More Studying

Watching Marcus play this really cool flash game that pits UK MPs against one another in a Street-Fighter punchup for ultimate supremacy as the Prime Minister, and it's really hilarious. For some strange reason Blair can beat everyone except Kennedy, the super-boss in Westminster =P Methinks that if there was a version with Singapore politicians, local politics may become more interesting. And what spectacular bloodbaths there would be...the stains wouldn't be able to be washed out from those white uniforms =P

Anyway, am behind schedule for my work. Finished documentation for Native, but I was supposed to start on Frost today. Oh well, at any rate, perhaps I need a new strategy in approaching Frost. It doesn't seem to make sense to make a Quote Thematiser for poems, and yet, I see myself needing that kind of structure for Frost essays. Hmm...maybe for this test I'll just memorise some of the poems that I chose. Heck, what with the stuff that's waiting to be memorised for Native, it's already enough of a workload.

Tomorrow going down to school for farewell for Guitar, and then on Sat there's a play at the Esplanade. That's a total of about 12 hours gone from studying. I feel like I should care more about the loss of time. Probably I will...next week, when the point will be moot. Oh well, it'll be good to get out of the house again, at any rate. Being immersed in lit all day is exhilarating in its own way, but everything should come in moderation.

It feels unnatural to sleep at night these days still. Singapore life is wholly unexciting, and to a larege extent all these little things, and the lit documentation, is keeping me alive. And all this is only a little taste of what's to come, with the Prelims and the final hurdle. I wonder how I will stand it. If I were doing this in Bangkok, studying, making notes and everything, I reckon that I would be happier. I want night expeditions! Subdued tones on the subways! Gay bars! But we make do I guess. We can pretend...

Dad bought an electric today. So now everyone in my family can not only have his own computer, but also his own guitar. Heh, I feel intimidated...my poor old classical against the combined might of the acoustic and electric. I'd like to learn how to really play the other types of guitar, but the timing couldn't be worse. Already it's difficult enough to keep in touch with my good old classical. Ah well, all this will have to be a project for after A's I guess. And maybe I should be more eager about the electric. But right now I think I see it as another pressure, something else to learn, rather than something cool to be mastered. And in the present studying mood, having more things to learn isn't good for the ego...

pondered by phoenican @ 9.6.05