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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
at last- some time for blogging. have had a terribly congested system over the past two weeks- it started with my throat, got to my nose and when pressure started getting in my left ear i decided to go see the doctor- that was on monday. doctor chang again! arrived there during lunchtime when no doctors were in. ended up walking around ntuc, popular and ending up at the clinic again when i remembered he has a nice bookshelf stocked with a variety of books- ranging from football to world war two to music to the brain. i picked one up and entertained myself till it was time to go in. oh, and i saw some mahler concert brochures at the counter. haha clearly he's quite the music fanatic.
anyway pretty much the first thing he did was take his little torchlight and shine it in my nose and say, "very blocked." so he prescribed cough medicine, a nasal spray (nasonex!) and antihistamine- clearly, he doesn't know about my stock of about 30+ capsules at home, heh. and it turned out he knows my music teacher and her husband- "they used to own Sweet classics right!" haha the music community in singapore isn't that big i guess.
nevertheless, i shall recover soon. hopefully! to quote nergal: i enter the ring with a Nietzschean attitude and I will leave it a winner as usual. just wait and see!
english on monday was manageable. prose looked easier, definitely. but some part of me wanted to do poem! so i did, meh. haha although it looked quite tough at first. but it was fun :) man, engrish is so enjoyable. i'd rather do more written commentaries than the rest of the exams ._. don't know if i'll do too well, though- i am just so bad at organizing my points and stating out what i want to say within a short period of time. yes, 1:30 hours is short!
econs was...silly. i did the question on macroeconomics- a lot of people did that too. so i'd planned: 25 minutes for (a), 35 minutes for (b). i realized i could finish (a) in 15 minutes..."but that'd be too short!", i thought. so i ended up digressing while writing (a)- i have no idea how i managed to end up talking about our dear MM instead. i started (b) pretty much on time- and soon found out i should've spent 15 minutes on (a) and chionged (b) cause it was so darn long. ugh. didn't manage to finish on time, wasted.
math was...bad, as expected. things weren't looking up when i got stuck at the first question...meh. and the vectors questions were rather difficult, i didn't manage to finish any of them completely. and vectors is the only topic i'm decent in for math! i might still pass p1, though. hopefully? i don't think i've passed math since...the first math exam last year, actually. i am just so bad at it.
chem wasn't too good either. mcq was quite fine- although i found out i had some incorrect answers after the paper. paper2...ugh, i just stoned and stoned at the first question. and didn't realize you have to take the point at which the lines intersect to obtain the volume which you use in the calculations. instead i used 20.0cm^3; it should've been 25, if i'm not wrong. and totally messed up 8 marks worth of part B questions afterward. haha but one thing i realized is that i've finally gotten into the habit of hecking the previous paper and just moving on. which is good! i remember in sec 4 when i thought i'd bombed the bio paper and did the next paper rather half-heartedly (oh, and that paper was math anyway) and it turned out that i was just one mark away from having my name appear on the screen during paper reviews. silly.
bio was...interesting. the mcqs were quite tricky- nevermind, i already know i got the action spectrum wrong, i don't want to know what else i did incorrectly. but p1 was manageable. paper 2...oh man, i remember how last night i was thinking "oh, i'm so sick of studying phytochrome and then having it not come out and all my effort goes to waste." so i didn't study it...good grief. at least i remembered the basic stuff about the long-day and short-day plants. but paper 2 was just horrible. everything was going fine till i turned to the first page. essay questions were even worse- seriously, whoever set the paper wanted to kill all Allott users. freak, i ended up choosing the lessers of the four evils- 6 and 7. and that horrible 8 mark on birth- come on, its so biased towards the girls ._. i bombed that last question- bombed it with everything i knew regarding birth- and unfortunately i could see that wasn't working out very well. oh well! on the bright side, xintian's cute history teacher collected my paper. gaspp that spotless face! (no homo)
and so tomorrow is engrish. i'm glad i wasted a day last week doing a fairly close reading of siddhartha; still, was quite lazy to note down all the points i made up about the book. one thing that stood out, though, was the transitions from one stage to the other- from mind to body to spirit/soul, this was mentioned in class but it really foregrounded itself when i read the book. you can note how siddhartha's transformation occurs ever so gradually; there are few sudden 'leaps' toward enlightenment. contrast that with Huck's moral growth, that may be seen as more demonstrated by particular incidents ("i'll go to hell", anyone?). hesse however delineates siddhartha's growth through a very much differing way- i'm not sure how to go about explaining it. anyway, that was quite interesting to me. then i got to the horribly bland ending and figured i'd wasted a whole lot of time.
and for some reason some things got me thinking about the proverbial butterfly, emerging from its cocoon.
at most, you'd just want to catch the cocoon just in time before it falls, if the butterfly's been struggling really hard and the cocoon's about to wobble off a cliff or edge. but what's important is that you eventually leave the butterfly to sort things out on its own...to grow strong for the world. because eventually, you will leave and if the butterfly's been depending all the while on you and isn't strong enough by then to take on the cocoon and the world; it might just die. you wouldn't want to see that happen, would you?
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