I Pray Thee, Let Me Not Slack

It's the exams again, no surprise really... They just get on my nerves!!! Quite a number of things happened this week, but sadly I can't seem to remember any of them. One good thing is that I have finally started on my revision and I don't get so easily irritated by math anymore, but I think I will be soon enough because I still have about 3/4 of the file left to complete... I can foresee that Indices is going to give me a headache.
Thank goodness for music. Music is so relaxing in times like these where I can't watch TV or go to youtube (because I know I'll get distracted) or do anything else that is related to "watchable media" other than the news and certain documentaries (that are also actually very interesting). Good thing I'm not addicted to blogging or I'll have to ban myself from this too... So lately I've been strumming the guitar quite a bit and listening to the radio (YES 93.3 (:). I didn't touch the piano because it's a little inconvenient. I'll end up sitting in front of it for a long long time. For the guitar, I'll stop at no more than half-an-hour, when my fingers start to get unbearably sore. Seriously, the skin's already starting to peel...
I've come up with a study plan but I'll most likely not be able to meet it and end up cramming last minute, AGAIN. But there has been an improvement. I think I've found a little bit of drive to urge me to work hard now. That's good news for me. I just hope I don't end up failing... Must pass man! So I can enjoy a guilt-free December Holidays.
I just watched a documentary (or part of it anyway) when I took a break at around 5pm. It was about heart diseases. Moral of the story, EXERCISE! That is the thing that keeps you healthy and of course, watch what you eat for you are what you eat (Who would forget that Personal Exposition). To all my friends out there, the exams are just around the corner, it's already the last leg of the race so please please please take care of your health!
All the best and good luck to us all! Let's strive for the goal together!

I am Bob

The Lit performance thing on Thursday was really cool! It was great fun :) Though we rushed our script at the last minute, I still thought that it was great :) Brownie points go out to Lynn's great acting skills and improv. And a shout out to the rest of the VIKINGS!!! Great job guys! Woo-hoo! Well, just to say, the "Bob the builder" line was actually borrowed from the musical We Will Rock You. (That musical is fantastic!) So it wasn't original or anything... I am no script-writing genius... Also, we only added the fact that Bob was a blonde so that we could have the Gold casket quote in there. So for those who realised, it kinda clashes with the fact that Elvis has black hair... We didn't have time to change that... Anyway, here's the script with slight editing. I removed the Bob line in case it was copyright or anything and some of the parts that didn't work out...:
Narrator: At a carnival, Shylock skips in merrily, brushing his beard and says to the pink candy floss in his hand…
(Lynn skips in, pretends to brush beard and says)
Shylock: O my beloved candy floss. I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay! (The candy floss was someone’s pink umbrella).
(I walk in a bump into Lynn and the Candy floss falls out of her hand.)
Shylock: O father Abram, what these Christians are, my candy floss! O my ducats, O my Christian ducats! Justice! The Law! Against this cut-throat cat! He and his shaming blood, pray see they be spilled!
Bob: By the bible, love thy neighbours, so I say, forgive me.
(At the same time, Lynn kneels onto the ground and mourns over her candy floss.)
Shylock: What mercy should I render when thou deserv’st… none?
Bob: If it pleaseths you to forgive me.
Shylock: Only over my Jew corpse with ducats by my side. Dang, did I dream of money bags last night.
Bob: By my love I swear, the quality of mercy is not strained. We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much to mitigate the justice of thy plea. Thus, forgive me.
Shylock: (Aside) How like a fawning republican he looks. I hate him for he is a Christian. (To Bob) Now get me my candy floss, now a strain of dirt or dust should lie within this web of gentle fleece or I’ll shave your Elvis-like hair off!
( I do the "smoothening-hair" move and the Elvis Presley Saturday Night Fever Boogie move (:)
Bob: Oh no! Not the hair!
(Yu Qing and Yumin come into picture)
Old man: All that glisters is not gold, often have you heard that told.
Old lady: Alakazam, Alakazoo! That is blonde, not gold you fool!
Shylock: What difference is there?
Old lady: The spelling…
(Everyone looks at Rashvin, private joke. Lol!)
Old man: Here, take this candy floss. Can you share it with me? (Yu Qing picks up the same pink umbrella and offers it to Lynn who declines.)
Shylock: No, I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you, let alone share my candy floss. An oath! An oath! I have an oath in heaven! Shall I lay perjury on my soul by refusing his hair? No! I refuse! I decline to take this offer!
Old lady: Double, double, toil and trouble, potion boil and cauldron bubble, I have no choice but to bring, this magic book I picked from the bin.
(Takes out the book, which incidentally is the Merchant of Venice, and throws it onto the floor. Ouch!)
Narrator: The book trembles and Portia pops out of the book.
Portia: Give me what I want, what I really, really want. (Pause and surveys audience) Oh, good day. You can call me Portia.
Old man: Ah! My eyes! My eyes!
Portia: I am Portia, Portia the doctor, Portia, the lady, wife of Bassanio, Portia.
Bob: Oh, they call me Bob.
Portia: Yes, well… I am informed thoroughly of the cause…
Shylock: I crave Justice O learned Judge!
Portia: Why is it his hair you crave for? The quality of mercy is not strained…
Narrator (cuts in and says): And she goes on and on and on and on… (Well, this was a mistaken cut in but it still worked out quite well… Nicely done Sarah!)
Shylock: Tell me not of mercy! I will not hear of it! I will have his hair! I am very glad of it – I’ll plague him; I’ll torture him. I am glad of it.
Portia: I repeat, the quality of mercy is not strained…
Narrator: (cuts in again) And she goes on and on and on and on, again.
Portia: And therefore, I shall banish you back to where you belong!
(Opens the book in front of Lynn)
Shylock: Hate’s any man the thing he would not kill? I will get your hair! If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge! Ahhh!
(Lynn runs headlong into the book.)
Narrator: ( I think we omitted out this part) Portia pulls Shylock into the book
She may as well do anything most hard
As seek to soften that – than which what’s harder? –
His Jewish heart.

