No matter how prepared i think i am, i have the horrible tendency to mess up oral presentations. like today's japanese oral interview. while it went pretty smoothly, i forgot to use plain form for one roleplay scenario (the card said "you are talking to a close friend"). luck also wasn't really on my side, as i drew a pretty challenging topic ("what does your country import/export, and where from/to?"). compared to other easier topics, like "your dreams for the future" or "a recent bad experience", it was harder because it required some actual knowledge, and not just personal opinion. good thing i was paired with a malaysian, so we naturally talked about water. guess it was kind of lucky after all, in a roundabout-ish sort of way. just wish that the good ideas would come during the interview, not as i step out of the room.
other than the oral, i received my second organometallics test results. i got 41, which was the same as the first test. unfortunately this time round, it was upon 63 instead of 50. after the lecturer went through the answers, i honestly think a 50+ would have been achievable, provided i read one of the questions more carefully, and didn't misinterpret the phrase "fourth-period transition metals". a quick (rough) calculation shows that i've got 29.4% out of the total 40% of the CA component. not bad, but could have been better. still, i think i'm satisfied.
my mentor asked me to stop lab work and focus on exams. i had wanted to do one more synthesis before reading week, but it doesn't seem likely now. speaking of finals, i've got 3 of them, spaced 5 days apart from each other. med chem is first, followed by japanese, then organometallics (oh wait. i mentioned this in the previous post too). it's both kind of good/bad that the content-heavy module is first...gets the heavy studying out of the way. like last semester, i don't think i'll do a study schedule, since i know roughly what to study and when to do it.
oh. nearly forgot. on monday, the same few of us went to the suntec guild house again. main reason was because it will be closing soon, and secondary reason being that tuesday was a public holiday (but i went back to school anyway). had a couple of drinks and some quite intimate discussion...that kind of sounds wrong, doesn't it? what i mean to say is that we discussed a topic that isn't really good to spread. that aside, it's nice to know that my friends regard me as close enough to have this kind of conversations with. it's a bit sucky that i can't really open up to them 100% yet. it's something wrong with me, not them. eventually, i guess.
since tomorrow's japanese conversation tutorial is cancelled, i've got a free day! i'm actually thinking of taking a day off, since i'll be in school practically every day to study for the next fortnight or so. at the same time, i'm tempted to do a major cooking project, just to make sure i don't get any weird cooking urges during exam season. of course, by "major", i mean my usual stew/soup-type thing. just thinking what kind, and how much of the ingredients to buy.
before i go, i'll leave you with a song which i've been listening to quite a lot in the last few weeks. can't believe it took me 24 years to come to know of its existence.
other than the oral, i received my second organometallics test results. i got 41, which was the same as the first test. unfortunately this time round, it was upon 63 instead of 50. after the lecturer went through the answers, i honestly think a 50+ would have been achievable, provided i read one of the questions more carefully, and didn't misinterpret the phrase "fourth-period transition metals". a quick (rough) calculation shows that i've got 29.4% out of the total 40% of the CA component. not bad, but could have been better. still, i think i'm satisfied.
my mentor asked me to stop lab work and focus on exams. i had wanted to do one more synthesis before reading week, but it doesn't seem likely now. speaking of finals, i've got 3 of them, spaced 5 days apart from each other. med chem is first, followed by japanese, then organometallics (oh wait. i mentioned this in the previous post too). it's both kind of good/bad that the content-heavy module is first...gets the heavy studying out of the way. like last semester, i don't think i'll do a study schedule, since i know roughly what to study and when to do it.
oh. nearly forgot. on monday, the same few of us went to the suntec guild house again. main reason was because it will be closing soon, and secondary reason being that tuesday was a public holiday (but i went back to school anyway). had a couple of drinks and some quite intimate discussion...that kind of sounds wrong, doesn't it? what i mean to say is that we discussed a topic that isn't really good to spread. that aside, it's nice to know that my friends regard me as close enough to have this kind of conversations with. it's a bit sucky that i can't really open up to them 100% yet. it's something wrong with me, not them. eventually, i guess.
since tomorrow's japanese conversation tutorial is cancelled, i've got a free day! i'm actually thinking of taking a day off, since i'll be in school practically every day to study for the next fortnight or so. at the same time, i'm tempted to do a major cooking project, just to make sure i don't get any weird cooking urges during exam season. of course, by "major", i mean my usual stew/soup-type thing. just thinking what kind, and how much of the ingredients to buy.
before i go, i'll leave you with a song which i've been listening to quite a lot in the last few weeks. can't believe it took me 24 years to come to know of its existence.
-random thought of the day: Self-control is important.-
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