Life...and other afflictions

The rantings and uninteresting events of my life

Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Internet tutorial was a super huge waste of time today. All we did was look at some parody of the White House website. That kinda site is not exactly very funny...so duh. I mean okay, G.W. Bush is a sorta carricature, but don't need to do until like that right? Plus, we were given like a super super long time to look at it. So idiotic. But I suppose it served their purpose as an example of an unreliable website. But it was a waste of time. I'm sure it has it's educational use, but ugh. All this just to get a silly Schein. I mean okay, last week's lesson was still bearable, cos it was about Boolean operators and such stuff, which is quite useful for searching I guess. But I think they should've cut down on the time. They could've made it 2 sessions instead of 3...but maybe others were slower...but I was really dying of boredom. Plus, no personal surfing, email etc. So you can probably imagine what kinda hell it was...ugh ugh ugh.
I remember why I was so pissed yesterday. It's cos like A LOT of people cheated during the German Linguistics exam. It was such a HUUUGE lecture theatre, so obviously people can cheat easily. Ugh. I thought people had more scruples than that, if they study at a university. Turns out maybe the amt of scruples you have is inversely proportional to how high up on the educational you are. I mean, if you fail you fail lah...please...you pass by cheating also no glory...plus, would you actually know enough to go on to the next level of lectures/seminars? Silly people. But oh well, if they wanna ruin their lives, go ahead. None of my business.

The Lit exam today was kinda weird. Firstly, all the questions were in German (it's E. Lit)...so I wrote answers, but I'm like not even sure I understood what the questions were asking for! So that means I may either pass, or fail really horribly! In any case, I stupidly threw away the "free gift" marks. One of the questions was "When was the Industrial Revolution in GB" ...I wrote 1775-1830. Haha, stupid me, 1775 is the start of the American War of Independence! The real starting date was 1760 or something like that. Sigh. Maybe I'll get one point for the correct end date? Heh. Better than nothing I guess? As for the rest, well, I ponned the Rushdie lecture, so I had to crap my way through that question, but it's 5 marks, better than 10 (the usual question's worth that much). Though, I was seriously crapping my way through most of it. Is a poem with 14 lines that don't rhyme a sonnet? I have no idea. Seems like the thing was divided into 3 quatrains and 1 couple...but only in ideas. A pseudo-sonnet maybe? Arrgh, why didn't I think of writing it? See, all the witty ideas never come to me until I am doing other irrelevant things!

Okay, got internet tutorial..gtg.

Monday, February 02, 2004

I had like one of the shittiest days of my life. Gonna fail germ. Sprachwissenschaft. I didn't even fill in enough blanks to pass..whether or not they are correct doesn't even matter anymore. Will have to repeat the class again next semester. What an f-ing waste of time. But I deserve it. I should've revised more. But the stuff was mostly not in the text and notes. What the heck...was still my fault.

Why are girls so stupid about guys? Why are there girls who hope that guys they don't like in return (i.e. reject) or vice versa, will still wanna be friends. Sorry, the truth is, not all guys are THAT generous. And WHY, WHY, WHY, do they think the imperfect bits of the guy will change according to the way they wish it? It pains me to see otherwise perfectly intelligent girls gone to the dogs when it comes to dealing with guys/relationships. It's self-torture! Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, FINE...if mutuality lacks, GIVE UP! Stop imagining things will change magically and become perfect. Ugh.

Call it sour grapes or whatever, but I still think girls should stop being silly. Stop making guys think they are so great!