IT's been such a fun time at work that it's now time to take a break. Lotsa fun eventful weeks these have been!!!
PErf for S. R. Nathan...
Bintan... BINTAAAAAAAN!!!!
n most importantly, time to SLAAAAAAAAACK at home!
am settling bike stuff. n YES, i'll be getting a new bike soon!!
ALL THANKS TO MY AMAZING SIS! =D lurve her to bits!
heee
if all goes rite, it shd be done by sat earliest now. cant wait to ride it asap!
but good things gotta wait. ^^
jus bought a small pencil case today at Daiso too! =D
happy happy day!
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Ships
Ships float, ships sink, they sail with the wind, they drift apart.
It's understandable.
Been hearing stories all life long bout setbacks and problems with such -ships, i guess I've pretty much grown adapted to it.
At the end of the day, no matter what negative emotions i feel, no matter what sadness overcomes me, I'm all alone.
Meaning,
I'm fine being alone.
I'm fine with no friends.
I'm fine with no family.
I used to think that i was disposable because of this. But right now, it's not that i dun care or anything, but just that i accept the truth and move on with a clear conscience.
Besides, who needs reliance on friends or family? Chuck them all away and learn to live life independently.
It's understandable.
Been hearing stories all life long bout setbacks and problems with such -ships, i guess I've pretty much grown adapted to it.
At the end of the day, no matter what negative emotions i feel, no matter what sadness overcomes me, I'm all alone.
Meaning,
I'm fine being alone.
I'm fine with no friends.
I'm fine with no family.
I used to think that i was disposable because of this. But right now, it's not that i dun care or anything, but just that i accept the truth and move on with a clear conscience.
Besides, who needs reliance on friends or family? Chuck them all away and learn to live life independently.
Why can’t ‘programmers’ program?
"I am very disappointed with NUS’s SoC’s IS’s adminstration. Very.
Now, I can understand why Dr Lai Kok Fung and Dr Bernard Leong said at the AP day’s discussion that SoC is not producing real men. They are not interested in producing the next generation of IT talents. Instead what SoC, at least the IS dept seems to be interested in, is to produce the next batch of wayang experts, and hell, it’s starting to resemble SMU already.
Case in point, IS/EC majors are not allowed to take CS1101S. What the hell? So the school has decided to force all IS and EC majors to take the standard JavaSchools programming modules. Why? It’s not like CS1101S is easier than CS1010. I’ve seen A’s from CS1101(the previous version of the CS1010 route) who are unable to do recursion. Now compare to the entire CS1101S class who is able to use recursion on most problems. And by denying the students from taking up a much more challenging module, is the IS dept really interested in the interests of the students? I personally was an IS student, and thankfully, i’m out.
I still remembered, the first IS module that I took, the prof was telling us how he was going to teach us how to climb up the corporate ladder and be a good employee. Nothing about doing things worth doing or something real. That guy won the teaching excellence award. I pulled out from the module after 1 lecture.
It is very disturbing when you see a large number of your seniors being unable to code despite being in NUS SoC. And graduating without ever learning how to code. As the supposedly premier IT faculty in at least ASEAN, I think the base standard for graduation should be being able to code. And I don’t mean coding some hardcore stuff like the Extended Euclidean algorithm(we cover that in CS1101S by the way). All I’m asking for, is the students to be able to have the mental capacity to come up with a recursive solution to calculate factorial under 5 min. Or even how to implement OOP on real world problems. Actually, on hindsight, the Extended Euclidean algorithm isn’t exactly that hard.
By the way, the solution to factorial(recursive) is
function factorial($n)
{
if($n == 1)
return 1;
else
return $n * factorial($n--);
}
Typed that out in 1 min. And there are computing students who can’t do it at all.
