Sometimes I wonder if they're overconfident, I'm underconfident, or they're just plain better than me.

See, Blogger can totally look like tumblr if you keep your post short and squeeze your entire post in the title. Of course you'd also need 10 pictures taken from other tumblrs for every line of text.
(now just imagine that this block of text doesn't exist and marvel at the tumblr-ness of my blogger blog)

Seven

Obviously, two years ago someone was seriously pissed.
Then "someone" was put in charge of chem P2 Q2.

I think everyone was taken aback by that question. 22 marks out of 72 is more than 30% of the paper; that means that if you can't do question 2 at all, you literally cannot get an A grade for the paper anymore, even if you score full marks for everything else. To top it off, question 2 was an organic question, which together with the other organic questions in the two papers so far means that organic actually is an overwhelming component in our chem marks this year. Which, of course, sucks. Another thing I'm afraid of is that because there have been so many organic questions so far (and consequently little to no calculation), all the calculations will be crammed into the one-hour paper 1. I already have time management issues for "normal" MCQ papers, so one laden with calculations will be bound to crush me.

The Human Abstract recently released a teaser for their upcoming album "Digital Veil", and it's freakin' awesome:

It's so nice to see THA finally going back to their original Nocturne style (sorry Midheaven, but you were nowhere as good in my opinion. Except for A Violent Strike), with a mix of classical guitar and metalcore. And while I'll definitely be missing Nathan's voice on this album, the new guy (Travis, I believe his name is) brings the more traditional guttural kind of screaming that you find in other bands. It's not as unique, but it might not be worse. We'll see when the album comes out (25th Jan! That's before I enlist! :D ).

Another day's respite, then back into the battle again for physics and econs, two giants in a row. Even though physics is chronologically first, I think my focus will be on econs. Because econs is my weakest subject and I have to spend the most time on it even though, you know, it's the least likely subject I'll be taking in university.

Inefficient? Yes. Illogical? Yes. But the cogwheel doesn't protest against the failings of the machine; it cannot.

The battle rages on

I find it quite interesting that my blog hits skyrocketed because of people googling "4chan vs tumblr". And on that subject, I'm very, very surprised that 4chan didn't win. To fill in those who haven't caught wind of the results, tumblr pushed their attack forward a day early, resulting in both 4chan and tumblr going down for several minutes, but nothing devastating to either website and definitely nothing that could be considered an outright victory. Having said that, it still remains to be seen if 4chan will decide to make a revenge strike (which is well within the behaviour of /b/tards).

And by the way:

Heck yeah! Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions plays just as awesome as it looks man. Unfortunately, it also distracted me from revising chem for tomorrow's exam. But seriously man, this game is awesome.

The short weekend rest has passed. The battle shall rage on at daybreak.

4chan VS tumblr

So I mug for a few weeks, and apparently 4chan has declared war on tumblr. Damn, I'm getting out of touch with the Internet.

But seriously guys, 4chan is not to be taken lightly. I'm talking to all those tumblr guys with "Trust in David Karp" or "U MAD 4CHAN?" posted there and thinking that that little jpeg is going to do anything at all. The thing about 4chan is that it only has one user, and that user is Anon. He's anonymous, he's everywhere at once, and I'm not exaggerating in the least. 4chan successfully hacked into Sarah Palin's email for goodness' sake. They managed to identify a girl throwing dogs into a river from a low-res youtube video which didn't even capture her face properly, track down her home address and contact numbers, and constantly harass her in real life until she gave herself in for animal abuse.

All of you guys saying that 4chan is no match for tumblr obviously do not know enough about 4chan. Let's get this straight: if tumblr survives Operation Overlord, it's only because Anon got bored or showed mercy (the latter is highly unlikely, honestly). It's true that 4chan has initiated some failed attacks before, but that's only because they couldn't sustain their interest long enough to organise the attack. Now, there are ignorant little people saying that 4chan doesn't have the power to bring down tumblr, or worse still trying to counter-attack by trolling 4chan. Well let me tell you now, Anon is most dangerous when enraged; the ones who get trolled hardest are those who don't play dead (or outright die) after the first attack. And tumblr, unfortunately, has done loads to piss him off.

