Finals: Critical Reading and Thinking

Walaoe... next time for afternoon papers I will not come early to school and study already... by the time I sat for the exam my brain has already tired out already... really!!

'Cuz I thought coming to school early will enable me to study things and remember much better... instead of burning the midnight oil the night before... So as you might have guessed it... I studied too much (I guess) and as a consequence, the moment I looked at the questions the first thing I remember I did was:

YAWN.... *O*

Next time know la... if morning paper remember to sleep early.. but if afternoon I don't care what time I sleep and what time I wake up... as long as I am not late for the exam!!!

Btw... it is okay, but then because of terrible time management, I only started doing the 40-mark essay 45 minutes before time's up. Not really good that is.

Intermediate Calculus: TERRIBLE

Had my first exam paper for this semester this morning. How was it? Terrible.

The last two questions was easy. Immediately went to do the two questions upon finishing browsing through the entire question paper. Skipped a few parts for the last question... I thought to myself: OK, maybe I can have some time after that, then I will continue doing that question.

Then went to do Question 1. The volume and the surface part was ok. Didn't do the first part, also due to time constraint. Want to thank KY for calling me up the day before to ask me that question. I ended up didn't answer his question, 'coz I don't know also. So, after that I went to try the question and found out the method of answering the question. I think around that time KY smsed to me saying he got it already also. Ta-da! Lucky me!!

I couldn't finish Question 4 also. Stuck!! I was panicking actually at that moment wondering whether to continue with that question or change to question 2. Why the examiner has to consider the WORST 4 instead of the best 4 questions when it comes to calculating the marks??

Forcast result? I should be so SO THANKFUL if I were to pass this subject. Really!!

Year 2 Sem 1 Timetable

So, the timetable has been out there for almost one week already... and guess what? I didn't even went to have a look at it!!

Wait, I did. I actually woke up early on Friday morning before 8am, and I actually can already see some of my classmates online already (yeap, waiting to go into the system and book their places...=) 8am was the time to start register for classess. I wasn't on my computer at the time as I was preparing to go to campus... go back to campus because of two things: One was to study of course, but the more important thing: CHOOSE OUR TIMETABLE!!!

I thought we have already decided that morning we come early to campus and sit down and together choose our times. But at the end, no one turned up!! I desperately called everyone, not because I could not log in, but I just don't know what are their plans... I start to think that all things could be easier if we just sit down after our calculus thing on Thursday and plan over it...

Only when we found out that the classes we want are all booked do I hear some people write on MSN... "Ha?? Thursday one class only ah? Why other people can have all Thursday clear??"

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That's it... 14 weeks have passed by just like that!!!

Today there isn't any classes going on. With that, the teaching weeks for this semester has finally came to an end. Next up is the study week, and then the finals!! =S

To summarize this last whole week... it was just all revision lectures. For the first time also, I have 'managed' to skip Business Accounting II... At first I didn't want to since it was the last lecture for the subject... I mean, you can skip other lectures.... but why on earth out of so many lectures, one would want to skip THE LAST LECTURE of them all?

Instead of attending BA2, we had lunch in Shah Alam at this roasted pork restaurant. Not bad the food.

That's the only outing which I attended this week... I freaked out when Dr. Leong was discussing the past-year questions during lecture on Tuesday... HA??!! Questions like that also can come out ah? DIE LO!!! How to do???!!

Ok... ok... no more wasting time.. (Look at Thursday when you guys spent like... half an hour chit chatting outside when classes have ended...) no more.... need to study...

My target? 3.60 GPA. That means getting on to the Dean's List... Wow... Let's all go for it!!

Week 13 at a Glance

Attended the first Welcoming Concert Committee meeting on Monday. Well, except Shi Wei, Jie Yan, Guan Han... all of the other people who were there were unfamiliar faces, not to mention that I do not know them. But I have expected this from the beginning when I accepted this responsibility as the secretary... I have already preparing myself that I need to work with people whom I do not know before... to get things done...

Talking about accepting responsibility...

