So shiok! Yesterday and today I just chiong watching the entire korean drama 꽃보다 남자 (the Korean version of meteor garden - 25 episodes).

Actually I wanted to watch becuz the female actress, which previously acted in this 167 episodes drama 'Pure 19', kinda caught my attention the previous time. She's not pretty or what arz, but I find that her acting skills are quite good, and I'm not surprised that the character she acted in are rather similar. Again, she acted as some poor young lady in which some rich man has fallen for her. As usual, the rich guy's parents oppose and blah blah... Kinda expected storylines that you can get from such romance drama, but most importantly, I enjoyed the "process" where I can sleep 8 hrs, sit in front of comp to watch 15 hrs, and 1 hr is for miscellaneous such as meals or bath or whaever in a single day of 24hrs, repeating it for a few days.

Strangely, I used to complain abt how sucky korean drama can be, about how soapy they are and the women in almost EVERY drama can cry majiam it's the end of world. I still remember my sec3 and 4 form teacher said that majiam Korean ladies have a water tap inside their eyes, so that whenever they are required to cry, they can just 'on' this tap and tears can flow non-stop out of their eyes. Ehz... as of now, I believe everything is still the same? Korean woman are forever so fierce and always fighting and shouting like there's no law. There's always SO MANY slapping scenes. (It's kinda scary if most Singaporean women are like that) Okie lar, perhaps I have kinda accepted the fact that this is the style of korean dramas, and as long the story plot is something nice, I believe nothing else matters. On the other hand, typical Japanese drama are like maximum 10 or 11 episodes, and I kinda feel it's DEMN SHORT!? No wonder one can easily finish one jap drama a day. I dont really have much impression of Japanese drama in my mind arz, although they are good for their anime (like obviously).

And I have no comments about HK and Taiwan dramas.

12 days from now will be the end of my exam, and I shall conquer another Korean drama!

These few days or recent weeks, I realised some of my friends' nicks seem to be all abt the H1N1 infection in Japan.

As everyone knows, there's been quite "abit" of increase in the no. of H1N1 infection in Japan. Whatever it is, I think it shouldn't be that "exaggerating" as most news or people have put it. After all, "The government has urged calm and reminded people that no one in Japan has so far died of the disease and that most infections are mild." So seriously, I dont think it's gonna affect much, unless you're going Osaka or Kobe? Going to Tokyo shld be okie, since there wasn't much news abt the virus taking place in Tokyo. But as experts have predicted, it's sooner or later that the 36 million populated city will be affected to a "large scale".

Bottom line is, regardless how many people are infected, I will definitely be going Tokyo end of July. UNLESS either S'pore or Japan decides to impose new rules against going there, then suck thumb arz. So okie, I seriously just hope this stupid swine flu can stop spreading to make less people paranoid abt this infection.

Got back my result. Okie, that's quite a few days ago already. Hmm... Shall say I'm quite happy lar, cuz at least it pulled me up quite abit such that my current cumulative GPA is at a relatively "comfortable level" to me. (My standard is not that high compared to most of my coursemates..)

Didn't do well for OB (as usual) and hence, I'm now in a dilemma whether shld I S/U my HP807 module. That module is similar to OB in terms of content wise, but the exam format is defintely very diffierent cuz it will ask more direct ques like "What is MARS model (15 marks)" or smth like "What are the big5 personality dimensions (10 marks)". Obviously that's y this exam will be a closed book exam, unlike OB which is open-book. AND AT LEAST IT DOESN'T HAVE STUPID CASE SCENARIOS LIKE OB, so there isn't much working of the brain that u need for this HP807 exam. The lecturer was even kind enough to tell us specifically the ques that he's gonna ask us....-_-''' So that makes me even more tempted not to S/U, becuz all I need to do is to memorise all the model answer and vomit them all out in the exam. (Sounds like typical bio exam paper)

One side of me says I shld S/U since I screw up OB kinda badly. Another side tells me this exam will be different from OB, and all I need is to vomit the model ans out, everything will be fine. Owellz, after much consideration, I guess I won't S/U this module, neither the astro paper.

Full blast of mugging for the next 2 weeks till exam ends!!!

