Well guys, it's Thursday night and we don't have exams until next week Monday, so we've all got a nice break (or cram study sessions: whatever way you look at it). For starters, I know I could have done better on History, I didn't properly answer all of the extended responses. I put too much time into the first one and not enough into the other two, I didn't know what ASEAN was (I do now), and...yeah. I screwed up. Geography wasn't TOO bad, but the ext.resp. being half the exam will cost me: again, I didn't write too much, some of the info I gathered for the exam was irrelevant to the question, so I felt I wasted time. Japanese listening went fine for me. As far as I could tell, I understood everything and I THINK I translated properly. I hope.
Minor - IST. I did not bother studying for this subject: ironically, though, I knew a fair amount of the answers. But I'm not saying I did well: some of the questions I b#!!$#!^ed with pretty words in short answers. I have NO idea what a histogram in Photoshop is for or what one looks like. Lucky for me, though, I've worked with Flash before so hopefully that'll bump up my marks.
Major - Japanese. As rushed as I was to finish and check my exam, I feel that I did pretty well and I don't think I could have done better if I had an extra day to study: my brain was at full capacity. It occured to me this morning that I could have replaced the 'tou' in Kyoto with the 'east' kanji, so I know I didn't get 100%. I also think that maybe I got my sentence structure and some particles wrong, so that;s a good 2~5 marks off T_T. 100% in Japanese nowadays seems impossible...where's the bloody cheat code?!
Last for the week, English. 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' left me with a HUGE '?' above my head when I read the story and questions in the reading time. I was thinking, 'How the HELL am I going to figure an abstract story out, and then write an EXTENSION of it?!' Reading the story in relations to the questions in detail helped. Of course, being abstract, the answers are open to interpretation, so I can't say how well I went in that section. Same goes for the DIY Walter Mitty episode, I can't say how well I went, I'm no English teacher. All I can say is that it was fun writing the story from the overshoes section and the stimulus (I used aliens XD).
Thursday...a very disruptive yet productive science double theory lesson. Very loud, but we learnt what we needed to. I feel that Baxter deserves a different class...he needs a class that shuts up. Seriously. But that's my opinion. Geography was nothing special, computer rooms, some of the grils were studying for upcoming HYs, Justin tried the quizzes I made in Year 8 for Games Programming (god, they were horrible) and I pwned him in several games of Tetris.
"You guys better not play counterstrike, or else I'll counterstrike you back!" - Milner (or something along those lines...)
Math. I helped Jasmine with her coming Jap. speaking exam. I led her on a crash course. In all honesty, Jasmine could top the class, she just needs to practice her Jap even just 5 minutes every few days (man, I sound like such a teacher XD).
Lunch. Kelvin, sorry I forgot to ask Ms. Hewett straight away about the speaking thing. Played 'spin the rose'. We experienced bad coffee, that stuff is keeping me awake pretty well seeing as how I am not a coffee person and it was double shot and I guzzled a third of the can. Is that alot in general or alot for me? I dunno. Feedback welcome (now it sounds like a question forum).
IST. Worked on my chicken walk animation a little. Talked mainly though. Japanese. I spent pretty much all the lesson revising with Jasmine and Christine & Vii on the side. Jasmine passed the first part of her speaking exam, so I'm very proud of her. It's good to know that she isn't failing Jap: I feel responsible for her (for lack of a better phrase), because I've been doing my best to help her keep up in Japanese. Like a tutor. Or not. I dunno. Jazz, if you're reading this, I hope this doesn't offend you, I mean this in a good way (if this can be interpreted in a bad way).
Pork chop and rice for dinner. Japanese bbq sauce went with the pork chop. Reminds me of my time in Japan. I miss the culture, the people, the friends I made, the food of course...so many things. I wish that there was a device that could project your memories onto a TV like in 'Meet The Robinsons'. I hate how it all happened less than a year ago and yet I cannot rememberly everything perfectly. I can't expect it, but I have always wanted my memory to be sharper at the least.
