Behold, Swee Yee's blog link! She finally started blogging in Canada!
http://sycanada.blogspot.com/
Will enjoy reading this. But first, I'd better finish up my help sheet for tomorrow's test.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Weekend of Week 5
Week 5 is over and I'm now in week 6. By the time this week is over, half my semester is gone. Can't really believe that... and it seems that I still have so much to learn!
The industrial attachment company list is out. There are so many choices I don't know which to choose! Will settle that this Thursday after my Separation Process Engineering test. Thursday is going to be super packed. Test 8.30 am to 9.30 am. After that rush to lab to analyze batch fermentation results. Immediately after that 3 hours of HYSYS computer lab. An hour after that Numerical Methods tutorial. 1 hour break for lunch (or for me to flop down in exhaustion). Finally I have my Separation tutorial at 5-6 pm.
I must really set my alarm not to faint on that night because I still have to select my IA options!
As mentioned, Separations test is on Thursday, and I'm not really that prepared yet. I've gone through all the notes but haven't done the help sheet nor read the text book. Almost done in tutorials. The most noteworthy thing that I've learnt in this module is separations is not spelled as 'seperations'. =.= Imagine going to school and learning English for this many years, and only to rectify the mistake now. I suppose I'm not going to get it wrong again after this because that word always appears when I make my notes.
I moved into my new room on Friday night. Moved from 10 pm till 4 am, with breaks in between. I was really tired and felt so dirty after that. But I like my new room! All the furniture smells new, and it's clean. I won't say it's tidy because I haven't fully unpacked yet. And being me, it's hopeless to think that the room would even be really tidy. But then my shelves are quite neat, only my table top is rather messy, as usual. I changed my bed sheet and washed my blanket to fit the occassion. Now everything smells nice.
I like the view outside my window. It's a patch of green trees, and the paved steps leading to Block 2. It's not as 'kepo' as my previous room in Block 5 (meaning I can see what everyone is doing), but a lot of people go up and down the steps and I get to observe them. Of course that means they see me from my room too.
Moving was quite fun especially the fact that I have 5 cute new neighbours now apart from Zhi Jun and Wen Qiao. I wanted to call them the 'Bond Girls' because I couldn't recall 'Charlie's Angels'. But Zhi Jun said 'Kero's Angels' is cuter and since they are Chin Wee's girls we called them that. Haha. Zhi Jun doesn't mind rooming with them beause the space they take up are quite negligible. :)
Okies that's all my updates for today. Back to the books again. I wonder why my blogs always end this way.
The industrial attachment company list is out. There are so many choices I don't know which to choose! Will settle that this Thursday after my Separation Process Engineering test. Thursday is going to be super packed. Test 8.30 am to 9.30 am. After that rush to lab to analyze batch fermentation results. Immediately after that 3 hours of HYSYS computer lab. An hour after that Numerical Methods tutorial. 1 hour break for lunch (or for me to flop down in exhaustion). Finally I have my Separation tutorial at 5-6 pm.
I must really set my alarm not to faint on that night because I still have to select my IA options!
As mentioned, Separations test is on Thursday, and I'm not really that prepared yet. I've gone through all the notes but haven't done the help sheet nor read the text book. Almost done in tutorials. The most noteworthy thing that I've learnt in this module is separations is not spelled as 'seperations'. =.= Imagine going to school and learning English for this many years, and only to rectify the mistake now. I suppose I'm not going to get it wrong again after this because that word always appears when I make my notes.
I moved into my new room on Friday night. Moved from 10 pm till 4 am, with breaks in between. I was really tired and felt so dirty after that. But I like my new room! All the furniture smells new, and it's clean. I won't say it's tidy because I haven't fully unpacked yet. And being me, it's hopeless to think that the room would even be really tidy. But then my shelves are quite neat, only my table top is rather messy, as usual. I changed my bed sheet and washed my blanket to fit the occassion. Now everything smells nice.
I like the view outside my window. It's a patch of green trees, and the paved steps leading to Block 2. It's not as 'kepo' as my previous room in Block 5 (meaning I can see what everyone is doing), but a lot of people go up and down the steps and I get to observe them. Of course that means they see me from my room too.
Moving was quite fun especially the fact that I have 5 cute new neighbours now apart from Zhi Jun and Wen Qiao. I wanted to call them the 'Bond Girls' because I couldn't recall 'Charlie's Angels'. But Zhi Jun said 'Kero's Angels' is cuter and since they are Chin Wee's girls we called them that. Haha. Zhi Jun doesn't mind rooming with them beause the space they take up are quite negligible. :)
Okies that's all my updates for today. Back to the books again. I wonder why my blogs always end this way.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
New Rooms!
