Good days and bad days.

Ok, yesterday was a unbelievably good day. I had a epiphany, an adventure early in the morning, followed by an excellent Insurance lecture. This guy is like having a guest lecturer twice a week. He talks about almost nothing except what is currently going on in industry in HK. I then listened to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern talk about climate change (not that inspiring but he is my first economist-blueblood), I didn't register and sneaked in, but of all the luck, sat next to a Prof from Champs Trophy's friends, so now have another contact in HK. I managed to finish my assignment in record speed, then went to the Charisma thing, then found out that I managed to get over the crazy 87% average in Derivatives midterm (yay!!!!) and the whole day was topped off with a fancy high table dinner, listened to Stanley Ho and Raymond Chan, two really rich guys in HK, and had a fun tipsy run afterwards.

Today is resolutely a bad day. It begun bad in the wee hours of the morning, when I found out that due to my desire to score some airpoints, my perfect Chinese New Year's flights to NJ are booked out. Then, the stupid computer system (or perhaps my network connection) was experiencing problems that didn't allow me to book! So I need to try again now.

Also today, I have to sit through two sets of two hour lecturers by boring guys. Torture. Couldn't concentrate. Just soo.....boring!! Monetary econ is irrelevant to say the least. It's just too theoretical!!! It's all stale thinking from like 30 years ago(at least). I don't think it's very directly applicable to life. I mean, it probably is, but you probably need to do a hell of a lot of work to make it do so. I knew this, but I decided to take it because 1. I get credits and 2. I thought it would help me understand central banking. Well 1 is definitely true. As for 2. . . I know CBers know this theory and might even discuss it, but I think the world is too unpure. They are motivated more by politics. So who gives a ****? I'm being cynical. It's probably useful.

As for derivatives. Reminds me of maths lectures. Complete with guy with easy to tune out chinese accent, and unimaginative style of teaching. Sometimes it seems that he is up there in the dark (he turns off the front of room lights, it's like a reverse movie theatre) talking to himself about this stuff. There is not really much to lecture about. This plus this equals that. Sub that into this and you get this. Then use this to derive that by rearranging. I passed out for around 20mins and then tuned out for the rest of the hour. I feel bad, but it was really hard.

Could this all stem from my lack of sleep yesterday? I shouldn't have gone running late at night, instead, should have just gone to sleep and left all this to today.

Because, I think I just twisted my ankle walking down the stars in Chong Yuet Ming. Embarrassing!!!!!! Spilt my Starbucks all over the steps too, but I totally wanted to get out of there fast. I don't even know how that happened. I think it may be in my best interests to just go back right now and pass out on my bed. Oh, but I need to do grocery shopping. . . no fresh fruit. Should I do that tomorrow? No because I'm doing real shopping tomorrow and applying for my China visa (yes, I need to apply to go home).

I also wasted crazy amounts of time having lunch. One bowl of noodles, hungry, then desert, then drink, then went to buy tape, then went to library, no computers, then no cash, then atm, then no octopus cash. . . I think I have wasted around 2 hours running around being inefficient today. I really think it's the lack of sleep. I didn't know this kind of thing was so important! Will get to bed early tonight. My goal to raise my efficiency has worked somewhat. I am more efficient, just not efficient enough. Will keep trying day by day. Hopefully, by the end of this exchange, I'll be a machine.

Also, I've been thinking about my academic overaverageness. It really is very unfair. I mean, I do less work, and do better than a lot of my peers. Derivatives was an all night cram. I did no prior study. I feel bad. And I wonder if this will come back and hit me later on in life. Hopefully not. I am aware of this danger, so I will look out for it. I don't think that this is a big deal. And am very humble about my geeky achievements. I mean in the end, all of it has no practical value. I may as well spend my time solving problems that really impact real people rather than focusing on how to beat my peers in the next assessment and pass that stupid high average.