Gotta believe in the power of moderation

The third stage of battle is coming to the climax. However, the non-volatile memory in my brain seems to used up, and everything I read will be gone when I sleep.

True enough, waking up to this morning, the first challenge was to show my understanding about operating systems - Windows, Unix and such. Something that I have been using everyday without fail for more than 3 years, yet my mind was a complete blank when being asked what they are all about.

Next come the maths, something that used to come all so naturally to me, yet now become my greatest struggle. I just felt glad that I'm not majoring in it now, as I totally can't do any of the calculations, and thinking about the problems just make me feel giddy.

Now that the papers for these two modules are over, and obviously, I won't be doing well for them, all I can do now is to believe the power of moderation. So, pray hard that others taking these modules can't do the questions as well.

Lines, Lines, Lines

This weekend was nothing to be enjoyable about. After spending the whole of the weekend 2 weeks ago on the breadboard, nothing is working. Therefore, I decided to dismantle everything and start going through the wiring from scratch!! What a pain.. Luckily, the troubleshooting only includes stripping wires and not using reef knots else it will take at least another few weeks to connect everything.

Finally after 4 days of wiring, the circuit is working as it ought to or at least how i hope it will work. Now what is left is the report that will need to be handed in this wednesday. Another pain in the neck. Drawing the circuit on paper and writing some nice description about it to hand in.

Hope the evaluator will be lenient since my circuit seems really messed up, even if i try to make it look nice.

Which one is nicer? Take a look at all the overhead crossings in the second pic, as compared to the one in the first one. The difference in standard is so large between me and the other students taking this course. I'm in for a tough battle to the end.

My Junior / My Senior

While rushing to the first lesson today, I saw a former classmate from primary school. In fact, it's the third time I see him in school this sem, just that I never greeted him, and he never noticed me. Anyway, this time, I called him, and he still took a few seconds to recognise me.. It's a good sign, at least he never said anything like I've not changed since last time.

He went to poly after secondary school, and is now a freshman at SoC. That should make him my junior. But he has been given exemption to some of the modules and has already taken at least one of the module I took last sem, and might also be exempted from some of the modules I'm currently taking. Therefore, in the end, we might just graduate together.

During secondary school days, it always seems that taking the poly route to university would be a waste of at least a year, but for those born in the same year as me, it doesn't seemed to go this way.

Drifting Away

The mid term tests period is finally over, with the last paper completed yesterday - Quiz 2 of CS1231X- Discrete Structures. This series of tests are really strenuous to the mind, but I don't see this as a time to slack. With 3 more projects still up and running, and deadlines approaching, I really want to get something done.

However, as always, things won't go the way as planned. I never fail to find excuses for not working hard (i.e. if i worked hard, then i failed to find excuses), and putting off what is to be done till the very last moments. The second submission for the Operating Systems project is this friday at 2359hrs, but I still have yet to expand on the parts that I was assigned. I guess my group members must really dislike me, since I have been really passive for this particular project.

Apart from the project, the labs from this particular module was also quite difficult to understand. Luckily, the lab TA was kind enough to extend the deadline for the lab submission for 1 of the lab by another week, for me to finish up. So for that particular week, I was behind time by 2 labs. How nua can I be..

At this point, I am already fearing for the worst for my Probability. Since tutorial 3, I've not been preparing for it. And the concepts of Probability just keeps on getting more abstract. Mathematics used to be my strongest subject, now it seems like it's one of the worst I can take. This means that most likely, I won't be taking anymore mathematics modules, and I'll have little other choices to go for as well.

Hoax or Not? Am I really Lucky?

A few weeks back, someone claimed that she was from a company in HK and asked me to take a survey regarding places that I have travelled to. After which, she gave me a lucky draw number if I'm not wrong is CS12658, and told me to wait for notification if I win a prize. She called back a while later and reminded me the number. She might have called back again a third time, but I didn't pick up the call, and I never heard from her again.

Two weeks ago, someone from Singtel called me and says I was selected to take up a free trial for Mio-TV. Along with the trial of 6 mths, I will receive a new modem and installation will be absolutely free. I accepted, and there, it was installed today.

Today, my sis told me that she received a call from NTUC Income while I was in school, saying that I've won something in a lucky draw... Don't know if it's for real, but the only policy I have with them is DPS. They never called back ever again.