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FINALLY, all 5 midsems completed (though not well done) and group assignment draft handed in. At least the structure and function midsem on Wednesday was considerably better than IVP seeing as I could ACTUALLY understand and do the multiple choice for once. But short answers were still nasty. Ugh, I'm really going to cry on the inside when midsem break is done T_T Well for now I shall enjoy my temporary freedom starting now because pfft with uni tomorrow (2 hours of IVP which I zone out so bad in).

When we left uni today at around 12 the clouds were so ominous and looked really threatening down at the vet science side. By the time we were at the front of the uni it started sprinkling and just as we got to the station it became an aggressive downpour! Got soaked crossing the 2m from under the cover at the station to the train (which was a troll because the doors didn't open for a good 30 seconds). Luckily the rain held off during my 20 minute walk home though it started sprinkling towards the end.

Anyway let's celebrate the fact that new naruto came out! They were on break last week so it feels like an extra reward that it came out today after all the exams. It's getting real sad again. End of war ≠ things being okay. Good to see Sasuke is still a cold-hearted bastard OTL

It's been yet another really bad, bad day. I hate that phrase "it'll get better" because I don't see it happening. Another day spent being overwhelmed by the selfishness of some people in this world. I can't wait until December hits because then I can get out of here and go on placement in Western Australia and plus it'll be summer then! Ah summer. Right now it's really getting increasingly difficult to focus on the "positives" in life. There really isn't much at all.

Tomorrow's 8am exam is going to be so bad. Hardly prepared for it at all because I just haven't been in a good head space. It's like I don't even care about exams anymore. Well, I care but my body doesn't move and doesn't make any effort to study. Whatever I get, I deserve it. Our cohort page on fb is cracking its usual jokes and putting up memes about failing, I think we all feel the same. Don't know if I'll be able to make a serious attempt for finals either.

Really don't like IVP (intro veterinary pathogenesis) because it's just list within lists of info so you get lost in some sort of information maze. Then there's lots of gross pictures which the lecturers admitted to only putting them in for "shock value" (like there was a picture of a poor horse with this giant hole through its neck). If you think about it, IVP is really just a fancy title to cover up the fact that this is still VETS CELL BIO. Ugh, we've had two semesters of it and I thought I survived and was done but nope, it's still here after all. It's actually not the same subject but it may as well be.

To say that I was severely unprepared for the economics exam is the understatement of the year. As soon as I saw question one I was already in a "what the hell is this" moment and that lasted for the rest of the exam. It's like I didn't even study at all. All the multiple choice questions were dodgy, where let's say if you happened to remember that the answer to the question has to do with "marginal cost" and you think you just look for that then WRONG cause she puts it in all the answers with extra conditions tacked on so in the end you don't know anything (I don't think I made sense). Anyway then for short answers 3/5 of the questions referred to this one table which I really didn't understand. Won't be surprised if I get under 50%, this has got to be the worst exam I've ever done.

Anyway nobody is at home right now and even though this is the optimal situation for studying it somehow feels kind of lonely.... They went to my sister's high school cause she's graduating and that's weird that they're holding a ceremony at night like what == But ugh great, that means she will be around the house a lot more now that she's done which sucks because I like to study during the day when there's no one around... Plus it means she's just going to be taking the car to all sorts of places wasting petrol, polluting the environment etc for no good reason.

So today my friend and I were waiting around for our 9am lecture which most people didn't attend due to the exam which was after it but we sat down outside the room and then we heard this girl crying really loudly outside?? She seemed really distressed and she was saying something (you know when people talk while they cry and it just sounds so painful?) and I just really felt for her because it honestly reminded me of myself... I don't know what she was upset about but I felt like I've been in that place a lot lately. 

