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Day 9

08:00 My first day in TA14. Got to rush to computer lab 1 where is right beside the lost and found counter. Size of TA14 is similar with TA16, with total of 25 students. Well, based on normal analysis, I should see 27 students instead of 25. I switched to positive analysis, making a conclusion that those 2 students most probably had dropped out. Back to the main stream, my tutorial class early in the morning is not appetizing, it is rather boring. Desktop, taskbar, start menu, recycle bin, my computer, shortcut and how to get system information. All basic stuff included, interesting stuff excluded. *Sighs* I realized that the computers in the lab are control by a main server. It could switch on by itself without pressing the on button and restart by itself. Hmm... I am wondering what I can do to break the connection <insert evil laugher here>. So, today’s practical lesson is creating shortcut, dump it to the recycle bin, empty it and run system information. Done!

10:00 After an hour break, I got to continue computer studies again. This time is with a group of 6 classes. I thought the lecturer finally going to teach us something interesting by showing a motherboard in her first slide. Unfortunately, the slide is just a “preview”. *Sighs* Instead she throw us 2 questions, 1. What are the differences between hardware and software? 2. Describe the flow of information. Number one is no problem, but the second one, having trouble to convert all the technical details in layman words, I give a situation and explain. Both of my neighbors are busying copying information from the textbook since it is only an exercise. I just afraid that my answer can be wrong because I added RAM while others do not. Oh well, it is an exercise, let lecturer decide my answer’s fate.

13:00 Maths. Today I learn about normal logarithm and natural logarithm. Just found out the “ln” button on the scientific calculator is not “In” but letter “L” + “N” small capitals.

15:00 Maths tutorial. Nothing much to elaborate here.

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Day 10

15:30 Nothing much occurred today. Just a short chat with Alvin and inform my English lecturer that I’m no longer in TA16 but TA14.

Extra: Computer gone corrupted. NTLDR is not found. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete to restart.

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Day 11

10:00 Maths lecture again. Today‘s lesson is much interesting. Exponential growth and exponential decay. Instead slowly calculate each year’s percentage of growth or decay; we replace them with a formula. I was blurish at first, after doing some practical exercises, I understand more.

12:38 Bounce into Sze Jin and his friend, Victor after I finished selling economy notes. Used this opportunity to know him more rather than just name and tutorial class. After a short chat, I realized that I have not taken my breakfast due to wake up late reason. Thank goodness there is someone selling donuts there and he is desperately selling the last one. Bought it and consume it. <Just imaging a Doraemon eating his donut> Yup, that’s the way I eat when I am over hungry.

13:07 When to the reading room with these 2 guys because Victor (me too) wants finish up his assignment (by the way Victor is a year older than me, but in the same stream as me just different tutorial class.) 15 minutes later, I was interrupted by a phone call. It is my economy lecturer. Too bad she is using the phone line instead of hand phone; I barely could hear what she is talking. Well she summoned me to see her for more and new economy notes required to sell to that bunch of classes. Feel stress, burden goes up. Thus stress is a linear function of burden. Nice.

Extra: Computer problem myth solved. Simple solution. Reset the primary and secondary drive settings in BIOS. Case closed.

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Day 12

09:30 Right after I helped Wei Hong with business terms, I rushed down to B1, searching for my tutorial room. It was public speaking and communication. Our lecturer asked every one of us to stand in front and give an impromptu speech. Quite interesting. She even realized our class is too quiet and she told us that she will scold us if we do not talk in her class, in contrary with secondary teaching method. Despite many class activities, I managed to know one of my classmates, Kian Wen and another guy (opps so sorry I forgot your name!!!! >_<) from TA02. Apparently, he needs to go back to his hometown, so he used our class as a replacement class.

11:00 Bored. The person sitting beside me does not talk with me just smiles like this ^_^. I should ask one of my friends to book me a place next time. Accounting principles in English, looks easy and manageable, but the questions are tough. Taught the person next with me since he is having difficulties with double entry and which account to use or open.

13:00 After lunch with Kevin, went on with Public Speaking & Communication lecture. An hour of lecture, then start talking! It is the most relaxing class. Time to de-stress!

17:00 An boring hour has passed. I contacted the Center For Extension Education to find out when they are collecting the fees, apparently, they send a representative over FICT without any of my knowledge!!! Sweet. I am going to clear debts with you tomorrow at PB. Met Lester Gan over there, did not have a chance to quick chat with him. Somehow I feel really stressful today. Fortunately, our accounting lecturer lightens our mood up. Wondering why Kian Wen is afraid of rain. Later on discovered that he drives a motorbike all the way from Cheras. Not an easy task with raining situation. Just before we ended our tutorial class, our lecturer gave us an IQ quiz. There are 16 small boxes joint together (4x4 grid) on the board; she asked to calculate how many squares. Time for the reader to guess as well. Lazy to spoon feed you all : P.

Day 13

12:00 2 Hours of learning coding scheme, I went up third floor to wait for my economy tutorial. I hired 3 personal assistants to assist me. <Hohohohoh> First Kian Wen, second Kar Sam (he is my first friend in UTAR) and third Sze Jin. First and second will be my tutorial helpers, well Sze Jin will be my economy assistant. Nice, my burden somehow unloaded. The economy tutorial is really fun!! The dark gloomy look of our class suddenly enlightened by him.

16:00 Nothing much except for supply and demand. Then send the laptops and LCD projectors up. Quick chat with Sze Jin. Then go home! Wee its weekends!

Expression:

One of students asked me about giving her a cheaper price for economy notes if she only takes the tutorial question. Reaction 1: Laugh hohoho and Ignore her.

Reaction 2: Say, “Over my dead body, miss” coldly.

Reaction 3: Give her a good slap. <Insert swack swack sound>

Reaction 4: Told her that is troublesome to do that.

Reaction 5: Ask, “Why not you try and take over my job and see?”

Reaction 6: Ask, “Do I know you?” <act like a weirdo>

Reaction 7: Give her a big punch. <Insert boink sound>

Reaction 8: Give her a deadly stare.

Reaction 9: Throw poisonous needles at her.

Reaction 10: Pretend to deaf and dumb, say “Huh? What did you say to me? Huh? What? Your cat had been consumed by a huge mouse? Oh, congratulations! You made yourself a new discovery!!!”

I prefer reaction 2, but de facto I did reaction 4 in a polite way. Oh gosh her reaction is like “Heer……….(*sighs*) why like this simple also cannot do”. This ungrateful reaction really got on my nerves. First, nobody is helping me to distribute these things. Second I did not apply surcharge to you. (If apply 100% surcharge then I don’t mind give you a discount). Third, if you are desperate, then DO IT YOURSELF!!! >_< Stop bothering me with details.

Resolution:

After the fund runs out, I am going to photocopy 6 copies for each class representative. Let them deal it among themselves. Reduce burden + stress. My time and effort for bring and distributing these stuff are not equivalent with this tiny money. It will cost your entire life’s fortune to balance up. :P

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