yeah. slacking.

It's been a great week just slacking around, doing absolutely nothing. The only thing I've done that resembles anything productive is my CV, in preparation for next week's interview. ARGH. Taboo word. It just reminds me too much of my first mock interview...which didn't go too well. Too consumed by fear. Yes, I'll have to pray for serenity during the interview.

Just returned from the children's day celebration at SHG. Was great fun! I'm realising that I'm not actually doing it anymore for the hours, although they do motivate me, but it's been really fun mentoring them and watching them change over the course of the year. My mentee is rather smart but I just wished sometimes that he'll put more effort into his work, which will definitely pay off in the future.

Got my monster hunter freedom game! But my psp's out of batt. Like wth. So my bro's playing with it instead of me.

Music's good. Found this really great website to download some nice songs. Building up my library to herald my new iPod (soon). My sonatas are going well too! Can't make myself learn another prelude and fugue by Bach so I'm just resorting to more Beethoven and Schubert, which are undoubtedly easier on the polyphony. Heck. I still have 2 against 3 to handle with, but really, some of the melodies are just awesome. Especially Beethoven's.

Results for prelims have been good, though my GP suffered a dip and due to a mistake that I don't even usually make! Like not including enough examples. Fatal. And not answering a whole part of the AQ, which caused me to cap at 3.5/8. Sigh. At least I've learnt something out of it. Now for chem S and bio. Hm.

Will start studying next week! SATIIs are annoying. Will have to enjoy whatever holiday's left for now.

reprieve. almost.

So, the period of trials and tribulation (a.k.a. the Prelims) is finally over! Well almost, there are still the S papers, but they don't really count 'cause there's not really a need to study for them, although I'm going to work my ass off doing the tys for maths S. Just really worried for that one. At least I can crap explanations for chem! But maths. Oh maths. I'll be praying that I can do at least 5 questions out of the 13. Please please please. Just 5!!!

I just woke up from a 11.5 hours sleep. That's how deprived of sleep I am. I usually wake up at 9am if I don't have a paper on that day and sleep at about 12am to 1am, depending on how interesting my bedtime book is on that day. And how well I can focus! Some days I can hardly get past a page of the book without having to re-read it again for I hardly understood a thing.

And guess what? I dreamed in french again!! Like how weird is that? I was in this bookshop and we were supposed to count these books on a shelf for some sort of a game a la Amazing Race. And I still remember that is was 152! Cent cinquante deux! Yeah. And we were given this trivia of sorts that when you combine the sound of various traditional instruments together, via some sort of esoteric harmonic influence, you get the sound of the violin. AND I remember he was scribbling something like sound waves on the whiteboard. AND AND AND he looked like a mix between Mr Dremaux (my ex-french teacher) and the guy from Art Factory. You know. That guy who draws really well and can make large pictures on a green field using items like cloth, sand and whatnot.

Hm. I love the prelim period 'cause I have so much time on my hand and I get to play the piano uber often! Yes. Haha. I've been re-working some of my Mozart sonatas and of course, some of the pieces that play often just for fun. I'm really excited about getting the Sonata in A by Grieg right because it's so "showy" and it's really just a very poignant example of a piece from the Romantic period. Lots of chords, heavy sound, flowing "cantabile" melodies" - yep. Perfect.

Post a bid on ebay for Monster Hunter Freedom. A guy needs his games, you know. I think I'm going to sell my Lord of Rings Tactics game. It's just hopelessly boring and difficult. That should teach me a lesson or two about fulfilling the stupid moral obligation I get everytime see a game with the word "tactics" in it. Yay. Can't wait for other games like Power Stone and FF7: Crisis Core to be released.

And click here to see more pictures of the latest games in Japan! This guy is French and he's been living in Japan for about 3 years now. Total games geek. But the pictures are uber cool. Especially the article about FF2 on the DS lite. And the DS lite with the FF2 characters' effigies. Amazing.



The Japanese really know their games.

il y a tant de choses à savoir

I lead a sad life indeed.

I'm so SIAN about the whole idea of mugging. It's one thing to want the As, but another issue altogether when push comes to shove and you end up playing the piano or lounging around the house doing absolutely nothing productive at all. Not good. But I'm making progress! Slowly but surely.

Nope, don't think I'm ever to finish my biology on time. There's just way too much. Too. Bloody. Much. And I resent the fact that I'm always having to memorise things and then have myself forget them as soon as I go on to revise something else. Sheesh! Retention! Retention! - I chant.

All that being said, this period of gloomy mugging is still, much thankfully, filled with rather eventful stuff. For one, the PSC seminar was a huuuuuge encouragement. I think for now, I'm more than willing to go to France to study! Hm. It was reassuring at least. And although the food was rather pitiful, the exhibition at the end of the day did help to answer some of my questions. The whole atmosphere screamed "COMPETITION! COMPETITION!". Hell. Now it's just about persuading the board to gimme the scholarship. Oh yes. Persuasion. It's an art.

Yvonne's off to Sciences-Po! We sent her off on Sunday night after much "good luck" and "LAST FLIGHT ALREADY!" from her mum, no less, and it was a touching moment. Yvonne's very much the person who we all look up to - we all referring to the french students. I mean, she did French literature all by herself and now she's on a scholarship to actually go to France to study! Like how cool is that? Now we're all aspiring to be like her - going off to chic France, hanging out in cafes (ah! Immersion programme!), and just perfecting the language. Should be a great experience for her. She'll love it.

And I realised Sciences-Po has an excellent programme. Broad-based, though it doesn't allow as much diversity in the courses you can study. It's very strong in the social sciences and it even allows you to do an immersion in the third year of studies! Ah. Parfait.

To make all of that come true, it's back to the heart for now.

Biology. WHOOZA.