The Lunatic Pandora: Rolling on the exam days

Well, it is the second last week of the semester. The assignments are well over and the study period begins. I always hate this part of the course. The feeling of liberation from assignments is robbed when the realization that the finals are coming hits me. Though I never liked it, I feel kinda sad knowing that this IS the last strecth. Everything falls on what I've worked for the past 3 weeks for the finals.

One can tell that you are affected by the exam fever if you keep finding yourself having a nagging urge to head over to the library every time you're in uni. Again, I'm not a big fan of going to the library, but there I was at the begining of the week, lookingfor a seat in that over-sized refrigerator. Strangely I find comfort in having myself surrounded by books (that and the guilty feeling I have for not utilizing the library again for the last time).

Studying in the library can be boring.....very boring...

It's gotta be stressed that walks are a must for library goers. Took this pic on one my many walks.

The usual bunch of guys were around on Monday, hanging around the foyer. I figure I might as well plant myself there after the long cold morning. Had lunch alone and it was back to the books.

We all love our books. But we love our sleep even more. Let's not cause any floods whilst we study.

Tuesday was another long study session at the library in the morning. Waited a while for Kat to come up. Had lunch at the Pink Shop. A lil' on the place. I never came to know who started calling it the Pink Shop, but I guess the very fact that as students drowned in textbooks, we seem to label shops by their colour. Even the new corner shop is called the "Orange Shop".

Yay, so marketers out there, remember to choose very striking and vivid colours for your shops.

But aside from that, I haven't really come around to this place that often. Its crowded, stinky and there's always a smoker sitting around somewhere to share his loving "care" with you or blatant disrespect for your health. The food has not always been to my liking. My Hong Kong Yee Mee was a tad on the salty side. But, I must say. Their servings are HUGE.

See what I mean?

A look at the Monash Condo pool. Big isn't it?

Skipping over to Friday, my most favourite subject of the sem, E-commerce Infrastructures (yay) was looking a lil' different today. No longers are the tables and chairs in neat little rows. (Shock)....it's...(gasp)....arranged to exam hall settings..... Yeah, this only nails the coffin shut for us students. Just looking at this horrible formation is enough to send shivers to my spine.

Gasp

Another feature place that I frequent from uni, is the photocopy shop infront of Medan Selera. A tiny lil' shop that was only known to me in my 2nd year, I've always approached this shop to meet my photocopying needs. That said, this place is by far more efficient that the Indian shop in the cafeteria or the library's own photostat shop.

3 cents, how can you beat that? Actually its 3cents for 500 pages, normally you'll get 5 cents per page.

A really peculiar use of the word 'Amoy'

Wall of frames

After a whole day's worth of studying, it was off to Pyramid for me and Kat. Went there to watch X-Men 3. It was pouring as we were about to leave but fortunately it ligtened up enough for us to make a quick exit. Had dinners at Dave's Deli before catching the show. The movie wasn't all that good as I hoped it would be. Rather disappointing to see the hype built by the first 2 movies being torn down. There were far too many flashy sequences and less on character development. People just pop up because fans want a worthy mention. By far, there were far too many characters that got such short screen time.

Was in uni on Saturday again. Trying to catch up with some work. But before I could settle down the guys were going off to Pyramid for lunch. Decided to tag along and ended up eating the most expensive bowl of noodles I've had so far this year.

The begining: Curry Noodles

The end

Dark clouds forming up in the evening. It rains often these days don't it?

Had dinner at the Curve on Saturday evening. Had it at Cafe 1920 since our earlier choice was full. The dinner crowd at the place was certainly surprising considering that the place is always deserted on weekdays. I guess what it lacks in variety for normal shopping, it makes up in terms of eateries.

A pic of a courtyard in Curve

The new cineplex is now open for viewing. The place is pretty empty. Like a big empty shell, looked like there's room for more shops to open. Just walked up to the cinema hall to take a look around. Certainly is bigger than the ones TGV has, currently TGV is coming out a the bottom of the cineplex race. I think GSC has significantly improved its establishment over the time TGV got complacent with its market leading place. But with the introduction of this new group of cineplexes, it is certain that things will heat up.

Bleh, end of the market analysis section.