Three person for each room?

There's this rumour that is going around that the SAO will be converting the hall rooms into three person rooms. Though SAO declined to comment on the matter, I guess it is already underway.

Why not take three rooms, knock down their walls between them and stuff about 16 person in the expanded rooms? The rooms will look something like this...



I mean the guys had endured it for their NS stint, it should not be a totally new concept for them, right? It will also let the girls experience life in bunks!

It sure brings a new meaning to 'experiencing hall life"!

Discussion Boards?

You know about the Discussion Board function in Edventure that allows users to discuss anything about the course. Hardly anyone uses it.

Nothing here...
here too...
noticed a trend now?



Now if you look at the circled words its 1232 posts and total users of 158! I guess it has to do with the following...

The funny thing is that you can find some people that are gunning for the 'Active Participation' grades and their name can be found in EVERY thread! Or maybe they are really helpful.

I have to admit that there is certain amount of stuff you can discuss about a certain programme without resorting to spamming means, which means that those who did the E-learning late have almost nothing meaningful to contribute.

I wonder if there will be that many threads if it isn't graded. Maybe they will gimme some decent grades if I go to those repeated thread and say "Please refer to an earlier post which is posted earlier. The info you are seeking is available there".
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Something that my friend, Kian Huat, had written. The composer is another classmate of mine. [edit] His name is Zhixiang, who actually had done other numerous compositions (free advert for your blog) [/edit]



Nice right? Could see a future in writing songs for my friendS.
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My wallet has a rather large hole in the coin pouch and coins keep dropping out when I need to pay for things.

I need a new wallet soon.

My birthday is coming soon too! But do ask me just in case I received like lots of wallets for my birthday! =P

I AM YOUR BROTHER!

It's the new season of American Idol! I don't care about the quality of singing in American Idol. I'm all for the really funny auditions! This really hit the ball out of the park:



He's the next big thing after William Hung and sounds tons better than Hung.

Galer Outing: 13 Jan 08

Met up with my OG mates for some games at Mind Cafe and dinner before the madness of tutorials begin. Consisting of the 'usual suspects' and Curtiz, I have to say the attendance is a bit disappointing. But then again 6 is a good number for games.

We headed down to the Mind Cafe at Bugis, which is hidden away in the shop houses near the National Library. I guess its new, which explains the lack of people after 6pm. I have to say that Taboo is the game that got me interested and I don't really like reflexes games cause mine sucks.

In the game of Taboo, I've learnt of the following:

- Victor really have some unorthodox methods of describing words. For the word 'Medical', he described the process at CMPB, which includes the 'take off your pants routine'.

- And I think he had watched too much 'Evan Almighty' when he implied that every morning that his beard is long and requires shaving.

- I don't know why the girls think that guys having "something long in the morning" is funny. Oh by the way, Victor's describing his 'Evan Almighty' beard! Unless you mean that thing...

- Somehow Curtiz really likes wearing suits too.

- Seng Kiat is some hardcore gangster. 369 is a gang code number?

We headed down to have steamboat for dinner. We had it at the second story which is air-conditioned which made everything on us smells like the steamboat itself after the dinner.



After which we had some coffee at the TCC branch in Bugis Junction. The whole place is pretty done up nicely, complete with mini chandeliers.


Why only five drinks? Oh Victor didn't ordered any and drank plain water. Note the distinct layers in the latte? You don't see that at the usual Coffee Bean branches.



Another gathering soon? I do hope so. Maybe during my birthday *hint* *hint*

Week Two: Where to go ah?

You know there is supposed to be some lab schedule to show where you are supposed to go during your lab lessons, but its not uploaded to edventure yet. I bet its going to be uploaded by tomorrow morning so that those who are in charge can cover their arses.

Guess what? My lab lesson is at 830am on a Monday morning. Another fine example of our excellent NTU administrative system.

Seeing STARS

Staring blankly at the slides, doodling on the notes and sleeping during the boring parts of lectures. It only meant that the normal school routine is coming back to me after that 1+ month of holidays.


Speaking of normal, the STARS server is overloaded with people trying to do adjustments to their timetable. At 10am, its like the hungry ghosts have exited the gates of hell during the seventh lunar month, everyone seems to be logging into Stars at the same time. With a good reason too, its like playing fastest finger first, the faster you enter the server and key in the index number, the higher chance of getting that particular course/timeslot. Obviously, the 830am lessons are not that popular and you can see their numbers increasing rapidly in the STARS Planner.

What I don't really like about the course registration in NTU is that the planner and STARS itself are two different system, meaning that you have to refer back to the planner for the course code and timing, then go back to STARS to key in for the course/timeslot that you want. Maybe they should integrate both so that there isn't any redundant steps.

Another thing is that you don't register the by using the course code, but by using the index number of the particular timeslot. Getting confused? So am I! During the add/drop period, there are too many a time where I have to refer back to the planner to get the particular index number I was allocated with initially AND the index number I want to change to and due to the way the planner works, you can't see both index number at one time. Sounds tiring? You betcha!

And many thanks to the email that was sent out from the MSE office. It was mentioned that the add/drop period is only on one day instead of a long period of days, which prompted many freshman (like me) to panic on that particular day.

No wonder I'm seeing STARS.

P.S: Oh I've managed to squeeze out a free day on Wed. YAY!

Hello 2008!

Just before I start, thanks to everyone my sadness over the lacklustre results. It has been upgraded from 'sad' to 'sian' and I'm beginning to accept it.

First post of the year and its 7 whole days after New Year's Day. As much as I want to do a end of year review, I don't have much time on my hands to do so (and I'm lazy to do that much typing).

New school semester starts tomorrow and somehow the same old dreadful feeling is coming back. The days of going to lectures and falling asleep when the subject is too 'chim' to understand.

The days of going to tutorials with the intention of copying the answers instead of validating the answers that you had gotten.

The days of entering examination halls and leaving it with a sense of failure because you knew that you didn't do well.

I guess that's part of school life and its should be normal to me. But I had actually spent two whole years of following orders and doing just enough rather than doing my best into things I've done.

Beat the system, do not let the system beat you. Time for a change in mindset. Just in time for the new year, right?