Yay finished Renegade
Most people who talk about my time management with me usually don’t expect that I spend a lot of time studying – they think that I make most of it up on the spot, and put it down to intelligence. But the fact of the matter is that I do spend lots of time studying, just that I study at times that others don’t, so that when the rubber meets the road in the weeks just before an exam or test I appear relatively relaxed and carefree. For example, it’s been a long-time strategy of mine to acquire textbooks for the courses I'm taking in the upcoming term long before the term proper actually starts, and then try to read as much of the assigned chapters as possible. That way, when the term starts, I’ve already got most of the material covered, and if I haven’t, I’m at least in good stead to ensure that I keep up with my readings for the entire term, i.e. go into lessons having actually read the relevant textbook chapters. So that aids class participation, and contributes to my general enjoyment of the class. Nothing mystical, really. And I haven’t been doing this just in SMU – I do remember reading an Economics textbook after my ‘O’ Levels, in preparation for the inevitable plunge into Hwa Chong Humanities, and I ended up really loving Economics.
The upshot of this behavior is that my whole life, I’ve been studying during what most people regard as school holidays, and even more intensively during term, so consequently I’ve missed out on a lot of games/shows that I told myself I must play/watch. Thankfully, because I’ve got a lot of relatives and friends with these games/shows (and the Internet, if these relatives and friends prove insufficient) who are willing to loan them to me / copy them for me, I end up always having a little stockpile of games/shows to watch. So this holiday, given that I’m not interning but doing summer term instead, which is more than manageable, given that the workload is much less than during regular term, I’ve been catching up all of the above that I told myself I would. So in this holiday alone I’ve finally finished watching the last of the 15 seasons of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis (which I started watching in Term 2 of last year), as well as Heroes Season 3. I’ve also finished playing Homeworld 2, the Black Knight Expansion of Mechwarrior 4 and C&C Renegade, the last of which I just finished last night. I never knew such old games could still be so much fun after so many years! While the world is going off and on about new games like Halo 3 and Fallout whatever here I am playing games I should have gotten over with in my primary school years. Yet here I am, living up the good old days and in awe of seeing C&C in 3D. And finding it quite tough. Here’s a screenshot of the final cutscene from C&C Renegade to prove that I did indeed finish it. Haha. I can imagine myself coming back here in a few years and laughing at myself.
Dance, dance, dance. Hm. Oh right, we just had dance camp not long ago. I took some pictures which I haven’t gone through till now. Well, up on Facebook and this blog they go. Hope you enjoy looking through them! Dance camp was crazy. Didn’t stay over of course, would probably have fallen sick the next day. The very thought of staying in school overnight just sickens me. Ugh. Anyway, it was wicked fun. Really tired out by it; ended up going back to school for the 2nd day of camp only at 11am. But that was mainly because those workshops which I attended were really fun. Thanks to juniors too for organizing the fun-fun stuff.
Angie and I have a short dance performance for HPB coming up this Saturday. I really hope we get time to practice and the stage is good and we look pro on that day. And that it ends quickly so I can rush back to town and watch movie with Sharon. At her recommendation, we’re gonna watch a – gasp – Chinese-language film called 18 Grams of Love. At least it’s local. Watched the trailer, should be good.
On with my life. I guess I should be reading something for my Game Theory now. Interesting but gosh I do wish it was more challenging. Knew it would be easy but didn’t know it would be this easy.
The upshot of this behavior is that my whole life, I’ve been studying during what most people regard as school holidays, and even more intensively during term, so consequently I’ve missed out on a lot of games/shows that I told myself I must play/watch. Thankfully, because I’ve got a lot of relatives and friends with these games/shows (and the Internet, if these relatives and friends prove insufficient) who are willing to loan them to me / copy them for me, I end up always having a little stockpile of games/shows to watch. So this holiday, given that I’m not interning but doing summer term instead, which is more than manageable, given that the workload is much less than during regular term, I’ve been catching up all of the above that I told myself I would. So in this holiday alone I’ve finally finished watching the last of the 15 seasons of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis (which I started watching in Term 2 of last year), as well as Heroes Season 3. I’ve also finished playing Homeworld 2, the Black Knight Expansion of Mechwarrior 4 and C&C Renegade, the last of which I just finished last night. I never knew such old games could still be so much fun after so many years! While the world is going off and on about new games like Halo 3 and Fallout whatever here I am playing games I should have gotten over with in my primary school years. Yet here I am, living up the good old days and in awe of seeing C&C in 3D. And finding it quite tough. Here’s a screenshot of the final cutscene from C&C Renegade to prove that I did indeed finish it. Haha. I can imagine myself coming back here in a few years and laughing at myself.
Dance, dance, dance. Hm. Oh right, we just had dance camp not long ago. I took some pictures which I haven’t gone through till now. Well, up on Facebook and this blog they go. Hope you enjoy looking through them! Dance camp was crazy. Didn’t stay over of course, would probably have fallen sick the next day. The very thought of staying in school overnight just sickens me. Ugh. Anyway, it was wicked fun. Really tired out by it; ended up going back to school for the 2nd day of camp only at 11am. But that was mainly because those workshops which I attended were really fun. Thanks to juniors too for organizing the fun-fun stuff.
Angie and I have a short dance performance for HPB coming up this Saturday. I really hope we get time to practice and the stage is good and we look pro on that day. And that it ends quickly so I can rush back to town and watch movie with Sharon. At her recommendation, we’re gonna watch a – gasp – Chinese-language film called 18 Grams of Love. At least it’s local. Watched the trailer, should be good.
On with my life. I guess I should be reading something for my Game Theory now. Interesting but gosh I do wish it was more challenging. Knew it would be easy but didn’t know it would be this easy.
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