Its November 22! My eldest brother, Mng. Mike, turns 26 today, and tomorrow is officially the start of the Christmas season (in our house, at least)! :D My mom has this thing of not putting up any of the Christmas decorations until after my brother's birthday.

It being my brother's birthday today, it can only mean that nine days ago I also turned one year older. Woot woot! 19, you really don't feel all that different from 18. :)) I seriously feel that my 19th year will be better than my 18th - I can feel it! Why yes, I do think that my score in our first Bio 116.1 quiz that day was an indication of the year to come.

I'm trying to get myself to update this more, so I've decided to do that Seven-Day meme thing that's been floating around lj. Seven straight days of updates? I can hopefully do it!

Mng. Cholo made me watch the South Park episode about the fish sticks joke yesterday, and Kanye West's gay fish song has been stuck in my head ever since. I miss watching South Park on TV. Damn you, Sky Cable - why don't you have Jack TV? D:


Do you like fish sticks?

I WANT. :))

The Twist&Shout parade scene from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Duckie dancing to Try A Little Tenderness from Pretty in Pink, and the adorable cheesiness of Some Kind of Wonderful (which doesn't seem to get much love). What's not to like, really? :D Now if they'd just replace The Breakfast Club with Weird Science it would be perfect. ♥

Another great way to end the sem - (500) Days of Summer is finally going to premiere in theaters tomorrow! (YESYESYESYESYESSSS) I feel like I've been waiting for this movie for over a year already. Oyyyy alam kong pwede ko naman idownload at panoorin, pero gusto ko sana dvdrip. Ayoko ngang pagtiyagaan yung workprint. Haha

I don't want to say anything about the Physics exam this morning since I might jinx it. :X Only one more test to conquer and then I'll be freeeee.

ETA: Di nga pala ako pwede sa 23-25 DDD:

Today was a really long day. I had a Biochem test this morning at 9:15, and had slept for around 5 hours (which was really irritating since I actually wasn't planning on sleeping). I was in the middle of taking my test and wondering how late in the afternoon it was only to look up at the clock and realize that it was 10:30am. Yes, my body clock is screwed up.

I still have two finals coming up (last two test for the semester, thank God!), Physics 72 on Tuesday and Biochem on Wednesday. I was really hoping that I was going to get exempted from the Physics finals buuut that clearly didn't happen. It all came down to four points, actually. I only needed four more points to get exempted. :\ I hate Physics 72 so so much (with the exemption of optics) - its basically 4th year HS Physics all over again, and that was my least favorite Physics. Flux, resistors, dipoles, etc etc. Ugh. I'd be perfectly happy with a 3.0. Seriously.

Ano ba meron sa four points?

Four more points. I only needed four more points for exemption. One of my Physics classmates told me she also needed four more points. The status message of one of my ym! contacts was about how she needed four more points for Bio exemption. And then there's Una's post about needing four more points as well. bah, FOUR. I hate that number so much right now.

I really should be studying, but I figured after a week of exams my brain could use a break. So instead I caught up on all the shows I wasn't able to watch this week annnd I re-watched The Road to El Dorado. :D

Looking back on all the tests I had this week, I'd have to say my reading pace has definitely improved. It now takes me only a little more than 1 hour and 30 minutes to fully understand one chapter. Definitely a marked improvement from my old pace of 2 chapters in 5 hours. :S To make up for being unproductive today, I'm taking my Physics notes with me to NMAT review tomorrow. Another whole day of NMAT review. :| I wish it was just a half day instead of an 8am-5pm deal. Trying to sit still for two 4-hour intervals in a freezing room is just ugh. But its a necessary ordeal (for me, at least). And even though NMAT is less than 2 months away I'm still not panicking (well maybe a little bit, but not too much). I think maybe once the sem break starts, and I start reviewing/studying (hopefully, everyday), the panic will slowly set in.

Finally, the barrage of exams are over. I have just gone through two straight no-weekend weeks. D:

Last week:
Wednesday - Bio lab exam
Thursday - Archaeo midterms
Friday - MuL midterms
Saturday - pool session
Sunday - first day of NMAT review

This past week:
Monday - morning: Physics long exam, afternoon: Bio lec exam
Thursday - Biochem capsule proposal //na di naman pala ipapasa. ugh
Saturday - Biochem lab midterms
Sunday - Biochem lec exam

AAGGHH, last week talaga yung pamatay kasi super diretso-diretso. And I couldn't even study for my physics and bio exams that weekend since I was out of the house the whole afternoon/night of Saturday, and the whole day of Sunday. D: Mygash, that pool session really busted my legs and arms - I got a bunch of scars/scratches on my legs, and my arms were aching for daysss after (upper arm strength I need youuu D: one man exit DD:). And on top of all my midterms and tests that week, the first session of the NMAT review was the NMAT Simulation. Can I just say that I HATEHATEHATEHATE perceptual acuity! Dammit, I really hate perceptual acuity. :P It was one whole day of NMAT simulations that by the end I was just "fuck it", I mean it WAS only a simulation. How was that even supposed to accurately predict my NMAT results? I hadn't reviewed and I only had a very vague idea of what the types of tests were. Sorreh, but I can only remember *this* much from the Bio, Chem, and Physics lessons I took over a year ago. Napalitan na ng bagong knowledge. Na-elute out na, mababa lang kasi affinity nila sa brain ko. Hohoho

It was only a simulation. It was only a simulation. It was only a simulation.
Based on the simulation, though, I think kaya naman ang NMAT if I review REVIEW REVIEW - since all the science subjects are included in the BS Bio curriculum anyway. And lucky me, I'll be finishing up the necessary Physics coverage this sem - just in time for the NMAT in December. :S

I guess I'll have to wait until next week to learn my simulation results since I wasn't able to attend the review today because of BIOCHEM. Today was going to be the orientation and anthropology. Sucks that I missed it since I was sort of looking forward to it because Ellaine said the orientation was fun, and also because I-sort-of-love-anthropology. :S

How did I do on the tests? No results yet, but I think I did okay on my Bio and Physics exams (but definitely not satisfied), great on Archaeo and MuL, and uhmm let's not talk about Biochem. Siyempre dun pa ako mataas (or feel ko lang mataas :P) sa mga di ko major. :)) Tawa na lang ako. Haha :))

Can we fast forward to the end of the sem, please? :D

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No more work for now!
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Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.