A year older and mugging for 2 papers tomorrow ...

Had fun and was very happy at the bbq on tues. Had dashed off after the fluids paper, the last paper for dawn and yx. Travelled back to the east, after about 3 weeks of being cooped up at ntu. Was rather surprised at the turnout, thank you, my dear friends for being there despite it being a weekday. Didnt invite many, esp from navy and ntu, as i was rather busy mugging for exams. pai say about that.... =P
Was glad that everyone had a chance to meet up, esp when 'lao er', the long lost CBT showed up. Next time can meet for snooker, table tennis or winning 11 liao. =) if u have the time. A very pregnent saraker also came, evie wif cooper (he licked me!) and the SSC gang. My CCHS brothers and sis too!! heh. Best of luck for your jap paper da jie!
And of cos, the ntu eee mahjong club ex-co who have also cleared their papers already. My wonderful study group and dawn's friends, who came down from so far away (xx and cuimei). Thanks for coming. heh =P
The 1st time i shared a cake with 2 other friends with the same birth day, but from different years. Maybe have to stop the birthday thingy liao ... 27 already, and am THE oldest kid in my age group to still hold such events....... while my friends are celebrating their son's or daughter's 1st old month or 1st brithday.
Then again, will still try to arrange such gatherings and keep in contact....then my birthday would be just coincidental. heh heh heh.
Have tons of things to write, but,... its back to mugging time for the final 2 papers of the year !!! yeah!!!

Can i clear maths 3 ???

Ubber sianz today. Came out of the exam hall, disappointed. The paper was much more difficult as compared to previous 2 sems. But hopefully, i will be able to clear it with a D. =) If it is a D, it will be my 3rd in NTU and yes, it joins the other 2 maths paper that i also obtained Ds previously. If i dont clear it, then i will be able to proudly say that i ta-bao-ed once in NTU.

Studying fluids for the past few hours, still rather unsteady, confident of only doing 1 question (convergent/divergent flow), somewhat confident for doing 1 question(boundary layer), not so confident in the other 2 questions....... too many formulas to memorise and hopefully the paper will be easy. Quite a number of people had completed revision cos they have less papers. Hiaz..... next sem will be yet another struggle although only left with 6 ~ 7 modules, cos the majority have about only 3 ~ 4 modules.

Although i had completed 10 modules in 1 sem in year 3, at least the topics were easier and had help from yx and dawn. Now, tougher subjects and everybody is learning, tough. Since the going gets tough, i should get going too!!!! *back to fluids* =P

a day of boundary layer and unsteady flow

Had breakfast wif yx and roy this morning at can 13. Decided to take the bus to can a since we paid $12 each for it liao. Having waited for the bus for a brief moment, we spotted the bus in the opposite direction coming towards us..... in the spur of the moment, we rushed across the road and boarded bus C.

Since this was my second time onboard the shuttle bus this sem, it costs $6 for this ride round NTU. To our utter dismay, the bus driver was VERY VERY slow. Roy was bouncing on the seat in irritation .. "Why so slow!!!!" as the bus crawled along at barely 15km/hr. We took about 10~14 mintues from hall 13 to reach can 2 bus stop, where we alighted, crossed the road and took bus D BACk the way we came, reaching can a in less than 7 minutes.....

After that, was a boring day of boundary layer flow for the entire morning and afternoon, and unsteady flow in the evening till night. Hopefully that will mean that i can solve approx. 3 ques for mp4005. Well ... that will leave me mon afternoon to learn the ques 4 and revise everything cos tomorrow is chionging maths 3 in prep for monday morning paper.

fun day, ends with sian-ness.. =P

Came back to hall today early with yx this evening, actually, about same time for me ba. Intention was to play table tennis, unfortuately, the regular bunch of foreign students had booked the badminton AND table tennis courts. PISSed off cos, most are not from our hall, but 10+ of them rotated about the badminton court and table tennis table which one of them booked ..... sigh.....

Too bad i was too lazy to hand up a booking slip for table tennis table, too much effort? Oh well..

Moving on to fluids tomorrow liao. Hopefully can understand water hammer and turbomachinery, if the velocity diagram is not given = sian liao, unless of course, i can understand them tomorrow. Heh. Cos sun is maths time again.

Went to JP for dinner, and raced Daytona with yx, andy, roy and dawn. 3 rounds of reckless driving and intentional crashing, especially targetting poor dawn. Her car's roof top was completely FLATTENed at the end of the race. ha ha ha ! I had sacrificed myself by aiming straight for her car during the tight bend, sending both of us flying in the air, wiping her off the 1st position. heh heh heh !

