Thoughts before the finals

I've been thinking much nowadays, about what i want from life. I think about all the shit that we had to go through during JC, and realise that over here, things are actually much easier. I'm not sure if this has got anything to do with time wasted commuting to school, or ECAs, or self-imposed stress brought on indirectly by peer pressure. but perhaps it is easier to manage living over here than back in SG. I find that even with an exam tomorrow i can have the ease of mind to take some time to go for a run or perhaps watch a movie 2 days before. There's just so much more to living than existing for one sole purpose during a limited space of time. I realise that i admire nerdy asian geeks for their passion for grades and discipline in being the best in their field, but then if i were to be like one of them, i'd be totally missing the point of an overseas education. I will make sure my grades can make it though, despite having played 500 games of freecell in the past 2 weeks (after quitting dota). I guess some things really never change.

I'm happy i got out of my "end of year" mood. Generally grumpy and crazy. Irritating and obnoxious even. Glad it didn't cause too much damage. I've been having it since secondary school. Toward the end of the year i just become irritable and restless. Even during army days, so you can't say its cos of exams. Not too sure why, but i believe that guys have mood cycles too. Nothing so obvious as PMS but even then i'm sure guys experience a few hormonal cycles, of which when all the peaks/troughs coincide, a furious vengent monster is born... Maybe not a furious vengent monster, but you get the idea. So i think this happens at the end of the year for me. Not so nice.

I haven't looked at my middle east stuff for 3 weeks. Its been 3 weeks since the strike, and at the moment some of the GAs and TAs have gone back to lecture and recitation, especially the foreign ones cos if they didnt they would have been deported. nevertheless. AS you probably have guessed, the foto at the top was a foto of the strike going on outside bobst library.

We had dinner at the Grand Sichuan on the 10th for Cheryl's birthday.

The spicy beef tendon was good. The har gaos as well. Those were the things i remember best about the meal. Had some good tau foo also.

I managed to get free tickets for King Kong yesterday. OMG it was sooo good. It really puts matrix 2 and 3 to shame in terms of fighting. And of course, Peter Jackson being the director, expect to see beautiful shots of NYC and Skull Island, and many closeups between Beast and Naomi. She is rather hot, but thats a bonus to a movie which attempts to explore various themes, including the vileness of man and the generally destructive behaviour that our actions easily provoke, the concept of beauty, the relationship between beauty and the beast, among others. Rather good emotional play in the movie, Jack Black got some corny lines in the book to play. But fantastic effort for a serious role really. Despite it being true that i can't help but laugh when i see his face. All you ppl who are reading this: GO WATCH KING KONG!

Ok i'll end with a final thought: I think i need to do my take home test. Talk to you guys later. SO WHEN ARE YOU ALL GOING TO POST SOME MEMORIES OF ME? POST IN COMMENTS/OR TAGBOARD, THANKS!