Freaky coincidence again?

Ok, I swear I had no idea it was Freddie Mercury's birthday today until I Youtubed 'Don't Stop Me Now' last night, and then only after I looked at it again after chucking it on my blog. Weird thing is, it wasn't even a random compulsion that drove me to Youtube the song. On my laptop, my screensaver pops up with all the album covers of the music that I have in iTunes.

Really cool.

Anyway, they made it stupid with the new operating system, so that when you move your mouse, the screensaver doesn't go away. No. It does much more than that.

It lets you click the album, and it plays!

Pretty cool, except for the fact that you can't get rid of the screensaver by moving your mouse.

But I digress. What happened was that I accidentally clicked on the album, 'Jazz', by Queen. And the only song I have from that album is, of course, 'Don't Stop Me Now'. And at the time, I thought, huh, crazy coincidence, good motivating song for the upcoming week from hell.

But this, this is some next-level crazy coincidence. Lots of weird coincidences happened back in my high school days - we'd talk about something random and obscure in class, and the next day it'd be in the mX - but this just takes the cake.

Anyway, I guess all that's left is to wish Freddie Mercury happy birthday. Happy birthday, Freddie Mercury.

Word of the Day: Mercury

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Je commence un nouveau semester avec l'examen francais

May or may not be grammatically correct, but roughly translates to "I have started a new semester with a French test." Which is not technically correct, but I don't know how to say "term" in French. Come to think of it, I don't think "semester" is the correct word for semester in French. But this is also a moot point, as today was neither the first day of a new term or a new semester. I don't know what they call it at uni. I'll settle for "first day back from mid-sem break." 

I did actually have a French test today. But it was ridiculously overhyped, like Jay Chou coming to Sydney, Windows Vista, and see-through glass toasters (so your toast can be toasted to the optimum level of browness. Alas, it can only do one piece of toast at any given moment. So really, you'd need two toasters to reach the optimal level of awesomeness. But I digress.) It was really easy. The main thing I'm worried about is whether I accidentally read "dress" as being "skirt," and accordingly stuffed up the translation to French.

Next up is the marketing midsem on Thursday. I think the most important thing to remember in marketing is that YouTube is full of weird and funny ads. You just need to know which keywords to type in.

Word of the Day: first day back from mid-sem break