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edwin pwnz all

The next time u see edwin pls remind him of this quote:

A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim
--George Santayana

Then ask him whether he's managed to finish his entire maths tys (minus particle mechanics) in 48 hours worth of study time afterall. because today whilst we were in the library that was what he was trying to do, despite our constant chiding that perhaps it wasn't wise to do questions older than him with words such as find the (biffidective??sth like that) on the first page of functions, or our reminder that if he could do the whole thing in 48 hours, there wasnt any need to do it at all.
As a counterexample i shall quote myself, and more strikingly uglen, as people that will not finish the tys any time soon despite overwhelming proof we do need to try. however my strategy is to do papers instead which is a better way of doing less. but anyhow edwin interspersed persuading himself to continuing on with his ridiculous task with complaining

about his conduct on his report slip. which was fairly ridiculous because he kept complaining how he should deserve excellent conduct instead of very good. despite how nobody, seriously, cares too much about it. we tried to tell him the benefits of cost benefit analysis(no benefit of changing, high possible cost of screwing urself up) however he continued complaining about it, however i guess our advice was taken better this time because i dont think he actually tried to do twist his ct's arm into changing the conduct.

reminder that this is all done in edwin's excellent gp english style which made the whole thing sound quite funny. the climax was probably when he finally complained that he wasnt able to study(ie do his tys)with all of us and hence moved over to the other table to engage in his own intellectual marathon with the book.

so anw we(wang and i, and im sure the ppl at e other table wld have) were making comments on how stupid t1 ppl were. but a short while later we were forced to swallow our words when this other person showed up which made edwin's behaviour seem well, smart. no prizes for guessing- the dude we're talking abt here is kaiyang.

so anw, ky was super enraptured by these new blue chairs the library purchased, which were especially cool firstly because they were a bright blue, secondly because they had metal feet, and thirdly because they have that mechanism which lets u jerk the seat up and down like u can do in a swivel chair. somehow he got the idea that potent combination of elements turns the chair into some cross between a toy and a weapon. come to think of it, there might not be too great a difference. but anw he was doing stuff like pulling the crank whilst his friend was on the chair to make the chair go down, lifting the chair up and doing dunno what with it, or sitting on it, setting it spinning with him on it, and pulling the crank so he wld spiral down towards earth. then he wld go to us with this damn pleased look on his face and saying stuff like 'ehhh the chair is damn cool la'(ok i might have gotten the quote wrong but tt's e main gist of it.)

posted by horse @ 8:34 PM