| You Are a Realist |
 You don't see the glass as half empty or half full. You see what's exactly in the glass. You never try to make a bad situation seem better than it is... But you also never sabotage any good things you have going on. You are brutally honest in your assessments of situations - and this always seems to help you cope. |
Friday, August 31, 2007
// after a month //
Time passes quickly...it has been 4 weeks since sch started.
Today was quite evenful.
Firstly, I left my hp at the library in the morning but didn't know it until like 4 pm when I was supposed to meet my management project members.
Surprisingly, when I realised that my hp wasn't in my bag as I had thought, I remained quite calm.
Usually when something so important gets missing, I'll panicked...my brain turns cold and go haywire, imagining all the worst-case scenarios.
Always, my first instinct is to turn to my mum for help.
But today, I don't know how it happened but i actually knew how to react.
Of course, to call my phone.
I'm EXtremely grateful to the kind-hearted soul who returned me my phone.
Though I had to rush to City Hall to meet him after the meeting.
By the way, I didn't even know that I lost it in the library.
It was the person who told me.
Argh! since when had I become so muddle-headed?
Anyway, a million thanks to the person.
Can't imagine how grateful I was.
On the MRT all the way from Boon lay to City Hall, suddenly I kept noticing people using their phones.
And I counldn't help feeling lost without mine.
It just goes to how deep technology has penetrated in our lives.
After I went to City Hall to get my hp, I saw wq's msg saying there's a comex fair at suntec.
Since I'm already in that area, might as well take a look lo.
Maybe it was the first day, so the place wasn't very packed...luckily!
Hmm..but I still can't make up my mind if I should get a notebook.
By the way, I wanted to read my Maths notes on the way to school but met wq instead!
haha so lucky! =D haha come ntu la.
the mrt trip seems much shorter when you are chatting!
And, the "high" people in the same course as me was so funny! we actually climbed to the top of the "golf course" aka art&media design library.
I couldn't believe how cool the place was.
An aesthetically pleasing facade with a laid-back ambience.
yea that is it!
I think Lib2 and Lee Wee Nam library are built for serious mugging while the arts library is for enjoyment and slacking. man. to make the place even better, they could even open a cafe!
Anyway, back to the meeting, attendance was 4/10.
Luckily I wasn't the leader or i'll stress.
Our leader is quite good at planning and organising! hmm. not bad!
We used the "open number" method to choose her de. haha.
She designed different roles for us to choose and guess what?
I chose to be one of the editors! haha.
By the way, the result that we have to produce is a written report.
Nothing much was discussed la...
Time passes quickly...it has been 4 weeks since sch started.
Today was quite evenful.
Firstly, I left my hp at the library in the morning but didn't know it until like 4 pm when I was supposed to meet my management project members.
Surprisingly, when I realised that my hp wasn't in my bag as I had thought, I remained quite calm.
Usually when something so important gets missing, I'll panicked...my brain turns cold and go haywire, imagining all the worst-case scenarios.
Always, my first instinct is to turn to my mum for help.
But today, I don't know how it happened but i actually knew how to react.
Of course, to call my phone.
I'm EXtremely grateful to the kind-hearted soul who returned me my phone.
Though I had to rush to City Hall to meet him after the meeting.
By the way, I didn't even know that I lost it in the library.
It was the person who told me.
Argh! since when had I become so muddle-headed?
Anyway, a million thanks to the person.
Can't imagine how grateful I was.
On the MRT all the way from Boon lay to City Hall, suddenly I kept noticing people using their phones.
And I counldn't help feeling lost without mine.
It just goes to how deep technology has penetrated in our lives.
After I went to City Hall to get my hp, I saw wq's msg saying there's a comex fair at suntec.
Since I'm already in that area, might as well take a look lo.
Maybe it was the first day, so the place wasn't very packed...luckily!
Hmm..but I still can't make up my mind if I should get a notebook.
By the way, I wanted to read my Maths notes on the way to school but met wq instead!
haha so lucky! =D haha come ntu la.
the mrt trip seems much shorter when you are chatting!
And, the "high" people in the same course as me was so funny! we actually climbed to the top of the "golf course" aka art&media design library.
I couldn't believe how cool the place was.
An aesthetically pleasing facade with a laid-back ambience.
yea that is it!
I think Lib2 and Lee Wee Nam library are built for serious mugging while the arts library is for enjoyment and slacking. man. to make the place even better, they could even open a cafe!
Anyway, back to the meeting, attendance was 4/10.
Luckily I wasn't the leader or i'll stress.
Our leader is quite good at planning and organising! hmm. not bad!
We used the "open number" method to choose her de. haha.
She designed different roles for us to choose and guess what?
I chose to be one of the editors! haha.
By the way, the result that we have to produce is a written report.
Nothing much was discussed la...
Sunday, August 19, 2007
//Life at NTU//
Finally my com is back!
Just the right time... when there are so many administrative and academic stuff to settle!
All those things are so confusing so I've decided to just keep whatever timetable they assigned me for this semester. Whether you can change your timetable, your subjects, or take extra electives really depends on how fast your fingers are, as everything is done online. However, since they opened the system to seniors first, freshmen are at a disadvantage. Which means to say we only have leftover vacancies to choose from.
