Sunday, November 20, 2011

Speaking of Swotvac,

You know that week, and yes I only got one week, when you're supposed to be studying right before exams and not doing procrastination or anything interesting? Well often this results in extreme boredom and much physical upsizing, well I got bored of even attempting to attempt at making some semblance of an effort in hiding my complete apathy for exams. So here is a selection of my achievements during the whole exam preparation period; I hope you find them as amusing as I did when actually doing them:

  • Evolved Larvitar into Tyrannitar (I EV trained him too!)
  • Logged 12 hours of Battlefield 3, with OJ's help
  • Spent an entire day trying to take over Japan in Shogun, failing then proceeding to uninstall the game from my computer. Twice.
  • Watched many hours of people playing games on youtube in anticipation of all the free time I was going to have after exams.
  • Marathon'd a 12 episode anime series in one day.
  • On the morning of macro, woke up at 6am to see OJ off at the airport.

Ok technically that last one isn't in swotvac because Macro was my second exam, but what the hell I didn't do much study during exam period anyway. Personally while I would not try doing what I did again, I do encourage you to try not studying for exams one semester. It makes the panic experienced when sitting down at your exam, when you realize you actually don't know anything and should have been cramming instead of doing-things-you-can-brag-about-on-your-blog, much more memorable.

Just to prove that I'm not the only one trying this strategy:

"What I don't understand is...how do people manage to go to every class they have?"-Helene

Though I undoubtly still hold more achievements thanks to the fact that I don't actually need to know much about anything for commerce. Now that exams are over there seems to be no urgency required in my daily procrastinations which has seen a marked decrease in my procrastination efficiency. It takes alot more time to decide just how I should waste the day away. Thankfully though there are breaks to in staying in front of my monitor for 18 hours at a time (Happy birthday Wensi! The cake was good!).

Too much writing is probably another good indicator that I have too little to do. I better go fixed that.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

This post

Pownsts. I just got that as one of those 'please type this to verify that you're not a nublet' kind of things and I think this word is pretty cool. I mean it's a portmanteau of Post and owns, so, ownage post, thus pownst. From henceforce I declare all good post to be pownsts.

Anyway to business: Exam time. Don't know if it's my lazyness, the sweatyness ('Sweatvac' - Joan), OJ rocking up at my place to play battlefield or some combination of whatever thereof, but I just can't seem to get into the panic mindset. Because I'm not capable of attempting to study without attempting to catch Pokemon unless its the eleventh hour. Did you guys know that Google's auto correct dictionary thinks Pokemon is a legit word? Actually that's not that much of a surprise considering that it can Do a barrel roll. (HTML 5 required)

So ok, now there's less than 24 hour to my next exam and i'm officially panicking, thus I will cut this short and present to you:
Hungy:"Have you seen everybody hates Chris?"
Annie:"You mean like everyone at our lunch table?"

Poor Man-Hin. Anyway time to get studying and apologies to Yunghan for being worse than him.


Wednesday, November 2, 2011

It's time

To bring out the defibrillator pads and resuscitate this dying blog once again: firstly because we're in the middle of exam time, aka WOTVAC, and secondly because I have my paddles once again since my pre-order on battlefield 3 came in the mail today, which means -50 hours lost in exam preparation time. Both of these add up to more time spent procrastinating, either shooting things or reviving things including this blog.

Anyway I just wanna share a little bit of what my life's been like since the last update. Disclaimer: the following conversation really did happen at the specified times, though has been cleaned up for everyone's enjoyment. Basic knowledge of calculus is still recommended to understanding the whole exchange.

Hungy (3:43 AM):"Hey man, still up?
Kevin (3:45 AM):"lol yeah. Vector calculus time?
Hungy (3:47 AM):"But of course, how's it going? Is q1 even doable.."
Kevin (3:47 AM):"You're meant to use green's theorem for the whole thing. I got -64/ 3 (b^3 - a^3)"
...
Hungy(4:06 AM):"hmm...i got 4/3 (b^3-a^3)"
Kevin(4:07 AM):"hm..."
...
Hungy(4:17 AM):"Maybe this was a bad idea, leaving it till now."
Kevin(4:17 AM):"Lawl."
...
Hungy (4:23 AM):"but the circle is a right annulus right..."
Kevin (4:23 AM):"The Jacobian is r either way."
Hungy (4:23 AM):"r is a/b though, so shouldn't matter."Kevin (4:24 AM):"Hm it is too lol."
Hungy (4:24 AM):"Man, we are so beached. And battlefield comes out today.."
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Kevin (4:30 AM):"I just get 8 (b-a) now lol."
Hungy (4:31 AM):"What's your actual integral? I got (2rcos + 4r^3sin^3)r"
Kevin (4:32 AM):"Same."
Hungy (4:33 AM):"Ahaha massive fail."
...
Hungy (4:43 AM):"Wait how can you get only sine^3 in the 2nd term
Kevin (4:44 AM):"Integrate (2rcost+ 4r^3sin^3 t) right at the start..."
Hungy (4:45 AM):"Yeah...and if oyu integrate that..."
Kevin (4:45 AM):"Oh shit. flail."
Hungy (4:45 AM):...Kevin what are you doooiinnnnnggggg!"
Kevin (4:45 AM):"I diffed." <-This is going in for quote of the year nominations.

Yeah the assignment was due 11am the same day. And yes there were two questions.

So there you have it: maths at 5am. I do think this needs to be a blog feature at some stage provided I can be bothered actually doing any maths. In other news I finally quit my job, after months of pleading by my boss to keep working and months of me subtly hinting at the fact that I need a raise. In the meantime, not much has happened, but should hopefully have more time to...waste on other things. Uni and exams will have to wait.

This captures my attitude to swotvac study pretty well:
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Don't really have an excuse for being awol this time, but you have been warned: you are now being quoted!