Friday, March 27, 2009

3 weeks passed

haven't updated for 3 weeks. this period has been quite a challenge. tests to study for, assignments to complete, papers to write and, perhaps most of all, mom's operation on 17th March. shuttling between hospital and school, grandma's house and school is tiring and time consuming. but that's little compared to the pain mom's got to endure. thank heavens for a successful operation, thank the doctors, my aunt Sharon. thank heavens for it is contained in stage 1. thanks to grandma for taking care of mom's recovery. I just pray that mom's health will be better than before and that there's a smooth path to recovery. thank lixuan for being by my side.

in school, HW110 and AE1002 have come to an end. effective comm was okay. but I'm not confident of scoring an A, especially for my reflection papers, to boost my GPA. AE1002 end in disappointment of some sort. the glider didn't fly far nor did it land well. I guess that's what we get when we didn't do enough test flights/throws, no calculations and complicating the design of a simple glider. for this module, I feel most sorry for Tng cuz he's been spending sleepless nights just to get the control surfaces to work. I'm now so worried for my sGPA this sem.

S/U dateline is Sunday 10pm. right now, my mind is not made up yet. should I S/U CNYPR? and should I S/U Math1B or Phys1B.
reasons to S/U:
Math1B - I wasn't strong at Math1A, no cheatsheet, 30% on Linear Algebra although it's not very difficult, Fedor has yet to finish the syllabus (left with Stoke's law and Gaussian's divergence theorem, which is a special case of Stoke's law)
Phys1B - expect very tough paper, 10% on term paper, E and M are confusing - EM even worse
HMS2 - not confident of getting A
CNYPR - there has been little progress on this project - there has only been a small research on plane design and presentation of our findings, RC plane was set up but crashed - fixing in progress. so I don't know if all these can justify an A

Next week, 2 more tests coming up - physics mid-term 2 and computing 2. gosh, March is coming to an end soon...

Friday, March 6, 2009

some breather

phew!some breather at last!

physics test yesterday was okay. am confident of 7 questions. well, I hope I wont get any lower than that. skipped FE1008 lecture just now to finish physics tutorial and it's finally done. now, I can finally do what I want, as and when I want =)

there'll be NTU TKD photo-taking later

now to tidy up my room and see what I'll bring home tmr before a nap