Mid Sems Again

It's too soon.... still feeling quite lazy.... Barely 1 month after the start of sem and it's midsem exams already? I thought the sem was supposed to last 14 weeks.... apparently the people at the SIB don't know how to count cos it's just week 5 right now.

Still... shouldn't be too bad cos we've covered a lot of this like 2-3 times already. Mendel and his ever so irritating laws. Now that I think of it.... this is my 4th time going through Mendel... a little bit extra now with chi-square added... but the basics still covered in there....

Good thing about having covered a lot of this already is that assignments are pretty okay. I got 8/10 for a Mendel problem set the other day.... she took a few half marks off here and there for a couple of titchy little mistakes.... but it's still a good mark. Also 7/10 for Mendel practical. Didn't do so well in this one... but could've been worse. Personally I think the number of red marks in the paper was more than 3/10... but.... who am I to disagree right?

Now I've got a midsem coming up.... in about 13 mins.

Wish me luck....

Ekka

Ooh... hadn't noticed... it's been 10 days since I last blogged. Getting slack. :-)

Anyhow... it's been an uneventful week +. Nothing much but the usual... eat, sleep, play computer games etc.

I went to the Ekka yesterday (the Royal Brisbane Exposition to be more exact). Almost didn't make it cos halfway in the journey, at the city, it started raining so I had to layover for a couple of hours. Finally made it though. It was quite fun. Very crowded. But lots of stuff to see. There was heaps of food everywhere. Displays on stuff like... gardening, quilts, beef and so on.... . It's also a fun-fair so had all the usual fun-fair games there as well as some of the more extreme ones. No rollercoaster though.... . I didn't try the games... too expensive and I really don't like being hung upside down that high.

They had these things called showbags there.... where you buy this big bag full of candy and stuff so I bought a Wonka one. It wasn't bad except for the lack of chocolate. Also, there was this Strawberry Sundae by Nestle Peters that's apparently an Ekka tradition. It wasn't bad. Quite surprising actually as it had a few layers. It looked like just strawberry ice-cream on a standard wafer cone but inside it had fruit and vanilla as well. I got a bit of a shock when strawberries started spilling out of it. Hehe.

Anyway, that's all for now I guess. I'll post up the pics next time when I've finished processing 'em.

Splurging

Just paid my fees the other day. First time I ever wrote a cheque. Also... amount was huge! $11,030. I have pictures of it... but they're blur and posting pictures of cheques can be dangerous so I'm not gonna bother.
Spending that kind of money can be a bit sobering. It's like.... we're paying that much for a course that takes up about 4-5 hours/week and that's not including textbooks etc.

Ah well.

Been working the whole weekend. Two full day shifts. Pretty tiring but I'm getting used to it....
Must have had something funny for lunch on Sunday though. Stomach complications. Got so bad that I was shaking at registers and my coworkers were all like... "Are you well?"

Stupid class cancellation today. Didn't get the notice until... it was too late. So... could've slept in today. Other than that class at 8 am, my next class was at 5 pm. Woke up at 6.50 just for that class, walked all the way there and discovered only two guys sitting there. What a waste of time. So I went to Chermside and walked around for a bit. Didn't do much there though.

Then came back and napped.

All in all an uneventful day.

Transplant

So...

Things breaking down all over the place. You've heard all about my troubles with my phone... now it's my PC's turn.

Keyboard broke. 'Y' key chipped off. Good news is.... it's still under warranty so a Dell techie came over today and fixed it up for me after a lot of fuss over when to service it.

Haven't been having pristine days. Been pretty tired these past couple of days. Damn this cold. Guess my body's telling me to catch up on my sleep.

Got through today though. Happy for that at least. Almost didn't make it to Biotech class cos I felt really really lethargic.

Two assignments came in. One Genetics and one big big one on Biotech. Luckily I've got a month to do it in although, cross your fingers, hope I won't wait until the last couple of days to tackle it. I think I won't... but who knows what I would or wouldn't do.... Hehe.

Good thing. My pay for the past couple of weeks has come in. No need to skimp for a while although in keeping with my words earlier. I should kerb spending so much and save a bit. Still, at least I have some excess now.... in case.

Signing Off.

I Spoke Too Soon

Haih. Rookie mistakes. Thought I'd finally shaken off all those stupid little mistakes. Turns out... they were just compiling them and waiting to hit me with them all at once. 9 sheets today. 9 mistakes.... accumulated over the past... dunno how long. Also.... thought that cold went off for good already. Turns out it was just laying low... waiting to come back with a vengeance.

On the plus side.... Quite nice things have been happening. Yesterday, my phone charger broke. Went to the Three Centre and they told my it was not covered under warranty and I had to replace it but they didn't have one in stock. So I went to the Nokia Care Centre. The lady there was so nice. She replaced it for me at no cost because she recognised me from before.

Watched the Simpsons Movie today after work. Was quite hilarious. The 1 1/2 hours flew by just like that. Was pretty sorry that it was over so soon.

That's it for now I guess.
Stay tuned.

Tired

Been quite exhausted this past week or so. Probably a spillover from the Harry Potter weekend where on Friday, finished work at 9.30 got back at 10.30, slept at 12.30 and woke up at 4.30. And the spillover lasted a week so far. Can't seem to convince myself to go to bed early. As a result... my concentration suffers. Been behaving a little odd for the past few days...

Ah well. Anyway, First week of classes. Horrible horrible timetable cos there's like 2 5 o'clock classes with not much in between. So it's like... morning classes... then 3-4 hours in between until the next class which is really stupid cos I can't do much else in then.

Work's been okay... gradually falling into a routine there. At least I'm not making any more stupid rookie mistakes. Back to 20 hours a week now... which doesn't seem to be enough. My pay suffers accordingly.

On the subject of pay, my expenditure this month has been horrendous. I really could have got by with less. Have to start cutting back on some of the luxuries... games... shows... clothes... etc.

Things have been pretty quiet nowadays although I suppose the pace will pick up in the coming weeks as school is in now. Don't really have much to do nowadays so mucking around on my computer playing the odd game or so and reading people's blogs :-)

This is interesting. Apparently I'm more eloquent when I'm feeling lethargic than I do when I'm perky as evidenced by the length of this post. Hmm... side effect. Interesting parallel with the Ed. Board days when I also had a general lack of sleep but could come up with all sorts of ideas to write down. Oh well. Suppose if I ever need to write next time... must sleep-deprive myself first.

That's it I suppose....

The End

There. I've done it. I've finished The Book.

For all my talk of not taking it up tonight because I wouldn't be able to put it down, I did it. There'll be hell to pay tomorrow I guess. Something to do with the lack of sleep over the past couple of days... but I guess I'll just have to handle it somehow.

Okay. Bedtime.