recently blogger looks weird. I dunno if it's just my computer, but on the posting page the toolbar with the add pictures, font size, font colour, bold etc buttons is missing. So I can't format my writing. Sucks. I don't know what's wrong. I'm having the same problem with both firefox and ie.

Anyway, the tormenting round 1A of bidding is over. I sat in front of the computer at 3PM and spent the next 2 hours staring at the screen, wondering what I should do, playing various scenarios in my mind... Bidding is such a torture. It's like psychological warfare, you know. Trying to figure out what other people are thinking so that you can secure a place for yourself. It sucks.

Anyway (again), if I'm going to take forensic science, that's going to leave me with very few points to bid for my fifth module. I had intended to take CL2280 Basic translation, but I'm not confident about securing that. And then I found out that I can bid for EC2102 Macroeconomics in round 1A. That's the start of my dilemma. Should I bid for EC now, then drop it if CL proves to be unpopular? I'd only be refunded half the points, though. If I were to choose between econs and sociology, which will I do? Given my hatred of GP, surely I will choose econs? But then EC2102 is an econs core module and won't it be suicidal of me to take it when I don't have A-level econs?!?! So I struggled really long and at 4.40PM, 20 minutes before the end of the closed round, I decided to put 800 points down for econs. Which is kind of ridiculous, considering the amount I used for my core modules.

The bidding results are as follows:
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Allocated Modules
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Module Code: CM3221
Module Title: Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy
Bid ID: B00002906084
Your Bid: 100
Winning Bid: 1

Module Code: CM3291
Module Title: Advanced Experiments In Organic & Inorganic Chemistry
Bid ID: B00002943464
Your Bid: 200
Winning Bid: 1

Module Code: CM3242
Module Title: Instrumental Analysis II
Bid ID: B00002945626
Your Bid: 500
Winning Bid: 1

Module Code: EC2102
Module Title: Macroeconomic Analysis I
Bid ID: B00002950027
Your Bid: 1000
Winning Bid: 906

906 points! My gawd! I was inwardly thinking how lucky it was I'd thought to add another 200 points on second thought, but I don't really know if it's a good thing or not that I got it. If I drop it I'll lose 453 points from my programme account. sianzzz

(edited @29Jul 3.27PM: found a soln on the blogger help forum. For firefox users hold down ctrl and press f5. It worked for me =) )