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Monday, January 30, 2006
Horoscope
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Birthday
If there's any friends who wants to wish me Happy Belated Birthday, you can do so here. =)
Anwz, I had a kind of 'strange' birthday yesterday (21 Jan). A long long never contact JC classmate of mine suddenly suddenly called up and asked me to do a transaction with his friend at Woodlands MRT station. He told me that the transaction involve exchanging a bag of some ink cartridges, a hp, some dunno wat and some money with some bags of textbooks, a camera and many dunno wat.
A question mark immediately pop right up my head: WTF??
Then he told me that he had some misunderstanding with this person, and then she lives near Woodlands, and I happened to live in Woodlands also, and that's why he asked for my help.
So I agreed to help him (since he's my friend, it is a 'she', and the whole thing sounds interesting), despite I was wondering whether he's asking me to smuggle drugs...
We met at the void deck before the 'operation', and he gave me my mission briefing.
The story goes like this: My friend and her, whose name is L, contacted each other using email. And he is a 'she' whose name is P in the email. Then it happens that P (he) 'get' chicken pox recently. However P thought she is well enough to meet L, but it turns out that she is actually NOT well enough to meet her. So Me, who is P's brother, takes P's place and do the transaction for her last minute (and L doesn't know).
Then my friend let me see L photo and told me that she will be wearing yellow and waiting at the ticketing machines. Lastly he told me she doesn't speak chinese. (Sian diao...)
Then I went to the train station carrying the goods, she's not here yet. So I sat down and waited and looked around... then I saw a girl standing a few metres away in front me, wearing yellow, carrying 3 bags of stuff, back facing me, looking at the train gates.
I thought to myself: It isn't very often that a girl wear yellow, carry 3 big bags and waiting for someone. This must be her.
(And I felt grateful that I am borned smart so that I can reach such a difficult-to-reach conclusion.)
So I walked the shortest distance (straight) towards her and kind of 'pop' up right in front of her,
"Hi, are you L?"
First impression: She looked chio.
But she looked stunned too.
"Err yes..."
"I'm P's brother. She asked me to pass you these."
So we exchanged our goods and I left right away since I don't know what to say (bcoz my angmo buay siu). The whole transaction took less than a minute.
She still looked stunned even as I left.
I took the goods back to my friend who was waiting at my void deck. Then he left after checking the goods. Luckily it's not drug... And that's the end of the story, an interesting episode on my birthday. =P
Moral of the story:
Never approach a chiobu from behind.
Or
Never approach an angmo-speaking chiobu when your angmo is buay siu.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Production
Quote from my previous entry:
"WHY IN HELL do I agree to join Production, which requires me to work like shit, burn my Sundays, yet still have to canvess (pay) $250, and sell 10 tickets? (This won't happen again.)"
Actually despite all my complaints, somehow or rather, I found that I've been joining productions throughout my school years since I first joined HuangCheng in JC. And the answer to the above question is...
... Everytime when I look back at the 3 productions I've joined, no matter what post I was in (J1 as Publicity Member, J2 as Publicity Leader, Uni Yr 1 as Props Member), I'll feel the deep sense of satisfaction of a job well done, even up til now.
And that's why I decided to help my cock roomie when he agreed to become the Props Master when he don't know anything about props. Props... Haha... I can still remember that when I first joined HuangCheng in JC, I first joined as Props... for ONE day, before I deflect to Publicity, after I found out how xiong Props is. To think now even though I know there's a shit hole in front of me, I still step right into the middle of it... not once, but twice! (Last year and this year =)
Now that we've found most of our props, it's not that stress anymore, and so it's ok now. And I was actually quite touched by some of the subcommers and producers and directors for actually helping us to find the stuff we need. 2 of the girls even carry empty boxes from as far as SRC back to hall to give us. This is the one thing you won't found in most other ECAs: a sense of commradeship - people helping each other to make the thing a success. If you guys (as in all my subcommers and producers and directors) are reading this, you have my most truely heartfelt thanks.
I hope that this year's hall production will be a success. And lastly, I got TEN tickets to sell (arghhh!), PLEASE BUY TICKETS FROM ME!
Friday, January 13, 2006
Bridge Theories
Law of Total Tricks (by Larry Cohen)
The total number of cards in opponents' suit and your partnership's suit =
The number of tricks you will make playing in your suit +
The number of tricks your opponent will make playing in their suit
Eg. If your opponents have 8 card fit in hearts and you have 9 card fit in spades,
the number of tricks your opponent will make playing in hearts +
the number of tricks you will make playing in spades is 17
That means
if you make 10 playing in spades, opponent will make 7 playing in hearts,
if you make 9 playing in spades, opponent will make 8 playing in hearts and so on...