As for the fizzbuzz question in the link above.
function fizzbuzz()
{
for($i = 1; $i<=100; $i++)
{
echo ($i%3==0?'fizz':'');
echo ($i%5==0?'buzz':'');
echo (!($i%3==0 || $i%5==0)?$i:'');
echo "\n";
}
}
These code are pretty easy to write. And both questions are certainly doable within 5 minutes, even for an average programmer. They are really
In fact, I just felt inspired to come up with a scheme version just for kicks=P
(define (factorial n)
(cond ((eq? n 1) n)
(else (* n (factorial (- n 1))))))
(define (fizzbuzz lower upper)
(cond ((< upper lower) ())
((and (eq? (remainder lower 3) 0) (eq? (remainder lower 5) 0)) (display "fizzbuzz\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))
((eq? (remainder lower 3) 0) (display "fizz\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))
((eq? (remainder lower 5) 0) (display "buzz\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))
(else (display lower) (display "\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))))
There's actually a shorter way for the scheme version for the fizzbuzz code, using if statements, but I'm more used to using cond statements.
Back to topic. Is SoC doing the right thing by restricting students from taking harder modules, and watering down the syllabus? I don't think so. In the new syllabus, database(CS2102) is no longer required. While I believe that students should not learn things only from a module, at the same time, a large majority of students require the existence of a module to learn things. Which is why database is essential. Now with database out of the picture, I can picture a few shocked employees a few years down the road when they realise the new batch of SoC graduates are unable to manage databases. I'm praying hard that they did not water down programming languages, after the demotion from a level 3 module to level 2.
And with 3 semesters to study basic programming, 1 more than previously, one wonders what the hell the administration is doing. Even in JC, we are expected to finish up to OOP within 7 months. Are they saying SoC undergrads can't do that? Yes, there have been many people saying that some people just need more time to learn, and given more time to adjust, they will be able to catch up with the rest. However, is that really the case? A paper, titled "The camel has 2 humps" claims otherwise.
The paper is a very good read. Honestly, it isn't a dry as some of the other papers we see around. I actually read the whole thing. I'll quote some of the stuff they brought up below.
The first point below is so true. We should be going for absolute standards, not relative ones.
Nowadays in the UK one has to say that they ought to fail, but because of misguided Quality Assurance procedures and the efforts of colleagues who doggedly believe in the normal curve, very many of them are mistakenly and cruelly ‘progressed’ into following courses. That process so far degrades the quality of their education and the reputation of computer science as an academic discipline as to be of burning commercial, professional and intellectual importance, but in this paper it must be by the by.
From experience it appears that there are three major semantic hurdles which trip up novice imperative programmers. In order they are:
• assignment and sequence;
• recursion / iteration;
• concurrency.
Few programmers ever reach the concurrency hurdle, which is the highest of the three, and very high indeed. Recursion is conceptually difficult, and the proper treatment of iteration is mathematically complicated. Assignment and sequence, on the other hand, hardly look as if they should be hurdles at all: storage of / remembering information and doing one thing after another are part of everyday patterns of life and thought, and you might have expected (as at first do most teachers) that students’ experience could be analogised into some kind of programming expertise. Not so: it is a real hurdle, and it comes at the very beginning of most programming courses.
And surprisingly, the way to see if a student is able to program is not that hard.
Read the following statements and tick the box next to the correct answer.
int a = 10;
int b = 20;
a = b;
The new values of a and b are:
[ ] a = 20 b = 0
[ ] a = 20 b = 20
[ ] a = 0 b = 10
[ ] a = 10 b = 10
[ ] a = 30 b = 20
[ ] a = 30 b = 0
[ ] a = 10 b = 30
[ ] a = 0 b = 30
[ ] a = 10 b = 20
[ ] a = 20 b = 10
The test results divided the students cleanly into three groups:
44% of students formed a consistent mental model of how assignment works (even if incorrect!)
39% students never formed a consistent model of how assignment works.
8% of students didn't give a damn and left the answers blank.
