first of all, THANK YOU BITTER FOR YOUR WILLINGNESS/ENDURANCE OF HORRIBLE SERVERS/TIME/EFFORT/SPAM FROM ME. i definitely owe you! i am so sorry you had to undergo the super laggy servers of new south.
all my friends at uni today either had classes/something on/on their way to uni. some people had breaks, but if i asked them, then my enrolment would be done two hours after the times opened, which would then mean i would have a 5-6 lab. I AM CONTENT BECAUSE I AM NOT IN THE LAST LAB for once! thank you bitter! even people who logged in 5 seconds after 12.30 took 45min to finish their timetable. the 12.30 congestion was greater than 9.30 congestion.
seriously horrible servers. like why do they put science kids and com kids on at the same day? like law kids did theirs last week, and it was fine. some com kids did theirs yday, and it was ok. but no, today had to be heaps of people.
sem2 timetable is almost similar to how i wanted it, except for 3 hour break on monday. i am going to send them an email (because apparently that's what people did for sem 1 since they didn't want to go to the last lab), so hopefully i can make the 3 hour break into a one or two hour one.
ANYONE HAVE GOOD EXCUSES FOR ME TO ASK TO GO TO AN EARLIER TIME. please share (: everyone has to finish at 6pm on thurs cause of lecture.
hopefully 31 hours at uni can be cut to 29. also, i do have lunch breaks, so it wasn't as fully crammed as i originally put it.
someone on fb said:" Even auto-timetable can't produce a valid timetable. FML."
that is really fail.
and to make my day worse, i spilt my buffer solution during chem lab. AND I DIDN'T HAVE A pH METER ON MY WORKSPACE. so damn, had to wait half an hour, and in anticipation of timetabling. fully did my chem prac in 15mins, since there was only 25mins left, yes, people were so slowww with their pH meters, like unsw server's slow.
no idea how to answer/do the calculations. hope people on fb post it
enrolment is equally as stressful as exams, or even more, because they are so unpredictable. it comes to a matter of luck to see who can connect faster.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Extra rehearsals already
4 hours of dance in two days. three more on the weekend.
troupe dance is so cool. like the beginning is unique (: it's supposed to be an illusion that there are less people on stage than really.
today i did no work. so much emailing/typing/texting/sorting stuff out for my weekends/church stuff.
should i go myc? i'm scared once i have my wisdom teeth taken out, the pain will ruin the experience/fun. and not many first years are going ):
in bible study today, twas quite cool. finding meanings which at first glance, you can't find (: oh, just realised, it kind of linked to sunday's sermon-"hold on!"
urgh, what is uni doing to me. my face is 10x worse than hsc. and i eat healthily/sleep 8 hours, exercise more than hsc. must be the transport. ):
fingers crossed for tomorrow.
troupe dance is so cool. like the beginning is unique (: it's supposed to be an illusion that there are less people on stage than really.
today i did no work. so much emailing/typing/texting/sorting stuff out for my weekends/church stuff.
should i go myc? i'm scared once i have my wisdom teeth taken out, the pain will ruin the experience/fun. and not many first years are going ):
in bible study today, twas quite cool. finding meanings which at first glance, you can't find (: oh, just realised, it kind of linked to sunday's sermon-"hold on!"
urgh, what is uni doing to me. my face is 10x worse than hsc. and i eat healthily/sleep 8 hours, exercise more than hsc. must be the transport. ):
fingers crossed for tomorrow.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Baskin Robbins
at first glance, the maths class test wasn't hard, questions were similar to previous years. but when you do it, THE NUMBERS ARE HORRIBLE, AND YOU GET STUPID QUADRATICS WHICH YOU CAN'T DO QUICKLY IN YOUR HEAD. so i didn't finish. they count 3/4 tests, so i must ace the next algebra one. i kind of feel like i wasted that study, but to be optimistic, that study will be put to good use for finals WHEN I HAVE MY BELOVED CALCULATOR(S). my mental arithmetic is so bad, which i why i always hated mentals (from junior maths).
so i have an exam every week except for week 13, until finals.
