Weekend Ramblings
Ah yes it's a glorious sunny weekend in Singapura and I am officially resting. This time I won't feel bad not working because all sorts of physical, mental, emotional activity drained the life out of me the past week. It was supposed to be two weeks after hell week already, but it sure felt like hell week all over again.
Not hell hell week actually. Hmm.. I was just So. Damn. Tired. But I was okay. The happy still-can-make-it kind of tired.
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Monday was ST2137 (Computer Aided Data Analysis) 2nd midterm test day. When asked by a few Pinoys how it went, I said it was OK lor. Karen thought that was a good sign, because my usual post-exam mood of late is one of bitterness and ego-bashing. OK lor. Hope the results turn out well.
It was an open-book test, too. And I think for tests of this kind, what one needs to do is to be sufficiently armed with the right tools. Tools that make sense to the examinee, of course. One has to sharpen these tools, and make them accessible. More tools, the better. Throw away the useless blunt ones.
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Tuesday we had my Managerial Econs group's 2nd case presentation, and we discussed two-part tariffs. It was weird because unlike our previous presentation some weeks back, nobody seemed to step up to the plate and take charge of collating and organizing the Powerpoint, or actually, more of piecing everything together to make the presentation, well, presentable. So I did it over the weekend, squeezing it in between my intensive mugging sessions for ST2137 test on Monday morning. Presentation turned out okay, too. My question was a bit on the tricky side, and I thought my argument, although very sensible and smart, had a resonable amount of BS (dunno how it could be smart and crappy but nobody seemed to question it.. no alternative answer I guess). Our tutor asked about it, he seemed to question some things on how I answered the question, but now I don't think he said it was wrong. He also didn't give any concrete right answer methinks. So it must be right!
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Oh, we finished our Calculus lecture on Tuesday too. Freaked out a bit because, well, it's finally over! No more excuse for Dr Wu to exclude some questions because we haven't discussed them yet. And that effectively means the students are supposed to know everything about Advanced Calculus II/Mathematical Analysis I by now. Gasp. That's a bit scary, if you ask me.
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Tuesday night I thought I could rest, but wooot, Wednesday was Tutorial Day, and I could not afford to screw up in probable presentation in our last tutorial for Calculus, nor in the required group presentation for ST2137 . So yeah I burned the midnight oil working on those. Slept before sunrise though, at 4:30AM! *faints*
So after back-to-back tutorials all morning on Wednesday, then came the tough part, the MAD assignment for St2132 Mathematical Statistics. WAAAAAAAAAAAH. It drove me, Diana and Kevin nuts. Kevin is this nice Year 4 Singaporean guy who's taking the same module Diana and I are taking. We've been working for our past 5 assignments together, but this one was the cruelest assignment yet.
The deadline was at 5pm, and we were mugging like crazy to solve the one number the assignment asked us. It was a two-part thingy, though, and we couldn't overcome the roadblocks. We finally arrived at answer, but it seemed too simple, and thus we couldn't go around finding a "smarter" answer. So we were about to submit at 4:30PM, and then Diana saw this guy who got perfect for the insane midterm test we took 2 weeks back (yeah the one I failed), and after she and Kevin ambushed (yeah that's the right term) him for comsultation while I tidied up my solutions, they headed back to the table and announced that we had to do part B all over, because by some twisted sort of magic, the distribution was supposed to suddenly turn up to be from Chi-Square. I seriously DUNNO how that could happen, but there they were, Diana and Kevin calculating like crazy, only to end up with a roadblock similar to the previous.
I was skeptical about going to the "Chi-Square route" because it basically ended nowhere, but maybe it could grant us partial credit, compared with the "Simple Answer Route", which although simple, it seemed somewhat logical and followed an example in the tutorial, and you can pinpoint an answer.
Anyway, I rushed to write something on the paper, and dropped our papers at Dr Chan's pigeonhole at 5:05PM.
Iris, choir VP, submitted her and her friends' papers after me, and together we rushed to Centre for the Arts for a talk by the new CFA Director at the CFA auditorium. KK, choir president, was kind enough to let us do our assignment, even if the talk was to start at 4PM. Haha, so Iris and I, arriving at 5:15PM just came for the reception. And what yummy reception too.
Then it was back to hall to SLEEP.
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OK, long enough entry. I'll tell you more about Thursday and MOMOMOMOMOMO(!) Friday and today as well sometime else.