So we weren't sure what to do because it might have been invasive if we went over (we couldn't see her, since she was outside and around the corner) but there was someone who was walking outside and would have had to pass her so we were sure they probably stopped to comfort her and ask what was wrong because her crying seemed to subside after a while... Whatever it is that you're upset about, I hope you will feel better tomorrow or eventually, and that you'll be happy :(

There are no words to convey how much I utterly despise agricultural economics. Exam is tomorrow and I spent all this time studying for it but all it did was give me a massive headache and make me super annoyed. It's just one of those subjects I have absolutely ZERO interest in (even into the negatives) and sitting here reading all this just annoys me. Tonnes of annoying graphs (I've always hated graphs) which mean very little to me since I do far better with words and concepts but I just find all these graphs too much to understand or "memorise" (I don't think that's even possible). I'd rather just deal with words and explanations. Economics is just a subject I cannot do, and I don't understand why we're science students but have to learn it. It's not like economics kids get forced to learn science what the hell is this.

Ugh and my economics notes are longer than my conservation notes which was on Monday and that exam was 2 hours and this one is one hour just what...

No matter how panicked I was for semester 1 finals (and I have no idea how I got through that), I feel like right now is 10 times worse. I really dislike semester 2, no more stats to cut through the thick fat that is the pain of doing 4 science subjects and nothing else. I did so badly last semester 2 and to be honest I think this time will be the same. Probably all 70's if I'm lucky. I put it down to being too burned out from semester 1, and I'm not even joking.

Did I mention I have two 8am exams? Seriously GG, I'm not even functioning at 8am (normally falling asleep on a train) and that means I have to get up at lovely 5:30am. Seriously wish I could be an elephant, remembering things from 40 years ago easily and only needing 5 hours of sleep a day. Must be great. 

Reasons I'm worried for tomorrow's conservation exam:
1. I'm not awake at 8am
2. It's a 2 hour exam worth 45%. Reading time is 15 minutes. Goodbye everything I remembered.
3. THE READINGS. Ugh, 20% of the exam is on our readings and I don't even know how you can test that because he's SPECIFIC and it's not like we can remember every single step of the methods and results and we're just measly second years! We don't always understand all the technical stuff that scientists write about in their methods so how are we meant to do this?? 
4. Because he's specific, it means I'm already screwed because I barely remember concepts as it is and I can't do what everyone says, which is to "bluff" because I sit there not writing anything knowing they will immediately suss out that I'm fluffing and laugh for 10 hours while marking my paper. He also said that even if you have correct things written, anything wrong means negative marks ==
5. No multiple choice. ALL "short" answers (who are they kidding, they're essays) and when you don't know anything YOU'RE SCREWED.

Ugh, and Naruto Shippuden Revolution comes out on Tuesday and while everybody else can play, here I am having to practice self restraint and wait two weeks to play. I'm dying on the inside everyday. At least last time when I received my game it was the day before cell bio exam so the day after I could play but I'm already dreading the wait til midsem break.

On a different note, I don't even want to remember these things anymore, I want to forget all about you because you've already done that to me. But no matter how much I struggle to do that, my mind is still stupidly showing me dreams about things long gone. And when I wake up, all I'm left with is that familiar sense of loss that I spent all this time trying to forget. If it's going to be like this then I'd rather not dream at all.

what the random, why does my blog get traffic from image.search.yahoo.co.jp LOL

Two weeks to go until midsem break, except it costs a lot of energy to get there. Five midsems and one group assessment before it GG. I really dislike semester 2 because you don't get the midsem break to study for them (though I guess that means midsem break IS a real holiday then). It's just too annoying, because you are busy juggling new material that is being taught and will also be assessed at the same time you are trying to revise for the exams. At least in finals everything is done so you just study for it.

Also not cool how one of the midsems is 45% like what on earth. And the rest are worth just as much as finals which is bad because finals I study for like a week but midsems always sneak up on you and I always cram in like 2 days... 

Err anyway let me comment on the weather! I realised spring set in 11 days ago but the first day of spring was such a sunny warm contrast to the disgusting 3 weeks of random winter rain before it. But the morning of the first day of spring was actually horrible because I woke up with a runny nose and couldn't sleep properly and that continued for the rest of the day. Hayfever setting in right on the first day of spring LOL. Jokes I don't even have hayfever, just a super runny nose all the time. But after that day the rest of the week was cold and windy. Good one, spring. But I don't really even like spring. I'll give it credit because it's better than winter by far but nothing compares to my precious SUMMER!