Enough ramblings for tonight. Seems like that coffee has got my head buzzing. Guess I'll be up for a good while animating while watching 'Heroes'. Good night all.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
What's going on up there
Wow, I 'm on a roll tonight! Three posts in an hour. Reading Ebony's and AB's (I'll add yours later, I swear) latest blog entries had me thinking about my own 'voices', for lack of a less insane sounding word. And when I started thinking about it, it became something I REALLY wanted to do. That would be Compulsive. You see, in my head, I like to identify and LABEL the 'voices' in my head, because it's all me, I know that, just different sides of me. That was obviously Truth. As you can see (I hope), I like to split them apart and know what's what: it helps to calm myself when I'm upset. I admit this is all pretty goofy, but you know, it's me.
When I first set out to do this post, I was determined to get a good length out of this. Now I'm stuck. Impatience and Sloth want me to stop and go to sleep. Perseverance and Stubbornhead want me to keep going, and I agree with them. I was hoping Anger would pop his angry head in mine so I could add more, but he hasn't: there's nothing to be angry about. Panic is waiting for my mum to open the door and tell me off. Oblivious couldn't care less. Sloth is trying to tell Panic to not worry about it. Dictionary is trying to think of a better name for Stubbornhead, Pendantic thinks it isn't a nice enough name for a voiced feeling in my brain. And neither do I.
That was about five to ten minutes of me thinking, and I edited a few parts out, most of the cut out parts being me identifying which feeling voiced its opinion. Some are harder to name than others: after all, some feelings aren't too dissimilar from each other. Time for bed now, mum just told me to sleep. But one cares. Everyone just wants some shut eye. Night. (more posts below FYI).
When I first set out to do this post, I was determined to get a good length out of this. Now I'm stuck. Impatience and Sloth want me to stop and go to sleep. Perseverance and Stubbornhead want me to keep going, and I agree with them. I was hoping Anger would pop his angry head in mine so I could add more, but he hasn't: there's nothing to be angry about. Panic is waiting for my mum to open the door and tell me off. Oblivious couldn't care less. Sloth is trying to tell Panic to not worry about it. Dictionary is trying to think of a better name for Stubbornhead, Pendantic thinks it isn't a nice enough name for a voiced feeling in my brain. And neither do I.
That was about five to ten minutes of me thinking, and I edited a few parts out, most of the cut out parts being me identifying which feeling voiced its opinion. Some are harder to name than others: after all, some feelings aren't too dissimilar from each other. Time for bed now, mum just told me to sleep. But one cares. Everyone just wants some shut eye. Night. (more posts below FYI).
New additions...
Just as a quick post because I need more, I added more associates because I got bored the last couple of weekends and browsed more blogs, thus adding more blogs. I'll add more later when I'm bothered. In the mean time, read the post below if you haven't already, you may have missed it.
Another Reflection
10pm right now, and I should be studying, but I'm not. I just finished FBing and youtube-ing. While I was on FB, I saw Jannice comment on our dance vid being up. Obviously, I wanted to watch. It's funny when I think about it. When I was watching everyone else's dances, I still thought in my head, 'our's was WAY better', but seeing ours through fresh eyes, I thought, 'wow, I'm really up myself!'. Watching us dance compared to actually doing the dance is a huge difference, something I have just realised.
While I was practicing and learning the dance and rehearsing with the music, I felt empowered and untouchable, that no one could top us and we would get perfect marks. But when I watched the video, I thought to myself, 'I felt so energetic and speedy (for lack of a better word) when I was dancing. I know I'm not there, but still.' The dance didn't have as much power and effect I thought it had. Of course, it was a good dance, just not as awesome as I thought it was. Kind of like lifting the curtain from behind my eyes. I feel a bit sad, a little let down. Not by my group, but myself, that I could have done more, made it more dynamic. I dunno. When we got the dance assessment, as terrified of it as I was, I also wanted to make if spectacular, meaningful and vivacious (excuse the fancy word, it just works really well...to me). I guess it just fell short for me. But hey, I'm no dancer, and I don't think any of us were professionally instructed in the past, so I can't complain. Just something I wanted to say before I would forget. Thanks for reading!