The main thing about this experiment is that there was no movement across the groups. And was a clear indicator if a student is able to program. I believe that the paper has shown that there are just some people who simply cannot program. And Computing faculties should start graduating students with who can."
http://blog.geeksphere.net/2010/07/24/why-cant-programmers-program/
Now, I can understand why Dr Lai Kok Fung and Dr Bernard Leong said at the AP day’s discussion that SoC is not producing real men. They are not interested in producing the next generation of IT talents. Instead what SoC, at least the IS dept seems to be interested in, is to produce the next batch of wayang experts, and hell, it’s starting to resemble SMU already.
Case in point, IS/EC majors are not allowed to take CS1101S. What the hell? So the school has decided to force all IS and EC majors to take the standard JavaSchools programming modules. Why? It’s not like CS1101S is easier than CS1010. I’ve seen A’s from CS1101(the previous version of the CS1010 route) who are unable to do recursion. Now compare to the entire CS1101S class who is able to use recursion on most problems. And by denying the students from taking up a much more challenging module, is the IS dept really interested in the interests of the students? I personally was an IS student, and thankfully, i’m out.
I still remembered, the first IS module that I took, the prof was telling us how he was going to teach us how to climb up the corporate ladder and be a good employee. Nothing about doing things worth doing or something real. That guy won the teaching excellence award. I pulled out from the module after 1 lecture.
It is very disturbing when you see a large number of your seniors being unable to code despite being in NUS SoC. And graduating without ever learning how to code. As the supposedly premier IT faculty in at least ASEAN, I think the base standard for graduation should be being able to code. And I don’t mean coding some hardcore stuff like the Extended Euclidean algorithm(we cover that in CS1101S by the way). All I’m asking for, is the students to be able to have the mental capacity to come up with a recursive solution to calculate factorial under 5 min. Or even how to implement OOP on real world problems. Actually, on hindsight, the Extended Euclidean algorithm isn’t exactly that hard.
By the way, the solution to factorial(recursive) is
function factorial($n)
{
if($n == 1)
return 1;
else
return $n * factorial($n--);
}
Typed that out in 1 min. And there are computing students who can’t do it at all.
As for the fizzbuzz question in the link above.
function fizzbuzz()
{
for($i = 1; $i<=100; $i++)
{
echo ($i%3==0?'fizz':'');
echo ($i%5==0?'buzz':'');
echo (!($i%3==0 || $i%5==0)?$i:'');
echo "\n";
}
}
These code are pretty easy to write. And both questions are certainly doable within 5 minutes, even for an average programmer. They are really
In fact, I just felt inspired to come up with a scheme version just for kicks=P
(define (factorial n)
(cond ((eq? n 1) n)
(else (* n (factorial (- n 1))))))
(define (fizzbuzz lower upper)
(cond ((< upper lower) ())
((and (eq? (remainder lower 3) 0) (eq? (remainder lower 5) 0)) (display "fizzbuzz\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))
((eq? (remainder lower 3) 0) (display "fizz\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))
((eq? (remainder lower 5) 0) (display "buzz\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))
(else (display lower) (display "\n") (fizzbuzz (+ lower 1) upper))))
There's actually a shorter way for the scheme version for the fizzbuzz code, using if statements, but I'm more used to using cond statements.
Back to topic. Is SoC doing the right thing by restricting students from taking harder modules, and watering down the syllabus? I don't think so. In the new syllabus, database(CS2102) is no longer required. While I believe that students should not learn things only from a module, at the same time, a large majority of students require the existence of a module to learn things. Which is why database is essential. Now with database out of the picture, I can picture a few shocked employees a few years down the road when they realise the new batch of SoC graduates are unable to manage databases. I'm praying hard that they did not water down programming languages, after the demotion from a level 3 module to level 2.
