Mingshern’s Blog

    Procrastinate… To those who are not familiar with that word, according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, to delay doing something that you should do, usually because you do not want to do it. I’m sure most people, if not all, will at least, procrastinate something at some point in their life… Me too… in fact, i think i procrastinate a lot of things… (this post for example… first thought about it… months ago?) I’m quite lazy actually… ><!

    Procrastination eventually leads to last minute works… How many of you have not done last minute works before? Of all the people i know… i think… 90% of them are people who are last minutes… This can usually be seen in studies… I guess its normal for people to study only when exam is really near… Its like, thats the culture… our way of studying… hehehe… Hey, don’t get me wrong that i’m insulting them or what… In fact, I’m also one of them… I’m one of those who really study only when exam is near… And, by near, i dont mean like 2-3 months before exam… By near… i mean… 1-2 weeks before exam… or maybe even just a few days before… ><! It happens every time… every exam… every test… Which leads me to think of the next point…

    If (almost) everyone last minute… and they take only, lets say, 1-2 months to STUDY the whole syllabus of 1 or 2 years to prepare for the test… Could it be possible that the whole syllabus be conducted and taught in only that short period? Maybe add an extra month… Say, 3 months to teach everything and get ready for exam? I dunno if its possible… however, i noticed that… sometimes… or most of the time… when i do my ‘last minute revision’, thats actually the time where i force myself to understand and learn it… in fact, some of the topics and notes… Its like thats the first time I’ve read them… So, it virtually makes no different that I’ve actually learn about it before or if I was taught that topic before rite? =)

    Imagine… If its really possible to shrink the time of our study courses into only a few months… That would have shorten our studying time by A LOT rite? A 2 years course would take only 3 months… A 3 years Degree course would only take half a year… You can finish your studying up to your Masters level in only a year!! Maybe PhD would take an extra half a year or so… Hahahaa… Then we’ll all graduate and start working even before we’re 20!! ><! Don’t think I would want that… Hahaha… =P

    9th August 2007… Today is the day where my A Levels results are released… I’ve sat the exams about two months ago… ended a month ago… and now… the results day… =)

    Morning… i woke up about 9.30 am… do my normal stuffs la… i cant leave straight to college to get my results because i have to wait for my friend NiYi to finish her work at about 11 pluss… so… at 11.45, we left home and headed to the Jetty…

    We took our ferry… reach Penang island side about 12 pm… and… we decided to try the new Rapid Penang bus service!! hmmm… i think i’ll blog on that separately… hehehe… its kinda out of place if i talk about the bus service in post about my results… ><!

    Anyway… we reached college about 1.00 pm… we went to our office to collect our results… However… its lunchtime and most of the lecturers went out for lunch… So, we just took our results from the clerk, Kak Ros… =)

    Arrggh… I lazy wanna describe wat we do all la… this post is just to tell my results rite? Why talk so much? hahaha… so… for my results… well… I took four subjects… Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics… and… I got A for all of them!! ^^ I got AAAA, straight… hehhehehe… so happy so happy… =P

    Okla… lazy wanna continue talking about anything else ade… maybe i’ll post it in another post… some other time… hahaha… =D

    Man… look at me… I’ve been so eager to update my blog when i dont have my internet connection, yet now that my connection is restored, i havent update at all! Andd… its August already… sighh… time passes so fast… =)

    Anyway… I realised that i’m becoming lazy and lazier by the day… ever since i finished my A Levels in college… every day (almost), i just stay at home… and waste the time away… What have I been doing lately?? Let’s see… I’ve been playing this MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) Trickster Online… Hahaha… Got addicted to it… Before that, I’ve been playing Virtua Tennis 3 almost everyday… Its so addictive! I’ve played it till I’m currently ranked World No.1 and can be considered to finish the game… hehehe… however, I still cant beat the SPT (Sega Professional Tennis) Doubles Finals… ><! And more recent, I’ve just installed Counter-Strike 1.6 in my PC and have been playing against bots on my computer non-stop for the last few days… (stopped TricksterOnline for a while =P) Oh ya, my friend, Mugun, had also just passed me this game, Warhammer 40,000 : Dawn of War… which i’ve just installed last night… Its a Real-time Strategy game (think Command & Conquer : Red Alert) that is pretty cool although i must say i’m still a noob in it… (don’t really know how to use all the units and play it well yet…)

    Well, apart from playing games whole day, of coz, i did some other stuffs too… for example, i’ve finished reading the whole Harry Potter series… (something which im kinda proud of… hehehe). I’ve read up to the fourth book during my schooling days and stopped halfway at the fifth book… So, after my exams, i start reading the fifth book again, and progress to the sixth book and finally the seventh book which is the last in the series… hehehe. =) Well, I’ve also watch finish some anime series… watch finish the whole season one of Heroes… can’t wait for the season two… I’m still currently waiting for Prison Break Season Two from my friend Farhan… hehehe… Watch a few movies here and there… and… guess thats how i spent my ‘holiday’ time… Real productive huh? =P

    Anyway… I’ve been really lazy to blog on stuffs lately… ><! hahaha… anyway… my A Levels results are coming out this Thursday, 9th August 2007… (o.0! What??? So soon?? I thought its still a month away???) Sigh… Hope I’ll get good results, so that i can get into the university that i applied to… and… I’ll update when i get my results… Hopefully… hehehe…