30 / 4/ 2009

Time: 2:18 pm

In effective communication's class.

Day seems too quiet, going by very fast.

Sidenote: X-men origins review is

Wolverine and Sabertooth are bros.

Deadpool was killed off at the end,

Cyclops was a 10 year old kid ,

Gambit was cool though he was too underused and not much backstory.

Overall i give it 2 and a half stars out of 5.

Tales of the World 2 on PSP is quite fun, but too many characters and too long for a storyline but overall gameplay is the same.

Mainnotes: Effective comm.....Your relevance to the topic is important in making a speech.....Obviously!!!!

2 more minutes to blog.

29/4/2009

Today, i did a soso presentation of Tutorial 1 with my group.
Classmates ask me for my Blog URL but im adamant to give it to them because of my own reasons.
Time as i write this is 11:21 am, going to go get my Student card at 2 to 4 pm during the make up class for Micro economics.
Feels like the class and i are a distant topic. Havent really cared much due to important social life OUTSIDE of school.

Now its a PoM Lecture , writing this IN the Theatre itself.

4 Important functions of Management
Planning, Organising, Controlling and Leading

2 important names to remember
Henry Minztberg and Robert Katz.

good thing i understand all of this.

Sidenote: First ICA test for INTWEB is next Tuesday, Must be on time!

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SBM Princpal: Mr Chan li bun. NOT Chanmalichan!

Learning is easy for me these days. Must be because of my development in focus : )

IN CLASS LOG

Back inside the BORING MICRO ECONOMICS LECTURER'S CLASS

Time: 11:55AM

Ok seriously if there wasnt wifi in this room i would have just Ask to go to the toilet and hide inside for 2 fricking HOURS!!!!!

am at the back of the class, typing this and feeling the immense pressure of BOREDOM Creeping up.

Classmates on MSN were helping in linking blogs to me but i dont link back due to the fact that im a very SOCIAL=nono boy.

Bonding with the class has been very neutral, limited to chatting on MSN.

tIME: 1200 noon, 1 Hours MORE!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I DONT CARE ABOUT CLASS PARTICIPATION, I GUESS ITS THE LECTURERS WHO SHOULD ACTUALLY RETURN BACK TO CREATIVE LAND, i mean seriously did they suffer in their poly days that they signed up to be lecturers to return the FAVOUR to the newer Generations.

Write

Finished my homework except for statistics, Time now is 9:40 AM and am at the next class that starts at 10:10AM .
Feeling very tired but as i type it seems to go away.
Day is starting so i need to FOCUS!!!!

hOMEWORK

Doing homework and typing on this blog can be very dangerous good thing im smart and a fast learner, i put of my homework since last week so i guess the lesson today kids is NOT to put of anything from your poly lecturers or else itll come back to say hi!

Homework to do list: AFA tutorial 1
Micro economics tutorial 1 [ done]
Principle of management tutorial 1
Statistics tutorial 1.

Post of 27/4/2009

Second week has begun and im doing my homework for tomorrow, i shouldnt be typing this but since i have time i think its fine to say that my classmates are somehwt so-so, understanding would be still hard as the tension is still there , had an ok Weekend , did my workout but feel that burpees need more work.

NYP Log# 4

Time when writing: 11:01 am

In Principle of Management , Lecturer hasnt come yet.
Surrounded and in the 2nd row from the front, possibly there are NOSY people behing or next to me but i dont really care.

Trying to learn how to get on my wireless as i have been typing alot on Microsoft Word.

Wireless: Still down for me : [

Lecturer arrives at 11:12am

Lecturer Name: Spoke to fast didnt catch it, Probably Nervous.

Note:1 jun 2009 ICA test [Written] 45 Min test : 10 % then 2 weeks ‘Break’.

ICA 2 is interviewing Managers , Real life ones and in groups.

OUR Principle of Management Textbook is $40!!! Hmmm it should be worth it judging by the price:

Senario:
Me: 0.0 : 40 DOLLARS!!!!!
[ Buys book]

Me: Wow!! Its can survive a 10 foot Fall! And it can be used as Emergency Toilet paper!!! Such Power!!!

10 Mins later
Me: Look!! Look! It can float on wate.. oh, it drowned!

Now lets see what we can get with 40 dollars:

Buy Ice kacang: 1.20

Sleep : $0.00

Good thing i already read the notes before this lecture thats why i can simply type as she is busy talking about why one should study management.

Movie: 8 to 9 dollars.

I mean come on !! 40 dollars!!>?
You can live for a day with $40,this book costs 40 will be with me for the next 3 years!

Time now : 1:09 pm
After the lecture, i when with some classmates to the CCA open house of NYP. Alot of flashy Clubs, i decided not to rejoin Chess or Boys Brigade but a new one. But which?

I joined the INTERNET CLUB, i figured that since im the module rep for INTWEB and since i like the Internet soooo much i may as well join a club based on it, i also signup for a free gym membership isnt that cool!!!?
We just study INTWEB how to create a blog and webpage,Neat stuff.
Now im at Koufu with some of my classmates eating .

After typing this i have to go see Mr Ivan Tan to help fix my currently inaccessible wireless :<

Earlier on , a classmate commented that i Looked fierce yesterday? Hmmmm.

So a breakdown on the clubs in NYP

Foreign Bodies: The dance group that is very popular in the campus.


