I have a new connection!

After many months of putting up with a crap internet connection I have made the decision to switch to starhub..

And its extremely easy to even set up a wireless connection!

You just set up your router first, and make sure your security settings are done. You just have to set to DHCP automatic configuration (I'm using a Linksys WRT54G). Then just switch it off, and connect it to the cable modem. Switch both on, and everything works!

I should have been on starhub years ago.....

Undead Assault 2

I am half proud to say that I have introduced a game to church people, called Undead Assault 2. Simply put, it involves a team of up to 11 people holding out against a horde of zombie invaders.. Variations in the game include difficulty settings, and there's also a mode called Umbrella mode, where your team (the US Marines) have to try to control the sector despite Umbrella troopers' interference (read that as: kill the troopers and stay alive).

As you play the game you get to save and load, so you retain experience and unlock different classes, so you get to play as a medic, machine gunner, cyborg, forward observer.... the list goes on. So its kinda fun. Choosing the right classes lets you complement your team and succeed in the mission better.

So far its a good story, but the last time I played with CHURCH people, there was swearing going on, and I mean people swearing at each other. This is disgusting. I did not introduce the game so that we could swear at each other. Why is swearing while playing an e-game more acceptable than swearing while playing ping pong?

If i get the same amount of swearing while playing with church people compared with playing with people online, i will just play online. The next time i play on lan, i will leave the moment i hear swearing again.

Gy. Sgt boingboingboing

What signifies the end of the semester?

For some of us, its the exact time you walk out of the exam hall for the last paper.

For some of us, its the moment you go watch a movie with your friends.

For me, its the time when i burn all the files i used onto a DVD and keep it in a cold dark place....

What about you?

:D

Today's the day!!!

Today's the 7th...

The rollercoaster ride is ending...

Family Day

It was kinda fun, in a way, but also a let down in a way..

But i'm glad i took part, overall? It was my motivation to be running even through my studying.. And it kept me from getting sian.. Although i think for future family days i will just go down for a fun jog and nothing more.. I'm getting too old for this kind of intense stuff...

My motto for this semester is "看开一点". Yes. You don't get marks for stressing, but you get marks for showing your understanding. So rather than spend time freaking out, 看开一点, and go have a nice cup of tea. Then as you sit down, ask yourself "what else do I not understand?" Then attack your notes relentlessly.

Anyhow. i think i injured my left arm pushing off the 100m..

Pausing to think on the train made me realise that i have a million and one things to do after my exams, so thats kinda fun as well...

So remember, kiddos... 看开一点, or its NUS (No Use Studying)..

WOOHOOOOOO

My 5th May paper is MCQ!!!!!!!!!

i was expecting to write like 4 essays or some nonsense like that..

And let the papers begin...

28th April

2nd May

5th May

7th May

You know the feeling when you've just strapped yourself into a roller coaster and you know you have no choice other than to go ahead with it?

:D

Here we goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Classical Mechanics Test 2

All thanks be to God..

To be honest i was quite unsure of how things would have gone.. My friends seemed to prepare much faster than I did.. I was scribbling my help sheet up to 2-3 am in the morning.. (thats the pretty help sheets you saw in the previous post..)

I don't think I deserved to do well.. But God gave me peace...

I hope to push this mindset all the way into the final.. And gun for an A..

Can't really say how surprised I am.. But really really thankful...

Onward.

All the way!!!

Dear friends...

Its now a full scale assault on the finals!

Just finished my final term test...This is the armament that I brought in today.. Its the same A4 sheet... jut double sided..































That, my friends, is the product of MASSIVE kiasuism, a bad memory and the professor teaching more than the previous year's professor...

I'm now going for tze char dinner.

MUAHAHAHA. MAD SCIENTISTS NEED FOOD.

Ongoing training

No injuries!


Yay!

I really don't know what else to put here.. so...









Time to mugmugmugmugmug......

Fun in the lab

I used to think the stuff IN the lab (experiments) is okay, the stuff AFTER lab (aka reports) is horror.. But then there's viva..

Well for my labs i have to do viva, which is a question and answer session with someone (nobody knows what it stands for or how its supposed to be spelt so don't ask me).. In year 1, an Honours year student will come over and ask you stuff during your lab session.. For year 2, its a prof, and you go up to the prof to ask for viva... So since the prof is intellectually and technically superior to some undergrad, it gets a little more tricky, and hazardous...










Enter the engineering student.

