Exams:
2 papers down. 2 more to go..
Tuesday and Thursday.. the last lap. sighhh..
Hang on!!
Heat Transfer is sooo Fluid Mechanics lor.
At least, for the Convection part.
Yukkss..

Abit on home news.....
The terrorist attack in Mumbai has shocked and saddened many of us in Singapore..

My deepest condolences go out to the Lo family as well as to Mr Puhaindran and his family..

rest in peace . . .

1 paper down .. 3 more to go . . . . .

ME3112 is over.. finally. I'd put in so much effort for it.. made a careless mistake, again.. grrrr. Though tat shld be a small mistake ba. Didnt know how to do Q4, so i jus copy and paste from notes, and agah agah fit in something that seems to make sense. (or did it? haa =x ) Overall, I hope it was okokayyyy for me today. *cross fingers*

Got 47 / 50 for my Heat Transfer quiz. Wouldnt say im unhappy, cos i think im lucky to escape heavy penalty for calculating something wrongly!!! It's something tat linked over to the 2nd part --- Q1 Area --- . Its the quiz which I also prepared super well for and put in so much effort.. Kinda happy tat I did well, though could have saved the 3 marks =X sighs.. Well, I dont really wanna compare with others, cos its jus useless. Sometimes, it demoralizes rather than encourages me cos I never seem to do as well as others do, however much or little effort I put in.

This semester I'd reali put in much more effort already, and studying hard with Dear =)
(Hope my efforts wont be wasted. sighs. )

Next paper on thursday.. Its total "brain exhaustation" for me, having been at Mechanics since 8.30am all thru 4.15pm with about 1hr breakk in between. Hope for the best for Materials. It's gonna be a closed book exam!! =X

*grrrr*

gonna sleep early tonite and then start hammering at it for materials tmr morning..

:)

reflections . . .

Reading week.. helluva lots of things to do. I finally finished reading MOM today.. phew. gonna have to finish reading up Materials tmr, so as I can feel more at ease with myself. Much as I'd like to join the guys tmr to do MOM past yr papers, I think for my own 'safety', I'd better finish up Materials tmr first before I do anything else.. if not, my mood on monday would most likely be stuck on MOM, and the next time i'd be touching Materials is on Wed morning, and that would be disastrous and even more scary.

HR paper was over on Thursday.. I didnt have time to write all I really wanted to, so i had to cut short and write a quick conclusion, stopping when the examiner announced "Pls stop writing". My arm hurt from all the scribbling and writing! think my tutor would be having one heck of a time reading my handwriting.. It's like a spider falling into a bottle of ink and then climbing out and scampering all over the booklet. haha.

On thursday itself, i got to catch up with my good friend (but phantom in lecture), Craig. I always only see him during exam season at the exam venue! haha.. After my HR paper, I dropped by TH to collect my design log book, and so i also gave Craig a lift back to TH. Got to catch up a little with him. I also dropped by Raynor's room.. It was great to see Raynor again, and seeing him getting along seemingly well in hall. And i admire his room.. With his gadgets and all, it looks so cool la! haha.. Spent a great half and hour talking to him too :) though i felt rather bad waking him up.. had actually contemplated whether or not to wake him up, but craig solved that problem for me by giving a damn hard knock on his door. hahaha.. sorry raynor! lol

Haa. Sometimes I feel so resigned about things.. but owells. That's what life is all about right? And I have to learn -- and correct -- where I erred, and also to learn to handle situations in a better and more tactful way. Sighs.. Sometimes how i wish things were a little bit more different.. a little more leeway for me to move . . .

Thank you :)

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bahhh!

:)

exam 'fever'

2 more days to my first paper.. HR2002.

yayy!
((I'm sure I feel so 'yayy-ish'))

I've papers on the following days:
20 Nov (Thurs) : HR2002
25 Nov (Tues) : ME3112
27 Nov (Thurs) : ME2151
02 Dec (Tues) : ME3122
04 Dec (Thurs) : ME3162

And i'm still in the midst of it.. well, not exactly in the midst actually. haha
Gonna have to continue staying focused and continue working hard!
*roars*

Have 3 papers on the same days as Dear.. haha. Jiayous too! =)

Eh Benny! I noe what is last min studying la.. but engin if lidat, sure g.g. (ie good game).
haha..

