random camwhoring

Hey look I'm blogging again! Wow surprise surprise.

Anyway yesterday I met sh for dinner after work :) She came all the way down to meet me at my office la and we ate near my place too. my awesome girlfriend.

ok yup PICTURE SPAMM. All pictures taken with LemeLeme! (iPhone camera app)

For this picture she said she was imitating what I was doing.

 

 

But I said she puff her face so small, where got look like what I'm doing!? So she :

Me and pufferfish szehong

That's all!

Actually that's not all for this entry, just the photospam!

 Today is my first tuition lesson! Oh man. I've already prepared a worksheet to let my Sec3 Emath kid do.. hope he takes 1.5 hours to do haha then I can just chill there.
Maaaannn hope it goes well.

And me and SH together with 2 other friends have planned a holiday to Batam!! Whee! First time in my life I'm actually going for a holiday like this. Yes yes, I don't travel much. I'm a poor boy k, + I dont really have a tight clique of friends to go on trips like these. I'm more of a 1-to-1 guy!

OK anyway. Excited about the trip :D Hope my passport application goes through quickly and smoothly and we can confirm it.

Why blogging is dying

I feel bad because I know there are some people who do read my blog occasionally (or rather, visit, since there's nothing to read because I don't update) and I haven't been blogging anything for quite awhile.

But but but, I promise to make an awesome blog entry after ARTS CAMP k!!

Yup the annual Arts Camp is taking place from the 18-22 June, which is this Saturday! I am quite hyped and excited about meeting the freshies and all hehe. Hope they're a fun bunch and more importantly - hope I can click with at least some of them!

Like you know there may be fun people but they're just not your type. Then you don't really get along because.. like different wavelength? Yupyup.

AND it would be a super duper mega ultra unlikely bonus if .... there was just ONE person who is into Starcraft 2 like me! Omg bff for the camp already just talk SC2 strategies the whole camp hahhaha.

Still undecided if I should take leave on 20-22 to stay on at Arts Camp or just drop by at nights... must check the schedule! And if I do it's like 60x3 = $180 gone so bleah. Opportunity cost.

POST EDIT - omg ok I just found out some fun people are gonna be at arts camp haha ok double hype.

Ok you may be wondering why I named this entry as such.... it's because I think blogging is dying! Ok that totally doesn't explain it. Let me continue! With the rising popularity of things like Twitter and Facebook, it is becoming and increasing tendency to just tweet whatever I want to blog about. After all, Twitter IS a 'micro-blogging service'.

In the past how blogging worked for me is that I'll get an idea about something to write while outside then I'll develop it in my head then go home and blog it out. Or maybe there's some event that occurred with some photos taken so I'll make an entry.

Now, I just tweet those ideas, and upload those photos to Facebook. Finis. ('Finish' en francais)

That explains the lack of blog posts!

Also, I've been quite active and busy with stuff over at www.sc2sea.com , writing articles and contributing to discussions and all. Haven't even really been playing much 1v1s, just chilling and challenging people in chat.

So......... if you still visit this blog from time to time... THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I will try to update more k. After Arts Camp definitely will. I'll post on Twitter whenever I make a blogpost so if you're someone who knows me go ahead and follow me on Twitter! (If you're some random I probably won't accept to avoid spambots)

Abrupt end to the blog post here.

NUS Semester 2 AY 10/11 results

I'm going to post my results in this blog post, so if you're the kind who's going to go 'ugh what a dirty show off ugh' if my results are good then don't read on. Similarly, if you're gonna go 'rofl what a noob' if my results are bad then don't read on either.
Basically, if you're a judgmental bitch, don't read on.

I shall cover them from best to worst in terms of actual grade . I did a module review here, if you're keen to read it.



PH2110 - Logic
Predicted Grade - B+
Actual Grade - A!
Thoughts:
Wow I didn't expect an A for this! Even though I think my mid terms and finals were both aced, my online quizzes were really bad, like 1/10 and 2/10 or something. I guess EVERYONE also did that badly.. so it was evened out by bell curve.
I have a really good record with Philo mods! I should take more haha. Philosophy of Religion next sem! (or the sem after next)

PL3235 - Social Psychology
Predicted Grade - B+
Actual Grade - A-
Thoughts:
Hmm, nothing surprisingly here, was expecting somewhere around B+/A- because my mid terms were decent (not top notch so didnt expect A),  and my essay assignment got an A. Guess my finals was around A- level again, so I got this grade.

