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[Nov. 16th, 2009|09:17 pm] |
hell week
yup, hell week's over. not the last week that caps most Special Forces' courses, but an equivalent by SEAB. then again, it is relative to each individual. i suppose the really smart ones don't give a rat's ass that all the major papers are packed morning to afternoon in one week and just want to get it done with. i beg to differ, though. because of this hell week, i did the following:
-completed more than 70% of each math paper
-wrote the worse GP essay ever on global poverty
-condemned history to the ashes of well, history
bio and chem went a-okay, but i gotta do well for the other chem papers since practical didn't go so well. QA should be taken out. i wish GP was after the APEC meetings, though. could have done a different question and given me one more paragraph to write about.
i realized that the atmosphere of taking the papers in this particular junior college was well, different from the one i sat in, back in 2006. one thing's for sure, you don't hear people making disparaging remarks such as, "oh there goes my A!". lol. and during history, the dude beside me went into standby mode about half an hour into the paper. poor soul, i think he just gave up on the paper.
though it's technically my third time doing the paper, it's the first on the new syllabus. for one thing, the graphic calculator is used ( screw the normal distribution tables), thus, he-who-knows-the-graphic-calculator is king. the drawback is that, one wrong value keyed in and you are pretty much screwed for the rest of the question.
on another note, AFA is back but i am boycotting it, due to the disappointment i received last year. we had to pay to get in and the so-called limited edition stuff were recycled crap from the other conventions. sold by none other than takashimaya, wtf. the real deals from companies such as kotobukiya and good smile are just displaying their wares, so it makes no difference as to whether they are there or not since the people ripping you off will still be the local distributors. plus, they are getting May'n back and that gundam singer dude from last year. honestly, i don't see the point in getting someone from last year back again. the only things would have made it worthwhile would be to see the K-On seiyuus and Danny Choo, live. Moe Moe Kyun maid cafe would have fulfilled my darker fantasies, but upon learning that the maids were local girls, that somehow killed any desire to go.
whilst reading the handful of newspaper articles on the event, i couldn't help but wonder if anybody realized that only a handful of the anime series featured in AFA '09 are actually licensed to sell in Singapore. the main ones such as Macross Frontier( it's old actually, but since they are bringing back May'n...) and K-On never hit Singapore screens or shelves. the argument that one might have brought it back from overseas doesn't stand, since you gotta pay MICA to watch your shit and censor it for you if you declared it at customs. the only logical explanation would be that 99.99% of the people going to AFA '09 downloaded the stuff through bittorrent, in all probability. maybe that's why they decided to set up cameras at the entrance. maybe that would explain the inconspicuous van with antenna parked near the event venue...
alright, offline i go. madam actually loaned me her computer to download and print papers, not blog, haha. |
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