As a precursor to my midterm/afterfinals review of my modules, I thought it'll be good to have an 'initial thoughts' thing about my modules for this semester.
So for this sem, Semester 2 of AY10/11, the modules I am taking are:
PH2110 - Logic (a philosophy module)
PL2132 - Research and Statistical Methods 2
PL3232 - Biological Psychology
PL3235 - Social Psychology
SSB2216 - Employee Management in Singapore
Read on after the page break for my short breakdown of each module and why I'm taking it.
PL3232 - Bio Psych
One of my 5 core modules for Psych (i.e. compulsory) , and because the girlfriend wanted to clear it while she still has her A level bio knowledge in mind, I decided to take it as well this semester.
One of my most dreaded core modules, because I just don't really like Biology, and this branch of Psychology is probably my least favourite one. Already read through the first lecture's lecture slides and already dreading it. Hope I can get at least a B+ for this mod :(
PL3235 - Social Psych
Another core mod which I have to clear eventually, so might as well take it. Sounds the most interesting among all the core mods (aside from Abnormal Psych) and supposedly the most slack one too. We'll see. Hope to get an A.
PL2132 - Stats 2
A follow-up from Stats 1, also a compulsory core mod. REALLY dread the readings for this mod, because it sounds ridiculous. There are THREE textbooks for it. And we're supposed to read 15 chapters within the first 2 weeks. Is that even humanly possible? Hope to get at least a B+ as well.
SSB2216 - Employee Management in Singapore
All NUS students have to clear a Singapore Studies mod, and since the rest of them sound like History mods to me, this mod sounds the most interesting and relevant. Only abit worried because there is high emphasis on class participation and the project is a pretty big part of the module. Bad groupmates = fail.
Hope to get a B+ at least, may S/U if it's B- or below. If I get a B... will be conflicted :/
PH2110 - Logic
A last minute entry, though I actually DID consider this mod initially but switched it for NM2220 - Writing in New Media because I love writing and Candice was taking that as well so I thought I could do it with her.
However, in the very first round which I could bid for it, the bid points quickly went up to 700+, eventually going for 1000+ (lowest successful bid), so I didn't get it.
At the same time, while looking for an alternative, I came across the IVLE info for PH2110, and the textbook was available as an e-book so I decided to take a quick glance through - and was hooked. line and sinker. SO INTERESTING.
I think I will definitely like this mod, it's just a question of whether I can score for it. A- I hope?
If I hit all my goals - A- B+ B+ A B+ - CAP = 4 4 4 5 4.5 /5 = 4.3
Oh well, decent. Wish me luck.
Friday 7 January 2011
Wednesday 5 January 2011
2011 Resolutions
Alright been wanting to do this for awhile but kept putting it off. Had it all written out in my head already, just have to transfer it to this blog haha.
Before that, one quick announcement -
I SOLD MY IPOD TOUCH.
Very sad k, got sentimental value. And monetary value of course, of $280! Which is pretty decent I guess for a secondhand. :/ (O.P. $336 i think) But very sad to part with it la, cos it's a gift from pewi. BUT, think of it this way - it's like he's getting me an iPhone! yea.
I posted my ad up on Monday afternoon, by Monday evening I got an offer for $270 already. I negotiated it up to $280 and the buyer arranged to meet me.. and within the next 24 hours I got another 3-4 offers! Wth. HWZ is full of buyers.
But yea, 280 was about the best I could get so I just sold it for that. Now, waiting till Feb 3rd till I can recontract and get my IPHONE4.
Hope something weird happens and the price somehow drops. 16 or 32GB though?
OK sorry for the slight digression, on to my 2011 resolutions!
1) SAVE MONEY ON FOOD
Like really, I spend like mad for a person as poor as me. My biggest expenditure is FOOD. I can't resist a good meal! Guh. I used to be very thrifty on food k, always eat cai fan, $2.30-$2.70 per meal only. But in the recent years I would happily have meals that were in the $10-20 price range. Which is not good!
