Thursday, March 16, 2006
ATTENTION PLEASE !!!!
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One hell of a week
This week is going to be hell. I’m supposed to pass up 2 chemistry lab reports and social relevance task’s 1st draft by Friday, and I have Physics test on Tuesday night and Math test on Thursday night! This is crazy! (For your info all this contributes to my internal assessment, which makes up 50% of my final mark for AUSMAT, and Social Relevance Task is a chemistry project that resembles a research study, i.e. we make a study on a chemistry topic by doing research about it) However, being a well organised-person, I managed to come up with a plan that might work wonderfully if it’s executed properly.
Plans :
1.Do not play com games till Friday.
2. Study Physics during weekend and on Monday, 1 chapter a day. If I’m quick enough I should be able to finish a bit earlier than that and the extra time can be used to do exercises (till Tuesday).
3. Take some time on Saturday and Sunday to do lab report.
4. Revise for Math Straight after coming back from Physics test…ok, maybe rest for a while 1st. Continue Math revision until the test.
5. Come back from test on Thursday night, rest for a while, and stay up all night to finish my social relevance task (hereafter referred to as SRT)
Looks feasible, doesn’t it?
WEEKENDS
I couldn’t finish my lab reports…oh well, guess I’ll have to do it on Thursday night together with the SRT then. Have been progressing reasonably well with Physics, managing one chapter per day as scheduled. And I realised that doing lab report + studying the whole day is extremely stressful, even though you’re not doing them seriously coz you tend to fool around with your roommates after a while (Stresstotal = Stress from studying + stress from guilt). So, I allowed myself 1 hour of computer gaming :p . Or at least, that was the initial plan…
TUESDAY
On the week we’re struggling to revise for math and physics test while trying to finish all our assignments and lab reports, my beloved specialist math lecturer decided to give my class a POP quiz! On the complex number topic that I can barely understand! EVIL!!! How can she expect us to have read the topic with so many things to do? I was planning to revise that during the holidays! I did really bad………….. LL
Have to use the free time from 2 to 4 to sleep as I stayed up very late revising physics last night and wants to be fresh for the test tonight. Class finish at 6. Barely had time to have dinner after reaching hostel before I had to get prepared to go to campus again to sit for the test, don’t even had the time to do last minute revision L. But it wasn’t that hard, I only had 1 or 2 sub-questions unanswered. After test I went back, rewarded myself with an ice-cream for having the courage and determination to go trough the pre-test period, and started doing SRT straight away. Well, ok almost straight away. I played computer for a while first. Still, I didn’t get much done even though I did it till 2.45am. Which made me feel really bad and decide to take the extreme measure of giving all my computer games to Yeam to keep till Friday.
WEDNESDAY
I got the spec math pop quiz paper back. 2 correct out of 20something questions…..Wow…LL (If got chance I will scan the paper for you guys to admire). Then, she decided to surprise us with yet ANOTHER pop quiz! EVIL!! I cant believe her evil plan. 2 pop quizzes in 2 consecutive days right in the middle of the week with 2 tests! ARRRGGHHHHHH!!!!
Up till this point, everything in this week has been quite depressing.
It’s not until in the evening during KOPLN that things started to look brighter (KOPLN -kokurikulum untuk pelajar luar negara). For our last kopln lesson, we had a treasure hunt. Each class was to send 5 representatives to participate in it while the others that does not will play board games. I thought that this is a good chance to relax during a (damn) hectic week, so I volunteered. Not much people wanted to do it anyway.
So we ran around the campus like idiots, following clues and finding answers. Idiots we may look like, but fun it was. Most Ausmat students understandably went back after taking attendance (not even bothering to sneak to the bus as there weren’t any1 looking after the board game players) to study for math. But I did not regret taking part, our team worked well and we won tenth place out of 24 groups. I said ‘won’, because no.1 to no.10 gets a prize, and they are the same (food hamper).
At night, we had a kopln meeting to distribute the prizes. We generously decided to share our hard-earned prize with our classmates who weren’t there to support us during the competition. However, even when it’s to take prizes, most people were reluctant to come. There were only 8-9 people there. We called the others one by one but still they wouldn’t come partly because they feel guilty for taking the prizes without doing anything and partly (and imho most importantly) because they don’t want to waste time that they can use to do math. Fine then. We divided the food among ourselves and had a small celebration before going back to do our math revision.
