because some people just don’t understand even after the umpteenth explanation
The phrase “obsessive-compulsive” has worked its way into the wider English lexicon, and is often used in an offhand manner to describe someone who is meticulous or absorbed in a cause.
history woes- a reply to yenn
funny, one and a half months ago i sat here whining about history, one and a half months later the history results are here to haunt me. i asked for a solution on my main blog, and yenn has replied. but as i want that results post to be at the top for the time being (so hopefully more people will leave their comments) im gonna reply to yenn here.
yenn: u can always read hist in ur spare time. u dun have to take it as an academic sub.. u seem REAAALLY stressed out over it and i think u will end up hating it if u continue! dun playplay with results.=)
haha im not that stressed out. im upset, but not imgonnastuffmyheadinthetoiletbowldepressed. yes indeed i can always read history in my spare time. but you do know that academic guidance is something we never will get anymore once we graduate. haha i have a love-hate relationship with history. i totally understand when you say ‘dun playplay with results’, because that’s what’s been troubling me all this time. do i continue to screw over and pray that my lit modules will always be there to save me, or do i just give up academic history altogether and just…read library books. haha interestingly enough ntu students had to register and waitlist our subjects for next sem before we got our results. yet another history module is my fourth choice. i have a 1 in 3 and 1 in 2 chances of getting into my top three choices. if i really do get into history, i’ll take it as God’s will to persevere or something. i know you don’t believe in God, but i don’t know whether you believe in luck/fate- if you do, that is the closest (yet furthest) equivalent i can think of for letting go. so i guess i’ll just let things be for now. haha.
