My life now is dominated by two activities:
1. FYP. This accursed assessment has soaked up large tracts of my time. Continually editing, commenting, sending back and forth emails, chasing people for their parts, incorporating new stuff into what’s already been done – certainly not butterflies and dandelions. Having said that, I do understand the English department’s motivations and maintain that the skills that FYP was meant to cultivate are useful and applicable.
Only I wish it were individual instead. I fail to see the point of a group essay when the work will be asymmetrically distributed anyway – unless perhaps FYP is socialist in origin and intended to promote mark redistribution?
2. Uni apps. Every time this subject crops up, my palms break into a sweat. Nightmarish visions of me receiving rejection letter after rej – okay, okay, I think my id really needs to learn to shut up.
My life after the exams (hopefully):
1. Study for EG1108 exams -.- Hopefully this will not be too much of a chore because we already learnt some of the stuff under Ricardo
2. Shop for a prom dress. I do not have high hopes for this, however. Why? Suffice to say that if my parents had run the US economy, the 2008 financial crisis might have been averted and the country would right now be rolling in its exponentially growing reserves.
3. Finish off Griffiths’ QM. Griffiths is an awesome troll!
4. Bid sayonara to Chemistry! Perhaps I will write an epitaph for it here someday ^^ Expect lots of crocodile tears. 别了, 别了, 别了~
5. Actually read the books on my bookshelf. Books I possess but have not read (but hope to read):
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
And perhaps I’ll leave The Color Purple for some other time, I can’t abide the slang in it 
Also, I should really find out what all the hype is about sci-fi.
Books I do not possess and have not read but hope to read:
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut/Phillip K. Dick/Arthur C. Clarke that I can get my hands on!
By the way, I’m reading The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht now and it’s very masterfully written. I love it!
6. Watch City Hunter! *Min-ho yum!* Desmond we can have another tea party at your house and watch City Hunter at the same time!
7. Learn Korean/German. I think if I’ll learn German in Uni if I get the chance to take up a 3rd Lang! I have immense respect for the German people – their culture with its ingrained reverence for Science and Technology is so remarkable.
Will add stuff to this list as we go along!
A thought: I am constantly amazed by how much I enjoy Bio. I have the utmost respect for people who LOVE Bio and do well in it (I certainly don’t fall into either category) because a) They seem to have some innate understanding that I lack and b) innovations in Bio are key to improving our quality of life. The world needs such people, just as it needs Physicists and … Chemists.
BTW, if you are wondering where the links went in my new blog layout, they’re all the way down below. I’ve linked a few interesting pages!
