Life in Singapore so far

Hectic piece of shit! :D hahahahahahhaha... A lot of mental workload for me to complete and they are starting to pile up. Let me see currently I have 4 group assignment/tutorial, 3 individual assignments. 3 assignments/tutorial due next week and haven't done them yet although started a bit on them already. They seem to be never ending wtf?! lol 5 more weeks till my first semester final examination damn it man so fast lol.

Actually to be honest, workload is fine just that more stressed-out on the fact that I need to learn more mathematics. Probably I might have forgotten or was not taught in Birmingham about these maths. Probably taking further maths in A lvls' students might have got it anyways but I didn't take further maths though. So, yeah have to learn solving unsteady state 2nd order partial differential equations with initial and boundary conditions by separation of variable (might have learnt it in 2nd year though I still can't recall any memory of it) :( Honestly, that's the biggest problem this semester. Next semester when I choose my modules I'll look meticulously at the pre-requisites required and make sure no tough mathematics knowledge is required lol.

The other modules are interesting and fine to me. Project Management all about building theory and stuff. Not really concerning chemical engineering but yeah good to learn something new from my point of view. Chemistry so far yeah nothing on chemical engineering either but soon it'll be going into something related to my course ie about surfaces and interfaces. But now it's mainly regarding pure chemistry such as solid state chemistry. Quite fun though. Then Genes and Society is all about biology. A lil bit more in depth compared to O lvl biology. Probably those who took biology at A lvls or stpm would have no problem at all in it. Process safety, health and environment is also okay just that there're alot of equations to use in final examination. Drug delivery is the one I'm talking about extreme maths. The math component consists about 50% of the final examination marks. Wooohoooo! But I think as long as I stay focus should be able to do it. How well though remians to be seen very soon! lol.

I'm already looking forward towards december for my 5 weeks break yeeha. hahahaha. I'll practically do nothing but chill at home. well if I have the chance might find a job lah but unlikely la; unreliable public transport + i have no car to travel to and fro. lolz. If can't then I'll just be playing computer games and read other non-academic related book ( self-improvement related books i hope). Anyway ciao gtg revise work :( Fucking hell :DDDDDDDD

Modules for Semester 1 done... Hopefully

Finally, I've got 5 modules which I need to take. Overall, I am pretty happy with them modules. I have attended 3 lectures so far and they are pretty decent. There isn't much difference between lectures in NUS and Birmingham in my opinion. Probably in Birmingham the lecturers speak better english that's all I guess (no offense to anyone or party)! :D

Below are the modules which I will be taking for Semester 1; might seem Greek to a lot of people I presume.

1) Physical Chemistry of the Solid State & Interfaces (Department of Chemistry)
2) Genes and Society (Department of Biological Sciences)
3) Process Safety, Health & Environment (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
4) Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery (Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
5) Fundamentals of Project Management (Department of Building)

Another thing which I observed so far. Every class I attended so far, there are more girls than boys :) The ratio of boys to girls is about 1:2. ^__________^

Best Ever Meal in Singapore so far.

Was at Queenstown. Somewhere near the IKEA store. Had one of the most satisfying meal in Singapore so far. Seafood man! Chilli crab, sambal fried kang kung, Sting ray and Sotong! Fuyoh damn shiok man. And to top it all of a glass of Tiger beer. LOL. Full and nice! HAHAHAHAHAHA...

Singapore

Yes, I'm in Singapore already and still relaxing and slacking since term has started just yet. Pretty much added most of the modules which I want to take for my first semester here. However, haven't decided which ones to drop yet though. Might be interested in taking some modules which are not in my main chemical engineering discipline; very interesting indeed. Found a few modules from the physics and astronomy department. They were about how physics impacted life as well as some of einstein's theory of relativity. Pretty interesting but not sure yet because I need to write essays! Bummer. No final examinations though! :D

Hopefully will get the payment of my hostel and other misc. fees done asap. Still pretty amazed by the spacious and large campus of NUS. It is definitely way bigger than University of Birmingham. To be honest I haven't even fully explored my faculty. probably only been to one tenth of it :D
Haven't met any Singaporeans or Malaysians doing Chemical Engineering but I'll defintely get to know them when school starts on the 10th of August right after National Day of Singapore.

Oh ya got a few lecture notes for one of my modules by the name of Physical Chemistry of the Solid States and Interfaces. Wow, first chapter about A-Level chemistry which I forgotten most of them; atomic orbitals, molecular orbitals, electronic bands etc. Holy crap! Really need to brush-up on these basic or not I might be in trouble :( In addition to that there's another module named Molecular Design of Drugs. There are no lectures at all! This is because, the 3rd year Chemistry students taking it are all in companies around Singapore doing their internships. So, it is and "independent study" module which might have some risk taking it since I have never done it before ie reading lecture notes without a lecturer guiding or teaching me. Anyway will get that sorted out soon.

Lonely Penang Island

Penang oh Penang. Why do I feel so lonely and bored here even though there are abundance of cheap food around me. I don't usually have this kind of lonely feeling but I'm really having it right now. Why? Why? Why? I thought UK was bad but it is even worse here :( Friends from overseas haven't reached home yet and those who are here are leaving one by one back to their universities. And I have been quite relaxed since coming back home except the fact I needed to review the modules I chose for my NUS year. God bless! :S

When my friends are back in Penang, I'll be away in Singapore. So, the only way would be for me to return to Penang to meet them or for them to come to Singapore to visit me! How unfortunate this is. Unfair huh? Oh yes it is! Life goes on though and I'm ready for the life in Singapore! Even though many question my decision to go there (even I myself question it now, lol); I think I will be fine there as long as I have faith in myself. Oh yeah baby! I will miss UK (can't believe I'm saying it right now) but yeah I will and all my friends there but definitely we'll be able to meet up again.

As for Singapore, I hope to make new friends and hopefully my room mate's a great person and hopefully he/she doesn't like the air cond because I don't like air cond! LOL. I will be closer to home and definitely will be cheaper for me too! Meaning I can spend more! LOL.

Back in Malaysia

Yes, I'm back in Malaysia... So, what I'm I doin at the moment? Nothing much except catching up with football... Got my results for second year and it was okay... Just preparing my important documents for my Singapore Student Pass. Damn annoying thing to start with. Caught up with some friends and yeah had some great time out with them catching movies and some football matches. Anyone with any great ideas of what to do with my 2 months holidays? Travelling? Learning a new language? Learning a music instrument? Play PC games 24/7? I think the 4th choice would be most likely xD.

2 more papers to go!

Yeah 2 more papers and I'm done with second year! Yeeehaaaa... All the papers have been well until yesterday when Reactors and Catalysis was a real killer. Many people complaint about it and even emailed the lecturer and tutors complaining the how difference was yesterday's question to past papers. Well, to be really honest, it was not that hard. It's just that no one paid attention to the tutorial questions. It was all from the tutorial. Sigh. I'd done it before but could only fully complete one of the questions. The other one was okay but the another one was totally crap. Probably due to exam pressure and time constraint, I was not able to derive the proper equation to obtain the correct answer. So, quite a huge some of marks were gone there I suppose. Actually I derived the correct formula and material balance out already but I don't know what was with me yesterday I didn't spot that I inserted the equation wrongly! Even though I might get marks for working, but there was not much working to begin with! :D

What to do, luckily was only a 10 credit module and not a 20 one which accounts 2 times more than the former. Anyway needa do well in the next 2 papers... Toughest and most important! Anggong popi popi :]