world of my own

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood,
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

*loves *

the colour orange
the sky and the water (:

Thursday, November 15, 2007

geog paper is over.

when i woke up this morning there was an unnatural ringing in my ear. its still there now... maybe its cause i didn't sleep well last night. kept thinking of the 500 000 caireness who live in the tombs in Cairo, Egypt.

among other stuff.

geog paper today was probably the least nice of all the papers so far. even worse then the weird chem paper we had on tuesday. chem was weird but alright. apparently they asked some h3 stuff... i was quite pissed with it actually cause i didn't think they had a right to come up with questions we hadn't explicitely learned before. but well i guess if you look at the concept, you can get the answer?

anw, about geog today. i actually needed more paper than i had. something that didn't happen for phys geog. i didn't do as well as i ought to for drqs.. spent too much time explaining the points and didn't give a wider range of answers that i felt drqs require. then there was the weird primary field techniques question worth like 6m which i had quite a fun time crapping though. and i think i did the pop geog drq wrongly. talked too much about low FR instead of high FR which should have been the focus of the questions.

then the essays were so weird! and they didn't ask about malthus and boserup! amazing. and they had this whole question dedicated to migration. WOW.... the scary thing was that halfway through writing my supranational body question, i stopped dead. i forgot whether NAFTA was considered supranational body! but since i had finished 75% of the question and there was no time to redo it.. i just persisted on. thankfully nafta is considered supranational body or i would have said goodbye to 16 marks which is like 8% of the entire grade.. whew... and im glad i mugged the housing stuff. cause just when i was about to throw my hands up in despair on ever finding another essay question to do, i saw the homeless one and saw a chance to get marks there. yup.

so well, geog is done and over with. i can't say that i'm very satisfied with the paper. i had so many level 3s still stuck in my head, points that i had no where to put. like the 5500 Maxtor cut, 500 cut in Sanyo, 1M spent daily in Sau Paulo on rubbish etc etc etc...

even if im not satisfied with my answers theres nothing i can do about it. I've done, i think the best i could given the circumstances. and for me that is enough.

and i hope this applies to everyone. of course sometimes we blank out during chem/maths, sometimes we spend too much time on one question and run out of time.. sometimes we just stare at the question and wonder "what the hell, why so weird?!" but at the end of the day if you know that during that 3 hr, 2hr or even just 1 hr in the sports hall/hall classroom or wadeva that you've really given the best that you can then i think its enough and theres no need to be disappointed with oneself.

what i can say confidently is that studying for human geog was one of the happiest studying times during this whole of A levels.

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