taking on too much?

well my dad was quite surprised when i said i took 8 modules in total last sem... and this sem i have 7 core... and i still planned on taking 2 electives cos i desperately need to clear my electives... he was saying i'm taking on too much.

yeah maybe...
this sem i have 7 core, + lab, planning to take 2 electives, one of them is jap lvl 3 which WILL take me alot of time to remember all the new vocab and such...

and then i have:
HS DB mod
self imposed warrior's hall regular poster/helper? not sure what u call it
hero's lounge... thread starter (not lounge starter!)
my training grounds guide
and my latest project. HUGE project. a website of my own (still its free hosting) with:
the entire encylopedia of all the warrior related FAQs
SM guide
hero guide
aran guide
NW guide
training grounds guide
acc calculator and damage calculator (my own version)

alot of my new project stuff are not done of cos, and that's gonna take an awful lot of time... already i've pushed the new project aside for a couple of days, in favor of playing the game itself.
of yes, how can i forget my array of characters to train....

gotta... yes... gotta force myself to study during certain periods of time per week. MUST do....

...

okay ok... i decided to write some stuff here...

exams came and passed. my holiday in korea + china came and passed... -.-

i really have to think up of ways to make earning interesting to entice myself to devote more time to studying, apart from the host of games and game related stuff i do. results was a... kiss your high almighty 1st class hons dream gdbye... terrible. i can believe my dad didnt really scold me abt it. i guess we all know. i've been playing games right up to the very last min again and arghs. i hate myself for doing such things. yet when the time comes to actually mug for exams, i JUST CANT do it. man i suck! yes i do suck... even though... arghs... As was one big failure already... i'm doing it all over again. and again. and again. do i ever learn? i guess not. yes in a way i'm still freaking childish i guess. so old and still playing such childish games actively. and than spding so much X on it. arghs.............

i dont know.

i give up.

maybe i'll try typing out my own notes next year and see how things goes. at least that'll force me to actually read my lect notes more. yeah.

a million years since i blogged haha

as per title....

hmm... 1st paper down... 5 more to go. the japanese paper was still okay, felt better than i did the last sem. at least i hope i can get an A. haiz. so near yet so far. last paper on 8th dec! 2 papers tmr... haiz. hope i can do well for my other elective paper too... i think i'm pretty screwed for some of my core modules so yeah... :(

gah... i'm bored!

wanted to go maple forums... but nope... the forums are under maintenance! imma bored!!!!!!!! yesh i still have a bunch of work to do later on... part of the 102 draft needs to be edited (work split up) and emailed out by tmr, i have to find papers and read up on the causes n prevention of type 2 diabetics cos we are meeting up tmr... gah! 5 hours of break tmr but at least 1 hour will be spent on discussing the diabetic thing. the guy in my grp is like the super worried, kan choing... i dunnoe.. just find his character a bit weird. like how he suddenly come n ask me if i'm in 2nd year (like not direct entry) and know how to search for journals. yes yes i've done so much journal searching while at ibn. then the other 2 gals in my 102 grp were like, huh? year 2 means know how to search for journals arh? how arh? we dunnoe! wat's a journal anyway? proves my point that there are really a lot of ppl so far backward i dunnoe how to describe... their idea of research n all is still like the very childish, primary or secondary sch kind of idea ><

gah. dont wanna talk abt this anymore... i'll go play some games or smthing ><

yo peeps!

hello all! in sch comp lab now... biostats lesson LOL. OMG THIS MODULE IS SO SLACK!!!!!!!!!!!! I SWEAR! i just looked thru all the title of all the lects for the module... like all but 1 of the lecture is stuff not taught in jc... and considering that i really aced jc stats... i've already finished all the qns for today's lab... which plenty of time to spare to check out my gc syntax, check wiki for CLT formula and all etc... play facebook even.. hehe...

