I haven’t been blogging as regularly. I was busy with a couple of projects, learning some Japanese and a horrible upcoming math exam.
My project is just hanging that, it’s not moving as fast as I thought it would. There are lots of mistakes I made and sometimes I wasted a lot of time implement stuff wrongly. I hope I don’t make the same mistake again… It’s so time-consuming.
On a happier note, I finally, finally finally, decided to take up some Japanese class and learning some ãããããããããã. It’s an interesting language and I bought a book to help me along. It’s just something I thought I’ll pick up during my free time as some sort of an educating leisure.
And yes math. I didn’t like math too much. I can score quite well for it strangely. It’s the subject I do best it. But somehow I just didn’t like it. I like knowing history, I sucked at history.
Finally a friend is leaving Singapore already. I have so many friend leaving Singapore these days. We’re doing some farewell thing for him. It’s great because I get to meet all the army guys again. We still don’t like the commanders so no commanders shall be invited.
I just watched the National Day Parade. It’s the retelecast, I sort of missed it because I somehow forgot. This year’s location seemed different from the previous year but it’s one of the better locations. I love the city area. Perhaps one of the better NDPs; wished I were there.
I entered math class half an hour late but I’m so glad I did that, the math is rather simple and it’s a total bore in there. I sat beside a Malay girl whom I believe is a mute. Sitting a little further down were a bunch of guys excitedly talking about some game they played. I tried listening in and finally concluded that they are playing MapleStory.
When a bunch of people talk here and there, the volume just goes higher and higher, soon the lecture theatre resembles the ambience of Carrefour hypermart at Plaza Singapura and that is when the lecturer step in to shut us up.
(So bored I tried writing numbers upside down.)
I didn’t have a book to read. I left my house at noon and brought out The Kite Runner (by Khaled Hosseini) to read but finished it before I got into the lecture theatre. The Kite Runner is a wonderful book by the way, very moving story too. Anyway, I sat there practicing writing my numbers upside down. I used to be able to do it quite well.
The lesson finished after 3 hours - okay 2.5 hours since I am late half hour - and I left for the bus stop. It’s the longest wait I had and I never seen so many people outside SIM before. They’re all waiting to board the bus.
The whole math class is getting more and more boring. Sometimes I wonder if I would get slack and stop attending the classes. I don’t feel that I am learning something particularly useful too, it’s secondary school Additional Mathematics and it is quite simple with no assignments. When my class starts on September, I hope I’ll be more hardworking than that for sure.
This is a pretty cool machine, it’s a binary calculator and it uses marbles. I never thought marbles can actually be made that educational. I used to play marbles in the past.
Marble adding machine
The geek’s marble game perhaps? It’s sort of a binary addition calculator, still pretty cool though.
Take a look at this picture that has a map of all the nations who have yet to adopt the metric system. Red denotes the minority who prefer to measure in feet, such as the Subway foot-long sandwich.
One of them is USA. Seriously, with all the globalization going on, the 300 million people should perhaps start changing. It’s never to late!
Must’ve been dreaming a little too much. A check on my schedule reveals my Mathematics night classes are starting. They say that I lack certain Mathematics knowledge so I need to go though it. I do well in Mathematics but I don’t really like the counting and all. It’s some bridging module thing. I’m a little lazy to study under a school again honestly.
I got a little shock on how fast time has passed, however, it also excite me a little. I’ll probably be studying some Japanese too. It should be interesting in the coming months.
Here are some of the school work that students submitted. I wonder how many are actually real. If you’re feeling a little naughty, you can possibly do something like that to your teacher, do to it those who can accept humor though. And of course, pray that your teacher won’t send you to the principal’s.