This week has been quite warm and I get super hot walking back from uni or walking home and when I'm in shorts now it's like I can actually feel summer. I can't describe it to you but summer always gives me a warm feeling inside, being able to wear shorts and a shirt, walking barefoot around the house, everyone around me taking naps (I can't take naps in the day though haha), eating ice-cream, endless amounts of free time! Summer really has a special feel to it that no words can describe. It's too bad we're not there yet, it's still a bit too cold in the house to just wear a shirt (shorts is getting to be manageable).

In other news, I declare it utterly impossible to ever do midsems or finals without something much more interesting popping up to entice you away from boring studying. This time's awesome release?

Another bad week. Everything just makes me irate apparently. One contributing factor may or may not be the fact that midsems are soon.

FINALLY, all 5 midsems completed (though not well done) and group assignment draft handed in. At least the structure and function midsem on Wednesday was considerably better than IVP seeing as I could ACTUALLY understand and do the multiple choice for once. But short answers were still nasty. Ugh, I'm really going to cry on the inside when midsem break is done T_T Well for now I shall enjoy my temporary freedom starting now because pfft with uni tomorrow (2 hours of IVP which I zone out so bad in).

When we left uni today at around 12 the clouds were so ominous and looked really threatening down at the vet science side. By the time we were at the front of the uni it started sprinkling and just as we got to the station it became an aggressive downpour! Got soaked crossing the 2m from under the cover at the station to the train (which was a troll because the doors didn't open for a good 30 seconds). Luckily the rain held off during my 20 minute walk home though it started sprinkling towards the end.

Anyway let's celebrate the fact that new naruto came out! They were on break last week so it feels like an extra reward that it came out today after all the exams. It's getting real sad again. End of war ≠ things being okay. Good to see Sasuke is still a cold-hearted bastard OTL

It's been yet another really bad, bad day. I hate that phrase "it'll get better" because I don't see it happening. Another day spent being overwhelmed by the selfishness of some people in this world. I can't wait until December hits because then I can get out of here and go on placement in Western Australia and plus it'll be summer then! Ah summer. Right now it's really getting increasingly difficult to focus on the "positives" in life. There really isn't much at all.

Tomorrow's 8am exam is going to be so bad. Hardly prepared for it at all because I just haven't been in a good head space. It's like I don't even care about exams anymore. Well, I care but my body doesn't move and doesn't make any effort to study. Whatever I get, I deserve it. Our cohort page on fb is cracking its usual jokes and putting up memes about failing, I think we all feel the same. Don't know if I'll be able to make a serious attempt for finals either.

Really don't like IVP (intro veterinary pathogenesis) because it's just list within lists of info so you get lost in some sort of information maze. Then there's lots of gross pictures which the lecturers admitted to only putting them in for "shock value" (like there was a picture of a poor horse with this giant hole through its neck). If you think about it, IVP is really just a fancy title to cover up the fact that this is still VETS CELL BIO. Ugh, we've had two semesters of it and I thought I survived and was done but nope, it's still here after all. It's actually not the same subject but it may as well be.

To say that I was severely unprepared for the economics exam is the understatement of the year. As soon as I saw question one I was already in a "what the hell is this" moment and that lasted for the rest of the exam. It's like I didn't even study at all. All the multiple choice questions were dodgy, where let's say if you happened to remember that the answer to the question has to do with "marginal cost" and you think you just look for that then WRONG cause she puts it in all the answers with extra conditions tacked on so in the end you don't know anything (I don't think I made sense). Anyway then for short answers 3/5 of the questions referred to this one table which I really didn't understand. Won't be surprised if I get under 50%, this has got to be the worst exam I've ever done.

Anyway nobody is at home right now and even though this is the optimal situation for studying it somehow feels kind of lonely.... They went to my sister's high school cause she's graduating and that's weird that they're holding a ceremony at night like what == But ugh great, that means she will be around the house a lot more now that she's done which sucks because I like to study during the day when there's no one around... Plus it means she's just going to be taking the car to all sorts of places wasting petrol, polluting the environment etc for no good reason.