I want to go for exchange in Year 3, that requires a shitloads of money already. And not to mention... I'm not a rich kid. I need to save save save. So this year, I aim to spend less on food!
I would write 'I need to save money in general' but then I just said I'm going to buy an iPhone so that is highly contradictory so... lol. Baby steps yea? Food first. =X
2) AS HIGH CAP AS POSSIBLE 5 PLEASE
One of my dreams before the previous semester of uni was to get into Dean's List, which is like the top 2% or 5% of your faculty. With a CAP of 4.4, I don't think this is possible. I need a 5 this sem! Which is like mad.. but... we'll see how things go :(
Going to work harder than last sem I hope. Less Starcraft2, less slacking, more mugging.
~~~
Wow ok I think that is it. lolol. There are some others but they aren't really strong enough convictions to want to define as a resolution. So I guess that's that, and I will see you guyssss next time!
Before that, one quick announcement -
I SOLD MY IPOD TOUCH.
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| So long, my friend |
Very sad k, got sentimental value. And monetary value of course, of $280! Which is pretty decent I guess for a secondhand. :/ (O.P. $336 i think) But very sad to part with it la, cos it's a gift from pewi. BUT, think of it this way - it's like he's getting me an iPhone! yea.
I posted my ad up on Monday afternoon, by Monday evening I got an offer for $270 already. I negotiated it up to $280 and the buyer arranged to meet me.. and within the next 24 hours I got another 3-4 offers! Wth. HWZ is full of buyers.
But yea, 280 was about the best I could get so I just sold it for that. Now, waiting till Feb 3rd till I can recontract and get my IPHONE4.
Hope something weird happens and the price somehow drops. 16 or 32GB though?
OK sorry for the slight digression, on to my 2011 resolutions!
1) SAVE MONEY ON FOOD
Like really, I spend like mad for a person as poor as me. My biggest expenditure is FOOD. I can't resist a good meal! Guh. I used to be very thrifty on food k, always eat cai fan, $2.30-$2.70 per meal only. But in the recent years I would happily have meals that were in the $10-20 price range. Which is not good!
I want to go for exchange in Year 3, that requires a shitloads of money already. And not to mention... I'm not a rich kid. I need to save save save. So this year, I aim to spend less on food!
I would write 'I need to save money in general' but then I just said I'm going to buy an iPhone so that is highly contradictory so... lol. Baby steps yea? Food first. =X
2) AS HIGH CAP AS POSSIBLE 5 PLEASE
One of my dreams before the previous semester of uni was to get into Dean's List, which is like the top 2% or 5% of your faculty. With a CAP of 4.4, I don't think this is possible. I need a 5 this sem! Which is like mad.. but... we'll see how things go :(
Going to work harder than last sem I hope. Less Starcraft2, less slacking, more mugging.
~~~
Wow ok I think that is it. lolol. There are some others but they aren't really strong enough convictions to want to define as a resolution. So I guess that's that, and I will see you guyssss next time!
Thursday 30 December 2010
highlights of 2010
(I'll try to slip in as many pictures as i can! to make it more readable. haha. more pics after the page break :p)
Gonna hop on the bandwagon and write a 'reflections' type of post about my year.. Probably more like a 'highlights of 2010'? I'll just start writing and see how things go.
Well, 2010 marked the start of a year when I'm free of NS, after 2 years of being trapped within the clutches of the SAF. It marked the start of a long wait to the start of school, which I can say many (if not, most) NSFs look forward to. I think being in army just makes you appreciate the outside world more, such as your friends, family, and yes, even studying.
I just counted - I made 155 blog posts this year (not including this one). That's roughly about 1 blog post every 2 days! Wow, that's rather frequent. Anyway, I'll just be referring to them to help me recall what has happened this year, because I do not have superb memory like my other half.
