THU 15 AUG (16:45) - "you think exams are easy?"

Today, as you might have read in the updates (hell, if any of you actually bother reading them!), I received my exams results. They were for my AS Levels (Biology=B; English Literature=A; General Studies=B; Mathematics=C; ICT=[results released Jan 2003]). These results are good, but the system says it's all wrong, that the exams are getting easier. I admit that the system might be right, but then again, this is coming from somebody who doesn't struggle with their studies. You're patronized when you fail or score awful grades, and you're treated suspiciously and/or shot down if you achieve or score good ones. You can't win. And the system says it's all wrong. 

I watched a news broadcast last night (it interrupted the transmission of James Bond, The Living Daylights - and I was only watching because there was this bad guy who threw exploding milk bottles!), and there was a Physics guy and a Southern student commenting on the results of this year's students. The Physics guy told us that he thought the exams were getting easier, whilst the Southern guy told us how there were just good and bad exam periods every year, which had nothing to do with the exams getting easier at all.

Firstly, Physics is a damn hard subject, man! What the hell do you think our brain cells are made of?! And it is true about the good and bad exams periods. In December, I took a Biology exam and scored a D. Today, I scored an A, and only because the exam paper was easier than its predecessor, which was difficult because the damned questions were written in Latin! (I'm kidding, but you catch my drift.)

Exams aren't easy. You're calm, you're nervous, you're totally on the road to a mental breakdown, what the hell. It's the English that makes the exam easy/hard. If you don't revise for the exam, fair enough, you do crap. You don't complain. But if you don't understand the question because the English it was written in must have been bred with Double Dutch, then for crying out loud, the system should complain to itself! (For instance: 'Explain to the trout why it would be difficult to exchange... blah blah blah?' How can you explain a biological concept to a fish? Or a seal? When it won't even understand or care why the hell it breathes the way it does???)

tue 23 jul 2002 (15:50) - "the pink pistols" 

They're a group of homosexuals in America who believe that carrying guns will solve the problems of getting beaten up... Well then. I don't happen to be a homosexual and there will be many to argue with me about that, but I seriously don't think that you don't need to be a homosexual to realise that this is a stupid idea. America has a big enough problem with guns as it is and reinventing their purpose only adds to the difficulties of eradicating them. 

Also, how can there be so many homophobes in America anyway?! ^__^; I mean, most of the anime yaoi web sites I've visited are built by Americans! ¬_¬; 

Wed 26 jun 2002 (16:30) - "Japanese food"

I don't understand the hype surrounding OCTOPUS BALLS. The Japanese love them! And what are they? Pieces of fried octopus tentacles in batter and sprinkled with fish flakes or whatever. BIZARRE. (I watched an episode of 'Medabots' dedicated to octopus balls. Ikki explained [with worrying delight] how an octopus ball acted as a metaphor for the Earth. Plus, I swear there was not a single frame without the presence of an octopus ball, and every character must have said the word at least a hundred times twice.)

But I do enjoy FURIKAKE (furry-car-key)! It's what makes rice interesting! It doesn't bother me to eat lots of rice because it's part of my diet anyway, but furikake helps me eat more! Sake furikake is my favourite at the moment, consisting of sesame seeds, seaweed and salmon.

Stay away from WASABI... unless you worship horseradish in all its grotesque forms. I ordered sushi once and there was this curious bright green paste next to the soy sauce. I didn't know what it was and spread about a centimeter of the stuff onto my sushi. The moment my teeth made contact, I knew it was a big mistake. I honestly thought wasabi was corrosive! And comparing it to the deadliest concoction of Tabasco, I think it is safe to say that Tabasco is tolerable! (I even visited a site about wasabi! Here it is: www.wasabi.com) 

PS: If I sound too... 'technical' or something, forgive me, I have been reading war novels and you know how everyone spoke at the turn of the century.