End of the Week

Well then it is almost the end already. Have already entered an Econs-free world, and hopefully, if things work out as planned, I'll never have to understand how the money economy works ever again! =) Econs was alright...Lit was fun yesterday. History, though, was disgusting. I can't believe that they repeated questions! Tat was a deliberate blindsiding tactic. It doesn't even show that you shouldn't spot; it just proves that those who spot the best will earn the most. I don't know exactly what they intended to do with that paper, to deliberately catch us out like that. What exactly are they seeking to represent with that paper?

Bah...stupid I Hist questions that totally put all that effort of studying to waste. That's the most disgusting part about it; the waste. I could have been doing other things besides studying all the complexities of the issues, if they go an set a paper that is hardly properly historical at all. Factual recall; that's a scientific skill, not a historically analytical one. (I realise I must sound so stuck up...but that's what I really felt. It's like being tested on History by bureaucrats who've never studied History themselves. Two years of education down the drain.)

Hmm come to think of it the papers this year were rather wierd. Actually maybe every batch thinks that their year is wierd, but it does seem that this time round they're trying deliberately to catch us out. Either the questions are trickily phrased or they are decapitatingly boring. The only one is Lit, which is still all right, since it offers so much space for personal response anyway. The PC was fun! They were really kind with the poetry comparison, and the drama piece was a really modern one from Stoppard's Indian Ink(1995)! Mmm absurdism and all that. The thing about that piece, I thought, was not really its linguistic style, which wasn't very remarkable, but the stageplay, the technical side of it, the way the entire range of dramatic tools (not just the language) was used for a psychological analysis. Had lots of fun delving into the complexities. The only thing is that I hope I was being clear enough and not going around in circles.

Was out with the 4N kids on Thu, and yesterday the 1A guys as well. Mmm Pepper Lunch is really yummy! You've got to have Japs to come up with such a concept, to give you a hotplate with raw food and then ask you to cook it yourself, and make you pay more for the privilege =P Well, the food is tastier, and the concept is rather nifty, I guess. Anyway it felt good to have that kind of luxury again...the luxury of having time to burn. Now that almost all the papers are over we can start going back to our real lives again. Look up at the decorations and discover with delight that Christmas is almost here!

I don't know why people find that real life is tedious. I always find that it cheers me up. Maybe it's just a matter of terminology, but I don't consider my school existence real life. There's a certain feeling of safety and comfort when you're in real life, when you know all your pretensions can be dropped, and there's no need to keep up appearances. That kind of feeling you can find in being with old friends, or alternatively in the anonymity of the sidewalk.

pondered by phoenican @ 19.11.05