Lazy and useless prof

I can't help annoyed by the 2nd part lecturer of my AI module. I was going through the e-learning video just now and found that the slides in the lecture note is once AGAIN different from the video!!! ^&+*($&^*&^

To me, this is TOTALLLLY unacceptable. It seems like that fellow is a super lazy and useless prof. I wonder who is the fellow who decided to hire that prof. ^&*(^% No wonder NTU ranking dropped in the recent survey. The provost comment that it is mathematically that the uni ranking to drop 8 position according to the different criterials for ranking. I doubt the ranking is accurate too, because if they sit in for the our AI lectures, I guess NTU's ranking would dive much more.

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Crop up AI lecturer

One of the thing I hate most in my academic is the ill organized lecture notes. This happened a few times in my uni school life, including this semester. The second part of my AI module is q.screwed up because of the lecture notes. The one that were given to us initially on the web site is different from the one the lecturer is using. I highlight the matter to the lecturer and got the notes after insisting for 3times that the presented version should be given to us.

Last week is our e-learning week and we are having lesson online watching the recorded lecture videos. But I was focusing on my revision on another module, so I didn't go through the videos until just now. I was surprise(frustrated) again for not able to find the presented notes online and have to email the prof for notes again. This time round, I "got smarter" and ask for new set of note before hand if he is going to present different set of notes for the remaining lectures.

To me, this is really unacceptable. The crop up and stuff. Anw, nothing much I can do except to wait and see his reply.

shopping therapy

Feeling down these few days and especially today. Was walking around JP looking for something just now but didn't manage to find it. Instead of buying the stuff that I want, I bought a pair of slipper and a piece of t-shirt. Was feeling better when I shop at Giordano because of the bright smile given by the crew. Then I sort of can understand what is shopping therapy and why women like to shop when their mood is down.

For my case, its because the stuff that I bought are actually things that I wanted to buy for q.some time already but didn't, due to time and emotional attachment with my money. And those things are things that I should buy but not urgent. Usually its some minor "problems" that I can bear with. And so, shopping and buying these stuff actually lessen the things that could annoy me and make my day less annoying. On top of that, the bright smile on the sales person's face is really contagious. Somehow, it just make my day and I respect their professionalism. Actually I didn't really want to buy the piece of shirt that I bought, but still bought it because I was really touched by the excellent service given. Without having to look at my facial expression when the sales person first greet me, I know my face looks like a "black pile of shit" (you4 hei1 you4 chuo4). Thats the reason why I used the word professionalism earlier. I hope whatever I said can be a boost of morale for any sales person happen to read my blog. =)

p.s.: I forgot to point out that I recieved 20% discount for the tee because my bro is a member of Giordano and this month is his birthday month. Didn't know there is such discount until the payment. Luckily all I need do to enjoy the discount is to key in my bro's phone number.

emtional day...

wat is the purpose of life?

today i read a book by robert kee "The 25 Cents Meal and The $50 Buffet". Robert is one of the directors of OHF which the org was featured in channel U "find me a singaporean 2" (if i remember to title correctly). Inside the book, there is a quote relating to what I have asked myself and my friend many times "What is the purppose of life?". The answer given in the book is "The purpose of life is a life full of purpose". I found the quote meaningful and yet vague. Because it did not answer the defination of purpose. Wat is purpose? After some thoughts about the quote, I had some conclusion for myself and I thought maybe it is worth some time for everybody to ponder about.

It have been an emotional day for me today. Something happened which led me to think about how good am I. I wanted to tell myself that I am strong and self confident but I know that is not totally true. I might look strong on the outside, but I am pretty fragile inside me... Life, purpose, self reflexion, emotional... Success is a must for me...

抽刀断水水更流，举杯消愁愁更愁

Bored and nice video on "My grandfather's clock"

I am so bored... hours and hours of video lectures is killing me. I find myself can't concentrate well today. Been switching between lecture videos to youtube videos now and then. Sigh... Anw, I came across this song called "my grandfather's clock" on radio yesterday night and did a quick search about it today. Found an awesome youtube video on this song. I have already emailed some of friends and thought its nice to put it on my blog. Below are two videos, the first one is the "original" version and serve as "background info" and comparison to stand out the second video (I don't know which or what is the original version). ENJOY! =)


First video



Second video

kind taxi driver

Today is a good day. Because I took a free cab ride to school today. This is the second time I have took this free ride given by a very kind hearted taxi driver, who he gives free ride to students to canteen A everytime he is going into NTU. If I am not wrong, the first time I took his free ride was on my birthday this year.

uP quiz result

Lucky~. Today just got back my quiz paper done yesterday. 5 people got full marks and I am one of the 5 this time. Overall, everybody got q.high marks because the quiz is easy. Most importantly, I am lucky. Because I didn't finish studying for the quiz. Only finish like half of what I should study and either skim or didn't study at all for the rest of the other half. So I actually study while taking the open book test.

