Archive for November, 2009
Monday Morning
Studies
Revision proceeds. Not well. But it proceeds. I’m starting to have a fair idea of what’s going on. Which is in fact being more optimistic than I should be. Still, no point worrying too much about it. I’ll just give it a shot. Wednesday beckons. Let’s just get it done with and everything will be fine.
After Wednesday, the final frontier awaits. The showdown will occur on Friday evening. And then we’ll all be free.
I just really want to get it done with and start working. I think I know what I want to do, though nothing is certain, but we’ll find out in the month-long break, won’t we?
Slow
I’m still uploading photos from Japan. I suddenly thought yesterday that these are more than a year old. In fact, they’re nearly a year and a half old. That is rather distressing. I hadn’t realised how long I’d been taking. It’s worrying. I better get a move on. It’s like one of those things in your life that you just make a note to do but set aside because of other ‘priorities’ and one day you look up and you find that you’ve failed to live up to your promises. And it makes you sad. And sometimes a little scared.
Soccer
How FIFA 10 was made. [via Kotaku] I thought that this was a great article; I wouldn’t have thought that that much work went into making the game. Brilliant stuff.
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Lion City
Today is the birthday of C.S. Lewis. Happy 111st birthday, sir! In celebration, let us all dress up as lions.
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Today is the birthday of C.S. Lewis. Happy 111st birthday, sir! In celebration, let us all dress up as lions.
Phase Lag
Exam Inertia
Yesterday was a particularly unproductive day in terms of revision, though I got some kind of studying in and it would be somewhat fair to say I now have a better idea of exactly what I’ll be dealing with in a few days’ time. Still, I can’t say I’m very proud of the erm crop yield yesterday.
That said, I sort of expected it after hitting the halfway point on Wednesday. So to put it nicely, things have been going according to plan.
I don’t know if I should try my luck in school today. I might. Or maybe I’ll drop by on Monday. Or the weekend. I cannot make up my mind.
These exams are taking far too long, though. And I hope everyone else who is having exams is doing fine.
Slightly Frightening Thought
It is slightly frightening to think that when the exams are concluded, we’ll be at the end of our fifth semester. That leaves three to go. Change is exciting and frightening at the same time. And there are too many things that I’m not looking forward to (even in the remaining year or so of undergraduate studies), and too many things that I’m not ready to leave behind.
Perhaps it’ll give way to some sense of urgency. Perhaps we’ll make the best of it.
It’s hard to say.
Back to the exams.
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Half-Time Whistle
Sorry for the late post. Cleared another paper today, so it’s down to two of four! Of course, that’s if you don’t count the project subject, which doesn’t have an exam.
The mantra still remains. The worst is yet to come. But for now, I’m blasting Idioteque on my speakers with no apparent concern for the health of my eardrums. It’s this sort of time when the finish line begins to appear over the horizon.
But what a strange day. Had trouble sleeping last night. For some reason, I had a billion things on my mind and none of them had to do with the exam. (One of them was Lovely Rita. It kept on looping and looping in my head.) But the exam was okay. I’m sure other people found it okay too, so I think I ought to say that there isn’t much in the way of encouragement to be found there.
Also, my Facebook page has climbed slowly to 100 friends, which surprises me a little, but is good to see. At the same time, I still have no idea how some things work. And I realise that one of the problems now is that I know the birthdays of so many people. That will surely not be too friendly on my piggy bank.
For a period of time yesterday, I only talked to people in Chinese. I don’t know why I did that. It was fairly entertaining. I shall do that again soon.
Wow and just as I typed that, my Firefox swapped places with my Songbird for no apparent reason.
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Three To Go
One Down
So, the first of the exam papers went by without incident last Saturday. That leaves three. Hey, the worst is far from over, but… one problem at a time! The next paper is materials. I spent half the day trying to work at it today. A lot of memory work. Not good for people like me. It is however fair to say you’ve just got to give it a shot and make the best of it. Those words do sound extremely hollow right now, though.
In any case, one thing at a time. One thing at a time.
Phasebook
For reasons quite unlike what my friends might make you believe, I actually have a Facebook account now. Of course, being both unpopular and I reckon quite introverted, it is hidden in a number of privacy options and does not accept friends easily. I suspect that it will take on an increasingly private nature as time goes on.
I think I was always very paranoid about some things, which explains my initial reluctance to get an account. Although the Web Walrus did suggest that part of it might have had to do with trying not to jump onto the bandwagon in a silly adolescent sort of way, and I imagine that’s probably partially true. And at the end of it all, I think that in some things I’m just a slow adopter.
In the meantime, I’ve been trying to figure out what’s what, and I realise it’s less intuitive than I thought it would be. I’ve also tried to set up some rules of my own so that the place doesn’t end up in a giant mess. Things like no random quizzes and no random games. Well, I’m sure my weak willpower means that I’ll eventually buy into these things under peer pressure or the like. I’m also trying to figure out what interesting things I can possibly do with the simple apps. Like. Uhm. Notes. And I’m looking for handy apps too.
But otherwise, it’s been an interesting first… say… 3 days? As I was telling my friend, now everyone gets to see just how unpopular I am.
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