Thursday, November 02, 2006
"and so it begins" so says Theoden, King of Rohan, when Saruman's army of uruk-hais and orcs descended upon helm's deep.
gosh, i miss spending time in front of the colourbox with the dvd set for the LOTR series. can virtually memorise at least 50% of the script.
but yeah, and so it begins. stress level was at an all-time high ytd. but somehow this morning, there was absolutely no feeling at all, when i entered the exam hall or even when the examiner said 'you may begin'. no feeling, which is a pretty good feeling.
chose the safest topic and did 'modern technology has always improved the quality of life'. Agreed to a large extent, but argued that despites the gains, there are accompanying banes and that Man, being instinctively defensive of self-interests can manipulate technology to do much evil and deterioriate life and demean its existence. felt pretty okay about it, but it seems like majority of the pple did it? hahaha, so it kinda like puts this insecurity in the air.
compre was...oh...weird. had to read the summary qn quite a few times before i understood. and the front questions didnt seem to have answers coming from the passage! for AQ, my main argument was that we have to give up certain personal rights to ensure collective/group rights. gave the example that in singapore, we may have done away with much freedom of expression and press freedom in order to maintain religious and racial harmony, so that, we can do away with riots [then got curfews, freedom of movement restricted] and perhaps even war [where our most fundamental rights to life, security is threatened]. summary was quite difficult, i thought. ohwell.
nvm, its okay. time to focus on BIO! JIAYOU.
6:17 AM
JQuah took a shot at 6:17 AM