I did not play computer today. Fell so proud :-D
THURSDAY
I was scolded during ESLS (English) class for sleeping in class. Couldn’t help it, slept late last night. During Chemistry, our lecturer, Mr. Yong, happily told us that there will be a quiz after the holidays and a test after that. Haha I’m trying to be optimistic about it. I have to, or else I’ll die of depression… Did I mention that I haven’t finished my lab reports and SRT that have to be submitted tomorrow? I’ll have to get to it right after the test and do it overnight (seriously, I don’t think one night will be enough to finish my SRT, but I’ll try my best). The thought of not sleeping tonight is too much to bear. I decided to ask Mr Yong to let me submit after the holidays, but I had a feeling I know the answer already. “No,” said Mr. Yong, as expected. “But you can submit during the holidays, I will be here in the campus.”
I almost screamed with relief! I was that happy! It means that I can sleep tonight! Then suddenly, I remembered that the 1st draft for physics project is to be submitted after holiday, and my group and I haven’t done the experiment yet. *sigh*. And holiday starts in two days! It must be done today or tomorrow, but there’s so much planning to do. Tomorrow, we have class until 12 and the lab assistant will have to pray after that, so there’s no choice but to sacrifice lunch time to do it today. But there’s so much to plan, we wont be able to make a good experiment…I thought of an alternative. We can ask permission to do it during the holidays. I asked my lecturer and she said yes! Since I have to come back to submit my 1st draft for chemistry anyway, I might as well do it on the same day. What a stroke of genius! Things are starting to look good……..
Fast forward till night. Math test went quite well. Again only two sub-questions unanswered. On the way back Daphne complained about how f*cking easy the Ausmat tests in private colleges are. Because of our hard work Yeam, Yee Hong and I had ordered Domino’s pizza to be delivered after the test for supper (hahahahahahaha). We invited Jaishri, Jia Huei, Christine and Nui Hui. Wow, the pizzas taste sooooooooooo good. We can feel envious eyes around us throughout the meal. Because there’s no need to submit the SRT tomorrow, I decided to allow myself to play computer tonight :-p After that, back to reality; have to start doing my lab reports. I thought it wouldn’t take very long, but I had to do it till 4.30 am. Tired though I was, I felt happy knowing that all this will end tomorrow and holiday will start.
FRIDAY
Just when things were starting to look positive, another bad news was thrown to my face. My ESLS lecturer returned my outline today. 8-over-15. Red marks all over the paper. I have to produce another one and submit it to her after the holiday. She didn’t look very pleased with me L
When Specialist Math class finished at 12, I was jumping with joy. All the sorrow, stress and depression can now be forgotten because the holiday had officially started ! Yeah!
Plans :
1.Do not play com games till Friday.
2. Study Physics during weekend and on Monday, 1 chapter a day. If I’m quick enough I should be able to finish a bit earlier than that and the extra time can be used to do exercises (till Tuesday).
3. Take some time on Saturday and Sunday to do lab report.
4. Revise for Math Straight after coming back from Physics test…ok, maybe rest for a while 1st. Continue Math revision until the test.
5. Come back from test on Thursday night, rest for a while, and stay up all night to finish my social relevance task (hereafter referred to as SRT)
Looks feasible, doesn’t it?
WEEKENDS
I couldn’t finish my lab reports…oh well, guess I’ll have to do it on Thursday night together with the SRT then. Have been progressing reasonably well with Physics, managing one chapter per day as scheduled. And I realised that doing lab report + studying the whole day is extremely stressful, even though you’re not doing them seriously coz you tend to fool around with your roommates after a while (Stresstotal = Stress from studying + stress from guilt). So, I allowed myself 1 hour of computer gaming :p . Or at least, that was the initial plan…
TUESDAY
On the week we’re struggling to revise for math and physics test while trying to finish all our assignments and lab reports, my beloved specialist math lecturer decided to give my class a POP quiz! On the complex number topic that I can barely understand! EVIL!!! How can she expect us to have read the topic with so many things to do? I was planning to revise that during the holidays! I did really bad………….. LL
Have to use the free time from 2 to 4 to sleep as I stayed up very late revising physics last night and wants to be fresh for the test tonight. Class finish at 6. Barely had time to have dinner after reaching hostel before I had to get prepared to go to campus again to sit for the test, don’t even had the time to do last minute revision L. But it wasn’t that hard, I only had 1 or 2 sub-questions unanswered. After test I went back, rewarded myself with an ice-cream for having the courage and determination to go trough the pre-test period, and started doing SRT straight away. Well, ok almost straight away. I played computer for a while first. Still, I didn’t get much done even though I did it till 2.45am. Which made me feel really bad and decide to take the extreme measure of giving all my computer games to Yeam to keep till Friday.
