took this quiz on facebook on psychological disorder. and i'm told i have this thing called the 'avoidant' disorder. which means that i care too much about what people think, and this makes me very anxious. sounds quite true to me. haha. man.. got to change.

haiz. archi con panel still not done yet. looks okay to me so far. but still only about 60% done.

wise guys is cool! anyway. i'm excited about many things. about reading week, about going home, about the trip, about hall and ya basically the end of semester. that was fast..

draft or freehand?? can't decide.

the mp3 player has brought this unpleasant culture of what i consider exaggerated impatience. here are some of my objections:

1. it stores many songs. unlike its predecessors like cds and tape recorders, you have a collection of songs from different artists and different albums in a player. i feel like it lacks the diligence in appreciating one album or one artist. this comment comes from my personal experience. after my discman broke down and i was forced to use the mp3 for an extended period of time, other than the fact that it's lighter and smaller, i found myself browsing through the songs. am kind of bothered by this habit. have yet to rectify it, but i feel like it's nearly impossible with an mp3 player.

2. it has a shuffle mode. which i suppose is to do with trying to cope with a fixed sequence that is considered boring. or worse, to aid people who can't decide what to listen to that day (myself included).

3. there are implications on the marketing strategies of producers [negative implications (to me lah..)]. the way people listen to songs on mp3 player means that there is almost no need to orchestrate an entire album anymore. i mean, previously, when an artist did a record, it was always important to consider the number of songs, the length of each song, the sequence of songs etc. but now that people listen to fragments of an album, these things no longer matter in the same way. i haven't done like research on it la. so can't really prove it. but as i was sitting on the bus, i felt like i've found the cause of the downturn in the music industry. the artists are no longer hard pressed to produce a certain number of quality songs before they launch an album. they just keep churning out albums with some hits.

of course they're all not just a one-way thing... ya our lifestyle has changed, which in turn demands these features, but by accommodating our fickle wishes, we have exaggerated our impatience. we have imposed this impatience on the next generation, who hasn't experienced the composure of not having any choice but sit through a tape recorder. of course the tape recorder was better. you can't even skip a bloody song unless you keep pressing the forward button. but something without a forward button would have been better. haha. and maybe that's why my love for old songs last longer. those hits don't bore you. you have to listen to the entire tape to get back to the same song. and then you discover the other nice songs in the album that don't become hits. you become truly a fan.

(join me in the fight against exaggerated impatience).
haha ok that line's just a joke.

yesterday's tuition with samuel went really well. and since he wasn't sleepy or bored i thought i'd stay a while longer. but then his mom came and asked if it wasn't time to round up. so i kind of rushed a bit. but yea. finishing metals is such a relief. i hate chemistry.. wonder why i took this up.

superman. that was funny. lol.
the toilet idea was scraped. but maybe i can still do the cavity. great we have another chance. got to make it work this time.

maybe it's time to close this bloody blog. the only reason i'm keeping it is because i don't really wish to delete it. but ya that's rubbish reasoning.

other than that. i am making some progress! i'm on pg 42. though that's still really far away from 89. haha.

damn. crit session tmr. no idea what to say.
well... yeah. no worries. everything comes to those who wait. like in the old boyzone song. haha. 'heaven knows' that song's cool man.. just to prove my point, i'll post it here. lol.

Heaven Knows - Boyzone

the archicon model went well. the panels didn't quite work out. lol. anyway, i thought i could get my sleep after that. but no, ended up rushing for the one-week sketch submission again. haha.

got to make it through this week. i am squashed under a pile of work. big big pile.

"Sorry für das späte Schicken". oh my.. ulf. tsk tsk. lol. btw how.. im still on page 17. and i'm supposed to finish reading up to pg 89 by next week. damn. plus i'm beginning to fail my japanese i think. this is really bad.

can't wait for friday when every bloody thing will be over. well nearly every thing.

wow. i'm impressed. cy is so nice to give us detailed comments. i left deutsch class early. dunno. don't feel like being in class and going through all those discussions today.

loads of work to do. got japanese mid-term results back. 39.5/50. half more mark and i'll be much happier. haiz. lol. it's fine.. what's really bad is that the "mistakes" i made are things like writing hiragana when i've learnt the kanji. anyway. Fehler sind Freunde beim Lernen.