It’s Monday, which means reading week has ended. Well, what can I say? It was a week full of reading, studying, boredom, and constantly scaring myself. It was also a week of compulsive buying – I bought the whole Hotel Costes compilation series this week, which cost a BOMB, but it was worth every penny. Stephane Pompugnac is a genius, but I’ll have more on that in my next posts after the exams.
Speaking of exams, I’m slacking away in front of the computer right now because I’ve got my Math paper coming up in a few hours, so I’m attempting to clear my mind a little bit before I get into the exam hall. I was just telling Joel that Math is probably the one paper that I’m most afraid of, but I guess it’s good to get it out of the way ASAP. It’s gonna be a big load off my chest once that’s over. Either that, or I’ll tie a big load around my chest and go drown myself in the river beside my apartment block.
So that’s it from me for now. If you don’t see anymore posts coming up on this blog within the next month, it’ll be pretty safe to say that I’ve screwed up my exams horribly and jumped off the edge of a cliff somewhere. Anyway, if you’re taking your exams right now, all the best.
Wish me luck (with the exams, that is)…
Just 2 weeks ago, I was talking about how I didn’t screw up the mechanics test. And then what did I do? I went for the programming practical test earlier this week, and it was a catastrophe. The output came out all wrong! Well, my program did produce some semblance of a scrabble board, which was what we were supposed to produce, but the logic and alignment were all wrong. If I had 3 or 4 hours, I would have been able to compose the program to fit all the conditions perfectly, but no, they only gave us an hour 45. But at least I did everything I could have done – no regrets.
So now you all can go to SoC’s practical exam website and laugh at how miserable my program is. Yes, they actually posted everybody’s programs on the website! Like as if our grades wouldn’t be embarrassing enough…
But other than that, this week was a relatively good - albeit tiring - week. Lots of good news in terms of my test results. I actually got pretty good grades for the mechanics test and the sociology term assignment, which was totally unexpected. I remember submitting the assignment, and thinking to myself for the next few days about how much crap I had written and what possessed me to write all that, or maybe even double possessed – as in I was possessed by something that was being possessed by something else that was even eviler than what was actually possessing me in the first place.
But when it came back, it turned out that maybe being single or double possessed was a good thing. It received a pretty good grade – loads better than the mid term test grade – and some nice comments as well. I was so proud of myself… And as for the mechanics test, that was just a fluke I guess. I didn’t even get the final answer for the first question. I guess maybe the marker mistook the ‘E’ grade as being equivalent to “Extra stupid” or something, but flukes are good.
Earlier this friday evening, we had a mini P&W session followed by the exam mass, and the P&W was simply brilliant. Praising and thanking God for all the achievements he has granted me in the last 13 weeks was exactly what I needed to wrap up the term with, before we all head into the abyss of misery that is reading week. Not to mention we had a very strong worship team. Every member of the team did a great job, and worked together amazingly well. I wasn’t able to see Elaine’s signals properly since the monitor and the table were blocking my view, so I kinda messed things up a bit towards the end, but I doubt - or hope - that nobody really noticed or cared.
I received a lot of positive feedback from a lot of people regarding the rally as well, mostly about how great the team sounded. So to Elaine, Renneth, Ivan, Nick Lee, Clarence, Jeremy, Annette, Melvin and Joel, thank you all for being in the team. These past few weeks of practices, and the rally, have all been really great. I did say one time that I joined the rally team partly because I wanted to experience something new – I’d never been at a rally before. And it was a great experience indeed.
Then after the whole thing, we went to Essential Brews at Holland Village for dinner, during which we managed to conclude that I have no life. Heck, earlier this week, I even dreamt that I was watching TV! How crappy is that? I have so little time for anything else, other than work, that I actually have to dream about watching TV…
Ok, off to bed (for more TV dreams maybe???), and then it’s time to finish up the online assignments, and begin picking through the rubble in preparation for the final exams. So I’ll end off this post with something that I think is really relevant to me right now.
The worst feeling in the world is not having done enough, but knowing that you could have done a lot more.
The second worst feeling in the world is knowing that there is a solution to a predicament, but not knowing what that solution is.
I got back around an hour ago from rally practice, and before that, I had my dreaded Statics and Mechanics test, which wasn’t as dreadful as I thought as it would be. In fact, this time, I’m pretty sure I’m not gonna die and get a “U” grade like I did the last time, or we could all die together when we get our scripts back, because it seems everybody wrote the same things as I did. I don’t usually follow the ask-around-for-answers-after-the-test tradition, but for some reason, I did that today, and got a good measure of what everybody else did. So I guess I’m feeling pretty safe.
Rally practice was pretty OK as well. It was scheduled to start at 11am, which meant that it wasn’t possible for me to be at the church on time, since my test ended AT 11am. But when I got there, at around 11.30-ish, I found Melvin sitting in the chapel, alone – no one else had reached the place yet! Nick Lee even got his venues mixed up and got to wrong church! What a laugh that was. But when things finally got started, it was pretty productive.
My parents went on a cruise trip over the week, so I had the entire apartment to myself, which wasn’t as fun as I had thought it would be. I found myself doing what I usually did (besides day-dreaming) – work. All the unfinished work from last week is just spilling over into this week. Looks like Deepavali isn’t gonna be much of holiday after all.
