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Whee.. 1000 hits!

- Viv, 19August09

YES! I solved it! *beam*
It was an HTML error.

- Viv, 03August09

There's some problem with blogger.. or is it just my blog??
I cant seem to be able to post anything else without affecting the page layout. =(
Hopefully it's a blogger problem and they will solve it soon.

- Viv, 02August09

Hiyee.. Welcome!
It's a new look again... I hope you will like it. =)

- Viv, 12July09

hits since 12July2009.

..Rambling..

Saturday, April 29, 2006

almost halfway thru

MSD and FFM went.... hmm. not really sure. hahaha... both were not easy papers, both were not very well done. but somehow i dun feel sad, weirdly.

The compulsory question in MSD should be correct. but again, out of the 5C4 questions, i tried all 5 and end up totally not knowing how to do 2 of them. a natural frequency of zero? u know it's not going to vibrate for nothing. haha... so i ended up submitting the "lesser of the two wrongs" in hope of getting just that 4 out of 18 marks. heh...

FFM even better. Lots of words and mostly crappy answers. Not exactly what i had hoped for. "Who is the person who came up with this G theory?" Why would i care who invented the theory as long as i know how to use it? "What was the method used b4 the development of fracture mechanics?" Huh... I'm not from that era and is not really interested in some ancient methodolgy... does that really matter? In the end there also were not many, if any, calculation questions, as i would very much prefer to do. So it's those kind of papers where, u managed to smoke through all the questions, but there's no way you would know whether u did well or not because you might just score well because the marker likes your neat handwriting.

Well, at least that's another 2 papers down.

It's damn weird lah. I am feeling too relaxed. The exam don't feel like an exam this time. Why!?? It's like, it is ok if i don't do too well, because... there's no such excuse. hmm... duno leh... i am not really stressed or kan cheong like i did for the past 2 years. i just stood outside four seasons for one entire hour to wait for the table and i didn't even feel like it's a waste of my time. i think i've attained enlightenment. hahaha... not sure if this is good or bad. definitely good for health.... but result wise, we shall see lah hor. hahaha...

but aniway, this is the first time in London that people from other courses are also having exam at the same time as me. last time i am always like the onli person mugging alone while pple still enjoying their hols.. =( so this is quite a good feeling actually... hahaha... to know that everyone else is working hard and going thru shit at the same time as me. lol~ yaloh, it's quite fun to see all the exam/stress-related nicks, which accounts for ard half of my list.

cant wait for exams to end man. a sudden urge to go shopping. =P must get some working clothes for attachment this summer. hee...

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

CCM paper

Before any evaluation of the paper, just wanna express my gratitude to all of you who specially wished me 'Good Luck!!' for my exams~ so sweet of you peepz! =) Thank you~~~~ For those whose exams are nearing soon, "Good Luck to you tooo!!!" ;)

Today's paper is an open book exam. I guess I cannot say things like "I should have done better...." since all the information I need are right in front of me.

The paper went quite smoothly at the beginning. I did the questions one by one, skipping the last 1 or 2 parts of every question cos I couldn't really answer them. Attempting the 3rd question started to cause a little stir... it's the easiest question of the paper i think, but i'm stuck becos i duno what the equations for a vorticity vector and tensor are~ I don't rmb seeing them in my revision for this subject at all. Don't tell me I have to make use of my 2nd yr fluid mech knowledge!? who can rmb those?! Luckily, after flipping through the entire textbook twice, i found the most impt page which i didn't see at all nor come across when doing past yr papers. phew~ cold sweat!

The final question attempted took 1.5 hr of the 3 hr paper. And i think only 5 out of 25% is correct. =( As a 5 choose 4 paper, i chose the seemingly easier option of the last 2 questions. However i couldn't proof the 2nd part of the question, the 3rd part of the question looked a little ambiguous, and i cant think of any good example for the last part of the question. That's like... not knowing how to do almost the entire question!!! So i tried to do the other question. But it didn't help either, cos i cant even get 5%, i cant do the whole question!! *sigh* bobian... went back to the first option, and bluff my way through. still couldn't proof the 2nd part though, which i now suspect i got it wrong becos i interpreted the question wrongly hence the two results couldn't match. grrrrrr....