Night. :P
Feel-good Points for the Week
Feel-good Points for the Week
Post-Mugging I-finally-get-it! Moments:
+750 Feel-good Points
Screwed-up (read: earth-shattering) Calculus test:
-5000 Feel-good Points
Screwed-up Mathematical Statistics test:
-3000 Feel-good Points
(only because everybody else did relatively bad as well)
Perceived Screwed-up English test:
-1750 Feel-good Points
Actual Not-too-screwed-up English test:
+1000 Feel-good Points
Red Cross Blood Donation After a Year of Waiting:
+500 Feel-good Points
Greeting Ivy a Happy 19th Birthday and Drawing her "Naruto" Eating Champorado:
+500 Feel-good Points
Not going out with Ivy and the rest of the Pinoys for Halloween Night:
-250 Feel-good Points
Not going for Halloween Night because of ST2137 test on Monday:
+250 Feel-good Points (cancels previous!)
Knowing best friend Jacko won the Clash quiz show:
+400 Feel-good Points
Offering and Doing Mugging-mate Diana Some Degree of Favor:
+300 Feel-good Points
TV Show Therapy (includes dosages of The OC, Desperate Housewives, Survivor):
+200 Feel-good Points
Music Therapy (includes superb music CD shared by KR choirmates Wei Ren and James, and finally finding some inspiring song stuck in my head since Czech Republic competition):
+400 Feel-good Points
Exhausting (small group practices!) but Fulfilling NUS Choir Practices:
+400 Feel-good Points (I love you guys!)
Pinoy friends and NUS friends and D-block and KR friends and other friends:
+600 Feel-good Points
_______________________
For a grand total of.. something! It pays to count one's blessings, really.. I feel better already! Haha.
Actually, I'm still reeling from the back-to-back-to-back blows by my screwed-up tests. Especially Calculus and Statistics. But yeah, never mind, must focus on recuperating than wallowing in agony. Besides, there's this new battle again on Monday with my Computer Aided Data Analysis second midterm test, and a case presentation for Managerial Econs class on Tuesday.
Hmm.. I haven't calculated my total feel-good points of the week, but if it's supposed to accurately reflect how I am right now, I'm guessing it should be some negative value. Quite a long way from being positive too. Well, this'll pass.
Besides, I'm gonna call home tomorrow, and see how Dad and Ma and Kai and Lola Neneng and Lola Doding are doing. That should buoy me up for quite a while.
All right now, back to work. And yeah, maybe I should listen to this nice Irish blessing song for the (n+1)th time. Goodnight!
Post-Mugging I-finally-get-it! Moments:
+750 Feel-good Points
Screwed-up (read: earth-shattering) Calculus test:
-5000 Feel-good Points
Screwed-up Mathematical Statistics test:
-3000 Feel-good Points
(only because everybody else did relatively bad as well)
Perceived Screwed-up English test:
-1750 Feel-good Points
Actual Not-too-screwed-up English test:
+1000 Feel-good Points
Red Cross Blood Donation After a Year of Waiting:
+500 Feel-good Points
Greeting Ivy a Happy 19th Birthday and Drawing her "Naruto" Eating Champorado:
+500 Feel-good Points
Not going out with Ivy and the rest of the Pinoys for Halloween Night:
-250 Feel-good Points
Not going for Halloween Night because of ST2137 test on Monday:
+250 Feel-good Points (cancels previous!)
Knowing best friend Jacko won the Clash quiz show:
+400 Feel-good Points
Offering and Doing Mugging-mate Diana Some Degree of Favor:
+300 Feel-good Points
TV Show Therapy (includes dosages of The OC, Desperate Housewives, Survivor):
+200 Feel-good Points
Music Therapy (includes superb music CD shared by KR choirmates Wei Ren and James, and finally finding some inspiring song stuck in my head since Czech Republic competition):
+400 Feel-good Points
Exhausting (small group practices!) but Fulfilling NUS Choir Practices:
+400 Feel-good Points (I love you guys!)
Pinoy friends and NUS friends and D-block and KR friends and other friends:
+600 Feel-good Points
_______________________
For a grand total of.. something! It pays to count one's blessings, really.. I feel better already! Haha.
Actually, I'm still reeling from the back-to-back-to-back blows by my screwed-up tests. Especially Calculus and Statistics. But yeah, never mind, must focus on recuperating than wallowing in agony. Besides, there's this new battle again on Monday with my Computer Aided Data Analysis second midterm test, and a case presentation for Managerial Econs class on Tuesday.
