Bored

Somehow I'm bored now. I do have work left to do, but I don't feel like doing them. At the same time, I don't feel like watching anime and I'm controlling my desire to touch DotA. There isn't really anything to talk about here I think. (Well, I need to control my eagerness to spread gossip around 'cos it isn't good to spoil people's reputation.) Maybe I should talk about the recent news of the top scorer. Well, she's brilliant indeed, but I think there's a deeper meaning to life. This may probably be due to jealousy, but personally, I think her life is just SAD. I've been thinking about it really. My parents want me to aim for the top, but both of them knows more importantly, that it's a lot more important to know what you want to do in the future. I've seen too many examples of brillant people end up getting a similar job to those who weren't as good as them. However, the sad truth is that I'm also not sure about what I would like to do, but the good thing is that I do have a idea of it, just that I've not made a clear choice. OK, I think I shouldn't say too much as I still have to cope with reality.

Oh BTW, I should probably state here that anyone with a little foundation in Jap and a decent IQ would probably know who I'm referring to in those posts :)

今週のこと

　今週の＿曜日のことだ。＿で彼女を見た。手を振ろうか。少し迷ったが、自分はこの話を続けたいことを知っていた。それで、深呼吸して、手を振った。そして、僕たちは話をし始めた。
　「これからの＿＿＿の＿で降りる？」と僕は失望に思った。
　まあ、そうだね。彼女はその辺に住んだ。トピックはなんとなく勉強だった。ちょっとつまらなかったが、これは大事なことかもしれない。彼女に僕は天才ではないことを教えたのだ。確かに、僕は頭よさそうだが、作文は立派にかけない。去年、言語の科目のせいで、僕の平均点はあまりよくなかった。少なくとも、一番トップの学生たちと比べれば、引け目だ。他のトピックについて話できる前に、もう彼女が降りる時間だ。同じ時間に（ここは9字を省く）、今度は初めてこんな時に会ったのだ。うれしかった。そして、また会うことを楽しみにしてた。
　翌日、（ここは21字を省く）。この話は面白くなる！僕も興奮してる。

I think I just did something stupid again...

OK, regarding the previous post. The reason is rather clear why it's in Japanese - to prevent readers from understanding it of course. Well, after checking with Google translate, there were a little more which I had to censor, but it should be alright now. Unless someone is free enough to find out enough information about what happened to me that day. Hmm, perhaps I should test it out with my friends and see if they can understand it. If they do, I think I better remove it to prevent random people from reading it. MQ is exception of course.

このポストは期待されたかな？

　しばらく前に、僕はクラスメートと僕のブログについて話した。URLを知りたがっていたが、僕は教えなかった。「僕の悲しいことしか書いてない」って。結局、ここにも僕の秘密も書いてある。まあ、それについて書こう。
　二週間前ぐらいのことだ。僕は新しいクラスを知って、クラスメートたちと教室で集まった。そして、この目の大きい女の子が教室に入った。その他に特別なところはあまりなかった。しかし、僕は自己紹介をした時、日本語を勉強してるって。（ここは34字を省く）偶然に、その子はさっきに一瞬見据えた女の子だった。僕は手を振った。そして、先生は「同じバスに乗るんじゃない」って。僕は一瞬驚いて、「まあ」と答えた。
　数日後、僕たちはなんとなくお互いを避けていた。でも、偶然に視線は合う。そして、気づく前に、僕はその子のことを他のことよりもう少し考えてる。それは恋愛感情かな。自分は色欲だと思うけれど。
　時間はとても早く過ぎて、知る前に、もう今日のPOPだった。
　もう「気のせいかな」とは言えない。僕たちの視線は確かに何度も合った。だって、彼女は踊ってほしいと書いてある視線で僕を見た。でも、僕はもう一回その視線を避けた。
　しかし、チャンスはまた来た、一人で立ってた時、（ここは16字を省く）。僕はやはり馬鹿だね。せっかくのチャンスなのに、僕はもう一度チャンスを失った。（ここは30字を省く）結局、うちへ帰って、MSNでちゃんと謝った。
　まあ、彼女がほしいのに、いつも自分は子供で、まだ恋愛を求める年齢じゃないと思う。2つの気持ちは矛盾だ。自然に従えばいいかもしれない。

End of my extravertism

I suppose that the theory of MBTI remaining the same for one's life isn't false. A few days ago, I thought that I had a sudden change in MBTI (Wow!), due to me being too high due to orientation. Just one week later, I am back to my old, introverted self again. Well, today was my classmates birthday and I didn't really wish her a happy birthday. (Or at least do a proper one despite not knowing o.O) Neither did I do that last year on a male classmates birthday, proving that my unwillingness to do so wasn't due to the slight gynophobia which I have. Instead, it is just something which I don't do. Maybe I should disclose a fact to no one here (please understand the deeper meaning of this diction), I'm an extreme I, N, T and a borderline J. It's just that I was trying hard to use my E during orientation that made me seem a little less anti-social. When the orientation ends, I continue my search for true friends.

