Saturday, October 06, 2007
End of Hell Week
Hell Week is finally over!! *combination of sigh and phew*
I had 3 midterms and one presentation, which in some ways were a roller-coaster ride.
Contrary to popular belief, I am not feeling emo. It's just how irritating this week was, and when you are really busy and occupied with work, the only thing that can motivate you to log on to blogger.com, type in words in a white text box and click the "Publish post" box must be something that you feel strong about, not like this mundane update.
It brings me to how on Tuesday, I was talking to Xiaoyan and Serene (Tan too, but way better than the ST mentioned in the last post hahaha). Serene said that seeing her blog posts, some friends even called to ask if she's ok, when in reality, she's not really in a sad mode or whatever.
Yes, I added that how blogging isn't representative of your whole life - it merely captures snippets of it. If life is a sine curve (with ups and downs), blogging normally captures the peaks and the troughs, rather than the root-mean-square (average) value of it. Like what I mentioned above, it takes something really happy, or really sad in Monday's case, to induce someone to blog in a supremely busy period, unless one is erm supremely indifferent to the object of busy-ness =P
Ok clearing that I'm NOT emo, on Monday I was in a state of shock. Well when you read the blogs of anyone doing micro2 this sem, you will not find anyone not cursing about Serene Tan. It was THAT bad. I was so in a state of shock that I can't even lament about it. It's like seeing the planes crashing into World Trade Center in 2001. You just open your mouth, stare blankly at nothing, and remain in that state. Your mouth tries to talk, your body tries to move, you try to complain to others to feel better, but still, you're in shock. That was how i felt.
Well, following a rather slack Tuesday, Wednesday was the macro 1 midterm. I seriously needed a boost then, and that shock only made more determined to get full marks for it. The paper was ok, the subject itself wasn't that hard, 30 MCQs in 50 minutes.
Dr Wong Wei Kang is very efficient, I really appreciate that, and I got back that results on Thursday morning. I got 27/30, when the average is 22.8, the s.d. 3.8. I saw quite a number of 28 and above, but not too bad I guess, when my marks are above the 'average + s.d.' range. Don't really know what it means statistically though, haha.
Thursay was more fun.. oh yes I donated blood! Met Michelle at clubroom and we went over to MPSH4 together. Too bad Michelle can't donate due to her womanly duties! But still thank her for accompanying me through the whole thing =) This time my blood flowed really fast, without me really 'squeezing alot'.. Didn't dare to really squeeze fast after the debacle of JC1 rrgh.
me AFTER the blood was taken away
After that, I rushed back to Arts to meet my group mates, and we went to AS7 for our presentation. The presentation was not bad I felt, because frankly the group we were supposed to critique really made quite a few glaring mistakes, and we did not really need to go into the controversial/anal areas, making it easier for us to comment and avoid unnessary arguments haha. But still, speaking mandarin in front of a class is still fun, while I feel I'm more Anglo-fied grammatically, I'm satisfied that my speech was still good and I just love the atmosphere. My group is also fun, yes I'm the only guy (what's new), but everyone was warm and funny, making it a lot easier for us to do work.. And really really really wanna thank Kate for doing all the slides on her own! Really really grateful to her. Three cheers for cheena-poks! Something I am so proud of =)
Thursday night, after my game of dota I watched Rovers until 5am, and crap we crashed out of Europe. I was totally saded again. The next day, I woke up totally shagged, drained from the irregular sleep. I tried to study a bit more, then i cabbed to school.. not feeling too well to bear the hassle and shoving with people on the MRT.
EC2373 midterm, 90 MCQs-test in 90 minutes, was rather stupid. It asks things like in which year was the causeway built, in which year did the population of Singapore swell to (insert number in the 1800s), and no amount of studying can actually cover everything, and as what Tianhao said, what's frustrating is that it doesn't help in the final exams, so it's really studying for the test's sake.
So? It led to many questions with us just teekuming the answer, sometimes using weird logic like 'I kinda remember Hongkong was ruled by Britain for 150 years, so if they are returned to China in 1997, the Opium War should be around 1847', and 'if Singapore was founded in 1819, it can't be the capital of the Straits Settlements in 1823, because 4 years is too fast' etc. LOL
But not bad, after the test went to eat icecream with Soon Leong, Cindy and Kaiwei, and it was quite a nice way to end the week! Island Creamery is definitely way better than Daily Scoops, and cheaper too! Just that it's further from school. But there is a direct bus back to home! 67 and 66 =)
Cindy and Kaiwei
Me and Leong
Ice Cream!
Yeah that's it for the week!
Back to watching the webcast for macro1 and mugging for Econometrics 1. Test in 2 weeks when Lee Jin's back from performing in Rain's Concert! Roar(PS. Most of my photos of Arts Club Thankyou Dinner and other things are found on my friendster, I can't really be bothered about uploading pictures to blogger anymore)
Have a great weekend folks!
lowtide blogged @
12:33 pm
