Sunburnt on Tuesday, October 25, 2005
This
is my class D03 . Many told me that NUS is full of acquaintances and
yes i am sure this is pretty true. But i guess simple gesture by my
tutor, Steven halim who sat in the middle infront, made a little
difference to our life in uni. I remember each time before the actual
commence of tutorial discussion.(Computing by the way), he will tell us
some moral stories about studying in nus. We thought it was pretty
nonsensical. At the end, today is our last tutorial, and he asked us to
take a class photo together. Nobody would ever had done that if he
hadn't initiate anything. He even passed around a small slip of paper
which was his farewell letter to all of us. Pretty touched. Good tutor.
Hope my participation points are "there" already. Haha.I had done some
edits to the pic by the way. The original was pretty dull.
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Sunburnt on Monday, October 17, 2005
I hardly blog on a monday unless i am really tired and sick of studying. I am so happy that my physics lecturer is finishing his lecture by tmr. The rest will be revision lectures. Yeah.
My computing lecture today was really another mess up lecture. The lecturer was apparently rushing thru the lecture in his own choot train while leaving all of us behind. The worst was when he made remarks like " I am sure u guy s are smart enough to understand this..bla bla". Ugh ya right.
The pointers and sorting of the arrays had got me into a deep confusion that had me lost in my la la land again. 9 Nov is the practical exam. 1 hour 45min.It's pretty impossible to finish, some seniors said. At least juz submit some readable programming language to them isn't it.
Finally found the book i wan from queenstown library. TMr morning shall go down and see.
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Sunburnt on Saturday, October 15, 2005
I am blogging coz i am sick of facing my textbook. Yes, i noe it's pretty mundane to keep blogging about studies and stuff but that somehow we juz can't escape it ba. And as u noe, it's my nagging nature to grumble about how things shouldn't turn out the way they were.
Ya today at mentoring was another demeaning day when i nearly, nearly nearly wanted to give a tight slap to one of the student. A gal mind you. Someone as gentleman as me would wan to give a gal tight slap on the cheek.
Juz imagine this. I am suppose to wake up, at 830, reach there around 930. Coach them on their maths. In the end, this gal dropped her pen, asked me to pick it up. Use her pencil case and hit me on my head, push my head. While i was explaining to her, she refused to read the math's problem sum. She simply turn to the gal next to her and told her to stop doing the homework. I told her,"Can u stop being so rude?". She replied, "You think u very old is it, i am a student, u are also a student wat..".
Boy..am i pissed. But self-contained anger had really toned down the situation right there. I keep telling myself in the head that they are juz kids. I got the worse student in the class thats all. The rest were not as bad as them u see. The school passed to us a bunch self-proclaimed kings of kings when they are juz a speck of dust in a corroded flesh. Ugh.
Whatever happened to kids now i seriously dunno. Did we behave this way when we were kids?
Juz watched The Interpreter on DVD. Nicole Kidman was so qio man. I like her role inside, with such a mesmerizing name, Sylvia. Haha, wat a weird combination that she is matched with a veteran Sean Pean. I always adore Sean Penn's acting, esp Mystic River. Best of the best.
The story in the Interpreter was too political for me to fully comprehend wat the heck the whole plot is about. But i like Nicole's character inside.Sylvia.
How do u study with a throbbing headache right on ur temple.? Teach me how, with all the examination storms brewing all around you, with all the unpaid efforts for the past tests, with the race amongst some of ur best mates for best grades, will there ever be an tranquility?One month plus to go. We all can do it.
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Sunburnt on Sunday, October 09, 2005
If u remember i have 2 little cousins who were very naughty and always come over my place whenever my uncle came over to play mahjong. I juz heard of this story from my mum that is really funny.
Recently my uncle rented out his room to some M'sian guy. My uncle's wife, an indonesian, wasn't really a good wife. In the sense that she doesn't do much or provide much to the family though she was working. My uncle sometimes go and drink becoz he was stressed in making ends meet. My mum and my aunt confronted this lady and scolded her. She was typically those chao ah lian kind of changed a bit in his behaviour.
