Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Timetable Vigil
Riiiiight. Now I'm currently waiting for 12.01am so that I can change my timetable. I have this feeling 99% of Melbourne Uni students are currently awake right now too, all for the sake of getting the perfect timetable. GGGRRRRR. Why is our uni so special? Why can't we do timetables like RMIT, where we get to choose every tutorial time and arrange everything on our own? That way, it would have saved me a lot of 烦恼-ing over where to switch slots and how. The only reason that's helping me stay up late is the thought that, if I don't, I'll end up with a horrid timetable like I did last semester, with my last classes ending at either 5 or 6pm most days. I am SO not going to repeat my past mistake.
It's just something about the concept of fastest-finger-first that gets to me.
I think it's mainly due to the fact that I am very mindful that my fingers may very not be the fastest. Oh well, even if all does not go as planned, my latest classes still end at 4.15pm, not as bad as last sem's 6.15pm. Still, I'd rather like to have most of my afternoons free, thank you very much. :)
I spent the morning gathering cute animated GIFs, then got bored of staring at the stupid screen and got down to reading The Half Blood Prince. Right now, I think I'm, what, 1/3 finished? Haha, I have to admit, I miss reading Harry Potter books. It's been since the Order of the Phoenix first came out that I've read a HP book. J.K. Rowling's style is still as light-hearted and intriging as ever, and I love how she keeps the sinister undertones running, even with the more comedic fronts her later HP books sport on the surface. If ever she comes up with a new series, or just another new book, count me in for the ride. She is one of the few favourite authors I read who have not died, like Roald Dahl.
What's more, the floppiness of the book and the material used for its pages appeal to me even more. Weirdly, if I like the texture or the paper used for a book, I'll tend to feel like reding it. Even if a hard-cover book with stiff pages had a better storyline than a soft-cover book with floppy pages, I'd be hard-pressed to read the hard-cover book first.
With the final HP book though, I guess I won't have any choice, since everything will be in hard-cover. I honestly don't see why people think hard-cover books count as "special" books. For me, the hard-cover just makes the book more cumbersome and less reader-friendly, and the stiff pages just give the reader a hard time when flipping pages, and bending the book at the right angle so the light catches the words you want to read.
I bet I'm sounding like some book freak here, but really, it's not my fault. As I'm blogging, I'm looking at the PC clock and willing it to turn to 12.01am. Right now it's showing 11.54pm, and I am seriously contemplating whether to strangle it or not...
HAYAKU! ^(-_=)^
...is what I said. Savvy?
11:39 pm
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