2 weeks have passed since special term starts. Hence, I'm officially left with 3 more weeks of lessons until exam, which is the very week after the last lesson (aka week 6). For some reasons or the other, I felt special terms seem abit "more xiong" than normal terms, which wasn't what I really expected becuz there's NO PROJECTS for electives and hence, I expected myself to be more relaxed. But then, there's this 2000 words report to be handed up in week 5, and tt's like 2 weeks from now. Luckily this is an individual report and hence, I can do at my own free time, ALTHOUGH I'VE GIVEN MYSELF A TARGET TO FINISH THE REPORT BY THIS COMING SUNDAY (17th May).

Astronomy on the other hand was rather neglected becuz there wasn't any assignment or what and the quiz is 2 weeks from now. But I felt kinda disgusted becuz aside from learning planets thingyi, I'm learning things that are taught in A-level physics. And I seriously respect my friends who still can remember physics stuff although it's like... 3+ years ago since we touched it, and yet they seem to be able to recap majiam they juz did A-levels yesterday. Even things like angular momentum or E = mc^2 seem alien to me now.

I guess it's the "holiday mood" that make me kinda reluctant to study. Afterall, I barely have one week of rest after exam when special term starts. So if this continues, I can almost say I've studied "non-stop" from January to November for this whole of year 2009 (assuming that one week rest is negligible)

And saying all these, I'm really really tempted to S/U one of these electives, but on the other hand I felt kinda stupid that I pay $500 for one module to S/U. Haiz, I guess I shall leave it to next Friday when I get back my result. If it's still "okay", then I think I will S/U one of it becuz I can concentrate better on the other. If my results are disgusting (high probability), I shall not S/U any module and start to MUG my life off to do well for these 2 electives. Cross-fingers for next Friday.

And becuz it's the end of the academic year, I have to start learning to take over my "upper-study" in my CCA. During some rally 2 months ago, I was appointed the coordinator for my CCA (Welfare Service Club - Boys Home). And next week is the first main comm meeting I'm having, owellz, must start learning the ropes from my upper-study, if not when sch starts and there's CCA recruitment week, I will be dead if I can't do a good job for it. But guess it's still rather early to plan for the CCA recruitment thingyi now. Hope I'll be able to work well with all the other block heads of Boys Home, as well as Girl's home. (and I still don't know ALOT of people in my CCA, and I cant seem to know everyone's names well enough) Abit doubtful whether I can lead well enough. Haiz, just hope the seniors can "help help abit" and close one eye if I make any mistakes in future.

Had a very "shiok" day today. Went to Pulau Ubin for a cycling trip, good exercise for me, since it's been so long I had a proper exercise. I think we started cycling at around 10am and decided to call it a day at around 230pm.. But then I dont think I managed to burn off any fats becuz I had a LARGE plate of nasi lemak at Changi Village after that. -_-''' Owellz, nvm, it's for the fun of it... Lolx, since I've nv been to ubin for cycling trip before.

And although exams officially ended on Tuesday, there isn't much time for me to rest. School is starting next week! Ogosh, abit sianz, BUT NVM, studying electives is at least not as shit as studying core modules where there's so many rubbish projects to be done. So the 3 modules I'm taking are:

EE8086 ASTRONOMY - STARS, GALAXIES AND COSMOLOGY
HP807 PSYCHOLOGY OF CAREER DEVELOPMENT
GN02 ECO-ARCHITECTURE IN THE URBAN LIVING ENVIRONMENT

So can clear a total of 9 AUs also not bad lar. I think better then working part time, if I can grad one sem earlier. So for the next 3 sem, I will need to take 4 core and 1 elective each and I will be able to GET OUT of NTU by end of next yr. Arz!!! Really looking forward to it! Although this will mean that the moment I finish my exam in late july, I'll have juz 2 weeks of rest and sch gonna start again. But nvm, it's okie. I JUST WANT TO GET OUT OF NTU ASAP!??!!!??

HP807 is almost 70% similar to OB while I was looking at the course outlines and lect notes for next week. Studying things like emotions, attitudes, personality, values, job-matching, MBIT, MARS model and alot alot very "familiar" things that I studied during the useless OB lessons. Dont know shld I feel happy becuz it's smth I study b4 (so got a little bit of advantage) or to hate it cuz it's OB stuff!? All right, I shall study this module and try to love it. AT LEAST THIS 1 DON'T HAVE 3500 words report can liaoz.