juz visited my email, and ivle. then, saw some of the modules which i have already gotten from round 1a, is already up in the ivle. fuck siah.... it then hits me so badly that my next semester is coming along pretty soon liaoz.
wah lauz!!!! i haven't had enough rest lah!!! sibei sianz.... i cannot imagine so fast i have to get up early and go all the way to nus to study a few lecture hours, then back in the lab or library to revise on work. kanna sai...
i am still in the burnt out state.
anyway, juz came back from movie, makan and drinking with julius and wenhao. watched narnia. sort of disappointed me. i had very very fond memories reading narnia when i was quite small. think around sec 1 or so. i love that series, and considering the fact that i dun read almost at all when i was at that age, i really liked it. the show was quite a distance away from what i expected of it. the director din do such a good job after. looking at aslan, it is simply not majestic enough. its death, and its rebirth, was..... eewwwkkk. buay tahan. and the 4 sons and daughters of eve.... looks like crap to me. haha... disappointing.
anyway, after movie, went to makan and drink at the kopitham behind california fitness centre. quite shiok. talk cock, drinking and relaxing. think total 3 of us drank around 12 cans bah. not a lot... so not very satisfied. come back home, drank another few cans. hahaha.... when i dun drink, i dun drink. but once it starts, and it starts well, will drink more to get satisfied. a waste at home got nothing much to go with the drinks.
the day before, went out with yunwei and weisi and caught up quite a bit with them. haven't met them and have a proper chat with them for quite a long time. even though they did come for the consonance gathering a few weeks ago (17 dec i think?), we din get to talk much and update each other what we've been doing. so, i finally am hardworking enough to arrange a meet up, and it's quite shiok to meet up with them. had a sumptuous dinner, but yunwei's the one who treated. haha... paiseh. was glad to see both of them still doing well out there, esp yunwei. she shld be out of her previous problems liaoz bah.
shld meet up more often, otherwise sooner or later will lose contacts. haiiz....
module planning is always a big headache. why? cos every sem, i have to replan everything. i've started planning ahead since year 1, but due to the fact that i've been learning smthing new, i grew interested in something else. on top of that, somehow, modules that i wanted to take always doesn't end up in a good time slot. exam clash, or 2 exams on the same day, or simply, the lecture time clashes.
i've wanted to take mathematics cos i've always been very interested in this field. partly because i am quite talented in maths, ever since primary school. hence, it did occur to me to have a minor in mathematics (i wanted to go science and major in maths actually at first). however, as i dwelled longer in nus, my inclination towards maths dwindled. partly because i've not been doing maths, and is no longer as acute in maths as before. partly because doing maths is really pretty useless. do so much integration for wat!?! i'm not in an engineering field whereby i need to be so versed in wave equations, heat equations, partial differential eqns or whatever laplace theorems there are.
then, there was a time i wanted to take languages. cos i feel, taking languages in nus is quite a decent idea! learn something new, and probably useful, for free (at least, i dun need to pay extra. nus fees is already a sunk cost) on top of that, i will learn it well cos it affects my CAP. but then, nus cock up my plan. why? cos of the bidding points. as an engineering student, u are pathetic and miserably few points in the general account. the reason being? the blardee CORS said, their rationale is because engineering students take a huge numbers of modules within their own faculty and hence need more points in the programme account. what the fuck!?!?! it is precisely because we are taking COMPULSORY modules within our own faculty, nus risks no cock up and allocate these modules for FREE (okay, not free. 1 point) to us. in the end, we end up having few thousand points in our programme account, and never had i have more than 800 points in my general account. so, i m in no position to compete with other students from other faculty for language modules. what an irony huh? when they expect engineers to go wide in their knowledge and not just deep in their specialised field.
another big cock up is perhaps myself. hahaha... i already have pathetically few points in my general account, but i still spend it quite lavishly on meaningless modules. i spent 200 points on an SS (i did that during my first sem... forgivable cos i dun really know the system yet) which i later s/u. wasn't planning to do so at first, but s/u it immediately when our presentation went so cocked up. i spent another 500+ points on an arts gem (compulsory for engineering students to take an arts gem). obviously i s/u it. this module is so competitive in bidding cos it is well known to be super slack. well, i s/u it, and i din study this module for the whole sem, almost including exams (spent 1 night, aka around 3-4 hrs).
