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I start to miss blogging whenever I read my own posts, which I guess is a hallmark of satisfactory writing. Most of the time I look over the quirky turns of phrase and wonder how I could ever have been unstupid enough to write something that sane.

Sem 2's starting, I'm taking really terrifying modules. Singapore Lit + Logic + Socio 1 & Methodology + English = help, I'm not even an arts student. I have to go module by module, OCD style, assuring myself that I won't fail and burn:

Singapore Lit's surprisingly awful. Singaporeans apparently enjoy writing prose/poetry about nothing in particular, and since I can't even glean the slightest bit of interesting trivia like I do when I read stuff by non-locals, it's just really irritating. I'm sort of banking on the fact that it's precluded for Lit majors + I actually know people in the class so I won't suddendeath upon hitting a group project.

Logic is logic. It's terrible on less than a full night's sleep, though. I am going to aim for a minor in Philo and will have to overload two modules because of this (spent too much time dicking around taking random modules that looked fun).

Socio's meh. I fluctuate between thinking it's a load of trollop and that they actually make some sense. I had to take two modules at once after suddenly deciding that I want to major in it.

English is bleh. Also I am officially the 3rd person to post on the IVLE forum (quibbling over some definitions in the textbook).

So far, I dislike Caucasian lecturers the most (they've been utterly boring) and like the Japanese ones (they at least have a sense of humor, and the tendency to refer to themselves in third person, which is highly entertaining).

In other news, today I was at KFC and a dude just started talking into his phone really loudly while videoing himself. His monologue went something like:

"Hey so I'm at KFC now. I'm just gonna go to the sink. Oh, it's flooded. As you can see. Yup. Well this is a pretty nice place (wiggles phone around randomly, to apparently show surroundings without his face disappearing)."

Following which I was so stunned I failed to catch what else he said (by this point he moved away from his table to the middle of the restaurant and was talking into the phone while rotating on the spot).

I'd like to flame him for being such an utter attentionwhoring moron, but just in case he was taking a video to show his bedridden, lonely sister or something, I shall refrain. Somewhat.

So anyway, I thought I'd review the modules I took last semester.

EU1101 (Making of Modern Europe): I hate this module. Seriously. Insert long bitchy rant about crazy tutors here. Thank goodness my project group was nice.

Only upside was that that module was in U-town, otherwise I'd never get to take any classes there. It looks awesome but the classes are near impossible to find, especially since my tutorial was in SR9. If you ever have to find SR9, you probably won't. There's signage for SR1-8, and 11-whatever, and you finally manage to stumble across SR10, but SR9 is nowhere near it. People turned up almost an hour late for the first tutorial.

PS1101 (Introduction to Politics): Weirdly similar to SC1101E, content-wise. Lectures were extremely enjoyable. Tutorials were less so, mostly beginning on a curriculum-based note and ending with government bashing (it got to the point that there were audible sneers whenever anyone tried to defend the men in white).

I was considering taking PS as my major but it seems I'm not naturally any good at it (got B+, seems reasonable considering I think I wrote crap for all the essays), I'm now looking at majoring in Sociology.

LAJ1201 (Japanese 1): Lectures were fun but kind of useless, you still have to attend because of the graded quizzes. Tutorials basically one gigantic test period, and insane number of tests per week plus homework etc. High workload compared to most other (arts faculty lol) modules. But it's kind of worth it, you get to meet otakus from other faculties and everyone's very friendly since you see each other up to 7 hours a week.

(Speaking of which, I swear one of my tutorial classmates has a huge crush on the ki siao dresses-like-a-jap-schoolgirl chick. I don't understand why guys with crushes are so easy to read. I was kind of grossed out by this at first, then realised it's probably a good trend that more or less normal guys see crazy otaku girls as potential mate material.)

PH1102E (Introduction to Philosophy): Fun but you feel kind of crazy after a while. Also, the grading system is pretty subjective. Expect mad people to be your tutors. I really didn't like the lecturer, who had really entertaining lectures the first few weeks then sort of gave up. I gave up going for his lectures too, so that's okay.

EN1101E (Introduction to Literary Studies): Lecturers were highly entertaining - Prof A talks insanely fast and I can't look at her talking for too long without feeling like I'm suffocating. Prof P talks really slow in contrast, and they each took half a lecture in the first few weeks, so it needed a bit before everyone adjusted.

The end. My life is boring. I'm considering going clubbing tonight since following this week I'll have tutorials every Thursday morning, but then whenever I get to the club it feels kind of pointless and I start getting hungry. :/