Much Ado About Nothing

Nothing much's been happening over the past week. Lots of assignments and labs due. Dinner conversation usually goes like "What are you up to tonight?". And the reply is inevitably "Um, do some physics/maths/chinese/chemistry/etc..." Got the same reply when I sat at the dinner table and asked the 5 people sitting around me. Different days, same response.

A good thing lectures are winding up because there seems to be a tremendous amount to study for the upcoming exams in a couple of weeks time. Was seating in the lecture theatre this morning when the guy next to me asked me where I was from and I told him Singapore. Then he asked me what courses(modules) i was taking and i mentioned structural systems. He commented that structural systems is usually a postgrad course in american universities. I was like "Oh really?" In NUS it's level 5000. I hope I survive.

Quotable quotes :

"Wow, Campbell, you are the most organised guy in the class man. You've got a folder called 'Random'. (Overhead in the computer lab one morning; everyone was laughing at the comment).

"I've got the worst seats in the house man. I was sitting at the bottom left hand corner of the lecture theatre." (engineering recruitment talk. Usually there is food and drinks after seminars or career talks. Most students are not keen on the content of the talk. They are there for the food.)

"I don't even dare to go to the toilet man." (Overheard when rushing out of the lecture theatre for the food, as well)

"Did you get any food?" "No man, the food got savaged." (also at the career talk)

"What do you expect man? We're just poor students." (also at the career talk)

On wednesday I was just sitting in the lecture theatre listening to the lecture when my lab partner came late and sat down in front of me, blocking the screen. Something caught my eye. He was wearing a "team orca" cap with the words "auckland city tri". So after the lecture I asked him what his time for the tri was and he told me he doesn't do olympic distance triathlon. He went on to add that he did the Lake Taupo Ironman (3.86 km swim, 180km bike, 42.19km run) in March and his timing was 12 hours, and sustained an injury during the race. I asked him how he trains and he told me he does not get much sleep.
It was also tramping club's movie night with a turnout of about 10 people. Before the screening, there was ice cream. At that time there were like 40 people. But after some time, the ice cream ran out, and the people started to leave. Anyway the show we watched was starring clint eastwood and probably a film made in the 70s. But the worse thing was at 10pm the school staff/security told us they were closing the place so we did not finish watching the show(just as it was getting exciting).

On thursday I was attending an entre seminar on how to fill in the financials for the summary report when I met someone who studied in singapore but moved here to do high school, university and postgrad.

Trip to international antarctic centre has been postponed.

It's been an unusually warm 2 days here in christchurch.

Today being the first day of winter was a surprisingly comfortable 15 degrees. Maybe there will be a huge dump soon, hopefully. Need to see and touch some snow.