Another day of winter: A week prior to Final Exam.

Good morning!! Wow. Dust is everywhere!

Cough*

There is only one more week before the my first final exam paper, and three weeks before the last.
BIG QUESTION, looping in my mind right now is this; what can I do to make this 'one week before exam' different from the 'one week before exam' that I've had countless times before?

Study harder? I've done that... even though it is speculate-able of how much 'harder' I've been through for the past years.

Study on the very last minute? I've done that too. The worse to date is to start revision 30 minutes before my paper -.-. (Don't try this at home, kids)

Partying in MMORPG the night before exam? I could be proud of this easily.



Of course, another question that leads to the previous question is; why do I want something different now?
Simple, yet meaningful question.

There is only 1 extreme of outcome that people like to have in their exams, that is the highest mark possible.
That's where the problem lies. For the last centuries, (lol) my marks has been.... what you may call... average, expected, foreseen, even before you registered for the course.

There is no problem with that really. Like a buoy at the ocean. Under state of equilibrium, the buoy must be floating on top of the water, and be at the lowest altitude in the atmosphere. That is to be expected.

What I am thinking right now is... analogicaly... if I am able to create some sort of seawave, or wind turbulent, or any anomalies that can disrupt that equilibrium, hence lifting the buoy into the air. Yeah!!

Within this 1 week, what can I do? Hrmm.

[p/s: I sent my camcorder back for manufacturer warranty repair last Wednesday. This is the first time I do such thing. It was exciting to learn how that is done ^^. I hope they correct the problem before I get back to Malaysia. If it does, I'll finish the Boom de Yada project in Malaysia insyaallah. Yea!]
[p/s/s: Winter is closing it's curtain. Can't wait to start posting with 'Another day of Spring' as the title. =)]

Thoughts

I wonder. What is the thing that motivates thinking.

I can for example, turn to a page of my math textbook and think nothing of it.
On other situation, I can turn to that same page, and starts to wonder what does the bunch of text/equations mean.

Well, yeah, I can certainly say that in the second case I put my thought on it as an answer.
However, that is where the problem is...

What is the process before that?
What is there between looking at sentences/equations and thinking about it?

Is there some sort of 'switch' that when turned on, ACTIVATES thinking? If there is, how do I turn on the switch?
In computer analogy..., how do I start writing on the input buffer?

If I know that, I can probably do what people call PAYING ATTENTION more effectively.

Back!

Hello blogger. It has been a while since my last post.
What happened was I was trying to focus more on my studies. I eliminated a few online activities and ended up including blogging as well.

Fall 2010 term has passed. There are a total of 5 more terms to go. The next one, Winter 2011, will start just next week. I'm not sure if I did well or not. I hope I did. Relatively I have put more work in my studies throughout the term.
Homeworks never fail to be sux, but promising to aid understanding as always.
The best part is surely working with foreign student(or me as foreign student working with local students you could say ;D) in group projects and labs. In Mec E we have been taught to expect different type of people in a group and ways to work with them. I must say, it works! The idea of group as a separate entity than the individuals who make up the group is very interesting. You could have the person you hate the most in the group, but still be an efficient group. Might post up something on that later.

However, I doubt the final exams did me much good. One of the courses, statics should be the subject I'm ace on but the its exam was consecutively held after another exam. It was really tiring, so I don't think I gave my best on that. :(
The reexamination procedure on Academic Calendar doesn't seems to allow my conditions though. I guess I will have to check it out with the people in charge in person.

I believe these are BIG hints that Mara will contact me again soon =_=.
Ya Allah please help me go through this with peace.

Right now I'm thinking the course of action I should take. The nonconsecutive classes is good, however the cons is there as well. Yeap! The 8am is an obvious obstacle especially during Winter months. My inspiration right now: comparing to the people, lecturers, and a few local friends who have to wake up at 5am and commute a longer distance than I do, I am an absolute jerk to complain. Haha.

That's all about school I guess.

Then,.... continued in next post with different title. =D

How does it begin...

Erm.. how shud I say this. So far, I did badly(at least in my own perspective) on my Leadership and English presentation. Why? Well... I'm not sure why... its kinda excuse if if I say my English also sux, but thats the truth. Well, I'm not giving up, looking forward for the next presentation.