I was at Bentong, Pahang to pay respects to my ancestors (Qing Ming) last Saturday. We were waiting to be served lunch when Guan Han called me on my cellphone and asked if I want to be in the committee... Well, after a few questions about my post and a moment of deliberation myself I decided to take it up... also after I knew who will be helping me out in my duties (I heard Shi Wei and Jie Yan both from T6, are also in the committee...)

Ok, back to the meeting. It ran smoothly. I just had to check with Guan Han during the meeting in front of everyone about the proposal things... 'cause I was still very blur. After a few days I received the sample of it in my email.... WALAO!! So long ah!! But if my understanding is correct, then all I need to do is to compile their stuffs and submit them to the DSA... or something like that la...

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Had our Prob and Stat I lab session on Tuesday. All of a sudden the memories of us having our programming practical every Friday came to mind... except that this time, everyone was like so relaxed and things like that... I was having this feeling that we are having a computer game class or something like that....haha...

There's this stupid thing about the assignment... Weeks ago the lecturer gave us the website address and asked us to download the programme from this website. Since there was still so much time we/I thought we will wait for a while first before doing anything. It turned out that none of us actually was able to download it (not that I know of)... and it ended up that (almost) everyone was planning to finish their assignment in the campus' computer lab.

So, have I done MY assignment yet? Nope, as of Friday evening... and probably won't be so soon either as everyone seem to be planning to do it only on Monday... I wasn't really happy with it at first because it seems last minute to me... But we were able to do things together complete and effectively even though it was all last minute, weren't they? The accounts assignment, the calculus assignment...

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Wednesday stayed back with the gang for group study at SS2 McD. I know you guys would love to study until late till the wee hours of early morning... but I just cannot tahan neh!! Sorry if I 'forced' you guys to go back early... =) Thursday I had my Toastmasters meeting so I didn't join them all... and guess when I heard that they went back? Around 2am!!

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Friday was the Linear Algebra quiz/test. It was ok, even though I pretty sure I screwed up the last question about orthogonal component... or something like that... Went to PC Fair also... during my way back alone from KLCC met my CHS classmate whom we have not met for a very long time... Yuan Cui! Wah, her 'story' about taking the LRT every day for like 1 1/2 hours... I cannot accept it though... I guess the time spent was just too much...

Week 12 at a Glance

On Monday went to SS2 pasar malam with them all. Gosh, somehow they are tummyfull just after taking some portions of food bought in the night market. I need to ask them to wait for me as I went to call prawn mee at the famous food court near the pasar malam site. I guess I really need to change the eating habit of mine... I am still that kind of person who, my friends say, "will suffer if I do not miss my dinner..." I won't lie: I really need dinner if not I will not be able to sleep.

On Tuesday a lot went for the buffet somewhere in KL. Of course, I did not join them. At the end kinda felt guilty.... not as in not going for the buffet but just not go up and study upstairs... I just couldn't get what the BA2 lecturer was saying in to my head...

After class went to this sale/bazaar thing at Bangunan Harmodal which is near to our campus. Nothing much which I was able to buy... Not that I don't want to buy...

Wednesday was full of classes in campus but the thing was that I was still able to 'make myself busy' by deciding to go to McD Sect 14, David's house for a while, and then McD SS2... Until the early hours of the morning... Wah!! Cannot tahan... Don't get me wrong... it was not that I don't want to join you guys on the other table... it was that I cannot tahan staying up so late le...

Friday had our Probability and Statistics I Test 2. It was just alright. I hope that my first part of the first question was correct though... if not the whole question one will be wrong le... can't imagine how many marks I will be missing...

Week 11 at a Glance

Let's just go straight to Tuesday. It was my first time eating at this restaurant called Fireman at Jaya One. I was surprised actually why suddenly we will be going there to have our lunch (is more like enjoying... I didn't really eat my stomach till very full...) It's not like we have classes after this... We have never gone out for lunch using transport in between classes... at least for this sem from what I remember...

The food was quite good. Only on that day that I realized that actually there is this 'secret' place underneath the steamboat table thingy that we the customers are able to put our legs in... =)

No pictures unfortunately.

