading mark was 19/30. Fairly decent.
Multiply by 5 gives me 95 and divide by 3 gives me 31.6

(Hope you're with me so far.)

So then i take my essay marks in which i both got 18/25 and add them to 31.6
So 31.6 add 36 = 67.6

So that's my final percentage 67.6%
B, as i thought.

Someone asks, "Sir, what's the cut off mark for an A?

"Oh it's 68%"


NOOOOOOOOO!

ARE YOU KIDDING!

0.4% away from an A!!!


So, i cheekily asked the teacher if we could just round it up to 68 and he surprsingly said yes as he had done so already on his marking scheme. (He is one of my favourite and easiest teachers to get along with)

Whew, relieved or what?

Very.

But very happy too, i was certainly not expecting an A in English.

So in a happy mood i toddled off to Media to get my result and to meet the teacher who is pretty much the opposite of my English teacher


Media, like English has a strange marking method which involves totalling the two essays and then multiplying them by 1.5
However they come up with that i don't know.

But my first essay got 25/40 and the second, 26/40.

So logically that's 51/80 giving me around 64%. B, no argument.

Fine and dandy.

But not so.

You take 51 and multiply it by 1.5 giving me 57.5%

"Miss, what's the cut off for a B?"

"58%"

"Can we round it up?"

"No"


Wtf.
Why?
She's an English teacher too, she would have rounded it up there so why not in Media?

Coz she was in a bitch of a mood.

As she usually is.

Some days she gets along with the class but most days she doesn't.

So i just said straight to her that i regard it as a B. She says to me that i'm not to and i say back that i'm telling my mum it's a B, so i did.

And my mum agrees.

The stupid system they have to work it out means i got a C.
Without their system i would have had a comfortable B but even with it, the teacher should round it up.

B.


Anyway, i know if there's any complications they can be discussed later.

But now, i reluctantly look to Biology which i assume i will get back tomorrow.

Along with Maths, Biology is one of my worst subjects.

So i don't hold my hopes high for it. If i get a C, great.

But speaking of Maths, we went over the first part today and where i fell down was due to a combination of careless mistakes and generally not knowing what to do.
When they go over the paper and say what you should have done i felt so stupid, i wanted to kick myself.

I'm convinced that on a different day i would have passed that paper.
Only 4 or so more marks would have given me the required pass mark which was 48% and i got 40%
I'm not going to beat myself up too much tho, i know i need to improve and i will.
There is a class test arranged for next week too so we'll see how that goes.

Err lastly, i did get the Ash on my forehead today after some deliberation. I thought it would be easiest and hassle free if i just got it. I don't discuss religion much with my friends although i would be open to, so i would probably have got a few questions from them and perhaps my guidance teacher too who thinks everyone should get it.
So i got it and just wiped it off after the crazy cult gathering had finished :P

J/K

Although it was quite funny. Steven asked me what you say after they give you the Ash.
They say, "Turn away from sin and be faithful to the gospel"

So he thought you replied "Amen" but i said to him that you should reply "No"

Lmao.

I don't even think you need to say anything so i didn't but "No" was on my mind as i went to receive it.

No, i'm not a little rebel kid haha, i think you can tell from my mostly nerdy Prelim results. :P

They played a song during the receival too so we were wondering what it was going to be.
Steven suggested the very heavy "Dead Star" by Muse and i suggested the very anti-religious "Megalomania" also by Muse. Had a little chuckle about that although it turned out to be a Save Haiti song.


Anyway i'll embed Megalomania and if anyone tells me they like the song i will be very surprised :P
Great song in my opinion but not just because of the themes of it.



Cheers guys,
Rowan


P.S Megalomania means to have delusions of great wealth and power and also means to have an obsession with extravagant things or actions.




I'll post the lyrics too :


Paradise comes at a price
that i am not prepared to pay
what were we built for?
could someone tell me please?

