We Live in a Daze, After IAs
I live in a daze, after IAs. I don’t feel free, just expended. I think I won’t be studying for these coming Prelims as much as I intended.
In other news, I waited for a blood red moon of doom. The clouds got in the way.
Hendrix
Rapidly rediscovering love of Hendrix, thanks to long bus rides and Jordan’s extensive old-school music library.
The amazing thing about him ( Hendrix, not Jordan) is the amount of emotion he managed to get across with a guitar. I’m not well-versed enough in these things to say he’s the best there ever was, but I do know he was really, really good at playing the guitar. Listening to his music makes me desperately want to learn how to pick up the guitar, which is really something.Lyrically, he’s no Dylan, but few are, and Hendrix did have his moments. Like Castles Made of Sand or Wind Cries Mary.
Sometimes I really envy people who were alive during his time. Well, people in the appropriate region of the world at least. Less than a lifetime ago people like Hendrix and Dylan and Richard Pryor (comedian) to listen to. Now all we really have are the Rihannas and American Idol contestants and Dane Cook(comedian). Horrible horrible Dane Cook. Of course, the internet kinda makes up for it. I may not be able to see Led Zeppelin live, but at least I can download their entire discography in a week and whine about it on my blog.
EDIT: Interestingly, WordPress doesn’t think that blog is a spelling mistake anymore, but ‘WordPress’ still is. Who was it that pointed this out to us again?
Cave Story
I’ve recently rediscovered by love for platform gaming.
Here’s a little jewel called Cave Story. I reminds me of Mario and Bomberman and Metroid(even though I’ve never really played that). Your basic side-scrolling adventure with a lot ( and I mean, A LOT) of hidden stuff.
EDIT : Indie games are a lot of fun. You don’t really need to worry about system requirements, or whether their worth the money. Here’s a good long list of the best of them that I just found.
I Can’t Remember How To Pronounce Jung
I just can’t.
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INFP – “Questor”. High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population. |
Free Jung Word Choice Test (similar to MBTI)
personality tests by similarminds.com
IOC
Don’t think I’ve been studying – IOC and freeware games have been taking up most of my free time. But now IOC is over, so I feel that I need to say something witty about the experience, and moan a bit about prelims.
I got an extract from Maya, which was acceptably easy to do. I spent 5 minutes annotating and 15 minutes planning out what I was going to say. Of course, I forgot the plan around the eighth minute or so. Still, no worries. I doubt I’m going to be getting full marks for this, but I’m pretty sure I did fine. Saved by cross-referencing, I think.
I would have been happier with something else, and I do feel pretty stupid, seeing as if I wasted a lot of time studying Lear and only 1 week on Maya. Oh well, at least its not Soyinka.
I’ve also kinda given up on any real revision for prelims being done. Having major exams every other month isn’t fun, especially with IA submissions squeezed in between. Fortunately, this should prepare us for life. Or perhaps we’re working now to make sure we can enjoy our golden years. I can’t help but feel that I’m supposed to be looking forward to being an old man, since my current purpose in life seems to be to make future-me free to slack off. Goddammit I hate future-me. And past-me. Oh, how I loathe past-me. One day I hope to travel back in time to give myself cryptic hints about the future. Nothing informative though – keep in mind I’m doing it out of spite for myself.
