the time, and the fact that i'm typing in front of a computer tells me that i'm really back in familiar ground. yes, folks! i'm home!
it's a thursday dawn, and it's common during situations like this that i haven't gotten a wink yet for wednesday night. haha.. it's really a nice feeling..
rj was with me awhile ago dictating mp3 files he wanted to be burned. yes, the wonders of cd burning. it's no wonder cd sales are plummeting. and speaking of which, i was able to buy two mp3 collections. the first one was a piano player collection containing songs from maksim's first and second album, diana krall, norah jones, kevin kern, jamie cullum, richard clayderman and george winston. among those seven artists, the only ones i haven't heard about are kern and winston. i got the idea when my roommate alessa (who still hasn't given me the url of her blog) was able to buy mp3s at gale. she had a bossa compilation, as well as a jazz/bossa album. she had michael buble's songs in the other, and i must say i really enjoy his songs. before, i used to dismiss them but upon hearing his songs of late, i actually do like to hear them over and over again. it must be the variation in his way of singing or the instruments used but well, there's something different and it's really quite hard to let go.
i didn't really go out intending to buy mp3s. but since i was waiting for madel at the araneta center in cubao - i had asked her to accompany go to the ukay-ukay nearby to look for a pair of soccer shoes of which we've been unsuccessful - and i had lots of time to spare, i looked around, up and down and found this shop that was selling lots of mp3s. these were my top two choices as i was really intending on discovering and learning about the beatles. however, i found out later on that even though the beatles mp3s contains 26 albums plus lyrics, the cd doesn't play on cd players, but rather, on PCs. so that's what i'm doing now. yes, they do have lyrics.
and it's amazing that all their 26 albums (there were plenty of compilations) fit into the cd. when i checked it out, it was actually in wav format. i had been looking through beatles albums in tower records and all of them exceeded P500. where could i get that much money if only to spend on a luxury such as the beatles albums? that's why i was so happy when i found this mp3 cd. however, i do want to transfer these so that i wouldn't need a pc when i want to listen to them. how do wav files get converted to mp3? that's the ticket to my ultimate enjoyment of their music anywhere.
i arrived around 11 pm here. it wasn't much of a swell day as i wasn't really sure with most of my answers for my chem 31.1 exam, our finals for the lab class. however, i found out that i am exempted from taking the finals for the chem lecture class! yipee! yesterday, i knew there was no chance of me being exempted and i have actually been preparing and psyching myself up for the weekends since that would be the time that i would get to study. and then sarah and i go to the director's bulletin - our prof is the director of the institute of chemistry - and happily, i'm
on the list, with a 2.5, the lowest grade among all those who've been exempted. well, at least i've been exempted. sir told me last tuesday that i lacked 28 points to be exempted. then everyone i think had an increase in their grades so the number of students on the exemption list increased. there was even one student who had a grade of a flat 1. imagine that!
this morning, i tried calculating how many points i needed to get for the finals so that i would at least get a grade of 3. i found out that i needed at least 102 points. it's not often that i get this kind of score, and it's pretty difficult to attain considering the fact that i have to review everything that was covered. my grade during the second exam was 68% or 102.5 out of 160. i was even surprised when i made it to the top 10 highest in class, sharing the spot with another classmate. but he had a correction on one item so that means i'm eleventh already. anyway, it
surprised me because since college started, i don't think i've been involved in an achiever's list of any sort. anyway, what i'm really saying is that i'm very thankful that i don't have to take the finals exam for chem31 on tuesday. that's one big load less for me, thank goodness!
now, i only have to prepare for the finals for fs 116 or food micro which i'm sure everyone in class will be taking. and if i'm unfortunate, the finals for fn 11. will you look at that? it's another sem that's about to end and another year that's turning for all of us. i'm gonna be in 3rd year by june and i don't wanna graduate yet. i wanna stay here in up. jezrel , my coursmate, and i agreed on that. kirth, another coursemate who had her birthday yesterday, treating her friends with some food at the grandstand, however, wanted to get out of up as soon as possible so she was glad that we're going to be juniors already. it's the first time that i got to talk to someone outside of the boarding house who shared the same views as mine on staying in up and taking up ge courses. i really love my ge courses. that's why i'm very glad of the rgep because i could choose which subjects i would like to take. jezrel said that others only see ge subjects as
additional burden but she says she doesn't like a sem without a ge course, like me. it's her only means of acquiring other information besides those that are related to her course. and i do agree with that. wholeheartedly, indeed! however, for our course curriculum, there will be no more ge courses during our third year until we reach the first sem of our 5th year. and on the second sem, we have to complete our ge subjects already. it's quite sad actually. i'll have to be holed up in the college of home economics for some two years, with no other food for the brain
except microbes, various food processes and our social responsibility.
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