tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9334546884486238212024-03-14T04:41:19.449+08:00Life & Times of a Wallflower OtakuWinternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-74380844568507275642013-11-27T19:40:00.003+08:002013-11-27T19:40:48.164+08:00今結局本当にブログが放置にされてしました…<br />
ごめんね…<br />
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今は修士になりましたから、遊びの時間がなくなった。<br />
眠るの時間も減りまして、暇の時間だいたいないです。<br />
こんな生活は入学前も思っていないから、覚悟をないように向かいました。<br />
今は忙しい生活をちょっとだけに慣れましたよ、心配しないでください。<br />
ゲームは時間を作るに遊びまして、眠りたいの時は我慢してました。<br />
いいんです、将来のために、自分のために頑張ります。<br />
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では、まった今度。<br />
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-19771329208033091612013-09-21T11:32:00.000+08:002013-11-27T19:31:39.875+08:00BROTHERS CONFLICT (ブラーコン) Brilliant Blue 棗 感想と攻略BROTHERS CONFLICT (ブラーコン) Brilliant Blue 棗 感想と攻略<br />
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あぁ、終に昨晩棗のルートが完成しました~!今朝は梓、今は祈織をプレーします。<br />
彼のルートはちょっと難しくて、三回ほど繰り返しました!<br />
ジュリーのメーモはあまり役に立てないので、ネットでもほかのゲーマー達はまだ乗っ切るないですから僕は結構苦労しました。<br />
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棗はね…超かっこいいです(声的にね~!)<br />
でもストーリーのほうは…ちょっと。<br />
中途半端の理由で陸上競技を辞めるのは僕も怒る(昴と同意です)。<br />
エピログは…(僕的には恥ずかしい)<br />
J が僕を単純を呼びました。<br />
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さて、これは僕なりの攻略法。<br />
スケジュールは自分ので、イベントの選択肢はPecheさん(PPのデータ)と侑さん(http://gleamvanity.blog110.fc2.com/blog-entry-140.html)で参考しました。もう一人えみなさんの攻略スケジュールは無用です(http://sakino00.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-17.html)。原因は梓の好感度が上がりまして、変わりに梓6が発生しました(棗2、3が発生しない)。<br />
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棗は好感度MAX、家族愛100%、昴好感度4♡でエンドを迎えました。ほかのキャラはノートで書き忘れた、覚えてないです(すみません…)。<br />
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「メーモポイント!」<br />
*弥の好感度が最初から上がれないようにを注意してください。<br />
*昴はこのルートの重要人ですから、彼の好感度は必ず上がってください。<br />
*他恋愛対象の兄弟の好感度が上がれないようにを注意してください、得に弥と梓(祈織と右京はおとなしくして、問題ないです)。<br />
*基本的に平日は家族で雑談とTV鑑賞、バイト、1人ゲームを進めます。<br />
*棗が登場したら週末はデート、お泊りをして平日に昴の好感度を上げてます。<br />
*差し入れを渡すがご自由にしてください。(一度渡しました後渡されないもあまり影響はないと思います)<br />
*家族イベント 「浮気…?」はこれで開放しました。(10月に平日「バスケの王子様」を9回)<br />
*12/31日確執1開放条件は棗と昴が♡2、家族愛80~90%<br />
*3/20 必ず棗とデート! (棗13を発生のため)<br />
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差し入れ:ADVゲームソフト、ミニタオル<br />
プレセント:マグカップ<br />
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「スケジュール」<br />
5月24日~5月30日<br />
MON-SAT:アルバイト<br />
SUN:買い物 :ADVゲームソフト、ミニタオル<br />
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(結婚式前まで)<br />
MON: 1人ゲーム<br />
TUE: 昴DVD 「バスケの王子様」<br />
WED, THURS: 家族 「雑談」<br />
FRI: 家族 「鑑賞」<br />
SAT: アルバイト<br />
SUN: 1人ゲーム<br />
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(結婚式後)<br />
MON: 1人ゲーム <br />
TUE: 家族食事 「ラーメン」<br />
WED: 家族外食 「中華料理」<br />
THURS: 昴DVD 「バスケの王子様」<br />
FRI: 椿 「雑談」<br />
SAT: 弥 「格闘技」 (好感度を減らすため)<br />
SUN: 棗 「デート・お泊り」<br />
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「お泊りポイント」<br />
1回目 「京兄が心配する」:○、□、△<br />
2回目 「お願いがあって」:○、□、○<br />
3回目 「帰りたくない」:○、□、○<br />
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「個人イベント」<br />
12月24日: 「声をかける」<br />
12月30日(誕生日): 「渡す」、「棗さんに渡す」、「マグカップ」<br />
1月16日:「行きたい」<br />
2月10日(バレンタイン):「渡す」、「棗さん」<br />
2月21日:「行きたい」<br />
2月24日:「棗さん?」<br />
2月27日:「本当はまだ帰りたくない」<br />
3月6日:「違います」<br />
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「デート選択肢」<br />
水族館<br />
A:水中イネルの方へ<br />
B:棗さんと一緒にだから<br />
C:「発生しない、ごめん」<br />
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動物館<br />
A:パンダのストラップ<br />
B:ライオンが見たい出う<br />
C:思わずうつむく<br />
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ショッピング<br />
A:試着してみよう<br />
B:靴屋<br />
C:少し休憩にしましょうか<br />
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遊園地<br />
A:ゴーカート<br />
B:パフェ<br />
C:協力プレイしましょう!<br />
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映画館<br />
A:音楽が良がてです<br />
B:チケット代払いますね<br />
C:「発生しない、ごめん」<br />
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公園<br />
A:一緒にやりたいです<br />
B:棗とデートを続ける<br />
C:遠くにいきたくなります<br />
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実は今対象ルート全部プレイを完成しました~!残りは家族イベントの回収と自分のメーモを処理してだけ。<br />
明日は梓さんのここで書いて、期待してください~!明後日は祈織くん(陰気くって、ちょっとヤンデレを感じました)。<br />
(右京さんと弥くんのは書きないので、あまり難しくないから。)<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-85971359187148669832013-04-10T20:25:00.000+08:002013-04-10T20:25:24.312+08:00最後のことやー、久しいぶりだな!<br />
ごめんよ、またブログを放置されました。<br />
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来月は最後の試験であり、僕最後の学期は終わるのこともある。今年の夏は卒業だは僕、大学から。今は我慢のことばっかりなのに、未来のためにと思って頑張ります。試験のあとは羽を伸ばすは絶対だ、でもちゃんとバイトを探しにすると思う。こんな経済状況にバイトがある、こんな小さいの町なのに。そう、都市と言っても町のほうが合っています。<br />
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もう時間切れだよ、勉強に戻るから。<br />
あと二ヶ月くらいちゃんとブログをアップデートする。また後ほど~!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-23039399335005115992013-01-01T09:00:00.000+08:002013-04-10T20:30:52.721+08:00今年と来年ヤホー!
はー、もうすぐ2013になりますよね…僕のブログはまた放置しました。あ、2013になりました~!(イギリスの時間帯に)<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/blog-post.html#more">あげましておめでとうございます~!</a><br />
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まあ、色々のことはあったから書くの時間はないんだ、でもゲームまだ進みます。あれは絶対に手を放すないからな!
