Computer show, SITEX

We went down to SITEX today for the last day of the computer show. Bought quite a few things, especially a new HDD and more DVD discs for data writing.

We also went down to OG for their last day of storewide 20% discount promotion. Clothes and stuff were bought, primarily for the upcoming Chinese New Year in about 2 months time.

今日はイベントがたくさんあったね。朝はコンピューターショーへ行って、新しいHDDとDVDディスクを買った。

その後、OGへ行って、来年の春節のための服を買った。

いろいろあったんでしょ。でも、明日からは師走、つまり十二月。プロジェクトをやらなきゃ。

For home

The maid working at our home went back home today. Supposedly, her husband met with an accident and is currently in a critical condition. But, when the agent asked her about her husband's condition, she apparently doesn't know what's wrong. Thus, the verdict is that she might be lying, just so that she can go back for a short vacation.

But whatever, it doesn't really matter. It's a bit more inconvenient to get things done, but things will still go on anyway.

うちのメイド、ううん、メイドじゃない、家政婦。えっと、家政婦は国へ帰った。主人は事故で、大変な状態らしい。でも、どう聞いても状況は説明できない。うそつくかも知れん。

まぁ、どうでもいいけど。ちょっと不便けど、生活はあまり変わらない。

More that I thought

It appears that the "stress" from the examinations had a much greater effect on me than what I previously thought.

I've been feeling a lot more tired and sleeping a lot more these 2 days. Probably a side effect of the tension of the exams wearing off.

どうやら試験のストレスが想像以上だ。この二日、普通以上に疲れるし、眠くなった。ストレスがたまって、今はどんどんよくなるのかな？

悪くはならないのはいいけど。。。

R & R

With the dreaded, well, not really, but still, exams over, it's finally time for me to rest and relax! And as a computer show is coming up over this weekend, it's also time for me to head down to buy a few stuff!

Really glad that the exams are over. But with the FYP still looming ahead, I guess it's still a long time before I can heave a sigh of relief.

試験がもう終わったから、いよいよ休むと遊ぶ時間だぜ！しかもこの週末にはコンピューターショーがあるから、買い物するのもできる～♪

試験が終わったのは本当によかった。でも、プロジェクトがまだ残って、まだまだ終わらないよ。本当に休めるのはまだまだ遠いな。。。

The End

This semester's exams are finally over. Today's paper is a bit long, at a total of two and a half hours, and I didn't manage to get home until pass nine.

As for how the paper went, it's just okay, I guess. Time to rest up and relax a bit for now before I get back to work. FYP work.

やっと終わった。今学期の試験。今日のはちょっと長い、二時間半もあった。おかげでうちへ帰ったときはもう九時過ぎ。

試験はな、まぁまぁかな？でも、今一番大事のはちゃんと休むこと。それから、大嫌いけど、しかったがないのプロジェクトをしなきゃ。

The calm before the storm

Tomorrow is my last paper for the semester, and it is also the most troublesome paper. So many things to remember and memorise and it's not even going to be that useful, I think?

Whatever. Just a bit left to go. Then it's the beginning of another bunch of troubles...

明日が終わるとすべたの試験が終わった。残りのは最後の一つしかない。でも、それも私にとって一番嫌いなの。覚えなければならないものがそんなにあって、未来にもあんまり役に立たないと思う。

まぁ、どうでもいい。後もう少し。それからはまためんどくさいなこと。。。

日本語

今日は日本語の試験だから、日本語で書くのはいいよね？なぁ、ちゃんと英語でも書くよ。

Another paper over! Japanese 3 paper ended today. But I really hate evening papers. Starting at 5pm and ending at 7pm?!?! Or even later!!!

Yeah. So I hate evening papers. Just one paper left. The most dreaded paper...

今日は無事で日本語の試験を終わった。思ったより楽だったけど、成績がわかる前には気が抜けない。

ところで、午後の試験は大嫌い。どうして？だって、五時から七時まで。冗談じゃないよ！うちへ帰ったのはもう何時だと思う？！？！だから大嫌い。

残りのはただ一つ。ちなみに、一番いやの。できるのかな。。。

Short break

Today is the first break between my papers. This time round, my papers can with a day of break in between, so it isn't that bad.

Anyways, nothing much achieved today. I'm kind of confident for tomorrow's paper, so nothing much to worry about. But the other one upcoming, that's the problem...

今日はちょっと休み。試験の間の。今回の試験は毎に一日の休みがあるから、あまり悪くない。

今日は特に何もしなかった。明日の試験はずいぶん自信があるから、心配はない。でも、それからのはちょっと。。。

Research Methodology

First paper, Research Methodology, over!

