The Slacker in me has woken up.

I'm slacking.

I used to (during the semester) :

1) Wake up at 5 am

2) Study

3) Go to class at 8.30 (or running with Audrey at 6.30 or whoever could wake up at 6am)

4) Push the whole day and sleep at 10 or 11.

Now (during exams) :

1) Wake up at 8 /9 or 11am

2) Shower for half and hour.

3) Make nice cup of coffee (using MILK and sugar and coffee powder , not the premixed stuff)

4) Watch Youtube videos till like an hour or 2 after waking up.

5) Study for an hour or so and then go for lunch , or tapau back to the room and watch another 1 or 2 hours worth of vids

6) Try to study , but end up blogging.

7) FINALLY start studying properly after 5 or 6pm.

8) Dinner at 8 plus.

9) Study again till like 10pm , and then slack again , normally involves going online and trying random chats with people , whom are often studying and stressing out (i apologise)

10) Sleep at 1 or 2 am after watching an hour's worth of this:

Maybe i'm burnt out. Or maybe the easy Mechanics of Materials paper has made me question my paranoia style of studying my engineering modules this time around. Did i do too much? Maybe i should have gone and watched Quantum of Solace yesterday.

Or maybe i'm just letting my guard down for the 2 papers i SU-ed. Quantum Mechanics and Linear Algebra and Differential Equations.

Or maybe i'm relaxed cos i have a very slack exam schedule:


I had 5 days to study for 2 subject i had SU-ed (meaning i just have to pass em , my grades for em won;t be factored into my GPA)

I had 5 days to study for my first paper (maybe that's why it was easy?)

I have 5 days to study for my final 2 papers , one of which is an open book one.

*WIDE GRIN*

I think i'd better start studying again......this posting is making me feel guilty.



Cheers from the,

Matrix

In Awe Of IBM's ability to return from the depths of Hell

I own a Lenovo Thinkpad T61.

It can be dropped from the top of Everest and it would still work.

I fact i did drop it twice on some long flights of stairs , picked it up , and calmly turned it on.

It is unnerving. I have gone from a chap who used to start hyperventilating when his home comp (which by the way is a dusty old Pentium 3 , running Windows 98 , recently upgraded to an AMD 2.0 and now running Windows XP ) shut down unexpectedly....

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to a dude who has the uncanny ability to continue munching on a bar of Cadbury's Mixed Nuts chocolate bar after winessing his 1 year old IBM's refusal to boot despite multiple shutting downs in the most brutal manner ........

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..... by turning off the power....

Okay , my laptop is pretty lousy when it comes to graphics. Its running Intel's onboard graphics card , which makes your old VGA camera on that old mobile you USED to have....look good.

But, it does come with something most other laptops don't have. A hidden proprietory utility software which basically becomes your operating system if you will, in times of crisis.

What you can do with this is , if you have an external hard drive, plug it in and back up all your data to it AND make it bootable with 2 clicks. So basically, you can now run your external HD from your friend's comp by selecting to boot it on startup.

In my case however , my Roomie happens to run an IMac , which uses a different HD format, so i jus did this:

3 clicks to reformat and restore my entire computer from my external HD. Its idiot proof. Took hours though, but within 12 hours, i'm back blogging about it.


The THING even restored my setting on Firefox 3 which i customised.And my desktop background was unchanged.

It was as if nothing had ever happened to my comp.

And so , I am now proud to say that I do run a very ugly and reliable IBM.