to brighten up my day, i decided to go baskin robbins since mum got a buy one get one free voucher. i was looking at flavours on the site, but was so disappointed when the towers one didn't have blueberyy panna cotta or the flavour of the month. like they had 8 different chocolate flavours, but chocolate ice cream is too boring.
got "love potion" on right and "berry romantic" on left.
so i have an exam every week except for week 13, until finals.
to brighten up my day, i decided to go baskin robbins since mum got a buy one get one free voucher. i was looking at flavours on the site, but was so disappointed when the towers one didn't have blueberyy panna cotta or the flavour of the month. like they had 8 different chocolate flavours, but chocolate ice cream is too boring.
got "love potion" on right and "berry romantic" on left.
it's not worth it. 4.90 for a scoop, $1 for a waffle cone (the voucher stated you had to get a waffle cone), and mum's scoop was considerably smaller than normal size (them asians being asians. usually when you go to white places/white person serving you, and you have a discount, they still give you the same size). i think this is my 3rd time having baskin robbins. the 2nd was in yr 11/10 when they had katy perry day and gave out free cotton candy ice cream. the first was...primary school...
the flavours we got weren't too sweet (i tried bee-licious and that was sweet, sweet), but it wasn't that creamy either. can't really differentiate baskin robbins as an ice cream brand. and the flavours at towers weren't that great compared to the website. so if i had another voucher, i wouldn't go there again, unless they had blueberry panna cotta. i've never had real panna cotta, only fake ones. like i've had milk custard desserts, which are close, but never a panna cotta properly presented on a plate.
actually, i hardly buy a single scoop of ice cream. the last time was yr 12 ben and jerry, and the time before in aus....like never. my mum always says, you can get a tub for a scoop. but in hk, i had ice cream quite a few times. i want haagen dazs now. not satisfied with baskin robbins ):
also, i bought a pair of jeans today (breaking my no buying clothes rule ;/) but they were super cheap, and probs cheaper than buying in hk where you can't even try them on if you got to the really cheap places=/ i need jeans which i don't care if they fade etc. half of my current jeans are branded, so i don't want to continually wear them to uni since they are going to wear out faster than normal.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
argh maths is getting hard. compared to all my other subjects, maths was easier, but now everything is hard.
stupid curve sketching, wasting all my time. like heart shaped curves and spirals are cool and alll, but they take forever. and we're supposed to measure with protractors and ruler. i'll probs do that for finals, but ceebs practicing. and matrices are cool, and you only use simple add/multiply functions, but figuring out what order, and to what row and what operation to use is so time consuming, and the rest of the algebra course is more vectors and matrices =/
so glad i don't do discreet maths. apparently that's like need full on logic maths, and full thinking caps. and it's basically proving theories, rather than calculating.
wasted 2 hours on ray tracing. stupid values don't correspond so my diagram doesn't work ))))): you know in vision, we spend an hour on deriving equations with diagrams, so if they ask us to derive something, would that take up half the time for our finals? i hope not.
feel like i'm failing (already. and then i think, did the 2nd year optom student who died felt like a failure? apparently his family wants to keep it a minimal thing, so no one except for his close friends no who it is, oh and probs the uni, since they have to record all this stuff. i mean, i don't even know for sure if it's a guy or girl.)
i've decided writing notes is a waste of time.
so sad. waste so much time thinking instead of doing because i don't know how to do it ):
if only i could change my way of thinking (brings back ext1 eng memories =/)
that feeling of failing first year.
stupid curve sketching, wasting all my time. like heart shaped curves and spirals are cool and alll, but they take forever. and we're supposed to measure with protractors and ruler. i'll probs do that for finals, but ceebs practicing. and matrices are cool, and you only use simple add/multiply functions, but figuring out what order, and to what row and what operation to use is so time consuming, and the rest of the algebra course is more vectors and matrices =/
so glad i don't do discreet maths. apparently that's like need full on logic maths, and full thinking caps. and it's basically proving theories, rather than calculating.
wasted 2 hours on ray tracing. stupid values don't correspond so my diagram doesn't work ))))): you know in vision, we spend an hour on deriving equations with diagrams, so if they ask us to derive something, would that take up half the time for our finals? i hope not.
feel like i'm failing (already. and then i think, did the 2nd year optom student who died felt like a failure? apparently his family wants to keep it a minimal thing, so no one except for his close friends no who it is, oh and probs the uni, since they have to record all this stuff. i mean, i don't even know for sure if it's a guy or girl.)
i've decided writing notes is a waste of time.
so sad. waste so much time thinking instead of doing because i don't know how to do it ):
if only i could change my way of thinking (brings back ext1 eng memories =/)
that feeling of failing first year.
