Off to Montreal

Haha. At last a vacation. In 2 hours will be heading to Montreal. Going with a new found partner by book! "The Happiness Hypothesis" by Jonathan Haidt. Good book, good company.

Will be back in about 6 days time. =)

Thou shall hate winter

This is about what happened yesterday. I had my chemistry at 8am in the morning. The night before it was snowing and accumulated about 3 inches thick. I was up awake and studying for the exam and it was about 7am the snow shower stopped and changed into a heavy rain with freaking strong winds!!

Snow + Rain = Very very very messy slushy slushy environment outside. Gosh. And I had to cycle to my exam hall which was at Metro Toronto Convention Centre, so I had to cycle longer than usual to get there. I was too busy studying that I forgot to check the time. it was about 7.20am and well it wasn't too late but I need to find the exact location of my exam hall inside the building so I rushed and I was lazy to take out my winter shoes. I thought it wont be so bad since the snow was not so heavy. Big mistake.

I pakai la that normal sneakers from Malaysia yang tak kalis air. Hopped on my bicycle and started pushing my way through the slushy road. Fuh. It was so slippery!! And the wind blowing like want to send me off flying! Lucky at least I was wearing proper jackets, yeah jackets. One not enough. My body did not get wet but my pants were soaking wet!! The shoes and my feet!! It felt like being placed inside the freezer. The toes paraylsed.

Oh yeah, me cycling gloves. Not waterproof so... Frozen fingers as well. I did my 3 hour exam with that icefilled shoes. Ooo. Brr. Chemistry was a hell lot tough. Monstrous!! 50 objectives in 3 hours. I was wondering why are they giving so much time for 50 objective questions? See the paper only know. Dropped dead halfway. there were about 9-10 questions that even if you get to open a textbook, you wont be able to get them right. Complex applications. I was sitting at the front most table and my chemistry professor was right in front of me staring all the time. All that I was thinking was "damn! If I could only read your mind!!"

Done with exams had to go through the rain and slushy sloshy road again. The wind was even stronger this time. Adui. It was like a battlefield! I was nearly home, when I got down from my bicycle and wanted to cross the road and so I psuhed the bike. There was this huge pile of snow by the pavement. Considering myself already in a terrible mess, I wanted to mess things up. So I went around kicking snow! Nice! Until my foot hit a hard hard object. OUCH!! Damn. It was a big rock covered by snow. Manalah saya tau. =(

Reached home. Straight into the bath!! Ahh... hot water, hot water!! I was under the shower for about 30 mins. Defrozing my toes and my fingers. Its a weird feeling when frozen body parts get sudden hot water treatment. Like as if you cant feel anything but there is something. Ahh. I don't wanna go out anymore. But my food stock not gonna last for another day. Arghh. Low temperature means high food consumption. I had been eating non-stop.

That's it. I need to sleep. My sleeping pattern is really out of order. High entropy change in body metabolism rate. (entropy = "degree of chaos")

I need my eternal summer. Any votes?

Connecting-Connecting-Connected-Online

This is not the right time to be blogging but yeah I am. I dumped my laptop on Nov 30th so that I could (I thought) actually concentrate on my finals which is gonna start on Dec 7. Things didn't turn out fine. Haha. So stupid of me! My Economics, Chemistry and Physics notes are in my laptop and how to study without it? Plus past year papers are also online which I did not print out before. =(

Let that be it. Another different agenda. These, 5 days being disconnected I realized that my productivity level is far far below average. E.g. I could normally finish 3 topic sections of calculus + exercises in one hour and a half with my laptop by my side and without, I could only finish 2 topic sections in that same time frame minus exercises!! Sigh..

My original hypothesis was, "If I could avoid from being distracted by my laptop, I could use that time to study." Hell, my hypothesis is far from true. The conclusion after the experiment is "Time is divided for studies and for laptop distractions with a marginal ratio of 2 : 4 and productivity level is average." I know this is not gonna explain anything. Its kinda weird and confusing. Below would be some scenarios that I went through :

Without Laptop

1. Everyday, I am sleeping for 12 - 13 hours!! Damn it. Too much of sleep makes me lazy.

2. I started skipping my physical exercises and use that time to sleep instead.

3. My sleeping function is going haywire. It was suppose to be Inverse Sleep Function (nocturnal) but now it is back to Normal Sleep Function.

4. Related to 3. Since now I sleep at night instead of day, I had to study during the day instead of night. My productivity level during daytime = very very low and slow.

5. When I get bored studying which happens occasionally and periodically (every 15 - 20 mins), I stand up from my chair and start reading novels or go to the window and stare at the road, walk around my room aimlessly, going out of the house and to the bakery to get my stomach filled up every now and then, and also a very high tendency to jump on the bed and hide myself under the blanket. (all these activities are eating my time).

6. It is TOO QUIET!! Haha. Had to complain on that. =P

With Laptop

1. I sleep a good 4 - 6 hours. This regulates my normal body metabolism rate and keeps me active and I have more time in a day to spend.

2. I exercise regularly although I don't know what this has to do with the absence and presence of laptop, it simply happens to be the case.

3. I sleep when I am non-productive and am wide awake when its the best time for me to study; night! To relate this to why the sleeping pattern changes is because of MSN buddies. I wait to chat with my friend back in Malaysia. This keeps me up awake at night. =)

4. When I have the laptop and if I get bored studying, I usually chat, go check facebook, read news or listen to music. All these are done with me not moving from the table. Higher possibility that I will continue with my studies.

5. Music! Keeps me alive. Haha. Not so quiet is better.

Okay. That's it. My laptop is actually helping my studies. Haha. Just need to cut down the distractions a Little bit. =D