Well this blog is becoming more of a journal of my life, and is really becoming more and more uninteresting, not that it ever was interesting in the first place. The second week of school ended rather fast and next week is the start of most tutorials.

Something I hate about my timetable is that my EE2005 has two lectures, one on Monday and the other on Friday. By the time Friday arrives, I would have forgotten what was taught. The other lectures are better because they are either not so far spaced out, or on consecutive days, so it’s easier to digest, in my opinion of cause. The downside to consecutive days is that if you can’t get it you have very little time at night to mug and get it before the next lecture.

But generally school is still alright, and the 6 modules is actually barely manageable. I think I just need some time to digest and do my revisions and I suppose that is what I’m going to do for my weekends. Japanese lessons are also going to end in 3 sessions time (about 2 weeks), and that will leave me with more time for studies.

Yesterday was a pretty fun day. I went for 8.30 - 10 lecture for my EE2005 and I’m completely lost because I can’t remember what was the point in the Monday lecture. Hence I have to do some revision either today or tomorrow so I will be on track on Monday. Haha. After that I went to the Multi Purpose Sports Hall 5 (MPSH 5) to play badminton with the freshies and councillors of my orientation group, and now I’m aching in numerous parts of my body due to the long 3 hour game. I really enjoyed myself and I am sure the freshies did too.

After that had a super full Subway meal at 2pm and it screwed up my meal timings. Went to the library to do tutorials and revise one particular module, and then went for “dinner”. Ordered the “Shui Jiao Tang” (Dumpling Soup) at Science and my opinion is that it should be renamed “Vegetable Soup”. The amount of vegetables they put in is more than the dumplings!

Sat in the front side for MA2216 for the first time and I realized what a wonderful experience it is to be able to hear the lecturer’s voice. From this week onwards I have to reach the LT earlier to get a seat that’s more to the front. However I was surprised that I had recursion in my probabilities course. Need to figure out that recursion thing. Perhaps I’ll borrow the textbook from the library.

After lecture we just took the bus 197 to Bugis Junction and ate the weekly dessert at the dessert shop my clique frequents. In the past I didn’t join them and I’m now making an effort to join them for all such outings, especially when we don’t get to see each other in school often due to the conflicting timetables.

Got home late and slept, this morning woke up again to go to school for a 9-12 lecture for EE2004. I got lost after the first hour or so and thank goodness it ended a little past 11. Hence there is not much I am confused about and I can just read it later and try to decipher before I do my tutorials.

And oh my marketing lecturer is great. She makes things fun and lively and I listen to the whole 2 hours. Now my problem is remembering exactly what everything is about. Lol.

That sums up my second week of school!

I haven’t been really blogging for a very long time. I can’t remember the last time I sat down to write a decent post, be it a serious opinion or a book review, or even a review for the JDramas that I have watched before. Most of the time I seem to have lost an interest or lost the passion, the zeal, of blogging.

The main reason is that the semester has started and I became lazy. There’s just stuff to do at night, and the freshies are already freaking me out. It seemed that this batch of freshies are all very hardworking. My lecture just ended and they came in to sit down and take out their lecture notes, and I haven’t even gotten out of the lecture yet!

The libraries are quite occupied too. I’m surprised to see the whole of level 5 taken only in the beginning of second week. Unless the seniors changed all at one shot, the logical reason is that quite a number of freshies are inside.

I know they are different because they hunt for textbooks more rigorously than we did last year. They kept asking me if I knew anyone still selling the MLE textbooks. But admittedly, some are just plain stupid, or desperate. Two guys in Used Textbook Forum sold their MLE textbooks for 35 and 36 dollars respectively. The clementi bookshop price is about $38 and that’s first hand. 2 dollars cheaper for a 2nd hand book? I rather “upsize” and get a new one.

But thankfully they have not started to book the discussion rooms yet, so I can still book them and have my group mugging therapy sessions. Again this semester is 6 modules so more work needs to be done.

A friend challenged me. Loser treats winner to Kushinbo. Based on the SAP score. So there’s much work to be done, very little time. I even brought my Japanese homework to school to do. It’s pretty fun though, being in school and studying. A good change to lazying around in the 3 months holiday.

