Recess Time

Finally, it's the recess week and I can enjoy a good long sleep every night... School work is somewhat a killer and this 1 week break serves as a good pit-stop for me to catch up on whatever I'm not sure about. Once the school starts, it's gonna be more continual assessments. So far, I've covered Data Structure and Algorithm; nothing that difficult... just that a good logic is required to do those questions. Next up, is the supposedly dreaded subject : Circuit Analysis. Planning to cover everything latest by wednesday, before moving on to maths, foundation physics and digital electronics.

Speaking about Wednesday, my IPPT is in 2 day's time. I hope that the past month of training would be sufficient to make me get a past at least. 2.4km, I hope I can find the steel to make myself pass. Think 1 more month of x3 per week session! NO!

Nothing interesting happening these days... nothing nice to blog about. Guess I'll just go back to my work for now.

Times changes, but we can't change time...

What is 2-Dimension? Area of a football field, Vectors on an XY plane...

What is 3-Dimesnion? What we perceive through our eyes...

The 4th dimension? Space? Time...?

Time is something fascinating. Something that we can never fully control. "Control"... not in the sense of fully utilizing your time to make the best out of your life (Something, which I failed many-a-times). The "control" I am referring to is to bend time at one's will.

There are many references to this in books, movies, and in most of the mass-media. Most notably is H.G. Well's "The Time Machine". There are many that have the fantasy of altering time; constantly self-questioning "If only I had etc, What If I had done etc..." Again, I am not the exception.



If H.G. Well's fantasy do become reality, I would want to do the following...



1: Years 1985 to late teens- If I can be back in time, I'd definitely stop being the "bad" me... no matter how mischievious my two younger brothers were... I'd tolerate.

I know, as a big brother, I am not your ideal role-model. As a child, I was constantly sided by pa (and at times mommy). I always I got you 2 into trouble in numerous occasions, beat you guys up and did many horrible things to you 2. I still remember the time when you all ganged up on me to make my life miserable. And the time one of you beat me up to teach me a lesson. Thanks for showing me humility... I was selfish, I changed because you 2 taught me a valuable lesson. Thank you my 2 brothers, I'll appreciate you guys.


2: Year 1993 - My first CCA was badminton. Which I thought that time was my ideal sport. My two brothers were into volleyball. Subsequently, they and their team went on to become national C-division champion. They seemed to have lots of fun. I looked on with much envy and I questioned my decision to join badminton. I still stuck with the decision...

3: Year 1997 - Badminton again.. This time it's in Tanglin Sec Sch. This time I regret not joining the National Cadet Corps, which my good friends Brian, Con and WeiHan were in. I guessed I still haven't learnt my lesson that that good fun can be found in good friends.

4: Year 2000 - If I was back 6 months or longer before 13th October 2000, just to inform my grandpa about his intestine and also, to seek early treatment, perhaps, he might still be around. Perhaps the tragic events shortly before 13th October might not happen.

5: Year 2001 - Should I alter this space in time? It's the year when I retained in JC1. A year of extreme negativity for me. Perhaps not... There are much more better things in life that will happen to me...

6: Year 2003 - Once again, I failed. This time, I failed my A'levels... failing to secure a place in the local university. I still remembered my Civics Tutor (MS Tie) handing me my result slip with a grim look. A look, that seems to say "you have tried your best"... For the years of 2001-2003, I hate my life in the JC. It's really very cold there...

Also, 1 more regret during the 2001-2003 years were that of joining Bowling. Used up lots of money but with no results...

7: Year 1993-2007 - I am not very sure about the end date. But it's gotta do with my hobbies. My early primary school years were filled with DragonBallZ cards. Followed by Magic the Gathering cards (on and off till I ORD'ed in 2006), Battletech cards during 1997-1999. Gundam Models from 1999 onwards till perhaps.. 2007?

If I can change time... I'd definitely not buy those DragonballZ cards.

FOr Magic Cards... perhaps I'd start in 1993 to get those alpha to revised edition cards (sought after for collection now) and top up with cards from Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, The Dark, Fallen Empires, 4th edition, Ice Age, Homelands and Alliances and finally STOP. Keep those valuable cards for momento sake. The newer editions these days sucks.