Stupid mistakes

A little correction of the mistakes on the student handbook.

Review

Why am I here again? I have stuff that is too long to share on facebook. I just finished 俺妹. First of all, I thank the producers for making the public turn their heads when the characters cause a commotion. Not a lot of anime actually have this kind of moving background. For a moment I thought that 俺妹 also beared the theme of incest, as there was this form of vaguely shown bro-con, but since nothing "weird" happened, I shan't criticise it too much on this aspect. I was also rather surprised that some of the common techniques in romantic media actually work pretty well. I was being touched while knowing that it was way too exaggerated at the same time. Such things aren't even likely to happen in real life. This was also a deviation from the original theme of otaku-ness. I do like the anime on the whole, and I am rotting at home while waiting for the next season.

Another flaming post

Now I shall disclose another fact about myself. I suffer from a inferiority complex. So I came back again to flame the same school that made the mistake on the previous chem paper.

OK, notice the propanoic acid part. Then count the number of carbons. Damn fail right? And there's another problem to this question. It assumes that by stating adding con. sulfuric acid, we should know that it's a dehydrating reaction. But the problem here is, the compound has both a carboxylic acid group and an alcohol group. Hence, the first thing that I thought about was that it'll form an ester by itself (or a more complicated carboxylic acid since it has the higher priority in naming). There's also another possibility that this thing goes through condensation polymerisation and forms a macromolecule. :O Hence, I never understood why this is actually regarded as a more challenging question that can come out for higher paper. My chem teacher went, "Why you question (name of school) so much?", when I first showed some doubts about how weird some questions were. However, she gave in by saying "Aiya (name of school) la (name of school) la", when I showed her this question. She should take some stuff from the JC and let us try.

My record of today's laughter

Today, we were going through the 2008 EOY paper in bio class, and one question was about protection of the foetus in the mother's uterus. We has to name a part and describe its function.

Teacher: Can anyone name 1 part?
Someone (I can't rmb): Mucus Plug
Teacher: What's its function? (and 曾死鸡 had to answer)
曾死鸡: To protect the foetus from bacteria.
Teacher: From?
曾死鸡: External environment
Teacher: You don't know the female anatomy?!!

We were also learning new vocabulary and aquiring new information during IHC, which was typical, but I decided to write it here today. Of course, by request of the teacher, I don't think I can write explicitly here, but to give a rough idea, we were talking about ________.

(To fill in the blank, you've got to think of one word that fits this scenario. You are watching anime at home. There's a girl in the anime. A strong gust of wind blows past, but the girl remains stationary.)

OK, but that word isn't the new vocabulary. It's more about some special occasions during such occasions, when there is an extra line in the scene. The line is somewhere such that it's easily noticed, and a two-word noun describes the blend of this extra line with its surroundings. Half the class actually didn't know, while I learnt it from Scary Movie (can't rmb which series) when I watched it in 北京.

Stupid Mistake

This is seriously a stupid mistake, and I can't believe that the EOY paper of this school actually got printed out like this. But to thank them for giving us the paper, this should just be some insider joke that's not disclosed to the public.

Study Source A

Source A: A screenshot of a school EOY paper

Qns 1a: Why is there a white patch?

Study Source B

Source B: Another screenshot of the same page

Study Source C

Source C: Now a ruler is added as a reference to the same screenshot

Qns 1b: Compare sources B and C. What are the sources trying to say?

Highest level answer:
1a) Source A has a white patch because it censors the school name. This can be seen in source B, where the school name is at the location of the white patch, which shows that the school name is censored in Source A. The purpose of the source is to show everyone what the EOY paper looked like, but at the same time, do not spoil the school's reputation. This is known because the setter of this question received the EOY paper from another school and feels very grateful to the school. Hence, he censors the bit.

1b) Sources B and C differ as Source B has no ruler whereas Source C has a ruler placed on it. This is clearly true as we do not find any trace of a ruler on Source B. This proves that it is impossible to have a ruler in source B, be it transparent, invisible or whatever forms of a ruler that does not block your vision. However, there is a distinct ruler on Source C. This proves the existence of the ruler in source C, and not because the setter of this question used illusionary effects or any form of magic trick. Source B and C differ in purpose. Source B shows the stupid mistake which is mentioned in the background information. However, some people may claim that this was due to scanning errors. Source C supports source B by having a ruler, this ruler traces the straightline down to the words below, some of which are covered by the ruler, showing that there are no scanning errors. Hence, sources B and C differ in purpose because source B shows the mistake and source C supports source B.

I hope everyone had fun reading this.