Appassionato

End of 2007 for university

Categorised as School & tagged with tests, uni.

After more than three weeks of mental torture since the exams finished, my long-waited complete set of exam results for this semester finally came through yesterday.

• Account­ing: A+
• Economics: A+
• Law: B+
• Math­em­at­ics: A+
• Stat­ist­ics: A+

As expected, the lowest mark had to be for Law. *sulks* But my overall year GPA is reas­on­ably high – high enough for entry into second-year Law if there are no surprises. So I’m satisfied.

On the downside, my next year’s timetable is quite bad. That is, classes until 5 pm on three days per week. I’m not looking forward to the papers much either.

• LAW 201 Criminal Law
• LAW 211 Public Law
• LAW 299 Legal Research
• ECON 201 Microeconomics
• ECON 211 Macroeconomics
• ECON 241 Inter­na­tional Economics
• INTBUS 210 Inter­na­tional Business Requirement
• MATHS 208 Data Analysis for Commerce
• Can’t decide between Japanese, Psy­cho­logy or Philo­sophy for my last paper

Boring classes. Probably a boring post for those who don’t care. But I know I always like knowing what papers other students are taking because I’m nosy that way.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Categorised as Literature & tagged with books.

Like many others, my sister and I got this famous book on the day it was released in book­stores. But while my sister finished it on the day, I only recently did (after leaving it in my bottom drawer cabinet for three months). Con­sid­er­ing myself as a dedicated Harry-Potter-series lover, I am indeed a social failure. Though, better late than never!

I found it really exciting through­out. It’s impress­ive how J.K. Rowling managed to link such a long story together from the first to the seventh book and resolve all the mysteries by the end of everything.

Contrary to popular distaste for the epilogue, I liked it. Well, I’ve always liked the “happily after scene” after a good story.

I have yet to make my Reading Log entry for this, and I’ll write more thoughts for it when I do. Hopefully by the end of my summer holidays (until 3 March) I will have completed the entire Harry Potter series again.

For those who are not into Harry Potter: If a book series could be so popular that readers of all genders/sexual orientations/ages/sizes/blah across the globe are into it, it means it’s def­in­itely worth your time to have a try.

(… Did I just spend all that time manually upgrading WordPress and then remember I had the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin? Ahhh *swears*)

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How the Internet kills my time

Categorised as Internet, Personal & tagged with lists.

This is a breakdown of how I currently waste my life on the web.

Profile sites

1. Facebook: I log on at least once a day. The Facebook applic­a­tions are such life-wasters, but I still love them.
2. Bebo: to be honest, it’s boring. But I log on whenever I get an email noti­fic­a­tion for a new comment, etc.

Forums

1. Snark: we all love Snark. How can you not love Snark? It’s one place where people actually under­stand what you’re talking about. (Because everyone pretty much speaks the language of gibberish.)
2. Happy Mapling: lots of idiots, lots of bums, lots of fun.

Book­mark­ing sites

1. del.icio.us: now when I search for things, I tend to look in del.icio.us first, Google second. Because the sites book­marked by more people tend to be better, I guess.
2. Digg: not so much actually, but there can be inter­est­ing articles around.

Art com­munit­ies

1. devi­antART: always new additions, always amazing hence I always visit. I’m not quite happy that it’s usually just the popular and “well-respected” artists that clog the front-page. It’s harder to find other new but great artists.
2. Skyefairy: for an art community much closer to the web circle I’m in (or was in). It covers up for the downside I pointed out for deviantART.

For most of the above, my username is wildx22. Actually, that’s my username for almost anything.

That doesn’t seem like a long list, but I sure as hell spend hours on them each day; plus the MSN, reading other sites I sub­scribed to and of course, recently admiring Rikkye’s new layout… I have no life because the Internet sucked it away from me.

So how does the Internet kill your time? (That’s laying the blame on the Internet, not me. )

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