I better post before August is up!

HAHA. I'm trying to make an effort to post at least once a month. Seeing its nearly September, and I haven't posted in August, I thought I'll do a quick blog post now! Or else it will be like my last blog... on MSNspace! i.e. posted regularly, and then slowly... slowly stopped posting. I want to keep this blog kind of consistent and in existance! Oh look that, did that just rhymed?

Life has been ordinary. Uni, work, church... Nothing much is going on. But I am trying to make an effort to go to church nowadays. Just trying to go everyweek. I knew before I was super slack with going to church. Like, I only went on the days I played piano. But for the past month or so, I've been going whenever I could. Not whenever I feel like it. Even though I feel super tired from a 9 hr shift at work, I'd make an effort to go. Unless I am ill or I have a massive assignment due the nxt day. So thats the story with church so far.

Work... one of the guys I usually work with, went on annual leave. The guy usually does the front bunk work. He comes in at 5am, puts the ice on the bunks and then puts the veges that will go well on the ice. Now he's on annual leave, I have to do it. But luckily I don't have to come in at 5am. I just come in at my usual time around 6am. But I must admit, working at Coles is pretty physically demanding. In some sense, I wished I had another job. But realistically, I'll never find such a job which is so close to home, where I can walk to work, save time on public transport, and can go home for lunch! (and get paid reasonably wel). But I wish I could work somewhere when I just sit there all day and use my brain or not having to move around like a mad chook trying to get things done! I've been trying to see what kind of jobs I can get with my degree. Even though I don't "officially" finish my planned course until 2012, I want to see what I can do in the future. Because I don't want to be suck at Coles for the rest of my life. For a number of reasons really. I want to earn more money, I want something that is not physically demanding, and I want to do something that actually relates to my course and shit I've been studying for the past so-many years you know? But the industry is so narrow. And you need to be good at speaking with clients. And obviously, I'm not the "good-at-speaking-kind-of-a-guy" type! So I dunno whats there. But I'll trust in God that He'll provide me with something (hopefully)

Uni... sigh! end of week 5 already believe it or not! And it seems Ive havent learnt much. I'm doing all maths this semester to complete my major and finish my bachelor degree on time... (after changing from one major to the nxt so many times =.=) Luckily, my degree is so flexible so I could do that! But I wish I could have done a double degree, i.e. com/sci! or even just stuck to something. Not changing my mind all the time. It frustrates me! But oh well, should be graduating by the end of this year (if I don't fail any subjects). Actually, speaking of failing, I'm quite worried for some of my subjects. i.e. Complex Analysis. Its really complicated and complex. LOL. And the lecturer doesn't help. I should be really helping myself by looking up the material in other textbooks or even ask the lecturer for help. And what I do... I procrastinate and watch TVB. I only got 70% for my first assignment. and thats really crap!! :( Cos for maths subject assignemnts, you would want to try to get 100% on the assignments because the exam is worth 80% of the subject. So you need some cushion from the assignment marks so won't get stressed out when exams come about. Discrete Maths. Its interesting. I wouldn't mind learning it, but I'd hate to get assessed on it. We learn heaps of stuff. i.e. counting. Statistics is such a horrible subject. I spent hours doing this assignment last night. Trying to get it done. 13 questions for just a 5% assignment. It's really not worth the time and effort! And each of the question is not easy as well! It totally stressed me out. Decision Making is probably my favourite subject. It probably has the worst lecturer, (same lecturer as graph theory) but the computationally wise of the subject is exceptionally easy! But some concepts are hard to get your mind around it. But I do find it really cool! Got 1st assignment back. Was really easy! easy 5% achieved.

okay, thats enough of blogging. May see you next month hopefully!

Toodles!

bak to uni!

oh oh oh! bak to uni today!! Can't believe a month of holidays just flew past just like that!! Im not happy!

So what has happened over the past month? first week, I literally did nuthing. I had to recharge my (body) batteries because I was literally dead after my exams. They were just too painful. What I actually did was just slept in, lay in bed, watched tvb, kdrama, and did some deep cleaning of my bathroom and vacumming the house.

then i was luckily enuff to work full time at work for the nxt two weeks. On a positive note, it meant I have more moneys now, and I can happily spend it all. On a sad note, its actually not that much (after tax), I comprised my holidays to work and I didn't have time to clean my room...

then for the 4th week, I started uni a week earlier than everyone else. Well, most anyway. I did a tasting 'wine' course. It was quite fun. I did it with a mate. And I made a couple of friends while I was there. Which was nice... but it was so draining. On two of the days of the week, we started at 8:30am and we didn't finish until 7:30pm. But if the lecturer didnt re-schedule the breaks, we would of finished 9:30pm instead!! *shocks* Having said that, I had to leave the house at 7am and I didn't get home until 9pm ish... I shall talk more about wine soonish! But I feel I have accomplished something i really wanted ever since. So I can tick one of the boxes of my life's goals :)

