Four hours yesterday at NUS could really be described in a lot of ways. 'Fun' will probably be the most appropriate, simply laughing at my inadequacies all the way through. Oh well, I have been praying a lot and I'm glad I've been blessed with calmness through the weekend, on D-Day Monday and of course at NUS yesterday. I probably would have cooked up a whole lot of unnecessary stress, but I feel refreshed mentally right now, and for that I'm grateful.
Saturday night marked Arsenal's 11th victory in a row, which has now become 12 after the 7-0 midweek thrashing of Slaves from the Czech Republic. Two matches, which in spite of losing van Persie, the team have continued to play their passing game so so well, and it's simply beautiful, the goals they are scoring right now. It was frustrating on Saturday, but I didn't get frustrated and when the goals finally came, I was obviously over the moon. The next 2 weeks will really be the most important of the season so far. Liverpool away and Man United at home. It is scary to see United hit top form in attack suddenly, but at the same time they seem more lax in defence, so well, let's hope our passing game prevails. Two loses really isn't the end of the season, considering van Persie is injured, so I'll be satisfied with anything.
Monday was of course the return of promo results all in one shot. And of course, Sunday I was feeling kind of worried initially. I really should have focused on studying physics all the way - there was so much I could have covered. But the potential disasters just distracted me too much. In the end, I decided not to study anything electromagnetic for physics. Fortunately this didn't prove too costly, but it sure could have and I would only have had myself to blame. So the day was spent mostly relaxing and reflecting, which had quite the cleansing effect, although really I should have, should have, been studying as much as I could. Partly was because I (somehow) thought that the tuesday thing wasn't the real thing, but sigh it turned out to be.
Promo results were thankfully quite ok. GP improved quite a lot, and it's really still work in progress. Econs is still struggling very very badly though and a lot of effort will need to be put into it from now on.
Now, with promos and physics olympiad over, all that is left is PW. And once that is over, the holidays will begin for real, and apart from the football that there is to enjoy, there are really a lot of things I would finally be able to focus on. It would thus be good to have a list.
1. Work on my YDSP research project
2. Finish the book that Leon bought for me as well as 4 more spiritual books
3. Finish the books that my dad has recommended me to read. 2 of them.
4. Finish a couple of books from the RJ library I never had time to complete.
5. Study SAT vocab.
6. Practise more of the guitar!
7. Read Sloman
8. Write more essays
9. Meet up with friends (and there are many MANY many I long to see...)
10. Play soccer with friends / random people around the neighbourhood
11. Exercise!!
12. Do more research on football terms for my Fantasy Premier League game
13. Attend CG more regularly
14. Finish season 3 of desperate housewives. And perhaps abit of heroes.
15. Eat, and keep eating so I can put on more weight.
16. Watch movies at home with my family.
17. Get all the sleep I need.
18. Play CnC3, FIFA...and
19. Make sure I cheer on every Arsenal goal and every goal United or Liverpool concede.
Sounds like a lot of things to do, and of course there are a couple more things which I will really think hard about, but which I dare not write here due to reasons I can't say here either. It will really be a fulfilling holiday. And it starts with meeting friends on Saturday and Sunday this weekend. =)