WEDNESDAY
I got the spec math pop quiz paper back. 2 correct out of 20something questions…..Wow…LL (If got chance I will scan the paper for you guys to admire). Then, she decided to surprise us with yet ANOTHER pop quiz! EVIL!! I cant believe her evil plan. 2 pop quizzes in 2 consecutive days right in the middle of the week with 2 tests! ARRRGGHHHHHH!!!!
Up till this point, everything in this week has been quite depressing.
It’s not until in the evening during KOPLN that things started to look brighter (KOPLN -kokurikulum untuk pelajar luar negara). For our last kopln lesson, we had a treasure hunt. Each class was to send 5 representatives to participate in it while the others that does not will play board games. I thought that this is a good chance to relax during a (damn) hectic week, so I volunteered. Not much people wanted to do it anyway.
So we ran around the campus like idiots, following clues and finding answers. Idiots we may look like, but fun it was. Most Ausmat students understandably went back after taking attendance (not even bothering to sneak to the bus as there weren’t any1 looking after the board game players) to study for math. But I did not regret taking part, our team worked well and we won tenth place out of 24 groups. I said ‘won’, because no.1 to no.10 gets a prize, and they are the same (food hamper).
At night, we had a kopln meeting to distribute the prizes. We generously decided to share our hard-earned prize with our classmates who weren’t there to support us during the competition. However, even when it’s to take prizes, most people were reluctant to come. There were only 8-9 people there. We called the others one by one but still they wouldn’t come partly because they feel guilty for taking the prizes without doing anything and partly (and imho most importantly) because they don’t want to waste time that they can use to do math. Fine then. We divided the food among ourselves and had a small celebration before going back to do our math revision.
I did not play computer today. Fell so proud :-D
THURSDAY
I was scolded during ESLS (English) class for sleeping in class. Couldn’t help it, slept late last night. During Chemistry, our lecturer, Mr. Yong, happily told us that there will be a quiz after the holidays and a test after that. Haha I’m trying to be optimistic about it. I have to, or else I’ll die of depression… Did I mention that I haven’t finished my lab reports and SRT that have to be submitted tomorrow? I’ll have to get to it right after the test and do it overnight (seriously, I don’t think one night will be enough to finish my SRT, but I’ll try my best). The thought of not sleeping tonight is too much to bear. I decided to ask Mr Yong to let me submit after the holidays, but I had a feeling I know the answer already. “No,” said Mr. Yong, as expected. “But you can submit during the holidays, I will be here in the campus.”
I almost screamed with relief! I was that happy! It means that I can sleep tonight! Then suddenly, I remembered that the 1st draft for physics project is to be submitted after holiday, and my group and I haven’t done the experiment yet. *sigh*. And holiday starts in two days! It must be done today or tomorrow, but there’s so much planning to do. Tomorrow, we have class until 12 and the lab assistant will have to pray after that, so there’s no choice but to sacrifice lunch time to do it today. But there’s so much to plan, we wont be able to make a good experiment…I thought of an alternative. We can ask permission to do it during the holidays. I asked my lecturer and she said yes! Since I have to come back to submit my 1st draft for chemistry anyway, I might as well do it on the same day. What a stroke of genius! Things are starting to look good……..
Fast forward till night. Math test went quite well. Again only two sub-questions unanswered. On the way back Daphne complained about how f*cking easy the Ausmat tests in private colleges are. Because of our hard work Yeam, Yee Hong and I had ordered Domino’s pizza to be delivered after the test for supper (hahahahahahaha). We invited Jaishri, Jia Huei, Christine and Nui Hui. Wow, the pizzas taste sooooooooooo good. We can feel envious eyes around us throughout the meal. Because there’s no need to submit the SRT tomorrow, I decided to allow myself to play computer tonight :-p After that, back to reality; have to start doing my lab reports. I thought it wouldn’t take very long, but I had to do it till 4.30 am. Tired though I was, I felt happy knowing that all this will end tomorrow and holiday will start.
FRIDAY
Just when things were starting to look positive, another bad news was thrown to my face. My ESLS lecturer returned my outline today. 8-over-15. Red marks all over the paper. I have to produce another one and submit it to her after the holiday. She didn’t look very pleased with me L
When Specialist Math class finished at 12, I was jumping with joy. All the sorrow, stress and depression can now be forgotten because the holiday had officially started ! Yeah!
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