Last day of ESE. Haha. No relief teaching for me today. I was the only one without relief teaching duty. Can you imagine that? Haha, for once I felt really lucky. :)

All of us (those on ESE and practicum) were in ethnic costumes. We're quite united, aren't we? Haha, I think I'm going to miss all the joy and laughter in our little corner in the resource room. Took some photos with them early in the morning (when all of us were in our ethnic costumes) and before I left for my medical checkup.

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Been some time since my last post. I had been to more NA and NT classes over the past one week. I witnessed more students being caned. I brought 40 students to AMK library alone. I had to dance on stage during youth day celebration. And more relief duties. Haha. I'm quite tired of elaborating on the details. I have repeated them to many people. :P

Kay Jin is back in Singapore. We met him for ktv last Saturday (he left to play badminton half way) and joined us for a drink at clemanti mac after his game.






Too bad I've forgotten all about the existence of my camera while we were chatting in mac. Hopefully can meet him again one month later. Haha. I think he is a great friend, a joy to all his friends. A decent number of people turned up for Saturday's gathering, despite the short notice and the fact that some of us were really busy. I think it spoke volume about how much we valued him. I laughed a lot on Saturday. Didn't get to laugh so happily for a long time.

Birthday celebration yesterday. Two birthday boys. So I ended up with a big hole in my pocket.



A family photo, at last.



I bought three pairs of shoes yesterday. Finally gotten its privilege card. :) But no more shopping until I receive my pay. Thinking of which credit cards to apply. I think one from UOB and one from citibank will be enough. Haha. Not that I have a lot of empty slots in my wallet anyway. Haha. It's like a big step into the adult world at last, but there comes responsibilities at the same time.

Gonna go and check out the bus routes and stuff. I'm pretty excited about tomorrow. Hope everything goes well. :)

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Haha, I think I'm really lazy when it comes to updating my blog. Lalala. ok, I was busy amending my thesis. And now I have to read through whatever I have corrected before I email the new copy to my supervisor. I don't want my supervisor to see tons of mistakes while correcting my thesis, you see. It'll reflect badly on myself. And furthermore, my supervisor is a really busy guy, I thought I should lighten his workload slightly by doing my part well. :)

Watched Shrek 3.


There's something which Shrek said in the movie which made me very touched. Haha. Indeed, we don't have to care about what people say about us all the time. We are what we want to be. I couldn't help but agree with wq that someone is just like the prince charming in the movie. People think he is a nice guy. And that's because they haven't gotten to see the kind of mean things he do. ok, I shall not elaborate further. :P

Sometimes, we just have to learn how to shut up and keep certain comments to ourselves. Reason? Hmm, because sometimes, it'll do us more harm than good. In a way, this explains why I reduce the number of posts in recent years.

ok, back to my thesis. I must work hard. Haha. Going to see my supervisor this coming Monday.

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Heard that some of my friends had been arrowed to organize the coming Honours gathering. Poor guys. Initially, I thought it wasn't THAT bad for them, since they have a committee which consists of 7 people (ok, I hope I'm right with the number). Then I realized they have problem contacting everyone in the committee. Sigh. Oh well. I guess, just in case that any of them reads my blog, I shouldn't sound too discouraging. Lol. Let me say something encouraging then.

ok, first of all, I was very glad that I had a group of friends who took the trouble to come to school to plan part of the stuff with me and reach the lunch venue much earlier to help me set up stuff, when it's purely voluntary on their part. When the "elected" organizers walked away, at least I had my friends who stepped in to help out. Secondly, although the gathering wasn't perfect, the attendance was pretty good, and in general, the people who turned up were cooperative and appreciative. Of course, there were quite a number of discouraging incidents which happened along the way, and I was pretty stressed during that period of time, but, at least now when I look back at what I did last year, I think it wasn't a big waste of my time and energy. Haha. At least, I can say I had done something for my cohort, and a group of them appreciated the effort. And a handful of them are people I did not expect.

Haha. Time flies.

Most of my friends who are currently in NIE have gotten their posting results. So far, all the guys I know are posted to secondary schools, and most of the girls (except one) are posted to JC. Hmm. Haha, and I'm quite envious of my friend who is posted to TJ. :P

I can't believe that I gonna go for my enhanced school experience thingy in a few weeks time. >_< *** still hasn't replied my email. Sigh.

The holidays has been pretty relaxing so far. But gonna meet my supervisor next Monday. Haha. Gonna start working on thesis again soon. And sigh, my days in NUS are limited.

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Haha. It's been ages since I last updated. Oh well, I was busy revising for my exam. I only have one exam this semester and I spent 8 days revising for it. Lol. ok, I admit that's a bit kiasu, coz I read through the notes more than three times and I did all the past year papers available. >_< Haha. Since it is probably my last exam in nus, I wanna do it well. :)

There's still the thesis to be completed. But then, there's not much time left. I'm leaving nus soon. :( Haha. I think I'm one of those odd ones out there who are reluctant to leave nus. I think these five years are really the best years in my life. There's a balance of freedom and challenges. More importantly, I feel that this path had been brightened by some people- my friends and lecturers.

In these five years, I feel a sense of achievement. I'm not born with an excellent brain, nor good looks. Not even good health. My family met a few crisis over the past two decades. I encountered failures and some failures weren't because I didn't work hard enough. During these five years, I managed to make my life better, and to some extent, I did manage to bring happiness to some people around me. Whatever setbacks in these five years, they made me a better person in the end. I am still far from perfect, but at least, I am now better than who I was five years ago.

I think I need to think of new items to add to my wish list. Haha. The last item is going to be strike out soon. Lol. :)

ok, time to rest and clean my room. Notes all over the table now.