then, my dept, squeeze all the compulsory modules in the first few sems. that is to mean, i dun get to clear my breadth or gem in the first few sems, unless i want to overload all the time. actually, nothing too big a deal to overload. most of us take 6 modules a sem. anyway, cos of the fact that all my core modules are in the first few sems, in this coming sem, i have no core modules at all. hahaha... meaning i will be clearing all the electives and gem/breadth/uem in juz one sem. so those higher level modules that i m interested, i cannot take. cos they often have prerequisites. and oso, that means i cannot try to find a way to take languages too. cos, i wun be having anymore breadth/uem to clear for my next two sems, unless i want to take more MCs than required. hahahaha! and that, defeats all the points for overloading! most of us overload cos we want to have a slack last year to concentrate in our final year project (FYP). cos, fyp results is essential for a first class honours. citeria for first class honours: graduate with a CAP above 4.5, and at least an A- or above for FYP.
hence, all planning done in the first few sems are thwarted.
so in short, i have to replan again and again, and each time it got more difficult cos i have too indifferent liaoz. there are quite a few strategies to take in planning, and these are experiences derived throughout the sems of bidding. but, i m not taking anyone of them except the essential ones liaoz.
anyway, i am definitely taking the following:
HR2002 Understanding Human Relations in New Economy IE4210 Operation Research II IE4230 Quality Engineering II FNA2002 Managerial Accounting FNA2004 Finance
left another module which i'm unsure of...
shld i take GEK1505 Living with Mathematics or FNA3111 Corporate Accounting and Reporting?
as can be seen, i've grew to be very interested in finance related modules huh? hahah.... i like accounting and finance. i also like computing, but din get the chance to take a module i m interested in (Database, will learn SQL and stuffs) cos of exam or timetable clash (forgot reason liaoz).
there are many modules which i m interested to take in nus, but they are mostly too siong to take as a module. projects and stuffs.... i hate them. cos it is very siong to do projects, and somemore, this time if i take higher level biz modules i will have to do with strangers liaoz. not many pple will be as siao as me to do high level biz modules when i've taken only 1 biz breadth so far.
came across nyjc choir blog, and stayed around a bit.
read a few entries, and their tag board.
marvelled at the kinda simplicity. sort of envious too. it is a kind of simplicity and pureness (!?) that is no longer around me. dunnoe.... maybe cos i dun expect it to be around me to be found anymore.
lost it... haha
and quite a coincidence, considering that deqiang mentioned abt the e-circles just today at mos burger with me and charlene. i was telling him how "gwiu" i felt when i re-read some of the posts i made, and how the thread eventually turned out... haha... but those posts could be made in that manner perhaps cos we are able to bear our heart truthfully? things were simplier, innocent, and we dun mind making a fool of ourselves in that crowd we felt so comfortable with bah.
of cos, not to forget a bit of 幼稚too lah... haha.. bor bian... so young then. of cos sound like a stupid kid lah!
woah~~~ long time never update anything here liaoz. previously was busy with my exams, and revisions, although i did not do all those stuffs all the time. couldn't concentrate most of the time and end up playing a lot of flash-games. then when i feel time is not enuff and shack, i got back to studies. hahaha!!! this sem a lot of first times.
first time i one day do 2 helpsheets first time i start revision only during exams first time i do my exams revision without re-doing my tutorials again cos lack of time first time i take a level 4000 module, and spend only 1+day revising it. what's worse it, a few chapter i never touch during semester. first time i never complete all my tutorials for my modules first time i write laws of muggerism on msn, weekly until i died out of ideas and time first time i do revision till 2am in the morning, slept at 3am, and got up at 7:30am to rush to nus and take the level 4000 paper first time i spend one whole day and night in ise lab to rush my simulation project, from zero to hero, from no report to complete report, from half done model to complete model.... and the immediate next day go up present immediately. complete the project only 5 mins before go up for presentation. first time gotta copy other people's lab report wholesale cos the stupid lab is 15% first time i think i might really get below 4.5 for my SAP .... ... .. .
a lot of others bah i think.... but nmd
after exams is a good rest for me though i spent a lot in juz 2+ weeks into the hols. bought a portable harddisk and 512mb ram which cost me $200+ and went for chiang mai trip which cost me around $600+ in total. then went to check up my laptop problem, and reformatted it costing me another $15. plus the liquor and beer bought in airport blah blah blah blah.... i think i spent around $1100+ since around 20 smthing november till now.
nOthiNg rEallY inTerEstinG aBt me....
a mUgger in nUS, a loNer in liFe, a cHoiristEr in mY alUmnI cHoiR...
oH, smThing to bE prOuD of mYselF, cuRRent CAP 4.9...wiLL conTinUe to uPdatE thIs in tHe fUtUre.
bTw, i dId thIs blOg juZ foR fUn oNly...WannA kNoW hOw thIs workS...
oH...aNd aNothEr btW, i'vE reAllY baD gRamMer...so iF u R noT haPpY wiTh it, pLs sTop reAdinG n clOsE yoUr wiNdoW...dUn agoNisE uRselF...
