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NUS Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering FYP posters were displayed on Friday! What's up with them? Nothing much to be honest. Posters only larr. LMAO. Approximately 200+ posters were on displayed at the Engineering Auditorium and I was there to 'steal' some ideas for my own FYP next year. Well, it was a goner attempt as wherever I look they were all the same (at least to me though). Met up with some Singaporean friends who were also there with their posters. Didn't dig in for the free meal provided though which I should had lmao.

I was told by a friend that they had 2 types of projects. One was computational simulation while the other is laboratory experiments. Both have their pros and cons. Well, to be honest, I would want to choose the simulation type as I am quite interested in computer simulation but again I'm pretty weak in Matlab so it might not be the best choice :( She also told me that some even required Java which they had no basic background to it when they took the project and had to start learning from square one. Tough luck mate. Really need to consider many factors that would come into play next year. :(

Congratulations to one of my friend, as he won 2 prizes for his poster. Best poster voted by fellow colleagues and best poster by the panel of judges (lecturers etc). He's a real hardworking fella; all the best to him and the other 4th years who are graduating this end of semester. As for me, I still have 1 more midterm this Monday; Petrochemicals and Processing Technology; so much too read, my brain's reaching saturation point :( and I have not really looked into other subjects because I'm focusing on this midterm and also partly slacking lmao. Most of the midterms I had I think were average not too good neither too bad. So, have to step up during the finals.

I had one of the best chemistry subjects ever under him. Really enjoyed it. :P

Hmmmm yeah remembering one of my chemistry mod lecturer last semester. As he said:

"Education is not for the sake of examination only. Education is to open up the eyes. But we live in a world where one needs to have examination unfortunately."

I had one of the best chemistry subjects ever under him. Really enjoyed it. :P

Reality check 1 2 3

Yes! Reality check! Hmmmm... Let's see recess week over in 3 days and 4 mid terms coming up. *Sighs*

Had one mid term before recess week and was an easy one but I think everyone else also found it to be extremely easy. :P

Took sometime off uni work and travelled to Langkawi with my roomate to chill for abit. Now am back in the tensed Singapore mugging for next week's mid terms starting from Wednesday till Friday. Pfft. Dang, can't sleep till late already :(

Well, there's nothing much in my mind which I can write down now. Just trying not to leave it too empty :P So, yeah will be back prolly after midterms? or perhaps after the 2nd semester ends? :P

Ciao ~

3 weeks of hell officially begins!

Kick-starting this hellish 3 weeks would be a project presentation by your honourable Mr. Ma to the whole class (FML). The very last ever ever project/presentation for this semester. Because I studied 2 years in UK, so I was assumed to be the best candidate to give the speech for our group. Hahaha. Oh well, I'm the noble man loh to sacrifice myself =.=.

Actually I started revision already but 2 weeks of revision of 5 modules is kind of tight if I don't get it started. So, yeah nearly done with 2 modules already although past papers are yet to be attempted so far. :) I wouldn't say my life in Singapore is as bad as first thought although it's just fucking insane here how people do their work hahahaha. But again, I think if you could really work efficiently and management time properly I think it should be fine. But then again, probably engineering students face a more hectic situation as they do more modules and stuff in my opinion (not saying that the arts side is easy!). Every course has its own difficulty I believe! :)

So here I am sitting in the living room, after 2 sets or self-rehearsal for tomorrow's presentation publishing this post. I don't really like presentations but well I think it will be a very common thing in the near future when we work. My dutch housemates thinks reverse. They think presentation is the easiest job in a group project. It's because they say you don't have to do anything but just talk (but with sufficient understanding for the matter of course) or not you'll just be talking gibberish all the way trying to smoke your way through the presentation. Hahahaha. But I think it's the asian culture in general; I stress in general to dislike presentations. Although there are people I know which are extremely well-trained to give public speeches and presentations. I really admire them. I do strongly agree that presentation in an extremely important aspect of life which one has to get use to it.

Apart of that, I have been catching up with Bleach in terms of the animation. Hmmmm, not really impressed by the animation because as usual they have this freaking 5 minutes recap of previous episode and the bloody actual episode is less than 20 minutes. Real bull. And sometimes just shows some insignificant scenes hahahaha.

Well, wondering why I'm doing this when exams are just 2 weeks away? Hmmmm, I have no idea too! Probably because I have this presentation to accomplish. I think after tomorrow 11am, I will be on full time mugging mode as I will only have the exams to concentrate on and nothing else. So, do wish me luck for my presentation tomorrow, although I doubt anyway will see this post by today hahahaha. Goodluck to everyone who is having exams or are going to have exams and yeah looking forward to going back to Malaysia in December as well as Cambodia!!!

Peace-out :D

Exams are coming, so are the holidays

Yea i think in about 6 weeks or 5 i will be having my 1st semester's finals. FML. and to top everthing off, we're only given 1 week of study break to revise 5 modules before exams start. Aiks. So, revision starts now I presume! :D However, I still have 2 projects to go and 1 more class test. Damn it man so so so lazy somemore... Kiu mia ar... :(

On the bright side, at least, I'll be having 5 weeks of long holidays to enjoy after that and to think of what appropriate modules to choose for sem 2. Hopefully not any modules which require intensive and mental mathematics which requires me to pull my hair off my head again :(

Now it's 15 minutes to 11 am and I'm goin to start doin some research which I have to discuss with my group mates on Wednesday as well as completing a tutorial due on Wednesday too and revise for a class test on Friday TOO ! XD

Totally awesomeness! :D FML :D

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...