Life of Sean: May 2008

Sunday, May 25, 2008

i got this email :

There is a file attached to this email

Solve the riddle and you can open it

How to open attached file ?

There is a bus with 7 girls

Each girl has 7 bags .

In each bag, there are 7 big cats

Each big cat has 7 little cats.

Each cat has 4 legs .

Question: How many legs are present in the bus?

Number of legs is the password to open the attached file.

If you open the file, write your name on the list inside, and send
this email to your friends to let them solve it

this is the modified version. the original one has a lot of bull about how only geniuses can open the file. its pretty lame. im sure even my primary skul cousin can solve it. but anyone who wants it tell me i can send it to u.

i feel like i've been complaining alot on my blog. oh well.

Hoping a better place is all I need,
With moments of innocence and mystery,
Oh, it's the little things you miss,
Like waking up all alone,
Oh, it's the little things you miss,
When you're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
And hold your head up high,
There's no need to rush,
We're all just waiting, waiting to die

Friday, May 23, 2008

I hereby declare Uchiha Itachi my hero

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Mechatronic ?

Studying mechatronic makes me understand how spoon-fed msian education system is. I was so ill-prepared to take the subject. week after week, they just dump you with a problem and you're supposed to solve it with whatever limited basic knowledge that they provide you during lectures, which is of course not enough. hence the need for spending dozens of hours doing research, pre-reading, discussions,and worst of all, trial and error AND debugging. you're supposed to think up new methods as you go, write out the programme and refine it until it works. all these cant be done in the mere 3 hours of lab time we have every week, so everybody stay back everyday. brilliant. i became so hardworking its scary.

it also made me realise how stupid i actually am compared to other people out there. i used to secretly think that i'm ok in terms of intelligence but man, i'm glad i realise my delusion early. i can safely say that among mechatronic students, i am below average (i secretly think that a lot of them are monsters). i guess there's a reason mechatronic is one of the hardest engineering course to get into. so yes, another gain of doing the course: a virtue called humility.

but even they feel the agony and depression. glad i'm not alone. feel free to visit our "Depressed Mechatronics Anonymous" facebook group! despite how it sounds it's actually very cool. there're pictures and song lyrics to express our feelings and stuff. something like this :

A coma might feel better than this,
Attempting to discover, where to begin,
You're weighed down you're full of something,
Of sickness and desertion,
You're weighed down you're full of something,
You're underneath it all.

So say goodbye to love,
And hold your head up high,
There's no need to rush,
We're all just waiting, waiting to die.

haha so cool right?

worry not, i shall persevere. Despite all the efforts we must make and all the complaints we have this subject is actually quite fun, coz its not like those dry studying-and-doing-questions-with-definite-answers kinda subject. we actually construct something from scratch, using whatever means we can think of as long as it achieves the specifications. it lets our creativity roam free and when we get the stuff to work, its really really satisfying. in fact i now look down on those dry studying-and-doing-questions-with-definite-answers kinda subject which i still have to take, but i guess they make life easier.

time to do my due-tomorrow Mechanics of Solids assignment!(relatively peanuts, but i've been skipping so many lectures i must study 1st before i can do it)