Well, as it goes, every semester there is this mad bidding period on CORS that we have to endure through. But at least this time I got all the mods I want again! And overall for lower than the expected amount of points. But then again the bidding in my faculty this sem seems abit bonkers, totally out of expectations. Its a good thing I still have a healthy balance of points to continue the battle in future sems.

I should also be relieved that there is no classes I am sitting in alone, though hopefully project teams formation will be free and easy too. I think I have to work extra hard this sem. Hopefully a couple of motivations from all around will help to push me towards my goal. Felt that I had let myself down over the recent past few semesters when I could have done much better.

Jiayou everyone as a new semester dawns upon us.

Yosh! It is the start of another uni semester for me. I need to rediscover the passion and drive before its too late. Unfortunately, most of the modules I’m taking this sem still falls into the necessity category, so here’s hoping I will end up with respectable grades in those. As for what I’m doing this sem, here is da list.

ACC2002 Managerial Accounting
BSP2005 Asia Pacific Business and Society
DSC3203 Service Operations Management
ES2002 Business Communication
ST2131 Probability

This semester had more of a varied experience for me. Starting with ACC2002, I really dread it because most peers had already completed the course and not many familiar faces are to be expected in the class, even more so for tutorials. Being a rather dry subject, this doesn’t bode well at all… boredom awaits.

BSP2005 saw me having a Bangladeshi lecturer. Hey… he is quite fashionable, and younger than I would expect. The shock came when we knew he watched 天龙八部. Now that is refreshing. He comes across as a cool friendly person (though my initial impression was pretty bad when he uploaded a secured pdf with black background for lecture slides).

DSC3203 is my first step into my first specialization. And it is my first nus module being conducted as a sectional class. 3 hours is really really painful, but there are interesting stuffs and insights to be learnt. One of the lecturers tried hard to be less boring, but well, we will see. And he also insisted he has a very mild temper, and we can try punching him to find out! WTF lolz… Something different is that this is supposed to be kind of an open environment (but not many people speaking up yet).

ES2002 is the one bugging me the most now. Simply because the workload appears to be supremely heavy. No doubting the potential benefits it can provide in the future, but I’ve heard stories about the devotion and spiritual willpower required to emerge victorious in a sustained war against the throngs of work. Well well, the class size so far is a puny 14, hopefully to increase.

Finally the wildcard, ST2131. Why am I even taking this? A struggle for grades against supposedly better peers from certain nations. For the sake of my minor pursuit, I endure. And who is to say I cannot excel here? I have been laying pretty dormant haven’t I? But I’m not sure I will find the will to start my engine, just yet. Oh on a side note, we have a Greek lecturer teaching this mod in nus for the first time. Hoorah. Funny at times, but it takes a great deal of effort to deal with that accent.

Tralala… I am supposed to start working hard today, but… but… you all know what happened, heh.

Finished the bulk of my midterms for this sem, and in fact got back those results. Terrible!!! Ridiculous for me. All round lower expectations. Just what is happening? Sleeping about 6 hours on avg pre-exam is just NOT ENOUGH. The fact that I wasn’t exactly revising for them is clearly a determining factor too… but having a multitude of project deadlines to spar with, (+ my usual dilly-dallying on games and dramas) meant that there wasn’t enough time anyway! hah poor excuses? Just finished a gruelling presentation today too, one that I spent so much time on in 2.5 days that i’m had chronic sleep deficiency. Not good… There is still a midterm waiting for me come friday. And then weekly presentations await… cool? No… Notice I’m talking incoherently now and there isn’t any paragraphing breaks. Hah… Wall of text indeed.

while (!asleep) self-inflicted damage ++;

Ok… this is crap. Had my first midterm test for this semester just 2 days ago. Conclusion: I am deeply disappointed with myself. Thats what happen when you put next to minimal efforts into revision and still daydream during lessons. Morale is super duper low. Hopefully it can be salvaged 2mr, but TWO back-to-back midterms await me 2mr… So its still crappy anyway.