Hmm.. I haven't calculated my total feel-good points of the week, but if it's supposed to accurately reflect how I am right now, I'm guessing it should be some negative value. Quite a long way from being positive too. Well, this'll pass.
Besides, I'm gonna call home tomorrow, and see how Dad and Ma and Kai and Lola Neneng and Lola Doding are doing. That should buoy me up for quite a while.
All right now, back to work. And yeah, maybe I should listen to this nice Irish blessing song for the (n+1)th time. Goodnight!
Request Line
Request Line
I ask God for a lot of things. A LOT, really, and He has wisely not granted all of them, lest I be likened to a spoiled little rascal. A few granted wishes here and there, and in retrospection (note the emphasis), it's perfectly fine with me.
I've been asking for less and less things lately, but these involve matters on a larger scale. I fervently pray for them still, and whether they are granted or not won't be known anytime soon.
Today I realized something I want. It's not something grand like "World Peace" or something ambiguous like "Happiness" or something abstract like "Wisdom" (although yeah those would be terrific). On the contrary, it is something that's amazingly simple and although semi-abstract, it's identifiably mundane. Argh, it's so trivial I don't know why I can't achieve it on my own. I know a part of it has to do with me, but I don't know, I guess it's just not in my system.. at least not yet. It would make a world of a difference if I had this small gift, really.
And yep, that's my simple prayer request to God this time.
Oh, let me thank You, by the way, for blessing me more than I recognize.
I ask God for a lot of things. A LOT, really, and He has wisely not granted all of them, lest I be likened to a spoiled little rascal. A few granted wishes here and there, and in retrospection (note the emphasis), it's perfectly fine with me.
I've been asking for less and less things lately, but these involve matters on a larger scale. I fervently pray for them still, and whether they are granted or not won't be known anytime soon.
Today I realized something I want. It's not something grand like "World Peace" or something ambiguous like "Happiness" or something abstract like "Wisdom" (although yeah those would be terrific). On the contrary, it is something that's amazingly simple and although semi-abstract, it's identifiably mundane. Argh, it's so trivial I don't know why I can't achieve it on my own. I know a part of it has to do with me, but I don't know, I guess it's just not in my system.. at least not yet. It would make a world of a difference if I had this small gift, really.
And yep, that's my simple prayer request to God this time.
Oh, let me thank You, by the way, for blessing me more than I recognize.
Articles of Note
Articles of Note
I just wrapped up my article for the Ridge. I hope it gets published! If not, then well, write again next time! Haha.
I rarely check other news sites except INQ7.net and ABS-CBNnews.com, but today was an exception. And then I read this on BBC: Fatboy Slim makes Marcos Musical. Interesting. For a while there, I thought I was still on the (web)pages of the (online) Philippine newspapers. Hmm.. strangeness. Fatboy Slim is one of my favorite artists, because his techno dance tunes are just funky! I still can't reconcile him and a local Pinoy political figure though. Hehe. I dunno if this musical will be something Imelda will cry foul over, like the "Imelda" movie, which was presented to her as a documentary while filming, but turned out to be a feature-length film portraying her in a bad light. God bless you Imelda. All I can say.
Anyway, what's really an interesting read is this article on the Inquirer's Youngblood. It's by my junior in high school and now in Singapore, Carina. Haha congrats congrats! I've always wanted to be on Youngblood! Haha but never got around to writing and emailing them. Hats off to you Ca!
Well, about the content of your article, though, I hope you're much better now! I'm just around of course, and same goes for the rest of the Pinoy group here. Hehe, besides, as you've said, it's been a while since you wrote it, and hopefully since then it's been smooth sailing!
I just wrapped up my article for the Ridge. I hope it gets published! If not, then well, write again next time! Haha.
I rarely check other news sites except INQ7.net and ABS-CBNnews.com, but today was an exception. And then I read this on BBC: Fatboy Slim makes Marcos Musical. Interesting. For a while there, I thought I was still on the (web)pages of the (online) Philippine newspapers. Hmm.. strangeness. Fatboy Slim is one of my favorite artists, because his techno dance tunes are just funky! I still can't reconcile him and a local Pinoy political figure though. Hehe. I dunno if this musical will be something Imelda will cry foul over, like the "Imelda" movie, which was presented to her as a documentary while filming, but turned out to be a feature-length film portraying her in a bad light. God bless you Imelda. All I can say.
