Code-R

Yes! I didn’t screw this one up! …….I think….I hope not…..

(Thankfully, my bad luck from this morning didn’t follow through the whole day…)

The Practical was much much easier than what I had expected it to be. Even though my teacher told us countless times before that the Practical was one that we have never done before but very easy, I still didn’t expect it to be this easy. I think I wasted my time yesterday night, studying all those stuff about Homeostasis and Excretion, when nothing about that actually came out.

Well, at least I had followed my instinct and not study during the whole weekend. That would have been one heck of a time wasted.

I’m not too sure how much I’ll get for this assessment…but I hope maybe around 7 or 8. Or even better, 9 or 10. I doubt I can get full marks because I’m bound to make some mistake somewhere, maybe my Skill 1.1 and the comment on results part. But nonetheless, full marks is more than welcome.

Hopefully, I will be able to do just as well or preferably even better for my Chemistry and Physics, which is this Friday and the next Tuesday respectively.

It’s been a while since I last did one of these, which was Colonello and that turned out pretty well. This piece is better than or around the same standard as Colonello. I finished this faster than I had expected. I didn’t think I would have been able to complete it yesterday, especially because it was a double-spread (Okay, so 3/4 of a double-spread) but as it turned out, it only took less than 3 hours (3 hours is a short time for me. I know there are pros out there who can do it in an hour or less…). This may be because Shino was the only thing that needs colouring.

Here’s the outcome, featuring; Shino Aburame from Naruto Chapter 394.
(The files are in JPEG format so it may not be of high quality because the original PNG file was just too big.)

Once again, there are two versions. I cannot really decide on which is the nicer version.

As you may have guessed, the background is just some completely random brushes slapped together, plus a little bit of lighting behind Shino. Aside from that, I don’t think there’s much more to say.

This may or may not be my last piece of work for a while. Homeworks are piling up and not to mention I need to start my revision for the Mid-Year-Exams (Yes, Iwill try my best to revise…). So I’m not sure if I can do anything in a while, or for the rest of the year for that matter, at least not until the ‘O’s are over. But I may be able to find some time here and there to come up with something, especially if there’s a really nice page that I want to colour.

Added this to Gallery as well.

I’m not sure how to put this but….I feel different from time to time. I may feel differently about the same things on certain occasions, it can be at the same time or one feeling is more spontaneous than the other. But all in all, it points me to the same question: Who am I, really?

It’s as if there’s more than one ‘me’ in me. For example, school stuff (Exams, homework, grades, etc…). Sometimes, I may feel that grades don’t matter because no matter how bad or good the grade is, if I can go to the course I want, then its pointless to dwell on this kind of stuff. But sometimes, my ego gets to me. I would want to achieve good grades and be the best.

On another occasion, I may feel that exams aren’t all that important, maybe even the ‘O’ Levels. I can’t really explain why but I just feel that its not worth it to study so hard because ‘grades don’t matter’. And if I did study hard, but get poor results, then I would be devastated. On the other hand, I also think that I must study hard and have a schedule for revision so that I can stand out more than others.

Another example is how my focus keeps going on and off. Everytime in school, during lessons, there would be some parts whereby I will listen intently but other parts where I’ll just switch off. I want to learn, yet I don’t want to. A similar case is my way of doing things, or projects. For some activities, I will really put my best into it and I’ll try to make it as perfect as it can be but for some projects, I’ll just do it for the sake of doing it.

So, who am I, really? Am I an egoistic, hard-working perfectionist? Or am I just some lazy-ass who somehow, one way or another, manage to get very decent grades?

Lol, thinking of having a split personality is kinda cool but sometimes, this ’split personality’ really gets in the way. It makes me unsure of myself and I don’t think that’s good. Anyways, the examples I gave is just some of the things that frequently comes to my mind, mainly because I am a student after all, so school naturally makes up a big portion of my life. Other things include stuff like my emotions and the constant ‘whimsical vs rational’ sides of me.

Guess what? My computer is all better! Finally, after weeks of waiting and patience, my computer is in good condition.

“I can finally watch and ‘clear’ all the anime that is stored and to be stored in my computer!”…is what I want to say…but SPA is just around the corner again so I have no choice but to put anime aside first and concentrate on the Science Practical Assessment. I more or less screwed the first one so I want need must do much much better for this one.

Anyways, the computer aside, I got my Progress Slip today. How well did I do? Hmm….fairly well yet very bad. I think I got fairly decent grades for most of the subjects. I’m especially proud of myself for getting an A for Malay. I still find it very hard to believe and I think I was only able to do well mostly due to luck but hey, I’m not complaining.

What I’m angry at myself about is English and Chemistry. I did very badly for Chemistry and I don’t think I want to blame my flu for it. I think it was mainly due to my negligence of revising, over-confident, if I might put it. But what I’m frustated at the most is really my English. A ‘C5′! Pathetic, really. Because of this C5, my L1R5 is gonna be high. Even though I got A1s for everything else (except Chemistry, and Bio [74, A2]), my C5 grade for English will pull the L1R5 up.

Oh, and another thing. My overall percentage is still not 80%. I was close, really very close, but unfortunately, still not 80%.

I really really want need must improve my English! How? That, I don’t know but I hope the assessment book thingy will help. Hopefully, by the end of my secondary school life, I can get A1 for English. An A2 will suffice, I guess, but I want an A1 and will try to get it no matter what.

