Everything That I Wanted to Blog About
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Yeah.. it's time to start crapping about whatever I wanna blog about the past few weeks.. never really had the mood/time to blog during the exam time.. and after exams I was busy preparing for this post.. haha you'd know why as you read on.. and this cost my laptop.. yea.. the extensive deleting of giga amounts of disk space probably took a toll on my hard disk and it CRASHED to it's death.. now in the hospital (AGAIN) awaiting repair.. I wonder how long I have to wait again this time.. sigh....
EXAMS
I am now a Year 3 student! This sounds crazy but I've just completed my 2nd year in NUS.. I mean it was like not long ago when I just went for my medical checkup.. just went for all the crazy orientation camps.. and now the whole cycle just went past the 2nd time.
Well.. I must say this this time rounds my exams weren't as bad as last semester's.. at least I was more prepared.. thanks to the never ending continuous tests along the semesters that the lecturers slotted whenever they had the chance to.. though I never really studied terribly hard for them.. it was nevertheless helpful in lightening the workload off the final revisions.. (Imagine if I diligently did my tutorials and assignments and studied consistently throughout the semester.. I wouldn't even need to study for the finals la! haha)
But well.. if anything were to kill me.. it would be examinations itself.. As in.. the papers for modules which I thought I had a good grasp in were terribly difficult.. massacring everyone.. while the papers for modules I was so-so in were terribly easy.. or SAME AS PAST YEAR/HOMEWORK/TEXTBOOK and I didn't realise so everyone will just climb on top of me again.. sigh. While deep down I knew what I was doing this semester round.. the bell curve still has to be drawn and reality still has to set in.. the exams will just kill me and my CAP will still take the toll..
So what the hell are examinations? They are supposed to test your understanding of the topic right? If you understand the topic well, you get an A and if you don't understand at all you get an F.. right? So why do professors set ultra difficult papers and kill the whole world such that you probably get an A if you get 50% of the paper right? Why must the bell curve be drawn such that even if you know your stuff but the whole world does better than you you'll still get a C? Worse still if the rest of the world does better than you because they remembered that the question came out in the tutorials and start copying the answers wholesale but you didn't.. coz you studied the tutorials weeks before..?
Sigh.. compared to the last semester.. where I did badly and hoped I did well (which I didn't).. this time I did ok but am very very worried that I won't do well.
I was just thinking the other day and telling some of my friends that it's such a waste for me to have a track record of reasonably good grades from PSLE, 'O' Levels, 'A' Levels.. only to screw up in NUS.. which is what really matters at the end.
Such is life. Rather unfair.
IF I WERE TO TAKE ANOTHER PATH...
In me and gabe's usual laments about our horrid faculty.. I was just saying if I really took another path in my undergraduate life.. to pursue what I really wanted to study and not 'take a professional degree' as my parents wanted.. I would have very much wanted to study Mass Comm in NTU. Not only will I really love what I'm doing (instead of spending all my time staring at equations which make no sense to me), at least with my decent Photoshop and video editing skills, public awareness and that weeny bit of wackiness.. it shouldn't be hard for me to survive there...
Also, I could stay in hall there with no regrets.
MISSING HALL
Sometimes i really wonder how much different my life will be if I didn't stay in hall. Who are the friends that I will hang out with? What will I be doing everyday after school? Will my results be better? Will I find be attached already by now?
Sure enough, if Chye didn't persuade us to join SECC 2 years ago.. if I hadn't made the decision to stay with my brothers in this orange place then, and subsequently decided to stay on, my life will be so much different... albeit with regrets. I mean, I stay so damn near to NUS and feel bad wasting my money just for the 'hall experience'.