So how do we use this law? To be continued...
Questions
Some mysteries in life...
Why are there always more outings/gatherings in January than December?
Why do people (like me) who are busy in December always mistaken that they will be less busy in January?
Why do 1/12 of the people who are busy in January have their birthdays fall on the same month?
WHY IN HELL do I agree to join Production, which requires me to work like shit, burn my Sundays, yet still have to canvess (pay) $250, and sell 10 tickets? (This won't happen again.)
Since when do people in logistics do video?? (No way man.)
When will I realise that though friends are friends, there is a limit to the amount help I'm willing to rendered? (About now.)
Is playing computer games a way of escaping from reality? (I'm quite far away from reality now =)
Sianz...
Saturday, January 7, 2006
Oxymoron
Thanks Chioboo for your concern! But I feel that feeling emotionless is better than feeling unhappy or stress...
Anwz, talking about oxymorons, I saw a friend's nick (advertisement for our hall bash) on the MSN -
Zouk this sat, $16 for 2 free drinks!! anyone?
Hmmmm...
Btw, school is starting this coming monday, everyone jiayou!
An interesting typical conversation that happened a few times last week -
Friend: Today you no lesson ah?
Me: This week I no lessons.
Friend: How come?
Me: This week no tutorial wat.
Friend: ......
Haha!
Monday, January 2, 2006
Bridge Scoring
DUPLICATE BRIDGE SCORING TABLE
| If Trumps are: | Clubs | Diamonds | Hearts | Spades | |
| For each odd trick bid and made: | |||||
| Undoubled: | 20 | 20 | 30 | 30 | |
| Doubled: | 40 | 40 | 60 | 60 | |
| Redoubled: | 80 | 80 | 120 | 120 |
| AT A NO TRUMP CONTRACT: | Undoubled | Doubled | Redoubled | |
| For the first odd trick bid and made: | 40 | 80 | 160 | |
| For each additional trick: | 30 | 60 | 120 | |
| A trick score of 100 points or more, made on one board, is GAME. A trick score of less than 100 points is a PART-SCORE |
| PREMIUM SCORE: | x | ||
| For making a Slam: | Not Vulnerable | Vulnerable | |
| Small Slam bid and made: | 500 | 750 | |
| Grand Slam bid and made: | 1000 | 1500 |
| OVERTRICKS: | x | x | |
| For each Overtrick: *tricks made in excess of Contract | Not Vulnerable | Vulnerable | |
| Undoubled: | Trick Value | Trick Value | |
| Doubled: | 100 | 200 | |
| Redoubled: | 200 | 400 |
| PREMIUMS FOR GAME / PART-SCORE FULFILLING CONTRACT: | x | |
| For making GAME, vulnerable: | 500 | |
| For making GAME, not vulnerable: | 300 | |
| For making any PART-SCORE: | 50 | |
| For making any doubled Contract: | 50 | |
| For making any redoubled Contract: | 100 |
| UNDERTRICK PENALTIES: *Scored by Declarer's Opponents if the Contract is not fulfilled | x | |||
| **Not Vulnerable**: | Undoubled | Doubled | Redoubled | |
| For each Undertrick: | 50 | 100 | 200 | |
| For each additional Undertrick: | 50 | 200 | 400 | |
| Bonus for the 4th and each additional Undertrick: | 0 | 100 | 200 |
| UNDERTRICK PENALTIES: *Scored by Declarer's Opponents if the Contract is not fulfilled | x | ||
| **Vulnerable**: | Undoubled | Doubled | Redoubled |
| For each Undertrick: | 100 | 200 | 400 |
| For each additional Undertrick: | 100 | 300 | 600 |
| Bonus for the 4th and each additional Undertrick: | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Happy New Year!
Actually I've been feeling quite emotionless (hmmm... feel emotionless??) these days. New year? New year new year lor, what's there to be excited about?? Maybe I finally attained the state of Buddism's 'emptiness'. Anwz, if there is anything I want to wish for in year 2006...
- Get more As to decorate my Bs in the upcoming sems, and no Cs please.
- Me, my family and my friends stay healthy and happy.
