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Monday, November 24, 2008
So the holidays are upon me and I have five weeks to enjoy before everything starts all over again. The exams weren't fantastic. I wasn't murdered as I thought I'd be, though I was probably half killed. And sometimes, half death isn't the most fun state to be in.... I'm still thankful though, that it wasn't outright slaughter. Praise God for seeing me through all this.....
Anyway, I've got a guitar exam on the way and I've got to start "mugging" for that too. I feel as if I haven't touched my guitar or harmonica in ages.....
As per any other holiday, I've also got a ton of other stuff I intend to do but have no idea if I can do all or any of them. One thing I'm really looking forward to is the guitar festival. If you're a guitar fag and don't mind classical music, please do go for a few of the concerts. It'll more than likely be worth your money. Angel Romero can't make it this year though (to my greatest disappointment)..... sigh...
Anyway, God Bless those still having exams, and God Bless those waiting for results. :)
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
So, Physics is all that's left. And it's the one where there's the highest chance of my getting slaughtered. It's much like an RPG. You fight small monsters, purposely running around the World Map to fight random battles so that you can level up. Then when you feel you're ready, you go fight the Last Boss.
The sad part is that this game is a mass multiplayer RPG, and this last boss matches the level of the most pro person (which means the china scholars and the indons). The rest of us, from Singapore and Malyasia, who are like, anywhere from levels 1 to 50, are forced to fight the level 99 beast.
Doesn't help that I still want to go for Anime Fest 08. In the meantime, I'll try to level up myself, to hopefully become marginally closer to level 99.
I feel like Gunpla-ing....... sigh......
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Chemistry wasn't that bad. And so was comm science. I don't know. Maybe I just have low standards. I just realised about two or three days ago that It's going to be super hard for me to get an above 4 GPA. So I've lowered my expectations to a 3.7. Sigh....
Anime Festival 08 is this Saturday and Sunday and I really really really want to go because there's this huge Gundam thing. It's the day before physics though. Maybe studying Gundam will help with physics. I can think of how to actually create a cool robot like that. Sigh...
I'm going to try to pass comp science tmr with just a for-loop. :)
Halfway there people, hang in there. 頑張りますよ, みんな.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Okay, so I played harmonica today, been playing simtower for the past few days and I've been watching anime when not playing simtower. So what's the marginal detriment of blogging?
Though econs left me feeling uncertain over what my score will be, thankfully, math today was good.
I realised that I've been watching hell of a lot of anime and manga during this exam season. I've noticed how my taste in anime has shifted over the years.
I'm particularly picky with my anime and manga, and will only start a new series if I know it'll be good. I realised that in the past, I was more interested in shounen anime/manga, which then shifted to "high school" shounen. Recently though, I've been more interested in slice of life series, and not the "high school" type either. More seinen and josei stuff. Titles include Nodame Cantabile, Welcome to the NHK, Genshiken and Hataraki Man.
I guess i feel like I've graduated from "high school". I watch the stuff that I can relate to. Stuff about people in university, about people working etc.
I wonder what anime will I be watching 30 years from now?
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Finally, exams are upon me. This week and next week and the week after. Joy. To aid in my exam efforts, I have decided to not do some things for the time being, till my papers are done. These include:
-Blogging
-Harmonica-ing
-Gaming
-Comic-ing
-(maybe) Anime-ing
Sigh.... To all university students taking their exams, all the best in the coming weeks.
God Bless
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Chemistry p4wn3d WR for 250 gold.
I got owned today, as I predicted.
In fact, I got owned by Chemistry even before I took the test. This hereby proves that Einstein was right. The fact that I would get owned travelled so fast that it happened even before the event occured in the inertial reference frame (if that didn't make sense to you, you only need to know that I got owned).
I tried to study Chemistry yesterday, but after reading the text for half an hour, I promptly gave up trying to understand MO theory (and ended up watching stuff on crunchyroll).
