updates!

first week back in school after the mid sem 'break'. what break i ask u? but since i've already complained about the 'break' in my previous post, i shall not waste space complaining about it again.

mid terms this week. first was NM2216 presentation, which was the slackest of the slackest slack module i have this sem lah. muahahaha! mainly, because, the way the tutorials were structured was such that it forced all groups to work on their projects continually, as in, every tutorial we have to do a small presentation to show how we're progressing on our project. well, as i think i've complained about before, daniella doesn't seem to like ours, so we were doing about the teleportation idea. and like i also said, it's slack, cos i already presented the tutorial before the break. damn scary lah, they last minute just say, ok, irene present! times like these, i thank Juice. anyway, since i did my part already, i didn't need to do much at the final presentation. just the discussions which we did the day before during daniella's boring lecture. then the next day tutorial, karen and charmaine presented and that was it. finished the project for NM. haha! i think we did alright. true, our dream machine was more of dream than machine. :D but think about that group that suddenly decided to change dream machine at the final presentation.

anyway, then, was EL3254. damn i was real nervous about that one. cos i have no idea what to study for it. absolutely freaking no idea. so all i did was read the readings, of which i found out that i was missing one. all that stuff that dr lazar was doing the past half sem...all seems so non-linguistic. i have no idea what this module has to do with english. it's so much literature to me. anyway, the test was not too bad. thank god i forced myself to study transitivity analysis. the question came out lah. she made us analyise a bit of an article to answer the question. i mean, ok, i got the term wrong. the "saying" process, i wrote as "speech" instead. do you think she'd penalise me? it's essentially the same thing ya? but i think i got a question wrong through sheer carelessness. chih lin told me about it. cos there was a question that asked which statements were incorrect. and i think i picked out the correct ones instead. *bangshead* the last question was scary. she gave us that estee lauder perfume ad and asked us questions about it using the left-right framework. and the scary thing was, she only gave us two lines writing space. so, if i do a short answer, it looks way too short for the space, but if i do a long answer, it's too long! so i don't know how lah. just crapped up. luckily i remembered that left is given and right is new. think i did ok for it.

and then. EL3201. that was the only one that was most like a test. dr soh made us shift the chairs into rows like in an exam hall. the test itself wasn't too bad. i still don't understand the binding theory and it came out!! so i crapped up an answer. like that one about epithets. i say that the binding theory doesn't apply to that. ok, it's so obvious that my knowledge in that area is flawed. however, i think i did alright in the other sections. dr kim was a very good lecturer last sem, at least i got thorough training in the basics. scary about this is that it's a closed book module. so i can't have my magic dictionary with me to look up the word classes if i don't know them. :p oh well, can't rely on dictionary forever.

EL3216. i haven't even started the take home quiz yet. dr ooi was saying he got a shock when he received feedback emails from students who told him that when they looked at the quiz, their lives flashed before their eyes and they realised that they have not understood a single thing in the entire first half sem of the class. i kind of emphatise with them. i didn't die when i saw the quiz, but i was like, *jawdrops* i have no idea how to start. so, dr ooi was forced to guide us along the analysis during the yesterday's lecture. i feel like i shouldn't have taken this module. i shouldn't have been stupid enough to drop EN and keep this. i'm the most lagging for this. the take home quiz, the mini research presentation, the individual paper+presentation, the group presentation. all have not really gotten far. so, :p.

anyway, at least, CHOIR IS COMING TO AN END!!!!!!!! muahahahahahahaa!!! the concert is this coming sunday. three more days of torture, then freedom! finally can go home on mondays and thursdays when the sun is still shining and the hour is still a single digit. i'm not going to be in the com next year. no way. this year is more than enough thank you. btw, the presidental election is going to be next thursday, which means that the com is also changing by then. yay! haha! i feel a bit bad lah, being so happy about it now. but, i don't care. it's been a bad year for me. glad for it to be over.

signed up for residence in school. RVR, PGP, Kuok foundation house. hope i get one of them. it'd be interesting to stay in school. since i've given up hope on my SEP... might as well try something else. :D haha! not going to talk about SEP here yet, but i'm sure they rejected me yet again. bleah.



mood: ok
listening to: nothing