Anyway, what's really an interesting read is this article on the Inquirer's Youngblood. It's by my junior in high school and now in Singapore, Carina. Haha congrats congrats! I've always wanted to be on Youngblood! Haha but never got around to writing and emailing them. Hats off to you Ca!
Well, about the content of your article, though, I hope you're much better now! I'm just around of course, and same goes for the rest of the Pinoy group here. Hehe, besides, as you've said, it's been a while since you wrote it, and hopefully since then it's been smooth sailing!
10 Reasons Today Was Great
10 Reasons Today Was Great
Come to think of it, "Great" isn't probably the right term. Perhaps "Yummy" would be more appropriate.
1) ChickenWith Mixed Peppers at Swensen's!
KR Choir lunch at Swensen's at Holland Village! Swensen's is this nice ice cream shop/cake shop/cafe/date place with all the yummy sweet food. It was a last minute thing, with Choir Chair James inviting us for lunch only yesterday night. It was even more last-minute for me, as I decided to go only this morning, when I saw that Allen was the only bass to go. Haha. Besides, I needed a break after my crazy week.
My meal, described as "Grilled half chicken smothered with mixed peppers sauce. Served with seasonal vegetable and U.S. potatoes." turned out delicious. Well, except that Huili and Allen, who were seated beside me and ordered related dishes, and I couldn't figure out what this fried squishy potato-like thingy on a tomato slice was. It was yummy, but it wasn't potato or anything we could think of. Haha Allen called it "stuff". It was tasty anyway.
Yummy meal! And it better be! It cost $13.60! Hehe.. now on to the list!
2) Chocolate Peanut Butter
3) Butterscotch
4) Sticky Chewy Chocolate
5) Peach
6) Yummy Raisin (with rum!)
7) Mocha Almond Fudge
8) Cookies and Cream
9) Yam (Ube in Tagalog)
10) Thin Mint (why is it "thin" anyway?)
AHHH... ice cream heaven! Usually $3 each scoop, I got all those scoops for only $1! All of them together only one buck! Haha amazing. James even paid for everyone's ice creams, so I got all of mine for free. Swensen's offered unlimited scoops, but too bad there's a limit one's tummy can handle! I had a tasting of Frosted Chocolate Malt, Pistachio, and still wanted to try the Chocolate Freckles, but I was afraid it was too much chocolate for a day.
My favorites are the Mocha Almond Crunch (ahh.. heavenly), the Sticky Chewy Chocolate (it was as chocolatey as real chocolate.. almost like a cold moist choco bar), Yam (reminded me of Pinas!), Butterscotch (great but a bit too sweet after a while), and surprisingly, Thin Mint (cools off your mouth in a yummy kind of way).
The Yummy Raisin was misleading! I didn't expect it to contain alcohol! It was okay, really, except that I felt the beginnings of a headache after eating it. Maybe not used to my ice cream being spiked! It was not unwelcome, of course. Haha. It threw off-track my master plan of beating (or at least matching) James in the ice cream race though.
James finished with 11 scoops (his max was 14 years ago), while I finished runner-up. Haha. Not bad!
So everybody head off to Swensen's quick! Unlimited ice cream scoops for one dollar with an order of one main course/pasta! Student's discount too on weekday afternoons!
Wah.. I've never had more ice cream in my entire life. And that many flavors too! $13.60 for all that doesn't sound bad. Not bad at all man!
Wah.. I'm officially slightly happier now after my depressing week. Thanks to ice cream sugar rush!
Come to think of it, "Great" isn't probably the right term. Perhaps "Yummy" would be more appropriate.
1) Chicken
KR Choir lunch at Swensen's at Holland Village! Swensen's is this nice ice cream shop/cake shop/cafe/date place with all the yummy sweet food. It was a last minute thing, with Choir Chair James inviting us for lunch only yesterday night. It was even more last-minute for me, as I decided to go only this morning, when I saw that Allen was the only bass to go. Haha. Besides, I needed a break after my crazy week.
My meal, described as "Grilled half chicken smothered with mixed peppers sauce. Served with seasonal vegetable and U.S. potatoes." turned out delicious. Well, except that Huili and Allen, who were seated beside me and ordered related dishes, and I couldn't figure out what this fried squishy potato-like thingy on a tomato slice was. It was yummy, but it wasn't potato or anything we could think of. Haha Allen called it "stuff". It was tasty anyway.
