okay...finally have some time to sit down in front of my comp to do some blogging...
last last week has been kinda holiday...yahz...chinese new year..didn't have much mood to mug...but still i did force myself to go down to sch on 初四 to study with hong keat, ru de, guo wei and zhihao...didn't do much also...coz that day was my dad'z bday!!! so went off earlier coz wanna have dinner with my family...it has somehow become a tradition tat on my parents' bday or father's day or mother's day...me and my brother will just treat them to a dinner...they decide the place...haha...okiez...when we start earning money...we would decide the place also...imagine in the years to come...fillial zs and his brother driving their parents down to some decent restaurant to have a feast...(haha...imagine hard! it's not impossible! i'm very 孝顺 one...keke~)
okiez...my luck till 初七 was still quite good...my father-side relatives came to our house on sat...played mahjong again...with my brother..my cousin and her bf...oppz...won again...i'm like the only winner...
tat roughly summed up the cny week...
last week has been kind of a hell for me...and everyone...3 tests and 3 assignments due...good thing that i did most part of the assignments before the start of last week...got more time to revise for those tests...
and so...the tests came...one by one...tues was PDC...abit buanged for the test...coz i wasn't very careful...4 qns in total...1 confirm get wrong...the other one pending.....but for the easiest part of that qn...i dunno how to do!!! wat the heck right...haha...well...zs is fallible...
nvm...thatz over...
friday's test was kinda a breeze...too easy for everyone...so many hints given by the paper and even the lecturer himself..."refer to WWWR eqn 18.9...." dun wanna use that eqn also cannot....yah...plus it's more like an open discussion than a test...blatantly comparing ans with each other...and when you were sitting with 2 persons that have to use the same set of parameter values...it's hard not to compare results....
(okay...to explain the parameter values part...the lecturer came up with this rule that those with the same last digit of the matric number will use the same values from a set of different values for each qn)
yahz...and coincidentally, i was sitting with 2 other pple with the same ending digit on our matric...
and today(sat)...2116 test...10 mcqs...with students packed in a small LT...again...discussion was on-going thru out the test...
argh...okay//...i feel guilty...coz i have been involved in these discussions...
hmm...and talking abt integrity...i'm afraid to say that there isn't much left in today's pple (me inclusive)....well...a value so much emphasised in OCS...with army personel talking abt it everyday...and the nerdy OCT reciting it whenever they drink some h20....where has it gone to?
hmm...i personally feel that 'integrity' is a value that pple talk abt...not many who talk abt them actually practise them anymore...yahz...the world has become so 'fake'....hypocritez who say one thing but act totally differently...
and so here i am...telling the world that yes...i was involved in those discussions...does that means i dun have integrity? i leave it to you to decide...all i can say is that by squeezing the students in an LT for tests...the prof should already know such thing will happen...if they really wanna prevent it...they should have booked some better venues like wat PDC did...in MPSH...
this wasn't an issue in yr 1...even if the tests were carried out in LT...the meticulous lecturers actually bother to book more LTs and come up with a proper sitting plan to make sure the students are spaced out...
but as the year passes...these lecturers that teach higher level modules aint exercising such practise...is that they simply don't bother? or they can't make some arrangement? are they too tied down to their research work? Is lecturing the undergrad their part time job in NUS? i dun wish to say more abt these high salary 'educators' ( look at Uddin!!! i believe any student in chem eng can deliver a lect better than him...)
so...wat i wanna say is that the NUS culture is alr wrong to begin with...with lecturers that couldn't very much be bothered (okay..there are some that are really good also! i will give credits to them...) and wat abt the culture of referencing seniors' lab report? okay..tatz still not too bad if we bother to look thru the reports, understand...and try to churn out another one that looks similar...there is effort, at least, to learn from previous work....aint this wat many nobel prize winners did in the past? look at predecessor's research work...analyze...enhance....and come up with an even better thesis/theory...
okay...this is another pt that i wanna bring out...if there is learning values in something....it's not totally bad also.....secret discussions in test? hmm...any learning values? personally...i think 'yes'...pls note that these pple are not blindly copying from some scholarly persons...(i think most of them are sensible enough as young adults to exercise their own discerning abt which ans should be correct...) yupz...these chap aint totally 'shiit'...they think and finally make their own decision...they are not blinds that need someone to be their 'walking stick'....in fact...even blind pple are so independent these dayz....
and so if your integrity is to not peep around during tests...so be it...i honor that and respect you for it...coz i seriously admire pple who put their principles into practice....
hmm...wat a touchy issue...but it's open for discussion here...no offence to anyone...(well...i dun really care if i offended ah uddin....f him!)
next up...another issue....abt the pressure that i feel...other pple's expectations that i feel that i'm living with....argh! why is everyone expecting that i have the best solutions to all the assignment questions? and that i should know how to do the test qns? ARGH!!!! do i have to announce to the entire world that i'm NOBODY!!!! just in case you all dunno...
okay...i feel honored to be held in high regards by you pple...but pls dun show your respect for me by photocopying my solns and refer to them as the 'full-marks' solutions...i'm merely a undergrad chap that dislike last minute work and so, often do assignments that have to be handed in abit earlier than you pple...i'm not 神 ....i do feel stupid at times...
and shouldn't we be learning together? and helping each other out...i always believe in the synergy of discussionz....
i think i'm gonna end off here...
hongwei is right to say that now that i'm abit more free...i will start to think about some other 'issue'...and give myself some other problem...well...i vow to reduce these to the minimum!!!
