Mad rush

Went to Tioman on the 23rd of March for my Biology field trip. Not exactly a relaxing trip seeing as we're there to work, work, and work. Snorkeling, while fun, wasn't exactly doing anything for me seeing as without my glasses, I couldn't really see anything. Richard, our group leader, would point at something and go "Did you see what I pointed at? It was [insert name here]". Everyone would nod and understand, while I'd nod knowing what he was talking about, and explaining, but not seeing a damn thing.

The hike up the forest was rather tiring, but at least it's better than the climb up Mt.Merapi in Sumatra. Didn't help that I got stomach ache when we reached our second survey site. Other things of note was that the food there was awesome, and we generally had fun.

Got back to Singapore on the 27th, and two days later, it's back to Malaysia again. I didn't return to Segamat, just stayed in Seremban at my grandmother's place. Lots of relatives came back, but other then talking to each other, only thing to do there was to spectate quarrels between my grandmother and a mentally ill aunt of mine. Amusing, but noisy.

Mad rush of work to do when school started again on the 12th of April. Still ongoing, I think. Now that we're nearly at the mid-year point, all the Internal Assessment pieces are piling up, with deadlines looming, but it's all under control.

Got a Acer S243HL monitor, it's not the best out there, but for what I paid for (about S$325, price in Singapore is about S$500), it's pretty much what I want (HDCP support on HDMI port). So now, I can play PS3 in my room~! Like the reviews would tell you if you bothered to read them, the contrast on this thing isn't really good, causing the picture quality to be rather inferior, but it CAN be fixed. There's automatic setups for things like the contrast, colour and brightness, but they don't work that well. I spent around 30 minutes messing around with the settings until the picture quality matched that of my TV's.

Didn't buy Final Fantasy XIII, but my cousin did. So when he went to Australia with his family to attend his brother's University graduation ceremony and for vacation, I borrowed the game from him, and finished it within two weeks, the duration of his trip. Basically, I just got the game, sat down whenever I had free time, and rushed the heck out of it. That's not to say I blindly rushed through the game's plot, I did do some sidequests and grinded a fair bit. Not as bad a game as some would claim, but just doesn't really feel like a Final Fantasy game.

This post is running a bit too long now yeah?