Friday, May 3, 2013
Half Way Through Semester Train of Thoughts
this week was long and short.
1. ahh, babs. today, friday people got an easy test, and some questions similar to thursday. not fair. oh wells, i'll get over it. exoecting 10/20, which means that there is still a possibility of getting a credit if they ask the stuff i know in the finals (and not stuff which are subtlely asked).
2. first of all, my dad finally got an iphone! (well it's his boss's old 4s, but it's been only used for a few months). he really needed on since he was using an old nokia, one which could connect to wifi/had in built gps (which was pretty pointless since it was in the shape of a brick phone). now everyone in my family has an iphone! except for my bro. like he could use my old iphone, but his xperia right now has a larger screen/not as laggy, even though it's over 2 years old. i asked my bro what phone he wants, and he's just like "latest". for me, defs iphone =D i've realised that a few other bloggers (at least three) have also converted to iphone 5 this year. and now all my dad does is play with his phone at night. also, i was trying to use better's s3, and i realised I CANNOT USE A SAMSUNG. it's just so weirdly different and less intuitive/straightforward. also, i think the average user won't even use half of the s4's properties. i was reading an article, and it said how it had touchless swiping, so if you're cooking and your hands are dirty, you can swipe without touching. also it had some eye recignition thing, but fails in dim lighting. so basically, it's not finely tuned yet, and i doubt you even look at your phone while you cook.
3. really admire Carrie from The Project last night. so courageous to talk live on national television about brain cancer, and how there's this neurosurgeon going to usa to have a conference about a possible cure. if you didn't know, her husband died of brain cancer 2 years ago, and they have a 5 (?) yr old. so it was super brave talking about it in public about such a sensitive/recent-ish thing, which explained the tears...
4. nooooooooooo. i need to get two wisdom teeth taken out. looking at the xrays, it's pretty horrible, since the teeth are growing diagonally, but apparently most of it has come out of the root part (which is supposed to be good news). why am i telling you this? because it means i won't be able to go out during and of sem break. sob. my face will be bloated/swollen, and i won't be able to eat proper food for days. i've already had 4 teeth taken out for braces, and apparently wisdom teeth pain don't compare to taking out 4 teeth pain. ):
5. most unproductive friday. thanks bitter for visiting! usually if i meet up with people, it's probs about half an hour. but it was nice chatting. thanks for explaining Happy Apple and your post. it's actually quite funny, esp your friend. and thanks for the shirt! but i would just like to reiterate, that i won't wear it until federer retires.
6. So kochie and mel casually catch a taxi after sunrise. I thought they had designated drivers...maybe that's just America...
7. mum bought a litre of coconut water for $6. expensive. relos in hk bulk bought like 100 litres per family for about $1 a litre from the us, delivered to their hong kong homes.
8. so in our vision labs today, they were like "everyone is welcome to this lab!" since it's the last lab (5-6pm), like who would want to miss their earlier one and go to a later one..?. they now have name tags for us, to see if people actually come to their labs in their timetable. must be because of all the drama of the past few weeks of people going into earlier labs. i guess i was just unlucky. i did my timetable the day after main round offers, so the only space which i could put down was the 5-6pm lab in order to finish doing my timetable. at that time, only 24 people could go in. but now if you look at it, it's 40/24 of all the labs. from what i heard, they over enrolled people for optometry/vision science, so people who maybe had late round offers/did timetable super late, they couldn't actually put down any times for their labs since every class was already full (24/24 people). so they had to email the coordinator, who manually put them into earlier labs. i had no idea people couldn't enrol in some classes, if only i knew and pretended that the 5-6 was full. if i didn't do my timetable early, then all the other good times for other subjects would be taken, so i guess i would rather have ok times for everything, rather than a good lab time and bad times for everything. not sure if this makes sense.