Verdict? I guess this could be one of the rare times where I actually felt that I'm running out of time for the paper. In fact, I guess you can say that I did run out of time for the paper, as I didn't finish reading one of the supplementary appendix, and I spent only 15 mins on one of the questions. By the way, there are a total of 4 questions with equal weightage, so I guess you can see how bad it is.

But! At least it's over! And I guess even though I won't be performing excellently, at least the results shouldn't be too bad. I hope.

最初の試験、終わった！

って、結局どうだった？実は時間方面はぎりぎりだぜ。あと少しでゲームオーバーかも知れん。ううん、本当に間に合わないの方が正しいかも。完全に読んだわけではないし、最後の一質問も１５分で何とか済んだ。ところで、試験には全部４つ質問があった。災厄だよ。ぜんぜんだめじゃん！

でも、完了のは確かに。いい成績は取らないけど、あまり悪くない成績が期待できるかも。かも、ね。

Countdown, last day!

Today's the last day before the exams. The first paper starts tomorrow afternoon at 1pm.

Thank goodness my exams this time round is pretty short. Only 3 papers spread over 5 days. Which means a day of break between each paper. I guess that's plenty of time to revise and prepare myself~

Got to sleep early today!

いよいよ明日だね！明日からは期末試験。というわけで、今日は早めに休んだほうがいい。

今回の試験はちょっと短いのはよかった。五日で三つ試験がある。復習の時間もあるじゃない！

とりあえず、明日はがんばろう～♪

Countdown, 2 more days left

Today is more of like a break than anything. Did not study at all today and I even went out to Kinokuniya to get books!

Speaking of which, I spent over 100 dollars today on books. It's the fault of that 20% member discount! I won't be spending that much if not for that!!!

Oh well. I'll be getting them sooner or later anyways =.=

今日は休み。復習からの。ぜんぜん勉強しない上に紀伊国屋へ本を買いに行った！

そこで１００ドル以上を使って、本を買った。１００ドル以上だぜ！信じられない。。。

まぁ、どうせ買おうつもりから。割引があるときはマシだよ。

Countdown, 3 more days left

Ouch... Bad start today... Slept too late last night resulting in fatigue and lack of sleep when I woke up this morning. Barely 2 hours after awaking, I took another 3 hours of nap time =.=

Oh well. At least I still managed to study =D

Haven't finished what I intend to study today. Have to work harder and finish them up after dinner. And to sleep early today too! Going out tomorrow after all.

失敗だな。。。昨夜寝るのは遅すぎるから、今朝起きたときまだ眠かった。だから、起きた２時間しか過ぎないのに、また３時間のちょっと休み。大失敗だよ！がっかりだよ！

まぁ、何とか復習を進んだけど、今日のターゲットはまだまだだ。夕食の後はがんばらないとね！

明日、出かける予定！だから、その前にちゃんと復習する～♪

New look

I changed the look of my blog. I admit, it was an act of impulse, even though I had been planning to change the look from the plain old stuff. Oh well.

This one is an edited template, to fit in the Ar Tonelico theme. After all, I only started a blog in join the Ar Tonelico Suppotail community in the first place =P

Kind of dark and stuff, but it fits well with "her" theme. "Her" being the one at the top of the page - Mir/Jakuri.

ブログのテンプレートを変えた！急になんだけど、結構前から変えると思ってる。ずっとその以前のままもつまんないだろう～♪

このテンプレートは別のから変えたもの。アルトネリコのテーマのために。そもそも、ブログを始めたのもさぽているのためから。

ちょっと暗いけど、これも彼女のテーマだよ。彼女はジャクリ、即ちミョール。

Countdown, 4 more days left

Managed to squeeze in time today to both finish up the 2nd part of my revision for the first paper, and also get some time to relax a bit.

Today's lunch was also a bit special, with me and my brothers going down to KFC to try out their Christmas Buddy Meal. Nothing really too special about it though. Just the addition of some butter(?) prawns. The price wasn't too cheap either. Oh well, just for the experience =P

今日は順調みたい。予定通り、試験の復習もできたし休む時間もあるし。それはいいじゃない～♪

今日の昼食もちょっと特別。なんと！KFCで食べた。新しいメニューがあるから、ちょっと試しに行った。でも、別になんでもないや。えびが増えるだけ。それに値段も安くない。まぁ、経験も大事だろう～♪

Countdown, 5 more days left

5 more days left to the first paper of this semester!

Thank goodness I managed to throw in time today to revise for my work. I guess I covered roughly half of what is going to be examined? Oh well, beats not having done anything. The plan tomorrow is to complete the other half, then wait for the day before the actual paper for last minute refreshing.

On a side note, Kinokuniya is having a 20% discount offer again! Oh my god! Which means I need to take a break from studying to go down to get some books! This time round, the offer runs from Thu to Sat. Guess I'll go down to Thu.

