Sunday, May 20, 2007

I’m hot, according to Brandon, Joshua and Tong. That’s because of my high body temperature.

I can’t believe that some teacher can be so loathed by students. I shall not say who is he because I need to be race/culture-conscious. I think that maybe it’s because of bad Feng Shui. You know, when your office is the nearest to the lift. However, that may not be the case. Miss Tan Yen Yen shares the same room as him but she’s such a amiable teacher.

According to Mr. Dennis Sim, different students need different methods of teaching. Some need model answers given to them while some don’t. I think that it is just like different teachers have different methods of teaching, we should respect their preferred way and teachers should respect students’ favoured way of learning too.

To me, learning something consists of doing things the right way. Otherwise, you would be wasting your time doing the wrong things thinking that you’re right. For example, when solving a Mathematical problem sum, we need to be guided step-by-step to know whether we’re right or wrong. If not, we’ll continue to be wrong. We should not be criticised as bullshit for whatever we’ve written or said. Students don’t feel motivated that way. If we can provide model answers, we don’t need to go to school.

If students can give answers close to the answer scheme, it can guarantee us marks and that is what we students strive to achieve. Therefore, by learning to answer questions through model answers, we can improve our answers.

Learning through model answers should not be called spoon feeding. It’s what I called smart-ness or shortcut. It’s a win-win situation. The Japanese are able to create great electronics because they examine other people’s products. They disintegrate the products to find out what are inside. After that, they improvise the products and make it theirs. I think it is really smart. We should learn from them. Learn from the model answers, improve the model answers then give our answers.

Sometimes we need to memorise things before we can understand some things. For example, isn’t Global Geography Tourism about memorising destinations and countries before you can know that there is such a place? Yes, and memorising the steps or procedures of the Front Office in Introduction to Hotel & Resort Operations so that you can understand the stuff that receptionists do.

Those are just my opinions. And yes, the teacher told Brandon and I that the class is useless on Tuesday and condemned us on Wednesday.

Mr. Rudy complimented our class while the son-of-a-mother-teacher condemned us.

Enough of these. Time for less serious stuff.

There was a steam boat and lan gaming gathering on Friday with hunks - Brandon, Hui Jue, Joshua, Tong, Weida and me. Had lots of fun, like very brotherly and family. Haha. It was really like playing lan games at a lan shop, just that it was very small and kind of squeezed. Very random was the word of the day and we had lots of fun describing ‘very random’ and giving examples. After sending them home, I cleaned up for a while and dropped dead on the sofa until Sis woke me up.

Saturday was Sis’ Birthday Eve celebration. After my guitar lesson, I headed to Marina Square to shop. I had a hard time finding the present. Most shops don’t have grey jeans. Luckily for my best-est best friend, I managed to find it. It was rather awkward for such a macho man to step into ladies shops. However, I was manly enough to go in. I saw two in Zara, one in Topshop and one in Mango. Mango has a pair of very pale grey jeans which I’m not sure whether it’s straight cut or tapered. There are some studs at the back pocket and I think that it’s nice because I chose it.

There was a buffet. The food was really nice. I must really salute my Sis. She had more than thirty friends coming to our house! So many that I had to surrender my room and resort to standing around the house. And yes, my house was like a casino with people playing Mahjong and dices and drinking and smoking. They drank Martell and twenty four cans of Heineken. After most people had left, we had chivas and played cards and number games. I’m a better drinker than my Sis. Ha! I’m feeling really arrogant now. Birthday Girl drank only one cup.

I slept really late and woke up really late as well. There was buffet again on Sunday. The buffet was bigger because we have a lot of relatives. So Sis had two birthday cakes in total. Maybe she can have two birthday wishes. Haha. I’m so smart. Oh boy, buffet plus birthday cake plus alcohol plus buffet plus birthday cake equal getting fat.

There will be BLAW Tutorial on Monday. Sian na.

I'm really sad right now.

All my files, photos, songs are gone.

I shouldn't have downloaded songs from sohu.

It caused my computer to crash.

And I didn't know that my back up discs were blank.

I have been sick for the past few days or slightly more than a week to be exact. Even now. It is not really serious actually. Just cough, flu, sore throat, running nose, a little bit of diarrhea and fever. However, the son of a strong, fit and healthy guy, Xu Weiming, will be fine. Hopefully. It's been more than 2 years since I've seen a doctor because of illness and my immune system is always able to defeat the viruses and bacteria.

The first week of school wasn't very nice, because I overslept for most of the days. My body still wasn't used to the early waking up. I was kind of addicted to Defenders of the Ancients (DotA) as well and played till late in the morning like two or three ante meridiem (am).

The second week wasn't any better, because I was still playing DotA till late at night. At the latter part of the week, I slept really early, like 10 post meridiem (pm) or even earlier. However, I woke up at about three or four am. This means that I was still lacking of my beauty sleep. Bad.

The third week is also early sleeping and early waking up. A good thing is that I didn't play DotA at all. Boy, I'm proud of myself. So proud and pumped up that I feel like sleeping. And man, a long time no see friend asked me a super sad question. It was something like this 'Eh Weiming, did you put on weight?'

I found out that for this Semester, there are more questions in the tutorials and this means more work. Projects are really early like the fourth and fifth week of the term.

I like to keep my nails short like the nails on my left hand. However, I need to keep a bit of nails on my right hand so that I can pluck the guitar's strings with nice piercing sounds. This is troublesome.

I've finally rebooted my computer.

Some abstract happenings in school:

I was shitifed when I found out that you can't sue people for privacy issues. Oh man, Weida is going to 'siao1 yao2 fa3 wai4' after viewing all my highly confidential files.

I also realised that if you were to dig a piece of nose shit which is bigger than the parking coupon tab, you should not roll and flick it away. That will be considered as littering and you may need to do Corrective Work Order (CWO). One way to counter this is to nicely divide it into smaller pieces and shoot them around.

Recently, there have been cases of girls peeping at the guys' toilets. They nonchalantly shared with their friends what they had seen and laughed loudly. This kind of act isn't something worth showing off and I think that it is wrong to do so.

We have different types of interesting teachers. Teacher who anyhow cut other people's hair, teachers who laugh at their own jokes, teacher who likes horses, teachers who like to talk to themselves, teacher who laughed at other people's height, teachers who shared their stories and teacher who talk about contradicting issues.

There is a new school rule. That is to dress formally every Thursday and smart casual wear for the rest of the week days. I think that it is not very smart because it is very superficial. For example, we are just wearing that so that we look smart though we are not really that way. However, if we were really smart, people will be able to notice or sense it. Okay. Ignore that. I think that we are still quite young and should wear tee shirts. It will be weird if we were to wear tee shirts when we were like thirty or forty years old, or wear blazers when we really young. Maybe lecturers should have dress codes as well. Like tee shirts and jeans on Friday so that they do not look too serious. Okay, that is getting really crappy. I need to sleep.

I'm really thankful to the person who returned my thumbdrive. Really thanks a lot. All my precious and important files would have been gone for good if not for the person. I don't know how to thank the person and I don't know who he or she is.

2:22 AM