And with 3 semesters to study basic programming, 1 more than previously, one wonders what the hell the administration is doing. Even in JC, we are expected to finish up to OOP within 7 months. Are they saying SoC undergrads can't do that? Yes, there have been many people saying that some people just need more time to learn, and given more time to adjust, they will be able to catch up with the rest. However, is that really the case? A paper, titled "The camel has 2 humps" claims otherwise.
The paper is a very good read. Honestly, it isn't a dry as some of the other papers we see around. I actually read the whole thing. I'll quote some of the stuff they brought up below.
The first point below is so true. We should be going for absolute standards, not relative ones.
Nowadays in the UK one has to say that they ought to fail, but because of misguided Quality Assurance procedures and the efforts of colleagues who doggedly believe in the normal curve, very many of them are mistakenly and cruelly ‘progressed’ into following courses. That process so far degrades the quality of their education and the reputation of computer science as an academic discipline as to be of burning commercial, professional and intellectual importance, but in this paper it must be by the by.
From experience it appears that there are three major semantic hurdles which trip up novice imperative programmers. In order they are:
• assignment and sequence;
• recursion / iteration;
• concurrency.
Few programmers ever reach the concurrency hurdle, which is the highest of the three, and very high indeed. Recursion is conceptually difficult, and the proper treatment of iteration is mathematically complicated. Assignment and sequence, on the other hand, hardly look as if they should be hurdles at all: storage of / remembering information and doing one thing after another are part of everyday patterns of life and thought, and you might have expected (as at first do most teachers) that students’ experience could be analogised into some kind of programming expertise. Not so: it is a real hurdle, and it comes at the very beginning of most programming courses.
And surprisingly, the way to see if a student is able to program is not that hard.
Read the following statements and tick the box next to the correct answer.
int a = 10;
int b = 20;
a = b;
The new values of a and b are:
[ ] a = 20 b = 0
[ ] a = 20 b = 20
[ ] a = 0 b = 10
[ ] a = 10 b = 10
[ ] a = 30 b = 20
[ ] a = 30 b = 0
[ ] a = 10 b = 30
[ ] a = 0 b = 30
[ ] a = 10 b = 20
[ ] a = 20 b = 10
The test results divided the students cleanly into three groups:
44% of students formed a consistent mental model of how assignment works (even if incorrect!)
39% students never formed a consistent model of how assignment works.
8% of students didn't give a damn and left the answers blank.
The main thing about this experiment is that there was no movement across the groups. And was a clear indicator if a student is able to program. I believe that the paper has shown that there are just some people who simply cannot program. And Computing faculties should start graduating students with who can."
http://blog.geeksphere.net/2010/07/24/why-cant-programmers-program/
Friday, 16 July 2010
YAYNESS!
i've just updated my NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS to the extreme latest driver dated last week (beta though) and I've noted the temps are dropping, and the fan doesnt spin as fast as it does! so, now it's extremely quieter!
Argh, I absolutely can't try it out on the games i have in my laptop while I'm still here in my office. Gian...
Seems like my old driver version of 7.11.15.7609 is dated 2008? It's the official OEM one though. Now's 2010 already and NEC obviously doesnt update their drivers (along with most other big brands). After a few hours of research and version testing, mine's now version 8.17.12.5896 dated 5th July 2010! ^^
Seems like I have to personally d/l those drivers which doesnt seem to be digitally signed by Microsoft but at least it's from NVIDIA's wbbie itself. Time to check out on my SD card reader drivers. =]
i've just updated my NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS to the extreme latest driver dated last week (beta though) and I've noted the temps are dropping, and the fan doesnt spin as fast as it does! so, now it's extremely quieter!
Argh, I absolutely can't try it out on the games i have in my laptop while I'm still here in my office. Gian...
