Pkchukiss – Reality Wine

These 2 weeks I have been concentrating my mind-blasts on 2 reports for my assignments. There’s a business operations management module that required us to identify problem areas facing a specific company, and another one about online gaming.

The trouble isn’t in finding things to write about. Singapore’s so hooked up on to the Internet that it’s easy to just open Firefox and search for the information on Google. The hard part comes right after you’ve gathered everything you wanted to write about. It doesn’t help that I’ve been over-trained by the JC system, and have a writing standard tighter than the school requires us to.

I fretted about using the appropriate words to convey the exact situation as I read in my sources. If anyone wants to blame my pickiness on something, try the hundreds of nuances that exists in the English language, which allows you to control the strength of your essay. It’s like making coffee that becomes expressos, or lattes (as well as the few hundred subtle variations in between).

I was quite satisfied with the fruits of my endless meddling, but I can’t help but notice that in the process of picking at nits in the reports, I had paid very little attention to the general scope of the essays. That’s something which can hurt a lot! Like a real General Paper essay, getting your little details right isn’t going to matter if the paper doesn’t answer the question asked in the project brief!

Also, I would have enjoyed the experience a whole lot better if I didn’t have other things to worry about simultaneously. A project for a programming module that’s worth 5 credit units is coming up. Deadline for the monster isn’t due for another month, if not for the fact that I have to go for my reservist that’s going to happen in December.

Two whole weeks of in-camp training is going to take away a lot of time from my school projects. The good news is that I won’t be missing a lot of school, since Mindef has kindly scheduled the obligation during the term break; but I can’t help but feel that this is another chore.

This blog post feels like a report of my situation in school, and I think it is a true reflection of my current state of mind right now. Now I’ve got to learn how to task-switch between report writing mode, and blogging mode.

To sleep now.

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