Data.

Spent the entire day consolidating the data from my 2 days of experiment. I’ve processed 137 of them, and I’m leaving the remaining 73 of them for tomorrow. If initial observations were to go by, I’ll have a very terrible time writing my report out of this set of data because:

1. Most of the data is not consistent at all (i.e. there is no trend that is observable).
2. A lot of people apparently do not know how to read instructions, despite being told to do so.
3. A lot of people were really not doing the experiment seriously. That is explained by a lot of rubbish answers that I have.
4. A lot of people really don’t think while filling up the experiment questionnaire. That is explained by a lot of self-contradictions within the responses they give.
5. A lot of people, when unsure of certain things, simply couldn’t be bothered to ask and just assume things.

To those of you who came and basically couldn’t be bothered about giving decent response about the experiment, you’d better start praying to whoever you pray to that you don’t have to do experiments or surveys like mine cos there will be people who will come round and screw all your results up. Remember, what goes around comes around.

Though I wonder why do I have to suffer such a fate when I always have been giving people decent responses when I participate in their research experiments and surveys. This world ain’t fair.

Getting fed up – I’m off to sleep.

NJC.

Went back to NJ today for their Open House and it was a really nice experience. The familiarity of the place, coupled with the unfamiliar faces of the juniors made the trip very interesting. On the one hand, I saw the buildings, the facilities and the scenery which I was so accustomed to for the two years of 1998 and 1999 (yes, JC was that long ago). But on the other hand, I saw all the students who are in the college which I know none of them. A lot of nostalgia went through my head as I walked around the college compound. I remembered the classes that I attended, the places I hanged around with my friends from both 98S12 and CLDDS (Oasis is still there!), the canteen, the field, everything. The memories of the past and the scenes of the present – what an interesting combination.

The TA block of tutorial rooms. We always referred this block as the TA block because all the rooms were labelled TA-something (like TA11, TA22)

The pond in the centre of the college compound. Never realised that there are fishes in the pond though.

The CLDDS notice board – now we have the whole board to the club!

I always tell people the I spent the best times of my study life in NUS. My 2 years in NJ would definitely be in the second place. The staircases, the field, the computer lab, the Oasis, the library, the canteen, the hall, the band room (I was never in the band, FYI)… all these were all bits and pieces of my NJ memories. And when I saw the councillors and house reps all ran to one spot with their hands held up high doing an NJ cheer, I almost had the urge to run in and join them!

My beloved National Junior College. Thank you for everything.