lethargic

i have just passed the most tiring week so far in school. ever.

what a relief. school has been really weighing me down, mainly because of the history essay that i had to complete. basically it's a take home mid-term test essay, 1500 words complete full with citations and references. the questions were released on tuesday, and were expected to be handed in before 5pm on friday. it was crazy.

i only started to read sme of the readings only on tuesday. and by wednesday i still hadn't started, despite giving training a miss. i only started on the essay properly at 3pm on thursday, with just under 26 hours to go. the last time i did such a thing was with na'im. with just 36 hours to go, we just went for the jugular. and for a paper that was started upon with only 36 hours to go (3000 words mind you!), the grade that we got was not too bad at all. well i managed to complete it anyway by 2am+ on friday morning. considering i really didn't know how to tackle the question at the beginning, i think it's still not too bad. for more criticisms about the troubles of doing this essay, do visit fairus' and gad's blog. haha. and the thing is, there is going to be another term essay for this module of the same length. it means we will have to do 2 essays in the end. it doesn't help every module has a term essay to do.

and the hardest among them, is the exposure history modules. of all the modules! the questions are really hard, even harder than this paper that i just completed. it's crazy. and considering next week is the term break, and i also haeve quite abit of non-studies activities excitingly lined up already, it's really going to weigh me down.

so that's why i've been lethargic this past week. not enough sleep+history exposure module test on tues+history term paper due on friday+talk on judgement day on tuesday+classes+readings+hokkien class on thursday and friday. and this is without any silat trainings or gym sessions. haha. finally a break from all this! but after school starts again, back to the hectic schedules!

oh and about the hokkien class. crazy me signed up for the hokkien conversational class. so did izarina, fahmi, fadhli and nadia. it was fun. the only hokkien that i know is probably a range of vulgarities, and some funny terms that jj and fab always like to use and i learn from hearing them speak. haha. but i think i know abit more from now. it's quite interesting to note how vulgar hokkien sounds, even if what is being said isn't. it is also interesting to note how beautiful arabic also sounds, yet sometimes when you hear the translation it isn't something pleasant. haha.

in any case we were quite enthusiastic in learning i guess. haha. even if we are never going to really converse in hokkien daily, it's quite interesting to learn abit. maybe i can ask jj and fab to teach me even more. i would like to go for more hokkien classes! haha. but the teacher was kind. in any case, he can speak english mandarin hokkien cantonese teochew hainanese japanese and basic malay. that's really quite impressive. one fine day i should pick up a proper 3rd language. it's a shame i could never really master arabic. in any case i won't take a 3rd language in school anyway. okay so now i can count from 1 to 99 in hokkien i guess. haha. can't remember what 100 in hokkien is though. well at least among the 5 of us, we can spew all sorts of nonsense to each other if we meet up next time. haha.

so later on i have a bp bbq at east coast park, which i'm going with fairus and hanan. tomorrow is a trip down to golden mile centre with some of the rest, probably i'm playing the role of a tour guide and middleman. haha. then tuesday is the karaoke session, then wednesday/thursday is the cycling session at east coast park. thn saturday there is the silat performance at hougang. i wonder how come i have so many things on, considering the lack of social life i enjoy. haha. in any case it is always a much-needed welcome break from studies.

okay la that's about it now. wa ai ki jiak peng liao. buay tahan leh.