Has been thinking of my HC friends recently - classmates, seniors, juniors, angels, mortals, cca friends etc, esp those I haven't seen in a long long while... wondering how have they been. I guess I'm too lazy to call them up or to organise an outing or something. Hopefully we'll have a chance to meet during CNY eve. Anwz hereby I sincerely wish them to have a Happy New Year. Take care friends. =)
Thursday, December 29, 2005
Butterfly Effect
A butterfly flapping its wings in South America can affect the weather in Singapore.
- Chaos Theory (paraphrased a bit by me =P)
Loitering around the VCD rental shop today, suddenly thought of one movie mentioned in my Chinese Cinema module that doesn't follow the Aristotelian narrative structure. So I rent the movie and watched it just now.
I was absolutely impressed. If you think Sixth Sense is good, Butterfly Effect is better. Highly recommended if you like story with a very good twist.
PS. Btw a story with Aristotelian narrative structure is simply a story with the following characteristics in order:
- Introduction
- Exposition
- Development
- Conflict
- Climax
- Resolution
Basically it's very very very hard to find a story WITHOUT Aristotelian narrative structure, especially a good one. Watch Butterfly Effect!
Holiday
Time ......... Gone.
What the hell have I been doing this holiday? Do you guys sometimes have the feeling that sometime time just past by without you doing anything meaningful? Have I been living my life in vain??
Better let me make a summary of what I did in the hols. (Roughly in chronological order)
- Went KL and Genting. Tried paintball.
- Did ACCA invilgilaton for 4 days.
- Bridge trainings.
- Assembled 2.5 Gundams. (The other 0.5 finish by today.)
- Did $50 worth of data entry.
- Lead my hall bridge team to win the fifth place. (Almost got a fourth. Lost to Song'en's team.)
- Rejoicing my B of a kind exam results.
- Bring my cousin's and their kids (from Malaysia) around Singapore. Science Center is a fun place. Damn shag playing with 3 kids for 4 days.
- Assembled 3 Lego toys for my cousin's kids. (The suitable age on the toy box is not accurate.)
- Watched 'The Promise' with my family. Everyone, please don't go and watch that show. Dunno what happened to Chen Kaige.
- Won a Weiqi game in the Interhall Games. (Out of 4.)
- Finding props for my hall production. (Who got airport chairs and park bench?? Help!)
- Done one full day of stocktaking in Carrefour, Suntec.
- Introduced to some new interesting award-winning board games from French. Quarto, Gobblet and Quoridor is particularly fun. www.familydiy.com
- Trained my Mage in World of Warcraft to level 24. He ganna fatal error and died yesterday. RIP.
- Plan timetable and registered subjects. Very satisfied with my timetable. No lessons in the mornings and on fridays... err... well, no tutorials actually.
- Meet up with my HC ChiangDao CIP friends. Long time no see! Played Quarto with them. Fun!
- Watched Wallace and Gromit. The penguin cartoon very funny. Overall ok. A bit boring in the beginning. 3 stars.
Seems like I've accomplished quite alot in this holidays... Hmmm...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Skip Lecture Project Conclusion
Results The long awaited outcome of our Skip Lecture Project, launched on 20 Sep 2004 (details below), is out! From our one and only volunteer's exam results, we've reached the conclusion that lectures has ZERO CORRELATION with exams results!
Raw data: While his numbers of As decreased drastically by 2 (66% decrease) compared to his previous sem, he got no grades below B- in this sem. Though he may not be able to stay in ABP (Accelerated Bachelor Programme) any longer, but all in all, he is quite satisfied with his results. The slight drop in performance may be due to his heavy involvement in PDP (Play Dota Project).
There's some drop in grades compared to his previous sem, but this is NOT the results we should see from one who has been SLPing throughout the sem, if there is any correlation between lectures and grades. Therefore we conclude that attending lectures is...
U S E L E S S .
