Thursday, November 5, 2009

I was totally speechless when I saw the way my lab partners did the experiment. For some simple procedures, they can make it complex. This again leads to the questioning of the local education system. Is there something really wrong with the high school education in Canada? Why are some people having such weak foundations in sciences? To my astonishment, I realized some of them were actually performing the experiment with basically all the possible human errors and experimental mistakes I can think of. WTF is wrong with them?? But anyway, I am already indifferent to what they have been doing all this while.

If the Hwachongians are given such an experimental design, they will come up with a much more detailed experimental proposal with explanation of all possible errors as well as the corresponding methods to overcome. As what I have previously stated, the education here is way too horrendous. The transition from high school to university is way too drastic for most of the indigenous students.

Eventually, it’s already the last philosophy quiz to go tomorrow, meaning I will have done 60% of the course marks after that. Hopefully, I won’t flunk it since it’s the only course that I am having an average grade of A+. It will make my life much easier if everything goes fine tomorrow.

God bless me.

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {1:10 PM}
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

I thought I am use to living alone. But I realize it wasn’t really the way I thought I was. There are many things I keep within myself, not meant to be disclosed to anybody. Something even I myself don’t know…..

Since secondary two, I was living alone in school’s dorm. Until now, I was still alone. I have made new friends as time marches, however I have also wandered away from my old friends.

Seems like the university life is just like A levels, maybe I am expecting too much from it. Something is missing, which makes me feel empty. Something intangible, abstract and impalpable is missing…..

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {5:08 PM}
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Ok, I am still on with the “an essay a day, keep the grammatical mistakes away”. Undeniably, writing purposely in proper English is way too exhausting.

I was extremely demoralized and perturbed by the Canadian marking styles. I was given zero for a 10 marks question for which I answered quite a number of relevant points. I seriously doubt the professional ethos of those markers. Sometimes I saw a big tick across my answer but the marks given was only 6/10. So, when you first see the paper, you do not really know what is exactly wrong with your answer and it makes even harder for you to clarify with those instructors. Although they revised the weight of this mid-term test, I don’t think it will make a big difference to our final grades if they stick to the way they mark.

Apart from the irritancy experienced this morning, nothing special has really happened. Philosophy is again a tough subject to understand, but the endeavor you make is definitely proportionate to the outcome you will get.

After reading so many pages of philosophy textbook, I have reached a conclusion that logicians are those who like to make simple things into intricate logic to excruciate and afflict young innocent beings like me.

Here’s an interesting part of logic: THE PARADOX OF THE LIAR
Consider the following proposition:
“I am lying.”
So here comes the question, is this proposition true (Am I lying or am I not)??? You will definitely end up cursing it for wasting your time cogitating this shit since it is both true and false, something that is clearly impossible.

Philosophy is never writing intensive, it resembles more of Math. For those who don’t wish to write superfluous tripe during tests, philosophy 120 is definitely an apposite course for you.

By the way, for those reading my journals, please feel free to point out my grammatical mistakes/expression errors.

Anyone adept in English?

FML

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {1:38 PM}
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

After receiving the LPI scores, I felt rather disappointed with the score, but undeniably, it was indeed a tough essay test when all the three topics are not so common. First topic is regarding the older dating the younger while the second topic is about if plastic surgery is an acceptable present given to the teenagers by their parents. Well, I chose the third question which is about the pace of life and how do we resolve and counteract the adverse consequences and impact resulted from a fast-paced lifestyle. I chose it not because of that I have substantive stances but rather it is the case that I have totally no idea about the previous two topics. Can’t they use some prevalent and common subject matters???

I have indeed used several grandiloquent vocabularies and rather complex sentence structures, but it doesn’t seem to be appreciated or rewarded by the LPI markers. I only get to realize the fact after reading the online discussion forum that LPI essay section is for you to write a grammatically errorless essay without showing off how proficient your English is. Bombastic vocabulary contributes to nothing and one can ascribed the success in LPI essay wholly to the use of simple but error-free sentences. The biggest irretrievable mistake I have ever made in this test is due to my UK style of writing. I wrote a descriptive argumentative essay which is totally forbidden for LPI. What they required is an essay with personal experiences and personal perspectives. So I have to use phrases such as “I think that… etc”. It seems pretty ironic to me when I saw the online model essay appears to be quite a simply organized piece of writing without using any “hoity-toity” language. I am indeed perplexed.

