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Alrightyy my midsession exams are overr =D

April 28, 2007 at 12:15 pm · Filed under General, university

Well, yay. My midsession exams are over! =D
On Tuesday? Accounting was… hard. 40 questions in 1 hour wasn’t particularly good. I know I got 3 questions wrong because they repeated the exact same question section from a past paper. Of course, that past paper wasn’t released publicly >_> Geez. Talk about unfairness. Well… moving away from thaat.

Friday was Microeconomics and QMA. Meep. Two exams.
Microeconomics? That was a cram session. The one I worried most about yet appears to be okay. At least.. in comparison to accounting. I feared that the rather minimal amount of tutorial work wasn’t enough.. but I guess my lecture notes were good enough that I understood most of it..

Quantitative Methods A aka. financial maths? Well I hope it follows my pattern in the quizzes. Which is getting only one question wrong or full marks xD

And yesterday, after all the exams.. my net was down for 20 hours till about 11 now. =( Aww.

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ANZAC Day. Lest we forget.

April 25, 2007 at 12:51 am · Filed under General, Musings and Thoughts

“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.”

ANZAC Day. For most Australians, its just a day to relax. A public holiday to get away from school/uni/work; or in my case, certain IR lectures which just so happen to be about war and war tactics of the Cold War *yawn*. Suppose that follows Does it even have any meaning now other than the old folks marching through to commemorate the dead soldiers from war eons go?

I suppose, there was a post at a forum just makes me question why as well. ANZAC day is indeed greatly focused on WWI. But that stage is over already… the last active soldier died two years ago. I suppose there’s now two perspectives. Ironically, my IR essay was on WWI, so in my post reply I covered some bits of it.

I suppose, Australia participated in the war only because Australia wanted to support Britain because it was considered the mother country back then *rolls eyes* Also there was all the fear of the German “huns”, and etc. etc. Wouldn’t mind a republic nowadays. Of course, then it’ll be a USA wannabe. Guess you lose out both ways.

World War I started because Germany was fearful of the imperialism of Britain, and France; and the fact that all the world’s resources were being centralised upon Britain, France, USA which was already becoming the economic power that it was today, and also there was fear of the growth of Russia and Japan after the Russo-Japanese war. It was a failure of the alliance systems originating from the balance of power pacts in the Westphalia treaty — but you don’t need to know that.

Austria-Hungary’s archduke Franz Ferdinand got killed by a Serbian nationalist. Austria was allied to Germany and appealed to them for help. Serbia was allied to Russia.

Thus Germany declares war on Russia and then on France because Russia and France were allies. Germany starts off the war to fend off France by invading Belgium to read France due to the Schlieffen Plan.

Belgium was neutral territory and a treaty made it allied to Britain who then came in. And from that, Britain made its colonies get involved and Australia was just colonised around a century before then and had lots of dependence on Britain.

^ My reply.

EDIT: Since I’m too busy cramming… here’s some new procr-art-ination. ShiniOMAKE =D
Made completely vector art…yea.

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