PL3232 - Biological Psychology
Predicted Grade - B
Actual Grade - B- :(
Thoughts:

Aww damn. Got lower than I had hoped for. My mid terms didn't do very well, and it was not a matter of not studying enough - I normally finish everything that I PLANNED to study. So it's a problem of not planning to study enough lol.
Like imagine there are 100 bits of information in the textbook, and I selectively study 80. Then turns out they test on the remaining 20 bits of information instead.

My group's presentations weren't very good in my opinion, comparatively speaking (with the other groups')
I don't think my finals did THAT badly, probably about Bish standard again, so I guess my results are logical. :(
Well, at least I didn't fall to a C. Worse grade of my NUS life so far! :(
Ok if you are keen you will realize I didn't follow what I said of reporting them from the best to the worst... because I have alot to say for the last 2 haha.

PL2132 - Research and Statistical Methods 2
Predicted Grade - B+
Actual Grade - A- !??
Thoughts:
Wow. Mathematically speaking, this grade is outright IMPOSSIBLE.
I got a C+ for my lab report, a huge disappointment, and worth a big 25% of my overall grade.

The CAP points to grades are as follows:
5 points for A/A+,
4.5 for A-
4 for B+
3.5 for B
3 for B-
2.5 for C+

25% X 2.5 = 0.625
Assuming I get the best possible grades, As, for the rest of the components of the grade,
75% x 5 = 3.75

Total 3.75 + 0.625 = 4.375! That's below the required 4.5 of an A- grade!

That means that even if I managed to get straight As for my 2 quizzes, mid terms, AND Finals.. it still shouldn't be possible that I get A-! Because the BEST POSSIBLE SCORE I should get is 4.375, which is a B+

So I've no idea what happened here.. the only thing I can think of is that my lab report was not marked on a bell curve - e.g. my C+ was an absolute grade, and maybe noone got A? So after bell curving it was actually higher than C+.

The real shocker is the next one:

SSB2216 - Employee Management in Singapore
Predicted Grade - C
Actual Grade - A- !?!?!!!
Thoughts:

SHOCKER. SHOCKER.
When I received the NUS SMS this morning containing my results, I was first a little surprised with the number of A- I got, as I really did expect more Bs, but my eyes were locked on one phrase:
SSB2216 - A-

HOW IN THE WORLD?!?!

Let's take it from the top. Our presentation. The moment my group concluded our presentation, my lecturer walked over to us and pulled us aside. I can't remember her exact words, but the monologue went briefly like this:
"I was quite disappointed you know. I expected you all to do better. Everything is wrong! Besides that slide where you included the stats which was good, everything else was wrong! - points out what was wrong -. Wrong...  disappointed! bad! .... disapppointed....! wrong! " (those were the few words that stood out)

So ok our presentation went horribly. Then for our report, her qualitative feedback wasn't exactly positive either. I can't remember what she said besides the fact that it wasn't generally positive.
Same goes for my individual article analysis - I was pretty sure I was out of point too lol. Coupled with her negative comments ... gone.

So there are 2 components left - class participation and finals.

I must say my class participation SHOULD be pretty decent... I speak up almost every week and the lecturer definitely knows me well by name. I would think I am in the top % of the class in this component? Because most people dont really speak up in class! So I'm lucky.

And finals... I basically smoked my way through? It's really a GP-style kind of thing and I just smoked both essays and really didn't know what I was writing. Didn't plan out my essays well beforehand, and was just writing as much nonsense as I can and throwing in fake facts/stats possible facts as usual like GP LOL.
Guess my smoke was smokey enough!
Because as compared to my project group mates I did do considerably better, so I think was my smokey essay and class participation that put me ahead. :S

But really really shocked with this grade, and thankful also of course! :D

Yup so A A- B- A- A- = 4.3, and with my last sem's CAP of 4.4, my overall CAP is now 4.35 !
Whew, still in safe zone. Hope can do better next sem and push it closer to 4.5! (Wow I need a 5 next sem to even get above 4.5 mad.)

Thank God for the decent results anyhooo.