Well It's 1st December now so I'd better do a month in review. It's been a rather good month in all sake of honesty.
Consider how life has gone this month compared to the last few months, I am more of a complete person. I am much happier than I was 3 months ago. I am becoming more of an independent thinker. I act according to my own decreed and so on. There's really nothing for me to conform (except studying) unlike Madeline. I can do anything I like as long as it runs in an acceptable line.
I have done the Exams pretty well this time around.
Maths: 92%
Chemistry: 94% (scaled to 96%)
Physics: 91.67% (scaled to more than 100%)
English: C+ (Really what I need)
The other 2 subjects are not worth mentioning.
Certainly I worked a lot harder this time therefore I should wholly deserve the results. I can do better in Methods though. Year 12 will be the real battle though. But more will be done next year.
Ran for school captain and failed but that was expected. :)
Just to finish off my utterly-ruined affair with Madeline Coleman-Bock(Now it's really hard for me to pronounce her name as time went by) off for once and last. Well it's been more than 3 months since I last talked to Madeline. But by now I have a developed a sense of "Make yourself as cold as you are and develop a sense of hatred towards her." Indeed I now hate her just for the sake of making myself forgetting the past. Simple and relatively less painful. Therefore is rather nice not to talk to her any more to show how cold-blooded and changed a person am I. I am not the half-arsed person I used to be, now I am becoming more of a determined, rationally-thinking geek who only cares about things close around him (and obviously things around the world) .
It's business as usual in the world of IRC for the whole November. I am enjoying useful things from the warmth and awesomeness that the whole #internode channel brings. Q-bean, Clbh, Matt_R, silne, DJ_HiP and so on are just simply a bunch of awesome people. I enjoy talking to them and at times I learn things from them on how to deal with daily problems, IT stuff and the rest. They are also a big factor into altering my mind set from the past. They helped me to iron out the difference of the past and the future. My personality is somewhat shaped by them as a result.In fact it's generally more desirable to hang out on IRC than hanging out on 600 Block during recess/lunch. Nothing can beat the awesome Hewes and Coleman though.
I also finished off my DSLR plan during November. 7D has been bought as far as I am concerned .I have finally decided to get Canon EF 70-200 f/4L USM Lens instead of Tamron 70-300/4-5.6 VC USD. Although I lose around 100mm of reach but I gain better optics, faster AF, sharper pictures. Now that's a good decision. Well I won't be able to touch in until late January which sucks. But hey, my body in coming this Saturday and I still have Matt_R's old EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS to play with. That's good enough for the moment. I have to have to iron out the functions on my 7D anyway.
I am still a railfan but this month didn't give me too much of a chance to travel. I only travelled on Trains or Trams a few times this month. Not really suffice enough to call myself a crazy railfan. Gunzeling was also non-existent owing the fact that I am still waiting for my 7D to come to me.
But perhaps after all the puzzles come together I can do more gunzeling even though I am in Year 12.
Well there's a lot of puzzles for me to solve next year, I should be able to finish all them though :-)
Surely watching anime is still something I do. Indeed, the October season gave me a lot of things to go through. Yosuga no Sora, Index II and Fortune Arterial... That's the only three I am getting into this season. It's too busy for me to watch Ore on imoto :P. Anyway they are all good stuff. Just that Yosuga no Sora is a bit over-the-top.
I guess when people around you expect you to do well, you do feel a lot more stressed than others who are not expected to do well. Say you got a 75% whereas people expect you to get 90%. People will just criticise you to the bottom. Well that's happening to me at the moment. I did a fairly sloppy job (in my own standards) in my probability test, and now... I am feeling the need to study more on maths.
I guess the best way to keep yourself up is to ignore those (which is fairly hard) criticism and try to work my way out.
It is sad to announce that I have to welcome Aqualiner-san to the house of first-time-rejected lads.
He's been there trying to ask kouhai-chan out which is his first time. He evidently got rejected (just like the rest of us) a few hours ago. Poor sod and I have been there comforting him. Good job on asking someone out for the first time. It's a big step in life :).
I have been there supporting him over twitter for all that long. Even more so after I got myself added to the house of first-time-rejected lads as a result of asking someone out for the first time. The rest of this story is too painful for me to tell, really don't ask me about it. Unless you are in for some sort of serious mental torment.
I have been talking to him quite a lot and giving him hints to how to work things out. Well it didn't work out at all :(. But really one can move on the next thing, a end is a new start. That's what I learnt form my school's chaplain. I walked into trouble and she really rescued me. Now I am back to a man of Otaku and no-lifing ;) . He really should move on just like the rest of us.
I need to help him to move on and everyone should also help him out.