For Battletech... maybe not... I'd keep them. Battletech was one of my old passion.

And finally, Gundam... I'd not buy most of them, save those models that are really eye-catching.

Imagine all the money I'd have saved!

8: Year 2004 to Present - No regrets whatsoever so far... Army life was a blast, and so was Poly life... Most importantly, my girlfriend came into my life.

Covering lost ground...

I feel much better after genuinely getting myself down to work for these few days. Initially, I was lagging behind a certain number of tutorials. But now, at least I covered a significant amount of them and that deficit is reduced. All I need to do now is to finish up the rest of the overdue tutorials and prepare the tutorials for the next week, which is Week 7. Meaning to say. Tutorial Set No. 6 for every subject must be attempted.

For this week, I have a slight tinge of regret as I have skipped several lectures (think I missed like 5-6Hrs of lectures!!!). I don't know why, but I feel no mood attending those lectures. I guess it's the lack of company during those lectures. Really, it sucks to sit alone. And most of those times, I would somewhat be looking "enviously" at people who have friends with them. For those people who I usually sit with during tutorial classes, I can't seem to tell myself to sit with them as they themselves have their circle of friends. And if I sit with them, I probably might feel out of place. *Sigh*...

Must go view the video streaming for those lectures I have missed...

There were 2 continual assessments today. I came prepared for Data Structure. But still, the answers I gave for the paper were half-fucked haha. The part on Mathematical Induction was ok as I knew how to prove the equation for n+1. But the part to find out the O(n-cube), I flustered terribly! And to think that yesterday, Brenda and I were discussing how to copy! That plan didn't materialize!

During the next lesson (Basic Engineering Maths), realization somehow dawned on me that I did not even attempt a single tutorial for this week.. yet! So, I sat in my chair, empty-handed, as I tried to absorb as much stuffs as possible from the Maths tutor. Well, what he mentioned seems almost the same as that of the last tutorial lesson. Just that this is 2nd and 3rd order differentiation (Need to refresh on that).

After maths, it's Branda's Mr Nasty's and Wei Kiong's Mr *******'s lesson. Oh Boy how I laughed my ass off at the mentioning of that name. I know it's inappropriate to make fun of other people. But everytime the image (of Brenda pushing him down the stairs and Wei Kiong preparing the penknife below the steps) appears in my head, I know I am in for a good laugh! Laughters were minimised when the Physics tutor surprised everyone with a mini test today! It was an open-book test. But, I didn't bring my book as well as my calculator D: But still I attempted the question and I got an answer that seemed sensible. After the lesson, I asked around and many others got the same answer... except that my answer has several more decimal places. Die... wrong already.

After 3 hours of tutorial, there were 2 hours of break followed by 2 hours of Tech Comm. I was feeling very cold after the many hours spent in the classrooms. As I was on the way home, I felt so damned tired. So I "nodded" my head on the bus ride. Once home, I immediately changed into my home clothes and plopped myself into bed.

After a good 5pm to 8.30pm snore, I feel so invigorated. Good... the procrastination feeling seems gone as I hit the books. Finished re-doing Mr Nasty's Tutorial 5 and now, I'm trying to figure out Tutorial 4!

Ok, back to my books... Go Go Kevin Goh -_-

Oh No... Procrastination...

The only thing (which seems unnecessary now) that keeps on bothering me is the current state of this blog... I wanted to implement a fresh new look to it. Although I love the old skin (My Gp03-D... took pains to take the photo of it), I wanted to make something plain simple and functional too. Also, I wanted to use another colour for my skin instead of the usual black. Also, the buttons are etc etc etc he he ha ha ho ho ... ... ALRIGHT!!! THIS HAS BOTHERED ME FOR 6 HOURS! I'm gonna KIV this issue!!

Test on Data Structure & Algorithm tomorrow, 8.30am! GAAAH! And I was doing the above shit.! After the test, what do I have to look forward to? Nothing... To put it negatively, I'd just have to look forward to more tutorials and tests... wicked...