Oh well, it looks like, they also like to stress on plagiarism a lot. That is something new for me. Citation oh citation. But, if it is my work that is being copied by people, of course I'll indeed go berserk. So, I guess they have a point in doing that.

The only subject that I'm very happy with so far is... weirdly Advance Function... where everyone else(probably) find it as boring. The second would be my Chemistry class. Woot! Is it a coincidence?

Yeah! It feels a lot different when you are being taught by foreign lecturer. Their way of seeing things are quite different. (In fact, non of my lecturers are Malaysian, ROFL). I love it when they start to crack up jokes in the middle of the lectures. Oh yes. One thing that I noticed during class is, they like to 'thumbs up'. Mostly it happens when they are concluding their lesson of the day. Everytime they do it, it feels like they unliterally saying "It's very easy right?".

Oh yes... It is worth to mention that, for all my classes( Management, Chemi, Adv.Func, English), I manage to find someone to be hated. Well, here it probably means, 'someone I must be better from'. Well, it is not too bad to be hated rite? Unpurposely, you are motivating someone else. Aha! So, for those who think they are the best in class, I HATE YOU! =D

(p/s: Nazri! Thank you very much for the GSP! Credit also goes to Pak Lim for letting us be the 'pewaris' of the GSP)

YES!!!! I did it! GSP Rocks!

FINALLY, I figured out how to make the sliders for the GSP!. Wow.... what a find!
I'm pretty wordless now =D... Mentally, I feel like wanna kick the wall =D. Too happy perhaps XD.

Why? Coz I found this by myself... Nothing else is as enjoyable as discovering something by yourself. Well, the sad part is... i did it on a warez GSP, !@#$.

Well, indeed, i used the word 'discovered' instead of 'learned', coz I did refer to a website how to do it. oW MAN!!! Im looking forward for my presentation =D=D

"Get blessed, get original"

(p/s: i can assume that, I've googled around 10-14 different phrase of keywords in order to find that page. Am I sux enough? Hehe.)
(p/s 2: Naw, this is not the computer mouse port. Haha. ROFL)
(p/s 3: Ermm.. juz wanna mention that... take note of the date =D)

I need GSP!!!

Well, now i have a lil prob doing my assignments. I actually can do it, but I cant put all my knowledge into it. I'm lacking of the 'medium'. For now, that particular medium is... the GSP.

If I want, I can easily get any pirated copies over the internet.... but you know... when we are talking about education, it cant be dealt that way. That is just WRONG. It's wrong because it is illegal. So, to make it legal, I need an original copies. However, since I cant afford the price of a GSP,
I need a sponsored version... and my previous school has it...

And somemore, I think I need to contact my +math teacher to guide on me using the GSP. What i'm needing right now is the tutorial on making a sketch of a function graph with the a,b, and c sliders. What kind of function? Its the forth polynomial series!!! Not the Linear(x), Quadratic(x^2), or Cubic(x^3), but the Quartic(x^4)!!!! Ow man... I don't want to screw anything up. I feel like wanna call the school right now, but today is Saturday... precisely, 1.53am Saturday. ROFLOL!

Ah! I've tried a few Java applet from the internet... but simply said... they are not that good. GSP could be much much better (provided that you know how to use it =_="). However, if by chance, anyone of you who is reading this now, (YES! YOU!) if you happen to know any good site that has applets for mathematic, drop me an email/PM/message/comment/friendster comment.

Talking about quantum...

Since I was just a small kid, I was fascinated by a lot of 'high-tech' word such as synchro, fusion, velocity, and so on. And today, like a dream come true, my Chemistry class started the topic of Quantum number. "Quantum of photons", haha. Well... pretty much exciting of course. It has something to do with Erwin Schrodinger's atomic model that oppose Bohr's theory.

And something that comes to my mind during the class, almost everything that I learned about atom during high school seems to be 'made-for-easy-understanding'. It is not the real thing in life. An example would be the movement of electron in an atom. They don't have fixed path like I've seen in the previous textbook. In fact, there are the Uncertainty Principle regarding that matters. Well, I will need to do a research on my own about this. It is indeed interesting ^^.