Third Day + Kobato + Random Stuff
Just found out this morning that May takes the same train as I do (and it only took me two bump-ins with her t the station to find out.. Really great, Bernard). She said she didn't notice me at the station where I got on. Yeah... Because we all look for our classmates in train stations expecting them to be there. Real nice. LOL.
Went to Chem 157.1. One of the laboratories is still a construction zone, and as Maray pointed out, it could be an excuse to use the air conditioned laboratory at GAB to use for Biochem 121.1. But I highly doubt that. Anyway, turns out I'm lab partners with Paul this sem. I don't mind, besides, having an obsessive-compulsive with you in the lab kinda make things easier... sortof (no offense, Paul XD). So Sir Li, after much making up a Paul X Bernard (LOL UKE) issue and ridiculing my 157 advanced notes, dismissed us after like, an hour and a half. The class was supposed to be six hours long... OMG, that meant, Super free time is now.
During the super free time, I resorted to holing up at the library trying to improve the ridiculed Chem 157 advanced notes. Seriously though, I question the need to even make advanced notes. Maybe I should just read Laidler or Atkins in advance. After all, all I'm after is a bit of an edge. I managed to understand Gibbs Phase rule and One-component phase diagrams... It took a while to get the latter, and two-component phase diagrams were a different thing altogether. I'll read into that a little bit later.
I had lunch with Jamil and Ming. Things are pretty much the same with those two. Albeit I'm too much distracted to think straight while interacting with them (because compared to physical chemistry, voice... err, I mean, acting logical in a situation that requires a sound mind without distraction from a speaker going NOBODY NOBODY BUT YOU~ on loop at full blast is way harder).
Chem 151 was a doozy. We enter the world of exotic-chemistry-you-can't-believe-really-has-an-application. Seriously. The book Dr. Billones showed us had no pictures, had walls of text, and had giant integration signs. Let me repeat that: GIANT. INTEGRATION. SIGNS. Gah, why do you exist? It's a leap out of the chemistry I know and love... But you know, I vowed all my grades to be through the roof this semester, and I won't let some integration signs and schrodinger equations and any of those quantum crap stop me.
Biochem 121 looks okay for now... I don't think it'll entail any hardcore chemistry like my other subjects (come to think of it, chem 157 and Biochem 131 are my only hardcore chem subjects I have)... But still, I have to be prepared.
Watched the first episode of Kobato. And it gives credence to the fact that I'l probably watch an anime, no matter how stupid I'll think otherwise, if CLAMP had something to do with it. Seriously. The first nineteen seconds was pure amazingness (and no, that word doesn't exist). The opening song, although cheesy, was pretty good. And the story was pretty true to the manga (oh yeah, I just read like, two chapters of it). I am so tempted to cosplay Fujimoto because he's megane bishie like that. But gah! His hair! X____x. All in all, if I didn't know Kobato was done by CLAMP (and what kind of a CLAMP fan I would be if that happened), I don't think I'd appreciate it as much.
Hmmm... looks like I'm getting my Itoshiki costume from the tailor on Friday. (LOL, Tailor Swift XD)
I think my Japanese is getting better. I mean, I can almost already translate snippets of phrases from Kobato without looking at the subtitles. It takes me a while though, and they need to talk really slowly. LOL. I fail, and to top that off, the JLPT is just around the corner (haven't studied yet~). Maybe next year... I'll aim for an N3 (intermediate between JLPT 3 and JLPT 2). and since I should be working on my thesis by that time (hopefully), I've got lots of time to study.
My drawings are improving too. I mean, they're no longer all flat and stuff. They have more depth for some reason. And I clearly enjoy foreshortening (most of my drawings all have foreshortening, LOL). But I can't seem to revive the expressive eyes from the days I started taking art seriously. Ah well... Mankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return, I suppose.
I feel at ease. After quite literally months of emotional turmoil, I get a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. The fact that I tasted a bit of normalcy after so long, wondering if I had done something unspeakably horrible... turns out I didn't, but I don't think this would continue for long. But at least most of the tension is gone.