Seems like my old driver version of 7.11.15.7609 is dated 2008? It's the official OEM one though. Now's 2010 already and NEC obviously doesnt update their drivers (along with most other big brands). After a few hours of research and version testing, mine's now version 8.17.12.5896 dated 5th July 2010! ^^
Seems like I have to personally d/l those drivers which doesnt seem to be digitally signed by Microsoft but at least it's from NVIDIA's wbbie itself. Time to check out on my SD card reader drivers. =]
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Tachophobia
Tachophobia or the fear of speed is actually one of the extraordinary, most common phobias affecting or afflicting countless people nowadays.
Tachophobia, just like some other phobias, can badly affect any human life in particular. Normally, a person with tachophobia experiences great fear and some other quite similar emotions such as dread, terror, alarm and panic though he or she is aware that his or her fears are unreasonable or absurd.
Thus, causing him or her to be away from experiencing the fun and thrill of long travels and some long outing trips.
Symptoms of Tachophobia
Phobias or extreme fears like tachophobia can actually lead to a variety of disturbing symptoms such as dizziness, shaking, heart palpitations, excessive sweating, nausea, breathlessness, speech and thinking problems, feeling sick, and even fear of dying.
In cases where the fear experienced becomes more severe, additional symptoms may also be felt. Symptoms just like full blown anxiety or panic attack, sense of detachment from reality and immediate loss of control or temperament.
If you go to an amusement park what do you hear when you stand in line at the roller coaster? Screaming. Some riders will scream because they love the adrenaline rush while others genuinely want to be free of the bars holding them in. There are instances where riders will lose bladder control, vomit and retreat into a fetal position in response to the fear they find themselves in.
Other symptoms include…
An inability to concentrate on anything, but the fear
Dry mouth
Air hunger
Trembling
Panic attacks
Screaming or crying
Feelings of dread and hopelessness
Sometimes there is no way to predict how an individual will respond to fear until they are confronted with it. The above symptoms are simply based on general responses from those who fear speed.
Possible Causes of Tachophobia
Normally, people acquire fear of speed or tachophobia from some traumatic events or experience that have happened in the past. At times, from some brain irregularities or chemical imbalance.
There are also some studies telling that development of phobias is due to the influence of media vehicles like films and television shows having presence of speedy cars and some relative accidents.
It could have been an accident in which two vehicles traveling at a significant speed hit each other. It could have been a fear reaction to a roller coaster ride or it could be something that was observed in others who have the fear of speed.
The root cause is likely the fear of losing control. This fear indicates that there should always be safety and control in every situation. Speed often leaves someone empty when it comes to the feelings associated with safety.
http://myanxietyattacks.com/anxiety-disorders/phobias-fears/tachophobia
http://www.fearofstuff.com/travel/fear-of-speed/
This might just be the cure: http://tachophobiaracing.com/index.html =]
Tachophobia, just like some other phobias, can badly affect any human life in particular. Normally, a person with tachophobia experiences great fear and some other quite similar emotions such as dread, terror, alarm and panic though he or she is aware that his or her fears are unreasonable or absurd.
Thus, causing him or her to be away from experiencing the fun and thrill of long travels and some long outing trips.
Symptoms of Tachophobia
Phobias or extreme fears like tachophobia can actually lead to a variety of disturbing symptoms such as dizziness, shaking, heart palpitations, excessive sweating, nausea, breathlessness, speech and thinking problems, feeling sick, and even fear of dying.
In cases where the fear experienced becomes more severe, additional symptoms may also be felt. Symptoms just like full blown anxiety or panic attack, sense of detachment from reality and immediate loss of control or temperament.
If you go to an amusement park what do you hear when you stand in line at the roller coaster? Screaming. Some riders will scream because they love the adrenaline rush while others genuinely want to be free of the bars holding them in. There are instances where riders will lose bladder control, vomit and retreat into a fetal position in response to the fear they find themselves in.
Other symptoms include…
An inability to concentrate on anything, but the fear
Dry mouth
Air hunger
Trembling
Panic attacks
Screaming or crying
Feelings of dread and hopelessness
Sometimes there is no way to predict how an individual will respond to fear until they are confronted with it. The above symptoms are simply based on general responses from those who fear speed.