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Friday was our Intermediate Calculus test/quiz. It was ok... I didn't get the last question though... a few marks must have lost from my hands...just like that...

Week 10 at a Glance

Wah.. this week really spent too much le..

Wednesday. Debate! Luckily it all worked out, even though for my part it was all too last minute. During the debate it was ok ba... I think so la... Immediately after that I didn't think about it... Not that it's not good... just that... there's so many things to worry about... for example the Linear Algebra mid-term...

Talking about that mid-term on Friday ah... SO DIFFERENT from the way it asked during the quiz... proof this la... proof that la... Even our tutorials don't have those kind of things... if not mistaken...

It was only on Thursday that I realize that there's this special promotion every 19th on each month at this restaurant 1901 (hence the date) where you can actually buy hot dogs for RM2 each!! Mmm... yummy! But we were forced to wait for about ONE HOUR!!! Well, by the number of workers there compared to the number of customers who came all the way just for the hot dogs (guess who =) it is not surprising it took so long. While a number of people who just can't wait went for lunch at Esquire, the rest of us just hung around...

Is it worth the wait? I think so... but if it was so long I could have just planned something to do beforehand...

Went to the UTAR Idol on Sunday. Of course didn't go there just to watch those people do this do that la... G-Han performing ma... Arrived I think 1 1/2 late... I saw the signboard...

"Sorry, tickets sold out... Please come again next year!" 0.0

Then I asked the two girls at the ticketing counter. They say they still got some tickets... (Phew...) so paid and just go on lo! Funny thing was that moments later when I came out to answer a call, there's nobody there already! Basically this means that anyone can just go in without paying!! Hmm.. food for thought.

G-Han didn't really win.. but he did put up a great show that night. Didn't caught any photos, neither did a few of his T6 supporters or KJye(so which means only 2 from T7...)

Week 9 at a Glance

No test, no quiz, no assessment, no whatever testing testing.... (for Pengajian Malaysia there is... but why bother? Nothing to do with me also... =) It was so long since I had a week where there is none of these things... why can't every week be like this ah?

Wednesday enjoyed myself watching some of my T7 classmates debating... it wasn't until at the end of the debate when I realized that next week will be our turn... scary =S

Oh, Friday I had a great time myself enjoying with the 'gang'... hope that our birthday boy KJ enjoyed himself too. Immediately after they all took their Pengajian Malaysia quiz/test/whatever... I followed them to Sunway Pyramid, to Red Box for Sing K session. Then dinner was at the Yuan Steamboat Restaurant... (Interesting to note that while the restaurant is so near to my place, I have only been there for one time only before this during my 5S6 reunion dinner in 2007. )

Haha... if I still can recall what happened while we were at Yuan:

G Han introduced to us this game, where the losers will need to clear the dishes on the table... (hey.. what a way to clear the table eh?)

Took photos photos and photos...

And the whole loud cheers cheers thing once every while... ^^"

Will upload photos soon.

Week 8 at a Glance

Accounting project and Calculus mid-term!!

That short introduction summed up what happened this week... The accounting project was to be passed up on Wednesday... but we managed to start and (almost) finished it up on Monday... that's 20-mark project finished in ONE DAY!! Talking about efficient...=)

Well, after classes on Monday (I didn't go for any classes on that day, I came after all classes were over for the day), we went to Y Loong's house to do our project. That's immediately after 2pm when the last lecture finished on that day... straight away went to pick up G Han and then headed to Y Loong's place.

Do... do... and do... Do our project... Of course finished it up just in time la!=)

First time ate in Sushi Station that night... ok lo... not bad. I didn't know that there's this thing as a restaurant serving sushi and provide steamboat as well... at an all-you-can-eat pricing. Hmm... imagine how creative entrepreneurs can be nowadays...=)

Wednesday was our Calculus mid-term... It was okay... I managed to 'somehow' finish it just in time... but I have some problems with the time allocated. It's not proportionate... Consider this: 1st test: 6%; 40 minutes. Mid term: 20%; 60 minutes! The rate was that in the first test, we can spend up to 7 minutes figuring out an answer to a one-mark question.... for the mid-term we are only allocated 3 minutes!! And they don't call it mid-term if the questions ain't harder!

