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Friday, January 27, 2006
finally some time to myself, so maybe i shall blog. so anyways. hi! i'm alwyn. \ \ / / i am now in rjc! and so far it's been pretty fun... ok i won't be blogging about orientation anymore cos it's so long ago alrd. i STILL WANT the pictures though! jianliang! and in case anyone's interested to know, my subject combi is pbmk with h1chem... which, imo, could be quite demanding. and that's why i am taking no more than ONE cca in rj and that shall be judo! ^^ randomness... let me talk about how lessons have been going so far. physics- has been pretty ok, fairly evenly-paced. mr raufie is quite a nice guy and he responds when you sit in the third row and call his name out. but so far we haven't yet progressed into the deeper stuff like EM and thermal physics, just reworking the more basic topics like dimensional consistency, scalars and vectors, kinematics. tutorials are pretty ok as well and physics pracs are fun! got ppl with infinite reaction time one.. ^^ biology- is the subject where i have been learning the most so far. the pace of lectures is fast, but still manageable, and also quite satisfying because i feel that i am actually learning something useful and interesting! let's see.. we've done carbo, lipids and finishing proteins soon. so genomics will probably be up next! yay. ohoh and the bio lectureres are quite funny too. especially adrian loo! too bad he's not our bio tutor... and then there's the other two, the guy who taught us lipids can't rmb his name, and mr ngan who taught proteins and interestingly pronounces each syllable with equal emphasis. nonetheless i still think our bio tutorials have been quite unproductive, cos our tutor's a part-time teacher and she probably doesn't really noe what we have been learning during the lectures themselves, and she spends half the time going through stuff that's in the notes. ohwells, at least we get to revise. hope we're not progressing slower than the other bio classes, though. i suddenly realise that what i'm typing isn't very interesting at all, and i don't really understand why i'm writing all this anyway. maybe it just seems interesting for me to recap all that has happened in my new jc life so far. h1 chemistry- ok, don't really noe what to say about h1 chem. i like the classmates, i like the teachers, and i especially love the classroom, but the timings for our chem lessons are really quite weird, like right at the end of the day when i usually seriously feel like knocking off, and one of them is right after pe as well. not that i'm putting the blame on these factors for my inability to stay on track, cos the truth is that i haven't really been putting in much effort for chem this year too... or last year, for that matter. now it's not so bad, cos we're still on mole concept, but once we move on to new topics i really will have to stay focused. math- lectures are very lame and corny thanks to ms chen who is our math lecturer. yay ms chen! =D didn't really talk to her much when she was i/c of rj judo and i was still an ri boi, but at least she remembers my name ^^ we're doing functions now which has quite alot of stuff to remember, and my memory is bad so i hope i don't do too badly for it. and YES i know the proper way to learning math is through understanding of the concepts themselves... but when all the concepts are presented in the forms of numbers and letters and there is just so much to understand at once, it becomes alot harder to visualise as compared to say, bio concepts, and sometimes it's just more convenient to commit everything to memory. which, then again, is something that i don't really like to do. and guys are supposed to be good at math! so i am sad =( ok i hope i'm not turning people away by sounding too pathetic. and i forgot to mention math tutorials.. but math tutorials is mostly spent on just going through the questions... so nothing much to be said, i guess. except that the atmosphere is quite fun and lively and the entire class save one is together so we get to make a lot of noise and talk rubbish =D ki- lessons are still a tad disorganised, but that's ok cos at any rate, they're still way better than ri philo lessons. anyways i think that as the lessons continue to progress, we should be more able to discuss about the topics in greater depth and hopefully draw some meaningful conclusions, instead of just spamming alot of questions and leaving it up to us whether we want to go home and think about them or not. which reminds me, that my original intention when i sat down to blog was to talk about the stuff that we've been discussing in ki lectures lately. but now i just don't feel like doing that, because, well, i don't really see the NEED to (as opposed to the time of the xiaxue cockroach incident where i really needed to get my message across to theists so that they'd be better able to understand our position), and also because... my mind has drifted away from the topic. and i really hope that it stops doing that, because it seriously messes me up. ohwells. maybe some other time then. and now i think i shall talk about judo training. been pretty normal, save for the fact that my fitness is nowhere near the state at which it was during the national season last year. i am well aware of the fact that individuals are in march, and that i should really be putting in more effort to get back in shape if i actually want to win something, cos even though i am pretty confident of my technique and playing style, my strength and stamina are still quite noobish and that i shouldn't be taking such chances with my success cos the individuals is the only competition where i have been able to win medals so far. (quite sad right? i noe i noe... but win indivs already = south zone colours, and for that i am happy =D must zhi zu chang le what...) but then again, if i channel more energy into training, means i have less energy for work! and already i do not think that i have enough energy for work. or maybe my current energy level just plain sucks. hmm.. meditate on this, i must. oh.. my class my class! my class is not one of those classes where everyone takes pcme or bcme and so we can all pass messages down during econs lecture and decide on the spot to go out as a class for lunch.. which is both good and bad, bad because it'll be much harder to arrange outings and such with all our very different combis, and good because our differences will be what makes us unique and special and diverse and fun and... different! yayy. so... s03s, i love you! but i still think we should be bonding more. covalent bonds mind you, h-bonds will not make a difference. =D well, at least i have 3 other ppl who take the same combi as me.. so much <3 to zl, wangrui and zhengrong! zhengrong's face is very funny i don't know why, and he runs fast. blehh. :) kay actually i think blogging like this feels very weird (for me). not used to it anymore.. and dunno if i can continue to do this after the cny break. already i get the naggy feeling that i might be wasting my time :D and i'm also quite disinclined to penning down my ideas or opinions on certain topics on my blog, unlike ppl like xinyang, because more often than not i will find myself repeating those same ideas to whatever people who might not have read my blog but still want to know more about what i think. recall: debates with dear atheists at Naskes' and D'Sweeper's which were really frustrating because some of the people there never seemed to be listening to what i was actually saying, but still expected me to be convinced anyway. i guess renson was right in saying that people generally pay more attention to counter-arguments than arguments themselves. but if one does not take a proactive approach in those issues that really matter to you, then how much of a difference can one actually make? sigh, so maybe it was from there that i grew to dislike reiterating arguments, sometimes re-arguing the arguments themselves- arguments which i had already invested so much time and energy in thinking about them. and since few ppl read my blog anyway, i therefore find it quite pointless to pen down my own opinions on MY blog for ME to read, when i already know what they are anyway! lol. now you all get a vague picture of the random stuff that's constantly running through my head. haha! anw, i intend to mug alot and finish all my tutorials during the cny break. 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