Oh. I got my results for my subjects. They were okay... Prob one of the more consistant semesters I had. Barely passed one of the subjects though. But having said that, I didn't really study it, nor really paid attention in the lectures, nor been to tutes, or did any of the problem sheets. LOL! But I was kinda expecting 60+ and not as low as 53!! And with the other subjects, I was expecting close to 90, but not low H1s. But a H1 is a H1 i guess... Can't complain!! :)

Oh, and one more thing. Why does embarrassing things always happened to me on the 1st day of uni!? 1st semester with the lift incident. Now this semester, the road+tram incident. I shall NOT elaborate. 'cos its too embarrassing!!!

toodles.

its over!

yup. exams are indeed over! Dunno if I passed all of them, but we shall find out in 2 weeks time. At the moment, I don't give a shit about my results. Well, actually I do hope 2 of the subjects that I put time and effort into, will actually give me good results. and the last two... i dunno. A pass??? pls?

Anyway, how will I spend my holidays? who knows! Work possibly? Go out? Watch TVB? Though my holidays are cut short to 3 weeks cos I have to go and do a short course on 'wine' :) I'm going to learn about how to drink wine, their differences, where they are from ect ect. So that should be quite interesting.

For now, I'm just going to bum around home, clean and relax! I'm downloading a drama. "I'm Sorry, I Love You." A Korean drama which my friend told me to watch a while back ago. Of lately, for some reason, I'm getting into the whole 'korean' side of things. I enjoy listening to k-pop! It was k-pop which got my through the examination period. It sounds so catchy (even though I do not understand a word they sing... but sometimes they have english words here and there)...

Anyway, toodles! I'm going to do some houeswork!

1 down, 1 more to go

So disappointed in today's exam today. It was so hard! I was anticipating a similar exam like previous years. And in previous years, all the exams were pretty damn easy. It was do-able and it was possible to get 100% on it.

So why am I disappointed? Well, tbh, I'm not disappointed in myself and my performance, what I was more disappointed about was the fact that the lecturer set some outragous exam questions which made it impossible to do. At the end of the exam, everyone was turning around and bitch'ed how hard the exam was!! Compared to last year's paper, this paper would of probably been twice as harder? They were questions that we never came acrossed! And they were questions that were very tedious and difficult. Not a happy camper! But I did all the other questions and hopefully I computed them all correctly. Even the first question I stumbled on... but I eventually got it after leaving it out at the beginning.

I'll be honest with you. I was aiming for a 99 in the subject. I never got over a 95 before, let alone a 90... my highest came out of was Engineering Maths which I came close in breaking the 90 mark for the first time. But that was unsuccesful. But with this subject, I did so well in my assignments and test. I got 29 out of 30 marks overall. But now I have doubts in getting a H1 because of this exam. I was hoping I could crack the 90 mark for the very first time, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. On the other hand, if I did the subject last year, it would of been a different situation... life goes on!

I'm not disappointed in my performance. I reckon I faired alright! Considering there's an exam tomorrow that I had to think about as well. But I AM disappointed about not getting a 90+ for this subject...

I'm utmostly screwed for tomorrow's morning exam. :( Wish me luck!

what is considered bad??

Today during dinner I got into the discussion 'what makes someone a bad person'? with my parents. My parents started listing examples of their friend's kids saying they are bad because of such and such. Having known the people they were talking about myself I tried to defend them because I personally they are not really bad! One example they said this kid is bad because he lies to he's parents that he is going to tutor, but instead he uses the money that the parents gave the kid to tutor for other purposes. Then I was like...right, thats considered bad in your books? I just don't understand why that is bad. Well to some extent it is because you are stealing from your parent. But come on, who hasn't stole from their parents and lied to them? I can say I have. I remember I stole coins from the car to buy snacks when I was primary school. Prob because all the other kids have canteen snacks except for me. They don't know what other 'factors' out there that makes a bad person. So I started listing things like the kid takes drugs, having one-night stands and kills people. And my parents said, well those are extreme cases and if that happened to us we won't even consider the kid actually related to us at all. We will pretend that we never had that kid before. How loving is that? But what I was disgusted about them the most is that they talk about other people's kids and how bad their are without thinking whether there is another side to the story. Because all they are hearing are just the parents side and sometimes adults can exaggerate! *sigh* parents... they always think they are right. And when I try to tell them my point of view they stop me, and say no no no, that is not right, because I am right. Its probably because they listen to too much chinese radio and reading too many of those chinese books...