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いまゲームをしますから、最近焼きましたお菓子の写真をアップします~!<br />
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2学期の時刻表はちょっと厳しいから、お菓子を作るの時間ができるかも知らない。息抜きは必要ですから、必ず時間をつくる!<br />
時間切れだ、また今度~!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-26636838635003500502012-11-30T07:20:00.001+08:002012-11-30T07:25:57.784+08:00最近のことあぁ、またブログは放置しまった…本当にごめんね。<br />
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最近はすごく忙しくて、去年に比べてにプレシャーとストレスも高くて 遊ぶの時間も無くなった。</div>
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PSPもあまり遊ぶ無くて、ただ勉強と復習はばっかり…でも新しいの息抜きを発見した!</div>
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/blog-post.html#more">彼女は本当に大丈夫ですか?!</a>
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<a name='more'></a>新しいと言うか、実は新しいじゃないです ただ回数はすくないだけ。</div>
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はい、ケーキを焼きます… つまり、お菓子作りです。</div>
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最近はCookpadで色々なレシピを見当たりそうして試して作りました。</div>
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次のは言葉と字じゃなくて、写真で説明する~!</div>
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再来週はこれを使ってトゥッティフルッティケーキを焼きます~!</div>
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はい、これはブランデーバターです。クリスマスの時だけ売れるで、作り出してのものは本当に美味しくなります!</div>
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おやぁ…もう時間切れだ。明日も色々のことを作る、時間あればブログで写真をアプする。でもFacebookで毎回をアップデートするから、あっちのほうに行けばいいと思います。</div>
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また時間あればの時ブログを書きます~!</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-19511511362601019102012-10-05T07:51:00.000+08:002012-10-05T07:54:43.369+08:00久しいぶり~!あぁ、本当に久しいぶりにブローグを書きますよねー…<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/blog-post.html#more">どうかなぁ…</a>
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<a name='more'></a>まぁ、僕は今イギリスに帰りますので、三年生になりました。<br />
今年は日本語クラスは行きません、理由は二つにあります:<br />
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<li>今年はファイナルプロジェクトがありますから、そのせいで時間表は忙しいになりました。この学期はまだ時間があります、でも次の学期は無理です。</li>
<li>人数が足りないレベル3のクラスは行われていません。</li>
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僕唯一の息抜きは失われた…はぁ。<br />
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I think I should start writing in English right now, eh?</div>
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Well, my journey back here wasn't exactly smooth; neither was my first two weeks back in uni life.</div>
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Like last year, I hit a couple of bumps and I think the rest of my academic year would be smooth sailing (hopefully).</div>
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First was my precious milo bursting in my bag due to the pressure and most of the stuff in my baggage that was uncovered was coated with it.</div>
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Then it was the problem with my laptops connecting to the uni wifi; even my phone couldn't connect at all.</div>
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Then, it was the raining that made it somewhat of a problem to move my stuff back from D's place.</div>
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At the start of my final academic year in this uni, I'm left without a tutor as she's left on an adventure and gone to be the associate prof. in the University of Brunei.</div>
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The whole department is in a mess due to the shuffle in staff and the refurbishments being done at the building I have my usual lectures in.</div>
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Now, I have to catch a bus to St. Peters every Monday morning just for a bloody hour lecture by Bob and the seminar session for PathoThera3.</div>
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And finally, I was stuck between switching CliBio for MedMicro because of the 2 incompetent lectures that were teaching us. That problem has been sorted out though and I'm sticking to it thanks to Bill, who ACTUALLY does know what he's lecturing about!</div>
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Speaking of Bob, he made a bloody arse of himself last week when he suddenly decided to go back on his word on giving us the freedom of choosing our groupmates and titles on the presentation we have to do.</div>
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We were almost done with ours (Schizophrenia) and even volunteered to go up first but no... That geezer said 'that's just too bad but life's unfair' and brushed us off.</div>
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So he reshuffled the groups, which was basically grouping us based on the register, and won't be giving us our topics until 3 week before we present... Just to make it "FAIR" to everyone else.</div>
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I blame the people who complained about the time frame we had to work with first time round... They've bloody messed it up and made it a hell lot worse, since it'll be harder when working with people you'e never worked with before.</div>
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I got lucky and was grouped with Chris, Tom and David. Michael's in but that's just a little uh...</div>
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About my final year project... I still don't have a title, yet.</div>
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I've gone for histology-histochemistry because immunology wasn't offered this year (also because I think the uni hasn't found a suitable replacement for Anne yet).</div>
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My project supervisor is Dr. Jane Armstrong and she's currently working on cancer research.</div>
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Oh yes, my project would be somewhat related but she's still planning it out.</div>
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So yeah, I'm pretty psyched about it.</div>
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My housemates for this year are... Ok, I guess.</div>
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I've got 3 from Taiwan on a language exchange program, Lavinia from Romania doing business and management, Gloryia from Bulgaria, a girl from China, Stephanie from Malaysia doing 1st year Pharmacy, Fennie who is a Finnish-born Hongkee doing her PostG and Amy from last year.</div>
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The rooms are filled but I've never seen most of the people so to me, it's pretty good.</div>
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I've got pretty good fridge space too and even managed to score myself two freezer spaces and three cupboards; much better than last year.</div>
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Also, I've agreed to go on a once-a-month outing with Priscilla, Kishanie and Rows to blow off some 3rd year steam. It's the Friday of every month and they're the ones planning it. </div>
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The first one we had was at Cooper Rose and it was really fun, though the food was less than satisfactory.</div>
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Priscilla's gone for placement and so has Iryna so it does feel a little odd not having the both of them around. Of course, there are others but I'm closer to the both of them.</div>
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I guess that's about it.</div>
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Lectures just started and the weather's been rather cold lately.</div>
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I foresee a cold winter and am crossing my fingers for the opposite because my heating doesn't work as well as it did last year.</div>
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I'm still keeping my weekends uni-related free so I'm still playing games. 息抜きは必要でしょ~!或るいは必ず奇妙になるんです。</div>
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そろそろ寝るの時間だよ、今度はいまのところです。</div>
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また暇な時~!</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-83814966010708282592012-05-22T18:07:00.001+08:002012-05-25T17:01:17.387+08:00Finals良かった~!試験は全部終りだ!今日から暇だ…三年生になるまでかねぇ。<br />
最近あまりアプデートしなくて、申し訳ございません。今年の授業や宿題は多いから、遊びと寝るの時間はあまりなくなった。毎日夜中三時までまだ寝てなくて、勉強ばっかりするので 全部は今月のためです。<br />
実は 僕試験は大嫌いです。毎回試験の時テンションとステレスがあがって、食事と寝るの時間は無視して 身体に壊すは知ってる。でも一人暮らしから、あれは仕方ないと思います。これは留学生なります欠点の一つかな…<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2012/05/finals.html#more">I hope that I didn't make any grammar mistakes</a><br />
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And that is the product of self-learning for the second year.<br />
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Finished my last paper for second year and it was a really tiring month, both physically and mentally.<br />
My exam period was a month long which started on the 30th of April right to 5.00pm of 21st of May. Had a total of four papers which included modules that I had taken in my first semester (lasting 3 months from fall till the end of winter). One thing I have to say though, I honestly hate the theory of histology even though I love the practicals for it.<br />
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It was hard to study with the lack of past year papers to practice on and the amount of things we had to go through, considering that I'm taking a course which is described as 'jack of all trades, master of none'. This year had 2 modules on pathophysiology and therapeutics, and the rest were analytical biochemistry, immunology, histology, microbiology and molecular biology. And this is coming from a person who has started revision since Day 1; I wasn't even this hardworking in my first year. I've had coursemates groaning and complaining about how foreign and alien their own notes feel even when they've written it themselves.<br />
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And the fact that lecturers here aren't the spoon-feeding kind which actually tell you what's coming on, you basically have to go through everything they taught or take risks by picking and studying topics you think might be out. It's like a game of chance, you'd be tripping if you got it right and <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">royally screwed</span> if none you spotted came out; I got lucky with few but won't be taking that risk in my third year though. With the inclusion of a final year project, I'd be even more secluded and overworked next year...<br />
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I was almost to the point of breaking down and saying 'to hell with it' but got through it and learned a few very valuable lessons during this month of hell on earth, which I am going to share with anyone who reads this and are going through Uni. Doesn't really matter where and what year you're in; unless you are from Malaysia, which I think this would make you a better student (I envy them because the lecturers actually do tell them what's going to come up, I've heard).<br />
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Right, first up are the best 5 studying advice:<br />
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<li>I don't know how many times everyone says this but...<span style="color: red;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">NEVER CRAM LAST MINUTE!</span></span> It never helps to procrastinate on revision and there are chances that you might even experience a 'white out'. Your brain doesn't function that way and the fact that chronic stress actually impairs your memory instead of enhancing it. That, and you're practically accelerating the aging process of your brain. Revise regularly and if go through your notes often enough, they won't seem like alien language when exam draws near. I just needed a refresher instead of learning the whole thing again when studying through Easter / Spring break.</li>
<li>If possible, do past year papers. Some lecturers are lazy and they might even recycle the questions. This not only helps you notice the trends and also improves your timing. Trust me, you <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">DON'T HAVE TIME TO THINK!</span> I sat for papers which only gave us two hours on four essays and three for five. You literally sit down, write your name, and the moment time starts you regurgitate all that's in your brain about it. The average time you have for each question is around 30~35 minutes max; any longer and you risk running out of time for other questions.</li>