I liked Thursday the most... I only have to attend a one-hour lecture and that's it! After the lecture we went to Prince Restaurant at SS2... then went to Mid Valley and watched Love Matters.

Well, not my cup of tea though...

I am actually surprised at how some people can actually withstand so many hours without food... I ended up eating more than I could imagine when I arrived at PJ that night...

Friday was the CRT lecture and the FLA replacement lecture... and that was it.

One week has passed so fast.

There's another week to look forward to...

Wait...

Stop.

I don't want to think about next week =S

Week 7 at a Glance

It's time for another recap of what happened for the past one week (did I hear someone saying: not again??!)

Funny as it may sounds: we are having three tests and one project to be passed up in within one week....

Friday was Prob and Stats Test 1, followed up with replacement lecture for Fundamentals of Linear Algebra. Actually I was one of the people who kinda agreed that the replacement be held after the test... just because the lecture is just time for us to copy the notes from what was screened on the white board... I know a lot of people disagreed with the time because they need to study for the Business Accounting 2 mid-term test the next day... But I just don't feel like studying straight away... especially after the way I fared for the Prob and Stats test. Anyway going through the lecture after the one-hour-and-ten-minutes test is ok for me, because usually for like me, I don't really fully understand what the heck is going on... and I just didn't bother to look at the notes which I have copied after that... promising myself to take a look at it after the Calculus mid-term on Wednesday.

Saturday was BA2. It was easy actually. I don't know... as in, I would really freak out if I didn't fare good in that. Immediately after the mid-term there's the replacement tutorial class for BA2... and just like the replacement lecture the day before, I really couldn't pay attention what was going on... because... the mid-term is over ma... why can't we rest a bit first??=)

After the class, we hanged around a bit before decided to go to Sungai Wang Plaza. It is actually very embarassing for people like me, who lives in the Klang Valley, but don't know where is the shopping centre... Can't blame me la... so far away from where I stay.. we don't usually go there... and furthermore I don't have proper transport...

Why Sungai Wang Plaza? Well, coz we want to sing K ma... at Green Box. (:0) (First time heard of Green Box... I know got Red Box... got Green Box also meh?)

Another week passed by... thus meaning? Calculus mid-term closer than never....=(

Our Half Day Trip to Setapak

People have been discussing about everything Setapak... life in Setapak... the new (better facilitated, I hope) UTAR buildings in Setapak... accomodation in Setapak... For those of you who have not known by now... my Actuarial Science batch will be continuing our studies in the Setapak campus (Kuala Lumpur campus, for university official use...) So, it is only right that we 'went up there' to look at ourselves our future 'home'...

WC drove us all in his car to Setapak right after the Business Accounting II lecture on Saturday. Well, not exactly straight to Setapak... we kinda detoured our way to David's house, and then we had our lunch at Sushi King at Section 16. By the time we started our journey it was almost 4pm... Adding the chaotic traffic jams in the streets of Kuala Lumpur (I think there should be a faster way to get to Setapak other than Jalan Tun Razak??) It took us ONE HOUR!Hmm...

Ok... better get straight into the topic...

We actually saw a few buildings... forgot the names... one of them I remember was PV10... ('coz one of my classmates have decided to stay there later...) Not bad... But didn't take any photos though =(

So far what we heard is that one unit there is about RM1200... for 7 people... But we are still considering other options...

(Come to think of it... this post is like nothing when there's no photos in, rite?)

Excited about going to Setapak... there's definitely better than PJ!!

Week 6 at a Glance

Wow, time flies and it is now week 6 already!

Notable events which happened this week included dinner at this restaurant in Millennium Square (no, not Millenium Court...) called Picadilly. Nine of us went there after our Accounting tutorial class, which finished at 5pm. But then we didn't really went there straight away after... we kinda go round and round and round... coz we weren't sure where to have our dinner=) I believe this is the first time I have entered a fancy restaurant (may I call it 'fancy'?) since a long time ago...