While I was practicing and learning the dance and rehearsing with the music, I felt empowered and untouchable, that no one could top us and we would get perfect marks. But when I watched the video, I thought to myself, 'I felt so energetic and speedy (for lack of a better word) when I was dancing. I know I'm not there, but still.' The dance didn't have as much power and effect I thought it had. Of course, it was a good dance, just not as awesome as I thought it was. Kind of like lifting the curtain from behind my eyes. I feel a bit sad, a little let down. Not by my group, but myself, that I could have done more, made it more dynamic. I dunno. When we got the dance assessment, as terrified of it as I was, I also wanted to make if spectacular, meaningful and vivacious (excuse the fancy word, it just works really well...to me). I guess it just fell short for me. But hey, I'm no dancer, and I don't think any of us were professionally instructed in the past, so I can't complain. Just something I wanted to say before I would forget. Thanks for reading!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Jap culture, bestialities, the bird IS the word and Pocky games
It seems that once again I have neglected to blog in recent days. I'm also no closer to finishing the Phils post. Pity. And with the HY's coming up, I'm not going to have time for this for a good few weeks. Just recapping, I did next to nothing during my holidays, since I was recovering from an operation for the bulk of the time which I would rather not discuss. The week coming back to school was pretty good, it was nice to see everyone again. Thing is, I'm not sure you could call it a week, per se. Rather, a few days of schools would be more approriate. Monday was a 'public holiday', Tuesday was a normal school day though. Double Ag for starters which is, for me, a really good way to start the term. *takes out diary to find help himself remember the rest of the day*.
This was followed by English and insights on Macbeth (did we start watching the movie?) and geography. Ended the day with math and IST. Wednesday was a cruise day too. Science, math and geo again, I can't recall too well what happened. Nothing of importance I guess. Lunch. Sport. If ever you have to go to no-sport, don't go. Other than Josh, Morgan and Lucy being there, no teachers. REALLY boring. So I ditched it and went back to the school sport group. I watched people get beaten by the computer on the SNAP! game. Lied down in the shade.
Thursday was Jap culture centre day. It was lots of fun going through the whole experience again. Just by participating and listening to the hosts, I knew I had to scratch up more on my lingo. For me, the whole day was lots of fun with the games (hit the bell with the hammer!) and activities (Christine and Jazz's avatar was AWESOME), especially the technology one. It was fun listening to everyone's self-introduction. Posing for the season group photos was fun too. I was the fan-goer with a 'deadly' katana XD! The bentou was really nice too (damn it Prad, she couldn't see the characters without her glasses for the quiz so I had to do it. Man, I had to eat on the move). Walking and train-ing to and from the tanken centre was fun too. I need to upload the photos on FB sometime soon ><.
Friday was another end of week, so it was just a good day because it was Friday. It was fun to use the 'we were on excursion for Jap' excuse. Hahaha, take THAT!
W/E...nothing special. I did nost of my HW. Played games. Yeah.
Monday. Circuit experiments. Migrants assignment due. I got that finished in time (yay) in Science. I half finished a question on Saturday and thought 'I'll do it tomorrow' but I forgot to finish the question. Sphere surface area and volume in math. Spheres kick trigonometry's ass! Director changes to banquet scene in Macbeth. Ugh.
Double science on Tuesday = experiments! Score. Geography sheets and math, IST and Jap. Hm. My memory sucks.