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Introduction Have you ever waked up at 7 in the morning and felt like smashing your alarm clock? Have you ever wanted to zao lesson but did not dare to for the fear of missing something important? Have you ever wondered if attending lectures is futile? If you have, you are not alone. (If you haven't, well... subconsciously you have.) Let us introduce you to SLP, the Skip Lecture Project! Hypothesis SLP has an hypothesis - Attending lectures have absolutely no correlation with the grades you get. (Therefore, you might as well don't go lectures.) Aim The aim of the SLP is to prove that this hypothesis is true so that all students don't have to attend lectures anymore!!! Background As professional students after 12+ years of education, we have observed some very strange phenomenon. Students in lecture tends do things like chit chatting, eating, sleeping, drooling, doing homework, smsing, playing with handphone's games (personal favorite), staring at the wall behind the lecturer etc etc. Every single thing except... listening to the lecturer. This is absolutely waste of time and students can make better use of their time studying (or sleeping) at home or in hall. Then on the efficiency of lectures. Most lecturers read off directly from their slides, which is usually exactly the same as our lecture notes. We might as well read it on our own time own target (OTOT). Lastly on the efficiency of human beings absorbing the materials taught. Research shows that a normal person's attention span is around 30 minutes tops. Yet, the duration of lectures are more than 2 hours most of the time. In addition, many lectures are after lunch breaks, when our body is spending energy digesting food and therefore can afford less energy for listening, ie. our attention span becomes shorter. (Do you feel sleep sooner in lectures after lunch?) From these, we can clearly see that it is not very efficient for students to sit 2 plus hours in a Lecture Theatre listening to lectures. Base on the above evidences, SLP strongly suspect that lectures are useless. Test To test the hypothesis, SLP recruits professional students to skip lectures for an entire semester. If the grades he or she gets at the end of the sem are as good as or better than the other sems when he or she attends lectures, it proves that attending lectures and grades are totally unrelated. Progress Report Currently we have ONE volunteer in our project. He is in NTU EEE year 2 and he has been skipping lectures for 4 consecutive weeks. (Although he attended lectures for the first 3 weeks of this sem, it doesn't invalidate the experiment since he was playing with handphone games most of the time during lectures anyway.) We have been constantly monitoring his progress and... well, he's not doing so fine right now. However, we do NOT think this is the consequence of him not attending lectures. Anw, we will have a conclusion after his examination result is out. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!! We need a larger sample size to make our project more valid! Your effort (or lack of) will contribute to our grand and ultimate aim of abolishing lectures from every single country's education system! So don't hesitate, sign up today! PLEASE (join) SLP NOW!!! Related Studies Another project that is closely linked to our project is the Play Dota Project, PDP (also stands for Please DO Play). It investigates whether playing DOTA everyday will affect examination grades. Infomation on PDP will be out soon. Please return to this website regularly for further updates. |
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Trapped
The forest is thick. Predators all around me, roaming here and there. They haven't seen me though. I'm well hidden.
What the hell am I doing in this place?? I'm dead tired, tired of doing neverending quests... I want to get out! I want my life back! Where's the exit??
Shit! I'm spotted by a black strips white tiger (aka Moonstalker)! Flight or fight? I can't outrun the ferocious cat. Focusing all my internal energy, my hands burst into flames and, in a few seconds, I released a ball of fire which sped towards my target.
It's going to be the Xth tiger I killed in this cursed place. And I'm sick of it.
Just another day trapped in the World of Warcraft.
Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Annual camp
AC is ... fun?
You know, some trips are fun because the place is exotic. Some trips are fun because the activities are interesting. Some trips are fun because the people going with you are fun.
AC definitely does not belong to the first category. KL is one place I go about once every year. Genting is one place I go about once every other year.
AC might have belong to the 2nd category if trekking at Mt Ophir hasn't been cancelled, if our bus hasn't broken down, if we wasn't stranded at the roadside for 2-3 hours, if we wasn't stranded at Afamosa for another 2-3 hours (without our dinner).
Luckily AC belong to the third category. How can a trip be not fun when you are going together with a busload of friends? We have TONS of laughter while we were playing Asshole in the hotel room and at the side of a road in Malaysia.
Can't forget the chua sai look on Alvin's face when Alda scold him 'chio4 lan3' when he laugh at her for having a bad Ti Di hand. Can't forget Vincent's stunned expession when his roomie pointed finger at him saying he stepped on dog shit. Who's the one who stepped on dog shit is still a mystery up til now, but poor Vincent has been outcasted by all of us (wrongly) the entire time we smelled the dogshit smell. =P
However, though the trip was fun, somehow I have the nagging feeling that something was not quite right when the highlight of an overseas trip is the playing of card game in a hotel room or... erm... at the road side.
Well, at least the trip was fun. And not many can boast that they had played cards at the side of an expressway, not to say in Malaysia somemore. Photos will be up soon. =)
Friday, December 2, 2005
Does God exist?
I read this from a book called The Philosophy Gym - 25 Short Adventures In Thinking by Stephen Law which I feel is very interesting. Hereby pen it down to see if anybody has anything to say. (Though I doubt anybody who will have anything to say will get to read this.)
