It’s Pointless… November 13, 2009
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Exams are just around the corner. In fact, it’s only less than a week more. *haha* Am I worried? *ermmmmm* Sort of.The modules this semester, I shan’t deny, require much more effort man. We are already in our year 2, can’t possibly still give us simple stuffs right?
I’ve been working REAL (for real) hard from Saturday to Tuesday on Calculus II and I realised that I can actually do calculus. :) All I hope is that Prof. Lee don’t set killer questions and throw me off course… Although I got a gut feeling that he might actually do that. :/ Oh well…
I tried to study plants and animals diversity on Wednesday and Thursday. All I can said is – FAIL ATTEMPT. *haha* I end up watching 7 episodes of The Amazing Race 15 on Youtube. :D Anyway, is not that I don’t like Biology, in fact, I really really really love Biology! But just that, I really hate having Biology examinations because all it seems is like… they are testing your memorising skills.
I know some people may think I’m bullshitting – Biology is all about understanding. Well, I shan’t deny. Knowing how blood circulation works, that’s understanding. Knowing how breathing mechanism works, that’s understanding. But how on earth, is knowing all the different classes and order of animals and plants a matter of understanding?! For example, fishes are categorise into 5 main classes – Myxini (Hagfishes), Petromyzontida (Lampreys), Chrondrichthyes (Cartilaginous fishes – sharks, stingrays, etc. ), Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes) and Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes). All these words aren’t even derived from English words! How can you say it doesn’t involved memory skills?! Well, these are only the classes for fishes. We still to remember numerous classes of invertebrates and vertebrates as well!
I think that biodiversity paper should be an open book examinations. It’s really… insane to ask a person to memorise everything just to do well in examinations. It’s unlike other subjects like mathematics, chemistry or physics whereby it’s about applying the theories. Biodiversity has no theory – there’s only facts and facts are accessible everywhere! Let say you are a zoologist and one day you came upon an organism on your exploration. What usefulness does it have when you can classified the organism straightaway?! “Oh, that’s organism most probably belong to the class Holothuroidea (Sea cucumbers) because blah blah blah…” Well, the only thing you can achieved is most probably that your colleagues might be impress with you, or rather, think you are pretty much a geek (or someone with no life). Does it hurts if you return back to your laboratory and google it? What do you lose? Nothing. Well, you might lose precious time but hey, at least you save the number of years trying to memorise all these names right? So yup, it’s really pointless memorising all these names.
Regardless of what I’ve said, I still have to suck it up and take the examinations in a week time. *haha* That’s how reality works man. :/
Initially, my intention was just to blog about my revision updates but guess like, I end up ranting. *haha* Maybe that’s why I choose Biology as my AS2 because I only have the passion in understanding the knowledge and not memorising facts. To understand the knowledge, I can do it on my free-time – read textbooks, go online and search. I don’t need to sit for examinations to understand Biology.
Full throttle tomorrow! :)
:) June 9, 2009
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It’s funny how sometimes life can be har? One moment you thought that everything was against your way and the next thing you know, everything seems to turn out fine. No wonder people said that life is unpredictable… :)
I thought that my results is going to be bad. REAL bad. Those who know me well enough, should know that this semester has been a real struggle for me, to the extend that I feel like putting down everything on my hands and just escape from it. During the study break, I was really struggling trying to focus and let me tell you guys, you can NEVER study biology with a distracted mind. *haha* After my 2 biology papers, I thought I’m going to die for sure, especially for AAB103 General Microbiology. The day when the results were out, I’m was actually damn scared to check my results. Initially, my plan was not to check my results at all. But you know, I just couldn’t resist the eagerness. *haha* When I saw my results, I was relieved. It’s was way better than I expected. :) Although I’m no longer in the first class honours league (In first semester, I barely made it into first class honours with a CGPA of 4.50. :P), I’m definitely going to work harder. That’s for sure. :)
The main concern that I had over the past few months was the problem that exist between my best friend and I. For some bizzare reasons, I lost my ability to communicate with him. We see each other almost every single day and yet most of the time, words just got lost between us. That feeling really sucks to the core. *haha* Things are definitely looking up for the both of us. I can’t help but said that the both of us, really been through alot over the past few months and the greatest test between our friendship, is actually ourselves (or rather… just me. *haha*). After going through all these, it just make me realised how important this friendship is to me. :) And I’m just glad that he’s always there for me and I will definitely going to be there for him, always. I’m not sure whether we will be spending more time in the future but I guess, it’s no longer that important to me. What is more important is that we have each other at heart. :) No doubt, I’m still looking forward to spend time with him no matter what because spending time with him just make me happy lah. Really. :) Although frankly speaking, given a choice, I will want to exchange the time spend with him for more time for him to spend time with his loved one… :)
Last but not least, I think I’ve finally found the right one that I’m willing to move on. :) The feeling is definitely right. I’m just waiting for the right time and I can’t wait for the right time to arrive. :)
Things are definitely looking up! :)
3 More To Go! April 17, 2009
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One paper down, 3 more to go! :)
AAM104 Number Theory was a killer. A vicious killer. *haha* I think I left around 18 marks worth of questions undone. :( Heck lah! I just seriously hope that I can do well for both of my Mathematics modules so that I can buffer for my 2 Biology modules, which I can predict that it will most probably won’t be great. My ALS101 and AED104? Let’s not talk about them har…
3 more days left for me to study Biology. *haiz* Really got a lot of things to remember. My memory isn’t really that great in the first place. Now, with a more vexed heart, it’s even more harder to remember anything. :( Somehow or rather, I really need to get those facts into my brain!! *arghhhh*
P.S: What to write…….?
