COME JOIN THE PARTY, ITS A CELEBRATION

Cause everybody wants to party with you! - Madonna, Celebration.

Woo Hoo!

Officially completed my first semester of year 2 in Monash today.

Summary of the final exam paper: I gave it a kick the ass, even though I couldn't finish the paper regardless of non-stop writing from 1.41pm up to 4.41pm.

Now I am free to catch all my Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Gossip Girl, Degrassi and heck, anything!

To those who are still having their papers, take care of yourself, and if it means screwing everyone else, so be it!

Go give your exam a real kick the ass!

On a side note, my house first floor is undergoing major renovation starting tomorrow and my room looks like a store room, because anything and everything is now stuffed in here.

P/S: I haven't been shopping for quite some time, and have saved quite an amount of $$$. This Saturday's outing with my classmates, I might just splurge on some new clothes, or should I be proud to continue saving for end-year Taiwan? Hmmm.. I haven't got any new clothes since Topman back in July. Hehe. Amazing achievement, yet something shocking for someone so into clothes.

Okay that is all for today, going for my tv show now.

TOMORROW, TOMORROW AND TOMORROW

After tomorrow, it's goodbye exams, and hello drama! I will be on final memorising and reading marathon.

After tomorrow, come join the party, it's a celebration.

I shall keep that in mind for the next blog title.

But today's title is an excerpt from Life's Brief Candle by William Shakespeare.

I need more memorising now. Best wishes to everyone on Instrumental Analysis Road.

THREE DOWN, ONE TO GO

Succesfully completed

ENG1010, ENG1091 and SCI2010.

Remaining on Monday the 9th

CHM2741

Basically I have finished all readings for CHM2741, but the thing is there is so much to memorise that no matter how many times i open the textbook and lecture notes, i cannot memorise everything. Doing past exam papers is the only way i can atleast etch some of the "standard" solutions into my mind and hopefully the exam questions, as quoted by Dr.Lim, are typical exam questions. This means, the slides in which he mentioned "typical exam question" will come out for exam. PLEASE don't make me memorise all the steps especially in how to operate the instrument! I hope there will be more application and problem solving questions in exam. Thank you Dr. Emily for examining application questions rather than definition theory questions. I really hate those. However, the application part of electroanalytical chemistry sucks. It is another memorising especially for amperometry because it is just plain stupid. Even Dr Emily agrees. GIPPSLAND you seriously need to restructure that horrendous unit. I really hope Sunway campus will just drop all its Gippsland units and start offering Clayton ones which are better structured and organised.

Okay to those having BTH2752 Cellular Metabolism tomorrow, I wish you guys all the best and hope all the memory power in this universe be with you tomorrow! The same goes to anyone having a paper tomorrow which requires hell loads of memorising!

DEFINITELY NOT A SWEET DREAM, BUT A BEAUTIFUL NIGHTMARE PART 2

Today was such a bad start for exam.

I went to campus in a calm mode, and since I already made all necessary preparations for my ENG1010 exam, I decided to revise on SCI2010 in the computer lab. After that I had my lunch and chatted with Christina over in the School of Science before heading to the exam room.

When I entered the room, I took out my pens, eraser, and calculator and then I realised:

MY MECHANICAL PENCIL WAS NOT IN THE PENCIL CASE.

I searched frantically in my bag, pockets and all but it was just not anywhere. I panicked and decided to ask my other friends if they had a spare and none of them had one!

IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF MY DOOM.

The PSA exam paper consisted of 15 MCQ whose answers need to be shaded on the MCQ sheet with pencil. I really lost focus and was distracted at the lost of my pencil. Although I had my pen with me to do the rough workings and calculations, it was just not the same without my pencil. I guess it was panic attack, or fear and the thought of how am I going to shade my MCQ sheet took over me for the entire duration of the exam.