Possible Causes of Tachophobia
Normally, people acquire fear of speed or tachophobia from some traumatic events or experience that have happened in the past. At times, from some brain irregularities or chemical imbalance.
There are also some studies telling that development of phobias is due to the influence of media vehicles like films and television shows having presence of speedy cars and some relative accidents.
It could have been an accident in which two vehicles traveling at a significant speed hit each other. It could have been a fear reaction to a roller coaster ride or it could be something that was observed in others who have the fear of speed.
The root cause is likely the fear of losing control. This fear indicates that there should always be safety and control in every situation. Speed often leaves someone empty when it comes to the feelings associated with safety.
http://myanxietyattacks.com/anxiety-disorders/phobias-fears/tachophobia
http://www.fearofstuff.com/travel/fear-of-speed/
This might just be the cure: http://tachophobiaracing.com/index.html =]
Thursday, 1 July 2010
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Squeakkkkk
alright!
finally found a gd deal online at taobao for my mouse.
its 112rmb, converted to SGD it shd b ard S$22!
super cheap! considering it sells in sg for about 50 to 70?
yeap, am planning to get tat one with e help of my Chinese fren from China.
cant wait to grasp it in my hands. ^^
considering my mouse is rather chui alr coz of the loose wire connection,
this would b a serious awesome upgrade. =D
cant wait cant wait!
finally found a gd deal online at taobao for my mouse.
its 112rmb, converted to SGD it shd b ard S$22!
super cheap! considering it sells in sg for about 50 to 70?
yeap, am planning to get tat one with e help of my Chinese fren from China.
cant wait to grasp it in my hands. ^^
considering my mouse is rather chui alr coz of the loose wire connection,
this would b a serious awesome upgrade. =D
cant wait cant wait!
Monday, 21 June 2010
Friday, 18 June 2010
Friday, 11 June 2010
forgotten to bring my pass ytd.
haha i did e illegal and tailgated someone all e way in to my office. HEH.
had to ultimately get a Temp pass from security for 2 days in order to walk ard freely.
and another previous employee's pass to access the office itself.
n thankfully when i went home, I found it lying nxt to my pile of trash on the floor hidden at some obscure area. PHEWWWWWW.
now i wonder wat i can do in e office today. Im sure Sheena will go through those requirements and propose / suggest new stuff den we can start coding or something.
AND, my cheque is still missing since last friday. am living on a deficit low...
haha i did e illegal and tailgated someone all e way in to my office. HEH.
had to ultimately get a Temp pass from security for 2 days in order to walk ard freely.
and another previous employee's pass to access the office itself.
n thankfully when i went home, I found it lying nxt to my pile of trash on the floor hidden at some obscure area. PHEWWWWWW.
now i wonder wat i can do in e office today. Im sure Sheena will go through those requirements and propose / suggest new stuff den we can start coding or something.
AND, my cheque is still missing since last friday. am living on a deficit low...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Monday, 7 June 2010
Friday, 4 June 2010
Chance
Wootz Wootz Wootz!
I get a full day off on tuesday to attend a course from 12 to 2pm at Suntec.
since Lunch hour starts at 12, i might need to leave office at 11am, coming back 3pm. So if i do not take e full day off, i'd be at work from 930am til 11am, and 3pm to 6pm. Which is rather meaningless knowing that i'd b in the office for only 4.5 hrs total. ^^
Time to hang out! =D
I get a full day off on tuesday to attend a course from 12 to 2pm at Suntec.
since Lunch hour starts at 12, i might need to leave office at 11am, coming back 3pm. So if i do not take e full day off, i'd be at work from 930am til 11am, and 3pm to 6pm. Which is rather meaningless knowing that i'd b in the office for only 4.5 hrs total. ^^
Time to hang out! =D
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Dear blog,
I admit i have been very unproductive today at work. in fact, there was nth to be done so i slacked my thru the entire day, d/ling gadgets and photo tagging on picasa. Went tuition and came back with more photo tagging. And now I'm terribly awake coz i jus set off to slumberland when my bro started to watch Undisputed 2 on my PC in my room. Yeah, the one with the 5.1 speakers. Now I love the cold living room floor. No, really.
