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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
happy belated birthday, nic! haha seriously la, after Ni and Co you can imagine how i felt when there was no Le or L and E in the periodic table. so...haha. look at the atomic number and Ar! they have significance :P
we are so overloaded with math worksheetssssss :S haha i'm glad i won't be having to go to school tomorrow; it does take some time travelling back and forth, even though i live close. i can only imagine how it is for all you people who live far away.
for some reason my mind drifted to an ancient vertical scroller shooting game i played about ten years ago- Raptor: Call of the Shadows. come to think of it, gaming was the only thing i was actually good at when i was young. the game had a catchy soundtrack anyway; turns out there're even remixes of it on youtube. and coincidentally a 2010 edition of the game's been released with updated graphics. this, however, is not the time to be thinking about such things...
missed the last two english lectures. not because i didn't want to go- but other subjects were just more pressing then. imo our dear teacher's lectures are intriguing and explore the texts in great depth; and, i suppose, we are left with a mess of details and allowed, or maybe intended, to derive our own interpretations of the text. while that would be fun, there is pretty much no time for that now. the lectures, imo, are a little heavy on supplementary material; this is also not the time for that. i confess we all need spoonfeeding now; that, however, is something our dear teacher will not indulge us. maybe the mentor leans upon the assumption that we are familiar with the major themes and concerns of the texts (and i'm quite sure we might not be so). either way, i enjoy those lessons very much- it is more of a 'proper' way of teaching, you could put it, to leave the texts' eventual interpretation and what you make out of it to students' own selves. that, of course, allows for a greater variety of answers during the exam rather than everyone blabbing on, say, about how 'I'll go to Hell' signals the apex of his moral growth because dadadadada. which, unfortunately, is probably what i'll be doing :/
i have partially weaned myself off big bang theory; now i spend free time watching starcraft replays (oh come on, why not?) and reading wuthering heights. the author of the latter has a beautiful writing style; plenty of rather archaic diction and historical mannerisms. it's distinctly different from any of the 'novels' that exist nowadays *coughtwilightharrypottercough* okay fine so i never read those books! biased ol' me :D
i wonder if this flu will ever...fly away. from before the holidays before prelims till now- i am buggered by this monstrosity. still, i've pretty much come to terms with the existence of the possibility of having to take IB in this stricken state. self pity isn't going to do much at this point, doing more math is! and with enough practice, we will all beat math into summation...i mean, submission.
back to english! i can't say i'm very confident for paper 2- i'm comfortable with discussing the text 'orally' (as an aged educator likes to say) but not penning down a whole argument under timed conditions. ironically, paper 1 is my saving grace- it's one thing which usually saves me from any paper 2 disaster. poems ftw! i remember preparing for prose all the way for english in midyears, then changing my mind during the exam because the poem looked fun. i guess that bred my passion for poems, which really helped a lot during ioc. still, pt convinced me to give prose a shot; who knows, it might turn out easier.
dinner with juno tonight; this will be the second last time i will be eating out with anyone before the exams.
study hard, too, all of you! don't worry, errbody gonna get 7 for math :D cuz math is the easiest subject and iz no kick. dreadnaught! i refer not to the class of battleships that followed the HMS Dreadnaught's launch, but it's literal meaning.
ahh before i forget, fazli is a great fellow, been pestering him to answer questions for a long long time and he didn't complain at all, just kept answering day after day. he really meant it when he told my father he's more than willing to help. he deserves something for that.
and i seriously think he looks Egyptian or like a pharoah. not meant in a bad way! someone else agreed, too :D those eyes...my opinion rests on those features of his.
oh no what am i doing here i should be studying
10:20 PM
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