My AlMoSt ChIldLiKe IdEaLiStIc BuLlShIt MaNiFeSto

SoMe PeOpLe ThInK OnLy InTeLlEcT CoUnTs: KnOwInG HoW To SoLvE PrObLeMs, KnOwInG HoW To GeT By, KnOwInG HoW To IdEnTiFy An AdVaNtAgE AnD SeIzE It BuT ThE FuNcTiOnS Of InTeLlEcT ArE InSuFfIcIeNt WiThOuT CoUrAgE, LoVe, FrIeNdShIp, CoMpAsSiOn AnD EmPaThY

Monday, August 09, 2004

SiNgApOrE-'BORN FREE', 'LIVING FREE' & 'FOREVER FREE'

Son of the soil unites! National day is here again !

Sighs, another day has passed. As the day passed, school will be reopening soon. I have been feeling tired like a dog ever since it reopen. I had been slacking all day except doing my assignment on cell molecular biology and my PCB design. Been doing it for about 6 times now but it is still sucks. Warning here and error there. I never knew that PCB design is that difficult to do even though I have done 2 exercises on it. I wondered if I will ever pass my basic conversational Japanese test. I hope so. I had been keeping my finger cross ever since .Common test is coming soon; oh gosh I need a time schedule to revise my work. Among the modules that I took that medical instrumentation is definitely the hardest. Learning all the amplifier such as instrumentation amplifier, differential amplifier, inverting amplifier and non-inverting amplifier is such a bore. I guess I am going to flung the common test on MI. Even before I took it, I could feel the aura that I will be failing it. Pp2 is another thing; I hate programming to the core now. Programming sucks. Writing such a long programmed but the output is merely doing a few things. I guess I regretted wanting to study biomedical engineering in the first place. I utterly thought that it will be 70% life sciences and 30% engineering. I was wrong. Biomedical engineering actually stresses on electronic engineering instead on life sciences. The modules on life sciences are actually complimentary subjects. I was fool by the join admission booklet. Farid, I guess you are right. I should go to a junior college instead of a polytechnic. I am more into languages and conceptual kind of stuffs. I guess what’s over is over…lets fate decided where I am in 10 years time. But I guess no use indulging in such stuffs, as for now I guess need to persevere and do the best I could. I guess this is what school lives all about? STRESS!! STRESS!! AND MORE STRESS!! Talking about school, I received an email from my lecturer because I been coming to lecture class late and my poor quizzes marks…below is the email he given to me (first year, second semester):

Dear L1GH pupils,

I have tabulated all the results in your quizzes and together with today's mock-up IBME final test results in the attached file. You don't need to be a genius to predict what you will score in the coming IBME final test next week. If you have done well in the mock-up test, congratulations to you and keep it up.
If your score in the mock up test is below 50%, please check what you did in the past 4 quizzes conducted in this month. Was it your Ability or your Attitude that hinder you from advancing in this module?

It's a pity to see capable people failing my module, just because they could not set their priorities right....

I guess I better stop whining and finish my assignments !!!