My, my…I have not been updating this blog for weeks now. Reason being? My computer is still in repair (I’m using the super old computer). My dad said it should be ready by next week. Well, it better be ready by next week. I don’t need an extra week’s worth of anime to add to my already long list of episodes waiting to be watched. From what I can tell, Dragonaut and Rental Magica are ending soon and I’m still only at episode 18 or 19.

Anyways, in the days that I have not updated, nothing much really happened. Everyday is more or less a repetition of the previous day. Boring, yes.

Last Thursday was my school so-called “Olympics”. It was raining before it even began and I was so hoping for it to be postponed but too bad it wasn’t. We had to wait for more than an hour before it finally commenced. It was a boring one hour. I regretted not bringing my Nintendo DS along. Well, it wasn’t just the one hour that was boring, I think the whole event was a waste of time for me. We had to squeeze in a tent that was oh-too-small-for-lots-of-people. And because the tent was small, I couldn’t see anything. And no, it was not because I’m short. During break time, I spotted a gate that was open. I was so tempted to go out of that gate and go home. Seeing my flat just outside didn’t help ease the temptation either.

Oh, and I finally finished fixing my model of Kyrios. I had nothing better to do yesterday (Okay, so I had homework, but who cares…) so I just decided that it would be good to spend the time fixing Kyrios. I noticed a difference between the Gundam from 00 and the Seed era. The Gundams from 00 has longer legs than the Gundams from the Seed era and they’re much thinner too. In any case, I’m more or less happy with the final product. Very nice, I’d say. But it would be nicer if I painted or outlined some parts but I don’t dare to do so just yet for fear of spoiling the whole thing.

Yay! More spoilers and pictures for the new season of Code Geass. Finally something good happened this week, albeit its already kinda late with the holidays ending soon and all but…who cares.

Anyways, back to Code Geass. I won’t post the pictures myself but I’ll provide with links instead since people have already gone through the trouble of uploading.

Two sources:
Lulu-Rebellion
AnimeSuki Forums

My thoughts on the spoilers:
Well, to put it simply, a lot has changed.
- Nina has had a total makeover
- Lelouch has changed (He looks more friendlier, whether thats just a facade still remains a question)
- Kallen is where now? In some facility?
- CC is leading the Black Knights instead of Lelouch?
- Viletta is teaching PE in Ashford
- Suzaku has been promoted (That much we know from previous pictures and its not such big surprise)
- Lelouch is seen holding a White King chess piece instead of the usual Black (in the PV) I think that means something

A lot of questions is arousing and people have already started speculating. I, myself, don’t know what to think anymore. I don’t really like speculating so I think I’ll just wait and see.

One more month till Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2.

As always, nothing unusual happened yesterday.

I went to Parkway Parade in the morning yesterday and then Jurong Point later at night. And what did I buy? Hmm…for the first trip, I went inside Comics Connection and bought a Geass metallic sticker and an Akatsuki Handphone pouch. I had wanted to buy a NDS game but the game that I had my eye on wasn’t there and there wasn’t anything else that suit my tastes.

At Jurong Point, nothing was bought. We went to Popular but there wasn’t any books that I wanted. And I was very eager to go home because I had a coughing fit. Realy troublesome….

Oh, and no further progress has been made with my Kyrios. I should be doing homework now but I’m not because I’m still charging my handphone (No handphone, no songs, no focus, no homework - Yes, my computer still hasn’t been fixed, my dad is really very lazy).

Okay, so it would seem that the holidays is coming to an end. Which means that I should write a Reminiscence (spelling?) post soon. Heh, this has been one of the worst week of my life.

Well, it looks like the chain has been broken. I miss posting an entry yesterday because the internet connection of the super old computer was very bad so I can’t do a thing about it.

Nothing much happened yesterday anyways except that I went to watch a movie. Other than that, nothing else worth mentioning. The movie, The Eye, was not really scary but I guess plot-wise, it wasn’t so bad. A bit cliche, but still not too bad. I had wanted to watch Death Note: L Change The WorLd but it wasn’t being screened so that’s why I watched The Eye instead.

‘Kay, today is another uneventful and boring day. Nothing new or interesting happen except for school…but wait, school’s not interesting so scratch that…

Anyway, my computer is still siting idly on my desk, waiting to be repaired and I am siting idly on my bed, waiting for it to be repaired. Technically, I’m in the main living room siting in front of the super old computer but…whatever…

Kyrios is still halfway done but should be finished by the time school starts. I need to complete homeworks first. As much as I like anime and manga and such, I still value reality over fantasy. No wait! I don’t think ‘value’ is the right word. I think it should be something like; I am sane enough to be aware of what is reality and what is fantasy. Hmm…yeah, something like that.

My cold/flu is finally over. Well, I’m not completely healthy yet, but close. I can finally start my revision or something. The past three days has been completely wasted and useless.

I did manage to complete some parts of Kyrios yesterday. I’m done with the upper part of the Gundam. All that’s left are the legs and weapons. I’m not sure if I can finish it by today because I need to study for a test tomorrow and there’s quite a lot to study since I haven’t even  started yet, courtesy of the headache.

Anyways, I’m still stuck with a super old, super slow, super laggy computer and to make it worse I now need to share the computer with my sisters because the super old, super slow and super laggy computer I was previously using had its internet connection cut off for some reason. Haiz..at least I can still use it to type what I’m currently working on anyways, if I have the mood and motivation.

Sigh…things just keep getting worse and worse. Hopefully, tomorrow’s test won’t be a problem.