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Defying Gravity - Tuesday, November 06, 2007 at 9:53 AM

Every semester, there's always a dreaded period of frantic cramming, where i'll take on the seemingly impossible task of squeezing 3 months worth of lectures and tutorials into a couple of days' worth of learning. Talk about bending space/time continuum, this is probably the closest i'll ever get in reality.

The task gets more impossible when you factor in my short attention span. After 10 mins or so, i'll get distracted by something, the bed, the television, youtube... anything to "rest", in inverted commas because really, the extended periods of "rest" are more like "laze-around-extensively time".

Only solution is to go to school to study, which i will be doing tomorrow. 6 hours time actually, which effectively means i'll be doing the "wake-up-early-to-go-to-school-even-though-i-have-no-morning-classes" thing, which means i'm in second gear. I'll only put the pedal to the metal the day before my paper. That's the way it has worked, and will always no matter how hard i try to study earlier. All the nice studying time-tables leading up to my exams, never goes to plan, never works.

Anyway, enought about studying. Prior to exams, i'll always have this list of things that pop up in my head periodically. The to-do list for my free time after exams. So far, i've got a couple of things to be done during this short holidays, and of course the long one next year, and the one i look forward to next next year, which i will cover later *claps in exitement*.

This hollis:
1) Watch as many movies as i can. I feel so deprived now. Hopefully stardust will still be in theatres then. Hopefully. Also other movies i've been wanting to watch, but don't have the time, Minority Report, Les Miserables, Resident Evil 1&2 (haven't watched 1, forgot how 2 went).
2) Learn to play the songs from Wicked: the musical. They're nice! Seriously, no sarcasm there at all. Hey, i've already established the fact that i'm a fan of musicals, no?
3) Pedal modding, as mentioned before. Melting stuff = neverending fun.
4) Hellgate: London. Looks to be a solid game, and to be honest, i haven't played a solid game ever since i picked up Dota, which i'm still clean from fyi. 5+ months now.

Next hollis:
1) Unfortunately, to lighten my load from the normal school semester, i'll have to attend 6 weeks of "summer school", to clear 2 modules. Hey, this beats 12 weeks of vaction internship program. 3 months of working, 8 to 5. No thanks man, i'd rather study.
2) Probably going to France to visit moi sister. Hopefully i'll be able to convince my family to take short trip to England, where there should be more interesting stuff and the people speak funny but are understandable. Interesting, referring to the soccer stadiums and West End of course. Too bad the soccer season's over then. West End should be interesting though. I'm aiming for Wicked and Les Miserables, and if there's time, the Phantom's always there. Wicked looks really cool! I caught the short version of it in Japan Universal Studios, and though the whole thing was in Japanese, i enjoyed it a lot! Think about it, if it's in English, 100 times the fun.

As for France, probably the places of interest, which won't be interested in for long given my fore-mentioned baby-like attention span. Bonjour, merci, madamsoille, monsiuer, and that is the full summary of my French vocabulary. Of course there's that naughty line from Lady Marmalade, but i'm not counting in a statement that'll get me slapped in public.

June 2009
Yes, this is THE holidays to look forward to. No numbering of to-do's like above, just one huge thing to do: AMERICA!!!!! Yup, our cell group's planning a trip to the US of A for some Disneyland fun. There's a million and one things to look forward to. Disneyland, theme parks, music equipment.... EVERYTHING! And if someone's with me on this, i will also want to make a trip down to NY. Yup, broadway! And also, there's just this certain magic to the city. I've been there twice before actually, and i can attest to the notion put across by so many Americans, that the city is indeed MAGICAL. There's just this movie-like feel to the place, probably because there are thousands of films based in NY. From the rooftops, to the back alleys reminiscent of West Side story, to the famous places like Times Square, Broadway, etc. The urban feel to the place, is just so... ok, i'll stop gushing about it before i start to sound like a girl. In short, *puts on non-chalant look* it's cool.

So many things to look forward to! But currently my worry should be, just like the slogan on this particular shirt worn by all the PRCs and Indian scholars in NUS, "i'll graduate on time no matter what it takes". Yes, i'm serious, they wear that. And my friend WW, who apparently shares a common taste with scholars. I think you can fill in your own punchlines in here, i'll leave the final blow to you =)

Back to study. My, that was a long break.

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