Not too busy to read.

"That's the point of sport: it's pointless. A glorious waste of time - though not quite as glorious or as pointless as art."
- From Swimmer by Bill Broady

"The flower which the wind has shaken
Is soon filled again with rain:
So does my heart fill slowly with tears
Until you return."
-Imagist poet Richard Aldington

Have yet to start on Whitman's "Leaves of Grass". Can't wait. Whole piles of books lie around waiting to be read.

I hope I can get 100 posts out this year.

Added the finishing touches to what I hope is the worst sem ever (in terms of exams) last Thursday, at HL310, the last of 6 exams.

Here's my ranking, from darn-it at first place to not-as-bad-as-i-feared.. at sixth place.

1. COM253

2. COM201

3. HL310

4. COM203

5. HL301

6. HL230

And I just remembered I need at least a B in 201 in order to do the other courses. Sigh.. STARS Planner, old friend, we meet again.

Anyway, exams overrr. Now to concentrate in Epiphany and ArtJam and violin and reading/watching lists and WRITING LETTERS/EMAILS and setting my room in order (there's just space enough to walk through, the rest of the floor is covered with my books). And FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS!

Walked around Orchard on Thursday, went for a 21st birthday yesterday, and watched The Chronicles of Narnia, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader today. It's a great movie! Love the soundtrack too =]

There's so much to do I don't know where to start. I think I'll go read a book.

And I really want to go watch Ballerina Who Loves B-Boy!

I decided to leave some reflections on the COM203 discussion board yesterday, after the final exam, asking why exams need to focus on memory rather than understanding.

Read Professor Cherian George's reply today, and I feel really embarrassed. I should have used better examples; now I made myself out to be someone who doesn't understand concepts in the first place.. I need the night to get over this, will respond tomorrow, Prof.

At least he was glad I was thinking about the way we learn.

3 exams down, 3 to go. I think I already slaughtered my GPA though. Oh well. I get to get enough sleep tonight =]


"Alright already the show goes on
All night till the morning we dream so long."

Savvy?

Perhaps the most interesting thing about reading the sixty five-page-long Singapore Code of Advertising Practice (3rd Edition) is that after introducing it to the reader, they refer to it in the rest of the document as the Code. Now I feel like Jack Sparrow and Barbossa (and I doubt either of them ever finished reading it either).

"Why, thank you, Jaaaaaack."

-Jack grimaces.

"Not youuuu, we named the monkeyyyy Jaaaaaack."

"IT WAS A TIME I SLEPT IN MANY ROOMS, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs."

- Roman Payne

Man am I grateful. For msn conversations in French with WL. Reminds me of French lessons with Monsieur Huet, as well as awesome August 2010.

I should probably feel more grateful for the extension of the 301 essay deadline.


"no mistake's too great to recover and bounce back"