Lets begin: Does God exist?
For: The Design Argument (Telelogical Argument) by William Parley (1743-1805)
While walking on a beach, you discover a watch lying on the sand. How did it get there? It's unlikely that the watch came into existence without a designer.
Now consider a human eye. The eye is far more complex than any watch. Isn't it likely that the eye has a designer too? Since the design and production of the eye is quite beyond us, its designer must therefore be God, who's far more intelligent and powerful.
Against: Natural Selection by Charles Dawin
Organisms contain within their cells DNA. When they reproduce, their DNA is copied and pass on. However, through chance, there may be some slight changes in the DNA passed down - mutation. These mutations may either help of hinder the organism's chance of surviving. Those who survived will pass on their 'successful' mutated genes to their offsprings. Gradually a species will evolve and adapt to their environment.
Natural selection explains how the eye came about. It's the result of evolution over millions of years to help the organism survive its environment. It doesn't need a designer, ie God.
DNA must come from somewhere, right?
DNA is a comparatively simple mechanism. It's possible for DNA to come into existence spontaneously. (It has been proven in the lab.)
For: The Design of Natural Law
The world is governed by natural laws. There are many different ways in which thesee laws might have been set. Only a very very very tiny percentage allows for a stable universe capable of producing and sustaining concious beings like ourselves. Therefore, it's highly plausible that this is purposely designed by someone so as to yield this highly improbable result, and that someone is God.
Against: Lottery Fallacy
You have a 1 in 10000 chance to win in 4D. You bought the number 4444. Yet still you win. It's highly unlikely, yet there's no reason to think the 4D is rigged in you favour, just like there's no reason to think someone purposely designed the universe such that we can be produce and sustain. You (we) are just lucky! To think otherwise is to commit the Lottery Fallacy
Against: The Problem of Evil (This is interesting!)
Even if, for the sake of argument, we accept that the universe is designed by some sort of intelligent creator, the evidence points very strongly away from that creator being God.
God is supposed by Jews, Christians and Muslims to have 3 characteristics: Omniscience (He is all knowing), Omnipotence (He is all-powerful) and Supreme Benevolence. But it seems impossible to reconcile the existence of such a being with the fact that there's a great deal of suffering in this world.
God is supreme benevolence - He can't want us to suffer.
God is omnisciencient - He knows we are suffering.
God is omnipotent - He can prevent us from suffering.
But... Why didn't he?
Either He is not all-powerful - He can't make a better universe.
Or He is not all-knowing - He don't know we are suffering.
Or He is not all-good - He knows, but He didn't much care.
(If so, then why are we worshipping Him?)
But God, if He exists, has all these characteristics.. Therefore God does not exist.
The 3 most common defenses are:
For: God Punishment
We have sinned, so God punish us.
Counter:
What about new-borns that contacted diseases such as HIV?? What have they done?
For: God Made Us Free
Our suffering is not God's fault, but ours. God gives us free will. We act in ways that causes our sufferings.
Counter:
What about natural disasters? What did we do to cause, say, the volcano to erupt, or the ground to shake???
For: Suffering Makes Us Virtuous
God wants us to suffer so as to make us better people.
Counter:
Since He is omnipotent, why didn't he make us 'better people' in the first place. Even if it's unavoidable, why some people suffer more than others?
Against: Ockham's Razor - William of Ockham (1285-1349)
Suppose there's no more evidence for God's existence than there was against (This is clearly not the case - there's pretty good evidence that He doesn't exist.). What would it be rational to believe? Most would say suspend judgement, but the correct answer is:
Believe God doesn't exist.
Why?
Ockham Razor - when presented with 2 equally well supported hypotheses, choose the simpler one.
Example
2 hypotheses:
A. There are invisible, intangible, immaterial faries flying all around you.
B. There are no invisible, intangible faries flying all around you.
Everything I obseved fits the 2 hypotheses very well - I would observe everything normally in both hypotheses. Should I suspend judgement?? Of course not! The rational thing to believe is that there's no faries because that's the simpler hypothesis. Why introduce unnecessary faries??
The same applies to God.
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Even if the book say it's logical to believe that God doesn't exist, I personally would suspend judgement. Why? There's no other better explainations on how the universe is created. (Hmmm... maybe I'll write something on this topic.) However the creator I believe in (IF I believe) definitely don't have the 3 qualities mention above. That's why I don't believe in Chistianity. Period.