I am done with my reflection.
PS: Proper English sucks….

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {7:34 AM}
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Sunday, November 1, 2009

I am so uncertain about the education system here.....I really doubt if any teacher actually prepared a marking scheme before marking our test papers......I felt that they were just giving marks randomly based on impression. This is so unorganized. I am not provided with the test papers i took and ans for them. I realise the HWACHONG teachers really did an excellent job in spoon-feeding us with knowledge and drilling us with all types of questions.

The year 1 calculus here is so damn easy that I guess anyone from HC who have revised through the HC differentiation notes can score a 100%, but anyway I have transfer credit for that...

For the 3 consecutive mid-terms 2 weeks ago, I got 80% for the BIOL140 lab exam which i thought i would have totally screwed up, and got a pathetic 63% (64 MCQ)for OB after struggling continously for more than 20 hours and which is definitely lower than cohort average....and a 100% for philosophy which I spent 20 mins finished doing that paper, but spent more than 20 hours to understand what's going on in the textbook. The amount of efforts I put in doesn't seem to be proportionate with the amount of marks I got. Again I guess I am going to screw up my BIOL304 mid term....The questions totally suck....I totally have no idea on what some of the question is asking for. A short question can worth up to 15% and you will be totally screwed if you dun know how to do it. So now god bless me, hopefully I am not the only one who thinks the questions are weird.

The people here are not as competent and competitive as those from HWACHONG after contacting quite a number of people here. But the deviation is large....I can see someone who finished the philosophy test in 10mins for a 100% paper and those who struggled till the time ends....

Plz dun let me screw up my year 1 GPA........

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {2:02 PM}
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Friday, October 30, 2009

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {12:12 PM}
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Now, I am thinking of writing blog posts on a daily basis....I desperately wish to improve my writing skill to an extend that I can easily pass any English proficiency test such as LPI or whatever....UBC's offer sounds tempting after I was told that they are giving me 15 credits transfer...I need 27 in total in order to proceed to year 2....So I am already more than half way there....Since wishing to complete the course in 3 years, I guess I really have to take as many courses possible during summer sessions....

I am rather concern about what UOT's engineering faculty is going to do with my appealing letter...But at worst, they will just ignore my documents...I have nothing much to lose other than the money paid for the courier.

A new blog skin resembling a brand new outset of my life....

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {10:56 PM}
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

So many things fussing about...

$ $ and $......This is what all is about...without $$, jesus is nothing...no one can survive to worship him, without $$, there will be no monk or nun to chant to the buddha....

Life is all about $$

$$ cannot destroy friendship or love,

but without $$, there isnt any friendship or love at all....You will just be starved to death before you can talk to anyone about love....GOD is just a faith, a faith to pray for $$...for all the material beings...

Since I am born with nothing, everything I have now is something extra...I am already the gainer....It really makes me feel better to think this way......

$$$$$ is a pre-requisite for LOVE, that's my conclusion.....

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {7:42 PM}
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Friday, May 1, 2009

Gonna say bye bye to singapore....not sure if i will still come back....half of my life was spent here......10 years.....88

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {10:53 PM}
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Recently I realised my blog is kinda dead....cant access all the pics due to bandwidth limit....lousy.......

Got headache and shoulder muscle pain for more than 2 weeks....this is really terrible...i cant really use com for long.....i have to relax my neck all the time.....

UOT rotman commerce rejected me on first sight....i think it may be due to my sucking econs or gp results or the vacancy is full by that time....and on the next day upon rejection, UOT missisauga commerce accepted me with 3.5 credit transfer....so i rather choose to believe the latter reason....

So, I was waiting for the replies from Mcgill and UBC...now my first choice has been changed to UBC's sauder commerce.....it's in vancouver...the location is still considerable nice...as compared to UOTM campus....argh...stupid rotman commerce...i will hate it forever...unless it accepts me in the future since mostly likely i may apply for transfer between UNIs or campuses.....

I have applied to 10 unis, until now, only 1 of them has given me the offer, which is the UOTM commerce...

LIFE is sadddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd and unfairrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

SAD....lets pray and wait....the only things i can do for the time being....

FairyTales are beautiful lies ; {1:54 AM}
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