As for my thoughts on the actual attack, I have a very strong feeling that it's much much more than what they're revealing. Come on, do you seriously think that they would simply fit their entire master plan in a convenient little jpeg to circulate round the Internet? /b/tards are juvenile and immature, but they are certainly not stupid.

Eight

Now that the weekend is here, I can finally put up a proper post. I guess I'll elaborate a bit on the 'A' levels so far.

Chemistry was a bloodfest. Apparently it's not just me - the general consensus is that Cambridge really threw us a curveball this time. I don't really feel very good about how it went. I had to skip maybe 7 marks because of some stupid mathematical oversight, and I probably lost another 10 marks or so scattered around as careless mistakes or "I thought that was the answer" moments. In hindsight, I'm really starting to regret choosing question 2 (the infamous dofu question) instead of question 5, but I just panicked the moment I saw electrolysis used to purify metals. Oh well.

GP... I don't know what to think, really. As usual, I went in and gave it the best I could, but then again as usual you never know which way a GP paper might swing. All I know is that my essay only had 2 points, my AQ is woefully short, and judging by conversations with friends it seems I screwed up my vocab. All I can do now is cross my fingers and pray for a "quality over quantity" form of marking. Of course, that's assuming my answers have some sort of quality associated with them, which is yet another towering hurdle.

Maths, remarkably, was relatively easy compared to the other papers so far. Unfortunately, that brings its own set of problems, namely the bell curve working against you. There's already talk going on that this year's A grade cut-off may be raised higher. Thinking back to the careless mistakes made during paper 2 (forgot to root the variance before putting it in the GC! T_T ), I can't help but feel a pinch of worry.

Eight papers are left, but fate has saved the worst for last. Judging from paper 3, chemistry will probably not relent in the coming papers. To make things worse, physics, econs and H3 maths will make their debuts (especially worried for the latter 2) in the coming weeks.

But I have to stop whining; I have to stop worrying. The end is 16 days and 8 papers away, and there's so much to look forward to afterwards: grad night, pre-NS workouts (my enthusiasm surprises myself), Sonic Colours (released in Europe today!), playing Maplestory with the 28s for the heck of it (haha), new albums from Protest The Hero, The Human Abstract and Last Chance To Reason (hopefully at least one of them before I enlist), and of course the freedom of being momentarily unplugged from Singapore's education, at least for two years.

Come on, it's only two weeks and a weekend.

Nine

I couldn't sleep last night. Must have been because of the afternoon nap. And consequently, maths was quite the roller coaster ride.

Question 9. I did it three times. That's 40 minutes. Because I misinterpreted it twice. And I was stuck at question  10 for another 15 minutes or so, on a problem that can be solved by a quick look at MF15 (something I only found out after the paper).

This is one of those papers that I really cannot afford to screw up. If I don't have this, I really don't know what I have.

Have to ensure my eight hours of sleep for tomorrow's paper. Counter-intuitively, Paper 2 is my weaker of the two.

After a conversation with friends today, I now feel very pessimistic about GP. I sincerely don't want to let Ms Chua down, but what can I do now?

Econs paper next week. Damn it.

Ten

I can't really tell how I did for GP today. You never can for essay and language-based subjects (read: GP and econs).

My essay and AQ were shorter than I would've liked, but you can't always have what you want, can you (in fact, in GP that rarely happens)?

In any case, the important thing is that GP is over. For good. I'm sure there's something worth celebrating about that.

Tomorrow is maths. Finally a paper that I have some confidence in, but I mustn't get complacent. Don't want to have a repeat of physics prelims.

And now I'm reliving memories of physics prelims. Damn it.

I feel really drained right now; all I can think of is sleep. Sleep now, then maybe some maths later.

I type in one-sentence paragraphs to make my posts seem longer than they actually are.

Is it working?