Computational Linguistics

Or, That's Just The Way We Roll

Or, 恭禧发财 , 新年快乐 / 恭禧發財 , 新年快樂

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This would have been the third post of this year (not the Lunar New Year, this would have been the first for that anyway), but I cbf'd actually getting the older ones up.

 

In any case, we (i.e. Jim, Han & myself) are the 5th Ruse team to enter the Australian Computational & Linguistics Olympiad, due to be held on 23/2. We're currently (at time of writing) waiting on our potential fourth memeber to become the actual fourth member. (At time of writing, this means you, Tancred.)

 

Also, school is exciting; I have a pile of maths homework to do, not to mention Intuition homework; and I need to go to Officeworks, dammit.

 

Also, the prefects gave out Ricebowl, the prefect newsletter, today after "sports" assembly in the hall in the red packets they were giving out. Also, they had two lucky candy per packet. And snowcones at lunch. Very cool.

 

Then, I went to my grandma's place (Mum's mum, the one that's alive) and had dinner.

Then we found a giant-ish huntsman in the room, but I made Mum put it outside.

 

How to tell if you've had too many almonds and/or too much tea:

• You start drawing links between Doctor Who and "The Human Condition". Or, to heck with it, Doctor Who and "Remittance Man" by Judith Wright. (Probably too much tea and looking at the song name that was playing - go on, take a wild guess as to which song it was.)
• One finds oneself awake at 3:30 AM on Friday morning, blogging via email. (Really, this is the only way I get this blog done.)
• I felt inclined to actually sit through some episodes of Mum's Cantonese drama series. (It helped that there were so much backstabbing going on in just the one family.)
• You start analysing the music that's playing. (It's Doctor Who incidental music from the score, every piece has a anvillicious meaning. That's the point of the score, you know.)
• You need French vanilla-covered almonds/tea/energetic music to keep you up.
• You start contemplating how, exactly, one you go about writing an essay that proves that Doctor Who is actually a very, very good example of analysing "The Human Condition".
• Maths helps you stay awake.
• You cbf actually finding a blue pen to replace the dying one, even though it's in the bag on the chair next to you. No, on the side that's further.
• Your eyes feel weird and look at things strangely.
• You cbf extending & finishing a list of what you do instead of sleep. Two parts of a question to go!