Haha. BTW, I rebonded my hair. Lol. And I'm so poor now. >_<

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Haha. I'm really happy these two days. Hehe. Got a treat to swensens yesterday (ok, that means I gonna treat the next time, but that's fine), got back my DO test paper (which surprisingly, I did better than what I thought, though my mum was kind of disappointed that I didn't get full marks), received a call from taiwan, and for today, presentation was over! Haha. I think I spent lots of time understanding the paper, and coming up with the presentation slides. Luckily my lecturer knew I put in effort.

Seriously, I think I'm the kind who will cry during commencement. Haha. I didn't cry last year because I wasn't exactly graduating. Tears of joy, tears of satisfaction, as well as tears of fear. I remember few days before the start of my first semester in nus, I told my teacher: I'm scared. It's like, you restart your game and your score starts from 0. Your hi-score is only reflected as a hi-score, it's no bonus to your new game. And now, I'm starting to have this same feeling again. But I know, this feeling will go off eventually, and return when I'm about to proceed to the next stage of my life.

ok, gonna go and sleep now. Have to wake up early for my DO tutorial. The good thing is, most likely prof sun won't ask me to present my solution tomorrow. :)

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Most of the time, I don't remember what I wrote in my blog posts. Haha. I know they're studies related, but I don't recall the details.

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Long time since my last post. Haha. I'm half dead coping with the wavelets assignments, but... still alive. No time to blog. Haha. 5 more weeks of lessons. After which I'll have the luxury of having two weeks to study for one exam. Lol. For now, I wonder if I'll be able to survive these 5 weeks in the first place.

Everyone (in school) seems rather tired and stressed over their modules. Sigh. Oh well, it's a good in the sense that we're all struggling together and none of us is going through any torture alone.

I whined in class for the first time last night. Haha. That's when the lecturer wanted to extend the 3 hours lecture to 4 hours next time. There goes my image. Lol. But anyway, he promised that if he extends the lecture, we can end the whole class early by not having to go back on the last week. This sounds like a fair deal.

Hope everybody is doing well. Shall be going for retail therapy later. Haha. Hope it'll release my stress. :)

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It's another week. Sleepy. Couldn't sleep last night and I suspect it was due to over dosage of orange juice. Haha.


Lots of stuff to work on during CNY + remaining days of the one week break. For those who have graduated, yes, the CNY holidays coincide with the one week break this year. :( My idol threw us lots of homework during last night's lecture. Not to forget the paper I'm supposed to read for my presentation and report. For DO, I got to revise simplex method, which is basically half the notes for linear programming. And for my thesis, gonna find out more about the various kinds of transformations.

Oh yes, and there's something more to school life. Romance stories. Haha. I was in school on valentine's day. It was an exciting day, with interesting stories one after another. Haha. Some things are really beyond our imagination. lol. :)

Yawn. Gonna go now.

Wishing everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

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Finally, I see signs of recovery for my flu. :)

While I was showering last night, I was thinking of what defines a good teacher. I used to think that a teacher who gives good notes, good tips, and ensures good grades at the end of the day makes a good teacher. And for the result oriented me last time, that's enough.

Despite having numerous teacher idols at different stages of my education, surprisingly, I only have strong impressions of the minority. To make it to my teacher idol list, I'm quite sure the teacher displayed a certain level of charisma and charm in the classroom. And for those who left a strong impression, it's not only because of their effective classroom management skills, but their concern and support for me at that time. They taught me skills beyond the content of the syllabus, and they pushed me to attain greater heights. These teachers made a difference to my life.

Talking about school life, like what I had told some of my friends in university, I had a fair share of both good and bad school days last time. Thankfully, no matter how bad things used to be, they all happened to be blessings in disguise. They made me learn, they made me grow up. It's both the good experiences and the bad experiences that shape the present me. Indeed, schools play a very important role in our lives. The people we meet in school play a role in molding our character.

I think everyone should always have something which he/she feels proud of. He may feel proud of himself, proud of someone close to him, proud of something he owns, or proud of his goal etc. It is important for us to think positively of ourselves, and at the same time, know our flaws and work towards improving ourselves.

Enough of my rantings. Time to take a rest and then prove some results for my wavelets module. BTW, I forgot to say that we managed to open the class with 6 registered students. Haha. Two engine students, one undergraduate, one part-time math graduate, one exchange student and me. Nevertheless, I am glad that class is opened. :) I had been planning for what modules to take in masters year, ever since my third year as an undergraduate, and wavelets was part of the plan. Planning modules is like a chess game, sometimes, one wrong move can make you lose the whole game. And since I can only spend one year for masters, I need to make sure nothing goes wrong.

Before I go, let me introduce two new friends from hk disneyland:


piglet


donald

Haha. They are magnets. But no where to stick them. They'll stand with my lego toys for the time being.

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Caught a cold. Was sneezing away for the whole morning. And slept hours. Now woke up to correct my thesis. I think I'm quite hardworking for my thesis this semester. Haha. But I guess this is a must, in order to graduate in time for NIE.

I've gotten a new blog in roodoo. My entries are in Chinese, in order to match its settings. I think it is a Taiwanese site. Didn't write in Chinese for a long long time, but the feeling of typing in Chinese somehow put me at ease. When I blog in English, I have to do a translation of my thoughts in Chinese to English. Shall keep that blog in private for the time being. Haha. I don't think many people wanna read Chinese these days anyway.

Went for the SHE concert last Saturday.







I think I got to buy a new camera when I am richer. Haha. That's probably some time from now.
January is coming to an end. I think the honours batch is going to hand in their first draft in three weeks time. Time flies.

Time to go and do some work before the drowsy effect comes back. :)

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