2 projects stuff on going now with an undone assignment for ACB... ok lah... nothing compared to all that 3, 4, 5, or more performance tasks at once in rg... lol. now my greatest challenge is trying to keep awake, and at the same time still be concentrating on lectures. still have yet to find a way to do so... imagine if i fall asleep half the time during that techno speak elective... where all the lesson content is in this 3 hour lecture once a week... i'll die in the exams lah ><

haiz. okays. her still gng on n on abt approximation n CLT... wonder if the use to gc to skip all the approximation, standardizing etc is accepted in exams... gotta ask the guy later on. <3 my gc ^^

tough days ahead?

been sick for the past couple of days... like fever, running nose, cough n the like.........

been totally heck care abt getting any electives... until like just an hour ago i decided to check out the stars planner thingy.. and to my amazement found this prescribed elective that doesnt clash with my core, has a title that looks interesting, and had 2 slots! OMG! so i went to search the ntu webby on details on the course. turns out that its a course abt english... technologically speaking is the course title. sounds interesting, no? smthing abt how technology changes the usage of language... even things like chat slang and all... the assessment still looks do-able. 50% ca - 2 take home assignments and a quiz. 50% final exam - mcqs and short qns.

then i went to check out on jap lvl2... which i've actually wanted to take but cldnt find a slot that fitted well with my time table... amazingly once again i found slots. picked one that's on tues n friday. the tues one is right aft my adv cell bio lect but i'm hoping the trend of that lecturer always releasing us early continues... probably gotta grab a bite before the lect n eat during the lec or smthing, in case i starve during the jap tut from 6:30-7pm... ><

not sure if i'm taking on too much. well if i slack like i did last year, i'll fluck everything no doubt, but that's the point - i dont want to waste my 4 years in uni n not get my 1st class hons. i dont wanna settle for anything less ><. yeah, a big chunk of it depends on the FYP, which u must get an A for, but if i'm not the one getting the A than who else? hell i did not waste my years rushing PTs in rg for nothing, nor did i spend my holidays at ibn doing nothing... the other day during one of the tuts 2 poly students while doing self intro said they worked at imbc n some other a-star insitute for a year before coming uni - cool stuff, but i did too had attachments at ibn for a total of over 8 months ><. yeah i was a student and they were dip holders so i believe they were lab officers/bio/watever its called in the insitute, but i did learn a lot from fan too. yeah i'm still extremely unsure n not confident if u ask me to come up with a project, design all the experiments and stuff, but compared to the rest of the students where i believe way more than half of them have had no experience watsoever... i'm definitely a lot ahead of them. thks fan!

gotta thks rgs a lot too... we were learning aseptic techniques to culture bacteria the other day... stuff we were taught in rg... >< yeah yeah, some small details like u shd always leave the agar plate inverted to prevent any condensation on the lid from falling back on the agar where not taught before, but the bulk of it? we learnt in secondary sch! they are teaching us how to write reports as a module too. yeah i appreciate them teaching us some new linguistics terms, but i've already picked up quite a bunch of scientific report writing skills... from the time we did a scientific project for RS in rg, to the srp in jc... no i'm not a fantastic writer, i'd probably be taking lit or smthing otherwise, but i really wonder how far back some of my peers can possibly be? i mean, i'm sure there are peeps who did srp also, who knows how to write reports... but if EVERYONE already knows all that stuff, why have such a course? that extra confidence boost, practise etc is always helpful, but i'm sure there are still ppl out there with no concept of report writing at all.

anways... i've missed the 1st 2 lects (bravo!) of the technologically speaking course, and the 1st 2 tuts of jap class. oh wells. the price to pay for not signing up for electives early. i must say that i'm really lucky tho, i didnt expect to get any electives this sem so late.

we have this biostats course this sem and i'm loving it! haha, stats was abt the only part of jc maths i liked anyway, and thus far i see a lot of repeat of jc stats. and the thing is, its BIOstats. basically, they know that in today's world of wonderful computer program and convinences, we dont need to bother abt the mathematical formulas and such (cos we arent taking math!!!!!!!!!!), we just need to understand the concept, and know how to use the programs... haha, my point exactly! just what i like! <3

we have a couple of projects thus far. actually, only 2 lah... not a lot. one on writing a doing a project n writing a proposal, report etc - basically its just PW all over again but with less time to complete. the other is a short presentation for tut class. my topic is on diabetics:causes n prevention. pretty cool topic, but not the coolest :( was hoping i cld get stuff like the bovine growth hormone, slimming pills n such... but oh wells. gotta think of some possible projects for the mini-pw and start searching for journals on the diabetes one tmr. both also got discussion on monday :X

gah... time to get start with work, just hope that this flu will be gone fast ><

sch's in!