A lot of things you gotta figure it yourself...erm since I didn't have a very analytical brain, I ended up in the wrong laboratory for my lab lesson.
Ok..so in the end I was late by 15 mins by the time I figured out that the laboratory I was supposed to go was at the other end of the school. (yes, weiqi, that's when you saw me looking flustered)
The campus map I had wasn't useful at all because I was bad at directions. Lol.
A strange thing about NTU is how they name their levels.
The highest level you can find in NTU is level 1. Before I got to know this, I was super shocked to know that my laboratory was at basement 6. And I also got to experience their lifts as two lifts on the same block may not get you to the same floor. For instance, I was already inside the lift when I realized the lift only travel between L1 and B3.
The first lab lesson I had was ok except for the fact that the class was so quiet.
Actually, when I first stepped into the lab, the whole place was dark with only 2 OHP lights shining. Then I realized that there was 2 lab groups in the lab. Everything had began without me as I was the last to enter. The lesson was alright except for the fact that the prof seems to be scared that I will accidentally cause a short circuit or even an explosion- do I look the type? Since the experiment was on diffraction grating, each time I tried to on a light source, the prof will go "eh eh….wait wait…what are you doing?"
Then after the experiment I watched a safety video which said that you have to consult the prof before switching on anything in the lab. Oh. How stringent.
For the second week we had the ECA carnival and IT fair. I couldn't believe it that they held the ECA carnival on the two narrow side walkways. Everyone was squashed together. Anyway, it was at the "throw your aeroplane" library booth that I won a thumbdrive! It is only 256mb but I was lucky, nonetheless. The atmosphere didn"t tempted me to join any ECA nor buy any laptop at all. All I saw was half-hearted attempts in introducing their ECA. The laptop fair only had a limited range of laptops priced above $2k which is not within my budget.
Although I'm still studying Maths, Physics…etc, one main difference from JCs is that there are more lectures than tutorials. For life science, I totally had no idea what is it about as the lecturer kept going on and on about Charles Darwin and revolution theories.
For a supposedly-familiar subject like maths, the tutorial questions were quite unexpected so it seems that the lecture notes were too brief and there's a lot to read up on. It doesn't help that I travel 2 hours to school and 2 hours back home everyday. Which brings me to another fact that the queue for bus 179 from boon lay mrt to ntu every morning is utterly horrendous.
So I was so happy last thursday when I finally arrive early to school, breaking my record of being late for more than a week.
Finally my com is back!
Just the right time... when there are so many administrative and academic stuff to settle!
All those things are so confusing so I've decided to just keep whatever timetable they assigned me for this semester. Whether you can change your timetable, your subjects, or take extra electives really depends on how fast your fingers are, as everything is done online. However, since they opened the system to seniors first, freshmen are at a disadvantage. Which means to say we only have leftover vacancies to choose from.
A lot of things you gotta figure it yourself...erm since I didn't have a very analytical brain, I ended up in the wrong laboratory for my lab lesson.
Ok..so in the end I was late by 15 mins by the time I figured out that the laboratory I was supposed to go was at the other end of the school. (yes, weiqi, that's when you saw me looking flustered)
The campus map I had wasn't useful at all because I was bad at directions. Lol.
A strange thing about NTU is how they name their levels.
The highest level you can find in NTU is level 1. Before I got to know this, I was super shocked to know that my laboratory was at basement 6. And I also got to experience their lifts as two lifts on the same block may not get you to the same floor. For instance, I was already inside the lift when I realized the lift only travel between L1 and B3.
The first lab lesson I had was ok except for the fact that the class was so quiet.
Actually, when I first stepped into the lab, the whole place was dark with only 2 OHP lights shining. Then I realized that there was 2 lab groups in the lab. Everything had began without me as I was the last to enter. The lesson was alright except for the fact that the prof seems to be scared that I will accidentally cause a short circuit or even an explosion- do I look the type? Since the experiment was on diffraction grating, each time I tried to on a light source, the prof will go "eh eh….wait wait…what are you doing?"
Then after the experiment I watched a safety video which said that you have to consult the prof before switching on anything in the lab. Oh. How stringent.
For the second week we had the ECA carnival and IT fair. I couldn't believe it that they held the ECA carnival on the two narrow side walkways. Everyone was squashed together. Anyway, it was at the "throw your aeroplane" library booth that I won a thumbdrive! It is only 256mb but I was lucky, nonetheless. The atmosphere didn"t tempted me to join any ECA nor buy any laptop at all. All I saw was half-hearted attempts in introducing their ECA. The laptop fair only had a limited range of laptops priced above $2k which is not within my budget.
Although I'm still studying Maths, Physics…etc, one main difference from JCs is that there are more lectures than tutorials. For life science, I totally had no idea what is it about as the lecturer kept going on and on about Charles Darwin and revolution theories.
For a supposedly-familiar subject like maths, the tutorial questions were quite unexpected so it seems that the lecture notes were too brief and there's a lot to read up on. It doesn't help that I travel 2 hours to school and 2 hours back home everyday. Which brings me to another fact that the queue for bus 179 from boon lay mrt to ntu every morning is utterly horrendous.
So I was so happy last thursday when I finally arrive early to school, breaking my record of being late for more than a week.
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