I ran today too. Ran a shorter distance and didn’t clock the time I wanted to clock. In short I’m slower and more easily tired than I was last month. I guess I need to get used to running.

Well uni life is pretty much settled. Bought all my 3 core module’s books already, the last one from Coop instead of clementi bookstore cause the stock only comes in 6-8 weeks, of which my sem is probably going to end in a month’s time. So I just get it at 1 dollars extra from Coop and without the nice plastic cover too. Haha.

Well, shall continue working hard!

Well it’s the first day of school today and I finally gotten my last module. Why so late? Because to get the sixth module, we have to bid from round 3 onwards, and round 3 starts today. It’s due to a new NUS policy where they try to make it easier for people to get all 5 modules first before allowing the rest of us who want a sixth module to try.

I’m not being a sick mugger when I took this sixth module, but I absolutely have to clear it for my minor requirements. Since the department of ECE decides that we have to take 2 business modules, it has lead me to need to overload 3 semesters so that I can do my IA and clear my minor altogether within 8 normal semesters.

Hence here is the breakdown:
EE2004 - 1 point
EE2005 - 1 point
EE2011 - 1 point
All these three above are preallocated.
MKT1003 - 1 point
GEK1520 - 600 point from G account
MA2216 - 1 point

There you go. 605 points spent this semester.

Tutorial balloting also starts today. I managed to get my desired tutorial slots for GEK1520, EE2004 and EE2011. EE2005 I didn’t get because everyone chose the same slots. Why? Because the other EE2005 tutorial slots clash with the other preallocated module’s lectures. Totally stupid. No one from the same group as me would be able to attend the other tutorials. Dumb right?

So I shall do something tomorrow, maybe appeal. Then I will wait till round two before I ballot for my MKT1003 and MA2216 tutorials, of which both I hope to get my desired slots.

Got to pray then!

Friends are an integral part of your lives, and they accompany you through life. Some friends stick with you as you change schools, some don’t. Some friends are closer, some are not. Some remember your birthdays and will wish you happy birthday, either through an sms, or by writing on your wall in Facebook, or even saying it on MSN.

Some friends celebrate your birthday together, some don’t. Some will make a party all just for you, some will just have a simple meal. Who is to say what is right? For as long as they remember, we’re all happy about it. A simple meal has its pleasures, a party has its advantages.

Having friends is a happy thing. They talk to you when you are alone, accompany you on that long train ride home. They laugh at your jokes even when it is not exactly funny, and the best thing is, they are there when you need them to be, or at least I hope I can do that.

Sometimes having a large group of friends is fine, sometimes it is not. A smaller close knit group is great when everyone is as close to each other, but let’s not deceive ourselves because it’s not true. Most likely, even within a small group of friends, you have friends that are closer to some people, and that is a universal concept that is not to be changed.

What we can just do for all of our friends is to make them enjoy being with everyone of us. Keep them in the loop of what’s happening, get them out for outings. Each other’s birthdays. Make a point to eat lunch or dinner together occasionally. Study together when you have the time even when the modules are different. Take the same modules together and have fun.

I guess that’s what friends are about. Just spending occasional time together. Because I’m an electrical engineer, I like it when charges stick to electrically charged plates. I’m the plate, and friends are the charges. Talk to me and I promise I’ll be the best friend I could ever be. After all, what matters to me in university is to have friends to finish the 4 years together with me. Isn’t it?

Actually sometimes you just feel that you’re totally lousy. I don’t know why but I just dislike and find it difficult to approach people I don’t know well. In a sense it’s not very healthy. It’s like sometimes it’s just a simple thing to do, but you delay doing it and even hope you need not do it because you are just simply too shy or embarrassed to say something?

Today my friend asked me to help do something but I didn’t. After a while I felt a little guilty because I didn’t help because of my lousy character where I just don’t like approaching people I don’t know, even when it’s just something simple.

I should really change, but how do you change something that’s fundamentally part of yourself for the past twenty two years? Sometimes I just think I am just lousy.