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Hi friends,
For those of you who have come into contact with me via Pantip, you may already know that this is not my first blog; it is my second (or perhaps, my third). But it is the first one created in English. Well, what exactly impelled the creation of this blog? Why is English the medium of communication here, when my mother tongue is Thai?
Well, to answer the first question, I must keep you informed of my plan to battle the GRE, and for me, the most formidable section of the exam is the AWA, the writing part. (Damn, it has a 30-minute time constraint!) Because an escape from the section is not an option, I will have to practice, practice, and practice. The idea of having a blog as a mini-battlefield then arose, and now that idea is being put into reality. (PPol_USs blog, in fact, is also a true inspiration.)
Up to this point, the second question may not need a detailed reply; the answer is embedded in the preceding paragraphI need to practice my writing in English.
So, I welcome you all to the mini-battlefield of mineand do hope that you enjoy your visits. Comments, feedback, and greetings are strongly encouraged, of course. And thank you.
4/26/06
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Perhaps, I wrote my previous entry--unconsciously. Or, perhaps, the fact that I am about to elaborate absconded itself from my mind, refusing to be caught.
Why? Because I left out another "formidable section" of the GRE, the Quantitative.
Besides writing, math presents itself as another archenemy of mine. (In fact, the list of my GRE archenemies would be far from complete without appending the Verbal to it. Sentence Completion, analogy, antonym--all are impassable. So I wonder now if my combined scores would ever touch 600 ?!)
For several weeks, I had been postponing studying the Q. Well, just a glance over the numbers and the charts was enough to drowse me, let alone other knotty calculations and equations. Numbers and I are antithetical. We wont mingle.
But, for some reason, I finally woke up to a realization that I must attack it, the math. My plan was to construct a new brain for math, brick by brick, beginning with the easiest one. (Well, was there really the easiest one for me? Algebra was what I chose, however.) Hell, at this point, I realized that all basic math concepts had been completely drained out of my brain: my calculation of "100 minus 87" equaled something else other than 13, and I sucked at, among others, probability and percentage.
The only thing that had always stayed with me was my stupidity. Stupid. Ity.
But, anyway, once the two weeks reviewing period had passed, I felt a better grasp at some math major concepts.
But, I was deceived, or I deceived myself. The Barron's diagnostic test was the barometer of my incompetence. The five minutes I squandered on the first question of the test proved futile, yielding no satisfactory result. You may ask, "What about the second and the subsequent ones? How did you do?" And I must reply, "Is the answer not clear to you?"
How many more miles do I have to travel to pick up all the GRE math concepts? One more month? Two? Three? Four? Who knows?
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I very appreciate that you consider me as your inspiration to write something in English! Actually, I confess that your English skills are far better than me. I have tried to write something in English because I need to practice writing because there are many language obstructions I subjected to at present. You know this is my third year that I have to study, speak, write or communicate in English; I realize that I am poor guy and I need more practices.
I, infact, create my blog to record some worth memorial events which revoke my happiness in the future. I am positive that when I am older and older, it would be much easier for me to forget those valuable events regardlesss bad or good one!
For this reason, if I were you, I would have not deleted what I have already written sir! Why did you erase your Thai articles sir?
P.S. Good luck for your GRE examination sir!