last last week has been kinda holiday...yahz...chinese new year..didn't have much mood to mug...but still i did force myself to go down to sch on 初四 to study with hong keat, ru de, guo wei and zhihao...didn't do much also...coz that day was my dad'z bday!!! so went off earlier coz wanna have dinner with my family...it has somehow become a tradition tat on my parents' bday or father's day or mother's day...me and my brother will just treat them to a dinner...they decide the place...haha...okiez...when we start earning money...we would decide the place also...imagine in the years to come...fillial zs and his brother driving their parents down to some decent restaurant to have a feast...(haha...imagine hard! it's not impossible! i'm very 孝顺 one...keke~)
okiez...my luck till 初七 was still quite good...my father-side relatives came to our house on sat...played mahjong again...with my brother..my cousin and her bf...oppz...won again...i'm like the only winner...
tat roughly summed up the cny week...
last week has been kind of a hell for me...and everyone...3 tests and 3 assignments due...good thing that i did most part of the assignments before the start of last week...got more time to revise for those tests...
and so...the tests came...one by one...tues was PDC...abit buanged for the test...coz i wasn't very careful...4 qns in total...1 confirm get wrong...the other one pending.....but for the easiest part of that qn...i dunno how to do!!! wat the heck right...haha...well...zs is fallible...
nvm...thatz over...
friday's test was kinda a breeze...too easy for everyone...so many hints given by the paper and even the lecturer himself..."refer to WWWR eqn 18.9...." dun wanna use that eqn also cannot....yah...plus it's more like an open discussion than a test...blatantly comparing ans with each other...and when you were sitting with 2 persons that have to use the same set of parameter values...it's hard not to compare results....
(okay...to explain the parameter values part...the lecturer came up with this rule that those with the same last digit of the matric number will use the same values from a set of different values for each qn)
yahz...and coincidentally, i was sitting with 2 other pple with the same ending digit on our matric...
and today(sat)...2116 test...10 mcqs...with students packed in a small LT...again...discussion was on-going thru out the test...
argh...okay//...i feel guilty...coz i have been involved in these discussions...
hmm...and talking abt integrity...i'm afraid to say that there isn't much left in today's pple (me inclusive)....well...a value so much emphasised in OCS...with army personel talking abt it everyday...and the nerdy OCT reciting it whenever they drink some h20....where has it gone to?
hmm...i personally feel that 'integrity' is a value that pple talk abt...not many who talk abt them actually practise them anymore...yahz...the world has become so 'fake'....hypocritez who say one thing but act totally differently...
and so here i am...telling the world that yes...i was involved in those discussions...does that means i dun have integrity? i leave it to you to decide...all i can say is that by squeezing the students in an LT for tests...the prof should already know such thing will happen...if they really wanna prevent it...they should have booked some better venues like wat PDC did...in MPSH...
this wasn't an issue in yr 1...even if the tests were carried out in LT...the meticulous lecturers actually bother to book more LTs and come up with a proper sitting plan to make sure the students are spaced out...
but as the year passes...these lecturers that teach higher level modules aint exercising such practise...is that they simply don't bother? or they can't make some arrangement? are they too tied down to their research work? Is lecturing the undergrad their part time job in NUS? i dun wish to say more abt these high salary 'educators' ( look at Uddin!!! i believe any student in chem eng can deliver a lect better than him...)
so...wat i wanna say is that the NUS culture is alr wrong to begin with...with lecturers that couldn't very much be bothered (okay..there are some that are really good also! i will give credits to them...) and wat abt the culture of referencing seniors' lab report? okay..tatz still not too bad if we bother to look thru the reports, understand...and try to churn out another one that looks similar...there is effort, at least, to learn from previous work....aint this wat many nobel prize winners did in the past? look at predecessor's research work...analyze...enhance....and come up with an even better thesis/theory...
okay...this is another pt that i wanna bring out...if there is learning values in something....it's not totally bad also.....secret discussions in test? hmm...any learning values? personally...i think 'yes'...pls note that these pple are not blindly copying from some scholarly persons...(i think most of them are sensible enough as young adults to exercise their own discerning abt which ans should be correct...) yupz...these chap aint totally 'shiit'...they think and finally make their own decision...they are not blinds that need someone to be their 'walking stick'....in fact...even blind pple are so independent these dayz....
and so if your integrity is to not peep around during tests...so be it...i honor that and respect you for it...coz i seriously admire pple who put their principles into practice....
hmm...wat a touchy issue...but it's open for discussion here...no offence to anyone...(well...i dun really care if i offended ah uddin....f him!)
next up...another issue....abt the pressure that i feel...other pple's expectations that i feel that i'm living with....argh! why is everyone expecting that i have the best solutions to all the assignment questions? and that i should know how to do the test qns? ARGH!!!! do i have to announce to the entire world that i'm NOBODY!!!! just in case you all dunno...
okay...i feel honored to be held in high regards by you pple...but pls dun show your respect for me by photocopying my solns and refer to them as the 'full-marks' solutions...i'm merely a undergrad chap that dislike last minute work and so, often do assignments that have to be handed in abit earlier than you pple...i'm not 神 ....i do feel stupid at times...
and shouldn't we be learning together? and helping each other out...i always believe in the synergy of discussionz....
i think i'm gonna end off here...
hongwei is right to say that now that i'm abit more free...i will start to think about some other 'issue'...and give myself some other problem...well...i vow to reduce these to the minimum!!!
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