<li>As much as they said that university is no longer <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">ROTA LEARNING</span>, it's a <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">BLOODY LIE</span> to <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">some extent</span>. In university, you have to understand the material as plain memory work no longer er... works. Sure, you can memorize all you want and get all stressed up and a massive headache on top of that or, you can understand the concept of it which does make life a hell lot easier. My friend didn't understand the concepts DNA sequencing and probe synthesis and she messed up the two when she plain memorized all the topics that we did, which involved RT-PCR, PCR, Southern, Northern and Western blotting (no such thing as Eastern blotting though)... <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">UNDERSTANDING IS KEY, MEMORY WILL COME NATURALLY.</span></li>
<li>Another thing I learned was <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">MAKE IT SIMPLE</span>. Instead of making everything complicated when I did my personal notes, my study notes were the simplified version of it. In actual fact, exams are in place to assess your understanding of the things you learned, not to test how complicated you make it. Sure, they'd be impressed with all the technical lingo you put in but you'd make your life hard trying to understand and memorize it and then try to regurgitate it out during exams.</li>
<li>This is for when you have a situation quite like mine, when there are no past papers to turn to and you have absolutely no clue what's going to be out; think of the possible questions that might be asked. I don't know about other universities and the lecturers but every one of mine actually has a 'Learning Outcome' at the start of each topic, which is somewhat of a hint to what possible questions that they might ask you about. They usually wouldn't go asking simple stuff like 'Compare and contrast innate and adaptive immunity' because that's the basics. Although sadistic, <span style="color: red; font-size: large;">THEY'RE NOT THAT BAD TO ASK YOU SOMETHING TOTALLY OUT OF TOPIC</span>. Most often, they'd ask you to discuss, explain, compare and contrast and at times give an outline, which I think is the easiest. When you write, make sure that it flows from one section to another. <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">KEEP PRACTICING</span> and you'll turn out fine; <span style="color: red;">the saying 'Practice Makes Perfect' exists for a reason</span>.</li>
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And the best 3 advice during exam periods are:</div>
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<li>Make sure you <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">SLEEP EARLY</span> or well they day before. It's no point burning midnight oil just and then risk being late the very next day, and then face a white out because your body didn't have the sleep it needs to replenish itself. Your brain doesn't shut down during sleep (it's just as active as it is when you are awake) and that's the time it actually commits the things you've experienced in the day into memory. Scrap sleeping and you basically scrap the save button of your brain. Five to six hours is just enough; I slept at around 1 and woke up naturally at 6.30~7 and started my day then. I think exam period is the only time I actually practice healthy habits! (Usual sleeping time is around 3~4 with an average of only 4 hours a day)</li>
<li>Just because it's exam period, it doesn't mean that you live off takeaways and frozen food and basically make yourself unhealthy. I still had time to actually prepare a balanced meal every day. Cooking is the only time away from my books and it's my time to destress myself. My housemate did takeaways and she looks way older than before exams started, even with collagen supplements. Me? I look the same even though going through similar amount of stress and pressure and had absolutely no beauty supplements at hand.</li>
<li>Finally...This was one hard lesson I learned during my third paper, which I sort of regret to no end right now. When answering a question, <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">WRITE EVERY POSSIBLE THING YOU KNOW ABOUT IT</span>. The thing is, they never really want only one thing from you! Like the question I did last week which appeared in a past paper (which thankfully, I did): <blockquote>
'What is Western blotting and describe its use in molecular biology'</blockquote>
So how would you answer this; define Western blotting as a method to detect protein translation and give examples of its uses? It ain't that simple. The marking scheme actually required the definition, overview of SDS-PAGE, electroblotting and detection by antibodies either labelled radioactively or coupled to enzymes, fluorescent or chemiluminescent and then the example of uses like to monitor translation abnormalities by comparing it to house-keeping genes to indicate disease or changes in the environment. So the best way to deal with each question is to <span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">WRITE EVERY POSSIBLE DAMN THING YOU CAN REMEMBER ON IT.</span> Spot the key words and just start writing till they tell you to stop. If something pops up in your brain, write it down. <span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">DON'T DOUBT IT</span> and not write it down because you'll definitely regret it. The mind works at weird ways to tell you things and chances are, it remembers some of the things that you don't consciously take notice of. Don't leave early unless you're got nothing else to write about or that you're absolutely confident with what you've wrote. There's no harm to stay on and check through to make sure your handwriting is legible. </li>
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Right, I wished someone actually told me this instead of having to find it out myself, the semi-hard way...<br />
I can say that this is by far the longest post I've written in a while and it feels rather good to write something else other than reports and assignments.<br />
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Now I'm off to resume packing my stuff because I'm heading off to my brother's place in Leeds before heading home for the summer.<br />
Gosh, three wonderful months of the sun and heat! British weather has been bloody wintry after that weird summery week of March. It's still chilly outside and it's May for God's sake! 暑いの気温が欲しいよー!<br />
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それでは、まった今度~!<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-70613702321275324342012-03-16T18:59:00.004+08:002012-03-16T19:00:46.164+08:00やばい久しぶり~!<br />
はぁ…本当に久しぶりだな。最近は超忙しいですが、眠るの時間もういなくなった。一昨日喉が痛みなった、寝不足のせいを想います。<br />
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And this is the product of self-learning.<br />
Not sure about the grammar though but that's the whole point of it, isn't it? Learning by making mistakes.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2012/03/blog-post.html#more">One step at a time</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>I'm actually wasting time right now; I've got an EM tour in about 1 hour and am waiting till 11 to prepare my lunch.<br />
The following weeks would probably be one of the busiest one in the whole term, if not year.<br />
I've finished most of my coursework except for the portfolio, which is due during Easter, and a tiny bit of my DiPro lab report; I'm one microscope magnification from submitting.<br />
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Kinda looking forward to the autopsy tour next week, which I was a bit worried because we didn't hear back from the organizer after filling out the forms.<br />
That was until we got an test email. Somehow, I'm still a bit worried...<br />
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Games... Of course I'm still playing them.<br />
As if I'd give up my only source of stress relief!<br />
I finally got started on お菓子な島のピーターパン ~Sweet Never Land~ and am looking forward to start on おもちゃ箱の国のアリス~Wonderful Wonder World~. Going for ピータ end and& 真相END tonight.<br />
And I just got AMNESIA LATER yesterday! ぎゃぁ!<br />
But I'll finish them in order... 我慢!がーまん!...自信はちょっと疑うします(笑).<br />
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Well, I've got a month or so left till finals so I'd probably be gone again until finals are over, which is around the end of May.<br />
*sigh* Time to prepare for my lunch and to head to uni.<br />
また今度!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-65987491186433811282012-01-07T06:41:00.002+08:002012-02-09T00:48:04.116+08:00New Year明けましておめでとう~!そして、久しぶり!<br />
Yeah, it's been a while since my last post isn't it?<br />
*sigh* It's not like I don't want to blog more often; I just don't have the time to.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-year.html#more">Second year is hell.</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Well, I don't even remember how many pieces of assignment I've done.<br />
Let's see: stats data analysis, last piece of anabio portfolio, lay abstract and gel documentation report for molmicro, presentation and report for Japanese and finally a discussion paper for proprac.<br />
I was planning to do the hospital visit report but kinda procrastinated on it... Still haven't done it though.<br />
No worries, since the discussion paper and the hospital visit report isn't even due until March.<br />
Yeah, I worked ahead of time and got rid of the harder one first... There is an interesting story behind my discussion paper though.<br />
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It was kind enough for Anne (program leader for proprac) to give us the liberty to choose the title of our individual paper; finally relieved of group work (very thankful).<br />
We could either choose to continue to develop the topic we did before or to choose an entirely new one; I chose the latter and opted to do the benefits of drinking green tea, focusing on the antioxidant, antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic properties.<br />
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At first I wanted to do on kimchi (yes, the Korean kimchi) but most of the scientific papers on it were either in Korean (which I still can't really read) or they have to be purchased, which totally isn't an option.<br />
I got the papers that I needed ages ago... More like since she mentioned about the discussion paper.<br />
Anyways, I spent the whole of last Wednesday writing it up and did up to about 1900+ words and decided to call it a day, since I've been writing ever since I got up in the morning.<br />
I saved it and closed off Word and then decided to back it up into my pen drive, since my laptop is a bit temperamental.<br />
The thing is, the files and folders in my pen drive has the exact name as those on my laptop; if you're smart enough, you should know where this is going...<br />
So, the auto-play popped up and I went to where I save all my assignments and then... *wait for it*... Clicked on the file that I had in my pen drive and overwrote the one in my laptop.<br />
And yes, the one in my pen drive was an empty document; I just erased off a whole day's worth of scientific reading and analysis, and 1900+ words worth of writing.<br />
To think that I should have noticed that the file I was overwriting with was a blank document when it prompted me for permission to overwrite the file...<br />
When I realized I just erased off a whole day's worth of hard work, it was too late.<br />
Of course I scoured the net to find out how to retrieve my discussion paper but the outcome was grim; I had no choice but to rewrite the whole paper, AGAIN.<br />
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Come to think of it, I think it was supposed to happen for a reason.<br />
Why? Because that was a first draft of the paper and I wasn't really confident in it. I didn't really know in which direction that I was going.<br />
