rey's ramblings

Crazy/Logical

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Gawd, prelims was such a rollercoaster emotional ride thing. The highs
when you exuberantly dish out flowing sentences in your essays and the
utter lows when you realise that your maths standard is far from what it
should be. There's not much else I can say about it... just that focusing
incredibly hard on all things academic makes time fly by at a super quick rate.

I need to become a super maths genius in a month's time so that probably
equates out to 30 questions ++ both A&E (accident and emergency indeed)
on a daily basis. The strategy: assault the TYS until its completely decimated,
then do miscellanous prelim paper questions... after that just cross my fingers
and hope I don't black out on the examination date. In all seriousness, I really
need to focus on my maths if not it's going to become my achilles heel in my
L1R5.

As for the prelims, I've resigned myself to a grade of somewhere around
the 12-17 point range. So much for that nice single-digit number. But what's most
important is that I'm henceforth further motivated to put my head in the slammer
for one more full month until the O's are finally over. Aiming right now for a < 10
points L1R5 for the O's and I hope the exams aren't too easy or they'll push the
national average and A1 mark, especially for the sciences, way up.

With the greater of two evils out of the way, I left after wednesday's final paper to
meet up with charisse and joel, who also finished their last papers that day, at the
revamped Raffles City Marketplace for lunch. After walking round and round the
winding maze of retail outlets, restaurants and cafes, we decided to have lunch at
this new franchise called The Asian Kitchen which main specialty is its charsiew rice.
It wasn't too bad but we were kinda thinking that we could probably get the same
quality plus or minus at the Old Airport Road charsiew rice stall for 1/5 of the price.

Anyway, other notable things about the spanking new basement that are worth a
visit were the Ben & Jerry's outlet with its amusingly fun to watch hydrotechnics
water display thing and very loud blaring of Top 40 hits, THAT CD shop, MPH,
Gloria Jeans Coffee (forget about Starbucks & Coffee Bean) and that delightful
UK stall selling fried mars bars(!)

I guess we were just very intent on forgetting about the prelims.

Headed down to CityLink afterwards to check out HMV. Lots of new albums
out now, pity I won't have much time to browse all the new music until after
the O's (although I might make an exception for The Killers and John Mayer).
On a random note, I think we kind of realised we should have eaten at New York
New York instead.

Subsequently, we wanted to catch a movie at Suntec but the whole IMF-World
Bank security barricade was such a pain in the SIDE because it meant that instead
of simply crossing the bridge, we would have to walk the entire length of Marina
Square then cross over to Millenia Walk, walk through the whole of that too and
then finally reach the place. So we ended up watching The Devil Wears Prada at
GV Marina instead, which was largely enjoyable but partially because anything goes
(except for Chai-Lai Angels please) after major examinations. As usual, Meryl Streep overshadowed the rest of the cast although Anne Hathaway did try her best and the
assistant, Emily Blunt, was highly fun to watch.

I think we all tend to get a bit philosophical about all kinds of things once in a while,
some more often than not, but somehow putting it down on paper or heck, even
remembering it, just isn't quite the same thing. Strange, isn't it?

On a note of conclusion, just something that came to my mind: I think in all
sincerity that people have the right to determine what they want to be without
people imposing their opinions on them otherwise. Isn't this an age-old issue tackled
in modern times? Yes. But I guess old habits die hard.

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