Biology April 7, 2009
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I have been studying Microbiology for the past 2 days and I only have 3 words to say – WHAT THE HELL?!
There’s really a lot to study can?! The worst thing is that, there’s so many freaking things to memorise! My brain is really not good at retenting information…
Oh, this reminds me that I should apologise to Jocelyn. Sorry for not able to remember your choreography! :( Seems like I’m the ONLY one who can’t remember the choreography. I will work hard after my exams ok? I promise! :)
Recently I saw this documentary about this lady who can’t forgot anything. She can remember all the details of her favourite soap opera (which is more than few hundreds episodes) – she can even remember exactly what happened in the show in every single episode and she can remember what she was doing while watching the show! Ok, although the latter is quite hard to prove whether is true or not, but you know what I mean! I hope I can be like her lah! I will be like a walking textbook or even better, a walking dictionary! How cool is that?! But again, this also means that I can’t forgot all the sadness of my past… Oh well…
Booooooo… Should have listened to my lectures for the past few months rather than playing online games. *haha* No point saying all these now lah. I must work hard!
Just a random note, Biology is full of jargons that are like freaking long. Today I’ve came across a word that is 22 letters – chemoorganoheterotroph. *hmmmmm* Wait, I can make it even longer – chemoorganoheterotrophic – 24 letters! *haha* Maybe that’s why some people think that those who study Biology are usually smarter. Hey, can you find any one word term in Physics or Chemistry that is more than 20 letters?! :D Anyway, before you guys start flaming me, that’s not my stand ok! I don’t think by knowing a lot of long words will make he/she smarter than the rest. :)
Out of curiosity, I’ve search on Wikipedia and realised the longest english word has 189, 819 letters – which is the chemical name of the world largest protein – titin. Are you fucking serious?!
What Is The Probability? March 25, 2009
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Before attending the School Experience Practicum briefing (which is damn boring, by the way), Jasmine, Christina and I were discussing about what is the probability of seeing HER in the lecture theatre.
As a mathematics student who is coincidentally learning probability at the moment, my argument is that, the probability of seeing HER in the lecture is 1/3. Why?
First, we need to consider the sample space, S. There are 3 possible outcomes – SHE didn’t go for the lecture and I didn’t get to see her, SHE go for the lecture and I didn’t get to see her and SHE go for the lecture and I get to see her. Thus, n(S) = 3. Consider the event A whereby I get to see her. Hence, n(A) = 1.
Therefore, Pr(me seeing her in the lecture) = n(A) / n(S) = 1/3.
*ta-da* Knowledge is power. :)
Anyway, I managed to beat the odds and I get to see her in lecture! Woots~ And it didn’t took me more than a minute to notice where she’s seating. Fate? Maybe. *haha*Oh ya, you know what’s even better? After the briefing, a group of NIE students (which involves many group of people and I shall not elaborate) were discussing over where to have our dinner and the decision was to have our dinner at Cafe at the Quads – some ulu place that I heard for the first time. On the way to the cafe, SHE was walking in my opposite direction and we smile at each other. :) My heart melted can!!! *haha*
During the dinner, I smsed HER that I’m glad to see her just now but… no reply from her. Expected. Most probably she thinks I’m lying but the truth is, I’m really happy lah and it comes straight from my heart. :)
Using my mathematics knowledge again, I shall calculate what is the probability of me and her getting together.
There are 4 possible outcomes – SHE and I don’t want to get together, SHE want to get together but I don’t want (*haha* as if is possible….), I want to get together but SHE don’t want and SHE and I want to get together. Thus, n(S) = 4. Consider the event B that me and her get together. Hence, n(B) = 1.
Therefore, Pr(me and her getting together) = n(B) / n(S) = 1/4.
And that’s 25% chance ok! *haha* But in reality, I guess the probability of me and her getting together is 0.0000001289402507. Don’t ask me how I get this value – I anyhow press the numbers on my keyboard. *haiz* Or maybe, the probability is 0. *hmmmmm* Well, thou’ shall not think too much into this. :)
After our dinner, Jasmine, Felicia and I head over to School of Biological Sciences to hang out. We had so much fun can?! Practising Jocelyn’s choreography, exploring my Samsung Pixon (which make me laughed until I cried!) and trying to free-style to Ne-Yo’s Mad, which turn out to be disaster. :D Anyway, we really took lots of pictures. Some of them are REAL scary by the way (I’m sure you will have nightmare after seeing them…) but most of them are outrageous funny! *haha* But I promised Jasmine and Felicia that I shall not let anyone see the photos. Don’t worry, it’s nothing like Edison-Gillian-Cecilia incident. *haha* But hey, I think I shall use these photos to blackmail them in the future ya?
But still, I decided to post one of the pictures because I think is damn nice lor. :)
Jasmine. Felicia. Alvin.
Anyway, it’s already 7am+ and I’m still awake. *yawn* Didn’t catch a wink and I spend the whole night rushing through my AED104 group assignment. You know what’s the most frightening thing – it’s not completed yet and we need to submit in 8 hours time!*cold sweat* Gotta’ do my work!
To Christina: Sorry that my word (ironically, it’s really A word – ‘literally’) affected your mood. I shall be more tactful from now onwards. *slap myself hard* :)