But I was more confident in my second attempt and... Wrote up to 13 pages which has about 2798 worth of words. It's a little over the word count (2000~ 2500) but that's just how much I can go on. 13 pages is probably because of the amount of graphs and figures that I've put in.<br />
There are about 13 journals that I've reference from but that's only about 1/3 of what I have found.<br />
I don't know how much it's worth but I'm hoping that it'll at least get a 2:2 for it or else I'd definitely flip.<br />
Also, I didn't even get the feedback from Anne for the last discussion paper that we did, so I don't know how the correct format should be.<br />
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On a brighter side, I spent my first week of break at Leeds with my brother.<br />
I really miss his kitchen and the en suite bathroom... Why can't they have IQ here?!<br />
It was a whole lot of fun, meeting the MASSOC friends he keeps mentioning about in our weekly conversations and just being in the metropolitan city of Leeds.<br />
Seriously, Sunderland is classified as 田舎 in my book instead of a city.<br />
There was just too much to see and do for a week to suffice but too bad... He has exams in Jan (which is next week) and I needed to return to at least do some revision.<br />
Just didn't think that there wouldn't be as heavy of a snowfall this year, or else I'd have stayed till New Year before coming back. But then again...<br />
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Snowfall this year was really thin and the winter... Is rather mild, actually.<br />
I don't know about the following weeks though, since winter runs through Jan and Feb, but the temperatures didn't really drop as drastically as the year before.<br />
Snowfall was only on the day I left Sunderland for Leeds (16/12) and that was during the last molmicro lectures. Noel actually stopped midway and said "Oh look, it's snowing' and everyone just stared at him.<br />
It hasn't snowed since then though and I'm hoping that it wouldn't.<br />
Not that I don't like snow but after having to live through a really heavy one in my first year... It's rather bothersome to have it, mild or heavy.<br />
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Celebrated Christmas and New Year alone, like usual.<br />
That's because Mom, Dad and Sis had gone to Harbin (yes... I wanted to go too...) and Bro was celebrating it with his friends.<br />
It's rather sad that most of mine are back in MS though... はぁ...<br />
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...And that's the recap of my last few days of 2011.<br />
Uni is starting again next Monday with 2 new modules being introduced; pathothera 1 and dipro (pathophysiology and therapeutics I & disease processes).<br />
Just breathed a sigh of relief to know that it's 50-50% for coursework in pathothera, unlike my first impression of 100% on exams.<br />
Speaking of exams... I seem to have a little more confidence in it as compared to pre-breakdown.<br />
Mostly it's because the first thing I see when I wake up from bed is the two motivational bookmarks Mom sent to me : 'i think i can. i think i can. i think i can. i KNOW i can.' and 'think positive, stay positive'.<br />
I love her to bits but can never seem to say it out loud... 恥ずかしいでしょ!<br />
As for the exams, I'll just do my best and see how it works out.<br />
I've basically been doing my revision almost every night other than on weekends, so I'm crossing my fingers that it'll be a smooth sail.<br />
I'm planning to use my free Fridays to revise my Sem 1 subjects, one module per week, so that it wouldn't be a cram session come Easter break.<br />
Yup, Easter would be spent on revision to prepare for the finals in May.<br />
Then, I'll be able to go back for summer and have a good rest before coming back for my final year of uni.<br />
うわ、ちょっと早かったですね… 信じられないでしょ。I'm halfway though my uni life already...<br />
Jon's graduating in May and will soon be joining the working society.<br />
Maybe I could delay it by doing a postgrad?<br />
That means I'll have to get good grades... 頑張れなきゃ駄目だよぅ!<br />
Now I'm deliberating whether to reread the pathothera notes or just laze and enjoy the last of my holiday...<br />
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PS: Just finished 華ヤカ哉、我ガ一族 キネマモザイク yesterday and I have to say, I LOVE 勇's route the most! 勇's after-story continuing from the first game and the alternate ending (second year in which 守 is introduced to the family and the fight for 当主 continues) were just... *giggles* 今まだ夢中だよぅ!<br />
博 and 雅's were second best and I can't decide between them but 勇 is no doubt my favourite, which is why I kept him for last. 博 was sweet and 雅 was his usual ツンデレself... And I didn't even know that he could be that cunning. 玄一郎 is by far the most twisted character I've encountered, ever. And what's worse, he reminds me a little of my own grandfather. Thank goodness he doesn't own a giant corporation or have any political influences or else he'd be exactly like him. Right, that's all I'm going to spill; you'll just have to play the game yourself to know what I'm talking about.<br />
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I don't know when I'll be making my next post so until then, また今度で~!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-15925130868074526322011-12-01T21:51:00.001+08:002011-12-01T22:13:21.371+08:00BuriedAs the title suggests, I'm currently buried with work.<br />
Not really work, per se... More like revision.<br />
2nd year is no funny business, I can really say that.<br />
I wasn't even as hardworking last year as I am now.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/12/buried.html#more">Not that she was very lazy last year either...</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Long story short, I'm making notes on all the modules every night.<br />
Finally caught up with two of them, Pathophysiology and Therapeutics, and Analytical Biochemistry which I've conveniently abbreviated to PathoThera and AnaBio.<br />
The only one left lagging is actually MolMicro, which is Molecular Microbiology.<br />
*sigh* I just can't bring myself to actually care about Viruses, since it's by THAT guy.<br />
He smells like God-know-what and actually likes picking on people.<br />
And the last time he talked to me, <b><big><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">MY EXPERIMENT FOR THAT DAY FAILED.</span></big></b><br />
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Well, I guess that's what you expect in sophomore year of university.<br />
Loads and loads and loads of WORK.<br />
In three months, I've completed 4 half-reports, 2 critical journal reviews (for practice though) and actually have one journal search and justification completed and, one oncoming lab report and lay abstract for molmicro and final half-report for anabio.<br />
The one for molmicro would be on heat-shock affecting protein transcription in <i>E.coli</i> (DNA-related) and for anabio would be on flame photometry.<br />
Don't mind it if you don't know what I'm talking about... They're technical terms that probably won't appear in my daily conversation, unless you're in the same field as I am.<br />
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Guess that my time to blog is over.<br />
My allocated time slot to start my note-making is at 2pm and I'm about 5 minutes over.<br />
Got invited to Eve's place for dinner this Saturday, which gives me an excuse to go up to Newcastle for some specialty grocery shopping (something that's been dragging on for ages).<br />
Better get started or else it'll be 10 minutes over.<br />
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Mass spectrometery... I WILL CONQUER YOU!<br />
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じゃ、また今度。<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-45115569824604091882011-09-13T13:57:00.000+08:002011-09-13T14:01:47.445+08:00AmountWell, hello again.<br />
Yeah, it's been pretty quiet here, isn't it?<br />
Who else but to blame but the blogger?
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/09/amount.html#more">Yeah, I've been pretty much done nothing but sit around doing nothing during summer</a><br />
<a name='more'></a>That's not exactly true though, since I've done playing all the backlog PSP games that I've come to collect during term time.<br />
YES, ALL OF THEM. Even the ones that my instincts have signaled out would not be enjoyable.<br />
The only game that I couldn't bring myself to finish was the one that had incest in one of the routes... Sorry, I just don't swing that way.<br />
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In about a week, I'm going back to <s>prison</s> uni, as my brother puts it.<br />
He's leaving a week earlier (tomorrow) since he's a freshman while I'm already a sophomore.<br />
He's going to a uni about an hour and half by train from mine so it'll be close enough to drop by a visit once in a while.<br />
Well, good luck to him in the big metropolitan city; the cities in UK aren't that different from each other so adapting wouldn't be much of a problem, I think.<br />
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Second year's timetable is... Ok, I guess.<br />
One thing that confuses me is why my lab group is switched from 'b' to 'c' while 'a' stays as they were.<br />
Oh well, I've got nothing against the timetable since I've got three half days in both semesters.<br />
Just crossing my fingers that it doesn't change.<br />
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...About the weird title... It's just something my brother mentioned, life amounting to something great.<br />
It doesn't really take a rocket genius to figure out my life though; I'd probably graduate, get a job in a hospital or lab and work there until I retire.<br />
Marriage... Isn't something that I have in mind.<br />
My life would be an endless routine filled with mundane events, as a wallflower is destined to walk.<br />
Now then, time for this wallflower to start packing for her own flight back.<br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-21949928321227892772011-07-28T00:18:00.001+08:002011-07-28T00:49:10.947+08:00Otome GamingSo yeah...<br />
I've pretty much been MIA from this blog of mine since... The last time I've posted.<br />
I've got no excuses, since I'm on summer break and all, right?<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/07/otome-gaming.html#more">She's so screwed for not thinking up of any excuses to get herself out of trouble</a><br />
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Well...<br />
Good news is, I passed my first year without a hitch, even my Japanese.<br />
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What else am I going to write about...?<br />
The bad news?<br />
Ok, as you can see that this blog of mine has been a little dead lately.<br />
I used to think of how I would write about life in university and when I discovered 乙女ゲーム that I'd reviewing and spoiling it.<br />
What I didn't take into account was how much time it would take and how busy my course actually is (9-5, 5 days a week) and the fact that most of my weekends are either spent in the library researching or preparing for the week ahead.<br />
I guess it just wasn't as easy nor carefree as I'd pictured it to be.<br />
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I can't say that I'm the most experienced in the 乙女ゲーム world with my ever expanding list of games because I don't go near the R-18 stuff even though I'm legally able to; the only R-18 I've played was Love Drops and I practically muted the whole thing and forced skipped the whole story just to get to the end.<br />
I don't do BL either even when I have nothing against homosexuality.<br />
I don't think any one of the bloggers that review the games can say that they're the best to go for either.<br />
<a href="http://breadmasterlee.wordpress.com/">Hinano</a> doesn't go for <a href="http://quinrose.com/">QuinRose</a> games just because of her bad experience with Crimson Empire.<br />
I've read her reviews and sometimes... I don't really agree with her and her choice of words.<br />
Who's next on my list?<br />