Ya as i was saying they rented their room to this M'sian guy. My uncle's wife went to work, as well as my uncle. Now, the 2 kids are left at home with some guy they dun really trust. So my uncle actually give a stern warning to the older sis, Weiling to stop watching tv in the living room whenever the guy is watching. SHe is fond of watching cartoons.
One day, as Weiling started to watch tv in the living room with the guy, his brother Alan(pri2) came out and shouted: " Oi, papa ask you don't watch tv with this stranger you don't know is it?". The guy turned a long black face after that. THen his sis went to tell my uncle about it. Wat a joke..kids ah..really..Sometimes they are so naive in nature. =)
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Yesterday at the bp mentoring was kind of hazardous. THe kids were especially disobedient yesterday. The primary six can play board games coz they had finished their PSLE. However, the p5 students had to have a 2-hour academic-based work for them, instead of the usual 1 hour mentoring,the other hour games. Apparently the kids were unhappy and couldn't concentrate and start to revolt. The indian chief from them,that violent and vulgar gal i told you about, Jinting, actually took lead and told the rest to stop doing those worksheets we gave them. Yikai, being the fiercest mentor among us and the only lawyer amongst us, start to shout at them to go back and do their work. I could tell he had already restraint much of himself. I think in the end Songning my president had to go get their teacher-in-charge, Mrs Lim.
The malay gal i was mentoring yesterday was quite ok, not as mischievous as the rest of them. SHe was doing all the stuff i was explaining to her. I start to realise how bad my english can be at times..haha.
I actually had to use sweet to coax them into doing their work, especially for this mentee called Perlin. Super rude.
After the whole session, Songning said perhaps next time in our recruitment drive we should put fierce as one of the criterion for being a mentor. He was also updating us on the status of acquiring independence for BP mentoring. As you might have known, this British Petroleum mentoring apparently are official CCAs in smu,ntu,RI,tjc...bla bla. The reason why BP mentoring currently in NUS had to be hidden under the hoood of Rotaract Club was due to some so-called feud.
Bp mentoring was first started in NUS in the 1990s. After a while, NUS alumni and CDAC politicians rallied and come together to form this SMP, student mentorship program. Orders from the NUS OSA ordered bp mentoring to shut down..
So now my president is trying to lias with the ppl at OSA..who seems to have a change of heart in their stand towards BP mentoring. After all, NUS student mentorship program had 100 over members..having us around , with barely 30 members isn't competition at all haha.
I LOVE YANG CHENG LING RAINIE!
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Sunburnt on Thursday, October 06, 2005
Realise that i had forgotten about blogging about that mentor of mine. Professor Lee Hoo Hay. My mentor from industrial and systems department. Last friday he told us he need to meet us on that day to juz talked about academic stuff. He even told us we could have macdonald over at his office. Erm..pretty shocked to have him offered that anyway.
When i reached outside his office at 12pm, he wasn't there. After a while i saw him coming out of the lift, with a load of macdonald on his hands...smiling away. That wasn't really what i thought of an associate prof anway.
Me and guoqing sat down with 3 more seniors(year4), and talked to him about alot of stuff. But mainly the year4s were asking him about career stuff, about consultancy firms, about PSA, about availabilty of any jobs which dispatched us to overseas training when we worked for them. Apparently prof Lee said he sometimes have to call up those graduates and asked them how come they haven found any job. Hmm he said he was responsible for their quick employment. Cool. Good.
Well..all he can tell me and Guoqing is to study hard, to maintain a profile so that the dean will noe which department is stronger and thus allocating the number of different classes of honours by year 4. Pretty apprehensive to hear that..well..no choice right.