Members of the Cast (in order of appearance):
Sarah - Narrator
Lynn - Shylock
Me - Bob (the blonde)
Yu Qing - Old Man
Yumin - Old Lady
Angela - Portia

VIKINGS UNITED! <3

Love the spaghetti idea Sarah!

5min Spring Clean Dash

That was refreshing... I mean, we could just clean up our entire class in five minutes!!! The adrenaline rush was awesome!
Well, today we actually did the ICT project. Well, I usually try but most of the time I don't succeed. At least this time we got somewhere near completion... I really got to figure a way to put the pictures in... We are doing (whatever it actually is) some roll-over thing around the theme of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. I don't know if that is acceptable but I LOVE THAT SHOW!!! I know Jennifer Aniston still acts but I'm not sure what the rest of the cast are doing right now :( It is shows like this that keeps the entertainment world going round! I love Full House too! Yay!
Went home and took out my ipod to listen to the songs in it. I don't know when the last time I picked it up was... Ahh, the memories...
We got another class booking, dang.
Oh guess what, the song just became Daniel Powter's "Bad Day". Sure, just when I was thinking about that booking...

It's all about Vampiring...

Yesterday was Bella's birthday, Bella as in Isabella Marie Swan from the Twilight series. Haha, I didn't realise that until I came across some Twilight fan site... Well, just stating :) I still like Alice better! (That was written for the benefit of a certain someone who disagrees with me ahem, REBECCA... Haha, JK XP But I really do like Alice better. I think she's cooler!) I liked Bella much more when she was a vampire though. Away with the weak and frail, hello new Bella... Alice's seeing into the future thing is a little freaky but extremely cool :) That's why she's my favourite character in the entire book, yay! I guess second to her will be Carlisle (love his name!), then James (I don't know why either...) and then all the Cullens are tied... It will be a long list... But hey, that's just my opinion...

A Thin Slice of Pi

Yeah, I finally reached a 100 digits of pi! Yes! Still a little mixed up with the order but, I'll live. Most people think I have too much time on my hands but that is so not true! I get bored sometimes so I do this to relax and wake myself up since I am banned from other forms of entertainment... Anyway, next target, 120 digits :)

Bye Bye Hols

The holidays are almost over... Sigh... One week just flew by so fast... I really need to find that source of inspiration and drive to work hard.
The week has been great besides the fact that I never got to throw a Javelin and I fell down and scraped my arm... Dang. I am not done with my homework yet and I still can't bring myself to start memorising Act II and III of the Merchant of Venice. It's just way to chunky for me to feel comfortable reading it, besides, I still do not know what's there that's significant in Act II scene II... Oh help me Good Launcelot Gobbo...
Six things left to do now, in no particular order:
1) Stop Slacking
2) Finish all my homework (including Philosophy)
3) Get a haircut
4) Study for Lit Quiz
5) Filing
6) Stop obsessing over a certain book... (ahem ahem, shan't say which one...)