In 2009, I gleefully announced that I was going back to school. A year later, I declared I was quitting. And that was that. There were no more updates on this blog over this issue after 05.04.2010. Well, I had resumed my identity as a part time undergrad under the radar. It’s largely due to [...]

So I happily went back to school last January and thought I could successfully juggle my work and studies. It turns out that I’m wrong. I had been rather upset, especially in the last couple of months. And the negative vibes were evident to the people around me. The work was piling up by the [...]

I haven’t been talking about school lately because I don’t want this space to be filled with my angry rants. I almost went berserk this morning when I started on an assignment for a language module I’m taking this semester. The original sentence is in Chinese. 像许多西方人那样经常不吃早餐,并不是聪明的做法。我们中国人说 :早餐要饱,午餐要好,晚餐要少,这从科学上来说无疑是正确的。 We were to select either of the [...]

People following me on Twitter would know that I was exceedingly agitated over the weekend. Amongst other things, the school assignments were causing a huge headache. Having skipped a couple of classes, I thought I was getting my just desserts. I was facing the music. Orbigood for me… But it turned out that the guys [...]

The new semester begins next week. There were a couple of emails highlighting this very important issue. Change of assignment submission deadlines to one day before the day of the week of the class. What?! Can it be more ambiguous? Seriously, if you have people reading your letter three times just to (try and) understand [...]