Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Under pressure - Queen
"Except that when i get to doing what i have to do; i have the tendency to panic, sweat, my heartbeat rate increases..."
That's wat one of me mates posted on her blog recently.
That statement struck me for 2 reasons:-
1. I never knew that about her!!!
2. Hey, she just described me!
Yup, tt's me. I get worked up (i.e. panic attacks!) over very small things. I guess this has to do wif 2 things about me - I'm a born worrier (perhaps bordering on paranoia at times) and I procrastinate (which causes me to worry more!).
Yet, having said all that, I must say oso that I work well under pressure!!!! (Perhaps, it's becuz I only work when I'm under pressure???)
Take for example a couple of weeks ago. I set meself a target that by Sunday that week, I'd come out wif an outline for the foundation essay that I have to do.
The problem was that come Sunday nite, after another one of our "midnite meal" sessions, we (Michael, Yuki, Alberto & me) just sat around chatting away. Before we knew it, it was around 3 am!!!!
By the time I got back to me room, cleaned-up, had me shower, it was pretty late and I was dropping off to sleep. But I made meself sit in front of the laptop and typed out an outline - which I did in less than 10 minutes - and which I must say impressed even meself!!!!!
*beams wif pride*
The problem is that that was the last piece of work til now that I had done regarding me foundation essay. The essay is due this Friday and I haven't started doing it yet. It did not help when I discovered that the length of the essay is "not more than 2,500 words" instead of "not more than 6,000 words" which I thought it was initially!
On top of it all, this foundation essay DOES NOT COUNT AT ALL for my Masters degree. It will not be taken into account - not even 1% of me overall mark!
Now how can one find the motivation to do such an essay?
Still, it is a requirement that I must DO it.
Michael gave me some sort of pressure last nite when he looked genuinely worried and said it was difficult to do a 2,500 word essay in 2 days!
But it din help this morning when I discovered that 2,500 words is only 5 pages on a normal Word document! A mere 5 pages!!!!!!! Look at me posts below - I can blog for 5 pages easily! ;-P
So here I am, wif Wednesday almost half gone. Instead of starting me essay, I'm blogging. Last nite, I was watching a few episodes of 24.
I was telling Michael that if I finish it by Thursday, I'll prolly go watch Harry Potter on Friday. He said he doubts it and that I'll prolly only hand in me essay at 3:55 pm on Friday (5 mins before the dateline at 4 pm!). This is coming from someone who has known me for less than 2 months!
Oh well.... Nope, I dun feel the presssure yet. But I'll start soon. No worries. I work well under pressure (ok, ok that sounds like an excuse for procrastination but lemme live in my fantasy... for another few more minutes, at least!).
That's wat one of me mates posted on her blog recently.
That statement struck me for 2 reasons:-
1. I never knew that about her!!!
2. Hey, she just described me!
Yup, tt's me. I get worked up (i.e. panic attacks!) over very small things. I guess this has to do wif 2 things about me - I'm a born worrier (perhaps bordering on paranoia at times) and I procrastinate (which causes me to worry more!).
Yet, having said all that, I must say oso that I work well under pressure!!!! (Perhaps, it's becuz I only work when I'm under pressure???)
Take for example a couple of weeks ago. I set meself a target that by Sunday that week, I'd come out wif an outline for the foundation essay that I have to do.
The problem was that come Sunday nite, after another one of our "midnite meal" sessions, we (Michael, Yuki, Alberto & me) just sat around chatting away. Before we knew it, it was around 3 am!!!!
By the time I got back to me room, cleaned-up, had me shower, it was pretty late and I was dropping off to sleep. But I made meself sit in front of the laptop and typed out an outline - which I did in less than 10 minutes - and which I must say impressed even meself!!!!!
*beams wif pride*
The problem is that that was the last piece of work til now that I had done regarding me foundation essay. The essay is due this Friday and I haven't started doing it yet. It did not help when I discovered that the length of the essay is "not more than 2,500 words" instead of "not more than 6,000 words" which I thought it was initially!
On top of it all, this foundation essay DOES NOT COUNT AT ALL for my Masters degree. It will not be taken into account - not even 1% of me overall mark!
Now how can one find the motivation to do such an essay?
Still, it is a requirement that I must DO it.
Michael gave me some sort of pressure last nite when he looked genuinely worried and said it was difficult to do a 2,500 word essay in 2 days!
But it din help this morning when I discovered that 2,500 words is only 5 pages on a normal Word document! A mere 5 pages!!!!!!! Look at me posts below - I can blog for 5 pages easily! ;-P
So here I am, wif Wednesday almost half gone. Instead of starting me essay, I'm blogging. Last nite, I was watching a few episodes of 24.
I was telling Michael that if I finish it by Thursday, I'll prolly go watch Harry Potter on Friday. He said he doubts it and that I'll prolly only hand in me essay at 3:55 pm on Friday (5 mins before the dateline at 4 pm!). This is coming from someone who has known me for less than 2 months!
Oh well.... Nope, I dun feel the presssure yet. But I'll start soon. No worries. I work well under pressure (ok, ok that sounds like an excuse for procrastination but lemme live in my fantasy... for another few more minutes, at least!).
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