Yummy meal! And it better be! It cost $13.60! Hehe.. now on to the list!
2) Chocolate Peanut Butter
3) Butterscotch
4) Sticky Chewy Chocolate
5) Peach
6) Yummy Raisin (with rum!)
7) Mocha Almond Fudge
8) Cookies and Cream
9) Yam (Ube in Tagalog)
10) Thin Mint (why is it "thin" anyway?)
AHHH... ice cream heaven! Usually $3 each scoop, I got all those scoops for only $1! All of them together only one buck! Haha amazing. James even paid for everyone's ice creams, so I got all of mine for free. Swensen's offered unlimited scoops, but too bad there's a limit one's tummy can handle! I had a tasting of Frosted Chocolate Malt, Pistachio, and still wanted to try the Chocolate Freckles, but I was afraid it was too much chocolate for a day.
My favorites are the Mocha Almond Crunch (ahh.. heavenly), the Sticky Chewy Chocolate (it was as chocolatey as real chocolate.. almost like a cold moist choco bar), Yam (reminded me of Pinas!), Butterscotch (great but a bit too sweet after a while), and surprisingly, Thin Mint (cools off your mouth in a yummy kind of way).
The Yummy Raisin was misleading! I didn't expect it to contain alcohol! It was okay, really, except that I felt the beginnings of a headache after eating it. Maybe not used to my ice cream being spiked! It was not unwelcome, of course. Haha. It threw off-track my master plan of beating (or at least matching) James in the ice cream race though.
James finished with 11 scoops (his max was 14 years ago), while I finished runner-up. Haha. Not bad!
So everybody head off to Swensen's quick! Unlimited ice cream scoops for one dollar with an order of one main course/pasta! Student's discount too on weekday afternoons!
Wah.. I've never had more ice cream in my entire life. And that many flavors too! $13.60 for all that doesn't sound bad. Not bad at all man!
Wah.. I'm officially slightly happier now after my depressing week. Thanks to ice cream sugar rush!
Whisper words of wisdom
Whisper words of wisdom
Ahh yes.. hell week has come. Two killer tests down, one to go, an article due soon, tutorials and readings to dig into, a project looming in the distance. How am I holding up? Hmm.
I'm unwell, really, but what's new. God I dunno what depression wave has hit me that I'm consistently down in the dumps, if not externally, perhaps at least at the back of my head.
Sure I genuinely laugh and talk cock (Singlish for "talk nonsense", "joke around") and enjoy happy conversations with fellow Pinoys and hallmates and first floor neighbors and choirmates and tutorial-mates (I love you all, seriously), but when I think of SUCKY MIDTERM TESTS, especially those just freshly taken, I get that funny familiar feeling.
What's more, whatever emotion is evoked has to be set aside for the moment, as right there waiting is the next test to mug for, the next tutorial to solve, the next lecture to figure out.
What's worse is that, more often than not, these bouts of post-midterm-test blues trigger my other mind monsters that ought to be tucked deep into the subconscious during mugging season. These include the Homesickness (of the mild sort though) Monster, Mr. I'm-not-good-enough and his gang: Mr. What-on-earth-have-I-been-doing-all-this-time, Mr. Maybe-I-can't-even-reach-honours-year, and Mr. Maybe-it's-all-downhill-from-high-school.
Actually, I've not been feeling so low all this week. Over the weekend, I derived some sort of happiness from finally figuring out my Mathematical Statistics and Advanced Calculus. Or at least, from the illusion that I finally figured them out. Thank God for midterm tests that snap us back to reality.
And thank God for the Beatles too. It's strange how I turn to their songs whenever I'm not feeling too good. Try "Hey Jude", "Let It Be" (never mind if "Mother Mary" there was intended by Paul McCartney to mean his biological mom), and "Across the Universe" sometime. Must stop listening to "In My Life" though. You know, the "There are places I remember" song. I can't help but think too much, see.
OK, I feel better now. What's on my plate: an article for the Ridge due Sunday (thank God my editor Asraf extended it), and Linguistics test on Friday.
Let it be, Joseph. Take a sad song and make it better.
P.S.
Kai! You're back in Davao! Hehe, enjoy! Hello to Ma and Dad and Lolas!
