Surprises

Some surprises are good and others, bad. Today we had a pop quiz in my communication history and theories class. The worst thing is I have not done the readings for the week. Bad surprise. I 'tigam' my way through the quiz. And when Dr. D went through the answers, I am surprised that I managed to answer most of the questions correctly. Good surprise. Today was a pretty good day in school anyway. Instead of the usual broadcast journalism class filled with videos of news clips, we had a 'live' (read: huge cameras, bright lights and autocue) forum with the NTU Student's Union. It was quite fun, reminding me of one of those forums with the ministers that was aired on CNA some time ago. Fliming for BJ was quite funny today. We were getting some shots in the school library and captured some of the muggers' attention. I even heard a guy asking another: "Ta men shi zhuo shen me de?" (What are they doing?) "Mass comm de" (Mass comm students la) "NTU you mass comm?" (You mean there is a mass comm course in NTU?) "Han la..." (Yes, or literally where-have-you-been-you-moron? =P) Funny huh. They do not look like first year students to me. To think that our presence in the school is not felt. Hello?! Where do you think you get your Chronicle from? Nanyang Spectrum? Are we marginalised? Just because our school is so far away from the main academic spines? School has been crazy really. Assignments and assignments. I have not set time for revision just as yet. Terrible I know, but for now, I just want to 'relac one corner la'. I have no discipline to study now, not until my assignments are all done. But I think that is too late. =(