Eeps...even with more free time this sem, blog is more abandoned than ever. Not sure whether anybody is still reading this though :S

FYP update: Still not progressing a lot, and I suppose it's getting alarming because during the last meeting with prof, he was instructing two of my classmates about what they can start writing about for their interim report. He appeared to be satisfied with the reading I have done, claiming that I am finally confident about what I am saying, when what I am telling him is really what I have found out the week before =.= No instructions about interim report so that means I am the slowest among all 4? Eeps.

But then again, what he was telling the other two was really rather trivial stuff like "you can start writing about the procedures of the experiment you conducted"...which is really straight out of the textbook? And the information I have are really jumbled up and I am not too sure how to link them all up or make enough sense out of them to stuff into my interim. :S

Oh well. Looks like I need to spend more time during vacation on this and I can never get any work done at home, plus I am pretty sure I need to meet him once a week as well, unless he fly off for some conference or trip (I hope). Was planning to do enough work to impress him last week so when he is in a good mood, I can ask him about it...but then the graduate students and the other Prof were all around and I decided it was a bad idea to ask. But it really doesnt look like I will be home for more than 3 weeks. And it is probably the last time I can have a long vacation (by long I mean one month and above) at home T.T CNY tickets are settled though, actually went to plan for my timetable next sem (i should not have any difficulties securing any module I want) and I can have a one-day week LOL. Therefore awarded myself a 10-day CNY holiday at home hee hee.

As for the other two modules....ITS project is progressing really slowly because the program we are using only has one license key and while one person is holding on to it, nobody else can do anything. Not even writing report because the simulation results are not out yet! And these two weeks we practically have zero progress coz the person holding the key didnt do anything and we were waiting for Circle Line to open before collecting more data because we anticipated changing travel patterns.

Then came the data collection part....think I was attracting weird stares from everybody at the bus stops...like "there is this weird guy recording down bus arrival schedules and counting the number of people alighting and boarding". Especially since we are mainly collecting on busy bus stops during peak hours. A few times I have to sort of wave away people I know because I was halfway counting the sea of humans and they came over to chat :S Pretty glad by the end of the third and final day of collection.

As for the Traffic Flow module...report progress have stalled since the second report because data collection partners are always busy. Sometimes have half a mind to just do it myself...SY=procrastinate therefore ended up just waiting. First two reports were graded and actually turned out not too bad. Given that this is a class of just 12 people, there shouldnt be any bell curve and possibly wont turn out bad? I hope.

This is probably the only semester when I find all my modules interesting (save for FYP, dont really count that as a module), very much due to the fact that I have unofficially specialized in a field that I am interested in. I don't even fall asleep in class anymore and it's a three hour class! Though admittedly I havent been revising either and am having trouble recalling what lecturers said two or three weeks after the class, but I am feeling positive. That sure is a good thing.

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Skipped half of my ITS class on Tuesday to attend Concert, rebranded as RHMP this year. Was really glad that I skipped class, show has flaws throughout (the singing!) but was thoroughly enjoyable. The music composition was good! I thought publicity and PR did very well too this year - they had the correct people leading them. The sets were grandddd (okay for hall production standard) though it means they were immobile and we see sets people doing sets change in broad "stagelight", something I was rather uncomfortable with. Didn't have to go down to advise tech but I guess they din really need me and they did okay too.

Was very glad to see concert back on track...after the no-freshman crisis, it seemed like things are finally going back to normal for most of the big comms and traditions, Orientation being one, Concert being another, and I think Float probably has least chance of going back to the norm after what they have gone through this year. Though, on closer examination, the people holding concert together this year are mostly alumni and final years (majority of the music is composed by alumni, script by alumni, producer is a final year and alumni). How much have been learnt and absorbed by the juniors is unknown, but good to see that most of them are having as much fun or "fun" as we did in our freshman year. We shall see.

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Signed up for three volunteering events over the last two weeks: grabbed Stel to volunteer for Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore with me, then got emails about volunteering for the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup 2011 (Singapore Leg) and The SGX Bull Charge 2011 and signed up for both. Another side interest of mine :) which I have abandoned for a while too because didnt have time to + was sorely disappointed by my volunteering stint during YOG.  The first two are confirmed too.

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Havent been actively reading up about career related stuff or even attended a single career talk this sem. I guess that makes me an apathetic final year student? Hahaha.

Maybe, it just means that I don't feel ready to go out there yet......

Sometimes when I can't sleep and my mind wanders around...I started thinking about job interviews....they always emphasize a lot about looking smart for your interview and how first impression counts etc etc...and I can't help but wonder if I am at a disadvantage right from the beginning. Would I not be able to make it pass an interview for my dream job because of the-stupid-p-word? How much of a disadvantage am I at right now?

And I am not just talking about work...about a couple of other things actually.....

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Wow..actually spewed out that many words in less than an hour...would be greattttttt if I was this productive while writing reports...

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