9. so i received an email today, from uni email. it said that a few days ago, a 2nd year optometry student died (it didn't say how/why). from what i gathered, he committed suicide since he was depressed. is studying optom really that hard? the unnamed guy, who has a slight relation to me since he did the same course as me, is probably the first person i know whose committed suicide ): oh, and it was a legit email. (but why didn't i hear it on the news(?))
10. 3 hours of dance tomorrow. also, the costume for troupe looks really cool, except i don't think i can pull it off. its like this leotard with cut outs (i love cutouts in clothes, their so trendy! except i can never find nice cutouts ):)
11. maths on monday. not ready =/ what if i get a hard paper ):
12. i need to use vouchers for ice cream.
1. ahh, babs. today, friday people got an easy test, and some questions similar to thursday. not fair. oh wells, i'll get over it. exoecting 10/20, which means that there is still a possibility of getting a credit if they ask the stuff i know in the finals (and not stuff which are subtlely asked).
2. first of all, my dad finally got an iphone! (well it's his boss's old 4s, but it's been only used for a few months). he really needed on since he was using an old nokia, one which could connect to wifi/had in built gps (which was pretty pointless since it was in the shape of a brick phone). now everyone in my family has an iphone! except for my bro. like he could use my old iphone, but his xperia right now has a larger screen/not as laggy, even though it's over 2 years old. i asked my bro what phone he wants, and he's just like "latest". for me, defs iphone =D i've realised that a few other bloggers (at least three) have also converted to iphone 5 this year. and now all my dad does is play with his phone at night. also, i was trying to use better's s3, and i realised I CANNOT USE A SAMSUNG. it's just so weirdly different and less intuitive/straightforward. also, i think the average user won't even use half of the s4's properties. i was reading an article, and it said how it had touchless swiping, so if you're cooking and your hands are dirty, you can swipe without touching. also it had some eye recignition thing, but fails in dim lighting. so basically, it's not finely tuned yet, and i doubt you even look at your phone while you cook.
3. really admire Carrie from The Project last night. so courageous to talk live on national television about brain cancer, and how there's this neurosurgeon going to usa to have a conference about a possible cure. if you didn't know, her husband died of brain cancer 2 years ago, and they have a 5 (?) yr old. so it was super brave talking about it in public about such a sensitive/recent-ish thing, which explained the tears...
4. nooooooooooo. i need to get two wisdom teeth taken out. looking at the xrays, it's pretty horrible, since the teeth are growing diagonally, but apparently most of it has come out of the root part (which is supposed to be good news). why am i telling you this? because it means i won't be able to go out during and of sem break. sob. my face will be bloated/swollen, and i won't be able to eat proper food for days. i've already had 4 teeth taken out for braces, and apparently wisdom teeth pain don't compare to taking out 4 teeth pain. ):
5. most unproductive friday. thanks bitter for visiting! usually if i meet up with people, it's probs about half an hour. but it was nice chatting. thanks for explaining Happy Apple and your post. it's actually quite funny, esp your friend. and thanks for the shirt! but i would just like to reiterate, that i won't wear it until federer retires.
6. So kochie and mel casually catch a taxi after sunrise. I thought they had designated drivers...maybe that's just America...
7. mum bought a litre of coconut water for $6. expensive. relos in hk bulk bought like 100 litres per family for about $1 a litre from the us, delivered to their hong kong homes.
8. so in our vision labs today, they were like "everyone is welcome to this lab!" since it's the last lab (5-6pm), like who would want to miss their earlier one and go to a later one..?. they now have name tags for us, to see if people actually come to their labs in their timetable. must be because of all the drama of the past few weeks of people going into earlier labs. i guess i was just unlucky. i did my timetable the day after main round offers, so the only space which i could put down was the 5-6pm lab in order to finish doing my timetable. at that time, only 24 people could go in. but now if you look at it, it's 40/24 of all the labs. from what i heard, they over enrolled people for optometry/vision science, so people who maybe had late round offers/did timetable super late, they couldn't actually put down any times for their labs since every class was already full (24/24 people). so they had to email the coordinator, who manually put them into earlier labs. i had no idea people couldn't enrol in some classes, if only i knew and pretended that the 5-6 was full. if i didn't do my timetable early, then all the other good times for other subjects would be taken, so i guess i would rather have ok times for everything, rather than a good lab time and bad times for everything. not sure if this makes sense.