1st wk of sch is over, i still have not found an elective to take. found an interesting one in psycology that doesnt clash with my timetable BUT it needs a prerequisite course which i, being a bio student, obviously didnt take. no hope in changing my mon afternoon class to a more desirable time either it seems. so i guess i'm stuck with waiting for FOUR hours on mon and FOUR hours on tues. sucks!

still hoping i can get in an elective before the add drop period ends next week. GAH!

sch's in

yup, sch has started.... met up with dear linger aft my lect n her work, had sushi again (wat else is there in ntu haha). she was really impressed with the sch buildings - cos just nice all the food place n my sch are the nice looking new buildings, the just nice they are repainting the old buildings for next yr's youth olympics, so i guess compared to nus, ntu looks so much better, haha! but seriously... ntu has a lot more new buildings than nus, and the new buildings do have quite a nice design - my sch doesnt look too bad, and the marble floorings inside does make the building look quite high class. the sch of art and design takes the cake - 2 buildings, with all glass on the exterior, in the shape of 2 slops, with grass grown ontop of the slopes. super nice looking - its been featured in the papers before...

anyways, no more slacking for me, i want my 1st class hons gpa and i cant get anyway near it if i continue slacking. i promise to read my lect notes before and revise it again aft the lect. no i've nvr mugged or memorized for any exams, and i WILL nvr do that. okays, i did study for exams still in rg, but its nothing like the way ppl mug for A lvls and such. i'm a smart person, and smart ppl dont mug and memorize stuff! we REMEMBER things haha! no more last mins work, i wanna know things inside out like the way i used it. okay, not exactly inside out, but at least i was sure of more than 80, or 90% of the course content in rg... now i step into the exam rm being sure of... less than half of wat i was taught. >< i wonder how i still get such a good gpa really =.=

okays. lect notes for tmr are still not out....... zzzzzz and tmr's lect is 1st thing in the morn so i guess there's no gonna be any notes... oh yeah, gotta try to stop falling asleep in lects too. last time i'll sleep thru half of EVERY lect. once again i wonder how i got such good grades zzzzzzzz. ok, my grades werent really that good, but i think its still abv average... at least it still starts with a 4... out of 5... either way, i'll make sure that this sem i know 100% for sure that my grades will be a lot better than average. its a promise... and promises are not meant to be broken - <3 linddy for teaching me the value of promises >< haiz... i'm not a good person when it comes to keeping promises, but i know wat i want n wat i must do to get there. well at least i know i want my 1st class hons ><

today's lect was pretty entertaining. or rather, very entertaining. as expected from dr. ken yu's lects. super duper funnieh. great thing abt it is that i dont have much trouble keeping awake ^^. bad thing abt it is... there's none! haha... i like his lects and style of teaching. a teeny weeny bit like hhx's style yeah. my laughing lect... really hope that he's taking us for all the lects, cos in the intro slide it say's he's the course coordinator and he didnt mention anyone else in the slide that's gonna be teaching us...

okays, enough time spent on blogging. i'll try to blog more often but i'm lazy. gah, i haven upload the pics we took for the outing with troopers to my com even. took me so long to upload the pics to shutterfly the other day, plus i cldnt load any webpage properly while uploading the pics >< gah... >< wat am i to do? haiz, still need to find an elective to add to my time table ><

outings!

3 outings lined up for the week!

1) sushi tea time buffet at novena with ash n mich tmr! yes, no more sakae this time! not very sure where we are gng, but i think its the one they showed on tv that time...

2) lunch with the students i meet at ibn on thurs! venue still undecided.

3) outing with my dear jlf on sat! venue n time both undecided.

hehe, jlf helping me play my nightwalker on maple... hmm... maybe i shd log on n visit my night walker later :D

life is full of surprises!

hehehe.... its been so long since i blogged or even visited my blog. sandra reopened her blog (surprise surprise!) which prompt me to take a look at mine (and hers of cos). which was when i realized that mich left a tag regarding her blog moving....

sandra's flying off again tmr :( i'll miss ya darling! <3

sch's starting on the 10th... or 11th... or august.... cos 10th shd be a hol in lieu of nat day on sunday right? anyways... yest when i check the elective module i've been assigned to aint out yet... so i'mma still waiting... haiz. next sem's timetable aint that great... 3 days starting at 8.30am. 3 days of squeezing in the crowded trains... arh wells... that' the life of a bio student i guess... unlike other courses where they can pack their time table to have free days... ours we dont have much of a choice... lects are fixed timings, tuts are more or less fixed... yeah... we only get to select which tut grp we are in.. hmps... so much so for letting us 'plan' our time table. we only get to choose our electives... but even then, u have 5 choices and its the computer that allocates which one u get into. and worst still... most of the courses have like 1000% of more ppl trying to register... and... ALOT of the modules clash with my core classes so yeah... so much so for the choices... ><

luv Sandra & JLF

still haven gone out with sandra but i swear we must meet up more than the one time we met with wx :(

and jlf is back in sg too! yay! :D <3 u all!