<a href="http://sandeian.wordpress.com/">4 Shiki</a> is a duo of girls who reviews PSP and PS2 games, along with some BL games.<br />
I have nothing against the both of them other than the occasional bad grammar and the missing chunk of story when spoiling 華ヤカ哉、我ガ一族 勇's route (which happens to be my favorite).<br />
<a href="http://lijaka.com/blog/">Lijaka</a>... I only read from her once.<br />
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...This isn't going anywhere and I've forgotten the whole point of me writing this...<br />
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Oh yes, I remember now!<br />
I'm going to do something different!<br />
Instead of spending time extracting the CG (which in fact, is harder from the PSP) and writing a whole post about the game, I'd just be twitting about it in 140 or less words.<br />
The only thing left to do is... To find me. :D<br />
PS: My tweets are locked, so good luck. <br />
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PPS: I've heard about a company planning to <s>cash in</s> take on 薄桜鬼 and Starry☆Sky by translating it to English. I'm not that enthusiastic about it, having seen the translating fiasco that the publishing companies have done; I doubt that they'll ever respect the culture enough to leave the names as they were (family name front, given names behind) nor will they do it without <s>localizing</s> westernizing it. Heck, I think that they will even make some of them talk like a yankee somehow... As far as language is concerned, there are a whole lot of phrases, expressions and words that just can't be translated into English, nor do they have the English equivalent that carries the same weight; the saying 'lost in translation' exists for a reason.<br />
Soon, some smart person would think about dubbing them... I'm glad that I understand enough Japanese to avoid crap like these.<br />
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Excited? Yes.<br />
But it's really because I can't wait to get rid of this unmanageable hair of mine.<br />
Long story short, I hate having long hair.<br />
Fortunately, I'm not here to talk about my hair.<br />
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I don't know if this blog of mine has any readers but that's the least of my concern.<br />
It's my space to scribble my thoughts and rants.<br />
<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/06/disappointment.html#more">What's she on about now?</a><br />
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Well, I'm disappointed in the country that I've called home for the past 19 years of my life.<br />
Oh yes, I'm very disappointed.<br />
I don't even think that it deserves to call itself a multi-racial country any more, since the people who run it aren't even having unity in their mindset.<br />
Seeing all the petty fights that those dirty rats are trying to pull out on, I fear that there's no hope.<br />
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Studying abroad has opened my mind and changed my perspective, literally.<br />
When we introduce ourselves for the first time, we don't identify ourselves by race or ethnicity- we say that we're Malaysian.<br />
Mind you, my classmates are mostly British locals or from the EU so their opinions aren't bias.<br />
They think that it's awesome for me to know so many different languages just by living in a multi-racial country.<br />
Not only do I know my mother tongue and two of its branch dialects, I speak Malay, am fluent in English (duh) and now can even understand Japanese without having to use a translator and Korean to a certain extent.<br />
When others only have their mother tongue to stand on, we Malaysians have the privileged of being able to wield up to three or even four different languages in our arsenal and on standby for any verbal spats.<br />
We have an opportunity to know about other cultures and religion while others are ignorant of them.<br />
Count ourselves fortunate that we are exposed to so many cultures and experiences without even having to step out of the country.<br />
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However, these politicians of ours take it as a manipulating point to finance their own gains.<br />
Anyone, even without a PhD in sociology or political science, will be able to conclude that this will the cause of the country's downfall.<br />
When they constantly complain about the brain drain, do they ever wonder why it happens?<br />
Look at Singapore and the States; why is everyone flocking to those countries?<br />
They don't have ethnic caps like we do, nor do they have racial bias.<br />
Higher institutes there, and even the UK don't have ethnic caps like we do; take a look at the public universities we have.<br />
For these countries, the only thing that is difference is whether if you're a foreigner or a local; employers look for abilities and not skin colour.<br />
So yeah, I'm extremely disappointed in you, Malaysia.<br />
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On a brighter note, I got to know about my Cell bio lab report marks and the test marks for both Pharmacology and Cell bio.<br />
Cell bio lab report is 60 (2:2) while my test was 78 (2:1) with an overall mark of 69, which is one mark from a 2:1... *sigh*<br />
Pharmacology test was a 76 (2:1) but I don't know my overall mark as it includes my powerpoint presentation and poster, which I don't know the marks for.<br />
The only one left is Molebio and Microbio.<br />
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Time to eat my lunch... Am so bloody hungry now.<br />
じゃ、またね!<br />
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PS: My first birthday abroad was really good; what surprised me wasn't the surprise party (which wasn't much of a surprise considering that I already figured it out early on) but was the gifts that they gave... A hand mixer.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-56968986730015939762011-05-25T18:03:00.001+08:002011-06-05T18:39:39.012+08:00IdiotsIt's been a long time, hasn't it?<br />
Well, the good thing is that I'm sitting for my last paper today... Which isn't exactly true though.<br />
The last paper for my course was already done and over with on Monday, which was Fundamentals in Pharmacology.<br />
I don't want to bother explaining why a biomed student is studying Pharmacology, you can actually google or wiki it.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/05/idiots.html#more">She apologizes for being curt today, something has pissed her off... Or not.</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>All you need to know is Pharmacology isn't bound only for PHARMACISTS to study.<br />
It's a branch of biomedicine and since I'm in biomed, it's one of my fundamentals to doing pathophysiology and therapeutics in my second year.<br />
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So yeah, I'm sitting for my last paper which is a language elective.<br />
It's a no-brainer to what it is though.<br />
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I've already gotten my grade back for lab skills and am proud to say that I didn't expect it.<br />
Honestly, I didn't expect one of my lab reports to score a first and my overall grade for that module to be a first either.<br />
What I'm actually worried about right now is the report for cell bio and the exam grades for cell bio, micro and molbio.<br />
The cell biology report is being graded by a professor who is a masochistic bastard and treats people like trash.<br />
Oh, the part about being a masochistic bastard was something that he admitted himself.<br />
The paper for cell bio was unexpectedly harder than I thought, since the pass-year paper was darn easy.<br />
As for micro and molbio, I have more confidence in mol than in micro; which is opposite for most of my classmates though.<br />
I did make a mistake on labelling the <i>lac</i> operon though, which I'm still beating myself over with. <br />
However, all these grades aren't taken into account in my final rankings; all I need to do is to pass these modules in my first year and I'm fine.<br />
It's next year's modules that I will without a doubt, worry like there's no tomorrow and will probably panic like a maniac.<br />
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Now, back to the reason for my title.<br />
There are idiots in this world, no doubt.<br />
Mind you, the definition for idiot this time is people without common sense.<br />
And I have a one of them living in the same house as I am.<br />
Tell me, what's something that you can't do with a vacuum cleaner, or as they call it here, a hoover?<br />
I bet you that your list would include not using it to vacuum up liquids, right?<br />
If not, you'd have to join that housemate of mine in the idiot group.<br />
And then there's the incident of the drunk choir group in 2.30 a.m today, of course she was in it. Heck, she's the one who organized it.<br />
If they think that they were like the PCD or Spice Girls when they were singing their songs, they must have been really drunk; they sounded more like the noise cats make when they're in heat or when they're in a cat fight.<br />
I called the security on it and I don't give a damn what they think of me.<br />
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Right, back to the hoover incident.<br />
I decided to do a little vacuuming, being a neat freak inherited and nurtured by my mom, after breakfast.<br />
And them, being what they are, left the hoover in the living room after cleaning the living room up earlier in the day just to make a mess of it again later, i.e the drinking party.<br />
When I moved the hoover into my room and switched it on, out came the dust.<br />
I opened it lid and lo behold, the filter was wet and so was the vacuum bag.<br />
It doesn't take much to know who did it.<br />
So I took it to the receptionist to see what they could do about it.<br />
While walking out, <b>she</b> called out from her window and ask what was wrong with it.<br />
I ignored her and just continued on my way.<br />
The receptionist was puzzled as to how it happens and asked me to explain to my housemates that it should not be used on liquids.<br />
And I just said, "isn't it common sense not to use a vacuum cleaner on liquids".<br />
It takes around a day or two to dry it out completely so I left a note saying that it should not be used and wrote more about an idiot using it.<br />
Like I said, I don't care what they think of me when they read it.<br />
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On a lighter note, I can't believe that I'm going home soon... Around a month left.<br />
I'd probably be lazing around in my room playing games and watching dramas.<br />
And then there's the big headache of thinking how and where to store my stuff.<br />
*sigh*<br />
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Right, now to get ready for the language test at 1.<br />
またね!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-76345034255458543192011-04-07T07:48:00.001+08:002011-04-07T07:51:06.307+08:00Slackうわ、久しぶりだな私のブログ。<br />
最近超忙しい、だから書くない。<br />
ごめん、ね。<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/04/slack.html#more">Hehe.</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>I'm so very proud of myself.<br />
Yes, I absolutely am.<br />
Why?<br />
Because I could actually read what my 先生 wrote on the board today without even stopping to process.<br />
She was filling in for our usual teacher and she is a real Japanese lecturer who lectures at Newcastle University.<br />
And when she wrote on the board, it was entirely in hiragana and katakana!<br />
While my classmates were rather shocked at first look, I was really happy and excited for the lesson.<br />
I'm getting rather bored at going slug slow pace... Why else do we study hiragana and katakana if you keep relying on romaji?!<br />
Geez, time to take off the training wheels and go!<br />
I'm tired of seeing romaji every time something gets written on the board; which was why I totally enjoyed today's lesson cause she wrote EVERYTHING in hiragana and katakana.<br />
But too bad this 先生 is only in for this week while our usual one has something to take care of; don't ask me what 'cause I don't know.<br />
