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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