Something interesting.

I know I am a pseudo-research student who is pretending to be competent in research and am able to think critically about all things academic. But when I look at the comments given by my supervisor for my second draft, I can’t help but feel confused. Put it very simply, this is what I would say to him:

“Please be clear about what you are unclear about, otherwise I will also be very unclear about what you are unclear about, and I would not be clear about how to make it clear to you.”

There was still a heavy use of question marks and the occasional use of the one-word “huh” which really left me asking myself “what is he huh-ing about?”.

But considering that this time round I didn’t really get slaughtered the way I was for the first draft, I shouldn’t be so bitter. At least this time round I’m getting more “tidy up your paragraphs” – that in itself is already an achievement. After all I did receive my first so-called praise in the second draft:

“The citations are great…”

Of course nothing is perfect in this world:

“… but the way you link them is weird.”

All hail the real world. Now onto the third draft.

By the way, a really nice and funny video (linked from Chin Keong’s blog) to cheer everyone up:

Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQSMzgVxFo

Monday.

Just thought that I’ll slip in a quick entry before going for my French class in 20 minutes’ time.

Received some comments from my supervisor for the HYP report. I don’t know how near to the trash bin the second draft was, but judging from the comments this one’s was probably half a metre the trash bin. Not inside, but near enough. Well, at least that’s an improvement since the last one was in the bin itself. With just one week left to the Due Date, that was possibly one good piece of news.

Would be having non-stop classes until 4 in the afternoon. Hopefully everything is going to be just fine.

Off for a quick bite then it’s off to class.

Writing.

Didn’t hear any response from my supervisor regarding my second draft as yet, so I spent today clearing some backlog of work. Did my French tutorial exercises, cleared the calculation of scores for my two lovely classes of IT1003 tutorial groups, and also read through the term paper for my E-Commerce Business Model project group. All in all, it was a nice day even though most of it was clearing backlog of work.

And yup, I began writing another story today.

Earlier in my university life I used to really write a lot of stuffs. I wrote short film scripts, I wrote short stories – I loved writing at that time. But with all the work that seemed to have piled up onto me, I seemed to stop writing for quite a while. Usually I would have ideas for stories or film scripts going on in my head, but I never quite got the determination to start writing. I finally picked up the determination today, probably because I’ve been quite inspired by watching Princess Hours lately. In the end I drafted out a brief story around the drama series, and wrote the first chapter on it today.

Of course with the stress of HYP I may not be able to continue writing as often as I would want to in the next one week or so, and with my exam coming on 1 December the story may not develop as quickly as I would want to. But hey, even Shakespeare didn’t write all his stuffs in one day, did he?

As for the plot of my story, I’m not going to reveal it now because a lot of thoughts are still going on in my head, but when I’ve got some decent amount of things written, I’ll publish them online, right here on kubicwave.com!

And for those of you who feel that there’s something wrong with me as a 26-year-old guy and still like watching Princess Hours, I think there’s something wrong with you. I recognize a good story when I see one.