今日は何とか復習した。始めの試験の半分ぐらいかな？

明日は残りのを復習するつもり。後は試験の前の最終の復習だけ。なんかいい調子みたいじゃない！

ところで、紀伊国屋はまた会員割引があるよ！今回のは木曜から土曜まで。つまり、復習間には紀伊国屋へ行かなきゃ。まったくもう！木曜に行くかな？

Weekend and blah blah blah

Been sleeping in late over these couple of days again. By the time I woke up this morning, it was already halfway between breakfast and lunch. Thank goodness the plan today was to have breakfast+lunch over at Ikea, so it wasn't too bad.

Haven't really started studying over these 2 days of weekend, but I intend to start for real from tomorrow. The upcoming exam on Sat is closing in and I don't really have time left to fool around. As much as I don't really care too much about getting outstanding grades now that the final result won't really be affected, I still have to get a decent enough grade so as to tide it through.

この二日、寝坊しちゃった。今朝起きたとき、もう朝食過ぎて、まもなく昼食の時間だった。まぁ、試験の復習のため、休みも大事だから、別にいいけど。

でもさ、この週末はまったく復習しなかった。明日から始めないといけない。試験は次の土曜から、もうあまり時間が残ってない。

別にいい成績を目指すつもりがないけど、悪い成績もだめだ。だから、もう始まらないと。復習、そして、自分の決心。

Presentation, again?!?

As per title. Well anyways, today's the last day of the semester, and I had to go back to school specially for 1 hour for a speech. Okay, speech, not presentation, but whatever =P

Exams begin next Sat. Time to start mugging!

今日の発表も順調だぞ！話題はちょっとあれけど、まぁ、何とかできたから、どうでもいいや～♪

でも、さすがにわざと一時間の授業に学校へ行くのはちょっと。

ちなみに、今日は今学期の最後日。来週の土曜は期末試験だぞ！

よしゃー！勉強しようぜ～♪

Presentation, again

Had another presentation during class again today. The reason for me being the presenter is more or less the same as what happened on Tue, so not much point in me repeating.

But anyways, today's presentation went at top speed. And I mean TOP SPEED. I think I finished everything in less than 5 minutes? Guess I was a bit too nervous =.=

今日もまた発表があっただね。原因は火曜のと同じから、もう一回言ったも無駄よ。

でも、今日のはさすがに速すぎかも。５分も足らない気がする。まぁ、いいか。ただ緊張過ぎる。

明日も発表があるよ。今回こそ！

A little break

Time for a little break from serious stuff before the beginning of the reading week and exams.

Today was spent lazing around and doing nothing constructive in much. Pretty much spent the whole day viewing videos and just relaxing. But then again... I haven't really been doing much over the previous month or so, have I?

Oh well, rest is important =P

休憩休憩！

今日は一日休んだ～♪来週は予習の時間、それから期末試験から、もう時間があまり残ってないや。

だから、今日はニコニコを見たり、のんびりしたりしてた～♪ちょっと。実はこの一ヶ月も大したことがしなったが気がするけど。。。

まぁ、いいや。休みは大事だもの。だから、休むべし～♪

Presentation

I presented for my group today during class. It's a class that I've been skipping quite a bit lately, and so I don't really know what's going on, but then again, as I've been skipping it, I didn't really participate in the group discussion and thus am designated with presenting it =.=

But anyways, at least it all went well. Good! Haha =P

今日、発表があった。このごろよくサボった授業の。

よくサボったから、グループと一緒に相談できなかった。それで、何とか発表は私に。まぁ、どうでもいいけど。

えっと、よく考えれば、今週のもく、金曜も発表があったけ？なんかすごいじゃない？！？

Last week of school

Today marks the first day of the last week of school. After this week, the reading week will begin, and then EXAMS!!!

Time for the real fun to begin!!! I mean... nightmare? T.T

今日、日本語の講義の最終回を過ぎた。

それに、今週も今学期の最終。来週からは予習、そしてようやく期末試験！

さぁ！これからは楽しみだぜ！むしろ、悪夢かも？！？！

What?!?!?!

It's almost unbelievable, but just shortly after I finish watching 3 series over the past week, my HDD which holds my anime collection got fried. Yeah. UNBELIEVABLE. 130+ GBytes worth of data all gone =.=

Somehow, it seems like the recent Windows updates that I installed had some sort of conflict with some of the programs that I have that runs when the computer boots up. As a result, Windows keeps claiming that a serious error has occurred and reboots automatically halfway through the startup process. As a result, my external HDD got fried.

I've since removed those updates and also disabled most of the programs that start at bootup. But still, Windows sucks. What's with the acting smart and going into a cycle of self auto-reboots? Whoever designed that much be a genius!