The good news is, she can't have babies
and wont accept gifts from me
what are they for?
they'll just grow up, and break the laws you've loved

Take off your disguise
I know that underneath it's me

Useless device, it won't suffice
i want a new game to play
when i am gone
it won't be long, before i disturb you in the dark

Paradise comes at a price
that i am not prepared to pay
what were we built for?
will someone tell me please?

Take off your disguise
I know that underneath it's me


Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh Ooooooooo (random falsetto)

Lol

Catholicism

Thought i would tackle this coz of something that's happened in the past few hours.



I awoke to my dad saying that we're all going to mass.
How nice of him to just demand it.

So i told him everyone else can go but i don't want to and he said we're all going and that's that.


Sorry. I'm afraid you can't force me to go somewhere i don't want to go and you really can't physically take me.



So he got all angry and i said to mum i didn't want to go and she was fine with that, she said i can do some study instead (which i will do after this post)

And with that mum jokingly said, "Ok we're away to pray"

And dad said, seriously "For your soul"


=)

How nice of them!



Anyway the point of this was to talk about Catholicism and i will.


I was born and raised Catholic. I was baptised, went to Confession, made my First Holy Communion and all that.
But in recent years religion has just not interested me at all, in fact i'll go as far to say it's pointless.

And yes, this also ties in with me realising i was gay in the past few years.
It's condemned by Roman Catholics and i don't want to follow a religion where i can't be accepted.

If they don't want to accept me, why should i accept them?


The truth is i don't think i should.


And don't get me started on the Bible lol.

We had an assignment in RE the other day and we had to read the first chapter of Genesis (creation of the world)

And i was reading it thinking, "What drugs was the author of this on!?"

I know there is no real author but stuff like, God breathed life-giving breath into Adam's nose.....

That sounds like it came straght out of any old fairytale story.

....and the river Pishon lol

Steven had a laugh at that.

And of course, we were talking about the Bible and he said, "At least they got one thing right"
You know what he was talking about.

Blah, blah homosexuality is wrong etc etc.

So then i took this as the perfect time to introduce my adultery remark.
"The Bible also says adultery is wrong"

He stammered with a blank expression and defeatedly said, "Well, come on, we've got to agree to disagree here"

Pah. 1-0 to Rowan!

Haha.

But then the girl next to me, she's nice and easy to get along with, said, "Why have you got such a big problem with homosexuality?" to Steven and he just replied it's coz of the way he was raised.

She asked me what i thought, and without giving too much away i just said i don't see a problem with it, why should there be a problem?

Steven just gave me another blank look and went onto tell us about a certain family relation of his.


His cousin.


He is gay.


How about that!

That's karma. He hates gay people but his cousin is gay.


"No cousin of mine" Steven said.

And he told us a saddening story about his gran telling this cousin to burn in hell when she was on her deathbed.

Wow.

That's rather extreme.


Drifting away from Catholism now but thought that little bit might be of interest.

So, as i write this, everyone else is away in church "praying for my soul"

I remember the last time i went to church and i started laughing, really loudly when people started singing hymns.

100+ people droning away to meaningless words on a page, while the priest stands up the front in his funny white robe thing, watching.

Standing there it seemed like some sort of cult.
I just thought it was funny.


Does it sound like i'm putting Christianity down here?

It probably does but i'm not meaning to, be Christian if you want, i just choose not to be.

In reality, i consider myself Agnostic.

I won't go into it but if you're really interested then Wikipedia knows all :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism



Existence of God is a deep and interesting topic as well, maybe too much for now, but it's something else i find myself questioning alot and Agnosticism sort of covers this as well, so i refer to Wikipedia again.


I better call that a wrap.

I'll need to get started on some work before everyone comes back from their cult =P

KO.


But lastly, this is what i thought when mum said i didn't have to go this morning.

Just to say, i'm sure my family all believe i'm Catholic, although it has never been put forward to me by them.

It would be my dad if anyone that would ask.

But this is what i thought :

If my dad would be annoyed with me for not going to Church/following Catholism,

I wonder what his reaction would be if he found out i was gay.....

:-O



Cheers,
Rowan