random thoughts

just some random things i've been thinking about:

1) computers will never take over humans as long as their speed slows down as time goes by
What i mean by this is you know how all computers (or devices, for that matter) deteriorate over time? With more things being installed in your hard disk, more things in the virtual memory or whatever, the performance ALWAYS goes down.

yet when you think about the human brain, we are constantly inputting new things into it and it becomes FASTER in fact. This is of course due to improvements in neural efficiency and synchronization and whatever (which my term paper is going to be about) but the bottom line is, they get faster.
(yes i know old people's brains deteriorate as well.. but not as bad or fast as how CPUS do)

Thus, if computers are to ever overtake the human race, they need to be designed to actually learn like a human mind and get FASTER with more input. So, go microsoft/apple ~

2) There needs to be more 'reserved' seats on the trains soon.
With Singapore's aging population, it follows that there will be more elderly people soon. In fact, there are already plenty now.

And assuming that Singaporeans are unfeeling people who only give up their seats to old people if and only if they are sitting in the 'Reserved' seats (which seems to be the case sometimes), there needs to be more seats reserved since old:young ratio is becoming bigger.

3) 'No final exam' is definitely not an advantage for a module as i previously assumed. In fact, it could be a negative point.
My French module boasts no final exam, but we just had a mid term test that was 30%, and there will be another one (which I assume will be at the end of the term) that is 30% as well, which are the same percentages as a normal 'final exam'.
So i guess the only difference is that 'final exams' in modules which boast 'no final exams' are still final exams just without the title of 'final exams'.
Hope that made sense.

4) I am an extremely random person and i am proud of it.
As proven by the extremely varied topics in this blog post.
Randomness is a blessing. There will never be stagnancy.

au revoir.

en francais

disclaimer: this entire post is written without any external aid like Google Translate, so I can't guarantee its accuracy. I don't know how to type accents so they will all be missing. This is just for my own practice, as there is a french test tomorrow :S I will try to use everything I know .. translation will be provided below the french stuff (highlight the blank space below each line to know what it's saying) You'll see some random english words thrown in because.. I dont know that many french words and i dont want to cheat. so. enjoy!


Bonjour mes bon amis! Comment allez-vous? Je suis un peu fatigue, mais je suis etude le francais dans moi maison.
Hello my good friends! How are you doing? I am a little tired, but I am studying french at home.

Mais je suis distracted! Je fais de l'ordinateur, j'aime beaucoup jouer a l'ordinateur!
But I am distracted! I am using the computer, i love to play the computer alot!

Quel est vous faites? Ils aiment moi blog? Est-ce que tu lis moi blog? Moi blog c'est interessant? tres bien tres bien :)
What are you doing? you love my blog? why are you reading my blog? is my blog interesting? very good very good :)

d'accord.. quel est votre blog addresse? Je suis lire ton blog aussi ! Oh, un problem i have is comment vous savez c'est object est homme ou femme? c'est tres difficile :(
ok... what is your blog address? i will read your blog also! oh, one problem i have is how to know if an object is male or female? it is very difficult :(

Il est trois heure cinquant cinq de l'apres midi. Je voudrais aller off now. au revoir!
The time is 3.55 PM. I am going off now. goodbye!

p.s. the blog title means 'in French'

a day of slack

whee, had a free day today. Completed comfortably what I planned to study.. because it wasn't alot on the first place. Starting to make my summaries/revise sheets of my Psych chapters and also working towards my mid term paper! So exciting :)

I think I'm not as mucked down as everyone else because
1) I keep up with my work
2) I only have 1 real content heavy subject, which is PL1101. The rest are not -
- French is just regular practice with friends and regular revision. Not alot of memorizing or anything. Though I can prob spend more time on this because I cant seem to remember vocabulary -_-

- New Media.. I don't know WHAT to memorize if I was even supposed to memorize anything. just try to understand the concepts i guess. Readings are not that much.. well they are extremely complicated so I never really understand them anyway so I don't bother memorizing HAH

-Philo - The readings are usually fun and abstract.. last week's one was really hard not sure about this week's one. I'm only quite worried because i'm graded on this weekly summary i have to do.. and it's 40% of my total marks for this module. And i only got 2/4 for the first summary! fml

-Psych Stats - open book exam... need i say more. lol. Nothing much to memorize, the concepts so far are pretty easy to understand and internalize. Just worried that the lectures are always so confusing because the HK lecturer can't word his notes properly and talks funnily, and there is a disparity between what he says and the book (the textbook is really good)
3) I don't have any CCA.

yup. so. so free! i think i played about 6 hours of starcraft today. maybe more. haha. won a large bunch of 4v4s with darryl/ben and darryl's friend. But still stuck in Gold league -_- the promotion system is bugged i tell you.We're something like.. 20-2 or something.

Ok.. wanna go sleep now so i can mug again tmr. chowz ppl