So today my friend and I were waiting around for our 9am lecture which most people didn't attend due to the exam which was after it but we sat down outside the room and then we heard this girl crying really loudly outside?? She seemed really distressed and she was saying something (you know when people talk while they cry and it just sounds so painful?) and I just really felt for her because it honestly reminded me of myself... I don't know what she was upset about but I felt like I've been in that place a lot lately. 

So we weren't sure what to do because it might have been invasive if we went over (we couldn't see her, since she was outside and around the corner) but there was someone who was walking outside and would have had to pass her so we were sure they probably stopped to comfort her and ask what was wrong because her crying seemed to subside after a while... Whatever it is that you're upset about, I hope you will feel better tomorrow or eventually, and that you'll be happy :(

There are no words to convey how much I utterly despise agricultural economics. Exam is tomorrow and I spent all this time studying for it but all it did was give me a massive headache and make me super annoyed. It's just one of those subjects I have absolutely ZERO interest in (even into the negatives) and sitting here reading all this just annoys me. Tonnes of annoying graphs (I've always hated graphs) which mean very little to me since I do far better with words and concepts but I just find all these graphs too much to understand or "memorise" (I don't think that's even possible). I'd rather just deal with words and explanations. Economics is just a subject I cannot do, and I don't understand why we're science students but have to learn it. It's not like economics kids get forced to learn science what the hell is this.

Ugh and my economics notes are longer than my conservation notes which was on Monday and that exam was 2 hours and this one is one hour just what...

No matter how panicked I was for semester 1 finals (and I have no idea how I got through that), I feel like right now is 10 times worse. I really dislike semester 2, no more stats to cut through the thick fat that is the pain of doing 4 science subjects and nothing else. I did so badly last semester 2 and to be honest I think this time will be the same. Probably all 70's if I'm lucky. I put it down to being too burned out from semester 1, and I'm not even joking.

Did I mention I have two 8am exams? Seriously GG, I'm not even functioning at 8am (normally falling asleep on a train) and that means I have to get up at lovely 5:30am. Seriously wish I could be an elephant, remembering things from 40 years ago easily and only needing 5 hours of sleep a day. Must be great. 

Reasons I'm worried for tomorrow's conservation exam:
1. I'm not awake at 8am
2. It's a 2 hour exam worth 45%. Reading time is 15 minutes. Goodbye everything I remembered.
3. THE READINGS. Ugh, 20% of the exam is on our readings and I don't even know how you can test that because he's SPECIFIC and it's not like we can remember every single step of the methods and results and we're just measly second years! We don't always understand all the technical stuff that scientists write about in their methods so how are we meant to do this?? 
4. Because he's specific, it means I'm already screwed because I barely remember concepts as it is and I can't do what everyone says, which is to "bluff" because I sit there not writing anything knowing they will immediately suss out that I'm fluffing and laugh for 10 hours while marking my paper. He also said that even if you have correct things written, anything wrong means negative marks ==
5. No multiple choice. ALL "short" answers (who are they kidding, they're essays) and when you don't know anything YOU'RE SCREWED.

Ugh, and Naruto Shippuden Revolution comes out on Tuesday and while everybody else can play, here I am having to practice self restraint and wait two weeks to play. I'm dying on the inside everyday. At least last time when I received my game it was the day before cell bio exam so the day after I could play but I'm already dreading the wait til midsem break.

On a different note, I don't even want to remember these things anymore, I want to forget all about you because you've already done that to me. But no matter how much I struggle to do that, my mind is still stupidly showing me dreams about things long gone. And when I wake up, all I'm left with is that familiar sense of loss that I spent all this time trying to forget. If it's going to be like this then I'd rather not dream at all.

what the random, why does my blog get traffic from image.search.yahoo.co.jp LOL

Two weeks to go until midsem break, except it costs a lot of energy to get there. Five midsems and one group assessment before it GG. I really dislike semester 2 because you don't get the midsem break to study for them (though I guess that means midsem break IS a real holiday then). It's just too annoying, because you are busy juggling new material that is being taught and will also be assessed at the same time you are trying to revise for the exams. At least in finals everything is done so you just study for it.

