Term Break!

As the title suggests, it's the term break! But as the title doesn't suggest, is that it isn't actually a break. It's just a break from travelling to Clementi daily, but the studying continues with full force. Once the break's over, my midterms will come flooding in. The university isn't as nice to me as I would wish for. I have a total of 7 tests in 2 days. Awesomeness. I think I sort of break NUS's record of the most number of tests on a single day.
28.09.2010 - CN2122 Quiz 1 and 2, IT1005
29.09.2010 - CN2121, CN2122, MA1505, EC1301

The 29th is really a hell of a day for me. I've got papers spanning from morning to night. Terrible. How am I gonna survive?! Oh well. Life goes on even if I don't. *Choy!* Haha. Anyway the term break is really a good breather for me. Every week's always the same routine. Sundays and Wednesday nights are for rushing through the readings for my Food Politics, Tuesday and Wednesday nights for scrambling to get my Matlab Lab reports by Thursdays at 6pm and after all that trauma, wrecking my brains on a Thursday night to get tutorials done for Friday's 3 tutorials. I'm telling you it's no joke. After Friday's tutorial, I always feel this immense burden off me. Feels damn good. So I will go on to slack on Saturday. Then Sunday comes and reality strikes you again. Back to the same vicious cycle of never ending torture both mentally and physically. Haha. Just a word of advice, 6 modules for the first semester is not good, especially if you're not adapted to the environment yet. Really not much time to slack around, like during JC.

Anyway I have been pretty lazy these days. I have been ponning Math lecture and tutorials. Terrible indeed. Coz the Math lectures are always so out of the way. It's a total waste of time to wait in school for 3hrs to attend Math lecture! LOL. Yupz, but at least there's online lecture. So yupz, I can always refer to it when I'm lost. So yupz, these couple of days have been very much revision and catching up with my work.

These 2 books have been my best friends these days. -_-"

Oh and did I mention? Everything's going really well in my life except DRIVING! I think everything in life's about give and take. Maybe I have been blessed with possibly everything good in my life and it's time I get into sort of a set back. Oh well. I will try again someday. But it isn't my priority at the moment.

Recently, my parents have been talking to my bro and I about jobs and stuff. I guess reality really hits you when you're in the university. For me, it will be another 4 years before I head out to the workforce. But for my bro, it's only 1 year from now. It's really scary now that we're nearly leaving the comforts of school. Now for every decision I make, I have to think about practicality. Passion? Interests? Those suddenly become sort of secondary to me. Is it just me or everyone around me feeling the difference? Just take modules for an example. To take something coz it's easy and practical like Economics and Business, or take something that's practically useless to me in the future, but it's something I'm interested in, like Geography and Sociology?

To think about it, the reason why I chose Chemical Engineering is sort of a compromise between interest and practicality too. I loved Chemistry since JC as most people know, but studying Chemistry is just not practical since I'm sort of against research work. So, yupz, I chose something close to that instead, without knowing what I'm getting myself into. Now that I'm doing it already, I'm sort of relieved that I made such a choice. Yes, it's a highly competitive course, so much so that you can feel the tension even in lectures. However, I'm really liking what I'm studying! That's something I never really expected. I thought I partially gave up on my passion, but in turn, life rewards me by enabling me to find another field of interest. Really intriguing indeed. And I realised that one needs to experience setbacks to like something. Take for instance, I felt like crap attending the first few lectures and tutorials for Fluid Mechanics. But now that I took time really figure it out, I'm really beginning to love it. But on a side note, THERMODYNAMICS is still my favourite module so far.

So that's life for you. You can never predict how things will change over time, and as you go on, you get to discover many things that you may not even know of yourself. Interesting things about life. Ok, so that's all the updates for now. Perhaps I will get to stressed this week and I will start flooding this blog with my rants again. Yupz, so that's really all for now. =D

Week 4!

Ok end of another pretty tiring week in school. Damn i hate Wednesdays and Thursdays. Wednesdays are assigned to chionging Matlab reports and Essays for my writing module, while Thursdays are for all my other tutorials. Really lacking sleep during weekdays with the tonnes of work piling up. I can no longer work like during JC days, where I can do tutorials way ahead of time. So yupz, I need some time to adapt I guess.

Anyway things have been going on pretty smoothly in school. Had a Food Politics presentation on Thursday and it turned out pretty fun. I quite enjoyed the lively discussions that followed my presentation. That's the advantage of small class modules. And my peer review for my assignment (which constitutes 30% of my module grade) due on Monday is pretty decent, so it comforts me to know that I'm on the right track. Matlab report are fine so far so that's good.

Yesterday Prof Quek confirmed my module CN2122! The dean of engineering waived the pre-requisites for me and jiashen. Somehow I feel good doing the module now, although its quite a tough module to handle at year 1. Yupz, so yesterday after lecture went to settle some stuff with Dr Ti, the course lecturer. Really a lot of catch-up work to do this weekend because of the Fluid Mechanics module. Lot of tutorials to do and not to mention, I missed one pop quiz already, so he suggested a make-up quiz soon. So yah, have to study for it too. Sianz. So yesterday was really rushing all over the place to settle my admin stuff. Damn tiring running from EA to E5 to Central Library and back and forth quite a few times. Oh well but the issue is finally settled. A burden off my chest. Now to work extra hard to prove that I can do this module in year 1. But now I don't really know how to communicate with my mentor, coz he's the one that didn't allow me to take it at first. Haiz.

Anyway I was supposed to go for this IES Distinguished Lecture by Keppel CEO now with jiamei, vionna and zhiyang. But that stupid person didn't reply my email, so I didn't go in the end. Then jiamei messaged me just now saying that she saw my name there. LOL. Can't they just reply my email then I wouldn't have missed it. Oh well. Keppel's actually not that ideal for me too. So not that bad lah. But I'm still sticking with my ambitions and interest - Petroleum!

Ok so that's about the updates for now. Now, I treasure my weekends much more than during my Army days. Amazingly true. Oh and did I mention that the moment I cut my hair, I felt ten time more dumb. Haha. Damn Random. K tmr! =DDD