IPPT.

The highlight of the day was definitely me taking my IPPT at Maju Camp. It was quite an interesting experience because they have upgraded all their equipment, so much so that everything is automatic and electronic! The sit-up counter is electronic, the standing board jump mat is electronic, the shuttle run mat is electronic… it’s amazing! And the even more amazing thing was that I passed my sit-up test as well! After so many years of failing my sit-ups, I was so surprised to have actually passed this year. However because of the fact that i chose not to do my 2.4km run because of the rain, I left Maju Camp still failing my IPPT.

Having a bit of muscle ache now, and since I’m having an exam tomorrow, perhaps it would be a good idea to have an early rest tonight.

Wednesday.

I went back to school this afternoon to do some revisions, and in the end it was a good trip because I did more revisions than I probably would have done at home!

I’ve booked my tickets for my trip to Hong Kong. I’m leaving on the 12th on a 4pm flight. Haven’t really plan when I’ll be coming back. Chances are if I find a job there, it would be quite a while before I’m going to be back in Singapore.

The exam is on Friday, hopefully everything is going to be fine.

Revisions.

Tried doing some revisions today and I think the progress is OK. I roughly have an idea on what the whole module is about and I think by reading through the course materials a few more times I should be good to go for my exam on Friday.

I definitely need to be going to school tomorrow because of some of the things that I have to sort out before I can really call it a day as a student in NUS. NUS owes me quite a fair bit of money and I need to go and hunt the necessary people down to make sure I get my money back.

I think I’ll be flying Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong this time round. It doesn’t make sense to pay $295 for Jetstar when I only have to pay $335 for Cathay and get a much more comfortable trip to Hong Kong.

I’m looking at leaving on 9th Dec.

Sunday.

Haven’t been updating for the past couple of days – I was definitely enjoying my break! It was quite amazing to think that I have an exam on the coming Friday, and I haven’t really got down to do any serious revisions yet. Oh well, I will start tomorrow. Just stick me away from my computer and I should be able to do that. Maybe the Central Library would be a good choice.

Went to watch Happy Feet, and I kinda agreed with the GV website. There was a bit of frightening scenes here and there, but it wasn’t like really those that would scare the heck out of you. It’s more like something will suddenly pop up when you don’t expect it – think along the line of seeing a bunch of cute penguins for a long while and suddenly a horrifying looking killer whale appear on the screen. It can be quite shocking, actually.

Happy Feet.

I personally find this a little bit difficult to believe, considering that it’s supposed to be an animation with cute looking penguins running and singing around:

Maybe I should watch it to see how frightening the scenes are. Surely they aren’t going to have those Happy Tree Friends type of frightening scenes, are they? But on second thoughts, both Happy Tree Friends and Happy Feet start with the word “Happy”… well, surely the similarities should end there?

Have a great remainder of the day.

Presentation.

The HYP presentation was over yesterday. I was lucky that both my evaluators didn’t really make life difficult for me. Both of them made the presentation feel less stressful for me, as they were both pointing out the weaknesses or shortcomings that I might have in the research. The strange thing was even when both of them were telling me how weak the foundation of the research was, or things like the dependent variable could have been extended, those kind of criticisms didn’t make me feel bad at all. I thought those were useful comments that at least I know if I were to really do a further research on the same topic, I would be careful to watch out for. Now only if my supervisor knew a thing or two in giving constructive comments.

When the presentation was over yesterday I really felt a heavy burden being lifted off my shoulders, so much so that I was almost dancing around campus! Therefore if you seen some big guy wearing a light blue shirt and black pants running and dancing around S16, that probably would be me! I was really relieved now that the whole ordeal is over, and since I’m not too concerned about my grade for the project right now, I can pretty much say that I’m already in a holiday mood now!

At things stand I might be leaving for Hong Kong on 12th December, and to be honest I don’t know when I would be back because of the plans that I’m having. So perhaps it would be nice if I could start seeing everyone that I should be seeing before that! After all, even after I come back I probably would be working already, so I might not have the time then too!

My left eye has been twitching profusely for the past 2 days. Adeline said that twitching of the left eye usually leads to misfortune. But a check on the Internet seemed to suggest that it could be due to stress, prolonged tiredness and excessive intake of caffeine. I think I’m suffering a combination of all of these.

Time to sleep.

Countdown.

2 and a half hours to the start of HYP presentation.

5 and a half hours to the end of HYP presentation.

I don’t think I need to tell anyone which is the one that I’m more looking forward to. I hope the evaluators won’t kill me or make life difficult for me later. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

Sunday.

I went back to school in the afternoon to get my HYP report printed for hopefully the one last time. It seems that there are a lot of people who don’t mind spending a Sunday in school as the lab was almost full. As for me, I just want to get my report printed, so I did what I had to do and got out of the place in double quick time.

After that, my few hours of bad mood started to sink in. First it was on the bus when this middle-aged woman seemed to be in a freaking rush to get onto the bus, so much so that she kinda pushed me aside to get on the bus. I was like thinking “is there such a need?”… There’s really no understanding some people.

Then when I was at the stationery shop to get my report bound, somehow that shopkeeper managed to punch the holes on the wrong side, and it turned out that I have to photocopy those wrongly punched pages for me so that the reports looked like reports. From this I gather that when some people have no pride in doing their work, they really have no pride.

It was definitely a day of two halves. Hopefully tomorrow would be better.

Playstation 3.

Blimey! The PS3 was launched in Hong Kong 2 days ago, and I saw it being available in Singapore today! They are selling the PS3 at HKD 3780 for the 60GB version, which translates to SGD 755. Not too sure how much they are selling it in Singapore, but I’m sure it probably would be higher than the price in Hong Kong because it hasn’t been officially launched here in Singapore yet.

It’s not that I’m going to get myself a set soon because it’s just a bit too expensive currently. But I’m definitely not ruling out buying in the future when the prices drop and I have more dough in the bank. Looking at the things I want to buy, the list seems pretty long and I think I really need an income to support all these cravings.

In real life, United chalked up another win today. That’s great.

Thursday.

Spent the day at home marking the assignments for my two IT1003 classes. It wasn’t an easy job to be looking at so many scripts, but I have fun marking them. Whenever I think of that two classes of mine I always seem to feel very happy. They were two classes of lovely people and while they aren’t the most active bunch of students I have ever seen, but I somehow really like them very much. While it may be tiring to be preparing for tutorials and conducting them, I think I enjoyed my 9 tutorial sessions with all of them. To me, I think I tried not to be so much of a “tutor” to them, but more like a “senior” who’s trying to help them along. I think it’s more fun that way, and I believe the classes were conducted in a more relaxed way, which I feel would perhaps be more beneficial to everyone. After all, I am also a student and I had numerous experiences sitting in boring tutorial classes, of which the tutors were so bad that they made all those classes unbearable. I was merely trying to make sure my students don’t have to endure that.

If anyone of you in my IT1003 classes are reading this, I really want to thank you guys for a great semester. It was a great experience, and I hope that you guys enjoyed the classes as much as I did!