I cant wait for exams to come..
though another biggg challenge awaits me.....

Standard Chartered Marathon 42.195km
I'm cominggg!!

Well, it's gonna be a walking race for me..
Been doing more exercises and abit more jogging..
though i'm still slow, my joints arent 'creaking' or giving me problems as much alrdy..
(I hope)
right right? i'm complaining less rite? more of into the 4th round lidat then complain rite? hahaha

Jiayous everyone! =))
Let's finish up our mugging for the next 2wks or so! =)

Cheers =)
-SR-

updates: CAA 091108

okay.. been another long time since i last touched tis blogg..

Many days have passed, but I havent been studying much. Why?
Projects. 2 of them.. HR2002 and ME3101 Design Project.

Not that i'd complain much, since projects can be quite fun, if everything goes smoothly, and everything is managed efficiently. I just feel v sian that sometimes when u talk, people dont listen. It's like the ideas u suggest dont make a difference, and I'm just one stupid silly person. Then moments later, what u had been trying to put forth, is put forth. I dont mind people doing things together.. It can actually be quite efficient at times, since ideas are put forth together, and then solved together. But that's if there are alot of discussions -- productive ones -- which help to speed up the process of doing work..

Sometimes, I just feel that it's better to think about it individually first, then get together to discuss and put the pieces together, instead of sitting there for hours and each doing each individual parts, with no need for discussions, or sitting there and brainstorming for ideas right from scratch..

From doing tis projects, I really learnt alot.. alot about myself, about others, about my friends. I learnt how to handle different situations, especially frustrating moments where I just feel like letting off the steam and tell people off.. or moments where I just want to interrupt the whole world and just ask to be listened to for that few seconds.. or moments when I just feel so stupid, when something seem clear to others, but to me, it was nonsensical and mind-boggling....

The design project ate up my time the most..So much time spent on various parts of it, either doing new parts or fine-tuning existing parts, or worse-case, redoing them cos of errors I made.. Well, I didnt want to screw anything up. Not when I already have 2 members whom I dont know how to describe their level of initiativeness and responsibility and efficiency.

The presentation is supposed to be tomorrow 10 Nov.. However, last Monday evening, our prof informed us that the examiner cannot make it, and so we had to push it forward to last Friday, 7th Nov. It came as a stunner, and it started a week of sleepless-ness and frustrations and rushings..

Tuesday, we spent a full 8+hrs (from 10+ tp 6+) in the TH Boardroom working on the report and slides simultaneously. And at times, the air of tension built up.. But certain individuals deserved it.

Definitely.

I myself had swallowed down my disgust and anger countless times.

Wednesday came, initially for one round of initial rehearsals, but it became a session of 'slides corrections'.

[It seems like overnight, brain cells reworked again, and the preliminary slides which were 'approved' the day before to be suitable, suddenly became too draggy overnight. I didnt know slides when left alone overnight can grow to become more draggy after one night of hibernation.

Imagine u spent hours working on something the day before, and after showing it to be looked thru by a 2nd and 3rd party, it's approved to be suitable.. Then the very next day, people come and tell u that after looking at the first few slides, they want to fall asleep. And it's too long and wordy and all.. A totally different reaction from the day before. Then suddenly in front of everyone, I'm so damn silly and stupid and inefficient cos I dont know how to summarise slides and make them non-boring.]

Well, the presentation is over.. *sweat* After a heartstopping session of grilling, especially since I was one of the 2 presenters, it was over.
And I must say, I'm damn proud of our report..

Well, now it's time to start studying, finallyyyy.....
It's week 13, and my first paper is on 20th Nov. Tmr is 10th Nov.. sighs.
Well, I'l have to work hard from now on and not slackk too much.. In order to ensure that everything goes smoothly.. hopefully.

Happy 5 months Dear =)