Archive for December, 2010
Orientation Week
Oh hello. A week sure goes by quickly. You would have imagined that things might have slowed down a bit given how it’s not the exam period but I certainly found the exam period more relaxing. I’ve plenty of things to do these days. More than I had first imagined, in fact.
My FYP takes top billing, of course. It… It’s progressing. I’m not so sure what to make of it. I’ll do my best, but I’m still learning many things and it’s still taking quite a bit of time to get anywhere. Hopefully I’ll iron out the kinks by these couple of weeks and we can get to making excellent progress during the holiday season.
Oh yes, the holiday season. So many presents to buy! So few actually bought. Daryl sad.
This weekend, I’m hoping to get started on a bunch of other duties. It just struck me last night how many things I have to do these holidays. I hope it works out. Honestly, I have no idea if it will, but I’m basically going to deal with it one at a time. I’m sure it won’t turn out too bad.
One of those duties–and I suppose it isn’t really a duty–is meeting up with some of my friends. And this is one of the things I am so thankful for, because I have such excellent friends. I don’t know how they put up with me. I’m afraid to find out because that might shatter the magic spell. So I’ll just let them do their thing and I’ll try to be the best that I can.
Oh I guess I should say a bit about my FYP. It basically involves reconstructing three-dimensional models from medical images (MRI so far) and using these models for simulations of computational fluid dynamics. I’ll show you a picture next time. Promise.
To end off this fairly disjointed blog entry, here’s a video of David Bowie performing “Teenage Wildlife”:
It’s on my jukebox now, and it’s such a wonderful song.
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Exams over.
Oh hello. How have you been? Me, I’m well, very good, thank you.
Yesterday, I completed my exams. They were mostly somewhat unfriendly, but the last one more than the others. I hope I do okay. I think I may probably do okay. Who knows! Stay tuned to find out.
But there is almost no sense of elation associated with the end of these exams. Certainly, the number of chores and the amount of work that await leave me with a strange sense of dread. I did occasionally feel as if I didn’t want the exam period to end, which is something of a masochistic perspective, I realise.
It’s not been horrifically stressful, but I did activate my consumerism a little bit so that probably took off some of the negative emotions. In fact, I’ve been pretty happy during this exam period, which lends a bit of weight to the masochism argument.
On my first day after the examinations, I did some packing and some editing. There’s been a sort of smooth transition from one form of work (revision) to another (chores). I feel like I should be doing something to enjoy myself a bit, but I can’t figure out what that is yet, so work in all forms continues.
I need to shop for Christmas presents. I basically have some vague idea for one or two presents, but I am at a loss for a couple of others. It’s nothing particularly worrying, but still something to worry about. I also need to fetch a few Christmas cards.
I want to watch the Lion King musical they’re going to bring to the Marina Bay Sands theatres. I don’t know if it’s good; it might be terrible; the fact is that I really don’t care. I just think that the original animated film was wonderful in all of its Hamlet-with-animals charm. I’m sure it’ll be loud and colourful and all that, so I really want to go. With good company especially. That makes all the difference. But it is in March. That’s so far away.
I’m trying to figure out how to sort outmy books in a way to maximise the space available on my shelves. I was thinking of using Lego to create layers and all that, but… that would be enormously expensive.
Okay, the longer this goes on the more random it will seem.
The month will be short. There’s no question about it. I’m going to try to make the best of it. And you will too, I’m sure.
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