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The thing is, I've been trying to incorporate kanji into my sentence forming too.<br />
I've even wrote them in while completing the diary 良子さん (our usual 先生) told us to two weeks before.<br />
I know that I'm impatient but this is ridiculous! It's been almost a full academic year and they're still on romaji?!<br />
My knowledge on hiragana and katakana weren't exactly perfect at the start of the lesson but I can definitely write them off at the top of my head now.<br />
And don't get me started on being busy and having no time; no one should have that excuse other than Jon who is a 3rd year pharmacy student.<br />
Besides, I felt like I learned more from ケシーさん today, even though she didn't use much of the textbook.<br />
Speaking of which, I think they should have bought the kana version instead of the romaji.<br />
I mean, that's how I got myself to improve; what better way to learn than that?<br />
It was hard initially but the words became more familiar as I read them and now, I can read through it relatively easily.<br />
And then there's this girl from design- Julie.<br />
Gawd, she complains just about everything.<br />
<big><big><span style="color: red;">Look here, little missy; if you want to learn a language, just shut the hell up and learn it.</span></big></big><br />
<big><span style="color: red;">Don't complain about how confusing the grammar is, or how hard it is to memorize something, or why the language has particles and how the sentences are structured!</span></big><br />
<div style="color: red;">That's just how learning a language is; if you've got so much to complain, just stick to knowing English and be done with it.</div><div style="color: red;">I don't have it any easier either just because I know Mandarin / Chinese!</div><span style="color: red;">YOU DON'T KNOW THE HELL I WENT THROUGH IN CHINESE SCHOOL.</span><br />
Besides, hiragana and katakana were new to me and I went through the process of getting to know them despite my busy timetable and heavy workload..<br />
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That aside, I've officially finished one module of my course- 101!<br />
It ended with a scientific math test today and I passed!<br />
From what I gather, most of the people failed... But that doesn't mean they've failed the module, since the test comprises only 20% of the 50% of the final mark.<br />
Oh yeah, D asked for my marks again and I shot her down by asking her to give me 5 good reasons why I should tell her.<br />
Of course she was speechless and didn't ask me any more after that.<br />
Before I forget, I've also passed my Pharmacology MCQ.<br />
*throws confetti*<br />
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Easter break is starting this Friday so I'll probably be gaming and hopefully getting some revision done too.<br />
I got sick last Thursday as a result of being overstressed, overworked and over-nutritioned (too much red jujube).<br />
Mom got a fair laugh at the last one while bro said God was punishing me because I was going to the library too often and He did this to me to force me to have a break.<br />
All I have now is a little flu and cough.<br />
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That's all for this time.<br />
I've got molbio lectures tomorrow and a SU buddy training later in the day.<br />
また会いします!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-63176840958984970492011-03-24T19:16:00.001+08:002011-03-27T00:29:57.344+08:00StaticityI'm not even sure if that's a word.<br />
Yes, this blog of mine has been rather dead recently, hasn't it?<br />
I blame my course, it's just giving us too much work to do.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/03/staticity.html#more">最近は元気ですか。</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Yes, I can finally form proper sentences.<br />
Actually, I'm rather like a bunny who already knows how to hop but doesn't know the mechanism of it... Lame metaphor, right?<br />
I know some kanji due to it being Chinese, and I already know (but occasionally forget) the hiragana and the katakana.<br />
It's the grammar part that I'm lacking.<br />
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So, what's been happening in my life since the last post?<br />
Busy, busy, busy, drama and chaos and... Busy.<br />
Yes, the second semester is a whole new level of tough, just as the assignments are.<br />
Just within the three weeks I've finished an oral presentation, handed-in two lab reports with another on pending, a portfolio and finished a MCQ just this Monday with a scientific math test to sit for next week and the week after.<br />
The two lab reports were consecutive assignments, one coming after the other and I've managed to have a word count of more than 5000, with the second one reaching up to 5847.<br />
That's half of the required word count that I need to reach when I get to third year and start my final year project.<br />
I've still got an oral presentation, a poster presentation, two lab reports and the MCQ for all of the three modules that I'm taking to prepare for.<br />
So yeah, I'm busy and this blog is pretty much dead for the most of it.<br />
Believe it or not, I've not touched my PSP since January, which makes it three months... I swear that I will play it non-stop during Easter.<br />
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About the drama and chaos, it's mainly about my noisy and inconsiderate housemate, H.<br />
Sometimes I really feel like slapping her so badly that I find it hard to restrain myself.<br />
Honestly, I think she's an ill-mannered ***** that needs to spend some time in NS.<br />
Oh, that will scar her for life.<br />
Who bloody hell switches the music on loud at 2.30am on a Sunday night / Monday morning in the kitchen? And kicking the ball against the door at that!<br />
Geez, it's like she's never been thought how to live with others... Oh wait, she hasn't!<br />
I know you don't have classes the next day and that your course isn't that demanding but mine is.<br />
And when H2 (another housemate of mine) brought her friends over on Thursday night to celebrate St. Patrick's day, she and her rowdy friend joined in and had the whole thing going on till around 3 in the morning.<br />
Yeah, I called the security but that didn't stop her.<br />
And when I confronted her, she's like 'You're at Uni, have some fun and not spend so much time cooped up in your room!'<br />
Uh huh... Fun at 2.38 in the morning at the expense of someone else's sleep?<br />
<big><big><span style="color: red;">IT'S A WEEKDAY FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! </span></big></big><br />
I don't care if you blare your music on a Saturday night but <span style="color: red;"><big>NOT ON A BLOODY WEEKDAY!</big></span><br />
Is that brain in your head for decoration?<br />
Yeah, you're trying to be civil, you FAILED.<br />
A civil person wouldn't even be doing this in the first place!<br />
You're just another ill-mannered, ignorant, inconsidered barbarian who came to uni just to get drunk and perhaps even get liver cancer due to the your liver overworking to get the amount of alcohol you dump down your throat.<br />
And if you aren't the person I'm talking about in my post in Facebook, why would you care what I write?<br />
Hello, the world doesn't revolve around you, miss san-ba.<br />
You no longer exist in my eyes and your words don't reach my ears.<br />
I don't see you, hear you nor do I want to talk to you; I don't want to waste my energy on a person who just doesn't get that one person's culture is a taboo for the other.<br />
And you so bring shame to the British name.<br />
My initial projection and impression of a British has already been destroyed beyond repair just because of her (and a few other people as well).<br />
But don't worry, I'm not the kind that follows 'a rotten apple spoils the whole barrel' way of thinking.<br />
There are a whole lot of nice people I've met here and they respect my culture, even if they find it odd.<br />
So yeah, I'll just let karma deal with you.<br />
PS- To the bloody bastard who stole and ate my turkey drumstick and my butter, I hope that you get clostridium botulinum in your system and get serious diarrhoea. I don't care if your ACH gets blocked, that's what you get for stealing other people's food.<br />
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Any ways, I've got a day off and half-day tomorrow which I will utilize to work on my pending report that has to be submitted in May.<br />
I know it's still a long way till the deadline but I work this way- I don't like leaving my work till the very last minute and I'll be able to enjoy my holiday without any worries about not being able to complete my work and then have the whole last minute panic on how to finish it.<br />
9 out of 10 people I know are like this but that's just how they chose to have their life.<br />
The Chinese proverb 先甜后苦,先苦后甜 is something I've been practising and it has never steered me wrong.<br />
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In more important news, Japan was struck with a triple disaster two weeks ago (just like how we had a triple whammy this week).<br />
Thousands of people lost their lives and tens of thousands lost their relatives and homes in the 9.0 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on the 11th of March.<br />
Death is still lingering as the survivors are battling the cold and the lack of food, water and power, especially the elderly and the sick who has been evacuated from the hospitals. <br />
They, the nuclear workers, are currently battling to stop a nuclear disaster from happening at the 福島 nuclear plant by cooling the nuclear rods with sea water that are in the generators which had been shut off or damaged by the tsunami.<br />
Things were looking up until the last update I read yesterday but it's still too early to say that they're in the clear zone.<br />
It's going to take a lot to rebuild the damaged infrastructure but money can never return the lives lost.<br />
Economy isn't my thing but this would surely make a really huge impact on the world's third largest economy.<br />
My JP sensei said that the people would need long time support instead of the sudden urge to donate.<br />
To think, I went to search about the qualifications to be on the Doctor without Borders even when I don't think I'm going into med school when I graduate.<br />
I felt so helpless while reading the news online... I don't know what I can do, since I want to help instead of donate.<br />
...It's frustrating.<br />
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I'm hoping and praying for the recovery of Japan and its people.<br />
My heart goes out to all who've lost their friends, families and their homes and the workers who are working to control the nuclear disaster.<br />
I doesn't matter if I know you personally; may happiness and luck call upon your life again.<br />
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That's it for this time; I've got to get back to working on the horrid data I have for the 106 report.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-45245168918801393532011-02-11T08:43:00.000+08:002011-02-11T08:43:29.875+08:00It's Been a WhileLiterally.<br />
I'm just so caught up with uni life that I don't even have time to play any of my games...<br />
Gah, this is what you get for being overambitious.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/02/its-been-while.html#more">And what has she been up to?</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Well, I've gotten my grades back for Biochem and Physy.<br />
And I'm glad to say that I passed for both!<br />
[throws confetti]<br />
I got a 2:1 for Biochem and 2:2 for Physy (coursework mark included).<br />
As for test alone... 1 for Biochem and still a 2:2 for Physy.<br />
I was so damn worried when I couldn't find my student ID on the list of grades for Physy that I looked from the bottom up, which were the failing grades.<br />
I just wished that the lecturer would organize it according to the COMPLETE student ID instead of the incomplete ones that he asked us to fill up.<br />
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On another note, I'm slowly getting used to the second term timetable... And it's only the second week since I started...<br />