Now, anybody has better arguments for the existence of God?
Hall annual camp itinerary
1st Day
time |
Activities
0530
Gather in canteen:
1. check passport
2. general briefing
0600
Depart from NTU to woodlands checkpoint
0700
Take public bus 170 to Merlin Tower (fee paid by committee)
0800
Head to Malacca Town (breakfast will be served on bus)
1100
Shopping and lunch time (lunch not provided)
1300
Head to KL
1600
Check in Swiss Inn Hotel
1700
Head to Time Square)
1900
Head to KLCC
2100
Head to Petaling street
2300
Night life
*Participants can choose to use their own means of transportation like taxi and monorail in KL
2nd Day
time |
Activities
0830
Morning call & breakfast in Swiss inn hotel
1000
Check out Swiss Inn & head to genting
1130
Take skyway (cable car, fee paid by committee)
1300
Check in 1st World Hotel
Free and easy
3rd Day
time |
Activities
0800
Morning call & breakfast (not provided)
0900
Check out & head to A-Famosa
1200
Lunch in Seremban seafood restaurant (provided)
1400
Arrive A-Famosa: Paintball, archery, go-carting, M-light
1600
Wash up in resort
1800
Head to Muar
2000
Dinner
2130
Back to NTU
Thursday, December 1, 2005
My Gundam
Heh heh! One of the more productive things I did during the holidays. Going Malaysia on Saturday. Yeah.
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Saturday, November 26, 2005
Career Inventory Test
Career Inventory Test Results
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personality tests by similarminds.com
Friday, November 25, 2005
Sites of interest
How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later - Philip K Dick
Games from Fresh99.com
http://www.fresh99.com/tontie-game.htm - Test your hand eyes coordination.
http://www.fresh99.com/magnetism.htm - Play with magnets!
http://www.fresh99.com/sheepish-reaction-time.htm - Mine abt 0.18s.
http://www.fresh99.com/zeromatter-space-game.htm - Fun for 2 players!
http://www.fresh99.com/magnifying-glass.htm - Display your sadistic streak
Ping Pong Fever (2 of my FAVOURITE games!)
http://www.fresh99.com/curveball-3d-pong.htm - Exciting! I reach level 8. Can you?
http://www.miniclip.com/tabletennis.htm - Play table tennis with Forrest Gump!
How good is my site?
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Now you know what am I doing during my exam period 30% of the time.
(Another 30% was spent playing DOTA and Fable...)
My IQ - Part 2
Jiefeng, your Super IQ score is 147
Your overall intelligence quotient is the result of a scientifically-tested formula based on how many questions you answered correctly. But it's only part of what we learned about you from your answers on the test. We also determined the way you process information.
The way you think about things makes you a Creative Theorist. This means you are a highly intelligent, complex person. You are able to process information of nearly every kind with ease, using both creativity and analysis to make sense of the world. Compared to others you also have a very rich imagination.
How did we determine that your thinking style is that of a Creative Theorist? When we examined your test results further, we analyzed how you scored on 8 dimensions of intelligence: spatial, organizational, abstract reasoning, logical, mechanical, verbal, visual and numerical. The 3 dimensions you scored highest on combine to make you a Creative Theorist. Only 6 out of 1,000 people have this rare combination of abilities.
http://web.tickle.com/tests/superiq
Apparently memory is not my strong point. I forgot the NAMES of the 2 art works in the art work analysis I so painstakingly prepared and memorised today during my exam. Shit.
But well well, I shouldn't have prepared and memorised them today before my exam when I was playing game and sleeping for the whole day yesterday.
Saturday, November 19, 2005
My IQ - Part 1
Congratulations, Jiefeng!
Your IQ score is 136
Your IQ score is 136
This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.
Your Intellectual Type is Facts Curator. This means you are highly intelligent and have picked up an impressive and unique collection of facts and figures over the years. You've got a remarkable vocabulary and exceptional math skills — which puts you in the same class as brainiacs like Bill Gates.
From: http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/?test=uiqogt
Exceptional maths skill? That would be useful in the oncoming maths exam, if I really do have it, which I doubt...
Two idiotic songs
I'm going to attempt to write a song... or rather, translate 2 songs, under the psedonym of Handsome Kok. (I don't want to disgrace my real name...)
Big Mice Love Big Rice (To the tune of 《老鼠爱大米》)
I love you, loving you, jus like big mice love big rice...