Wednesday was double Ag and English. Very, very, VERY good (unless you forgot to do director changes XD). Boer goats were toe clipped, Noha, Kim, Justin, Chris, Mei-Wei, Kelvin (more or less) and I talked about random things. Just as a note, the previous double we talked about bestiality and necrofilia and stuff. Yeah. Did you know that there are people that have sexual attaractions to inanimate objects (like bridges and towers)? I feel sorry for those people...anyway. English. I think we started watching the movie that day. Sport, I got to play this time. Well, actually, sport was walking the Cross Country route.
W.night: "Well, the bird, bird, bird is the word! A b-b-bird bird bird! B-bird's the word! Guy behind the counter, frightened little child, lady on the toilet, the bird is the word! don't you know about the word?!' "Sure! Everybody knows that the bird is the word!"
"...It was under my understanding that everyone had heard." 'What?' "BRIAN DON'T!!" "Bird! Bird! B-bird's the word!" *seizure* "bababa uma maumau, baba umau ma mau" XD
Moving on...
Thursday was the day. THE DAY. The day that Pocky ran wild! It was planned that we would play the Pocky game. Two people eat one end each of a stick of Pocky. FIrst person to turn away loses. Ebony said she would always win (we all agreed) so she didn't play, Mei-wei didn't want to, we lost Rhoda and Amy and Rutherford had previous plans. With only me, May-lyn and Justin, I wasn't gonna play like that. So instead, we introduced the game to some other people. BRedan and Shane kissed for a millisecond. But that's nothing. After some psyching up, Lizzie and Courtney WENT FOR IT. And boy, they went for it. You'd expect that right after getting to the end, you'd kissed and want to instantly break away. But they held in that kiss for a GOOD 5 seconds, which seemed like 20 minutes. My eyes may have as well popped out of their sockets. I spent the bulk of Ag asking Sandie if she knew about the word.
Friday. Cross Country. I didn't run. I'm still healing. That plus we would have PE after, and I'd be deadbeat tired after all of that. Jap was half full surprisingly, me and Donald being the only guys there. Christine offered some banana bread. English left me as the only guy (gah) and a few girls. Macbeth movie T_T.
Double PE (yes!), lots of fun OzTag. The only problem was I felt like I was a centre of physical distress for others that day. First off, when I was going for the ball, so was Kelvin. I think I took the ball before he could, but I don't remember; we both hit the ground trying to get the ball. But either way, it was out of both our hands within a couple seconds. Kelvin resulted in pulling something (his calf?), so I had to help him over to the strip of fake turf. Near the end of the game, I was chasing the ball (or I already had it) again with Lucy to my right. While we were both going for it, I bumped into her while either passing or kicking it. This caused her to twist her knee. This kinda signalled the end of the game. She was okay by the bell, but still needed some assistance getting to the station.
During these past couple weeks, Shane mistook me for Justin twice. I don't mind, it happens. If anything, I'd laugh if it were any other person than myself. I've been doing work this Saturday, I just need to do more tomorrow. It's 10:20pm right now, so I guess I'll be shuffling off now. Hope you enjoyed reading this.
This was followed by English and insights on Macbeth (did we start watching the movie?) and geography. Ended the day with math and IST. Wednesday was a cruise day too. Science, math and geo again, I can't recall too well what happened. Nothing of importance I guess. Lunch. Sport. If ever you have to go to no-sport, don't go. Other than Josh, Morgan and Lucy being there, no teachers. REALLY boring. So I ditched it and went back to the school sport group. I watched people get beaten by the computer on the SNAP! game. Lied down in the shade.
Thursday was Jap culture centre day. It was lots of fun going through the whole experience again. Just by participating and listening to the hosts, I knew I had to scratch up more on my lingo. For me, the whole day was lots of fun with the games (hit the bell with the hammer!) and activities (Christine and Jazz's avatar was AWESOME), especially the technology one. It was fun listening to everyone's self-introduction. Posing for the season group photos was fun too. I was the fan-goer with a 'deadly' katana XD! The bentou was really nice too (damn it Prad, she couldn't see the characters without her glasses for the quiz so I had to do it. Man, I had to eat on the move). Walking and train-ing to and from the tanken centre was fun too. I need to upload the photos on FB sometime soon ><.