Walk down memory lane -
010110 - Stayover
Oooh I had been thinking for awhile what I actually did last year for NYE and this blog post reminded me. Watchnight service + stayover in church as usual. Yes, i remember the great time of Taboo and Mad Gab.. both of which I haven't played in ages :/
Won't be doing that this year though.. going to play mahjong with si en, her friend and pewi! Hope it'll be fun and hope i win alot haha.
Hair
Yes, the end of army means the start of styled hair once again.
The end of LOST
The final season of LOST began, and subsequently ended some time in... no idea when. April? May? Basically the whole series wrapped up with this final season, and the ending was far from satisfactory. I have complained and talked about it at length in this post, you can go check it out if you're a LOST fan.
World of Warcraft
I started playing this back in June 2009 but could never really play it actively, in a proper guild, raiding frequently, due to army. When I came out of army I was a full-time WoW player, raiding in a regular guild and gradually progressing up from a lousier guild to a better one till I was eventually in the best guild on my server.
During that period I got very frustrated with the quality of players then, as seen in my long rant here. Quite an interesting read IMO, if you play WoW haha.
So many highlights in my WoW 'career':
One of my proudest achievements back then, which was pretty hard still (not like +20% damage or whatever) and extremely vexing because had to keep putting together a team to attempt :
Got hacked.
And got it back
Cleared all the achievements necessary for:
And a concluding post for WoW here
And of course, tried to sell my WoW account...
AND SOLD IT FOR $$$$
Ah, World of Warcraft, I will miss you. If I had no life and too much money to spend, I would definitely start playing again.But for now.... this will be just one of my memories.
Work work @ IBM @ Expo
Held my first official part-time job (The previous was relief teaching for a week at SAJS which I won't really count) working for Stoneforest at IBM.. Basically I just covered people who went on leave.
I must thank my AWESOME colleagues there - Eunice, Natalie, Shirley, Sharon, Tsai Chin, Esther, Yvonne, Onil, Sylvie.. ooh shoot hope i didn't leave anyone out. Every single one of these people were very warm and welcoming and friendly and helpful!
Like they are busy-ass busy but they still dropped whatever they were doing to help me out. Seriously, model model colleagues. I think I have praised them through the roof but they really are awesome!
They set the example for me to be to my future interns/part-timers - I must make sure they feel welcome and confident and happy. rawr. THANKS COLLEAGUES LOVE YOU ALL! (though probably none of them will read this lol)
Pulled my wisdom tooth
Owww. Most painful experience of the year, but yea. Of my life, probably.. I felt like I was being tortured. You can read my account here if you want.
Lakers beat the Celtics in NBA Finals
I was rooting for the Celtics :( They had a great run too, with Rajon Rondo exerting himself as the next generation leader and just dominating several games with triple doubles and the such. (Remember this dive that outhustled Jason Williams?)
And the Lakers vs Celtics finals was such an exciting series, it went all the way to Game 7 ... and what an exciting and emphatic way to end it too (with a clutch Ron Artest 3 pointer which he has a very funny post-game interview about, kobe going cold but the celtics going colder -_- )
Spain wins World Cup
And World Cup!
Wow, I didn't realize it was this year too, it seemed so long ago.
I was rooting for Germany as after watching them demolish England... how can you not? I even wrote a poem for them:
But yea, they lost to Spain who eventually went on to lift the World Cup.
Psych Camp
Went for my first NUS camp in preparation for school... I must say it was a pretty last minute decision, which was probably one of the best decisions I've made this year.
My thoughts about the camp are here, and I made some good friends whom I'm still in contact now and still treasure very much. seniors! :
Ok the last 2 shots we look quite cui cos we never sleep much the previous night haha. I slept about 1 hour or something, so did they.
Orientation Week
My 2nd NUS camp, which was kind of like the sequel to Arts Camp which i couldn't go because I had reservist -_- The long post I made about O week (more of a picture spam)
Was glad I went though! Made so many friends who would be my lecture mates, lunch buddies, twitter friends, etc.