加油吧!!! one last weekend of mugging and last 1 or 2 papers for yx, andy, dawn and roy.... final 4 for me. =P Yet another semester of exams stretching the entire examination period, but it will be my 1st try at having 2 papers on the last day of exams (1st Dec). Lets hope it will go through smoothly.

surprise surprise!!

Revised maths 3 today, went through matrix and differential vector calculus... surprised that i still know how to do them. Heh. But slept quite a bit today also, taking breaks in between studying. More breaks than usual.

Back again for med, hopefully can complete integral vector calculus tomorrow morning and statistics too. Have to move on to fluid dynamics after that. To be ready for back to back papers next mon and tues.

A restful day, quite relaxed and happy today. Not much on thoughts yet.... thinking about life and all, for a start and for my book. Hopefully one day it will be published, if it gets completed in the first place. The only spare time i have would be maybe next Nov, after completion of the solar car race; if that happens too! So many ifs ... but will do for a rough guide for my future.

Goal setting is important ba.... i feel so. Somewhere to aim at and work towards, better than be adrift in the unpredictable currents of life. =)

Tired ...... but smiling =)

Just got back in hall, feeling tired, and fat. Looks and feels like i had put on quite a bit of weight within the exam period. Need to exercise more liao. Must not break the 80 kg barrier. Gosh!! .. .its 2 years ago when i am only 68kg. At least i know how much my beer belly actually weighs.

Started the fire, will be brewing my herbs in a while. Studying fluids dynamics today, managed to get the quick reference notes on part II out today, maybe do a bit more later so that can start past year papers either late friday or sat. Tomorrow will be maths liao... my final maths module for university studies. Looking forward to clear it.. hahahaha!

A bit sianz about having sold of my 2 lots of synear and sino-environment. If i had held on for 1 more week , i would had earned extra $800. That will cover my expenses in Dec liao. Oh well.... cannot have the best of everything. Lets hope ascott and sino-techfibre continue to climb. =)

But now, lets concentrate on exams 1st..... and glad that i got back to blogging again. Wonder why i gotten so lazy (prob cos no time? or was playing winning 11 too much? heh) last few weeks.

Oh!!! .. went to Yiye's and Wanyin's wedding dinner last Sunday... was very happy for them. Heh heh... my 'sister' is now happily married to yiye. SO nice... felt very happy, and glad that i went despite having 3001 paper on Monday. Still smiling away when i know they are in happy land, prob in japan now for their honeymoon AND that wanyin gets 2.2 months bonus. heh .... all my navy friends also get 2.2 months... yeah!

Weddings are once in a lifetime thingy, if i unlucky fail 3001, can always retake next semester. I guess that is something i learnt from my episode, that being happy and going to celebrate friends' happy occasions are more important than many other things in life. Priorities...priorites.. =)

No time to upload pictures.... maybe next time ba. The network is so slowwwwww at night.

4 papers down... 4 to go!!!!

Just completed my 4th paper today. Finally have space to breathe after having papers last thursday, friday, monday and today!!!! cpanel is down, so i replaced it with cbox. heh... getting a bit more internet savvy liao. =P

My next paper will be on next monday and tuesday ... Maths and Fluids dynamics.... cheem but hope that i can make it!!!! So far the exams could be described as smooth ba. The killer paper on last monday - MP3001 - Dynamics and control .... couldn't do 1 question ... Mr Ques 3 .... luckily, when i met up with my yr 3 floormate, he said that his study group, all didn't know how to do it too!!! "phew!!!!"

Lets hope the rest of the papers also can go 'soon soon' and maybe grab a couple of As along the way... heh heh.. especially aiming for my year 1 subject - Effective communications on 1st Dec. Maybe they will give chance, after all, very few students get to take year 1 module when they are in year 4. Though i guess i would be the rare year 4 student, cos i taking modules from yr1, yr 2(maths 3), yr 3(MP 3001) and the other 5 modules are year 4 modules. =P

Stress levels are still well balanced at about optimum range, though it peaked a bit on Saturday cos of 3001. But managed to control it and relax. A bit anxious in the early part of this month cos there was this fear of getting cancer as i was diagnosed with cancer approximately 2 years back, early Nov.

The good thing about exams is that i dont get time off to worry about cancer relapse and all, heh heh .. chionging for exams is better, but dont worry, cos i get adequate rest and play during this period. Hmmm ... my floormates are complaining i play too much, esp when i now own a PS2 + multi-tap which i engage in winning 11 (a soccer game for those who are not familiar) with my friends every night, and even before exams!!!