YIPPEE!

haha so long since i bothered to blog here...

quite a no. of stuff happened since... eg. ma got a lappy at the pc show... anyways sandra is back in sg!!!!!!! and jlf is coming back next thurs!!!!!!! YAY! double happiness!!!!!!!

been slacking all hols... surprisingly my gpa was stilll... acceptable... but i must work hard next sem if i ever want to get my 1st class hons... really... :X alrightly... nothing much else to report for now :X

an update!

hehehe, i'm forever not updating this place... anyways we went sakae with wx last week... last... erm.. okays i cant remember! but it was so fun!!!! we ate till we were so bloated and its the 1st time we cldnt finish the food... luckily they didnt charge us extra (its buffet). i think now the economy not very good lah, so if they still charge us they scared later no customers? i dunnoe... but its really wasnt our purpose to waste food okay :( we didnt leave THAT much behind either :X...

aft tt we still went ramen ten cos mich wanted to see ash's bf... then we talked n order a drink and a desert (which we cldnt finish) just cos... u cant go in a restuarant n order nothing right? then her senior n her bf gave us a free cup of drink each... and then we were so full that basically we wasted everything... and then we went home!

promised to met up again this week... ard thurs. do ash's hse n play xbox n sing karaok of west life songs... at least i think she said west life.. watever... just go her hse n play ^^

sad to say wx is gng back us b4 sandra can come back sg, unless sandra can come back earlier... otherwise... :(

TROOP OUTING!

wx is back in sg!!!! yup, current plan: outing to ramen ten/sakae sushi on thursday afternoon, meet at clementi!

wx has adopted the american accent, and has difficulties switching back! when i spoke wiht her over the phone i felt like copying her accent too.. just my natural reaction i guess, like if u keep speaking to me using the china accent chinese, i'll speak that way too... hohoho

yoz

hohoh, so long nvr blog again. went out with ash that day... erm... last thurs? for sakea buffet... super nice to eat with her again, we ate so much that my stomach was BLOATED hohoho... mich had exams so cldnt go... wx is coming back sg in 12 days time yay! cant wait to have an outing with me, ash, wx, mich and sandra again! not too sure when sandra is coming back tho, but i miss them all so much! even mich i also haven seen her for a while...

still not decided on what to do with my hols... main prob is that i dont feel like gng ibn again, and then i dunnoe which ri to go to. dont wanna do some admin job like last time in rh also. super boring... so yeah... haiz.

Exams over!

didnt do well for today's paper at all, the rxns i studied didnt come out, and i cant remember properly those that came out so yeah...

oh wells.... over is over... i dont want to dwell on such sad things.

blogskin editing in progress hohoho!

Last paper tmr!!!!!!!!!

Aft 4pm tmr i will be FREE! wahahahahaha! last paper from 1-3.30pm. 10 qns choose 9 leh! the longest paper thus far, NO MCQs!!!! a lot of things to remember also lah! need to remember all the biochemical pathways, the structure, the enzyme name or accroymes etc etc! the hardest paper to study for... hey i started studying last night already okays, one whole day more compared to the other papers liao loh. the res ti start studying the night before only (and really late at night)

okies. back to studying le

last and worst paper yet to come

today's paper was ok on the average. it not that i dont know how to do the qns, but rather, cos even tho its just 50 mcqs, like i guessed, there can be multiple choices per qn. if you miss out a correct choice, or shaded an extra choice, no marks. that's what worries me as i'm not sure if i missed out any right choices :S

oh wells. not much i can do abt it now... i did the paper quite fast actually. like 1h30mins finish checking all the qns. didnt make much changes after that, but i still stayed the full 2.5hours of the paper... just didnt want to leave early, even tho bu thte end of the paper, less than 25% of the ppl from my course was left. LOL. everyone cant tahan the waiting time liaos. all chao liao. this is my best sub! so i really hope i did well! was so bored that in the end i was drawing on my graphic calculator. haiz.

