I just finished reading a translated Japanese mystery novel that I borrowed from the university library. A bit mad that someone who had read the novel decided to draw a pencil tick beside the real culprit's name. I somewhat knew it was a spoiler from the beginning so I just glanced through that page. Still enjoyed the book though...

Of course, for all future potential readers' sake, I will erase the spoiler before I return the book to the library. (^.^)

Another spoiler I encountered today would be the ending of "Last Cinderella" (it's a wonder how I got stuck with watching this - might be because of buchou *suddenly wants to rewatch Hotaru again*) on my Tumblr dashboard. *sigh* Saw some familiar name mentioned then I quickly skipped that post XD... (off-topic: I'm rooting for Tachibana so I'll be very disappointed if Sakura ended up with Hiroto... 

For me it's: Tachibana >> no-one >>>>> Hiroto)

Regarding Monday's story, I was just going to mention about my personality type, which is INTP... maa.. 

On Wednesday (March 13th), I had a group discussion at my school's foyer. The assignment involved programming using Prolog... which we aren't too familiar with (but is fun to play around with after you know the basics). Well, while discussing, sometimes our fellow coursemates came & gave out some not-so-helpful :P comments. Two seniors in particular were like this: "Don't ask us, we only learnt about theory [during our time].." This was perfectly understandable. Anyway, the comments that bothered me came from a someone (from the same batch with me & already graduated) were...

"What? You're doing programming using this ancient language?"

And then this same person suggested that we ask S-san ("His programming skill is good, he must know something") for help. An hour later, S-san, who was going to have lunch (if I remember correctly) saw us.. & sat with us. We asked him if he knew about Prolog & his answer was, "No." I was a bit disappointed but I did expect something like that. 

Erm... programming isn't really my favourite..uh.. activity but hearing him say "ancient" made me feel sad. It was like when あくま said half-jokingly, "We don't need artists anymore because computers can make realistic paintings". Actually, it felt like my heart died a little (exaggerating much XD)... I was thinking... ah.. this is the kind of person who's pursuing postgraduate studies now *sarcastic*. 

I don't see the need to call it ancient. Newer doesn't mean it would be better...

Actually.. it annoyed me. I was expecting a more passionate [with his field] kind of post-graduate student. Such comments gave a gist to his way of thinking. It's not pretty.

Hah... Maybe I'm being jealous. It was like seeing two students practising their japanese language aural exam. I didn't have the chance to join the classes. They'd studied so long but they still couldn't pronounce things correctly. I take pride in my way of thinking. It was irritating to see someone like that already graduated... & me still stuck (lol). Maa maa... It's my own fault for being lazy really XD

Speaking of being an INTP, it's a pity that I'm not into programming... because when I get obsessed with something, it can be frightening. 

There is something that has been bothering me since Wednesday.

But before that, I'll talk about Monday first.

Once again, on that day, あくま held another motivation erm.. event which included meeting the parents (YES.. & it started since previous semester!) for this semester. I was very guai before, I attended two of them. The second time was a disaster... to me & my emotions. I promised myself that I WILL NOT attend for this semester, no matter what they say because the last person I want to meet to discuss my academic problems would be the head program himself! Call me petty if you want to... I'm still very much hurt by his "act of incompetence" last semester.     

Anyway, so I refused to go. I blocked calls from the person-in-charge. They sent me an invitation letter (handed to me by a friend). During a class, the lecturer in charge asked for me (& two others) to inform about this event. She asked me straight out if I'm going to attend then I answered "No" & it ended there... just like that. I actually had my own list of reasons why I refuse to go (which included "You are not the right person I need to solve my problems -- I need professionals' help -- NOT you."), but I'm satisfied with that ending. 

Moving on... through eavesdropping (lol) & asking some of my friends who attended, it seemed like they had a greater time this time around - which is well, good, of course. Those lucky people didn't attend the somber version, so yeah..  lucky them. But I don't envy them... & I don't feel left out.. my decision of not going is beneficial for my mental health. In case you're wondering, I already met my mentor to discuss about my academic problems & plans in week one (day 2 to be precise, I couldn't find her on day 1) - I'm way ahead them thank you very much. 

Okay.. back to the topic. During the event, they did the Myers-Briggs personality test - I was shocked!!! I've been obsessing over my personality type since last semester.. which explains so many things about my problems *it's a long story//sigh*...  Actually I began to suspect if any of the lecturers have discovered my blog.. or my very public twitter account (conspiracy theorist in action)... haha.. but I ended up thinking that it's just a coincidence; maybe the lecturer is familiar with this personality test during her study in USA(?)..

to be continued...

Shopping bag >>

Received these yesterday... 

I think I'm more happy to see those songbooks (haha).. It's hard to find Onitsuka Chihiro's piano scores nowadays - so glad that I managed to get it. And Tokei~! Yes, yes, yes! That was my main reason for purchasing Arashi's "My Girl" songbook ^_^

Speaking of books, I bought more books this year (my prediction was a bit off - I almost can't purchase Popcorn Live DVD today *sigh*)... oh and I used BB1M book vouchers to get these:

Textbooks! Both are for courses which I happened to like this semester. I love the lecturer for Mathematical Modelling - his lecture classes   make sense (he might just be the only person that could make me like Math again). I've always regard AI as an interesting subject... but.. the lecture classes bore me to death. Honestly, I was quite disappointed... it was a new lecturer (never went to her classes before)... I can't wait for the next lecturer's turn to enter class. She taught us "Data Compression" last semester, I love her teaching style (although one has to bear her painful tsukkomis to really enjoy her classes).

Anyway.. The cooking-related book is obviously for my cooking hobby XD.. & I picked "The Last Lecture" at random.. sounded like something I need to read right now (but I haven't started..so...)

Blog >>

Didn't update this blog for more than two months... ahh. I actually have 3 draft posts at this moment. Will post them sloooowly later... one by one... 

Arashi >>

"Himitsu no Arashi-chan" will broadcast its final episode next week. I love HnA. Not only for Arashi but for the show itself (which mainly caters for female viewers)... There were times where it helped me like some actresses more (better understanding of their real life I guess)... and those episodes with Maou hair *dreamy*... Reading news about other members' solo shows makes me wonder what will happen to Ohno & Jun. Jun actually co-hosts some annual show so I guess I'm more worried about Ohno (lol).. Of course, I'm hoping for acting projects (nothing since KagiHeya! What are you doing Ohno??!)... but fishing show, art show/exhibition or solo album/concert sounds nice too, so yeah, please do something this year, Ohno-san! XD 

... I'm also hoping that he'll star in this year's 24hr TV drama special...

p/s: Recommended SMAP-Arashi article of the day - here XD (makes me want to rewatch Arashi's appearance on Utaban again)