Oh, it's a very high class place I look at it. Millennium Square that is. But there weren't many restaurants that I saw... maybe I have not walked through the building properly...

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Friday was the 10% Fundamentals of Linear Algebra quiz. Truthfully told I think I did okay only. I wasn't sure about the last question... will update on it when I get the result.

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Oh, somehow I felt like I have been boggled down with a lot of things this week. Don't know why. There have been a lot of talks about accomodation in Setapak. No matter where you go, whether it is in the lecture hall, or tutorial room, or in the canteen or study room, there's a high chance that people are talking about this topic. Who is going to stay with who... where to stay... How much is this? How much is that? etc... etc... Well, a few of our class are going to Setapak to look at their potential accomodations this Saturday (today) after the Basic Accounting II Lecture... Will update on this too... I actually don't ask for a lot... juz that our place should be easily accessible, have all the necessary things nearby... that's ok with me.=)

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Meeting with UTAR Dean and Heads of Departments

On my last post I mentioned about a UTAR meeting which I almost didn't go for... coz I wanted to join the guys for lunch on that day, but somehow because I was busy packing back the projector and laptop to ICTC... so I thought... haih, just stay back la... then I saw Guan Han rushing into the meeting room... Only then did I realize that I was supposed to attend the meeting! Luckily..

Anyway, it was actually a meeting in which we can voice out our opinions to the party concerned... But the people there just told us to complain it using the BQAA (I couldn't remember what does it stand for...)... as in

"Oh, just voice it out using the BQAA form...."

"Log in into the BQAA..."

"Use BQAA to inform us about it..."

"I guarentee that we will reply you in one to two weeks' time..."

At that moment I actually thought that one week's time was too long...

Wanted to voice out about the printing services... Someone asked the question before me.. I guessed I kinda got the answer I wanted to know... i.e. UTAR is looking for a vendor right now.

But the thing is... is that I am pretty sure that the university only started looking at a new vendor company... last week!! I saw the huge mailbox for tenders for the services at the PA block this week only.. with the due date I think was last Wednesday!! Must have overlooked about this area... because only a handful are staying back here? Hmm... something to ponder about...

Aih.. UTAR... UTAR...

Oh ya!!!! Need to post about this one guy who was so... don't know how to describe... the way he voiced out to the UTAR staffs during the meeting...

"Is extra-curricular activities important?" he asked.

"Of course it is.."

"Then what happened to our Activity Day? With our timetable arranged as such how to do things? (he raised up and showed the timetable to the panel...)"

Walao.... must have really caught the panel by surprise...

Week 5 at a Glance

So, another week has passed, inching ourselves closer to the finals.... Wait! Guess now we are all drowned into a pond full of mid-terms, quizzes, tests, assignments, projects... Urgh! How frustrating!! Oh talking about frustrating... how come I have overlooked at a simple question which I have read through in the notes?! I couldn't solve that problem in the quiz this afternoon... It, together with a few silly mistakes must have cost me a lot of marks... (at least, a big percentage of the overall 6 marks).

Classes resumed on Tuesday after the holiday. Break time was spent doing Business Accounting questions (Wednesday: on mahjong paper...) (hmm.. fun!!) It turned out that from now on questions in each tutorial will be handled by each group which will present their mahjong papers with solutions written on it... And then next still need to explain it to the class! (I felt like I was in some kind of public speaking class, explaining why is it better for a company compared to sole propreitorship...=)

Missed a lot of 'class gatherings' this week.. hmm...

Oh, and to cap it all off on Friday(today) all class reps and course reps were to have a meeting with the deans and heads of departments after 12pm. Will blog about it soon.

My Thaipusam holidays

So, what did you guys do during the 'holidays'? (3 days ma... if count Friday then it would be 4 days...) Just barely one week after we had our week-long break, we are (at least for myself) drowned into the 'holiday season' again...