I think introductory chemistry texts are a load of bull. Chemistry is at the end of the day applied physics. Applied quantum physics. And the thing is that when chem texts introduce topics like Valence Bonding and MO theory, it becomes hard not to bring in quantum concepts. On the other hand, quantum concepts are not easy to grasp if not taught in-depth, which is beyond the scope of introductory chemistry. So what happens at the end of the day is that Valence Bonding and MO Theory are explained half-assededly.
Sigh.... I think I'm dead for Chemistry if I don't do something soon...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Ok, so Popeye owned Bluto today. But that's just gonna make Bluto even madder. I'm still gonna get owned by Chemistry tmr.
Anyway, I've recently been overcome with the urge to pick up my playstation and play some games again. Parasite Eve 1 & 2 are first on my list. Then finish Okami and Valkyrie Profile 2. That's enough to keep me occupied for awhile.
Or maybe I should buy a PSP to play FFVII Crisis Core, and Valkyrie Profile 1. Plus the next instalment of PE is coming out on PSP in 2009 too....
And then there's MGS4, which I've been wanting to play since like forever. And there's FFXIII too which I think I might enjoy. I don't know if these two games alone are reason enough for me to buy a PS3 though.
Oh my gosh.... I hope this is just a phase.
The thing about most SPMS people I know is that almost all of them haven't seem to have played much console RPGs (or even good RTSs for that matter, but I'm not that much of RTS gamer myself). It's like, there isn't anyone here to which I can say,"I defeated Demon's Gate in five minutes because I managed to get all Yeahs for Tifa's Limit break!" or "I kept getting p4wn3d by Sephiroth until I managed to synth Sora's Ultima Weapon". Yeah.... It'd be nice to know some game geeks here.
Anyway, for those who have played Parasite Eve before (though I don't know many people who have), here's a trailer for the next game in the PE series, Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday (shot during the Tokyo Game Show by some guy)
Aya Brea :D~~~~~~~~~~~
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America voted today.
I predicted Obama would win.
Physics test tommorow.
I predict that it won't be fantastic.
Chemistry test the day after.
I predict that I'll get p4wn3d.
Not good.
So I'm working the night shift to study SR in hopes that Physics won't p4wn me. Same drill tmr for chemistry I guess.
I feel like Popeye. Whenever exams and tiredness are beating the shit out of me, I grab a can of Red Bull, or a cup of coffee in order to fight back. The main difference between me and Popeye is that Popeye always owns Bluto after his spinach.
Anyhoo, the T'ang Quartet, came down to NTU today and the music was simply beautiful. I came to the realisation that I can't hope to be as good as the people I see on youtube and all these recitals. These are professionals. Virtuosos. People who have been playing since five or six years old just so they can become a professional musician when they grow up. People who study how their instrument in college when I'm studying Physics. But, I guess, even if I can't hope to be crazy good at guitar, I can still play for myself and the people around me and take enjoyment in that. Enjoyment and expression comes first. Bettering my technical skill only serves to enhance my enojyment and expression in music.
Physics on the other hand, is going to be my bread and butter, and I have no excuse to be bad at it. Therefore, back to the books.
The vid below is the T'ang Quartet playing the suite from Feet Unbound (which I took not so secretly during their performance today).
All the best to all students during this exam season. Enjoy.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Well, the elephant has spoken. It told Prof Chew that the solutions have already been uploaded onto edventure. 
It's like, nine days to exams and I feel like I haven't revised a single damn thing. Plus I've got a physics test and a chem test this week. Thanks God my Secondlife project is over and done with.
Just another three weeks and I'll be rid of exams for sem 1. Exams suck. I love learning, but it's exams which make learning shitty. It's a necessary evil I guess.
Oh, and apparently Angel Romero isn't coming for the guitar festival anymore, which really disappointed me... sigh....
Well, physics beckons... and Yotsuba&! if I get too sian of physics.
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