One Down, 4 To Go!

Yep, and I'm feeling a sense of relief as I finish French today. Though there are other heavier modules, I've to say that I've been very worried about my French, worried about the stupid articles which I can't seem to place at the right place. =S

And today's paper was pretty interesting. The comprehension was pretty cool, requiring us to write the family tree of the character, doing his timeline... and other questions in other sections included matching, filling in someone's particulars, and crossword puzzles! I love crossword puzzles, just that I couldn't read the instructions in order to know that it was a crossword puzzle. -_-" It was only after I answered what I could, then I checked with the invigilator that I realised it was a crossword puzzle. And the first invigilator I asked said it was "obvious". Well DUH I think it was obvious too, after I realised it was what it was, but when I couldn't understand the instructions, how was I supposed to know? Or maybe I just don't have the common sense required to understand it. -_-" Ah well, all in all, it was a pretty interesting paper. I quite enjoyed doing it actually. Haha, never thought I'd say that about exam papers, but yah. At some points I was really having quite a bit of fun. This is unlike other exams where rote-learning's required. It's more like the maths exam papers I did in primary 1. Haha... Well, now I'm hoping that my level of enjoyment matches the results I'm gonna get. I hope I do well! *crosses fingers*

And I better get back to work now.

All the best to all of you who have exams!

Which Language?

While revising for my French paper, a thought suddenly came to me: during the World Wars, what language was used as a medium of communication between the different countries? And how did German and Russia communicate? France is a nationalistic country, would they have spoken English? And Japan, being nationalistic as well, would they have wanted to speak English? How did the countries tell each other things and communicate their terms and conditions for war and peace? Could there have been miscommunication between the countries which led to a protracted World War, or started the wars? Like, you know how different cultures will phrase their sentences when using a foreign language based on their knowledge of their own home language, so... could there have been misunderstandings?

Isn't it interesting? Or am I the only one? Haha!

Little Superhero Girl

This video made me smile alot. The children are so cute! Somehow they moved me to tears... The singing's not that great, but they seemed so innocent!

Slacking

I totally feel like slacking right now. I'm not sure if it's coz the last of the projects was just completed today, or I simply have a subconscious death wish to plunge my GPA all the way to hell.

OK that sounded really pissed, but truthfully, I'm not feeling pissed. Just wondering why I don't have a sense of urgency, when I should be all spidery. Maybe it's just like what Joyce said yesterday, and what Kok Yong reiterated last night- the sense of urgency I get when there is no time left to study is a positive reinforcement, coz it makes me move and try to do things better. This is classical conditioning, coz I pair having no time with studying. And after that, it all becomes operant conditioning, where having no time makes me study, minus all the sense of urgency. Hmm. This explanation sounds wonky to me. Did I get the concept right? HP324 students, help me out here! Tell me if this concept's wrong.....

And on a different topic, I realise my room at home's pretty small. Even though Yi Lun's not home, I don't think there's enough space for all my things. I just began moving my things back home, and though I've only been moving files and clothes and other miscellaneous things, I realise I might not have enough space for everything. Argh. And looking at the things left in hall, I think I'll have to put alot of my stuff inside the store room, to pull them out again when I move back to hall again next year. Maybe I shouldn't bring that many small things back to hall next year, then my move back home won't be so troublesome?

On the bright side, though, I realised I won't need to pay an additional $7 extension stay in hall just coz the office will be closed. Apparently, though they are closed, I can still drop off my keys on the night of 30 April before I leave hall. Which is great, since I probably won't be back anymore for the rest of the three months. Haha... Hmm... But I wonder if there will still be too many big and necessary items left to move on that last day, seeing as how I still need my trolley and water cooler and toiletries before the last paper. But it's good, at least I don't have to waste more money! =)

With the prospect of 30 April looming nearer, I shall decide to be positive and go attack my revision with vigour.

Ah the beauty of words, how they can belie the truth of everything.....

Finally!

Finally almost all the projects have been completed. Now I'm left with one more presentation tomorrow, then I can start revising my work in peace. After finishing the report early this morning and handing it up, I felt a load off my shoulders- finally I can put this aside and concentrate on my backlog.

Of course, when I got round to checking just how much backlog there is, I realised there's no better time to see just how behind in my work I really am. And it's a good thing I check it now, coz it's really a huge pile I haven't touched, and I'm gonna need a whole damn lot of discipline in order to finish studying everything.

Ah well, I must be grateful for the little things. At least projects finish earlier this sem! And I'm looking forward to June! =)