5 posts tagged “finals”

yes yes yes yes... YES!!!!!11!!!1!!11!!!11!

the exams have finally ended.. not exactly on a positive note, but then again, any news of exams ending is instrinsically positive in any case..

need to work hard in the summers and be the behemoth that i want to become.. !! grrr@!

'free at last.. free at last.. thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'

its taken a whole lifetime for the past 8 days to pass.. but finally, my exams are officially over and i enter ceremoniously into the long and hopefully sumptuous quarter break.. a 12 day quarter break.. our lot, the feeble weak undeserving recipient of the benevolence of lums.. this last paper wasnt too bad.. however, i did learn that i got an A- in pak studies.. wouldve been much better if i scored a bit more on a few quizzes, but chelo, whats done is done.. now we may only move forward.. to infinity and beyond.. and all that jazz

finally.. the calculus 1 exam..

to be honest, i didnt think it was too bad till i got out.. the funny bit is that the questions i had no clue about ended up being the ones i attempted pretty much the right way and i made silly errors in the easy ones..

anyways, the mean is going to be really low.. or so i hope..

chelo.. at the very least, i wont have any of that to deal with till next year.. there would be probability but i guess thats much better than calculus..

next year, multivariate cal a la calculus 2.. i am so not looking forward to it..

now i only have political philosophy to deal with and then a long quarter break.. the real dillemma is, who do i deal with first in the break.. faulkner, chaucer or faiz? :\

the reason why i didnt post anything here for some time was simply that i didnt really have anything to talk about.. not that i talk about useful stuff otherwise, but i dont know.. nothing..

coupled up with this, i was also waiting to bump into (my beliefs almost always seem ridiculous to myself) the pictures of the rare event in my life recently that was an end within itself (for a change, in this ocean of sorts of permutations).. the match against bahria.. i would ve liked to post something here about it (something more than that crappy little injury-ravaged post).. but now king kairos has bereft us of his blessings..

other than that, its all the same.. angsty teenage existentialism (i wont be able to use this phrase for long.. technically, my teenage has ended since this is the 20th year of my existence, but i prefer to stick to, or rather more appropriately, clutch desperately onto 'nineteen') and hedonistic temptations (that would normally constitute heresy for me) are the order of the day for most teenagers.. i certainly am no exception to the rule though.. needing a vacation from morality and summersaulting into our guilty pleasures.. who is to say that I havent already done that? well, by-definition, these things have to be fulfilling (albeit temporary fulfillment, but fulfillment nonetheless) but i feel tugged back by things, hence, i havent done anything yet.. this situation can be interpreted otherwise by a morose observer as us having the illusion of us having morality.. its our guilty subconscious that has staged this grand facade.. i like to think i m an intuitionist though and hence i plead my innocence in front of this imaginative observer.. however, even that claim can be falsified through some sort of adlerian psycho-analysis.. that though, is not the point..

the point is.. the vacation.. our shot of hedonism.. our 'pilgrimage'; every sin absolved after that since we would then be perpetually devoid of temptation (in principle.. and that is our original honest intention).. is there any room for it in ones life when intuition tells us it isnt bad? but isnt it intuition alone that pegs us back as well? oh well.. one thing is for sure though: the deliberation of the ancient greek contention 'if you know the good, you ll do the good' has grown quite teh senile.. i might post more later..

the good discoveries of late in my life have been the re-emergence of sting's 'brand new day' (a childhood favourite of mine by the way) and some of parov stelar's work (credit has to go to arsalan for this.. thanks)..

but sting's songwriting on that album is quite unbelievable.. the lucidity with which he portrays the whole emotional faculty of our brain while still maintaining the innocence in the sound is something that you do not see that often..

(8) take me where the red wine flows (8)

incidently, with my obsession of every thing unreal under the sun these days, the only thought i get in my mind when i listen to that line (infact, that whole portion of the song where the princess pleads for the thief to take her away with him) is that that single line can so simply express all my apparent illogical fascination of magic realism.. i just want an escape.. sigh

oh, and final exam week up next..

so i just came back from the airport.. it really is a place where you can see a whole range of differing emotions accross the spectrum.. people eager when going somewhere temporarily.. people ending their temporary visits and taking their departure with a pinch of salt.. couples going to their promised land leaving all their woes behind permanently.. people going back knowing that they are not going to see a few familiar faces for a significant amount of time, the emotions manifest themselves in their smiles; the sadness, self-evident.

and then there was the departure of kanwal api, babar bhai and subha.. going to australia, temporarily, albeit for a significant amount of time.. now fridays and sundays wont be that special anymore..

in other news, the sports season is fully under way and it seems like the sports calender has taken a life form of its own, turning into this canon firing on all cylinders.. or whatever it is that fires on all cylinders.. i mean theres the pakistan south africa series, theres the australia-new zealand-england series, theres the super 14s and then the six nations is coming up.. ofcourse, there are the usual culprits; the premiership.. the champions league second phase (and may i add, a very interesting fixture list we have here.. its going to be popcorns galore.. i dont care about the 'burn more calories than you eat' anymore, no wait, i do.. no i dont.. *looks at stomach*.. no i do.. :\)..

so you can pretty much see why i m excited..

in local news, my stamina has really gone up.. god they make us run hard :|

the fixture against bahria is up next sunday so we even have a practice sunday afternoon.. i hope i m in the thick of things..

apart from that, the final exams are coming up.. i totally fucked my calculus mid term but the quiz marks arent as bad as i first thought (after taking in consideration the low mean) but whatever, they still suck.. this quarter is going to be really hard for me academically.. i have to study somehow! *sobs*