(Hey, it rhymes! =)
(Hmmm... maybe 'I love you, loving you, jus like I really love pork chop' will be better...)
To be continued... write the other one first...
Not Scared Not Scared (To the tune of 《不怕不怕》)
Miya hee, miya ho, miya ho, miya haha x3
I see cockroach I not scared I not scared,
See cockroach I not scared,
I not scared not scared just not scared...
To be continued...
I really despise myself man!
I hate myself for not knowing what original means. I just can't help copying the most catchy songs in the market currently.
I hate myself for having a creativity of a 5 year old. Even those who fast forward pop songs and put in strong beats to convert them to techno songs have more creativity than me.
I hate myself for loving insects and rodents so much that I die die have to put them into my songs, even though they are pests.
(But well, Jay Chow also sing about insects in《夜曲》wat, so I copy lor.)
I hate myself for making the nice theme song of Chicken Little sounds so stupid.
I hate myself for spending tons of money on publicity so that everyone watching TV or listening to radio will be tortured by my idiotic songs.
I hate myself for having such a stupid name. But lucky I'm not a girl. If not I'll become Pretty Cock.
I should not thought to enter the music industry.
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Christmas haiku
Came across this when i randomly browse through the net...
"Glass balls and glowing lights.
Dead tree in living room.
Killed to honor birth."
Dead tree in living room.
Killed to honor birth."
Food for thought...
Anwz, now is about 2 hours from my EE2010 paper. Excited. The atmosphere is different. Tension's in the air. Exams is fun! Woo!
Btw, currently obsess with http://www.miniclip.com/motherload.htm. Heh!
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Mirror writing
The business finance paper today is totally unremarkable. Absolutely no creativity to speak of on the teacher's part. It is supposed to be a good thing, but I just feel sian doing the paper... No adrenaline rush. Damn bored. Hopefully the rest of the papers can be more challenging.
Like real. Haha!
(Actually I don't have to worry too much. The next few papers will be very challenging, given the state of preparedness I'm in.)
My last lesson of western art history after the exam was as boring as the exam. The teacher taught like she was going to fall asleep. I was of course going to fall asleep also.
So I doodle on my foolscap.
Now I can write my name in 'mirror writing' - when you look at the characters normally they ain't english words, they make sense when you see their reflection in the mirror. Feel real proud today. It's fun mastering writing new characters - 'Hsilgne' characters. Brings back memories of you in kindergarden practicing writing ABC on exercise books... I still remember the extra large practice book with alphabets in dotted lines... Interesting. =)
And btw, Leonardo Da Vinci signed his name in mirror writing too!
(As if he copied me. Haha!)
Thursday, October 27, 2005
A game
Game 1
You are shown four cards. Each card has a letter on one side, and a number on the other side. You see only one side of each card; you see “A B 2 1” on the visible faces of the four cards.
Your task is to check to see if the following rule is obeyed by the cards.
If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side.
Now, let me ask you, which of these four cards would you need to turn over to check that the rule is being obeyed? You may choose more than one card if you wish.
Your task is to check to see if the following rule is obeyed by the cards.
If a card has a vowel on one side, then it has an even number on the other side.
Now, let me ask you, which of these four cards would you need to turn over to check that the rule is being obeyed? You may choose more than one card if you wish.
Game 2
Imagine you're working as a bouncer in a bar. There's recently been a crackdown on underage drinking.
As the bouncer you have to enforce the following rule: For a person to be drinking legally, they have to be 18 or older. Your boss has warned you to be on the lookout for people violating this rule.
Well, you've just started work for the night, and you see four people at the bar.
The first person is drinking a beer.
The second person is drinking a diet coke.
The third person is quite elderly, definitely over 18. You can't see whether they're drinking alcohol or not.
The fourth person is just a kid, definitely under 18. You can't see whether they're drinking alcohol or not.
My question to you is, as the bouncer, which of these people do you need to check out, to see whether the rule is being obeyed correctly? You may choose more than one.
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Answer for both games
(The 2 games are the same in disguise.)
The answer are the 1st and the 4th card or person.
Did you guess 'A' and '2' for the game 1? (I did)
Now do you know why you are wrong? Think about it carefully.
Interesting that we all guess wrongly for game 1 and right for game 2 isn't it?