I went back to my home on Friday night (after watching Red Cliff 2 with the guys and girls).... That night I remember I stayed up until like 1.45am... why? I need to catch up with my Idol series (yeap, I am a Idol fan) and Monday's episode of Lost (great show!).

Went to Ikea on Saturday morning with my parents. Luckily the special of the day was our favourite: Meehoon!! For those we do not know, Ikea's Meehoon is only RM1, and it's a reasonable price and delicious as well, got to try it out! Plus since we arrived there before 9.30am, we were offered coffee for free, with free refills too! (Mmm... makes me hungry now...)

Wanted to walk around a bit at the area, since it is not possible for me to get there often since it is so far from my house... But my father brought me to see a dentist, wanted to get me a retainer. Getting it on Saturday morning, so guess you guys will all be seeing me wearing the retainer for quite some time=).

Originally was supposed to watch until the end the Grammys... But half way... no-lah! Better go and study Calculus...=(

Photos: Distant Cousin's Wedding 31/1/2009

(Pics above) Pictures from the Wedding Night

(Pics above) Bride's parents' house

(Pics above) Teluk Cempedak, Kuantan

Photos: Chinese New Year 26/1/2009

A (Distant Cousin's) Wedding

If my memories serve me well, I think I have not been to a Chinese traditional wedding for a very very long time already. So, when words began to spread that one of my distant cousin is getting married and their parents have invited us for the celebrations, my siblings and I were hoping that my parents will agree to travel all the way from KL (or rather PJ) to Kuantan, Pahang. And yeap, they informed the family early about us attending... even though at that moment my younger sister and I still weren't sure if we still need to go back to school for the Friday... (my younger brother graduated, in case you didn't know about it...)

As mentioned, the whole wedding thing takes place in Kuantan. We stayed in Kuantan for two nights beginning Friday. A little bit about my 'distant cousin': Well, I don't think we call her 'distant cousin', but rather just 'cousin', isn't it? My relation with her is like this: My uncle's (father's mother's oldest brother) granddaughter is getting married to an American. The Church wedding in the US was over, but they decided to have another Chinese ceremony here in M'sia (or rather, Kuantan). And yeap, the groom's American parents were also invited.

There weren't many things which happened. We did got together for a large group photo on 2nd day morning, and then the 5 of us family went to walk around Kuantan town (nothing much to see=( and also Teluk Cempedak (that place very nice!)

That night (Saturday) was the wedding dinner in Hyatt Resort. Photos will be accompanied. Check out our attire=)

The next morning was the tea-giving ceremony. Old fashion way, as in the new couple kneeling in front of their parents to present them tea. Not only their parents, but also their uncles and aunties as well...

It was nice to be able to meet with a lot of my uncles and aunties after so long. My family is very big; my grandmother is the 12th among 16 children (go figure why so many!)... maybe it IS a blessing to be born into such a huge family=)

Back to School!! (or rather, university...)

Finally after one week of holidays, it's back to school time!!

I guessed I was just like everyone else, trying to accept the fact that classes start again, and there will be non-stop of classes to attend to (and make up for), tutorials to complete, tests and quizzes to prepare for, assignments and projects to 'look forward' for... and of course, the list goes on and on... =S

There were so many things which happened during the Chinese New Year week (even though the first part of the week was boring, in which all I could remember about was rushing to finish my homework...) On Friday, my family and I went for a three-day two-night stay in Kuantan... will post about it later.

I don't think a lot of people knew about this but I actually screwed up big time the day I went back today.... The notes for the lecture in the afternoon wasn't printed out for everyone!! For my part, it's a misunderstanding, but I would accept that it is my fault, and I have learnt the mistake... Anyway thanks a lot G-Han for helping me out on the notes...=)

Oh, and tonight it is the first time that I am staying away from my parents (away as in not in the same house la...), at least for as long as I can remember. Will be boarding the public bus from KWSP to Asia Jaya, and then hop on the UTAR bus which will directly send me to the front of the PD building... hopefully within this week I will get used to this mode of transportation. =)

Ok, too long for a post for a day, huh?