Now, with no disrepect (yes Glenn, that was for you), physics students don't really like engine students.. for my batch, at least.. they get the better math lecturers when we take the same foundational math courses, the foundational math courses are more tuned to them than to us, they get more employment opportunities, and generally we absolutely hate the depth and rigour we have to deal with every time we see a derivation.. so we take it out on people who don't have to deal with the stuff we have to.. haha..

But as I was saying, enter the engine student.. and this guy actually took my experimental physics module! Engineers must take some basic physics courses, so it doesn't take very many modules to complete a physics minor. BUT HE TOOK LAB! Come on... there are other disgusting modules in physics to choose from.. My friends all hate lab module, by the way... it really eats tons of time.. you don't have to mug for it though.. there's no exam, just viva and a presentation at the end..

So this guy, goes up to this prof with THREE reports and wants to do viva for all of them. It is generally accepted that you NEVER go up to a prof with more than one report to viva at once. Unless you're running out of time, and deadlines are approaching, people sometimes do two. But as a guide, reports and your explanations to profs are usually riddled with little errors. And profs can get quite irritated by things like this. Imagine making mistakes, pulling out another report.. and then a 3rd? And when you make a mistake, you just accept it and say 'ohhhhh i see' unless you think the prof is trying to trick you and test if you know your stuff.. then stand your ground.

I walked into the lab that afternoon at about 3pm ready to do viva, but the lab was totally silent, except for ONE voice. Some prof was talking.. Viva! Some engineer was there.. I went to my friends who were reading at the old sofa near the white board... and they said :

"He's been there since 2. He's gotten eleven 'you are wrongs"

It was 310pm. In the space of 70 minutes the prof had yelled at him ELEVEN times
'YOU ARE WRONG!!!"

I think it takes quite a bit to get a 'YOU ARE WRONG' I did three vivas with that guy but i've only gotten so far as a 'no no no... thats not the way to do it..'

To be fair, not all the engineering students doing lab ended up like that guy.. He was just one example.. My friends in physics had quite a few 'YOU ARE WRONGs" too.

But.

90 minutes. 13 occurences.

That HAS to be a record.

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Ahhh... How we love decisions..

I deleted the last post because the information conveyed was sensitive.. But if you saw it, you saw it. If you didn't see it, you'll find out soon anyway ha..

If you're part of the group of people who the last post was for, then do me a favour and not mention it? Its not due for release yet..

Remember, brace yourselves for impact!

Hell week

Sleep deprivation... sucks...

COS FAMILY DAY 2008

WHY WHY WHY must it be in the middle of my examsssssss....

It is finished.

Returned her the stuff I need to return.

Its now time to store away the things I need to store away..

I wish memories would just fade faster..

Attending a talk

As I blog this I'm sitting at the back of a LT with a cup of free coffee, waiting for a talk to begin.

'Recent developments in measurement-based quantum computation', by Hans J. Briegel of the University of Innsbruck and IQOQI (Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information), Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooookay.

Lets see how much I can 'catch'..

Gosh half my profs are here..

Glad tidings

Hello everyone..

A nice update... of the 3 midterms I've had so far, two were quite good, and 1 not so good.

And the essay I handed in I got a B+.

All glory to the Most High...

Onward.

The Return of the IBMac

Heyhey, my laptop is back! and yes they changed the motherboard..

So I should be able to abuse it anew.. But I take good care of it, I leave it on all week and subject it to a full antivirus test every weekday night at 2am. Not to mention its always nice and hot since my laptop cooler is at home. Okay maybe thats why its dying haha..

Anyhow its back to assignments and homework and tutorials and whatnot..

Oh yes. Plan for holidays, zhng the room (again). This time, mega-table under the bed. People like Mandia should know what I'm talking about.
Then I can rearrange the books and stuff..
Then, I can install the symbol that represents all of academia.



The one.
The only.
The White Board.



And all will fear me!


Maybe the laptop withdrawal has taken its toll..

What the pok...

Haha i finally happened everyone... My laptop fan went nuts with a really angry growling sound today, so I shut it down and started it up again.. But then it went BEEEEPBEEEEPBEEEEP!!! and the screen was black and said two words

Fan Error.

And then the thing shut down.. So I brought it to the service centre.. and it will be back in a few days I think... On a good note, my friend had the same problem and they changed his entire motherboard! woohoo..So lets see what happens.. I doubt that they will clean all the gunk inside.. So they should change it!

Muahahahahaha.

One of my USB ports is loose anyway..

Hopefully it comes back soon.. I might have stuff to print..

Thank you all for your support