Eat Outside Day
2004-08-31 @ 11:09 p.m.

Finished PW survey at last and uploaded it! Have got about half a dozen responses so far, so if you add a zero at the back, that's 60% of our targeted sample size covered. French paper today wasn't too bad, though I've already found two careless mistakes, which are really dumb because I changed them after I reflected on the question for about 15 minutes. What does this prove? Trust your intuition. Thinking is subordinated to feeling! Silas Marner is just cropping up everywhere these days. It came up repeatedly during yesterday's heated debate over the merits or lack thereof in the two Frost poems we've looked at. Anyway, do you think an opinion is rendered valueless if there's no physical manifestation of it, or do all opinions have an intrinsic value, even if it's just for the holder of the opinion? I maintain that it's the latter, an issue which was also hotly contested yesterday. (To shut up would be so simple, and a lot less taxing mentally...)

Talk about coincidences. I hopped into a cab today with Eugene and Yi-Xun to head down to RI, and whose should I jump into buy my uncle's! So he didn't charge me for the ride, which was rather nice of him. He is, after all, earning a living. Now I'll never hear the end of it from my aunts though. They'll go on and on about my "extravagance" in taking a cab. Random fact: I have the telephone numbers for all the taxi companies stored in my handphone. The ride was awkward though, I had to check myself constantly, just in case I said anything that might filter back to my parents and cause a fuss. Going back to RI isn't quite as fun as going back to NYPS used to be. Ah well, next year all the teachers'll be right next-door. New strategy for skipping lectures and tutorials - hide in the RI campus and pretend you're on a break. I highly doubt the RI teachers will actually check back with their RJC colleagues.

In the interim period before Amethystium's and Lesiëm's new releases, I'm contenting myself with Download.com's lesser-known artists. What do you make of New Heaven New Earth, a project that bills itself as Christian dance? I'm sceptical about the religious slant, but it's definitely dance. Trying out some pop too, some dude by the name of Marcus. Oh, remember Vox Aeternus? I've found Tales 2 Tell, the one who provided lyrics and vocals for the Vox Aeternus project. Downloading that tomorrow, because I'm too lazy to do it tonight. All my ACIDplanet.com artists that I want to try out have been put on hold until November, because they're too prolific. Tomorrow, I will be extremely prolific myself, and churn out at least one essay. Yeah right...