I'm happy to say that I am not suffering from my usual pre-Monday syndrome. For those who don't know what this is, it is (from my personal defintion) the feelings of slight depression and lethargy due to lack of productive activity and the prospect of school/college/work the next day. I wonder if that could be an actual medical condition... and I discovered and first recorded it!! They could name it after me!!!
Ahem... that was a little random... so anyway, the 4th round of tests are over. I wish I could just forget about studies for a nice long while, but I can't. The mid-course exams are in 1 & 1/2 months, and I really need to keep up a consistent level of study if I want to do well. Not to mention the fate of my scholarship depends on how well I do for these exams. If I fail anything, the scholarship is withdrawn. No compromise, no discussion. AND I have need to have an average of 60 and above as the second condition. If the scholarship isn't in the equation, all these conditions would seem pretty trivial. It seems to be human nature that everything automatically becomes insanely difficult once there is a price attached to it. My physics lecturer (who is unnervingly similar to the former beloved bio teacher, mr. chuah) told the entire hall of students that we were going to fail our mid-course. He seemed to say it in a joking way, but still... choi ! choi! choi!
Results weren't exactly confidence-building either. Chemistry and physics were the worst. My chemistry lecturer gave a ridiculously tough test (which she called
challenging, not difficult). and what's more, we only had 50 minutes. Physics was, well, almost to be expected. Just glad I passed that, to be honest.
Anyway, enough with college talk. Yesterday I went out for the first time this year. As sad as that sounds, it is unfortunately true. I am indeed an antisocial individual. Most of the time, anyway. So I was actually quite glad to pulled out of the house by cheryl (whom I was actually expecting to be all americanised). We managed to watch
The Dark Knight (yes, that is my first movie of the year as well), and I have to say that Heath Ledger's Joker was simply terrifying. His acting (if he even was) was absolutely amazing. If I were to die a tragic death, that's how I want to be remembered. The movie itself was really intense too. Effects were great, acting was great, unrelenting storyline. Only thing was that it was kinda depressing, and by the end of 2 1/2 hours I felt exhausted. Suprisingly it was rated U, consider all the violence and disturbing elements. Even more surprising was getting tickets on opening day! HAH!
It was really fun to catch up on old times and get up to date on new news. OH! And among that new news: Dennis Clement Forsythe has a girlfriend! LOL... I'm sure almost everyone knows about this already, but it's still fun to talk about this. Really happy for you DC, if you're reading. You will be plenty teased and pestered and questioned by practically everyone you know, sorry to say (including me, of course).
And that will be it for me today... and let's make all former Stella Marisians know about our former school captain's new love in his life :)
