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100% Done!

Yay! My exams are finally over. Just finished my last paper. It was supposed to be from 9am to 11am, but I finished it within 15 mins. Not that I was confident or anything, but it was a 40MCQ paper, and it was only 30% of the module’s marks. The MCQ choices were like “a) The statement is right. b) The statement is wrong. c) The statement is more right than wrong. d) The statement is more wrong than right”. There were other kinds of questions, but most of them had this kind of answers so I guess I didn’t really care whether I took 15 mins or 1 hour to complete it. Anyway, there is a stupid rule in NUS that you cannot leave within the first hour, so there I was sitting around waiting till 10am before I could leave. Besides, I was not the only one to leave at 10am, so it should mean that either everyone was smart, or just as lost as me. Anyway, I don’t care that much since it’s the end of my exams and I’m free!

I have so much things to do, like play games, watch my tv show episodes which have piled up over the semester. Also, I’m attending Jimmy’s birthday bbq party this evening, and work starts on Monday! Time is precious, gotta catch up with my games now :)

66% Done!

1 more paper down, 1 left to go! Today’s paper was a nightmare. Ok, it was not that bad, but not as good as the previous one, if that makes any sense. I’m rather happy though, since I have only 1 paper left on Saturday, though I still have that last project presentation on Thursday. Speaking of the project presentation, it turned out my worry for it was undue. I was quite worried last week since I could not program the board provided for the project, so I decided to make a trip to school to consult the Lab TA. The Lab TA told me that maybe others had the problem, but he could not give me a solution. Since I thought that we were supposed to program the board for the project presentation/demonstration, I didn’t think that I could do nothing about the problem. Therefore, I went to look for the lecturer, and he told me I didn’t have to program the board!! I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry upon hearing the news, laugh because I don’t have to program the board, or cry because I tried so hard to program the board and find what’s wrong with it. Oh well, I guess we have to look on the bright side of stuff. 1 paper left, and then I’m free!

33% Done!

33 is a nice number, since I’m 33% done with my exam papers! Had my EE2007 paper today, which I found to be rather easy. Hopefully, I’ll get an A for this module, since my other modules seem to be doomed for failure. The last minute studying probably did pay off afterall. To all those who don’t believe last minute studying is any good, believe it now! Heh, which reminds me about an “argument” with my dear boss some time back, something about last minute studying. I maintained that last minute studying was useful, and I always only study at the eleventh hour, but she maintained that if she were to only study last minute, then she might as well not study since shes doomed to fail the paper anyway. Well, not sure who’s right, but to me, a last minute studying does provide a false sense of security, whereas not studying will provide you with no sense of security whatsoever! She maintains that no sense of security would be better than a false sense of security, but who am I to argue with her, she IS my boss afterall :P As they say, the boss is always right (yea right :P)

So, why am I awake at such an unearthly hour? Well, I can only blame Starhub and TODAY, for not getting the time of the soccer match between Liverpool and Porto right. A check with various sources showed different timings from each of them. Therefore, being the great Liverpool fan that I am, and not wanting to miss the match, I set my alarm clock for the earliest time that the match was supposed to start, and found out it only starts at 0345am! Therefore, here I am rambling about some nonsense, rather than lying in my bed sleeping after spending the day studying! Theoretically, I can start studying for my next paper, but to stick by my principals and only study at the 11th hour, I can only start studying next monday, since the paper on tuesday. Ya right, I will start studying earlier than that… I hope :P

Anyway, it’s still 1 hour to the match, so I have more time to rant about some stuff. Anyone likes it when it rains? Don’t get me wrong, I like the rain too, when I am at home wanting to sleep at least. Times I hate when it rains is when I’m on my bike, on the way to someplace, and it starts to rain like there’s no tomorrow. And these times have been occuring more frequently as of late, probably due to the rainy season. And I hate it even more, when I’m drenched from the rain, and my exam paper is in a freezing cold multipurpose sports hall. Oh well, at least the paper was easy.

And the next topic of my boredness would be – changing gas for cooking! Well, not really on the gas or for cooking, but rather on how they give calendars whenever you change gas for your gas stove. I’m not sure how cooking works in newer houses now, but at my place we still use those blue gas cylinders to fuel our cooking stove! So, today ours ran out and we changed it, and tada we get a new calendar! Not sure why they give calendars whenever you change your gas cylinders, but they do, and you can always expect it from them. Anyway, the calendar this time caught my eye, since on the cover was 2 rats. That could only mean that next year is the year of the rat, and would also mean I would be 24 years old! Gosh, how time flies! Anyway, here’s a photo I snapped of the 2 rats. I think we should call them mouses, since mouses sound cuter than rats, and those mouses definitely look cute.

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Ratatouille!

Another thing that caught my eye, was some bread that my mother bought. It caught my eye, because it was shaped like a turtle, and this conversation followed…

me picks up the bread
me: what bread is this?
mom: tuna
me: it’s not tuna it’s a turtle!
mom: it’s tuna!
me: but it’s a turtle
mom walks off, not bothering about me

Well, I’m not sure why they decide to shape the bread like this, maybe the turtle got hungry and ate some tuna? As for whether it’s a turtle or tuna, I’ll leave that for you to decide!

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Turtle Power!