Ahh yes.. hell week has come. Two killer tests down, one to go, an article due soon, tutorials and readings to dig into, a project looming in the distance. How am I holding up? Hmm.
I'm unwell, really, but what's new. God I dunno what depression wave has hit me that I'm consistently down in the dumps, if not externally, perhaps at least at the back of my head.
Sure I genuinely laugh and talk cock (Singlish for "talk nonsense", "joke around") and enjoy happy conversations with fellow Pinoys and hallmates and first floor neighbors and choirmates and tutorial-mates (I love you all, seriously), but when I think of SUCKY MIDTERM TESTS, especially those just freshly taken, I get that funny familiar feeling.What's more, whatever emotion is evoked has to be set aside for the moment, as right there waiting is the next test to mug for, the next tutorial to solve, the next lecture to figure out.
What's worse is that, more often than not, these bouts of post-midterm-test blues trigger my other mind monsters that ought to be tucked deep into the subconscious during mugging season. These include the Homesickness (of the mild sort though) Monster, Mr. I'm-not-good-enough and his gang: Mr. What-on-earth-have-I-been-doing-all-this-time, Mr. Maybe-I-can't-even-reach-honours-year, and Mr. Maybe-it's-all-downhill-from-high-school.
Actually, I've not been feeling so low all this week. Over the weekend, I derived some sort of happiness from finally figuring out my Mathematical Statistics and Advanced Calculus. Or at least, from the illusion that I finally figured them out. Thank God for midterm tests that snap us back to reality.
And thank God for the Beatles too. It's strange how I turn to their songs whenever I'm not feeling too good. Try "Hey Jude", "Let It Be" (never mind if "Mother Mary" there was intended by Paul McCartney to mean his biological mom), and "Across the Universe" sometime. Must stop listening to "In My Life" though. You know, the "There are places I remember" song. I can't help but think too much, see.
OK, I feel better now. What's on my plate: an article for the Ridge due Sunday (thank God my editor Asraf extended it), and Linguistics test on Friday.
Let it be, Joseph. Take a sad song and make it better.
P.S.
Kai! You're back in Davao! Hehe, enjoy! Hello to Ma and Dad and Lolas!
Prayer
Prayer
Today let's say a prayer that God would help the poor, the sick, and the dying.
With a few hundred bucks in my bank account, I'm broke. (Ahh yes, but there's the VISA..)
I'm mentally and physically unwell, thanks to intensive mugging sessions for upcoming my Statistics and Calculus tests. I'm emotionally strained as well, as I can't solve some problems and have to scold myself whenever I fall asleep in the library or in bed again.
And "dying"? That's Singlish for suffering of this sort.
In other words, please pray for me.
And the rest of Muggers Inc., i.e. the struggling studious student population. Really, we people who toil this hard for our tests ought to be rewarded.
But alas, the fact of the University is that some people will get rewarded, some will be rewarded more than they deserve, and some will just, well, have to chalk it up to experience, and hope for better things to come.
All the more reason to pray, really.
Today let's say a prayer that God would help the poor, the sick, and the dying.
With a few hundred bucks in my bank account, I'm broke. (Ahh yes, but there's the VISA..)
I'm mentally and physically unwell, thanks to intensive mugging sessions for upcoming my Statistics and Calculus tests. I'm emotionally strained as well, as I can't solve some problems and have to scold myself whenever I fall asleep in the library or in bed again.
And "dying"? That's Singlish for suffering of this sort.
In other words, please pray for me.
And the rest of Muggers Inc., i.e. the struggling studious student population. Really, we people who toil this hard for our tests ought to be rewarded.
But alas, the fact of the University is that some people will get rewarded, some will be rewarded more than they deserve, and some will just, well, have to chalk it up to experience, and hope for better things to come.
All the more reason to pray, really.
Muggers Inc. (for real this time)
Muggers Inc. (for real this time)
Hohoho! I'm still alive and awake and up and running! My, that was a *reasonably* longish break from blogging. And I don't think I'll be blogging too much soon! Hah.
I could give a million reasons, but let's just focus on three: (1) killer ST2132 (Mathematical Stats) midterm test on Monday, back-to-back with (2) MA2108 (Advanced Calculus 2) test on Tuesday! Haha that should be enough to drive me insane, but on Friday comes (3) EL1101E (Linguistics) test! Ah.. The joys of school.
