On Eagles' Wings

In the spirit of let's-not-be-lazy-bums-and-get-off-your-butt-and-do-some-exercise, I went for line dancing on Wednesday morning, and for Praise Exercise on Thursday morning. Since they're both on every week, I think I'll try to commit to that.  Cos I doubt sitting on my bum in front of the computer all day every day is very healthy. Though, it does encourage finger exercise (from typing). Line dancing What's Praise Exercise? It's a little like tai chi  in that it involves a lot of stretching, and works on all parts of your body. It's not as vigorous as line dancing, or as fast-paced. Line dancing is just a lot of footwork, and not a whole-body workout.  Praise Exercise had me sweating bullets by the end of it, while line dancing barely broke my sweat. But that was probably because I was too focused on where my feet were supposed to be, and not on the dancing part. >.< Both were populated by aunties--those who are retired, or housewives, ...

Coloured contact lenses have been my little craze for the past few months. I bought my first pair in February and highly anticipated the little package that my friend--who helped me order them via mail--would pass to me when we got back from our CNY/mid-sem break. I bought them despite a few of my friends advising me against it, citing several reports and articles they'd read about the harms of coloured contact lenses. Some to the extreme that they actually went completely blind ! @.@ I told myself these were only isolated special  cases. They didn't happen to everyone who used coloured contact lenses, right? And why was it that coloured ones were more harmful than the clear ones? BOTH were bits of soft plastic placed over the irises of the eyes to correct vision (well, in my  case at least) so why did a little colour make one worse than the other? It's just all about the care with which you treat your eyes, regardless of the kind of contact lenses you use--...

Isn't it ironic that when I was in the midst of exams, I blogged almost every day? But when I'm completely free with no more studying to do, it takes me more than a week to post something up on my blog? It really is a mystery, ain't it? I guess it's just human nature--we look for whatever reason not  to do something we should. Cos we hate it. >.< Anyway, I guess I missed out on the countdown after Four down, three more to go . A little more than halfway. :) Well, I had Teaching of Writing Skills in an ESL Context  on Wednesday (20.4.2011). I memorized like crazy for that one. Types of Writing, the Models of L1 and L2 Writing, the Design Principles of Writing Instruction, Social Networking Tools in Teaching Writing.  But the essay questions were not what I had expected. The changes  in the use of social networking tools in the future? The changes  in conservative methods to incorporate social networking tools? Yikes. Well, sure. I can ...

Finally. Done with Research Foundations. OMG, wasn't that  a pain to study for ! >.< I had four pages  of short notes by the end of it. And if you don't think that's much, I should remind you that I have teeny tiny writing, and each page has 2 columns full of black squiggly writing that I need to MEMORIZE. Stat. Phew. Had a minor panic attack yesterday, AGAIN. >.< (Who wouldn't? Only finished making short notes at 10.00 pm at night when the paper is at 8.30 am the next morning ! Brilliant time management, eh? @.@) Paper was..................................................do-able. That's all I can say, really. MCQ questions were repetitions from past-year papers. Which would have been AWESOME news.   If I had the correct answers to them. But I didn't. Sure they were familiar questions, and I could answer them fast enough. (30 questions in less than 20 minutes >.<) But were they the right  answer...

'Tis normal to wake up at 12.00pm with half the day gone, only to spend the next two hours dilly dallying before even opening  your notes and books to study. 'Tis normal to then stare at your notes and day dream about......stuff. (Don't ask me what stuff. They were day dreams . How would I remember?) 'Tis normal to have your pen poised and ready to write notes, but think about what to have for dinner later. 'Tis normal for you to spend time choosing which coloured highlighters to use for each point so that the overall effect of your notes are colourful and pretty. 'Tis normal to arrange said coloured highlighters and pens to take a photo of, cos you are thinking of blogging about this later. 'Tis normal to spend hours battling your inner self on why it is certainly  more important to be studying now, than to "take a break" and browse FB. 'Tis normal then that your inner self lost, and to actually spend hours  browsing FB...

I was actually very nervous about Spanish exam. I mean, actually I was thinking, Nah. I'll be okay. Spanish is okay. I did fine for my quiz. I'm not doing too bad. Spanish won't be all that bad. But I have this phobia about thoughts like that. Whenever such thoughts cross my mind, I'll shut them out. I'll tell myself not to be over-confident. Cos it just might bite me in the butt. Maybe to teach me a lesson (for being too confident) I'll do badly in the exam. Sounds like a jinx, huh? Although I don't believe in jinxes. >.< So I (kinda) worked hard. Went through our entire text book and work book. Did some exercises online. Prepared and wrote out sample essays for possible topics. Here's one, entitled "Hobbies":       Soy una chica normal. Pero tengo muchas aficiones! Me encanta cantar. Todos los dias, yo canto en el bano! Mis amigas dicen estoy ruidosa! Sin embargo, yo todavia canto en el bano. Tambien, me gusta muchi...

My, oh my. How time has flown ! I just spent the past 3 hours (re-)watching How I Met Your Mother episodes. @.@ Phew. Sociolinguistics----DEAD AND GONE !!! whoooooooooooooooooohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~ :P Although I had a minor panic attack last night (there was just so much to study and so much to memorize and I only finished writing my notes at like 9.00pm at night and the exam's in the morning but I haven't even started memorizing all the stuff yet and what if what I wrote in my notes to study for and focus on is not coming out in the exam but what I chose and decided to leave out--cos there's just too freakin' much to READ--is what's really coming out for exams and OMG I don't have much time to even really memorize what I already have OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG I'm so gonna dieeeeeeee T.T) I got relatively calmer by 1.00 am in the morning. Which was scary really, cos I was worried I would not be able to wa...