To add oil to fire, the first problem itself was a killer question. Usually questions are structured in an A to B way but this semester it was reversed and we had to back calculate all the data given to us! I spent about 15 to 20 minutes trying to solve the backward puzzle but to no avail. I couldn't take it anymore, I just needed to skip problem ONE and its 4 set of questions and proceed to other questions. In the end, I only managed to solve 7 MCQs after one go. Die lah, that was what I had in mind because never in any past exam papers were the MCQs so tricky and tough and tedious. So I decided to just tackle the part B written calculation questions.

Part B was definitely more solvable. Atleast I could write down my answers and workings without distraction of my pencil. After completing part B, I had to go back to part A and I realised I have not shaded any answer into the MCQ sheet! I was desperate.

I USED MY MECHANICAL PENCIL LEADS TO SHADE MY ANSWER SHEET.

&&& I think I broke atleast 3 leads altogether to complete part A. I managed to solve problem ONE in the end, after endless careless mistakes during my calculations. But problem THREE on steam cycle, I had no idea why I just couldn't solve the problem. It was basically just a repetition of the mid semester exam which I got it right back then. I guess it was the panic and remaining time factor which made me couldn't focus to try to solve the last problem. So in the end, I had no choice but to tembak four MCQs worth 2m each. Later after handing in the paper, I discovered I may have another mistake in part B which I am too lazy to describe here.

And that was the end of my hopes to score a 90% for this unit. Today was just not my bloody day. Sigh, I want to forget about this paper and just move on with my SCI2010 revision, but today's traumatic event will continue to haunt me for the remaining examination days. If only I did not revise SCI2010 earlier and used my pencil, I would not have lost it. And I should have brought extra pencils, basic examination preparation which I simply overlooked this semester.

So the moral of the story is

BRING EXTRA SETS OF PENCILS, PENS, ERASER, RULER WTH ANYTHING YOU NEED FOR EXAM AND DON'T ASSUME OTHERS HAVE EXTRA

Okay I think this is my worst examination begining EVER, EVER, EVER! Can anyone top me in this???

p/s: Why are my exam papers always twistedly evil compared to past exam papers? Is that a jinx of some sort?

REVERSED-PHASED HPLC MODE

I have been on a reversed-phase sleeping mode since last week?

Much thanks to caffeine, and non-stop "hardcore memorising" as quoted by YewChong marathon for the upcoming final examinations. This semester examination preparation is just way too hectic. The exam papers are wayyy too close to each other. I just don't have enough time to cramp all into my puny little head okay? Especially SCI2010 which cannot get into my head at all! It's super retarted the unit. Okay maybe its not that retarted to know about it, but to know it by heart for exam? That is like telling people to go for some career counselling and memorising the entire counselling session! &&& What more, we have to watch videos (not to say they are very bad, but some are just plain boring and lengthy) for the exam paper! Honestly, I don't like the fact that I may screw my chances to score straight HDs because of this unit. It was glad enough I did not fail my literature review, merely a D.

I feel bad for my other science friends who are dealing with subjects such as BTH2752 (Cellular Metabolism), BTH2820 (Crop Science), ANT2331 (Introduction to Anatomy &&& Medical Terminology), PHY2032 (Physiology of Human Health), and BTH2732 (Recombinant DNA Technology) because they have atleast a combination of 2 or more of the mentioned subjects and trust me when I say it is HEAVY. Not to forget boring too.

Even CHM2741 is killing me softly, especially with the Amperometry section of the Electroanalytical Techniques. Like seriously no matter how many times I've read the lecture notes, i can't etch it into my brains nor do I even understand what it is. I think Gippsland campus needs serious reviewing of their units which are so brain torturing.

On the bright side, I have completed my ENG1010 (Process System Analysis) revision and hopefully the exam won't be a shocker like my SPM, A-LEVELS, EVEN YEAR 1 MONASH where the exam I take is always extra difficult or something out of the blue comes out.

Currently revising Mathematics (ENG1091) which also has quite a lot to remember, the techniques. &&& also SCI2010-ing the same time.

Anyway, my papers are as follow

30/10/09 - ENG1010

2/11/09 - SCI2010

4/11/09 - ENG1091

9/11/09 - CHM2741

I am dying revising for such a cramp examination period! All the best to myself. I need sleep now okay I rambled a lot wtf bye.