9. so i received an email today, from uni email. it said that a few days ago, a 2nd year optometry student died (it didn't say how/why). from what i gathered, he committed suicide since he was depressed. is studying optom really that hard? the unnamed guy, who has a slight relation to me since he did the same course as me, is probably the first person i know whose committed suicide ): oh, and it was a legit email. (but why didn't i hear it on the news(?))
10. 3 hours of dance tomorrow. also, the costume for troupe looks really cool, except i don't think i can pull it off. its like this leotard with cut outs (i love cutouts in clothes, their so trendy! except i can never find nice cutouts ):)
11. maths on monday. not ready =/ what if i get a hard paper ):
12. i need to use vouchers for ice cream.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
BABS Mid Sem
for those who don't know, the exams for babs gets progressively harder each day. and my test was on today (thursday) so it was considered hard, and yes, it was.
ok, it was actually really tricky. like mc, it wasn't straightforward like monday's test, it actually tested you on applied knowledge (since when did bio have applied stuff?), like instead of saying "what are the processes of photosynthesis" the question was like " which one is incorrect, and each choice a,b,c,d,e had three option, and saying which stuff were reduced/oxidised. like i'm pretty sure we were supposed to remember how through the whole 10 steps, it produces atp and nadh, but you had to think what stuff changed, which they didn't tell us in lectures. then other stuff i mind blanked on. like they didn't tell us what the dogma of biology was. and only one person left 10min early. apparently on monday, heaps of people left 20min early.
and with this test, each mark is worth 1%, so fingers crossed i'll pass. no matter how much study i did, the questions for my paper were weird. trying to be optimistic...a harder test is more useful in the long run.
my demonstrator guy is actually pretty good. he printed out individual slips with our marks on it on our peer reviewed essays/peer marking stuff. you know me and my marks, i don't like telling/people knowing. other people just read their marks from a roll.
there's this girl who's mum did med, and teaches her all the bio stuff. people with smart parents/teachers are so lucky.
and i skipped my first ever lecture today! feels good. jks. it was cause i had babs after and wanted to revise. tried to watch the lecture, and i can feel i don't like the guy. he just read off the slides, even though he gave us a printout of the slides w/ worked solutions.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
MC Chem
i did study for it, but not fully since i feel more comfortable with it than bio.
so while doing the exam, it felt alright. but on the train, i was thinking, and then realised oh wow, i did so much stuff wrong. that after exam feeling of what you know definitely got right and wrong and those in betweens. so now my max is 14/20, i definitely know i did 6 things wrong, not during but a while after the exam ):
luckily it's only worth 10%. also, i handed in my chem lab last week, and didn't realise it was actually worth something towards you final mark, so i didn't do it properly, but still managed a "credit range" mark. also, luckily i didn't have to run to the test, since chem lab finished 40min early for me (new record!) i was lucky since i had the ph meter in my workspace, so the person next to me had to wait until i finished.
i should go study for bio tmr. that is something which i have tried, and have a feeling i will mind blank. seriously, something is wrong with me head this week. it hurts, like the inside. this has never happened for over 2+ days =/ must be studying bio. that's the only variable that's changed so far.
so while doing the exam, it felt alright. but on the train, i was thinking, and then realised oh wow, i did so much stuff wrong. that after exam feeling of what you know definitely got right and wrong and those in betweens. so now my max is 14/20, i definitely know i did 6 things wrong, not during but a while after the exam ):
luckily it's only worth 10%. also, i handed in my chem lab last week, and didn't realise it was actually worth something towards you final mark, so i didn't do it properly, but still managed a "credit range" mark. also, luckily i didn't have to run to the test, since chem lab finished 40min early for me (new record!) i was lucky since i had the ph meter in my workspace, so the person next to me had to wait until i finished.
i should go study for bio tmr. that is something which i have tried, and have a feeling i will mind blank. seriously, something is wrong with me head this week. it hurts, like the inside. this has never happened for over 2+ days =/ must be studying bio. that's the only variable that's changed so far.
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