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Take one letter from each column to form a 5 letter word. Example:
M from column 1,
A from column 2,
S from column 3,
I from column 4,
X from column 5.

There is only one answer.

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In about 12 hours, I'll be having my next paper. This time it's not just MCQ, there'll be short essay as well. Kinda worried about it, but can't find the momentum to get my brains going. Maybe a Macs breakfast should perk me up. Still gotta catch some sleep at least before the paper.

Back to the notes...

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2 days back, I had my first paper. 40 MCQ. Won't be that bad right? For this sem, it's my first time I really had to study very hard just to shades numbers on my OAS for like an hour. My CAs were all MCQs. Now it was the ulimate one. Gosh, I could almost recite how our DNA and genes fold and function went I went into the exam hall. Ok lah, I was exagerrating.
Instead of cramming all the info into your head, an then increase the risk of getting brains to cramp in the exams, I went to understand the concepts and mechanisms. So when the MCQs arrive, you could do it by elimination. Don't get it, nvm.

Anyway, the exam was alright. Passable lah. But if I can pass, that means I should be in the B- range since a lot will get A. So hope for the best.

Tomorrow's my 2nd paper. Astro's the thing. But it's terrestial astro. I'd called it astro with a twist. Cos it's not about the stars and everything out there, but about the sun, moon and earth. I'm gonna bring a sphere to the exams, hope it helps.

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Something to ponder on...

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. "

-By the power of the truth, I, a living man, have conquered the universe.-

It's time. That time of the year again. 2 more weeks and it'll all be over. 2 long weeks, just like BMT confinement. Well, to start things off, it's the same old rituals I always do.

Sleep right.
Make sure everything is covered. Leave no stone unturned.
Plan the whole of next day, until the exam that is. After that is free and easy, unless you got another paper the next day.
Make you all your weapons and equipment have been checked and ready. Backups also.
Eat right too.
Clear all those nagging thoughts in your head, so that the only thing nagging is the exam.
Last but not least, say a little prayer before you hit the bed.

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I saw a red sunset on the home today. On the ECP, looking out to the Singapore city skyline, a orange hue hung in the background. The glass office windows reflected colours of red, orange and yellow. The buildings were painted a orange and there was a sense of calm when I saw the it. The beat of the city was slowing down, the buzz was dimming, the people are starting to head home.

Ahead in the night, there was F1 qualifying and the crucial FA cup semis. Then there's studying to be done. Fast forward to 3am, the red Ferrari was on pole and Liverpool went thru to the finals. Well, a red weekend it was.

Sadly, I won't be watching the F1 race tonight, hope they retain that pole position. It was quite exciting itself just to watch qualifying, being my first time this season. Will make the effort to watch more more in future. The last lap has just begun. It's time to shift to higher gear.

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You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker

You are so beautiful
To me
You are so beautiful
To me
Can't you see

You're everything I hoped for
You're everything I need
You are so beautiful to me
You are so beautiful to me

You are so beautiful
To me
Can't you see
You're everything I hoped for
You're every, everything I need
You are so beautiful to me

A real classic. Heard it on the show Desperate Housewives the other day. Simple words, but powerful ones. Never really thought about downloading this song until it came up. Now it's stuck in my head. Just the words that I wanna say, but can't.

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For once, I'm starting to feel sleepy at 4.20am. Been sleeping at 5/6am lately. Gosh, my whole clock is upside down. 2 more days to the first paper. I'm still watching tv and studying has been very slow. Some how, I just don't feel the presssure, but I know it'll come eventually. Should be going home over the weekend as usual. Gotta get some money as well. Gotta start studying for Mon's paper. Then the whole thing begins.

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Preparations have begun for the exams, studied a bit today, with intermittent sleep in between (haha sounds like a weather forecast). Like what QZ said, all the 4 times he came to my room today, I was on the bed. Oh well, still need time to adjust back my clock. Then there's my practical lab report to do as well. Guess tomorrow is all out report, classic last minute style. Something happened recently, but I dunno how to explain it. And it seems today was the final straw. I was left with a matric no so that I could take the meals. Msn msgs were left on for me even though I was away. It was getting kinda freaky. Like what another would say, "What did you do man?" I didn't do anything, I was just being friendly. But guess I'm screwed, but safe for now. Why does it always happen on the wrong people? My technique must be wrong, gotta get back to the lab to fine tune a bit.
That's all for now. Hungry and wide awake at 5am.

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You know, everytime I get home, the first thing that I would usually do is watch the soccer on espn, or catch F1 if there's any and switch on my laptop and set up limewire for downloading music. I would run through my post-it notes of song titles and search it on limewire and queue the songs for download. While waiting, msn goes online, bitcomet resumes where it left off in hall. And so the Sat night goes on like this, until quite late. Next morning, it'll be quite a late wake up call. Rushing out to my grandma's place for lunch. Talk cock with my uncles n aunties, play with all my young cousins, read the papers, catch up with my Mum and sisters. By the time I come back, it'll be almost dinner. I'll take a short nap (due to the lack of sleep from Sat), wake up for dinner, then soon, I'm off back to hall. I didn't even take a look at my notes! My gosh, think it's really time to get my head down to business. Better start cramming time.