I can feel a bunch of eyes rolling at the statement.<br />
The workload hasn't started but it will next week- Haematology for 101.<br />
Oh yeah, I get more chances to play (or in more 'professional' terms, work) with blood this semester.<br />
Not to forget about bacteria and fungus and probably even viruses?<br />
Pharmacology isn't hard... At the beginning.<br />
Which is why I'm taking the early opportunity to revise every night and to take extra notes (which I didn't do last semester).<br />
And there goes my game time. *sigh*<br />
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Spending my first Chinese New Year without my family was rather... Interesting.<br />
(Note that I didn't include first CNY overseas; that's because I have done that before)<br />
Reunion dinner was at Timothy's and the feast was... Just so much.<br />
There was prawns in buttermilk, plum sauce duck, Peri-peri grilled chicken, meatballs, Thai-styled beancurd, chicken curry, pork ribs, soup, stir-fried vegetable and for dessert, snow fungus and cheesecake.<br />
The first day of CNY was spent eating steamed fish, herbal soup and stir-fried vegetable alone.<br />
I wouldn't call that sad because I had an early class the next day.<br />
Yup, we don't get any days off here.<br />
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Valentine's day is coming soon but it's just be another day for me...That would be 9-12 in Pharmacology and 2-5 in Cell Bio lab.<br />
I guess that's it this time; I've got Pharmacology tutorials at 9 tomorrow and I'm beat from today's Microbio.<br />
じゃ、まった会います!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-92042791932318762692011-01-27T22:09:00.000+08:002011-02-25T07:12:04.081+08:00FrustratedI hate my semester two timetable.<br />
I hate it that I barely have any recovery time before starting a new term next Monday.<br />
I hate it that Physiology was much harder as compared to Biochem.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/01/frustrated.html#more">She's frustrated and has no other outlet to let loose...</a><br />
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The new timetable has classes starting at 9 every freaking morning other than on Tuesday.<br />
My test / TCT just ended yesterday and I only have today as a free day.<br />
I don't get why my Physiy lecturer didn't give us the feedback about our report last week and wants to waste our time tomorrow just to get it.<br />
Biochem was much easier as compared to Physiy and that was totally unexpected.<br />
I thought that MCQ was supposed to be easier, but the test we had on Tuesday was like... WHAT THE HELL?!<br />
We barely had any useful information given to us during the nervous system of the lectures and there was a question on which part of the brain was responsible for the movement of the body. Stupidly, I went to put it as limbic ganglia; the correct answer would be basal ganglia.<br />
I'm also frustrated that I made some stupid mistakes in my biochem, which was comparatively easier.<br />
<br />
GAH!!!<br />
But the up side to it is that I found out that I'm not the only crazy Asian to study biomed in my uni.<br />
Apparently, I have a senior doing her second year.<br />
Oh well.<br />
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Now to just laze around in my room and wait till it's time to cook dinner.<br />
I really don't feel like doing anything right now.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-74724428552024500772011-01-20T22:12:00.001+08:002011-01-20T22:13:37.914+08:00Life Hates Me While I Hate the WorldSo yeah, it's probably been a month since I last wrote something in my blog.<br />
Pardon me for being busy with uni and life in general.<br />
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It's a new year and... I wish that life would just rewind and pause so that I could be forever stuck at the brink of being nineteen.<br />
Oh yes, I dread the day when the suffix -teen would forever be erased from my age number.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2011/01/life-hates-me-while-i-hate-world.html#more">That's not the only reason why she's hating the world though...</a><br />
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I just sat for my Japanese test yesterday and it was a disappointment.<br />
Why?<br />
Because I forgot how to write hiragana and katakana when I started to be nervous and was at the brink of panicking.<br />
Initially, I started to write everything out in hiragana and katakana and even thought about writing it in kanji.<br />
Then, I forgot how to write 'み' and 'こ' and 'る'.<br />
*sigh*<br />
I hate it when I start to panic and forget almost everything.<br />
I ended up writing everything in romaji instead.<br />
Then...<br />
(here comes the worse part)<br />
I left the other part of the paper unfinished.<br />
I thought it was the reading part of the paper and it was supposed to be done with the lecturer so that she could grade us but no... I was supposed to answer the questions and write them down.<br />
Luckily, I explained it to the lecturer and she was kind enough to let me fill them.<br />
GAH!<br />
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And, I'm feeling a little lost today for no reason.<br />
...No. It's probably because it's a girl thing.<br />
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In other news, I'm in LOVE.<br />
Oh yes, I'M IN LOVE... With a NND's voice.<br />
*squeals in delight*<br />
I don't think I'll ever fall in love for real (though I can think of a whole lot of people disagreeing with that statement).<br />
This guy's voice is SO AWESOME!!!<br />
*snaps herself back into reality*<br />
Ok, I think I'm going to have to find a way to de-stress myself.<br />
I've got a poster presentation tomorrow, physio test next Tuesday and biochem test the very next day.<br />
To add to the load, I've got to start planning how my day goes again because I will be having classes at 9 on all days except for on Tuesdays.<br />
And the subjects for next term isn't exactly very easy.<br />
I could hear some people saying 'That's uni life for you'.<br />
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... I've got to go study physi before the procrastination starts to creep in.<br />
じゃ、また来周!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-3372789873953031872010-12-31T21:13:00.001+08:002011-01-20T21:55:21.170+08:00LastWell, it's the last day of the year 2010...<br />
And it's the first time I'm spending New Year far away from my family and my home.<br />
...Sounds a bit depressing, huh?<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2010/12/last.html#more">How does she fair being alone during festive season?</a><br />
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It's nothing, really.<br />
I spent most of my time in my room and didn't even go out until dinner was ready back when I was at home so it doesn't make it any different when I'm here in UK.<br />
The only difference is that I have to cook my own meals.<br />
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Hmm... Winter break ends the week after next and it'll be spring term.<br />
I don't even get why they call it spring term when it's dead in the middle of winter.<br />
Speaking of which, it was a white Christmas.<br />
Yeah, I spent Christmas at home with my housemates Beatrice, Darnish and Adela.<br />
I was invited by Eveleen and Timothy to their house for Christmas dinner with Gabriel, Choong, Cassandra and Agnes but I ended up not going thinking that I'd be leaving Darnish all alone at home.<br />
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Anyways, I've been baking and found it just as fun as cooking.<br />
I just made a fresh batch of blueberry muffins and my banana muffins were gone within 2 days, which made me feel really happy.<br />
Luke came over on Christmas day and had one before stealing another one when he went back to his block.<br />
The tutti-frutti cake turned out well, but a bit more harder than usual.<br />
I did ask mom what went wrong but she said that it's normal; tutti-frutti cakes are also known as rock cakes anyways.<br />
The blueberry muffins turned out a little burnt the first time because Darnish turned off the power to the oven, not knowing that I was using it so I had to backtrack and guess the time.<br />
But, it turned out really well this time though.<br />
The next thing I'm baking would be either the banana muffins again or the tutti-frutti cake, depending on when the banana ripes.<br />
This time, I'll be using brandy butter to make it a little more of a mature cake.<br />
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I think that's it for this time; I'm eager to finish ウアンーォフーフォツン~未来ノプロログ~.<br />
Wishing my readers (if there are any) a Happy New Year. Hope that you've got your resolutions out and will be able to fulfil them!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-50038256394586255822010-12-08T20:39:00.000+08:002010-12-08T20:39:27.164+08:00TimeHaha, me and my weird titles again.<br />
I think it's been a while since I wrote anything in my blog right?<br />
And the answer would be the same as always- busy with <s>college</s> uni.<br />
I forgot that I'm already in uni now.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2010/12/time.html#more">So what has she been doing since the last post?</a><br />
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Well, I finished the research I had to do on the two reports of mine about two weeks ago and the experiment on lactate dehydrogenase was done yesterday.<br />
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The deadline hasn't change even though we were snowed in for the whole of last week.<br />
Yup, <b>SNOWED IN</b>.<br />
It started snowing two weeks ago, and it's the first time this early in December for 17 years.<br />
The classes were cancelled for the entire week for my course, so I pretty much bummed about at home / house.<br />
The deadline for the biochemistry experiment was pulled back a week, which doesn't really affect me at all.<br />
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I'm happy that I was about to finally go to Newcastle, and it's all thanks to my housemate and her friends; I don't think I'll ever be able to go if it weren't for them.Winter break is coming in a week's time and most of my housemates will be going back home, save a few.Adela, Beatrice and I will be the only ones left and I think I'll either hibernate or do whatever I have planned.<br />
Mom said that the family will be spending Christmas in Hanoi... I'm beginning to miss travelling at the end of the year.<br />
>Gah... Why did I have to grow up and start uni somewhere so far from home?!<br />
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Got to run, I've got Japanese classes in twenty minutes. OTL<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-19613168894445159172010-11-21T03:07:00.001+08:002010-11-21T03:08:12.291+08:00Of Peroxidase and Lactate DehydrogenaseOh boy, am I in deep trouble.<br />
... Sort of.<br />
Don't run away at the title of the post cause if you do, then what the hell am I going to do?<br />
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<a href=http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2010/11/of-peroxidase-and-lactate-dehydrogenase.html#more">Does she not make sense? Follow the link to find out what she's actually talking about</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>That, my friends, is the lab reports that I have to write about, one of Peroxidase for Biochemistry and another of Lactate Dehydrogenase, Glycolysis and Gluconeogenesis for Lab Skills.<br />
Yes, what sort of deep trouble I've caused myself to be in.<br />
Sure, the profession as a biomedical scientist or biomedical doctor sounds really cool but getting there isn't hard.<br />
Adam, my lecturer, gave us a pretty good lecture about time management and actual experience about being a biomed student.<br />
According to him- study hard, play hard.<br />
I am starting to wonder if I am studying hard enough... I mean, I spend my weekends in the library while my weekdays are spent in my room.<br />
