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Okay, sometimes it's really really not good to make promises you can't keep. Like agreeing to split the readings for Module X with an acquaintance and send each other summaries, but then realising that you have an exam on totally unstudied-for Module Y before X's exam, and obviously having NOT done the readings (much less the summaries!), be in a ( Read more... )

Just to scare myself into action, here's my exam timetable:

Sat 25 April: South Asia (very very f-ed since I attended a grand total of 2 lectures this sem and WTH LAH SATURDAY PAPER?!)
Wed 29 April: Buddhism in SEA
Mon 4 May: stupid faux-International History module that is really a whole lot of waffle
Tues 5 May: Islam in World History (which is ( Read more... )

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To start things off, let me just say that this song is stuck in my head and I'm hoping that by posting it here I may be conducting some kind of mental exorcism -

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Okay maybe not. Lady GaGa is too good at "singing" these awful earworm-y songs; I got stuck on Poker Face for the longest time, which was really quite bizarre but um okay nevermind. I ( Read more... )

[edit] OMG OMG OMG BEE IN MY ROOM OH GOD NO WHERE DID IT GO AAAARGH roomie and I are dressed in jeans and jackets and swatting various objects tentatively in case it flies out and attacks us OH WOE my professor better give me an essay extension RAHHH BEES [/edit ( Read more... )

How is one to explain the multi-dimensional cultural achievements of medieval Islam, ranging from philosophy and theology to science (astronomy and medicine) and mathematics, to jurisprudence and logic? Select one branch of medieval learning as the focus of your essay. What are some of the larger questions posed by, and major advancements in the ( Read more... )

It's week 10 already but it still doesn't feel like there is only about a month till the exams - I'm still faffing around, skipping half my lectures (but only because they are useless so it's not totally my fault!) and spending way too much time nua-ing in my room. Living on campus is ironically terrible for my study life, it's so easy to head back ( Read more... )

You know, I was going to write (and did, actually!) a retarded entry about how I'm a born-and-bred Singaporean but have never tasted durian in its true fruity form in all my 19-going-on-20 years, but was interrupted when I opened my NUS email and ( Read more... )

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