Computer SOS

I've officially lost my internet connection at home. Which sucks. A lot.

And so I've resorted to posting this in school, just to let people know that I'm still alive even if there isn't any sign of me in the next fews days or even a week.

On a more interesting note, I just read this timeline, and I've realised just how complex the whole FF7 story is. I've been missing out on all the BC stuff and I'm staying away from DC spoilers, so some of these things are new to me. And now we know that Sephiroth torched Nibelheim at 2am in the morning of October 1, 1991. Wow. Talk about details.

Ah... and five years after that, Zack died. *sniffs*

Love the three of them so much. *sniffs some more*

And the only thing sadder than that is my lack of internet connection.

look at the lack of progress

I am not making any progress for my last free pick for this term. Nothing is going to yield beyond this first paragraph that I have written.

Ah... why is it always like this?

Surprisingly this sabbatical week is one of my busiest weeks this year. I have managed to do (and get) homework for every single day of this week so far. It's all the LA portfolio's fault. Meh.

Back to brainstorming for LA free pick.

tell me why

I can never write good narratives. Not even my flu-bugged self. Especially my flu-bugged self.

The lies it tells, and I believe them

My only constant companion is my brain. The one that hardly ever stops talking to me. And the one that reminds me that it is The One responsible for me typing the previous sentence. And the one before that.

And of course, anything that came before that as well.

I think I think too much. No thanks to That Brain of mine. Or perhaps the Whoever-Whatever-I-Really-Don't-Know-If-You-Exist mini being that is living in that brain space.

And now it tells me to convey a message. To who, I do not know. Probably myself.

"My brain is there to encourage me."

Of course I know that's a lie. How many times have I fallen for its you-are-so-bad at-this and you-should-stop-embarrassing-yourself-in-front-of-others and what-a-failure-exclamation-mark speeches. I know.

Just too many to count.

... I think I'm falling for one of my brain's tricks again. What is it up to now?


...


Or may the lack of sleep has just caught up to me.

Agenda for Week 9

I like writing personal agendas, though I don't always follow them in the end.

Agenda for 14.05.06 and week 9 (basically my to-do list)

1.Complete Chinese functional writing (impt)
2.Complete Math WS 6.1
3.Complete Chemistry WS 11 (almost done)
4.Revise Bio and Chem SPA skills
5.Bio SIA (Almost done)
6.Prepare Math File
7.Prepare Chinese File (somewhere there)
8.Argumentative Essay
9.LA Free Pick
10.AMES (one question left)
11.LA test on the 17th and 18th
12.LA presentation(?)
12. PE assessment
13. Physics Assignment J

That sounds like a lot to do.

EDIT 1: As of 16.05.2006, LA presentation is over, though Bio SPA is not. Yay, at least I get to cancel things off the list.

EDIT 2: More things off the list, and one more thing added to the list! Alrighty.

Week 8 outtakes

Been a little dead for the entire week. There's been at least one bad thing occuring everyday from Monday till Wednesday, and I just want to erase them all from my memory. Unfortunately, that's easier said than done.

My class did it again. We made another teacher so angry at us. And it's always one of those "for the first time in [how many] years" or "never in my teaching career have I needed to scold/shout" or "never have I seen...". What can I say, my class is good at being the first to experience things. Like writing "parallel series" for Physics. Absolutely remarkable.

Took a little time off yesterday-since it was Vesak Day and all- to head outside and not-shop. We didn't buy much, just mostly strolling around and looking at things. I'm not sure whether that counts as window-shopping, because we weren't even looking into the windows of shops for majority of the time.

For some strange reason, I'm feeling disturbed ever since I saw three public locations screening AC in one afternoon. Not to mention that it's currently the chart-topper over at HMV. o-O I. Am. Disturbed. AC isn't that nice. You know, loopholes and mistakes and such.

Or maybe I'm just picky. But at least I'm picky about the things I love. Criticism may be good.

I should be getting back to my SIAs, assignments and files. It's going to be week 9 soon and getting acquainted with them has never been so difficult. I just love running away from reality sometimes. The good the Internet is for.

routine and its work

I've given it some more thought, and I decided that perhaps saying "routine doesn't leave people feeling accomplished" would be more accurate. It might just be monotony that's making us feel the way we do about school.

PS: Mid years tomorrow! I'm feeling worried about Chinese compo only now. Must jia you!

poke and prod, school or not

It's time I gave this place a poke, a shove and a little update.

It's now one week into May, which means that I haven't been to updating this for more than a month now. Five weeks of dead blog later, an itsy bitsy update.

Do I actually need to bow and ask for forgiveness? Or was that supposed to be done a long time ago?

I've nothing much to say about life as it currently is. I've been on a bad luck streak again ever since Wednesday, but I'll certainly live through it.

One thing though, I can't believe that it's already been two weeks since the Hong Kong trip.

Conference-mates say that that one week went by so fast, but I don't really think so. In my opinion, that one week seemed a long time. I'm convinced that it has to do with the fact that we did so many constructive things everyday for one whole week, even though our schedule wasn't that tight or rushed.

So what does this show?

I think time flies faster when I'm in school because I concentrate on one day at a time, and nothing much ever happens in one day. My short term major goal is always "survive til Friday!", and a longer term goal would be "Can't wait til June/December holidays!". And then nothing much ever happens in between. Or at least, I don't feel very constructive. So time flies.

On the other hand, I felt somewhat accomplished at the end of every day at the Student Science Conference trip. It's because I've learnt something new during the day, travelled to a new place, seen some beautiful things. We had fun shopping, we overcame obstacles that came our way, we rehearsed our presentation during all those nights. We even had mass revision sessions during the evenings when we had free time, and grabbed the opportunity and the nice warm water over at the boys' domitory.

The best part is, I came back to find out that nothing much had changed back in school.

Mrs See had only progressed through one of the minor chapters (and had not completed yet), Chinese teacher wasn't around for lessons for most of the week, and there was mostly revision for bio, and not many new topics/sub-topics were covered for bio and chem. And Week 6 was exactly the same. It just didn't feel like the two weeks, 5 and 6, were of the exact same length, because they felt so different.

So school doesn't leave people feeling accomplished.

Perhaps feeling accomplished isn't the what school is about. That sure explains some things.