Exam.

Had my first paper yesterday evening. The paper wasn’t exactly difficult, though at times I was cursing quite a bit because I couldn’t recall things that I read through in my 2 rounds of revisions earlier. It’s like I know the rough idea, but not the details. Not exactly the best thing to happen, but since I managed to finish the paper, and I usually wouldn’t fail those modules that I manage to complete the exam paper, I’m not really worried. I’ve got 2 more papers coming up, though one is an open book exam with Internet access allowed so I don’t intend to worry too much about it, so technically I’m left with one paper and it’s going to be on Friday.

Went to Jay Chou’s concert on Sunday and my seat was actually not too bad as I managed to get a pretty good view of the whole stage. Of course I was never going to be able to see Jay’s face, but there was a big screen above the stage so it wasn’t a problem. But one thing did strike me was that there was this guy who was filming the entire concert using his DV camera, which obviously was illegal. Then at one stage, a security officer went to him and asked him to hand over the tape in which he recorded the concert in. Instead of knowing his guilt (and realising that he could have been sued for doing what he was doing) and hand over the tape, he kept on refusing to hand it over. The best thing was the security officer, after trying for a few minutes to get him to hand over the tape, apparently gave up and left him alone. And promptly that guy continued to film the concert. I was like going, “huh?” – what has this world come to? Has he no shame or something? And why didn’t the security officer get a few more of his colleagues and demand the guy to hand over his tape or make him leave the concert? Are we in a society where people in authority are afraid to make authoritative decisions even when it’s called for, and are the people so anti-authority that even when they are breaking the law they can still be so ardent against it? Strange.

Didn’t sleep too much last night after spending almost 2 hours chatting to a friend over MSN – it’s been a long time since I last did that, really.