Starcraft 2!
After 10+ years of waiting, the sequel to the popular Starcraft was finally here!!
Went to queue for it with dom and ben, it was mad crazy at Funan la
The release was at 12pm, by 8am the queue was already until outside I heard. lol. nerds are mad.
And if you follow my Twitter, you'll know that I have climbed pretty high up in the ladder rankings. Well, not really THAT high but decent!
Turned 21!
Birthday blog post here.
So I hit the milestone, and had my little dinner gathering. Loved the company, thank you all for coming!
And of course for all the presents.. (must say this first)... AND OF COURSE PEWI PEW PEW FOR YOUR RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE PRESENT
Turned un-single
Met szehong at Psych Camp, never really knew her then... ok you can ask me if you really want to know our love story lol. Nothing fancy or extraordinary la. One of the best things that happened to me in 2010 for sure :)
Finished my 1st semester in university
Ah yes, one sem has gone and passed in NUS. A review of the modules I've studied can be found here, along with my results here. A relatively slack sem in my opinion, and I only obtained the CAP i got.. sigh. Hope to do better next sem
Alright, I think that's about it? As I said, going to play mahjong later with pewi, Si En and her friend (pewi hasn't replied me to confirm today!! shit hope he's not like drunk or kidnapped or something) hope it'll be fun and hope i win! Hope they're camera friendly and we can take some pictures at least to commemorate the end of this year and the beginning of the next :D
Thanks for reading my lovely reader(s)! Happy New Year!
Gonna hop on the bandwagon and write a 'reflections' type of post about my year.. Probably more like a 'highlights of 2010'? I'll just start writing and see how things go.
Well, 2010 marked the start of a year when I'm free of NS, after 2 years of being trapped within the clutches of the SAF. It marked the start of a long wait to the start of school, which I can say many (if not, most) NSFs look forward to. I think being in army just makes you appreciate the outside world more, such as your friends, family, and yes, even studying.
I just counted - I made 155 blog posts this year (not including this one). That's roughly about 1 blog post every 2 days! Wow, that's rather frequent. Anyway, I'll just be referring to them to help me recall what has happened this year, because I do not have superb memory like my other half.
Walk down memory lane -
010110 - Stayover
Oooh I had been thinking for awhile what I actually did last year for NYE and this blog post reminded me. Watchnight service + stayover in church as usual. Yes, i remember the great time of Taboo and Mad Gab.. both of which I haven't played in ages :/
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| One of my favourite games! |
Won't be doing that this year though.. going to play mahjong with si en, her friend and pewi! Hope it'll be fun and hope i win alot haha.
Hair
Yes, the end of army means the start of styled hair once again.
The end of LOST
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World of Warcraft
I started playing this back in June 2009 but could never really play it actively, in a proper guild, raiding frequently, due to army. When I came out of army I was a full-time WoW player, raiding in a regular guild and gradually progressing up from a lousier guild to a better one till I was eventually in the best guild on my server.
During that period I got very frustrated with the quality of players then, as seen in my long rant here. Quite an interesting read IMO, if you play WoW haha.
So many highlights in my WoW 'career':
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| Dominating heal-meters in Valithria Dreamwalker fight |
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| Ranked 9th on my server in gear (click to enlarge) |
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| Kill shot of Lich King (click to enlarge) Celebratory post here. |
Got hacked.
And got it back
Cleared all the achievements necessary for:
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| Bloodbathed Frostbrood Vanquisher! Sexy drake! |
And a concluding post for WoW here
And of course, tried to sell my WoW account...
AND SOLD IT FOR $$$$
Ah, World of Warcraft, I will miss you. If I had no life and too much money to spend, I would definitely start playing again.But for now.... this will be just one of my memories.
Work work @ IBM @ Expo
Held my first official part-time job (The previous was relief teaching for a week at SAJS which I won't really count) working for Stoneforest at IBM.. Basically I just covered people who went on leave.