May be i am crazy. The night before last i didn't sleep. I was working on the computing assignment that was released on 12am. Jordan,Guojun and i then started doing it, so that the next day lab we dun have to attend. I was doing it until 3 plus...then i realise i make a blatant mistake that i hadn't realised. In the end i have to re-do it.
Perfectionism, if ever this word exists, killed me right on that night then. My mum woke up for her work at 6am, saw me at laptop, asked me why i woke up so early to do my work. I told frankly that i haven slept. SHe quickly bring one chicken essence to me. My dad put it in warm water to heat it up first..pretty touched by their gestures.
My dad scolded me and asked me to go and sleep immediately. I slept at 7am. woke up at 1030. Went back to look the program. Still can't figure out where the bug was. I was super frustrated....coz i wasted the whole night in compiling a stupid scenario the tutor came out with. I in the end asked Jordan for help.. 11 left house coz i got tutorial in the afternoon. Wat a day that was.
Tired as i was, the chicken essence worked miracles on my emanciated physique. At least on the mentally side i was more awake, though my body was debilitating.
I knew that my parents were super concerned each time i came home from work. But i could only nod my head away whenever they talked to me. I was juz not in that good a mood to elaborate on my day. They have enough to worry of my brother in army.
Tmr got a talk on operations research,..year 1 advised to attend. Dunno why they held a "seminar" in a tutorial room. Where got enough space.
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Sunburnt on Tuesday, October 04, 2005
I am typing this coz i saw a comment that asked me to update.Haha juz kidding. Feeling as usual drained from today's lecture and bla bla.
Brother's exam is around the corner and he still got the nerve to use the desktop and use the phone all at the same time. Making big business huh.
My mum tried locking the room to my brother's. I told her that it's not a good way to stop him. Furthermore i stayed up late finishing my stuff till 12plus, so i might disturb his sleep if he sleep in my room. Juz in case u dunno he is sleeping my second brother's room now.
I pluck off all the wires and plug from the desktop juz now. I guess i can only resort to this way to stop him. I dun care what he thinks. I had enough of his nonsense. Enough of his stuck up attitude.Enough of picking up his phone calls. What's with him i really dunno.
Things seem to be a bit bleak for me. I dunno. I am juz trying my best to catch up with this choot-train and yet this train never seem to pause to at least let people alight or go toilet. More ppl juz board the train ..and things get out of control with cramped living conditions in a fast moving train.
Today i was on the bus with Yihao a fren of guojun from tj. We were like chatting non stop haha. May be coz we noe how long the ride was and we really need a topic to converse before we start dozing on the bus on someone's shoulders. Ya shoulders. I realised he was from juggling club, and i begined to implore from him all the things i am curious about this cca. Similarly, he also asked me about the bp mentoring stuff. Hmmm then i really can't stand it, and i asked him why his lap top slip case was bright pink in colour, an unlikely choice for a person like him. That was similiar to the one Wenzhang had when i saw him in macdonald with christina.
He told me the laptop was his sis, and he bo bian had to use this case. He say he rather have a pale pink then this bright pink. But then any pink slip case or pencil case is so YEW. Well different taste ba.
My computing lecturer for the series of new topics after Raymond really cannot make it. He was so unsure of what he was talking, erm here and there,speaks super softly that he was barely audible. At certain occasions he contradicts himself, and a china classmate of mine sitting right in front of him make some sneering comments so loud that sent the whole LT into fits of laughter.
Ya..juz wondering why nus is so quick to employ some super novice lecturers or even juz PHD students who have little experience or even zero to coach and tutor us. Yes i know, "welcome to nus". This is not juz happening in engin fac..and is pretty prevalent.
I hate it when the tv news keep replaying the scene when the bombs got activated..with those screaming and bla bla. Very disturbing. Esp when they revealed the photos of the dead suicide bomber.
Tonight i gona stayed up late for the release of computing assignment at 12am again. So that i dun have to go for lab tmr. Some ppl say it's crazy and not worth it to sacrifice your sleep in exchange for tmr. Well..i am fine with it.
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