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Since the last post 2 weeks ago, reasonably many things happened and passed. It is already the last week of the Special Term and in a few hours time, the last lecture will take place.

...but let's talk things one by one.

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First to start off would be the mid-terms happening. It was easily one of my worse mid-terms ever in school. I was sick with high fever, cough and flu, heavy on medications and did my examinations in a half-asleep state. This would come back and haunt me in short time...

For a good example, only during my second test i realised that i answered the formatted answer sheet in a wrong manner such that only half of my answers will be recorded by the system. At the time i panicked during the test but could do nothing about it, hoping it was just a needless worry.

Questions were also not formatted well and a lot of doubtful parts came up to me, especially the light-headed me. I could not focus on solving things mentally and needed to spend time and write it down before the answer would reveal itself to me.

That was last week.

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A week later, which was this week, i felt infinitely better already and off the meds. Got the results back on Sunday and got the greatest shock of my life. I was the lowest scorer in one of the test. After double checking my answers and troubling the lecturer to do a review for my paper, it turns out that my earlier worry came true...or should i say was true all along. Lucky for me the lecturer is kind enough to allow manual marking of the paper and overlooked my mistakes this time. I was awarded the full marks i did on the wrong side of the format sheet. What a relief and a near heart-attack.

On Wednesday, or yesterday, one of the lecture theater had a faulty air-condition problem. Coupled with the hot and humid weather it made the place feels like an oven. After an hour in the place, the lecturer was able to get a switch to another lecture theater...which had faulty lights. What an ordeal.

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Last thing...you know the girl i was talking with the past few months? Even had a date to go along with? I am missing her way more than i should. She left for Japan for an immersion programme for a month since last week and it made communication so much harder.

It did kind of made me ponder on what i used to perceive long distance relationship has. It won't be a big problem if both parties try, but if one side stopped trying then it will fail very likely.

As for me, i don't really want to bother her as it seems that she would be quite busy over there.

Mmm oh well. I really miss you. Funny though, seeing how we are not even official.

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That is it for now~

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