I was so damn not confident that I will get good marks for this quiz before the quiz. Yesterday when I came to sch, I was somewhat about to be late and thinking whether I should take a cab. But in my mind I felt so "confident" that I won't get good marks for the quiz, so I thought it would be a waste of money if I took cab and still get bad grade for the quiz. So I decided to take a risk, took 172 and see how it goes. By the time I reached the bus stop outside sch, its already 10 mins before the quiz starts. Thus I decided to take a cab to the quiz LT because knowing that now the damage to my wallet have been minimize already. Its costed me $5.1 if i remember correctly. But its worthwhile.

Feeling relieved now as I have finished my report, assignment and quiz. All I hope now is there is no problem with my report so I can concentrate on my revision for exams. My exams starts on 12th Nov this sem and I have 3 hit combo on 12th, 13th and 14th this time. 3 years of hardwork and this one is crucial to my honours. My past few sem's result is forming a downturn and this is making me worry. All I hope is it won't follow the stock market and crush.

1 cleared, 1 pending and 1 more to go

finally submited my FYP report today. This week is a busy week for me. Within this week, I have 1 quiz, 1 FYP report to submit and 1 assignment to submit. Spent most of the time working on FYP report this week and only started studying for my quiz this morning. Haa, another last min hug hug my budda's leg. But I think the quiz turn out fine because its quite easy i think. Hopefully I didn't commit any mistake.

This quiz is my 2nd quiz of the module (adv uP sys). Initial plan for the module is to only have 1 quiz, having this additional one is due to the general poor score performance of the group. The prof says she will take the better of the two score as our CA. I didn't score well for the first quiz, only got a 17/25. If I am not wrong, this is my worst, or one of the worst, score I got for so many years. Suddenly realized there is a trend of bad records coming up lately, the overdue assignment, overnight rushing of assignment and bad score for quiz... Hope all of these will go away together with my submission of FYP report. But I haven really got over the FYP report yet because I am still waiting for review and comment from profs and gotta write a journal for submission. Sigh... this FYP is really giving me a long painful headache.

Looks like everything is going fine so far... I have just applied to stay in hall today. Hopefully the application will be accepted. Let hope everything will go smoothly and see my 2008 will be a hua ah! or a fu*k ar! LOL.

impromptu

Yesterday i attended my aunt's "shop warming" session at balestier area. The beauty and slimming theme shop which located very near to one of my ex-working place. Talking about ex-working place, I recently did a calculation and found that I have worked for around 8 companies/organization before (including IA and freelance). Didn't realise I am so "experience" until I did the counting. At the shop, ping mei together with me and almost all my family members had a impromptu motivation talk. Little did I expect that the talk would a success but it turned out to be good. Hopefully this thing will be a success and I will have my dream come true. =)

Shit, the more the merrier, the longer the better

The stock market have been going many "lao sai" days recently especially these few days. For the last 10 days, STI lao-ed 410.63 pts or 20.2% of today's closing! Looks like investors in the market have already gone into deep fear and making alots of irrational trades. And it is these fears and irrational trades that creates opportunities for rational investors to seize opportunities to make a fortunate. So, that explains how I came out with the title of this blog. =)

Glucosamine

Haa, my second post of the "morning". Just wanna share this info that I learned from one of the ntuc pharmacist. Recently I went to check out about glucosamine for my knee problem because I though I should do something about it for long term plan. Though (I thought) the condition have been getting better because I didn't suffer from pain when I run. //I think its because of the squats I done before the run.

From the queries about different brands of glucosamine, the pharmacist told me that some of brands of glucosamine is not very suitable for some people, especially people who have high cholesterol or high blood (I can't remember very clearly which symtoms is it liao). Though I do not have these problem (according to what I know), but the point is, do check with professionals if you wanna buy health products. Try not to ask sales person from shops with no or close to zero knowledge about health products and what they care about is making sales. From my personal experience, most of the time, they will tell you whatever product is "good", many people are buying it and the feedbacks recieved for the product are excellent...etc. However, whatever they said doesn't mean everything. Something that is good for others might not be good for you and vice versa.

All in all, my advice for everyone is to check with professionals before buying anything, be it health product or other stuff. Know who really are the professionals, looks are decieving. Feed them with information before getting information from them (Give and take). Tabulate and process the information gathered before making decision. =)

overdue assignement and stuff

Sigh.... I just "realized" my assignment was overdue two days ago after recieving email from the prof. FYP is really occupying too much of my time and mind. Not really in the mood to bother about other assignments and in the bo chap mode lately. One of my another assignment was due on Monday and I only realized that on Monday midnight after Xin asked if I have done my assignment already. Luckily I have a few copies of references from friends(including Xin), if not, I think I won't be able to make it on time liao. In the end I spent around 8 hours (2am to 10am) to finish it. As far as I can remember, I think this is the first time I have an overdue assignment in my recent many years. Sigh... I think my mental strenght, time management skill, discipline and etc are just too weak to multi-task. Hope the rest of the plans will goes well for this year.

Btw, I just tied up "my part of the room" today but somehow don't feel very happy about it. Its not that its because not tidied properly, though its not very tidied yet, but don't know why I just can't get into the happy mood. Hmm.... I wonder what exactly is the reason...?