Before I go on about new rooms, I quote my HYSYS computer lab tutor: "These guys (meaning my class) come 20 minutes early, don't go for break (lab is 3 hours), and don't want to leave after lab is over! I'm so glad I'm not in their cohort when I was an undergraduate!"
Too bad I'm in this cohort when I'm an undergraduate. And I leave a little later not because I'm that hardworking, it's because I cannot finish my work on time. T_T
Today was super duper tiring. Slept around 6 am yesterday (don't ask me why, it's a result of heavy workload and messed up sleep time table). Had classes non-stop from 9 am - 3 pm, which, I miraculously managed to keep my eyes open for all the time with a little help from coffee (1 cup only). Had lunch and excitedly went to get keys for my new room in Block 4. Tried to complete Separations tutorial before going for class after that, but was too tired that I had to take a 15 min nap instead. After that I had tutorial from 5 - 6 pm, and came back to view the new room.
The new blocks certainly look new, although they don't look that nice from the macroscopic point of view. We get longer tables! And a nice view. :) And good lights, and wonderful toilets! The toilets really rock! All the bathroom cubicles are functioning at last! I actually feel like moving in right away although i need sleep and I need to study tonight. I'll be moving part of my things in at least. And my new neighbours are awesome too. But I miss the grass patch all around the block area. That certainly is a loss to be lamented indeed. But they'll grow back fast enough. I hope! :)
Too bad I'm in this cohort when I'm an undergraduate. And I leave a little later not because I'm that hardworking, it's because I cannot finish my work on time. T_T
Today was super duper tiring. Slept around 6 am yesterday (don't ask me why, it's a result of heavy workload and messed up sleep time table). Had classes non-stop from 9 am - 3 pm, which, I miraculously managed to keep my eyes open for all the time with a little help from coffee (1 cup only). Had lunch and excitedly went to get keys for my new room in Block 4. Tried to complete Separations tutorial before going for class after that, but was too tired that I had to take a 15 min nap instead. After that I had tutorial from 5 - 6 pm, and came back to view the new room.
The new blocks certainly look new, although they don't look that nice from the macroscopic point of view. We get longer tables! And a nice view. :) And good lights, and wonderful toilets! The toilets really rock! All the bathroom cubicles are functioning at last! I actually feel like moving in right away although i need sleep and I need to study tonight. I'll be moving part of my things in at least. And my new neighbours are awesome too. But I miss the grass patch all around the block area. That certainly is a loss to be lamented indeed. But they'll grow back fast enough. I hope! :)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Post 9-09-09
It's now 10th of September... past the all hyped and auspicious 9 September 2009 (or 9/9/09). Actually I think the date is very much overrated, and it is amazing how many people find it an interesting date. Part of the reason I suppose is the Chinese think 9 is an auspicious number (it signifies longevity, or 'lasting-ness'), and I suppose that means it's a good day for marriages and renewal of vows (or maybe even birthdays). You can see the home page of my facebook being flooded with comments about this special date. Wayne texted me a forwarded message (I think) about what we're doing on 9:09 am on this date. I'm quite ashamed to say I was sleeping in, but that ws because I had a late night studying before. I almost wanted to blog on it, but procrastinated and ended up blogging now instead. Anyway, it's no matter.
What happened on my 9-09-09 was firstly, I slept in, and later went to lab to do batch fermentation. I quite like my lab sessions this year, because my lab partners are very entertaining, sabo-ing each other (which means Kasun sabos Michelle and me, in essence, and we sabo him back). The lab officer was very amused by our group because most of the time we were giggling non-stop (and the experiment was so boring!). After our fermentation, Kasun and I were supposed to return to check if nothing spills out from our culture, but it turns out that the machine that our batch culture was in wasn't even turned on! Someone must have turned it off by mistake because we all saw that it was when we left. So the two of us forfeited a nice afternoon's nap to come back and check instead. :( Well, I suppose that's better than having to redo everything.
Band's sending two teams to represent hall in the Youth Talent concert. I had to decline my role as a pianist in one of the teams because I have a text in the week we're supposed to do recording, and I already have had to commit to CME practices. It was such a pity, because it looked so exciting! :( I hope I get chances to work together with them again for other occassions. Sigh. I can't seem to spend as much time on my studies as I could because of hall activities, and I can't enjoy my hall activities to the fullest because of studies! I would have so much liked to start writing Phoenix articles now and get interviews in while everyone's memories are still fresh, but unfortunately I have no time to do so. I can only mentally structure the articles when I'm in the bathroom bathing.
