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Studied until 0450 due to headache for the whole day already. Hmm.. don’t feel too bad actually. Managed to squeeze in lotsa stuff. I suspect I might actually pass if its not too hard. Off to bed now.. only 4hrs 10 min to exams and 50min is spent traveling. I think i’ll get about 3 hours of sleep. Which is fine when I think how much I slept in the afternoon.

I wish it were all over..

First paper tomorrow (sat) at 9-11am. Oh man! How come so fast suddenly here already!

Wah! I met so many people in Ikea in one day

1. Joann’s Parents
2. Joann who came to pick them
3. This guy from my youth camp group which I forgot his name
4. Me and my sister’s primary school math teacher
5. Candice from ah band!

I was there to study with Zg and I had a nice breakfast there with him. I was terribly late though.. aha.. he called me and I didn’t even pick up until 930. Half hour after he got there, 1.5hrs after the time we’re supposed to meet. Heh..

Here’s candice. She plays played alto sax while we were in Ah band. We were laughing to tears at how we were obsessed with band and saw each other every single day. She has since changed abit.. works at expo there. She refused to take photo so I took one anyway. Its not too bad la..

This is the chao mugger ze gang. He ate like.. 2 and a half crossoints for breakfast. I, had at least 5 cups of coffee. Was feeling jittery on the way back home after.

Now, I’m going to read read a little. I have no clue what I have to do for saturday’s exam or what kinda questions will come out.

I think I’m in panic mode already. The frustration of not being able to do math is terrible. Anyways, I took a nap, went out for dinner at ajisen with my dad and calmed down already. I think I need to do a little more work now. Goodnight =>

In the past 48 hours, I have only spent 2 sleeping. My tests were terrible. Couldn’t do much. I really need to study up.

Speaking of which, Joel’s sick and not coming for tomorrow.. plus kok wing in malaysia for some school thing. I guess I’m going to do both jobs cos there doesn’t seem to be any suitable candidate around.. Goodness, I never expected to get this. Thankfully its not that bad la. Spent the entire train trip from boon lay to pasir ris copying annotations from kw’s script. The scary thing is I’m not even done! Haha.. its just chock full of his scribbling. I’m happy this sound engineer guy is coming down. Look forward to learning much from him.

Back late again. I feel like I’m understanding my work now, but far too late! I have only a day more to squeeze in 10 times what I’m understanding now, all of increasing difficulty.

<ignore>Sorting out my most important tasks.

1. Study for 2011 test next week
2. Major project needs to be done, its a quarter of my grade and so much work! Assembly language is terrible!</ignore>

Die la.. its like.. a few very complicated tasks I really don’t like.

Anyway as the title suggests, I’m all done. I think its better than last semester as far as the stress goes, all by God’s grace. Its so different when seeing it like this. As the holidays approach, I think I need even more grace.. not to waste my time but do something useful.

A few things I note after this exam:

1. I can function at a reasonable level on less than 2 hours of sleep
2. Naps help
3. Coffee is best to supplement and support this behaviour
4. Support from friends is so important even when we feel like isolating ourselves
5. Above just being friends, Christian support is so much more important

I’m going to sleep and wake up early tomorrow. I’ve been up since 2am today after napping the evening (20.5 hours awake already!) and I feel my body has become totally numb to tiredness. I can work for more than 36 hours at a decent alertness before crashing for about 10-12 hours. Sometimes 6+2 hours is enough for 2 day’s worth of sleep and I can get up. I believe it is the ultra potent coffee I drink at the stall outside my hall.. sigh.. I will miss it so… There’s this toasted bun dug out in the middle with a half boiled egg cracked inside. Slap a cheese on top and then toast it and there you have a wonderful breakfast!

I’m just thankful everything has passed. Its relief and happiness. Not a crazy happy but just thankful glowing happy.

To do:

• Make a habit of getting up before the sun to run or read or do whatever
• Plan what I want to do before I sleep so I don’t waste my time
• Make a nightly post on whether I woke up early and what I need to get done the next day
• Form running habit

I say habit because humans are creatures of habit. I read that it takes 2 weeks to beat a habit into our beings.. I’m going to run everyday for 2 weeks before the sun comes up. Starting tomolo? Haha.. I have this feeling I’ll sleep cos I’ve been conditioned to do that for months already. Nevertheless, you will hear about it and I shall blog about habit forming soon.

I’ve been repeatedly inspired by this guy’s blog. Recently, he’s written one about exercise! Well, I’m going to go for either Army half marathon or another marathon at the end of the year so I thought I’d like to try it out and make exercising a habit. I must admit its usually because of my other interests like web stuff that I push exercise to the last priority but not anymore! I have a whole month to make running around a habit.. and I shall begin this may.

On the topic of habits, I notice that its really quite accurate to say that they are formed after many repetitions. Like my toasted bun with egg breakfast at 730 in the morning even though I’ve gone to bed at 5 still goes on even when I’m totally zombified. I’m going to miss that.. sigh.. so nice to wake up, walk out without washing face/brushing teeth/combing hair/changing and just sit at the canteen to have breakfast. Its really nice. I think I shall stay in hall after I’m done with my exams. I shall do some coding on a little project of mine and also finish a photoshopping job I got from a JC friend. How much is my time worth? haha.. I don’t know how much to charge.. Its great I don’t know them, at least I won’t feel guilt.

I AM HEALTHY! haha.. Just thankful cos Shuyi is sick.