EL1101E shouldn't really bother me too much, but after that disappointing Test 1, and my tutor Ms Wee's announcement to the entire tutorial group that the 30% project we submitted last week, was well, worth worrying about, I guess I shall have to give the module that extra nudge.
Missed NUS choir prac yesterday, but it was okay since it was Culture Night at KR! KRX (drama) came up with a play that incorporated all 6 culture groups Dance, Rockers, Inspire (original music), Acappella, KRX itself, and Choir.
We sang "The Gift to be Simple" in the wedding scene, towards the end of the show, as the bride marched with her Dad. For the wedding recessional (and the curtain call that followed), we sang "Seasons Of Love" (which I suggested to them nyahaha). Haha, my basses were good.. love you guys! It could've been a bit better, really, but we showed remarkable progress people, and we sounded good! Hehe.
Seasons of Love is such a nice song, can I just say. I can't wait for the movie version of the musical Rent to be shown! Watch the trailer here, and tell me if that doesn't give you that "Awww.." feeling. ;)
There's this thingy about choir songs, though, that's well, strange. The Gift to be Simple was supposedly a simple song, but took the choir a number of sessions and whackings before we got it right. Seasons of love is a pop song (check out Paolo Santos and Stevie Wonder and the musical versions), which bam, we got in 5 minutes. We just had to listen to the mp3 and then that's it. The choir version wasn't really choir-y, since for the most part, everyone was singing the same thing. And we only sang the first part anyway, and repeated it twice (for the curtain call). Strangely enough, when I asked some of the audience about what they thought of the performance, they always say the second song was nice. Haha. It's always like that, the pop songs seem to be better appreciated. ;) And of course, how could i forget the applause for the "I'll Be There" during NUS Choir's Varsity Voices concert in February?
Hehe. Interesting.
Alrighty, time to figure out how to relate E(X-Y) with the covariance in a multinomial distribution. Statistics rocks. Sometimes.
Let's go Muggers Inc.
Hohoho! I'm still alive and awake and up and running! My, that was a *reasonably* longish break from blogging. And I don't think I'll be blogging too much soon! Hah.
I could give a million reasons, but let's just focus on three: (1) killer ST2132 (Mathematical Stats) midterm test on Monday, back-to-back with (2) MA2108 (Advanced Calculus 2) test on Tuesday! Haha that should be enough to drive me insane, but on Friday comes (3) EL1101E (Linguistics) test! Ah.. The joys of school.
EL1101E shouldn't really bother me too much, but after that disappointing Test 1, and my tutor Ms Wee's announcement to the entire tutorial group that the 30% project we submitted last week, was well, worth worrying about, I guess I shall have to give the module that extra nudge.
Missed NUS choir prac yesterday, but it was okay since it was Culture Night at KR! KRX (drama) came up with a play that incorporated all 6 culture groups Dance, Rockers, Inspire (original music), Acappella, KRX itself, and Choir.
We sang "The Gift to be Simple" in the wedding scene, towards the end of the show, as the bride marched with her Dad. For the wedding recessional (and the curtain call that followed), we sang "Seasons Of Love" (which I suggested to them nyahaha). Haha, my basses were good.. love you guys! It could've been a bit better, really, but we showed remarkable progress people, and we sounded good! Hehe.
Seasons of Love is such a nice song, can I just say. I can't wait for the movie version of the musical Rent to be shown! Watch the trailer here, and tell me if that doesn't give you that "Awww.." feeling. ;)
There's this thingy about choir songs, though, that's well, strange. The Gift to be Simple was supposedly a simple song, but took the choir a number of sessions and whackings before we got it right. Seasons of love is a pop song (check out Paolo Santos and Stevie Wonder and the musical versions), which bam, we got in 5 minutes. We just had to listen to the mp3 and then that's it. The choir version wasn't really choir-y, since for the most part, everyone was singing the same thing. And we only sang the first part anyway, and repeated it twice (for the curtain call). Strangely enough, when I asked some of the audience about what they thought of the performance, they always say the second song was nice. Haha. It's always like that, the pop songs seem to be better appreciated. ;) And of course, how could i forget the applause for the "I'll Be There" during NUS Choir's Varsity Voices concert in February?
Hehe. Interesting.
Alrighty, time to figure out how to relate E(X-Y) with the covariance in a multinomial distribution. Statistics rocks. Sometimes.
Let's go Muggers Inc.