then with only 20 min left, i went back to finish up those parts of the questions left blank. To my horror, when there's only 5 min left, i realized i did half of another question wrongly! jialat lah~ i panic in that 5 min man... cos i know it's wrong, but i'm not too sure of the correct answer. so i just have to guess and anyhow substitute some values in it, scribbling as fast as i can afford, "liquid papering" the wrong ans so that i have space to write down the edited solution, mentally shifting the variables around so that i can save time writing another line of equation, etc. managed to finish editing what i want to change, but not even sure if it's correct. >.<

it's an easy paper for most people, but i guess an average one to me, with lots of heart attacks towards the 2nd half of the exam. if the qns i smoked thru are correct, i would expect quite a good mark. but if they turned out to be the other way round, then it doesn't look that good. but somehow i don't feel as bad, becos it being an open-book exam, i know it's the best i can do. I cant blame myself for not remembering certain equations or theory or anything. Everything that i have is in front of me. So, just have to hope for the best bah!

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Sunday, April 23, 2006

end of easter break

just 1 more day to my 1st paper. yet i haven't studied anything at all today. recently i've been stoning quite alot and my efficiency is dropping dropping dropping. hence the attempt to spend some time blogging now in hope of getting back the mugging feel again, even though i dun see what the relation btw them is. lol~

it just doesn't feel right lah... having exams immediately after hols end. cos i wun have the peer pressure to motivate me to work harder when i realize i haven't been doing enough, as it had been for the past two years. and since it's still the easter break, the holiday feel hasn't really left. hmm.

even though i always had to suffer mugging thru the easter hols, cos even in yr 1 & 2 the exams are also relatively early, i still love the sudden season transition. all of a sudden, the days become so much longer after turning our clock 1 hr ahead. and i can smell the warmth in the air!! haha.. and i tink the trees look the cutest when the leaves just begin to grow. baby leaves are sooo cute!!!! yeah... always missed hyde park during this period. should go take a look soon.

lalalalala... hmm.

lalalalala....
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i just dowan to start on my revision...

yet.

sigh.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

木麻黄的日子

若你曾是德明的一份子，若你曾在木麻黄下度过了难以忘怀的四年，相信德明应该在你心里还占有一个特殊的位子吧。

不断的改变，是不变的定律。

毕业时曾以为德明的成绩会在其他学校的压迫下往下掉，但今年的表现好像非常不错。6 年前天天在太阳还没升起就会在那里拼命抄功课的地方，6年后竟然也是弟弟的课室。不过相比之下，他那班的精神比我那一班多了好多倍。弟弟说那是多亏新校长的功劳。他提出了不少的新点子，做出了一些改变，非常受全体师生的欢迎与爱戴。

因为直通车，为了容纳更多学生，现在的校舍将会被拆掉重建。同时，今年也是德明的五十周年。为了纪念，他们推出了一些纪念品。弟弟问我要不要买来作纪念，我确实是有一点蠢蠢欲动。

你呢？想买个纪念品，算是把那曾经非常熟悉却即将消失的地方扑捉下来吗？若你也和我一样，有些心动的话，尽管让我知道。=）

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Monday, April 17, 2006

notpron

well... i unknowingly wasted my time a little here: http://deathball.net/notpron/

opps.

it's similar to the previous 'Mystery of Time and Space Adventure'. but much tougher.. becos it expands the search out to the web address and even the source code. Damn difficult. I decided to give up and continue when i have more time later. heh..

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Thursday, April 13, 2006

i am so screwed

The title says it all. I am so gonna die. I'm not even demoralised. It's far beyond demoralisation. I have kinda accepted the fact that I cant do a single question on the exam paper.

