Sunday, October 28, 2007

Will be Remembered

I know that its like a few days from my CA but I got to write something down after reading my friend's recent blog entries (entries to note are 24 - 27 Oct 07).

I first heard the news last Monday when cramming for a quiz from Joseph. The last time I've seen him is during AJC's Alumni Performance held this year. I don't know Cheston personally, but being in the same JC and Uni, his sudden departure did shocked me.

What are you doing at 21? I'm studying like crazy in order to fulfill my dreams. Wayne Rooney is playing football. Lewis Hamilton is racing on the F1 circuit. Rafael Nadal is grunting on the tennis court.

However, Cheston's life is over at 21.

Maybe because its being mentioned countless times, it may has lost its meaning, but this time 'cherish your loved ones' does really mean a thing to me.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Stressed

Sparse updates due to the flood of things that is approaching me.

I think I got to get things out before my mind collapse.


It seems like things keep coming one after another, without any breaks in between. Physics re-test, Management quiz, Physics quiz, Life Sciences CA, Material Science CA, final exams. Like they say, it never rains but pours. How true is that.

Stay tuned to find out whether Danny survives NTU!

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Funny Student Review

Found this video while searching for the video of students crowding at LWN's entrance.

Choice bits:

"You make me horny"
"He combs his moustache but not his hair"
"Is your moustache at its maximum length cosθ=1"

Greg and I laughed when we saw him waiting outside one of the LTs in the South Spine.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Week 9: 1 - 5 Oct 07

Week 9 is here (or is it week 8?) and it sure looks like a crazy dash to the final exams.

First week after the recess, taking out the chalet trip in Sentosa, doesn't feel like a recess week at all.

Handed in the lab report on Monday, after two days of finding information, rephrasing them and typing into the report. I can say that doing a lab report are really a bad experience for me (and many others too). Interesting lab sesssion on monday though, its a drawing class. Throughly enjoyed that class as it requires not much brain power and more on drawing tons of lines.

On monday, Gawi had drove his car to school since his father isn't using it. So we had an option of dinner anywhere in the area and ended up in IMM. Most of the place is packed with kids and their parents due to Childrens' Day and we decided on Fish and Co for dinner. Found out that periperi is known to be 'a little salty' when queried the waitress. Took a risk and ordered a periperi fish which tasted rather good. Really had fun making fun of the waitress due to her 'a little salty' comment.

I thought that the Man Utd - Roma match was on thursday morning instead of the actual wednesday morning. I was really perplexed to the sightings of Man Utd jerseys on wednesday, only to find out that Man Utd had won the match 1-0 when having lunch. Yea, I'm pretty disappointed to had missed Rooney's first goal of the season and the preformance of Nani that vindicated his transfer fee.

I'm somehow irritated with the unproductive project meeting that I had on Thursday. I had done my portion of the required workload and brought my desktop replacement laptop (which is rather heavy) to school, only to found out that some of the group members had not finished their work. In the end, the supposedly planned work on the project was cancelled because not everyone had finished their work and had to finish their lab reports for friday.

I had actually took out 1 day of my lab report writing time to come back to school during the recess week to do the project and giving that excuse doesn't really sit well for me. Some of the group members who handed up their lab reports on monday (like me) also had the same feeling as well. If we can put aside sometime for the project, why couldn't some of the members?

Like what the group leader had said, this is OUR project, not an individual project. Surely, this had left a bad taste in my mouth.

Luckily I had a meet up with the army guys after that. Managed to catch up with the people who had moved to Pasir Laba camp on thursday night to celebrate Sam's (who's real name is Ben, long story) ORD. As most of them are poly students, they are actually working. Hope that its the first of many outings with them.

Seems like a relaxing weekend with a managable list of stuff to be done:
1. Study for the Motivation quiz on monday
2. Revise Physics for friday's re-examination
3. Finish up tuesday's tutorials

Anyway, is it me or is the weather getting warming? A few weeks ago, I can relax on the sofa without the fan on but now I'm sweating like a pig even with the fan on.

Japanese Workers in Wikipedia Row
Apparently, Japan's Agriculture Ministry has banned their staff from accessing Wikipedia as six were found to have edited Wikipedia entries during work. Interestingly, one of them is found to have made more than 260 entries to articles on Gundam.

One sentence to sum it all up: "The Agriculture Ministry is not in charge of Gundam," ministry official Tsutomu Shimomura.

That's all this week. Hopes that the following will be smooth sailing.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Rant on E-Billing

Some minor rants before I start on my tutorials (look at the time!)

I didn't realised that making payment for the miscellaneous fees is so difficult.

Firstly, I didn't know that the CPF Education Loan is not applicable for miscellaneous fees, so upon receiving the e-bill, I was rather puzzled as why there were some unpaid balance.

When I decided to make the payment, I realised that it must be done at the OCBC Bank branch in NTU. As I don't have an OCBC Bank account, I seek help to alternate ways of payment.

Attached is the reply I got:

From: Koh Lay San
Sent: Fri 9/28/2007 9:17 AM
To: #WAN MING KONG DANNY#
Cc: Pang Poh Guat; Teo Huey Ling; Lee Beng Yian
Subject: RE: Electronic Bill (E-Bill) For Undergraduates

Dear Danny,

OCBC Bank, NTU Branch does not require students to open a OCBC Bank a/c in order to settle student bills. You can pay by cash/Nets at OCBC Bank, NTU Branch.

Regards,

Lay San
Tel:6790 5058
-----Original Message-----
From: #WAN MING KONG DANNY#
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:58 PM
To: Koh Lay San
Subject: FW: Electronic Bill (E-Bill) For Undergraduates

Hi,
is there other modes of payment other then making the payment at the ocbc bank at ntu? I fear that the bank does not accept cash/nets payment because I do not have an ocbc acct.

When I reached the bank in the morning, they informed me that in order to make any payment, I must have the bill.

I complied with their request and printed the bill. When I returned to the bank on the second time, I was informed that NETS payment is only applicable to OCBC Bank account holders.

Hmmmm, didn't I just read that NETS payment can be done without an OCBC Bank account somewhere?

Anyways, I did pay the whole thing in cash. However, it is finally settled on my third trip to the bank. Maybe, in order to facilitate people who don't pay their own bills, they can give instructions on the email that they send us to inform of the e-billing. It will sure reduce the hassle of paying.