at the beginning it was quite ez. i was taking abt 1 min per qn. was at qn 15++ or 20++ i cant remember, there was this qn abt calculating how much the dna would weigh. i was having a bit of a mental block, kinda stuck there, then the lecturer (also took my tut grp, and his our only lecturer for the course, all the qns set by him) walk over to my row. he recognises me (and i liked his tuts) cos his tuts are more of a discussion kind and since nobody spoke up in his class, i started speaking up and answering his qns, soon he was calling me up to the baord to draw stuff... of cos another of my friend (sitting at the other side of the class) joined in regularly later on, which was great cos i NVR EVER did any of my tuts before hand. normally i just read thru the lect notes before the tut and look at the qns. (yet i can still answer his qns during tut! tho not always). so its great to have someone else for him to stare at and extract the ans out from LOL. anyways, the point here is that he recognises me, and would most likely assume that i shd do well in the paper. so anyways i was stuck at the stupd math problem (which i later sloved) and any pressing and whacking nos. on my graphic calculator. and he walks over, looks down at me (the table is short, n he is a tall ang moh guy, and i'm not tall either) and stared for a while, then said, is it that hard? (or smthing like that) and then walked off. i was like thinking... wat the.... wat's that supposed to mean? hey i'll figure this qn out later on okies! its just that i'm having a bit of mental block. and then i looked at my watch. its was just ard 20mins into the paper? i did the qns at like 1min per qn only! that's still not fast enough for you??? somemore its a 2.5hour paper for 50mcq qns... what's the rush? LOL i really have no idea what his comment was supposed to mean :X... lol... oh wells... and that was my interesting encounter for the day. hahas... nothing much else to report le. tata!

haiz

today's paper was quite hard. got one part of the qn i dunnoe how do at all. 6marks gone!!!!!!!!!!!! then another whole qn i think i get zero marks liao le. total 18 marks fly liao. then some mcqs were super hard n i dunnoe a no. of them.... all i can hope is that a lot of ppl found the paper hard too and so marks would be moderated up. but i think the paper was harder, since there were much few ppl leaving early this time. in fact i didnt notice anyone leaving till quite late into the paper. like much much later compared to the previous papers.

i really have no idea how wedn papers will be... 2.5hours paper, mcqs exclusively. he didnt tell us got how many qns, niether did he say if its the you can choose more than 1 ans type. today's paper the mcq test super a lot of nitty gritty details that i didnt (as did many ppl) bother to remember. i have absolutely no idea how wedn's paper will be like, cos that sub also dont have so much nitty gritty details to test in the 1st place. and the lecturer said that this yr's paper will be harder than the previous years!!!!! so how is he gonna make it hard is really smthing that i cant figure out. the good thing is that that sub has much less stuff to memorise. most of it is concept based and during the tuts and such i didnt find the concepts hard to understand. really hope that i can do better on wedn. i believe i cant even get an A for today's paper liao... and i was hoping to get all As... haiz. and then my parents are gonna scold me for not studying again. but then i didnt have any motivation to study lehs! NONE. sit in front of comp do nothing. stare at lt notes blanky. force myself off maple then i go play smthing else... so sian lah. at least i still studied more in rg even tho i played super a lot too. haiz. i really hope my gpa this time is good okies. last sem my gpa missed the 1st class honors scored by like 0.1 or less. although you stil need to get an A in the fyp to get 1st class honors, but there's the gpa requirement too... arghs... totally screwed up BIG time today! and my jap wasnt that good too... ARGHS i didnt do well for econs last sem also! dammit all my electives are screwing up my gpa! and i didnt do perfect for my core modules too so my gpa is so screwed!!!!! granted i believe its still much better than a lot of ppl but that's their problem, i have my own standard (yet i dont work to get there, how ironic) ARGHS i suck :(

luckily wedn's sub only had 10 lectures, and all the tuts are written on the back of the lect notes, much lesser things to study but argh the greatest headache comes with 106. biochem which has quite some phy part in the beginning, at least enough to remind me of how my 102 was like th worst sub out of eveything last sem (and the beginning of 106 is quite like 102) and then at the back there's so many chemical formulas, eqns, pathways, enzyme names to remember i dont think i'll be able to finish remember them all. arghs... i think 107 shd be my best paper this sem, if i dont do well on wedn i'm dead!

2nd round!

2nd round of exams starting tmr...! yet i still slacked the whole wkend... aft go jc i cant find the mood to study liaos... last sem quite lucky, gpa can consider quite gd (but not gd enough to me) but then this sem dunnoe if so lucky or not... and yet i still slack so much... someone motivate me to study pls :(
but then.. somehow bio comes rather naturally to me, as long as there's not too much details or chem in it. but of cos i'm only in yr 1, i believe things shd get much harder later on. i hope it would actually. else what's the point of going uni right? its to challenge urself de mah. okies. go study liaos

will change the blog skin of this blog n my maple blog when aft exams, i promise XD

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