This way to the stars

Old life, new layout

Isn't it about time I updated this blog?

In a fit of creative obsession I painstakingly crafted the new graphics in Adobe Photoshop over a whopping four days (and counting). I posted more info about the layout in the about page. I hope you like it. :-D.

Anyway, college life is fast becoming a "fiasco" (for want of a better word). I mean, for the first time in my whole life as a grudging yet responsible and almost law-abiding student, I have cut classes. Granted, it was only Taekwondo class; PE grades aren't included in the QPI. And besides, I already know all the white-belter forms the subject teaches. I felt that I deserved a break, especially since I stayed up until 3am the night before to edit and mutilate (and wholly redo) the lab report made by one of my groupmates (fortunately the one-group-lab-report-per-week scheme was scrapped in favor of individual answers). I am NOT feeling guilty...nope...nuh-uh (denial, anyone?).

I really should be moving on now; that gripe's over and done with. The more pressing issue right now is "How am I going to redeem myself in Botany???". We were just given our project details, specs, and dates of submission last week, as if we weren't busy enough trying to catch up and process the voluminous information force-fed into our brains every session. Yes, I am trying to catch up; I already bought the Bio book by Starr (unfortunately, I couldn't find the pretty colored International Edition version of the book, so I settled with the grimy yet cheap black-and-white Philippine version instead). I hope that next time I will at least have SOME idea what the prof's talking about.

I just read Holes by Louis Sachar for my Lit class. Though it is a children's/young adult's book, it actually has none of the corniness/preachiness/inane nonsense of most in its genre (think C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Sweet Valley Twins); I mean, come on, it's about time a children's book dealt with the harsh, not-so-pretty and magical, but REAL facts of life. It actually touches on the reality of social issues such as child labor, poverty, miscarriages of justice, social stigmas, crime and punishment, etc. etc. The plot has many back stories in it, which in the first part of the story confused me as to their significance to the main storyline, but actually provided some cool bits of plot twists along the way. Actually, Holes strikes me as a Da Vinci Code for kids, except for the fact that the former actually has better character development.

It reminds me of another thing. I have to do my Lit and English worksheets!

But before that, I think I'll edit some of the grammatical errors and typos in previous posts.

Procrastinating.....again!

posted by steph @ 8:06 PM