Thursday, February 15, 2007
Mid Term Break
It's nearly here, after 6 weeks of barely keeping up with everything, I now have 1 week to... continue barely keeping up with everything.
Haven't blogged much recently because life has been quite mundane. Lectures, tutorials, more tutorials, a test, a critique. The test was quite ok, all MCQ and I managed to finish on time. However the critique took much longer. I spent nearly 3 days of my free time on it, trying to understand the passage so I could come up with the necessary arguments. This does not mean it's actually a good piece of work, I'm just slow.
Went for old clothes collection last Saturday. It was another day of traipsing up and down HDB blocks. Unlike Sengkang, the blocks at Clementi are older and thus do not have common corridors on every floor, making it much more difficult to clear each block. Still, we managed to gather huge piles of unwanted clothes and newspapers from the various blocks we went to.
Also on Saturday, I went to watch kent ridge hall's concert. Their storyline was quite ok, and the music was good. It was even performed by a live band during the performance itself. Their story is set in their hall, and it talks about friendships. Of course, there has to be a love story as well. It was quite entertaining. The advantage of such a setting is that they don't need to spend much effort on costumes, since they're all wearing everyday clothes. They also built a huge 2 storey set which didn't move throughout the whole play, meaning they can also save manpower and complexity on set changes. In contrast, our hall production had elaborate hand sewn costumes and many set changes, but we didn't have a live band.
Sunday was the YF anniversary. It went pretty smoothly, including our choir presentation. I was told last minute to play all the other songs for service as well and thus had to sight read through everything. Sounded quite bad.
One more day till the weekend and Chinese New Year. Hope everyone has a great holiday. Don't forget about the 2nd half of the semester.
Haven't blogged much recently because life has been quite mundane. Lectures, tutorials, more tutorials, a test, a critique. The test was quite ok, all MCQ and I managed to finish on time. However the critique took much longer. I spent nearly 3 days of my free time on it, trying to understand the passage so I could come up with the necessary arguments. This does not mean it's actually a good piece of work, I'm just slow.
Went for old clothes collection last Saturday. It was another day of traipsing up and down HDB blocks. Unlike Sengkang, the blocks at Clementi are older and thus do not have common corridors on every floor, making it much more difficult to clear each block. Still, we managed to gather huge piles of unwanted clothes and newspapers from the various blocks we went to.
Also on Saturday, I went to watch kent ridge hall's concert. Their storyline was quite ok, and the music was good. It was even performed by a live band during the performance itself. Their story is set in their hall, and it talks about friendships. Of course, there has to be a love story as well. It was quite entertaining. The advantage of such a setting is that they don't need to spend much effort on costumes, since they're all wearing everyday clothes. They also built a huge 2 storey set which didn't move throughout the whole play, meaning they can also save manpower and complexity on set changes. In contrast, our hall production had elaborate hand sewn costumes and many set changes, but we didn't have a live band.
Sunday was the YF anniversary. It went pretty smoothly, including our choir presentation. I was told last minute to play all the other songs for service as well and thus had to sight read through everything. Sounded quite bad.
One more day till the weekend and Chinese New Year. Hope everyone has a great holiday. Don't forget about the 2nd half of the semester.
posted by cosine @ 5:58 PM 