I'm studying subject by subject. So far, I've finished 2, out of the grand total of 8. These 2 are the easiest of the 8, and i "finished" them by being able to complete 50% of each of the 2 past yr papers attempted. amazing achievement.

and today, i tried doing past yr papers of the 3rd subject. It's not even considered doing, cos after looking at every single question, I had to refer to the solution given. I didn't know where and how to tackle them. And the worst ting is, i don't understand the solution. for both papers 'attempted'. how clever i've become.

and that's not even the tougher subjects.

have been slacking too much i guessed. i started this hols with the mentality that i cant just mug, i need to relax when i want to. it is a holiday after all~ so i spent the entire 2 weeks with no stress at all. doesn't even feel like exam is approaching. but during dinner 2 nights ago, the stress hit me when bingrong said he's not stressed by exams at all. why? he only need to get a B to get his guaranteed first class. no wonder he looked so relaxed... somemore his exam is a little later than mine, with fewer papers i think.

urgh... time to buck up. need to start waking up earlier than 12pm (and that's when i sleep ard 1am!). hahaha... pig. =P ya... i really duno how to survive this time round. juz be prepared to die i guess. heh~

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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

japanese VS spanish

i'm thinking of continuing to study spanish at a slightly higher level... cos since i've oredi started with level 1, might as well learn it better right?? after all there wun be much chance for me to take up spanish anymore in spore even if i want to in the future...

but, japanese has been bugging me all the time. i am very interested in learning jap, and the reason why i didn't take it this yr was becos of the reason "since i'm in europe, might as well learn a european language right...." =P yalah... then these few days after watching one jap serial after another, the urge to learn it surface again. again~ urgh... but if i take it next yr, that'll mean i'll "master" both languages at the beginner level... not very useful huh? but i want to be able to understand (at least roughly) what the jap actors & actresses are talking about in the show without looking too much at the subtitles leh... >.<

it was between jap 1 and spanish 1 last yr. it's now between jap 1 and spanish 2 this yr. a similar yet different choice.... how!? please gimme some advice on how to go about choosing... urgh~~~

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My Perfect Major

wOoOhOoo... to be honest, the decision to study engineering came so quick i tot i wasn't putting in any thoughts to it at all. but seems like i made the right choice! lol~

You scored as Engineering. You should be an Engineering major!

Engineering

100%

Journalism

75%

Chemistry

67%

Sociology

67%

Psychology

58%

Philosophy

58%

Anthropology

50%

Dance

50%

Mathematics

50%

Linguistics

42%

English

33%

Theater

33%

Art

25%

Biology

25%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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Saturday, April 01, 2006

another one

Here's another test i took, link accessed from eewen's blog.

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My Personal Dna Report
You are a Generous Realist.

Realist:

Your attention to detail, appreciation of how things function, and awareness of the world around you make you a REALIST.
Routines are reassuring to you?you feel safer and more at ease when sticking with familiar things.
You like to stay close with those around you, seeking comfort from familiar faces.
You are interested in processes?how things work, what they do, and why?not just how things look.
Sometimes you doubt that you can find solutions to problems, although you have a good sense of why things happen, and can use that knowledge to find the best way to do something.
You are down to earth, concerned more with practical, detail-oriented things than with dreamy or ambiguous ideas.
You have a good sense of your abilities and weaknesses, and don't let your ego get in your way.
You're not one to force your positions on a group, and you tend to be fair in evaluating different options.
You prefer to have time to plan for things, feeling better with a schedule than with keeping plans up in the air until the last minute.
Generally, you believe that you control your life, and that external forces only play a limited role in determining what happens to you.

Generous:

Your awareness of those around you, along with your nuanced perceptions of the world at large, makes you the GENEROUS person that you are.
You value time to yourself and understand how rich your private world can be?you know that you don't have to go wild to have a good time.
You are excited and energized by ideas and often enjoy things more through observation than through experience.
This tendency gives you an appreciation for different perspectives and opinions about the world.
Being as aware of others as you are doesn't mean you find it easy to trust them immediately?this is something that happens more slowly for you.
Despite this, you are aware of the complexities of many situations and are reluctant to pass judgments on others.
Although you have fewer friendships than some people, those that you have are meaningful and are important to you.
You value spending time alone?it is while reflecting on the world around you that you often learn something new about yourself or begin to understand something that's been bothering you.

If you want to be different:

Appreciate that your skill set can be useful in many ways; your attention to detail and your familiarity with the inner-workings of things are valuable assets.
Try looking beyond the earthly qualities of things in order to expand your perspective, without losing your grounding in reality.
Given how attuned you are to others' thoughts and feelings, you might find that trusting people more is a way to broaden your perspective even further.
While you know how much can be learned from observing the world around you, remember that much of life can be lived by experiencing it, not just by understanding it.

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