Nothing very facinating happened for the past 2 days. The 2 Chemistry lectures I had on Thursday were ok; most of the materials I knew already. I am actually looking forward to the materials in the later part of the semester. Material Science lecture was as boring as ever but at least this time round, he managed to explain the difference between HCP and FCC really well by using models that he made out of styrofoam balls. :) Chatted with Frankie and Tommy for quite a while after lecture and I went to bath before heading for dinner with them.
Yesterday, I had "Biochemistry of Diseases" in the morning and we learnt the causes and symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease. Hmm pretty interesting but I doubt I'll do well in this module as I felt that there are a lot of things to remember. Had Material Science tutorial at 2pm in a LT but I slept for 30mins :p It was pretty boring as the tutor basically went through what the lecturer has taught! I thought that tutorial should have tutorial questions right? Why did it become a mini lecture?
I looked for Prof. Wu after that to ask him some MO questions. Basically I just confirmed some Mathematics with him since the first 2 lectures on "Advanced Organic Chemistry" is on MO and he talked quite a bit of Mathematics in it. We had a short chat after that and he asked me who I am working for before I came. I told him Prof. Lai YH and he said he knew him a few years back in Tokyo; he knew Prof. Xu GQ too. Well it felt quite good that profs. overseas know your profs. in NUS as it kinda show that they are pretty internationally recognized in their field. He continued telling me about some of his research and I realized that he does Pauson-Khand as well. Hmm then I told him about Zhijie doing it and we discussed quite a bit. Before I left, he said something like "I'm sure you have no problem in this course". I was like o_O Huh? I came to ask you some basic Math and you came up with this conclusion? Well I didn't say that of course; I am looking forward to learn more things from him; I'll read more as well so that I can ask him more questions. :p
At night, Frankie brought us to KTV as Daniel expressed his interest in singing on Monday. I was eating the buffet dinner most of the time as I can't sing. Daniel and Frankie can really sing and so they were singing most of the time throughout the 3 hours. I didn't exactly enjoy myself though but anyway it's only once as I won't be joining them again in the future.
Hmm not sure what I'm gonna do today. Felt quite bored; I'll probably head for town or stay in hostel to do my readings. One thing for sure is that I'll spend at least 1 day to do my reading this weekend (either today or tomorrow, though I prefer tomorrow). I need to read more as I've gotta plan for my honours year project and also for the courses over here. I don't wanna let my friends in Singapore and NUS down. Ahh people here seem to have high expectation of me as well and they seems to be quick to judge me as a good chemistry student. o_O
Yesterday, I had "Biochemistry of Diseases" in the morning and we learnt the causes and symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease. Hmm pretty interesting but I doubt I'll do well in this module as I felt that there are a lot of things to remember. Had Material Science tutorial at 2pm in a LT but I slept for 30mins :p It was pretty boring as the tutor basically went through what the lecturer has taught! I thought that tutorial should have tutorial questions right? Why did it become a mini lecture?
I looked for Prof. Wu after that to ask him some MO questions. Basically I just confirmed some Mathematics with him since the first 2 lectures on "Advanced Organic Chemistry" is on MO and he talked quite a bit of Mathematics in it. We had a short chat after that and he asked me who I am working for before I came. I told him Prof. Lai YH and he said he knew him a few years back in Tokyo; he knew Prof. Xu GQ too. Well it felt quite good that profs. overseas know your profs. in NUS as it kinda show that they are pretty internationally recognized in their field. He continued telling me about some of his research and I realized that he does Pauson-Khand as well. Hmm then I told him about Zhijie doing it and we discussed quite a bit. Before I left, he said something like "I'm sure you have no problem in this course". I was like o_O Huh? I came to ask you some basic Math and you came up with this conclusion? Well I didn't say that of course; I am looking forward to learn more things from him; I'll read more as well so that I can ask him more questions. :p
At night, Frankie brought us to KTV as Daniel expressed his interest in singing on Monday. I was eating the buffet dinner most of the time as I can't sing. Daniel and Frankie can really sing and so they were singing most of the time throughout the 3 hours. I didn't exactly enjoy myself though but anyway it's only once as I won't be joining them again in the future.
Hmm not sure what I'm gonna do today. Felt quite bored; I'll probably head for town or stay in hostel to do my readings. One thing for sure is that I'll spend at least 1 day to do my reading this weekend (either today or tomorrow, though I prefer tomorrow). I need to read more as I've gotta plan for my honours year project and also for the courses over here. I don't wanna let my friends in Singapore and NUS down. Ahh people here seem to have high expectation of me as well and they seems to be quick to judge me as a good chemistry student. o_O
posted by CS at
11:31 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home