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Was called online to help a friend with his programming. I suddenly became some programming expert all of a sudden, especially when you get a few people asking you for help. i'm definitely not quite used to that, when I was like in the bottom for my 6 years in sec sch and jc.

I guess a major change have been that of lifestyle. Wrath in sec sch and jc was spending his time playing volleyball, playing CM, chatting with friends online and sometimes on the phone as well, and watching TV. Since this sem started, he had already finally give in to the fact that his body can no longer acheive anything playing volleyball, and his only involvement in the sport is being a coach. Not really playing FM(the name of the game has changed) as his comp is quite slow and he is not feeling that much of the itchness to play it. Chatting? He's getting on as anti-social as ever, somehow the way he communicates with people change quite abit after jc. Maybe its the thing with being able to sms also. He still does watch TV, but not with the same kind of frenquency. Either the quality of shows dropped or his taste changed.

Gave some thought before writing this. Hey... I'm not clever can? Maybe abit more hardworking than before. If I have more time than people and I cannot do as well, then something must be wrong with me? WL was telling me that he told his gf that I'm actually quite smart but somehow I do not know some basic sec sch kind of stuff. I did not refute him straight. If I am really smart then I probably won't need to spend so much time doing my tutorials?

It is really sort of make or break for me in uni. I cannot afford to not make it. I need to get a decent degree and find a job so I can start supporting my family.

Your life is not only yours. Mine even more so.

I'm like writing without any main theme today. Because I'm not writing today out of some inspiration of my head.

Was reading some friends' blogs just now. Not exactly close friends. Just some people I know. Think their blog is more exciting? Or maybe is it because their life is more exciting? Maybe both? For those few pple who happened to read this, I apologise k?

Want something more exciting? When I got more free time to think then I will come up with some story k?

Book of Fate?

Have been watching a vampire show on tv for the last few sunday nights. Its a show about vampires, man, god, life, time and fate. I'm particularly intrigued by the mention of this special book that allows the owner to actually edit the happenings around us, so basically the owner will be like a scriptwriter with us being the actors. But what it cannot do, is to change the thinking of humans. Perhaps human mind is really quite powerful?

I tend to believe, as mentioned in the show as well, of another kind of book that records each and everybody's fate. Abit of sociology here as well, the minute you are borned, you have only this many routes that you can take. Its about the life chances issue. So maybe it is really true that our life is really scripted, so probably there's nothing much we can do about it?

Well, I always believe that god, or whoever is up there looking down upon us, is fair in a certain way. Good will always beget good, do bad? Wait for retribution.

Life is fair.

Mid term test results

Finally a new post after disappearing for so long. Those who know me will know that I have been having a lot of problems with this old computer of mine. At least I got it back to working condition again now.

Got back all my mid term test results by now. I have to say I did not do really that well for all my subjects but at least I know the results were somehow in proportion to my efforts made in the module. Going by percentage of the total marks, my best performance is probably in electrical engineering, the test being my last mid term and thus I guess had abit more time to prepare for it. Second in place is Maths which I'm quite lucky as 2 qn which I made a "intelligent guess" was correct, else it will be a lot worse off. Third is programming. I always spend alot of time doing my programming tutorials, knowing that I probably need to put in more effort to make up for being a computer idiot. Next up is my sociology, which I think the results is worth all the time i spent reading the textbook and supplementary readings. Finally comes my worse subject, physics. I'm real bad it it.

Its now less than 1 month to start of my final exams. Time to start praying. Well, maybe and studying as well.

Memorable tests/exams

Just finished my first series of mid term tests in Nus last Saturday, so decided to have a recap of some memorable experiences I had with various tests and exams I went through all these years.

Worst Preparation for a exam:
It was the day just before my PSLE Higher Chinese paper. Met up with a few classmates to study together at a void deck and one of them brought along a soccer ball. So we ended up playing soccer under the void deck much more than we studied that afternoon.
Result: I still got my distinction?

Sleep talk exam:
I was very poor in my Chinese Literature. So a few days before my O levels Chinese Literature paper I was studying and memorising the textbooks day and night. I could still remember there was 1 night when my mother wanted to wake me up for dinner and my reply was a few phrases of my Chinese Literature text.
Result: I got only a B3, I felt I let down my teacher but at least I did try my best?

Most hard work put in for an exam:
My physics is real bad. Was almost failing every test during my JC days. So from J1 I was going for every single physics remedial class. Up till J2 near to A levels, my tutor was desperate enough to want me to look for him every morning before school starts for a short remedial to drill in the concepts and that was in addition to the regular dose of remedial lessons. I bought the answer guide to the ten year series and read through the book faithfully.
Result: I got my A, very unexpected.

Was sure I was going to fail test:
I was a scout so I had to go through this test about memorising characteristics and pictures of various weaponary and military vehicles. The test was to look at a picture, which is different view from the ones we studied and having to write down the names.
Result: I think I flunked the first test. Nobody failed the re-test.