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Friday, June 11, 2010
looking at my tok essay now and the comments on it. i think i'll ignore 90% of the comments lol...the little voice on my head tells me to. looks like i'm coming to the end of my tok journey!! i find tok more of a primer than a course. it's more of a foreground to much much bigger world of philosophy out there lol. wikipedia is a great place to start out and probably has more than 100x more info in your tok textbook by richard van de laagemat. or however you spell has name. you could throw it away and go surf wikipedia...but i found the textbook quite good for starters actually. sigh, hermeneutics, exegesis, semiotics...but i still think my question is fun ;)
speaking of tok, just handed up my EE to gyy just now. gosh- it was exhilarating, the time when i printed my essay- i actually started to tear before i clicked the final print button :D i just felt that overwhelming rush of happiness you rarely ever get. or maybe that was my first time. baked some brownies for madam and gyy, went to school to find gyy. met mr lim before crossing the road! he took a good interest in my brownies...LOL he didn't get any in the end, anyway. they're too sweet anyhow. gyy looked happy! one of those rare times actually :P it's so good to get EE over at last- after a ridiculously long, hard struggle. it's over :) :) :) all the best to those still on it! and to those struggling with ridiculously long footnotes LOL.
piano lesson last week was quite funny. i think it was on tuesday- a makeup lesson. i thought the lesson time was 4.45pm, but couldn't be sure- so i smsed my teacher. and she replied that it was 3.45pm. and so for once i left early- and got there early- and guess what? she comes out; "stewart!! you know what!! you're one hour early!" "but ms chan you said it's at 3.45" "huh!? no!" *shows her sms* LOL her expression was quite funny. but in the end she told me to waste 1hour while waiting, hmph. so i went to bukit panjang plaza, quite nearby. haha, actually met some friends while walking there. anyway, was planning to hit harvey norman at the top floor- but got distracted at the NLB branch there.
having read enough action novels- yes, matthew reilly- i decided to have a look at ayn rand's novels. inspired by astika lol, i think she has quite a few of them. her novels're supposed to proscribe objective epistemology- something i've been interested in ever since playing bioshock (epic game lol) which was actually inspired by her novel Atlas Shrugged. so i took up The Fountainhead- as far as i know, its her first novel on objectivism- and had a look through. its so thick! i saw some game-inspired books like age of conan blablabla on a shelf. and remembered those kind of books were for crazy overly-obsessive gamefans who couldn't get enough out of playing. and i remembered i was one of them, and so i started looking for the warcraft war of the ancients trilogy. i'd read the first book a few years ago- but the sequels weren't out then. so i was stuck. now, i found the first book and third book- but no second book. sighhh. wanted to read all of them at one go. anw since i'm such a stickler for book order i put the books back. and took up The Fountainhead again.
went to the borrowing station and tried to put my ezlink card into the slot. it didn't fit. after a while i noticed that i was trying to put it into the slot where the receipt was supposed to come out...sigh. then the machine told me i had to pay overdue fines ._. went to the payment station, paid the fines, and went back to the borrowing station. tried to slot in my card, it didn't fit, and i realized i'd been trying to shove it into the receipt slot again. oh well. so i ended up borrowing the fountainhead. i read the intro and a few pages. i like rand's writing style. lots of hyphens and semicolons, just like how i like to write. long sentences too. i try to avoid that in commentaries cause it's kinda annoying but hey good to see someone else doing this too :D howard roark comes across as a purveyor of objectivism quite obviously- i think. if i've been interpreting the book correctly so far lol. i hope to finish this as a precursor before i move on to atlas shrugged.
sigh and was looking for the time traveler's wife to lend it to daughter. can't find it ): ): and it wasn't very cheap either. bought it in australia. but it was a great read :D i thought it was quite a playful/mischievous book. the ending was sweet :) and kinda sad though. i liked henry. and clare too actually. can't remember much about alba but i think she was cute with henry's disorder :P i like how the couple struggled against henry's disorder actually. the narrative style was quite hard to follow sometimes though. my mum gave up after a while...but after getting used to it, it was pretty cool :) that was a good book.
oh shucks what am i doing here i should be doing tok.
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