- Jon -
I admit i have been very unproductive today at work. in fact, there was nth to be done so i slacked my thru the entire day, d/ling gadgets and photo tagging on picasa. Went tuition and came back with more photo tagging. And now I'm terribly awake coz i jus set off to slumberland when my bro started to watch Undisputed 2 on my PC in my room. Yeah, the one with the 5.1 speakers. Now I love the cold living room floor. No, really.
- Jon -
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Thursday, 27 May 2010
it's been a long time, old chum.
well, it sure has been awhile.
lemme see, e past one mth...
1 mth ago was still exams,
n i only had that weekk's thursday n friday as a holiday.
weekends onwards til next week was project project project...
i can still remem e bunch of us not sleeping on tat project week thursday.
everyday sleeping at 4am n waking up at 815am was like staring at death in ur face.
i cant imagine i survived that week.
especially on thursday no sleep from 8am til nxt day 2pm, with only a 38mins nap.
that would be like almost 18hrs non stop coding for the bulk of it. n video recording n editing for like 2 hrs.
tat was hell.
n after a 2hr nap, im up up n away to go out to watch a concert, and oso a midnight movie. n thruout, i was rather awake. reached home darn late as usual due to e constant light shower. got us stuck at this bus stop near Raffles CC.
hee, but it was fun! me played some Chef game (not cooking but a rather Mario-esque game instead) and Cows in Space. hee, it's been quite awhile tat i played iphone games. =]
n next week come internship. really no break at all.
n after one week i'm still here testing programs n having much self-entertainment talking to one of my Indian superior who has a knack for using CAPS n making it sound like she's scolding me with her constant "ok fine..." replies. humorous indeed. ^^
n today!
gd news n bad news. bad news 1st.
i received an sms from my tutee's mum tat the kid failed his english!!!
*ROARRR* how could tat ever happen???
gawrsh!
i went over to his place with a heavy heart.
sat down n looked at him. his mum looking like she doesnt want to tell me the bad news.
he placed his report book on e table.
i... couldnt bear to flip it open...
my tutee forcibly opened it instead.
n his mum blurted out...
"Yun Chen 他考到第一名!"
i was sooo stunned i think i teared a lil. I hope they dun see tat. =']
even the younger kiddo, Yun Cong got all his subjects in the 70s range!!!
so darn happy for them!!
i almost wanted to cancel the tuition to go celebrate with them!
=D
but nah, im still a tuition teacher nvrtheless. they shd b heading out to Malacca in 4 hrs time to see their relatives. ^^ Glad for them.
but my own results?
hahaha really suck. brought down my grades alot. Thank God that i even passed. yeah it's bad... bye bye 2nd lower...
ok 1 more round of IE8 testing tml n it's weekends!!! i so forgot it's vesak day this fri. =3
ok sleep sleep....
well, it sure has been awhile.
lemme see, e past one mth...
1 mth ago was still exams,
n i only had that weekk's thursday n friday as a holiday.
weekends onwards til next week was project project project...
i can still remem e bunch of us not sleeping on tat project week thursday.
everyday sleeping at 4am n waking up at 815am was like staring at death in ur face.
i cant imagine i survived that week.
especially on thursday no sleep from 8am til nxt day 2pm, with only a 38mins nap.
that would be like almost 18hrs non stop coding for the bulk of it. n video recording n editing for like 2 hrs.
tat was hell.
n after a 2hr nap, im up up n away to go out to watch a concert, and oso a midnight movie. n thruout, i was rather awake. reached home darn late as usual due to e constant light shower. got us stuck at this bus stop near Raffles CC.
