YES I FINALLY FINISHED MY TRANSLATION I AM FREEEEE. (looks at exam preparation, nope)
Also, I took part in some Chinese story writing competition in Singapore and the results finally came out. I got second prize for the adult category YAYYYYYYYY. Time to celebrate with Ben&Jerry's

Translation

I've reached this stage of translation also known as 'I'm so fking tired because I spent the whole night on it and am still spending the rest of the 5 am morning on it', until I'm sort of mindlessly typing instead of actually thinking of what to type for my translation. It's as though my brain just stopped functioning and words just come out naturally. I must have reached the 'work through intuition' phase of late night work rush. But yessss 6 more pages and I would be doneeeee. Then I must take a few days to recharge. Fuck la still got finals to mug and one week is almost coming to an end.

Easter break and translation

My school term has ended and Easter break has started, which means there would be one month without lessons. While many people have gone travelling in other countries and such, I continued to stay in London, because I need to finish my translation work, and because my final exams start immediately after the break.
For those who were unaware, I took up a translation work from Singapore, where they throw me this 20k+ word language research paper and I'm supposed to translate it from Chinese to English. I have been slacking with the work, partly because I have tests and stuff in between, partly because I'm slacking :D But now that the deadline is approaching (like very very soon aka 2 days), I have been camping at the library and chionging the translation. I felt that if I really did camp at the library from morning till night I would probably have finished it in like 3 days or something. Just that in the day time I'm sleeping (lol) and I would slack all the way till night before deciding I should really start doing the work, so that's why my progress is still not optimal. I have done 32/44 pages already, well technically 32/42 because there are 2 pages of reference which I don't need to translate. But it felt as though it's being stagnating for quite some time already. Like yesterday I rushed around 8 pages and today I only did 5? So it felt like I was translating anything lol. I have resorted to starting from the back of the research paper instead so that I can feel better about it..
ANYWAYS TIME TO SLEEP I SHALL CONTINUE WITH THE REST TMR.