grinding in real life

mugging chinese is just like grinding in any game.

In games, we kill monsters repeatedly over a long period of time in order to gain some form of benefit (be it in exp/loot/etc etc)

While mugging chinese, do many many papers to the extent that the questions and passages seem to become repetitive in order to get that A1/A2.

It is also possible to grind until one becomes brain dead. Time to sleep it off. Tomorrow going to think of some strategy for robocode (which is immensely more fun that chinese) and hope that ARY is able to implement/has a better strategy/we combined and hope he can implement that.

CIP!

I can’t believe i did CIP for a house with a maid. I think she just wanted to slack off so she told the helpers who went to recce that they needed help. Single parent family though. The most slack CIP i went for. Free food + drinks.

Keith was assigned to clean a unit which didn’t exist. Best thing was i went to report to CIP in the morning, then i met melissa choo.

“Mark, your name is not on my list”.

Can’t find a word to describe. I kept receiving EMB messages that i had to go to CIP. It is either math/communication fail. I pray it is the latter (i mean come on, its only adding 1 digit to 3 digits to get 3 digits)

As for results i feel that they are ok, but abit sad because i didn’t benefit from the moderation in any way (no grade increase, just increase the mark)

untouchable

In the middle of the night
When I’m in this dream
It’s like a million little stars
Spelling out your name
You gotta come on, come on
Say that we’ll be together
Come on, come on
Little taste of heaven

new taylor swift song +1.

post exams

Slack. Revel in the joy that is the end of the exams. Nothing much to be said for doing the papers, its just a matter of sitting down at the desk for the duration and dumping content onto the paper.

After papers discuss answers and get worried. Even though it makes no difference whatsoever. Some papers felt easier than others and I love this concept called ‘moderation’. Need to moderate in moderation though, otherwise the exams would be a farce.

Yesterday was epic day of slacking. Play badminton until my arm is in pain (i was feeling the pain by last night, not by monday as chai suggests). Edwin has this interesting way of playing badminton. I won twice out of the 2 games to 21 with him.

Actually i was just spamming powerful shots, with distance to make him run to the back and hit a weaker return.

Watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs! They had inaccurate C++ code in the movie. Otherwise it was quite cute and funny with the typical storyline that one would expect from an animation, which can be summarised into something like this:

Intro –> protagonists meet –> protagonist relations develop –> montage of things going well –> minor problem –> relations between protagonists sour –> major problem –> everyone unites to overcome major problem –> protagonists relationship > 9000 –> VERY HAPPY END

CARDS

inspiration

“happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” – albus dumbledore (jk rowling)

english compo questions

1. “some quote”. Do you think singapore schools do enough to provide all rounded education?
2. pick one human right and say why its needed
3. something on conflict
4. man has be unsuccessful in his attempts to control nature. discuss
5. the difficulty is not with learning new technology but doing without it. comment
6. what is success?

so evil. must choose btwn 1 4 and 5.

harry potter

it is a nice fantasy world to escape to before sleeping