Yes, I do spend most of my weekends in the library finishing up my assignments and reports and they aren't last minute works.<br />
And I do know that the first year isn't counted in the final accreditation but if I do screw up my first year, I'll suffer in my second and would definitely fail my last; I don't want that to happen.<br />
Yeah... I have a fever and am still going for my lectures and labs and not taking any absence.<br />
So, where exactly do I stand?<br />
<br />
The trip to York is next week and I have a Biochem report to do for that week.<br />
Even if I do have two weeks to complete it, I don't want to wait and sit on it.<br />
Which is why I've already researched on the experiment and getting a head start on writing it.<br />
Hopefully, I'll get it done before I go on the trip.<br />
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And being sick when you're not at home is not fun; being sick in the start of winter is even worse.<br />
The only thing left is a cold, thankfully.<br />
Well, that's it for this time. I've got to cook my dinner now- it's steamed fish, stir-fry little gem lettuce and watercress soup tonight.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-49773739137702922102010-11-10T02:39:00.002+08:002010-11-30T02:57:53.837+08:00AnticipationI just noticed that I didn't post anything since Halloween.<br />
Hehe... I've just been busy, that's all.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2010/11/anticipation.html#more">Wondering what's she's been up to? No? Then you might be at the wrong site.</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Well, a whole lot has happened.<br />
Like last week, Beatrice dragged me out of dinner and the kitchen to go to a 'Jazz' party in North Shore and I ended up being rather drunk just from drinking cider.<br />
I swear, I'll never-ever-EVER, drink again.<br />
I hated the taste, I hated the effects it had on me, and I hated the after-effects.<br />
And no, I did not have a hangover; just that I got up really early the next morning and was really, really hungry.<br />
<br />
I also attended the bonfire night or Guy Fawkes' Night at the Meeting Place in the Forge, a student village.<br />
I met a few new friends and we all got lost trying to get there; mind you, getting lost was the fun part.<br />
The fireworks barely qualify itself as a big bang and the food was just really meaty.<br />
The only awesome thing that I witnessed was the scene of the burning house just after we got off from the metro station in Pallion street.<br />
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Also, I went to the Nottingham games with the HKMAS society members last Saturday.<br />
The city of Nottingham was huge, and so was the campus.<br />
But I'm rather happy with where I am, since the campus and my accommodations are near to each other.<br />
Imagine being late in that uni... You'd literally die trying to run across the campus just to get to the class.<br />
We left from Murray library at 6 and got to Nottingham around 10-ish, went to Portsmouth building for the food fair and then ventured out to the city at 12.<br />
Our uni representative managed to get into the semi-finals before losing to Lee CW from I-don't-know-which-uni.<br />
It's coincidence that he has the same initials as the current world No.1 in badminton.<br />
We got back to Sunderland (that's where I currently am) at 10 and it was 2 degree centigrade outside.<br />
Imagine the reaction everyone had when they requested us to stick around so that they could take a group picture.<br />
Every one of us simply ran all the way back to our warm rooms immediately after they told us that it was over.<br />
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It wasn't only fun and trips, you know.<br />
I managed to finish two assignments after spending every weekend of mine in the library.<br />
I have another one coming up this week and it's going to be my first complete lab report, which has to be sent in a fortnight.<br />
I also have a lab report which spans five weeks, which has to be handed in before Christmas.<br />
Also, there's a report that I have to do for Japanese class, which is due on the 15th of Dec.<br />
There's also an upcoming TCT (time constrained test) which will be taking place in January.<br />
Which also brings to mind that my schedule will be changing around that time, too.<br />
I'll have most of my classes starting at 9 instead of the usual 11 or 2.<br />
It's mainly because they're adding another 3 modules into my course, which is Cell Biology, Fundamentals to Pharmacology and Microbiology and will be removing Human Physiology and Biochemistry. <br />
That means that I'll have to rearrange my cooking time for lunch and will have to wake up earlier to cook my brunch, especially on Mondays.<br />
... I'm just glad that it doesn't (and hopefully it wouldn't change) clash with my Japanese classes at 1 on Wednesdays.<br />
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So, my upcoming events would be the Biomed party that they'll be having in the Bonded Warehouse tomorrow at 8 and the Christmas Shopping at York.<br />
I'm not a social butterfly, but my housemates and friends think that I might be spending a little too much time in the kitchen (Dar, Eilvane, Beatrice, Aileen and Sammy will definitely agree with that statement) and the library (and this would be Astley).<br />
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...Have to skip now; I have to cook dinner and prepare for tomorrow's brunch.<br />
じゃね、また会いました!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-91723865303562573442010-10-30T18:20:00.003+08:002010-10-30T18:23:37.535+08:00All Hallow's EveWelcome to my little sanctuary!<br />
*gives a spooky laugh*<br />
Meh, what the hell am I trying to do?<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2010/10/all-hallows-eve.html#more">What is she up to on the supposedly most spooky day on earth?</a><br />
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I don't know for sure.<br />
I just finished my assessed assignment yesterday and have another one to do.<br />
Thankfully, we're doing it in a bigger group, which does cut down a whole lot on the work.<br />
Mine's a 10 point question, so I'm not as stressed as I was two weeks ago.<br />
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You know, even after a month and three weeks being in the UK, I'm still not used to the idea of eating cereal every breakfast. Rather, it's my body that isn't used to it.<br />
I guess it pays for having rice as your staple.<br />
So now, I'm cooking two portions at dinner so that I can heat the other half and eat it before going for classes the next day.<br />
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I've also joined the HKMAS society, which is totally obvious what it is from the name.<br />
They're having a daytrip next week to the Nottingham games.<br />
I don't know what it is and how it goes but I'm looking forward to it.<br />
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As you might see from my pictures, I do a whole lot of cooking.<br />
Just the other week, Eilvane (my housemate) didn't want her pears to go off so I asked if I could poach them and make the caramel sauce for it.<br />
It was a surprise that it turned out quite nice.<br />
Thank you mom and grandma for your cooking genes!<br />
I even tried to duplicate my favourite recipe- chicken and mushroom braised in oyster sauce.<br />
It was the exact taste and it turned my bad day around.<br />
They said that people who are good at cooking are good at chemistry.<br />
I know how true that is though; I basically suck at chemistry.<br />
Perhaps it's the theory part that I suck at, cause cooking is application and practical.<br />
So am I supposed to feel good about it?<br />
<br />
Well, I got to run.<br />
I promised my housemates to go grocery shopping with them at 12 but I still have a few things I want to finish before it's time for us to meet.<br />
じゃね、また会います!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-933454688448623821.post-17371472496599267792010-10-08T03:58:00.002+08:002010-10-08T17:15:28.140+08:00StayHere I am again for another week's scribble about life in the UK.<br />
I noticed that there are a few of my secondary school seniors around in the UK, like Germaine who is in Warwick, Amelia who is in Oxford and Spencer who is in Bristol.<br />
And I think Spencer was standing in front of me when we boarded the plane for Dubai in KLIA.<br />
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<a href="http://winternitemare.blogspot.com/2010/10/stay.html#more">And what does that have to do with today's post title?</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a>Well, it's what I'm going to talk about next.<br />
I've already gotten myself a printer, which only cost me around GRB31.49, which is 10% of the price because of the student discount.<br />
Yup, even though it was out of stock on the site, I still managed to get it because I asked the staff for it.<br />
But I don't know about it right now though, cause I went on Wednesday after Japanese class.<br />
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Yeah, about that class... It's boring.<br />
Why? Because it's all about the basics, like point-blank, on the ground basics.<br />
I already know how to read hiragana and katakana, so there's not point of me sticking around in beginners' right?<br />
No, there is one important component that I just simply can't learn on my own- grammar.<br />
Which is why I'm forced to crawl as slow as a slug for now when I can actually hop like a gazelle.<br />
Speaking of which, Europeans and China people have a funny way of speaking Japanese.<br />
They get all tongue-twisted and they mouth the words rather weirdly and can actually mess up 'hajimemashite'.<br />
I'm glad that the lecturer is an actual Japanese though; her name is Ryoko and she was from Shizuoka.<br />
The reason I said' WAS' is because she is already married and has since migrated here.<br />
Oh well, let's just see how the whole thing goes.<br />
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My winamp is actually playing the whole OST of Bartender, which happens to be an anime.<br />
Click <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartender_%28manga%29">HERE</a> to find out more.<br />
The soundtrack is rather soothing, and rather piano dominant.<br />
This made me miss the electric piano I have at home.<br />
But it also made me think of the future, in a way.<br />
I mean, the life I might have here is somehow encased in those tracks.<br />
Like coming home to an apartment that looks somewhat like the one House has (for those of you who watch House M.D would know).<br />
A small kitchen, two rooms, a small den and a bathroom; quiant and cozy.<br />
Coming back home from my shift at the hospital, fix up a quick dinner and then plopping myself onto the piano seat and start playing.<br />
It's kinda like how my life is here right now.<br />
I mean, I come back to my room after class and take off my jacket and bag.<br />
Then, I start packing up my grocery bag to carry out whatever silverware and cookware that I need for dinner.<br />
Prep-up takes around 20-30 minutes, which is mainly chopping and cutting; cooking takes about the same.<br />
After washing up, I do my usual stand or pop over to my friends' block to see what they're up to.<br />
Later, I have a shower, do my laundry and then mess around on my laptop or finish up whatever handouts I have.<br />
<br />
...And bro said that I'd be getting a boyfriend as soon as I got here because of the lonliness.<br />
Hah! I beg to differ.<br />
I'm at my third week and I've yet to feel anything.<br />
I'm rather enjoying my student life here right now, thankyouverymuch.<br />
There's still so much to see and do.<br />
Like the lantern festival this friday at Houghton-le-Spring.<br />
<br />
...Ugh, I got to go.<br />
I've got my biochemistry calculations to finish up and I have to chop and prep-up the ingredients for tomorrow's lunch (toast pizza) and dinner (beef stew).<br />
じゃ、また会いましょ!<div class="blogger-post-footer">Turning the world into a crazier place, one rabid fan at a time.</div>Winternitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07349346328129238874noreply@blogger.com