D.e.a.d. feel like smashing the darn thing now... my stuff just gt deleted... for no rhyme or reason... apparently i typed tooo fast!!! and pressed the wrong key and like half my story for yesterday and today gt deleted.. deleted flat. Maybe you all not fated to read it. And yes i know there's a recover post link at the top. But nope. no use, if not u all won't be reading this too.


Aniway as i was saying before i pressed duno what.... (sigh its actuallly quite hard to retype you know.. the agony of it allllll) but aniway... as i was saying...yesterday, i was grilled. not onli grilled. BUT flame grilled. and no... its not an advert for burger king. apparently, a few people read my wonderful last entry and these few wonderful people suddenly gt some thoughts about it, mostly inferred. notice i said INFERRED. and then coincidentally yesterday i had to meet them and stay in the same tutorial room with them for a period of like 4 to 5 hours and then i was grilled. reali grilled. and apparently to my amazement, someone was actuually brain-raped by my entry. (Just fancy that!) i duno how you can get brain raped. but well to be brain raped by my entry .... very I.N.T.E.R.E.S.T.I.N.G. aniway this is the gist of what happened yesterday and as they say, its never too good to dwell in the past be it a good past or a bad one and so lets talk about today.


Today i did it again... nono not the britney spears song.. but I did it again... Did what you asked. Just that! Apparently i managed to stone for a few minutes .. hmm like close to 60 minutes, (thats' a lot!) during the paper and then there's the sweet poppin habit from duno where and then there's golf and exams and then there' somemore. Golf and exam? whats the link you ask? Ahhh... that you 'll know later. and no. dun get me wrong. i m not tryin to entice you to read further. if it pleases you, you can stop right here, right now. ... but no? *grinz* you r carryin on? Alrigthy. ha

Let's start from the somemore. Just look at us, this laptop totting bunch of people. or maybe just M.E. i type my tutorials, i type my emails (of course right), i type the reports, use laptop to do projects.. i mean come on in this age, how many people actually write our their assignments?!! No right? and so why do we have to W.R.I.T.E. during our exams.... why cant we type??? Ahh... are you getting the direction of where this is going? yes why cant we type? Then you ask, why cant we write? Yes we can of course, but do you want to? Ok let's look at this like a mature adult instead of a whimpering, grouchy student. Writing, this is the norm in exams of course. We've been writing for exams all of our lives! we r used to it.. BUt then we were used to writing! NOW we're used to TYPING! ok and so you ask, what about those who are not really proficient at typing? Won't they be at a disadvantage? And hey! what are we suppose to type on during the exams? Laptops in Nanyang Audi? oooo think of all the wireless capabilities! Won't it just be disastrous... i mean how many invigilators can you dish out...and then there's the issue of printing out the answerss.... just imagine the queue.. very disruptive. oh and then there's the issue of saving and keeping of answers in soft copy, you can just pass it on, cant you? If you have a soft copy somewhere like in your thumbdrive? And what happens if its not an open book test? How do we ensure that students do not bring in soft copies of lecture notes and stuff and so on and so forth.... and the worst thing. what happens if the file becomes corrupted. So many concerns. True true all true. But now don't you reali think that there may be a possibility that exams may be type written in the future? Maybe there can be a lab that does not have internet capabilities and well there's going to be a kind of technology that can save your work AS you are working on it.. (sounds great, doesnt it!) Hmm as for printing, what about maybe having a printer at every computer in THAT paricular exam lab? Then there's the issue of money. And aniway with so many students, how many computers do we need then? Problems of course. but i do believe there will be solutions to these and that in the near near near future, students maybe able to type their exam answers! Don't be surprised then coz you heard it here first! (*winkz*)

Well well thats it for the typing issue. and now the golf. as promised, here's what about it. Golf and exams. See the link? No? ok maybe you should know something about golf then. What comes to mind when i say G.O.L.F. green green pastures with no one? the hot hot sun? umbrella totting tai tais? TIGER WOODS!.. Ooook all are valid, as we always hear, there's no right or wrong! BUT golf in actual fact, no matter how some of you can disagree with me is and still till today remains as a M.E.N.T.A.L G.A.M.E. Yes, get this right, GOLF IS A MENTAL GAME. not all about whacking that darn ball as far as it can goes.... it takes mental training to make that ohh so purrfect swing and still look you best. Just go ask tiger woods. Ok exams.... Ahh.. nope its not a different ball game altogether. Exam is a mental game too. You dont think so? Exams. That piece of paper that tests what you know the whole semester in 2 hours. 2 wheeeny hours, you re cramped into a room with like your whole cohort and you start scribbling and then this is going to determine whether you learn anithing in the sem or not. Just this, im not sayinng this is the lousiest way to test someone's knowlege. It's not. but neither is it the best way either. And yes, exams are a mental game.

And you sports people out there should know this better than anione. Bowling, swimming, basketball, and yes, even football.. sometimes its not the skills of the players but the way their minds are psyched up before a big match. Many coaches these day actually engage people who come in daily to train their players in the mind. See your self kicking in that goal and you jolly well will during the big day. With a lot of training as well of course. If not we can all just train ourselves to think that we will all get an A in the exams and then expect to get one. *What a laugh!*

Signing off
F.L.O.W.E.R.B.L.O.O.M