Friday was another end of week, so it was just a good day because it was Friday. It was fun to use the 'we were on excursion for Jap' excuse. Hahaha, take THAT!
W/E...nothing special. I did nost of my HW. Played games. Yeah.
Monday. Circuit experiments. Migrants assignment due. I got that finished in time (yay) in Science. I half finished a question on Saturday and thought 'I'll do it tomorrow' but I forgot to finish the question. Sphere surface area and volume in math. Spheres kick trigonometry's ass! Director changes to banquet scene in Macbeth. Ugh.
Double science on Tuesday = experiments! Score. Geography sheets and math, IST and Jap. Hm. My memory sucks.
Wednesday was double Ag and English. Very, very, VERY good (unless you forgot to do director changes XD). Boer goats were toe clipped, Noha, Kim, Justin, Chris, Mei-Wei, Kelvin (more or less) and I talked about random things. Just as a note, the previous double we talked about bestiality and necrofilia and stuff. Yeah. Did you know that there are people that have sexual attaractions to inanimate objects (like bridges and towers)? I feel sorry for those people...anyway. English. I think we started watching the movie that day. Sport, I got to play this time. Well, actually, sport was walking the Cross Country route.
W.night: "Well, the bird, bird, bird is the word! A b-b-bird bird bird! B-bird's the word! Guy behind the counter, frightened little child, lady on the toilet, the bird is the word! don't you know about the word?!' "Sure! Everybody knows that the bird is the word!"
"...It was under my understanding that everyone had heard." 'What?' "BRIAN DON'T!!" "Bird! Bird! B-bird's the word!" *seizure* "bababa uma maumau, baba umau ma mau" XD
Moving on...
Thursday was the day. THE DAY. The day that Pocky ran wild! It was planned that we would play the Pocky game. Two people eat one end each of a stick of Pocky. FIrst person to turn away loses. Ebony said she would always win (we all agreed) so she didn't play, Mei-wei didn't want to, we lost Rhoda and Amy and Rutherford had previous plans. With only me, May-lyn and Justin, I wasn't gonna play like that. So instead, we introduced the game to some other people. BRedan and Shane kissed for a millisecond. But that's nothing. After some psyching up, Lizzie and Courtney WENT FOR IT. And boy, they went for it. You'd expect that right after getting to the end, you'd kissed and want to instantly break away. But they held in that kiss for a GOOD 5 seconds, which seemed like 20 minutes. My eyes may have as well popped out of their sockets. I spent the bulk of Ag asking Sandie if she knew about the word.
Friday. Cross Country. I didn't run. I'm still healing. That plus we would have PE after, and I'd be deadbeat tired after all of that. Jap was half full surprisingly, me and Donald being the only guys there. Christine offered some banana bread. English left me as the only guy (gah) and a few girls. Macbeth movie T_T.
Double PE (yes!), lots of fun OzTag. The only problem was I felt like I was a centre of physical distress for others that day. First off, when I was going for the ball, so was Kelvin. I think I took the ball before he could, but I don't remember; we both hit the ground trying to get the ball. But either way, it was out of both our hands within a couple seconds. Kelvin resulted in pulling something (his calf?), so I had to help him over to the strip of fake turf. Near the end of the game, I was chasing the ball (or I already had it) again with Lucy to my right. While we were both going for it, I bumped into her while either passing or kicking it. This caused her to twist her knee. This kinda signalled the end of the game. She was okay by the bell, but still needed some assistance getting to the station.
During these past couple weeks, Shane mistook me for Justin twice. I don't mind, it happens. If anything, I'd laugh if it were any other person than myself. I've been doing work this Saturday, I just need to do more tomorrow. It's 10:20pm right now, so I guess I'll be shuffling off now. Hope you enjoyed reading this.
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