We're able to get our new room keys today and we're going to move to our new rooms to blocks 2, 4, and 6 within these two days! Exciting as the prospects may be (new, clean rooms with more places to stack belongings), it's still very troublesome to move my whole room a whole block and two storeys away. I don't like the new doors of the new blocks! Kasun said he thinks he could break them down by smashing hard on them haha. The old doors are so nice and sturdy. But they are all going to be done away with when we move over. Will miss them. I also like the old balcony rails (wooden) which we can just sit at and swing our legs. The new ones are proper iron rails whereby we can't sit on them. I suppose they are safer, but they are so less fun. The roof also looks different. It's all so white and new and safe and less old. I'll miss the old outlook of RH after the complete renovations are over. I'm so glad to be part of RH before rennovations! The new generations of Rafflesians won't know what they missed.
I'm supposed to be working through my Seperations project, but we're kind of stuck. And now I'm a little behind HYSYS lab too. I'm falling apart in all the modules I'm studying! I hope to regain momentum somehow. That's why I'm still awake near 3 pm now haha. My sleeping hours are officially upside down. Just drank some coffee and now the prospects of studying doesn't look so bad after all. Coffee cheers me up a little. Hope I won't be sleepy tomorrow. I actually like going through Thursdays, just that they are so long. Three hours of lecture back to back, HYSYS computer lab right after (another 3 hours). Then I get two hours break which I usually go back to hall to nap and have an hour's tutorial after that.
Oh yes, I'm doing Industrial Attachment next semester after all. I emailed the person in charge and he swapped my grouping for me. I wonder what IA would be like. Heard that it's pretty tiring, but I seriously need some work experience before I go out to work.
OK, back to tutorials :)
What happened on my 9-09-09 was firstly, I slept in, and later went to lab to do batch fermentation. I quite like my lab sessions this year, because my lab partners are very entertaining, sabo-ing each other (which means Kasun sabos Michelle and me, in essence, and we sabo him back). The lab officer was very amused by our group because most of the time we were giggling non-stop (and the experiment was so boring!). After our fermentation, Kasun and I were supposed to return to check if nothing spills out from our culture, but it turns out that the machine that our batch culture was in wasn't even turned on! Someone must have turned it off by mistake because we all saw that it was when we left. So the two of us forfeited a nice afternoon's nap to come back and check instead. :( Well, I suppose that's better than having to redo everything.
Band's sending two teams to represent hall in the Youth Talent concert. I had to decline my role as a pianist in one of the teams because I have a text in the week we're supposed to do recording, and I already have had to commit to CME practices. It was such a pity, because it looked so exciting! :( I hope I get chances to work together with them again for other occassions. Sigh. I can't seem to spend as much time on my studies as I could because of hall activities, and I can't enjoy my hall activities to the fullest because of studies! I would have so much liked to start writing Phoenix articles now and get interviews in while everyone's memories are still fresh, but unfortunately I have no time to do so. I can only mentally structure the articles when I'm in the bathroom bathing.
We're able to get our new room keys today and we're going to move to our new rooms to blocks 2, 4, and 6 within these two days! Exciting as the prospects may be (new, clean rooms with more places to stack belongings), it's still very troublesome to move my whole room a whole block and two storeys away. I don't like the new doors of the new blocks! Kasun said he thinks he could break them down by smashing hard on them haha. The old doors are so nice and sturdy. But they are all going to be done away with when we move over. Will miss them. I also like the old balcony rails (wooden) which we can just sit at and swing our legs. The new ones are proper iron rails whereby we can't sit on them. I suppose they are safer, but they are so less fun. The roof also looks different. It's all so white and new and safe and less old. I'll miss the old outlook of RH after the complete renovations are over. I'm so glad to be part of RH before rennovations! The new generations of Rafflesians won't know what they missed.
I'm supposed to be working through my Seperations project, but we're kind of stuck. And now I'm a little behind HYSYS lab too. I'm falling apart in all the modules I'm studying! I hope to regain momentum somehow. That's why I'm still awake near 3 pm now haha. My sleeping hours are officially upside down. Just drank some coffee and now the prospects of studying doesn't look so bad after all. Coffee cheers me up a little. Hope I won't be sleepy tomorrow. I actually like going through Thursdays, just that they are so long. Three hours of lecture back to back, HYSYS computer lab right after (another 3 hours). Then I get two hours break which I usually go back to hall to nap and have an hour's tutorial after that.
Oh yes, I'm doing Industrial Attachment next semester after all. I emailed the person in charge and he swapped my grouping for me. I wonder what IA would be like. Heard that it's pretty tiring, but I seriously need some work experience before I go out to work.
OK, back to tutorials :)
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