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This experiment has been performed numerous times around the world, usually with essentially the same outcome: people get the bar game right, and the card game wrong. One common conclusion is that while people are extremely good at reasoning about social situations involving other people, as the concepts involved become more abstract they find it much more difficult to reason. Their intuition begins to go haywire even in relatively simple situations like the card game. In slightly more complex situations it stops functioning altogether.
To know more, go here, where I got this from . The article is quite interesting.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Complaint (Part 3)
The teacher accept my suggestion! Yeah! No more presentations! I HATE presentations.
In retrospect, I was quite surprised that I'm the only one in class who voice this out to the teacher. How can people take this lying down??? Presentations and lectures THREE weeks into the exams! WTF?
Haiz, people have a tendency to accept whatever fate that awaits them quietly. This is WRONG! We must be strong. Anything that is unreasonable must complain!
COMPLAIN! COMPLAIN! COMPLAIN!
If you don't complain, people may thought that you don't mind. Or, as in my case, they don't know you mind. In the end, it is you who suffer.
Complain is good! =P
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Dream
Last night I dreamt of myself (looking in the mirror) having 2 very gruesome deep and long cuts below my mouth and I felt terrible. What does it mean?
My soul is wounded??
That is not a good sign...
A thousand worries, but no one I can really talk to.
ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!
Friday, October 21, 2005
Complaint (Part 2)
Dear Mdm,
I'm sorry that I didn't state my point clearly in my previous mail. What I was saying is less on me wanting to get exempted from lectures and more on me not wanting to miss any of the lectures (and definitely not the exam prep & revision lecture). Therefore I was wondering if it is possible for all the lectures needed to finish the syllabus to be held before the exams (31st Oct). And if it is not possible, hopefully the syllabus can be cleared before the 1st week of exams (7th Nov).
The reason for this is that additional lectures deep into the exam period eats up the time necessary for us to study for the exams.
Imagine how a student will feel if he or she have a 4au core module exam on Thursday morning and still have to attend a 3 hour lecture on Wednesday evening. And if there is a presentation, I am sure the student will be more miserable as he or she still have to prepare for the presentation on the Wednesday afternoon. Not to mention how much more depress he or she will be if the same thing happens for the next TWO weeks.
One of the ways to solve this is to do away with the presentations and squeeze the remaining syllabus into the next 1 or 2 lectures. I believe that students will be too busy preparing for exams to do a good job preparing for the presentation. And as a result, students who are listening to the presentations will not gain much since the presentations are poorly prepared. This is clearly a lose-lose situation and precious time are wasted.
I do not know if doing away with presentations is administratively possible. But I believe that the aim of this course is not to hone our presentation skills... certainly not right in the middle of the exams.
If it is not possible, is it possible to postpone the presentations until after the exams? Or having additional make ups before exams?
I'm very sorry for being so long-winded but I'm afraid that I cannot get my point across. I really do hope that the School of ADM can understand the plight and the difficulties faced by the students during this stressful period and consider my suggestions. Please help us in this aspect. Thank you.
Yours Sincerely
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Any complain experts out there? Do you think I will get black-listed? Scared...
Hmmm... maybe she won't understand what the hell I am saying, given my bad english...
Complaint (Part 1)
Dear Mdm,
I am JF from your class (blah blah blah). I have some problems regarding the lecture schedule during the exam period as it happens that I have exams on the 02, 09 and 16 November (all the Wednesdays). Moreover, by having lectures and tutorials this late into the exam period, I'm afraid that we may not have sufficient time to study for this subject or to prepare our presentations, since we have to study for our other core modules as well. I feel that our grades for all subjects will suffer as a result of this.
I am wondering if it is possible to cut away the presentations and squeeze the rest of the syllabus into the next 1 or 2 lectures. I personally feels that it I can learn more when you are teaching than when other groups are presenting. I understand that it is tough to teach two lectures one right after another, so I am thinking if it may be possible to combine our class with the other class since our other lectures will be ending this week. We definitely don't have lessons the week after next, when the exams starts.
I sincerely hope that you can consider my suggestions. I have been talking about this with others in the class and most of them felt the same way too. Thank you for your kind attention and have a nice day. =)
Yours Sincerely
Friday, October 14, 2005
不知所云 ...
轻轻的我走了，
正如我轻轻的来。
我轻轻的招手，
不带走一片云彩。
《再别康桥》- 徐志摩
轻轻的你走了，
正如你轻轻的来。
你轻轻的读了这么多废话，
却不留下一点 comments。
《再别峰言峰语》- 许杰峰
有没有三条线的感觉？ Haha!
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