Heute ist Freitag (Today is friday)

I'm down with flu, prob due to the erratic weather these days. Felt so lethargic the whole morning and afternoon, but i felt much better now. Anyway i think mi german 2 is done for, didn't do well for oral on wednesday, i just hope i can at least get a B this sem. Anyway i heard those who went for the germany immersion came back with their german much more polished, maybe i shld have went huh. So i guess this holiday prob need to brush up mi german so i no need to s/u german 3, i heard german for academic purpose which is to be taken after german 3 is hell, so most prob need to s/u tat already, leaving me with 2 more s/u slots. Anyway it makes a lot of sense to brush up german prior to SEP, i dun wanna be like those foreign students here with those english i could hardly make out wadever they're saying.

I'm really glad mi critical thinking writing grp project is finally over, went thrgh the final meeting without any hiccups, only left the individual oral defence and final exams. I find this mod extremely useful and interesting, teaches u to bring across ur proposal in a more persuasive way.

Reading the straits times the other day on its article on diving makes me wanna go dive this holiday, but as the article said, its really not cheap. Even with licence, a typical 3D2N trip to nearby P.dayang in malaysia can easily cost about $300 but the experience quoting from visa, is priceless. When i'm underwater, among the coral reefs and fishes, its like in a total different world, u'll forget all ur troubles. But u need khakis to go man, and mi khaki justin is prob busy in OCS with his new batch of cadets.
I wanna go dive.

what a small world

Last nite i was having mi late dinner at the coffeeshop near mi house and i met a fren of mine. He's 1 of mi PS during mi days in the army and surprisingly his father-in-law sells char kway tiao at the coffeeshop but sad to say he's quitting due to cancer. This brings back smth i heard a long time ago that every person is related to everyone within 6 levels. Apparently this is probably onli half true and the person who came up with this theory prob used some simple math to deduce this relationship. Suppose on average each person know 200 other people, regardless its family, relatives or frens and of cos this 200 other people know 200 other people and so on... by level 6 this figure easily exceeds the total population in this world. On closer inspection, there's many flaws within this model, firstly there could be major overlapping in the people involved here, so the effective number based on individuals not counted before within this level and the previous one is greatly reduced and there are many exceptions that must be neglected for this model to work. Loners, hermits and god knows who else must be excluded from this model also, however its a rather interesting theory based on a really simple math model. As mi math lecturer said, always start from a simple model and work ur way up so this is really a simple one to explain how globalisation has brought everyone together.

Grp project

Everytime when it comes to doing project i always prefer to work alone, or at least with people i trust to be able to do work. I'm taking a critical thinking & writing module like all eng students need to take and due to some circumstances i'm doing with 2 viets on it. If u had read abt mi previous post in friendster, 1 of them has a bad command in the english compared to the other. But after working together for a few weeks, discussing and improving our draft, the one with better english is apparently an irresponsible person. Prior to the submission of 1st draft, he was supposed to hand in his part of the assignment, trimmed to within the word limit before i can write the conclusion and hand it in the next morning, he was supposed to send it to me before monday with the weekend to finish his work but he didn't. So i told him to send it to me before 9pm since i had german lect and i prob reach home at 9, so 9pm came and no email in sight, so i called him and he actually forgot abt it and went Bugis. Nvm, so i said try to send it to me by 11pm since our lesson is at 8am the next day and i normally sleep before 12. In the end he sent it to me at 11.30pm and it was the untrimmed version i saw on friday, leaving me with just 30 words to write the conclusion, his excuse was only the original text brings his idea across so no choice i had to be the one trimming it(thanks to our education system having summary in O'levels). Well let's just say i slept at around 2am and woke up at 6.30am to reach NUS at 8am.

Incident 2, happened today... final draft due on friday and last thur we had a meeting to discuss how we're going to revamp our 1st draft and we came up with the deadline on monday 8am so we could discuss and improve somemore before friday. At 11am, seeing no email from him again, i had to call him and apparently he haven't done it, saying there's some presentation this afternoon, he can really come up with excuses man. The other guy had no problem meeting the deadline by the way, he sent his part on saturday. So i had to 'force' him to send his part to me by tml, i really dislike such irresponsible people. i sms him that it was fine if he doesn't want to do it, i can always write his part, and i'm gonna tell mi tutor abt it i he misses the next deadline. actually mi tutorknew a bit of wad's happening cos he asked me abt it before and he too finds this guy rather bossy and stuff and feels pity for me. Ok, so he replied that i'm very singaporean and really spoils his spirit(i have no idea wad the 2nd line meant), so i rebutted him tat this isn't a nationality problem and since he could meet the deadline of other proj why can't he meet this and he actually pulling the rest of the grp down. Then maybe he repented(maybe) and replied tat he will send it to be by tml. So i replied in the same words,"I hope you will keep your word THIS TIME"

Actually i admit i was a little mean, but seriously i could be meaner... to be honest i've mellowed alot since the secondary sch days and esp after the serving NS. i didn't want to take such extreme measures but he left mi with no choice man. He can flung for all i care but i hope to get an A for this man. For those who dunno, this grp proj weighs 21% of the total grade. Anyway his compatriot just sms me saying he wanted to meet him, he's prob fed up with him too, yeah, let's ostracize him!

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