Yeah, to make up for the past 2 months of not blogging. No lah... just totally different topic, apart from boring studies that's all.
So, apart from mugging for reports ever so often, what have I been up to?
A quick line up:
- I took my 2nd non-ICT IPPT (fitness test thingy as I'm still under the country's National service obligations). Failed. Saw Singapore Idol Season 1 runner up Sylvester Sim waiting for RT. :P
- Cell group and church has treated me kindly, although I haven't been exactly returning the favours well.
- MSN chats have died down significantly, and it's not just because I've been busy too. Some friends have gotten new jobs and can't be on the Net too often now. Another has gotten busier lately. The ppl over in UK are still as difficult to reach becasue of timezones. Mundane-ness of life taking over another. NCH is in NS and another has got a bad Net connection and not forgetting to mention he's always itching to play Maple Story whenever he comes online. I ahte to admit it but I'm starting to miss the company on the Net. It was fun before life started to drag us back into it again.
- Toys wise, collection still growing, very slowly but still growing. Still scouting for toys, esp Toys R Us for any updates to their inventory. A couple of nights ago, I suddenly had the urge to fill my bed up with toys again. And so I did, filled up with 5 beach balls of varying sizes, my shark, sealion and big black whale. Madness.
One of my cell group mates asked me this question last Saturday, and now have to wreck my brain to come up with an answer. But I seriously doubt I'll ever find the answer. I live too carefree a life already. Maybe becasue I'm too sheltered in this studying lifestyle, no worries just being in school at the right time, completing assignments and reports. Nothing really to challenge or require me to make a major decision etc. I'm kinda impartial to live this sort of life, other ppl telling me what to do *grinz*. I don't mind it, but it does get a little mundane, after a while, then it would be time to get a little spontaneous and try out something I never tried before, especially toy-wise. Like piccies... ^^
I'm actually at the NUS computer lab typing this out, when I actually brought other things to work on, but lost the mood to do them. XP... Oh well. Oh yes, just now after an impromptu tutorial, I went to the new built Vivo City to have a look see. They opened another Toys R Us outlet there. And I agree that place is huge. But I find something odd. The shops are given one whole big chunk of square space. I'm more used to narrow shops with things lined up at the ends and maybe a middle aisle. But in Vivo City is just open space, the shops have with lots and lots of aisles in the middle as how the owners wants it, or it's just empty space in the middle. They say inside there's space for 300 shops. I dunnoe, looks less than that to me, all I know that the shop space is very big.
Gee... I actually scarificed my sleep to actually go out for a walk, and now am feeling very sleepy as I type this out. Think I'll stop here for now before I start to sound even more incoherent.
And looking forward to you coming over a visit, you know who you are... even though it's just before my exams... :P
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Mid 5th semester thoughts
Oops, suddenly realised how long I never update this already. Partially thanks to my brother, Silverfox :P. He said he'll never update his blog anymore. Oh well *shrugs*
Righty then... as usual I'm taking 5 modules. 3 Chemistry and 2 Material Science modules.
Advance Experts in Analy/ Phy Chemistry - A module by itself and in a nutshell, up to 8 possible hours in the laborotary just on a Monday.... literally 9-5. I know for somw people, thye would consider this module I'm doing as madness. But seriously, I don't mind doing this forever (like as a job in the future sort of thingy). The good thing is that that typically I would leave around 2pm latest, unless I screwed experiment was screwed up. The downside: I'm really not too fond of these 2 areas of chemistry... requires a different sort of BS-ing in the report writing. Also, this module has a final exam, nobody knows what stuff they'll test on. It's open book though, but nevertheless, the examiners can really test us on anything. Awesome~
Organometallics - Chemistry module with a lecturer from Hong Kong. He can make the most corniest of jokes. Stephen Chow (HK comedian) must have rubbed off him lots. It's relatively all right. Lots of reactions to remember for an inorganic chemistry module, but nevertheless still an inorganic module (read: module to practise BS-ing) :P
Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy - Probably the only pure Chemistry module has focus on a favourite topic of mine in one part of the module - polymers. ^^ I've always wanted to study more about the stuff my toys are made of, and am happy to learn whatever that's being taught. Downside: the other part of the modules that just the same old stuff coming back to haunt me... enolate chemistry, a little bit of mechanisms, oxidation, reduction, NMR spectro etc
Introduction to Structure of Materials - Material Science module. This module is .......... I really don't know how to describe this module. The lecturer is just plain bad. Half the time, the students taking this module have no idea what in the world is going on. Nothing else much to say for this module, am doing it because it's a compulsory requirement for my minor. Just gotten my test back, and apparently, he marked it quite leniently. Got a 70/100. Average was a 79.something. So this module is one of those that hangs in the balance. *shrugs*
Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams - the other Mat Sci module. Why wasn't this module offered before I took any of the physical chemistry modules? Argh!~ It makes learning physical chemistry so much more easier if the department actually took on his approach. Anyway, for me, this module is more like revision as I already know most of the concepts taught in this module. Just that I have to learn a bit more math to tackle the problem, no biggie on that. I catch up quick.... I think.
Righty then... as usual I'm taking 5 modules. 3 Chemistry and 2 Material Science modules.
Advance Experts in Analy/ Phy Chemistry - A module by itself and in a nutshell, up to 8 possible hours in the laborotary just on a Monday.... literally 9-5. I know for somw people, thye would consider this module I'm doing as madness. But seriously, I don't mind doing this forever (like as a job in the future sort of thingy). The good thing is that that typically I would leave around 2pm latest, unless I screwed experiment was screwed up. The downside: I'm really not too fond of these 2 areas of chemistry... requires a different sort of BS-ing in the report writing. Also, this module has a final exam, nobody knows what stuff they'll test on. It's open book though, but nevertheless, the examiners can really test us on anything. Awesome~
Organometallics - Chemistry module with a lecturer from Hong Kong. He can make the most corniest of jokes. Stephen Chow (HK comedian) must have rubbed off him lots. It's relatively all right. Lots of reactions to remember for an inorganic chemistry module, but nevertheless still an inorganic module (read: module to practise BS-ing) :P
Organic Synthesis and Spectroscopy - Probably the only pure Chemistry module has focus on a favourite topic of mine in one part of the module - polymers. ^^ I've always wanted to study more about the stuff my toys are made of, and am happy to learn whatever that's being taught. Downside: the other part of the modules that just the same old stuff coming back to haunt me... enolate chemistry, a little bit of mechanisms, oxidation, reduction, NMR spectro etc
Introduction to Structure of Materials - Material Science module. This module is .......... I really don't know how to describe this module. The lecturer is just plain bad. Half the time, the students taking this module have no idea what in the world is going on. Nothing else much to say for this module, am doing it because it's a compulsory requirement for my minor. Just gotten my test back, and apparently, he marked it quite leniently. Got a 70/100. Average was a 79.something. So this module is one of those that hangs in the balance. *shrugs*
Thermodynamics and Phase Diagrams - the other Mat Sci module. Why wasn't this module offered before I took any of the physical chemistry modules? Argh!~ It makes learning physical chemistry so much more easier if the department actually took on his approach. Anyway, for me, this module is more like revision as I already know most of the concepts taught in this module. Just that I have to learn a bit more math to tackle the problem, no biggie on that. I catch up quick.... I think.
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