Anyway, tomorrow's plan is to go the books warehouse sale with my sister. Hope could pick up a few more books along the way. Guess my library is growing slowly but surely.

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By body clock is screwed big time. I slept at 5am last "night" and woke up at 2pm. Now I'm still wide awake when I wanna try to get back to my old 3am sleeping time and wake up in time for breakfast. Even trying to sleep at 3am is hard. Sighz. Perhaps I should exercise more, tire myself. Sure should be able to sleep. At least it increases my metabolism.
Speaking of metabolism, I just had a test on it. Scored average. Just hope that all goes well up to the exams. My experimental bio module wasn't spared even though my techniques are good and my lab reports come out great all the time. Sighz, life isn't fair. My last chance rests on my miniproject report liao.
Cleared quite a few odds and ends after the tests. All the chapalang stuff on the post-it notes on my desktop. Last week, half of my desktop had files and folders, the other half was post-it notes, some were even minimized. If you set a wallpaper behind it, you won't see it. Now at least I get to see a partial size of the background. More clearing to be done before I go full swing to study mode.
Today, played soccer. First time I exercised since IHG I think. Guess I'm quite weak, gotta buck up. Then build up the fat again when in HK. Hehehe.....
The past few days were quite quiet. Was focused on the test and now, its mainly clearing my room. Kinda feels funny now that I'm leaving hall. Thought I could accumulate all my stuff till year 3 and realise how much trash was in my room. Looks like it's gonna be premature. But I'll be back. Hopefully nothing changes. And hopefully things remain the same in the 3 months ahead.

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If can pass my test on Thur, my answers will become Toto winning numbers. I've been like studying this for the past 3 days and nothings really went into my head. Ok, so maybe I understood what was happening, now I'm left with 24 hours to memorise all of them. I just hope it works out. It's been the plan for the whole week. In fact, it was the only plan - to study for the test. All the extra stuff like doing layout (which I spent, no, wasted, most of tonight doing), finishing my moon project (ok this was serious, but could have been better) and all the odds n ends along the way kinda stalled my studying a bit. It was expected though, and so far, my plan to read everything (notes only) and have a day left worked.

As for the layout, this was more "siong" than doing a normal issue. A normal issue would have a least a week to do 2 articles. But now, it's 4 articles in a night. Sheesh, I was almost punctured by the last article. I could have swore my creativity ran dry as a riverbed. Then the previous night, there was the moon tutorial. It was kinda like a miniproject of sorts. Anyway, we were left with compiling the info and I had to research on one more explanation. But in the end, I learnt something new that I didn't realise in astronomy. The crescent moon's tilt actually changes through the months. Never realise until now. But well, I think the project could have finished earlier had not one of our members went AWOL. And it always turns out that it's left with me, and finally EV and RS to finish off the job. Well, never occurred to me that things had turned out so serious that we considered emailing our lecturer. I've had bad project-mates but not until like that. But true lah, he really went AWOL and deserved this. Oh well, hope he S/U the module.

In all, this week has been going to plan, which was to study and clear up some of the accumulated stuff. Last week was really "nua" week, where I just bummed around. Time to get serious and run the final lap. On second thought, last week wasn't really "nua". I kinda sought advice, made a decision as well.(oh wait that was 2 weeks ago) Wanted to start my plan last week, but I knew it would fail. It did in the end, and I gave up when the 3rd attempt failed. I knew it would fail, cos I already had so many stuff to handle. But sometimes failing can demoralise your troops, which I felt for a while. But reassured myself that this was an extra thing and it would have been a bonus if it happened. Oh well, try again another time.

As I was thinking about it and how people asked me why now, I think, why not. But it's a bit too late now. And then something hit me. I realised it was kinda like deja-vu. And since they were mistakes before, I guess it's time to put my own original plan to use, which hasn't been used before..we'll see...

Oh, and I've also decided to do double concentration. Haven't told my Dad yet, but will break the news soon.

Back on track, and on the same line, I've been hearing how people would choose someone over soomeone. Somehow, it just doesn't seem right to me. Ok, so maybe I do that too, but the point is, you shouldn't tell the person that. Wouldn't you feel second-rated? Like a second hand item at a bazaar. Like.., a replacement? So the thing is, be committed. Such thoughts just leave you ending up being unfaithful. And I've seen how bad things can go.

Sometimes I wonder whether will I do the same, when the same blood runs in me. Maybe that's why I am what I am today. A wiser person, or less foolish one. But sometimes, in a chess game, I make my moves very slowly but good moves. However, in the end, just at the critical moment I can self-destruct. The result still ends up the same way.

Oh well, that's all for now. Better catch some sleep before day breaks.

Die Wahrheit ist Da Drauβen.

PS: The code is waiting to be broken.

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