Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

The exams have been going on for a little more than a week now, but this is the first time I've gotten into the comp lab to tell you all about them. Count yourself lucky for this update, because I don't think I'm going to have much opportunity to do this much more often in the next three or so weeks. I'm highly disappointed in the lab's current situation, though. I've been waiting for nearly three hours now for the Blogger page to download--I'm typing all this on Notepad while waiting--and even my Bleach forum keeps on coming back with a Page Cannot Be Displayed notice. It's been doing that for ages now. I think the staff are trying to reduce their workload by offering rotten service (the bag storage staff are getting slower by the day, I swear it) and by ensuring that the lab's computers are unable to access anything of even mild entertainment value. Like, say, Blogger and Bleach forums. The Coconut has said that they seem to have blocked almost all...

Remember the last few posts when I said that I'd study? It's the latest in a long line of resolutions that I've broken, not least being the one that I wouldn't blog during exam periods. *sheepish grin* But you know, the Net has quite a pull--especially when my social life has dwindled into the occasional dinner out with church friends or appearing on MSN. And I've just re-re-started playing Final Fantasy Three... it's quite addictive, which is proven by the fact that I once skipped lunch to play it for, I don't know, an estimated 8 hours in a row. (Which, Chronicles, is how I went through the game so fast--apart from a cheat sheet and a walkthrough, of course.) It's very nice, apart from the graphics--but then if it were any more detailed it wouldn't fit onto my MP3 player. I do declare that my MP3 player is less a "player" than a storage room for a miscellany of files that have absolutely no connection to music. It already stores my entire...

The A2 officially began yesterday, with the Biology Practical exam--which turned out to be more a killer than I'd expected. Tips had, of course, been given out by the lecturers to those who wished to attend classes, but those were so few that hardly any leaking occurred. In any case, it was easy enough to carry out if one didn't let logic get in the way (and wrongly deduce that bubbles = saliva). And, of course, if one remembered (which I didn't) the correct order of the layers of the kidney--the lecturer had to give me some illicit tips. Of course, it was only a 3-mark question and hardly important to get right, but every little bit counts. I am grateful. I seem to have many people to be grateful to these days: Chronicles has ensured that I shall never be bored again by sending me (via the REAL Messenger) a copy of FF3 and a SNES Emulator. It's fun fun fun! Now if you'll excuse me, I have a garrison of vector pups to destroy. *grin*

I'm in the computer lab as usual, even if it's not really usual times. For one thing, my course is officially over--even if it doesn't really seem like it because the A2 begins this Thursday with the Biology practical paper. This means I'm very very free now--the school, I believe, meant for us to use this very very free time to study instead of blogging. Anyway... I got bored. I woke up at around 7 (due to Niche's alarm clock and his habit of waiting for it to ring at least 5 times before getting out of bed to turn it off AND because I told him to call me up) but actually rolled out of bed at 8.30. After breakfast was when the trouble set in: I found myself all alone in the place (at least, apparently) and without anything to do except study. So I studied. And then I stood up and looked out the window, and lo, it was white; and behold, it was haze. The Indonesians apparently have an unlimited supply of forest to burn, because if I'm right, they've been doin...

"O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!"--Longfellow The above quote, in English, is "O would a Power the Gifter give us/ To see ourselves as others see us!", and quite recently I've found that some people see me in most unflattering lights. You've heard, I expect, of the Johari or Nohari windows? Simply put, they're grids divided into four areas encompassing your traits, with one area being What You Know And Others Know (Arena), one area being What You Know And Others Don't(Facade), What You Don't Know And Others Do (Blindspot), and the last one What Nobody Knows (Unknown). The Johari window is predominantly positive traits, and the Nohari window negative ones. My Johari window has been in existence somewhat longer than my Nohari one, so it has accumulated rather more descriptions; most of which, I admit, I cannot see in myself (or did see in myself but was unable to select because one can only select six traits to k...