今、機嫌はとても悪い。私のアニメコレクションが消えた。すべてはこの愚かなOSの所為だ！

もう一度探さないといけない。でも、１３０Gはさすがない探せにくい。そもそも、いったい何があるのも全部覚えてない。

もう、優れない。

Lucky Star! らき★すた

Okay, so it might a bit late... 2 years late... but at least! I've finally watched and completed the anime series for Lucky Star.

Hmm... compared to Azumanga Daiou that I watched a bit back, I felt that Azumanga is more interesting. But then again, Lucky Star focus is more on the otaku side.

All in all, it's a rather funny and interesting series. The last episode is also quite fun too!

やっとらき★すたを見た！ちょっと二年も遅くなったけど、見ないよりマシだよ。

って、あずまんが大王と比べれば、どっちがいいのか？えっと、あずまんが大王のほうはいいと思う。もっと面白いと思うから。でも、らき★すたはオタク方面がメイン。

とにかく、面白くていいシーレズと思う。最終回もなかなか面白いや～♪

Oral Communication Test

Today's the day for the oral test!

As for how I felt about how it went... I guess it's acceptable?

I screwed up at quite a few places, but overall, I guess I somehow managed to scrape it through in the end.

今日、オーラルテストだった。

えっと、どうだったかな？まあまあな程度かな？

間違えたこともあるし、できはこともあるし、どうかなるだろう。

あずまんが大王！

I just finished another series yesterday. Kind of amazing that I'm actually clearing full seasons of anime in a couple of days when I should be dying from mugging for the upcoming exams.

But somehow, I just can't find myself studying now... I just feel that there is still so much time, and studying now, is but a waste of time (?!?!).

Don't really understand myself =.=

あずまんが大王を見た！つい先まで見たクレイモアノアと、またひとつシリーズを見た！

もうわからないな、私。もうすぐ期末試験なのに、今は勉強しないといけない事情なのに、まさかまたアニメを見ているんなんで！

もうわけわからんな！

Back!

My parents came back today after their 4D3N trip overseas. Nothing much happened over their period of absence though, so I guess you can say that it had been a rather boring period of time.

両親は今日帰ってきた。でも、いない間にも何も特別なことがなかった。

結構つまらなかった日々だね。

後もう少しだね、期末試験。

Claymore

I mentioned that I wanted to watch the Claymore anime a long time ago right? Well, I managed to finish the series last night, or rather this morning, if you count the end of a day at 12 midnight =P

Took me a total of 2 days {!?!?} to finish all 26 episodes. Ya, I shocked myself too. Never thought that I was still capable of such anime marathons. The story in the anime is incomplete though, like expected for tv adaptations of ongoing series. Which means that I will most likely have to go buy the manga to follow up with the series.

That's really going to be burning a hole in my pocket, with each book costing around $10 before any offers or discounts... Guess it's time to wait till another discount season =X

またアニメを見た。もう長い間見なかった。今回はどうしてまた見るんだな？それに対して、答えない。

まぁ、また見るのもいいじゃない。もてに入れるから、見ないと損じちゃうよ。

ところで、今回のアニメはクレイモア。なかなか楽しいストーリーだな。でも、やっぱりアニメだけでは終わらない。漫画を読まないと、あとのことがわからない。だから、漫画を買わなきゃな。

また割引があるとき。

Oral practice

Had my practice session with my oral communication partner today. A one and a half hour session at that too! Kinda unbelievable that I actually spent that much time practicing for oral.

I've never ever really put in any emphasis on preparation for oral, so that's really quite a surprise to myself.

今週の金曜日にはオーラルテストがあるんだ。そのテストを予習するため、今日はパートナーと一緒に練習した。

実はそうゆう練習は初めてかも。まぁ、もっと予習と練習するほうがいいじゃない？

Overseas

My parents are overseas again this weekend, to the same place that they went to a couple of weeks ago. Some might say that it's a bit silly to go to the same place again in such a short period of time, but then again, if they feel that it's relaxing and a runaway for them, who cares =P

両親はまた海外へ行った。まぁ、好きなら、いいじゃない？

それより、私の期末試験はもうすぐ。。。プロジェクトのことも。。。

あぁ、大嫌いだな、学校。

世代交代！

今日はニョロ・メロンとのお別れだ。前も言ったけど、そのお別れシーンは悲しすぎる！

私はね、悲しいものには苦手なの。。。

おっと、ニョロ・メロンからのメッセージも忘れないでね：


それに、新しい子もよろしくね。今回はちゃんとペトを選んだ！名前ももちろん！ペト・メロン！

キャハキャハキャハキャハキャハキャハ！！！