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Heh I just finished my french exam. It wasn't so bad, mostly straight-forward grammar questions, and no yucky rédaction. d= It's only 5 now and class is supposed to end only at 6, so I figured it'll be better for me to make "full use my time" than to call my mom to pick up early. x=
Went to check out the cafeteria just now, during my free time. There isn't that much variety and everything is so darn expensive. >_< Would have set me back by like, $5, to have a decent and fulfilling meal. No hope of treating myself to good pasta in school too. *sigh*
The school library is all right academic-wise, but has a pitiful fiction section. Bleah. And apparently they don't consider Readers's Digest a worthy magazine to subscribe to. HMPH! RD and Nat Geo-wise, I think the Strawberry Hill library is much better.
We had a crash course on doing academic research on the net during psychology yesterday. It was useful, I suppose, but I think SMU has a lot more subscriptions to various databases than Kwantlen. Zyf said I can get to OED or Britannica's premium section from his account. Okay, I'm just miffed over that. x=
I went to make up for the psyc quiz on Prologue which I'd missed. Bleah, I missed 3 questions. One, I could have gotten right had I been more observant; the other two, I'm still not very satisfied with the given answer. When you note how a person is affected because of abnormal blood chemistry, why is it from a neuroscience perspective rather than a behaviour-genetics perspective? When blood chemistry is actually determined by your genetic make-up. I did, however, finally understand the difference between neuroscience and cognitive science. At least, according to my instructor, the former had to do with the brain's chemical processes and the latter with how information is processed by the brain.
I watched the Thomas Crowne Affair on TBS last night. Mind you, I've always disliked Pierce Brosnan so that was already stretching things a bit for me. Just that I'd thought the plot might be interesting. Well, it was, elegant enough but the acting was disappointing. Rene Russo was overly coy and affected in her acting. UGH!! Gave me goosebumps. Halfway through the movie, I realized that there was another subconscious reason for my disgust, which may have led me to be captious (new word for me! haha), but in all objectivity, there really could have been a better interpretation of the scenes. Gah.
I switched to School Ties after the movie ended and greatly regretted having passed it over for the latter. I only caught the last half an hour, but the acting was much better and I think the plot, while not brilliant, is nonetheless worthy of rumination.
Yoga yesterday was fairly challenging. The poses were tougher to hold, required greater stretching and balance than the ones we did previously. We did:
Downward-Facing Dog
Cobra pose
Four-Limbed Staff pose
Plow pose
Upward-Facing Dog
Warrior III pose
Tree pose
Bridge pose
Supported Shoulderstand
Well, there were others too but I'm too lazy to search beyond yogajournal.com x=
And a handful of unrelated quotes...
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-- Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Went to check out the cafeteria just now, during my free time. There isn't that much variety and everything is so darn expensive. >_< Would have set me back by like, $5, to have a decent and fulfilling meal. No hope of treating myself to good pasta in school too. *sigh*
The school library is all right academic-wise, but has a pitiful fiction section. Bleah. And apparently they don't consider Readers's Digest a worthy magazine to subscribe to. HMPH! RD and Nat Geo-wise, I think the Strawberry Hill library is much better.
We had a crash course on doing academic research on the net during psychology yesterday. It was useful, I suppose, but I think SMU has a lot more subscriptions to various databases than Kwantlen. Zyf said I can get to OED or Britannica's premium section from his account. Okay, I'm just miffed over that. x=
I went to make up for the psyc quiz on Prologue which I'd missed. Bleah, I missed 3 questions. One, I could have gotten right had I been more observant; the other two, I'm still not very satisfied with the given answer. When you note how a person is affected because of abnormal blood chemistry, why is it from a neuroscience perspective rather than a behaviour-genetics perspective? When blood chemistry is actually determined by your genetic make-up. I did, however, finally understand the difference between neuroscience and cognitive science. At least, according to my instructor, the former had to do with the brain's chemical processes and the latter with how information is processed by the brain.
I watched the Thomas Crowne Affair on TBS last night. Mind you, I've always disliked Pierce Brosnan so that was already stretching things a bit for me. Just that I'd thought the plot might be interesting. Well, it was, elegant enough but the acting was disappointing. Rene Russo was overly coy and affected in her acting. UGH!! Gave me goosebumps. Halfway through the movie, I realized that there was another subconscious reason for my disgust, which may have led me to be captious (new word for me! haha), but in all objectivity, there really could have been a better interpretation of the scenes. Gah.
I switched to School Ties after the movie ended and greatly regretted having passed it over for the latter. I only caught the last half an hour, but the acting was much better and I think the plot, while not brilliant, is nonetheless worthy of rumination.
Yoga yesterday was fairly challenging. The poses were tougher to hold, required greater stretching and balance than the ones we did previously. We did:
Downward-Facing Dog
Cobra pose
Four-Limbed Staff pose
Plow pose
Upward-Facing Dog
Warrior III pose
Tree pose
Bridge pose
Supported Shoulderstand
Well, there were others too but I'm too lazy to search beyond yogajournal.com x=
And a handful of unrelated quotes...
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
-- Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)