I applaud those who are in this part of the post after reading the mindboggling (or should I say, mindblogging) enormity of this entry... I applaud those who understood the last paragraph even more. XD
Went to Chem 157.1. One of the laboratories is still a construction zone, and as Maray pointed out, it could be an excuse to use the air conditioned laboratory at GAB to use for Biochem 121.1. But I highly doubt that. Anyway, turns out I'm lab partners with Paul this sem. I don't mind, besides, having an obsessive-compulsive with you in the lab kinda make things easier... sortof (no offense, Paul XD). So Sir Li, after much making up a Paul X Bernard (LOL UKE) issue and ridiculing my 157 advanced notes, dismissed us after like, an hour and a half. The class was supposed to be six hours long... OMG, that meant, Super free time is now.
During the super free time, I resorted to holing up at the library trying to improve the ridiculed Chem 157 advanced notes. Seriously though, I question the need to even make advanced notes. Maybe I should just read Laidler or Atkins in advance. After all, all I'm after is a bit of an edge. I managed to understand Gibbs Phase rule and One-component phase diagrams... It took a while to get the latter, and two-component phase diagrams were a different thing altogether. I'll read into that a little bit later.
I had lunch with Jamil and Ming. Things are pretty much the same with those two. Albeit I'm too much distracted to think straight while interacting with them (because compared to physical chemistry, voice... err, I mean, acting logical in a situation that requires a sound mind without distraction from a speaker going NOBODY NOBODY BUT YOU~ on loop at full blast is way harder).
Chem 151 was a doozy. We enter the world of exotic-chemistry-you-can't-believe-really-has-an-application. Seriously. The book Dr. Billones showed us had no pictures, had walls of text, and had giant integration signs. Let me repeat that: GIANT. INTEGRATION. SIGNS. Gah, why do you exist? It's a leap out of the chemistry I know and love... But you know, I vowed all my grades to be through the roof this semester, and I won't let some integration signs and schrodinger equations and any of those quantum crap stop me.
Biochem 121 looks okay for now... I don't think it'll entail any hardcore chemistry like my other subjects (come to think of it, chem 157 and Biochem 131 are my only hardcore chem subjects I have)... But still, I have to be prepared.
Watched the first episode of Kobato. And it gives credence to the fact that I'l probably watch an anime, no matter how stupid I'll think otherwise, if CLAMP had something to do with it. Seriously. The first nineteen seconds was pure amazingness (and no, that word doesn't exist). The opening song, although cheesy, was pretty good. And the story was pretty true to the manga (oh yeah, I just read like, two chapters of it). I am so tempted to cosplay Fujimoto because he's megane bishie like that. But gah! His hair! X____x. All in all, if I didn't know Kobato was done by CLAMP (and what kind of a CLAMP fan I would be if that happened), I don't think I'd appreciate it as much.
Hmmm... looks like I'm getting my Itoshiki costume from the tailor on Friday. (LOL, Tailor Swift XD)
I think my Japanese is getting better. I mean, I can almost already translate snippets of phrases from Kobato without looking at the subtitles. It takes me a while though, and they need to talk really slowly. LOL. I fail, and to top that off, the JLPT is just around the corner (haven't studied yet~). Maybe next year... I'll aim for an N3 (intermediate between JLPT 3 and JLPT 2). and since I should be working on my thesis by that time (hopefully), I've got lots of time to study.
My drawings are improving too. I mean, they're no longer all flat and stuff. They have more depth for some reason. And I clearly enjoy foreshortening (most of my drawings all have foreshortening, LOL). But I can't seem to revive the expressive eyes from the days I started taking art seriously. Ah well... Mankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return, I suppose.
I feel at ease. After quite literally months of emotional turmoil, I get a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. The fact that I tasted a bit of normalcy after so long, wondering if I had done something unspeakably horrible... turns out I didn't, but I don't think this would continue for long. But at least most of the tension is gone.
I applaud those who are in this part of the post after reading the mindboggling (or should I say, mindblogging) enormity of this entry... I applaud those who understood the last paragraph even more. XD