Today was the cremation. i hope my eulogy did justice to his memory. hopefully now that everything's been done there will be some sort of closure and we can all work towards adapting to this new life.
and i think im so damn screwed for H3 maths. i didnt understand anything at all during yesterday's tutorial, and now there's a test next thursday covering everything we've learnt so far, except that out of 8 chapters i've only learned 2, and i havent even laid eyes on the notes for the other 6 chapters on graph theory yet. sometimes i wonder if it was a rash decision for me to take H3 maths all of a sudden, cos now it seems that i have two H3s and can barely cope with either of them. maybe im really spreading myself out too thinly. i think i'll use the coming test as a guage: if i can survive this test, then there's a glimmer of hope that i might be able to survive the rest of the year. and it's not just my H3 maths that im worried about, cos i seem to be lagging quite far behind in H2 maths too, what with the 3 vectors tutorials as of yet unfinished in my bag. bitten off more than i can chew this time?
the annual NJC road run is next friday, but im not running it cos im in charge of the charades station for the total defence day amazing race. how ironic it is, that last year i was dreading the road run while this year im itching to participate but cant. maybe one of these days we could run the route for hockey training, but knowing nigel he'll probably halve the amount of time given to us, and quite naturally suck all the fun out of it -.-
random thought: how close do you have to be to someone to add him/her on facebook? the thought suddenly sprang to mind after i noticed that facebook will quite frequently prompt me to add people who i sort of know, but im not sure if they know me or if they know me well enough to want to add me. you have stuff like "XXX - 70 mutual friends" and then im quite shocked cos 70 mutual friends is quite a lot for someone who i sort-of-dont-know. and wouldnt it be quite sad if i couldnt keep in touch with fellow NJCians after we graduate cos i could have added them on facebook but didnt? isnt facebook all about keeping in touch with anyone and everyone you've met in your life?
another random thought: a while back i posted the A7X cover of Flash of the Blade here, and i said that i preferred the cover better than the original. for some reason, today i decided to hear the Iron Maiden original again, and i have to say that i picked up somestuff which i missed the first time. now i think that both have their plus and minus points. im not gonna say that Iron Maiden completely trashes A7X like a lot of the youtube comments i've seen, cos i think music elitism is kinda stupid. admittedly i used to be very critical of techno and bubblegum pop, but then i realised that you cant generalise an entire genre or a band's entire history based on a few songs (for example, Abandon All Ships rekindled my faith in techno :) ). i think the Iron Maiden version has better guitar skills, but disappoints me cos the guitars are not as distorted as i'd like them to be and cos the drums are really soft compared to the A7X version. and of course, the Iron Maiden vocals are really unique to say the least... sometimes i like it and sometimes i dont. well, here's both versions so you can make an informed judgement:
Iron Maiden:
Avenged Sevenfold:
