WACE!

Oh hai.
Like woah, I haven't posted anything for 2 months!
I'm not gonna blame Ausmat, but I'll blame myself.

Oh well, WACE is next week. I'd never thought I would hear myself say that so soon. But here I am, here's WACE. 50% of this massive course has been accomplished. And yeah, from January til October, results are quite satisfactory. Now, I just need to push ahead, push hard past the finish line. And then, come 29th December 2011, I shall hope to deliver good news.

News concerning my departure to my university of choice next February. Yes that's just a little over 3 months to go. I am excited, no doubt about that.

Fare thee well for now, non-existent readers of this blog of a bygone era. I shall leave youse with some entertainment

Pottermore (:

Well, I was selected for early access into Pottermore. And I got my welcome email like 4 days ago.
The best part about it so far is that I was sorted into Ravenclaw!!!!!!! WOOHOO!

Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure!

And, we are kicking all the other houses' butts in the House Championship. Go go go 'Claws!

Ahhh, I feel so proud to belong to this wonderful house of Hogwarts. (:

wesoexcited

We so excited that our desktop background has been changed.

3B

Second sem (actually third, but first sem was negligible) starts today! :D
But first, EE results are trickling in. So far, so good (I think la). I expected worse for Chemistry. But it turns out that your brain does strange things; it exacerbates bad things and plays down others that are fine. Probably a survival instinct. But, I still cannot believe I just lost 3 marks like that. 3 marks which was equivalent to 3% of EE. Alas, I take comfort in the fact that Chemistry EE was only 17% of 3A meaning 8.5% of internal marks and 4.25% of WACE course. Haha. So, 3 marks in Chem is...negligible as well?
Nevertheless, percentage has dropped, but Chem still remains as my first subject. (touch wood)

EALD is also fine. Just thank God I can bank on it to be my scoring subject. Hopefully 3B marks will only push my marks up further.

Maths 3C/3D? LOL. No comment. I am satisfied. Hopefully, scaling will be kind to me. Hopefully all those Curriculum Council documents and reports I read are true. Maths 3CD get a 30 mark increment. And scaled up, up and away. My advice for Maths; careless mistakes KILL. So, check check check. And leave everything in 4 decimal places of 5 or 6 or 83 decimal places just to be safe that the teacher can't penalise you.

Accounts and Bio tomorrow. Hoping for the best! I really need to score in these 2 subjects, especially ACF. I AM an accounting student, after all. Hopefully, my pseudo-confidence will turn out to be well placed conviction in my accounts EE paper. And I am prepared to fight for Bio. I don't care if it's not in our textbook. How many study guide questions can be solved by using the textbook ONLY?
And a polar bear still swims in cold water to cool itself down, REGARDLESS of whether the textbook states it or not. I tell you, logical and factual fallacies.

Bio task results should be out soon. It's always hard to score full marks for take-home assignments. Oh well, que sera sera, whatever will be, will be.

kthxbai

P/s I realised that I use a lot of Ausmat jargon. So, just pretend you know what I'm talking about la. Explaining the whole system of Ausmat takes about 30-40 mins, time I do not have at the moment.

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If I am blogging for the sole purpose of fulfilling my one post per month obligation, should I continue?

OF COURSE! >:D

Done with 3A (technically). Now time for FUN FUN FUN.

Movies to watch : Pirates of The Caribbean
                              Kung Fu Panda 2
                             X Men Origins.

Time to watch movies : Unavailable.

kthxbai

Exposure Effect

Sup my peoples. Notice the absence of blog post updates. This can be attributed to the increasingly atrocious nature of Ausmat. Being in Ausmat, takes real consistency. Gone are the days of SPM; fun fun fun fun for months on end, and only study crazily when exams are around the corner. Now, the steady flow of tasks keeps me on edge. Every task; must score MAXIMUM! Competition here is also insane. Well done, ranking-based Ausmat. Just brought out the best (and worst) in everyone. So, 99.95... Probably too much to ask. It's good to aim high, but not too high, especially when it is seemingly unattainable. Optimists might say otherwise, but they are the ones who will go into spiralling depression when all their goals are not achieved. Therefore, I'll try to keep my goal in the high 90s. All for the sake of Auckland, Otago, Canterbury.

Many people can't wait for Ausmat to end. Well, I think that time is flying fast past us as it is. It's already what? April? Yeah, I've already completed 53% of my time in Sunway, but talking qualitatively, it's only been about 35% done. :/

That brings me (or does it?) to my title. The exposure effect is a psychological phenomenon, whereby people tend to develop attraction to something or someone due to the element of familiarity. In the context of interpersonal relationships, it can basically be said that : the more you see/spend time with someone, the closer you get, and the more pleasing and likeable that individual appears. 


As a HSBC (Human Social Behaviourist), this may seem obvious enough, maybe to the point of this concept being tautology. However, deeper analysis to interpersonal relationships reveal startling results. For one; out of sight, out of mind.

So, where does this all bring us? Or bring me? If you want to forget someone, it doesn't help that you share multiple classes or meet each other 5 days a week. The exposure effect is just too strong for the bond to be broken. Therefore, one has to rely on the converse of the exposure effect. Hoping that 'distance makes the heart grow fonder' does not hold truth at all. Therefore, while the breaking of chemical (or interpersonal) bonds may exert a little pain at first, time will heal most things, turning the fresh wounds of this broken link into long forgotten, and disappearing scars that can be overlooked. Just like the scratch that Lampard ( cat, not the human) deployed on my hand. It is now fading. Although I remember Lampard when I see that scar, in 5 to 10 years, you probably will catch me saying "Scar? What scar? Lampard? Frank Lampard?"

And that is the exposure effect from the point of view of a HSBC.

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8

4 Love is always patient and kind; love is never jealous; love is not boastful or conceited,

5 it is never rude and never seeks its own advantage, it does not take offence or store up grievances.

6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but finds its joy in the truth.

7 It is always ready to make allowances, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.

8 Love never comes to an end. P/s I was wondering why this verse sounded so familiar. Turns out it was the passage that we used while playing pass the message game in SCSF.