But staying in hall sure gave me a clear reflection on the bandwidth I actually had.. not only in the sense of juggling block comm, hall opening, dance, drama, road relay, secc in year 1, taking up a leadership position in my 2nd year.. but also in the sense of how much I can juggle personal relationships. I have made so many friends the past 2 years.. from my very own blockmates to the crazy dancers to the wild SWOC councillors to just random hall mates just by talking in the comm hall.. it's hard to be really close to every one of them. I even rarely have time for the MAFBrothers staying in hall esp in year 2 when schoolwork and block matters are really engulfing.. not joining dance totally cut me off from their world too.. and Kaiyuan had said quite some time ago that I was, from the beginning 'a deeBlocker through and through', which is true.
But now this is it, the end of my hall life. and it's rather saddening to see my batch of deeBlockers slowly waning away.. for one thing the 'Mark-Gabriel-Chio' clique no longer exists now for a darn stupid reason.. I rarely see Suzanne now too for reasons we all know why.. and so will we all just disappear out of each other's lives after next year? I was wondering how feasable to create a '27th' out of our batch.. to start an 阴魂不散 attitude towards future block or hall activities.. at least we'll always get to meet up.. IBGs after IBGs, buaya weeks after buaya weeks, Block D concerts after Block D concerts.. and relive the good ol days.
There's a reluctance to pack out of my room, and yes it still remains very unpacked at this moment. 've been staying in level 8 for almost a year now but the view of the sea looks a million times better now than ever before. I'm so going to miss my room, my block, my friends.
But for now, at least there's still SECC, SWOC and RAG to look forward to.
SEP
Oh gosh how did I manage to type so much sentimental stuff??
Much as SEP is the thing I'm so looking forward to.. THERE'S SO MUCH ADMIN TO DO!! From finding accomodations to buying the plane ticket to packing my stuff to how to ship my stuff there to when to fly to where am I going to travel there to who i'm going it's just never ending!! and I'm so reluctant to start doing anything.
But it's going to be a greate semester ahead! I'm just so looking forward to it.. hahaaa.. I've been reading Adrian's blog (he's on NOC) and he's like having so much fun there!
And the best thing is ONE SEMESTER OF S/Ued CORE MODULES!! WHEE!!!!
VIDEOS
Ok.. this is the thing that crashed my computer.. if you survived till here.. lemme reward you with some videos I've uploaded on Youtube.. haha.. Yea.. after the infamous Humps video (which is unfortunately taken down already.. I was actually waiting to see how many hits it will go before it stabilises haha). Anyway after that video I decided to use the wonders of youtube to share with you guys the videos I've editied the past few years.. no point letting them rot inside my laptop right? Haha..
27th Students' Council Pubco Video
This was the 1st video I ever edited in my life.. was done during our ELECO camp to showcase my committee to the rest of the elects of the 28th Students' Council. Can say that this was when I really got interested in videomaking!
SECC Prelude
If you're in SECC you probably have watched this before.. It was really fun shooting this video... and a lot of people say 我拍Yiyu拍到很美.. actually I think it's just the hair. Haha.
SECC Closing
Weijie has fantastic acting skills! It was terrible making this video coz I had to stay up at night during the camp days to add in the camp parts of the video... but it was well worth it. Wonderful memories of the camp here.. =)
Sheares Block D Buaya Week Closing Video Part 1
This was the video that we watched on the rooftop during Buaya Week closing. It's a 22 min video so I had no choice but to split it into 3 parts (Youtube puts a cap on 10 mins per video). I went around shooting this video since I was Block Head and didn't play Buaya week.. but it was real heartwarming and brings back great memories of the most fantastic week in Block D.. enjoy.
Part 2
Door-to-door interview with residents start from this video onwards.
Part 3
MnO Video
Oh haha.. you should find familiar elements of the past few videos in this one.. coz I did it for my MNO1001 Video project.. We were supposed to do a video on Cross Cultural Management and we came up with this. And guess what.. we got 18.5/20 for the project.. the HIGHEST IN OUR COHORT!! Haha it was even screened to everyone during lecture.. how cool was that!
But I only got B+ for that module. Narbei. Anyway.. enjoy. =)
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