今を生きている

Everything was all right. Life is great, life is beautiful. (I'm all sort of cliches now).


Just came back from the city light-up (10.20pm); haven't been out until so late for the longest time ever. Like maybe the 2nd time during this exchange? Haha ever since autumn started and the day gets dark from 4pm onwards, we are all at home by 5pm.

Photos of city light-up another time. It wasn't spectacular, but it was something different, and I like the feeling of just standing there in the cold listening to carols :)

Sat and talked with K&S for like, 3 hours? Haha time really flies! We were like old friends just chatting about, I don't know, just stuff, which is great. Really thankful to have them on this trip.

The paper was easier than expected, I hope I pass! Oh man I really have to pass >.< The module is on parapsychology. You know, like consciousness, monism and dualism theories, extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, out-of-body experiences, hypnosis, apparitions etc. Ok it sounds really interesting on first sight right? But it drove me crazy. Because it's such a new science (whether it can be classified as science itself is highly debated) there are a lot of theories floating around as to how each of these phenomenon happen, so they will cite experiments which attempt to authenticate the phenomenon, suggest theories as to why these happen, debunk the theories because something doesn't fit, then suggest another one, then debunk again, and some of these theories have to do with what, electromagnetic and geomagnetic fields and quantum processes and I would be like what?! Come on I'm not studying physics here (which I got an E for at one point of time and totally loathe). Yeah then the professor said that he'll choose a few questions from the textbook, which most of the content were not really covered in the lectures, then he also gave a set of questions for us to practise, and it turned out most of the questions came out from the practice questions and none from the textbook, which I so painstakingly studied and 'cos the questions from the textbook were so much more difficult :/ So it turned out that the questions which came out were really straightforward and not that deep and I finished like in half an hour.

Then there's this "research question" that you have to do if you want to get a distinction or merit, if not you'll just get a pass. Initially I was not planning to do this 'cos I had barely enough time to finish the studying for the rest of the questions, so I did not prepare a research topic. But seeing that I had so much time left and I might as well increase my chances of passing (plus a better passing mark) so I went ahead and wrote about something that I didn't prepare for. I settled for something that I learnt last semester in social cognition since I still remembered some studies from it and thus could make my short essay look more substantiated. But then the entire essay (almost) had nothing to do with the module hahahaha, I just linked the two concepts together with some superficial sentence (it did make sense though I hope) smoking my way through.

So yeah, those that I studied so arduously from the textbook did not come out at all. But oh wells, at least I learnt something from it. Random fact: You know apparitions? Those things that are popularized in dramas and fictions about spirits appearing in front of you? They are actually not transparent contrary to popular belief, they occlude objects and are occluded by objects as well, very much vivid, real and solid, and they don't go through walls.

Yeah if you have any questions can go ahead and ask me. So that at least I can show that I didn't study for nothing ahhhh. Hahahaa ok. One down, one more to go!