hee, but it was fun! me played some Chef game (not cooking but a rather Mario-esque game instead) and Cows in Space. hee, it's been quite awhile tat i played iphone games. =]
n next week come internship. really no break at all.
n after one week i'm still here testing programs n having much self-entertainment talking to one of my Indian superior who has a knack for using CAPS n making it sound like she's scolding me with her constant "ok fine..." replies. humorous indeed. ^^
n today!
gd news n bad news. bad news 1st.
i received an sms from my tutee's mum tat the kid failed his english!!!
*ROARRR* how could tat ever happen???
gawrsh!
i went over to his place with a heavy heart.
sat down n looked at him. his mum looking like she doesnt want to tell me the bad news.
he placed his report book on e table.
i... couldnt bear to flip it open...
my tutee forcibly opened it instead.
n his mum blurted out...
"Yun Chen 他考到第一名!"
i was sooo stunned i think i teared a lil. I hope they dun see tat. =']
even the younger kiddo, Yun Cong got all his subjects in the 70s range!!!
so darn happy for them!!
i almost wanted to cancel the tuition to go celebrate with them!
=D
but nah, im still a tuition teacher nvrtheless. they shd b heading out to Malacca in 4 hrs time to see their relatives. ^^ Glad for them.
but my own results?
hahaha really suck. brought down my grades alot. Thank God that i even passed. yeah it's bad... bye bye 2nd lower...
ok 1 more round of IE8 testing tml n it's weekends!!! i so forgot it's vesak day this fri. =3
ok sleep sleep....
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Thursday, 29 April 2010
ahhh, im finally back from my escapade. nope, not e same as those ive had b4, it's a whole new experience.
walking real slowly at a snail's pace lets u see e world differently from 140km/h.
u see:
e clouds warp ard the moon,
e wobbly steps of mine,
e ripples on e surface of the lake,
e clear view of e moon in an open carpark,
e clouds changing,
e spooky illuminated Heritage Centre,
e experience of standing under blinking zebra crossing lights,
e lorry with neon lights and devil horns,
e constant longing to be at the rooftops of buildings u see,
e clouds trying to cover e moon to its dismay,
e view over e canopy of buildings,
e brave girl who walks alone in the dark dim corridor,
e I-nvr-knew-that-was-the-HSS-library library
e trickling fountains,
e troop of ants under my feet,
e overgrown short trees that seem to wrap ard u
e narrow lanes of shorthouses to ur sides,
e buzzzing streetlamp.
e black and white cat across the road on the pavement staring at oncoming vehicles,
e view of dimmed lights in rooms as ppl mug
e stares of bored ppl in the midst of mugging,
and especially e absence of humans ard me.
how thrilling. =]
now i can concuss in peace.
walking real slowly at a snail's pace lets u see e world differently from 140km/h.
u see:
e clouds warp ard the moon,
e wobbly steps of mine,
e ripples on e surface of the lake,
e clear view of e moon in an open carpark,
e clouds changing,
e spooky illuminated Heritage Centre,
e experience of standing under blinking zebra crossing lights,
e lorry with neon lights and devil horns,
e constant longing to be at the rooftops of buildings u see,
e clouds trying to cover e moon to its dismay,
e view over e canopy of buildings,
e brave girl who walks alone in the dark dim corridor,
e I-nvr-knew-that-was-the-HSS-library library
e trickling fountains,
e troop of ants under my feet,
e overgrown short trees that seem to wrap ard u
e narrow lanes of shorthouses to ur sides,
e buzzzing streetlamp.
e black and white cat across the road on the pavement staring at oncoming vehicles,
e view of dimmed lights in rooms as ppl mug
e stares of bored ppl in the midst of mugging,
and especially e absence of humans ard me.
how thrilling. =]
now i can concuss in peace.
Sunday, 25 April 2010
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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