Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.
seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.
Monday, September 10, 2007 I got bored, so I guess I'll stop it and play proper from now on.
Anyway, as a recap on what happened during the holiday:
Monday: Watched over 4 hours of iron chef (the jap aka good one) on youtube, read up on lasers
Tuesday: Watched more than 4 hours of iron chef on youtube once again, did minimal maths
Wednesday: Went to toa payoh with simon and gm to eat at lor8 curry rice, then at mac donald's to study. Simon was too afraid of asking his astro juniors to move from TPAC so we had to settle for macs instead, didn't really study much.
Thursday: Went to toa payoh with joel and erik to study at macs, then went to TPAC which was empty so we studied there till lunch time. Went to botak jones to eat, food was great, people owed me money. Then went for dental before watching iron chef america season 2.
Friday: Went to woodlands library to study, reached early which was fortunate seeing as there were MANY people there, tragically. When the library opened people had to actually rush in and thankfully I managed to get a table, and studied. Later on, went to causeway point for lunch before returning to the library to finish off at around 5pm+ but the rain was heavy. Thankfully I had an umbrella. Later on went to buy donuts and went home. Actually managed to study there as compared to other places as its quiet and there was minimal talking, and completed majority of j2 physics so hopefully I won't do papers 1 and 3 as badly as paper 2. Ahh well, it's a good place to study at least =)
Monday, September 03, 2007 As always, i usually blog when i get bored or have nothing better to do and seeing as its so long since the last entry, heck why not? Recently i have been real worried, for you see, the second half of the prelim exams are coming closer day by day, and my revision isn't up to speed to match it. Even worse, is that some of my papers for the first half (physics and gp - i'm looking at you) aren't going to do well and i need the second half to pull it up. Yup. Of course, this post isn't going to be one long post on emoing about results and preparations for prelims. Unfortunately though, it is a rather disturbing thought on what the consequences would be, and i'll leave that to next time.
Well, moving away from the topic, i've once again begun my quest for new and unlistened songs that i already have. Originally, i would only listen to probably images & words, octavarium, 6 degrees of inner turbulence part 2, scenes from a memory and train of thought from dream theater. Recently though, i've been opening up to the other more "forgotten" albums like awake, 6 degrees part 1 and when dream & day unite and the songs are great. The lesson is: never judge a book by its cover.
Heading towards the unknown especially in things like music is like an exploration as well as evolution in one's musical life. In case you're wondering, i spent most of my childhood (up to around 14-15) listening to mainly radio and pop, before the online world brought me to this beautiful genre we all know and love called metal. Then in metal i also slowly evolved, from thrash metal like metallica, to hardcore/death metal for a brief period of time before going into progressive and power, and now adding symphonic into my frequent rotation list.
the journey is endless, and slowly exploring new things is a fun and exciting thing to undertake, so try something new today. listen to that cd that's been sitting on your shelf forever, watch the movie you swore never to, life's too short for regrets and what ifs. go for it!