Also not cool how one of the midsems is 45% like what on earth. And the rest are worth just as much as finals which is bad because finals I study for like a week but midsems always sneak up on you and I always cram in like 2 days... 

Err anyway let me comment on the weather! I realised spring set in 11 days ago but the first day of spring was such a sunny warm contrast to the disgusting 3 weeks of random winter rain before it. But the morning of the first day of spring was actually horrible because I woke up with a runny nose and couldn't sleep properly and that continued for the rest of the day. Hayfever setting in right on the first day of spring LOL. Jokes I don't even have hayfever, just a super runny nose all the time. But after that day the rest of the week was cold and windy. Good one, spring. But I don't really even like spring. I'll give it credit because it's better than winter by far but nothing compares to my precious SUMMER!

This week has been quite warm and I get super hot walking back from uni or walking home and when I'm in shorts now it's like I can actually feel summer. I can't describe it to you but summer always gives me a warm feeling inside, being able to wear shorts and a shirt, walking barefoot around the house, everyone around me taking naps (I can't take naps in the day though haha), eating ice-cream, endless amounts of free time! Summer really has a special feel to it that no words can describe. It's too bad we're not there yet, it's still a bit too cold in the house to just wear a shirt (shorts is getting to be manageable).

In other news, I declare it utterly impossible to ever do midsems or finals without something much more interesting popping up to entice you away from boring studying. This time's awesome release?

Another bad week. Everything just makes me irate apparently. One contributing factor may or may not be the fact that midsems are soon.

 Mini Guide and Tips for Japan (and Korea) - 500th post! 
 June 29th - Sydney to Seoul 
 June 30th - Myeong-dong and Jung-gu 
 July 1st - Itaewon and Jung-gu (again) 
 July 2nd - Apgujeong Rodeo, Gangnam, Yongsan 
 July 3rd - Hongdae, D-Cube City and Yongsan 
 July 4th - last day in Korea. Dongdaemun Markets, Doota and back to our beloved Myeongdong 
 /post break/ What to buy from each Korean brand 
 July 5th - Leaving Seoul for Tokyo (Akihabara) 
 July 6th - Harajuku 
 July 7th - Ginza, Tokyo Station and Marunouchi 
 July 8th – Shinjuku 
 July 9th - Ikebukuro (Sunshine City) and Shinjuku 
 July 10th - Shibuya and Asakusa 
 July 11th - Shinjuku and Odaiba 
 July 12th - Akihabara and Roppongi/Minato 
 July 13th - Mt. Fuji and Kawaguchi 
 July 14th - Kawaguchiko and Harajuku 
 July 15th - Osaka and Tempozan 
 July 16th - Universal Studios Japan 
 July 17th - Namba (Dōtonbori), Shinsaibashi, Tennōji Park then all the way to Kyoto (Gion) 
 July 18th (last day in Osaka) - Osaka Castle, Spa World, Umeda 
 July 19th - Hiroshima and Miyajima 
 July 20th - Hiroshima --> Kyoto 
 July 21st - Arashiyama Area and North-west Kyoto (Ryōan-ji and Kinkaku-ji) 
 July 22nd - Kyoto -> Nara and Osaka (NARUTO EXHIBITION!!) 
 July 23rd - Kyoto back to Tokyo 
 July 24th - Yokohama (Minato Mirai 21)  
 July 25th and 26th (END) - Tokyo -> Seoul -> HOME 

✮ Foster kittens
✮ Clean out closet
✮ Make LOTS of ice-cream
✮ Bake + Cook (and use the molds and kits I bought from Japan)
✮ Study Japanese (JLPT N2 level)
✮ Learn basic Korean sentence structures
✮ Play Dousei Kareshi (~50 hours right there, what with my slow Japanese reading speed)
✮ Finishing playing Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
✮ Buy Naruto -The Last- Movie DVD and then rewatch it
✮ Start applying for things……..
✮ Invite people over to drink the endless amounts of tea I have
✮ Make things with the alcohol and liquor stash I have (lol)

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