Over My Head
June 15, 2008
Originally Written on 10th June 2008
Well it’s the 10th today and I am surprised that despite what I wrote in my last post I am still on the hard slog, hardly relieved from my University duties. As I said last time I had a bit of a sore throat which kept me at bay from doing much work. That weekend I spent mostly on mastering my Chinese presentation and my Grandpa’s surprise 70th in which I was the photographer. I took some good shots and should be pleased.
My presentation went okay, I was surprised at how basic a good majority of the presentations were, they were either quite basic (subject + verb + object sentences!) or quite colloqial. I suspect that the colloqial ones were that way due to the student’s being of Chinese decent or something like that. Whatever the case it was above the vocab and grammar of the class.
I was really quite surprised at how simple some of the speeches were. I’m not attempting to gloat or talk myself up as some kind of hero. But I had genuinely led myself to believe that our class was capable of more than that.
In anycase, I had a meet and greet exchange function on Wednesday night at some bar in town. The event ran smoothly and I guess I enjoyed myself as much you can enjoy yourself at these sorts of functions. You know, the sort that they force new employees of a business to endure to build up team working skills. Replace team work with cultural skills though.
On Friday I went down to my Chinese friend’s place for a good portion of the day to run through some music and exercises.
The last few days have all been study orientated with the plan on making a clearing in the scrub for a few self indulgent days with Metal Gear Solid 4. I spent most of the prior 3 days doing a 101 on Marketing which really wore me down. Today (Tuesday) I rewrote a major assignment which I hope that I’ll be able to post up on the blog under a new segment in due time.
I have 2 weeks until my final two exams, I cannot wait until they are completed as the rest of the year will be located in ShangHai void of anything really troublesome. I just hope that I get my approval package soon as I need to apply for a Chinese Visa and I’m not sure how long that will take…
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Over the Hill and Out the Door
Originally Written on Friday 30th May 2008
These last few weeks have been a hard slog. I’ve been investing a good amount of time on my studies with my usual semester intent. Every semester I try to finish most of my major assignments as early as possible leaving me with plenty of time to relax and revise for future exams. Last Tuesday I managed to get over the hump leaving only 2 exams and one major assignment left with a month beore they are due. This is fantastic I think and I am very pleased.
Unfortunately since Wednesday I must have caught a cold and have had a painully sore throat. This is terrible for a few reasons; it restricts me from orally recieiting my upcoming Chinese speech (work is done just need to memorize) and my throat has been so sore that it has interupted my sleep which overall makes me feel even worse. It seems to be clearing up though which is positive.
I feel very lazy as in the past few days I haven’t done as much work due to my throat and the way things have worked out. I guess, from now until March next year I should have more time to blog as I will be in ShangHai for the later half of the year doing only Chinese language study which is not extremely taxing work as it is exactly what I want to be doing (work wise).
I’ve also been playing through the Syhpon Filter trilogy on the PSone for the 3rd time. This time I want to capture video and write a ew entries on it on the blog. Beyond that I haven’t been playing much else.
I’ve also reorganised Opera’s RSS feeds and the blogs in which I have subscribed to and the ones that I have bookmarked. This will be convenient for when I finally get around to sharing my blog with more people.
What else, of yeah I have officially been accepted into my University in ShangHai which is awesome. I will be living in the city centre which is completely rocking as this city is such a metropolis. I have been figuring out flight and travel plans as well as doing some general research.
I’m sorry that I haven’t kept this blog up to date, I have been so busy trying to complete my work that it has been hard enough updating the gaming blog let alone this one. Hopefully I will get better soon.
I’m really not use to having this free time, I’m use to pushing stuff aside and doing it later.
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