Martial Arts-Takwondo, Wushu,Akido,Silat,kendo,peiquandao and judo: A wide range of styles to choose from, Being a martial artist in the past still haunts me as i remember the patterns and sequences a person had to do in wushu and the sometimes painful throws one did in throw arts of akido and judo.


NYP Sprint Kayak: A very interesting CCA, very strenous too.I mean they have a whole gym for the CCA!!! Thats extreme!!! I personally find the team’s motivation to be good!!

Time when typing this:1:47 pm

Location: LVL 5 SBM Blk D room 7

Im waiting for the help desk to help with my wireless connection, a long queue bars my entry to the help desk.

Log#3

Time when writing : 10:24 am

In the Koufu before lunch crowd comes in eating ice kacang [ blended ice with alots of colouring]

Costs $ 1.20 quite cheap, best i ever had was $0.90 in some hawer centre though.

Eating as i type this. Quite a bad idea but its for log’s sake.
Somehow, Eating and Typing while next to your classmates gives you a good feeling.

After finishing my Ice Kacang , going for the Next class on Principle of Management.

Log# 2

Time:0912 am

A new class. Accounting For Assets. [AFA]

Introductions,definitions....the same.

However whats good is that im typing this log IN class,The Thrill!
OF typing and NOT getting too loud, this feeling and thrill.

Still havent got my wireless access, writing these logs on Microsoft word and then copying it onto blog. Classmates are laughing at something on their coms and looking at each other, possibly MSN.

Lecturer hasn't told us her name, seems quite acknowledgeable to her students typing on Laptops while her lecture is going on.
Overall , lecturer seems un-organized but it is still the First lesson.
New classmate....Name is johnny , just came into class,class acknowledges him.

Interesting to note that Girls in my class seem to like brooding over questions , johnny didnt come for orientation and the first 2 days, some of my classmates [ girls of course] were wondering who johnny was, being guys we really paid little attention to it i guess.

Notes on NYP: A crowded enviroment, i learned that Koufu was a very crowded food court when in Lunchtime.

We learn at 0935am in class that ‘Johnny’ was actually Hanan or Annan, i really dont know the name but its somewhere along those lines.

Class made a ruckus when he entered they thought he was johnny when he was actually trying to say he was ‘ JOINING’ the module and sounded like ‘JOHNNY’. Poor guy .. . to get stunned but my complex class. : (

Thoughts: Maybe there IS no Johnny.

NYP log # 1

Reason for starting this blog is to chronicle the next 3 years of my life on the Nanyang polytechnic campus. Hopefully this log can help newer generations should it be found.
Date: 22/4/2009

Time when writing:08:20 am
Im in the KOUFU, a canteen area in NYP , im in The school of Business Management and also in Business management.

So far this is Day 3 of my Nyp life and i still havent bonded too well with my classmates.

Classes end at 1350 for my Wednesdays however i plan to check the CCA logs to find my next CCA.

In my Secondary school life i was in Chess and Boy’s Brigade, should i keep faith to those CCAs or try something new? These were the questions plaguing my mind as i type this. Day 1 and 2 of my nyp life was very much expected, Lectures, tutorials and my classmates who apperantly have added me on MSN.

Today i must inquire about the internet club and workout CCA if possible, i honestly just call it workout CCA out of my person hobby of building muscle in the gym.

Recap from yesterday, i learned about the Course management system that NYP set up to keep student progress in check , could be a chore to log in constantly and keep track.

Classmate socialization: Being from an all boys school [ ACS [ Barker road] ] i never got well with people of the opposite gender, girls.
What i dont get about the girls in NYP is that they whine to the extent of me mentally breaking out in despair, doesnt help when the girls in my class outnumber the boys : (

So far ive only been introduced to 4 lectures :
Ms Karen chia,Mrs Geok Hoon, Mr ivan Tan and some guy who the entire class came late for , Ill probably call him ‘Quickie’ due to his fast slide show scrolling skills.

Current homework is a cross word puzzle set by Mr Tan for INTWEB which means Internet and Web.

Recap on lessons: Due to being the first week, tutorials and lectures were centered on introductions and definitions of the module we were studying, personally i prefer short intros and to get straight to lesson with a short definition.

I can get along with all the guys in my class, havent socialized that much with the girls though.

What im glad is that my ACS[Barker] schoolmate and last years classmate Jun ping is here.

But then again it is inevitable that i have to find new friends.
Lecturer assessment: I noted that NYP has a number of Part time lecturers most of whom are very friendly. I Noted that Mrs Geok Hoon seems to be perceptive but what puzzled me most about her was in yesterday’s intro ‘game’.

We were told to answer on the board our opinions on certain questions, i think there were around 7 questions.
I answered 3 to 4 questions, 1 i put in effort the others were done at an anyhow arrangement.
What is Micro economics to you?
Micro economics is the understanding of the decisions made that affect smaller parts of the economy and their costs and consequences.
The above answer was obviously from the top of my head.
That answer was highlighted out as expected, the other answers obviously wasnt, but 1 question:
What do you like about NYP
My answer: Anything i like.
Obviously my classmates can guess it was my answer due to poor handwriting.
Instead of thinking it to be an answer she thought it as a question....
Hmmm.

Class is starting.