I must thank my AWESOME colleagues there - Eunice, Natalie, Shirley, Sharon, Tsai Chin, Esther, Yvonne, Onil, Sylvie.. ooh shoot hope i didn't leave anyone out. Every single one of these people were very warm and welcoming and friendly and helpful!
Like they are busy-ass busy but they still dropped whatever they were doing to help me out. Seriously, model model colleagues. I think I have praised them through the roof but they really are awesome!
They set the example for me to be to my future interns/part-timers - I must make sure they feel welcome and confident and happy. rawr. THANKS COLLEAGUES LOVE YOU ALL! (though probably none of them will read this lol)
Pulled my wisdom tooth
Owww. Most painful experience of the year, but yea. Of my life, probably.. I felt like I was being tortured. You can read my account here if you want.
Lakers beat the Celtics in NBA Finals
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| Yea yea i know this is 07/08 but it looked cool so i wanna put it. |
I was rooting for the Celtics :( They had a great run too, with Rajon Rondo exerting himself as the next generation leader and just dominating several games with triple doubles and the such. (Remember this dive that outhustled Jason Williams?)
And the Lakers vs Celtics finals was such an exciting series, it went all the way to Game 7 ... and what an exciting and emphatic way to end it too (with a clutch Ron Artest 3 pointer which he has a very funny post-game interview about, kobe going cold but the celtics going colder -_- )
Spain wins World Cup
And World Cup!
Wow, I didn't realize it was this year too, it seemed so long ago.
I was rooting for Germany as after watching them demolish England... how can you not? I even wrote a poem for them:
onward we march
the german machine
soak defend absorb
break
forward we go
the german machine
clear turn run
pass
goalwards we press
the german machine
cross flick lob
shoot
to the crowd
the german machine
jump wave somersault
celebrate
But yea, they lost to Spain who eventually went on to lift the World Cup.
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| muacks |
Psych Camp
Went for my first NUS camp in preparation for school... I must say it was a pretty last minute decision, which was probably one of the best decisions I've made this year.
My thoughts about the camp are here, and I made some good friends whom I'm still in contact now and still treasure very much. seniors! :
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| smelly chonghui |
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| darren |
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| huijun |
Orientation Week
My 2nd NUS camp, which was kind of like the sequel to Arts Camp which i couldn't go because I had reservist -_- The long post I made about O week (more of a picture spam)
Was glad I went though! Made so many friends who would be my lecture mates, lunch buddies, twitter friends, etc.
 |
| Wa I now then notice Si En got the seh sia hahahah. |
Starcraft 2!
After 10+ years of waiting, the sequel to the popular Starcraft was finally here!!
Went to queue for it with dom and ben, it was mad crazy at Funan la
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| This was just outside, inside still got queue. |
And if you follow my Twitter, you'll know that I have climbed pretty high up in the ladder rankings. Well, not really THAT high but decent!
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| 2400+ rated, 4th in my diamond league. Click to enlarge! (and I'm ranked 200+ in SEA i think) |
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| Diamond League for all match types :) |
Turned 21!
Birthday blog post here.
So I hit the milestone, and had my little dinner gathering. Loved the company, thank you all for coming!
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| The people that matter. |
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| He got me this. Yes, an iPod Touch 4 |
Turned un-single
Finished my 1st semester in university
Ah yes, one sem has gone and passed in NUS. A review of the modules I've studied can be found here, along with my results here. A relatively slack sem in my opinion, and I only obtained the CAP i got.. sigh. Hope to do better next sem
Alright, I think that's about it? As I said, going to play mahjong later with pewi, Si En and her friend (pewi hasn't replied me to confirm today!! shit hope he's not like drunk or kidnapped or something) hope it'll be fun and hope i win! Hope they're camera friendly and we can take some pictures at least to commemorate the end of this year and the beginning of the next :D
Thanks for reading my lovely reader(s)! Happy New Year!
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