2 days before Valentine's

TF2 Machinima in the making. Sadly, nothing really original. By anybody.

The modules I'm doing in school currently:

Psychology
Normal undergrads have much more time to finish this but the DPA studs are coping fine.

A creativity module
This one is a big joke. It's pop psychology and secondary/primary school level motivational stuff. Even the lecturer seems less mature than us.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
NLP is pop psychology, pseudoscience that holds no water outside of the common rabble that also suscribe to the likes of Adam Khoo and thousands of other motivational schools of thought. it's all about how certain people are programmed to be more responsive to sound and move their eyes upwards when they're visualising, and other crap like that.

Yoga
Guess what? More pop psychology. To the Indian instructor's credit, he's witty and soothing enough to sell it.


My social investments aren't doing so well. I've been cutting back on the initiative to speak up, since I really don't usually have much I can discuss with other people. Or I'm too slow. Or I can't find anything to say and say dumb things instead (I've realised that I'm confined to sex jokes). Better to have a reputation for being quiet than for being stupid.

On the academic front, things are fine. My 899-word psychology essay came back today. The class did very badly; my lecturer assured them that the first few assignments always screw up. I got a 93% score.

Confirmed with my NLP lecturer that pretty much every module counts toward this year's GPA score, which will in turn make up my final result at the end of polytechnic. I don't remember bothering to think, much less plan for O Levels when I began Secondary School. I should be able to stay top of my course, provided I can find a strategy for group projects.

Presentations occur almost daily. It's a struggle.
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So I was talking to Vonterul yesterday. The conversation meandered from subject to subject - it happens when conversing with anyone I have a steady friendship with. The dialogue simply shifts without anyone noticing too much. (Now I'm thinking that this shouldn't be limited to just close friends; but my social skillz...)

How many times have I, through a project or event or a group, met someone and established rapport with, only for us to forget each other when the project or event or group is over and done with? Some stick around. Some people are more than just fellow students you can joke with.

For a day or so, I was seriously considering asking JJ out. Overload of initiative, again. I've been talking too much, wanting too much.

But JJ and Vont are keepers.