Sunday, July 05, 2009
|| Random update.
Ha! I have been running to the computers in airport MacDonald for the entire night just to sound the trumpet for Mousehunt, and I didn't catch a single freaking mouse the whole freaking night.
I really really love the airport. It's a luxury mugging spot which make mugging seems classier than it is. Where the hell in Singapore can you find a place that is quiet, classy, spacious, has superb air-conditioning and a full range of shops and restaurants to entertain you during the breaks in between mugging?
And the toilets rock. There is practically a team of toilet-cleaners on stand-by to mop up any fluid that is spilled onto the floor.
OH and the urinals!! I'm gonna take a picture of it tomorrow and post it here.
12:43 AMで、風に刻む．．．
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Saturday, July 04, 2009
|| Post-blocks, pre-chem rambling
I think I have some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder because I keep freaking thinking about those careless mistakes in exam!! This is especially bad when the test is easy, like math and chem paper 3 this time.
Going to airport to mug with tse-an. He's those type that goes to airport macdonalds everyday and study 12 hours non-stop from 9am to 10pm.
Pretty unwise location to study at this point in time. Let's pray that we don't infect ourselves with H1N1.
AND I MUST REMEMBER TO BRING DATA BOOKLET FOR CHEM. Because seriously, it sucks to be stuck outside revising for chem without the freaking data booklet.
OH and calculator too.
2:10 PMで、風に刻む．．．
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
|| Biology exam
It seems that everyone is panicking for bio. I've just printed out the notes I've made for the JC1 topics ages ago and flipping through it.
I'm ultra-sleepy today, probably because the economics exam is too mentally draining, and that we normally dedicate 2/3 of our total metabolic resources to the functioning of the brain. During exam I could have sworn I overclocked mine to work over 100% efficiency. HA.
Okay I know I'm not entitled to say that I'm freaking out. I'm never entitled to say such a thing without people cringing at my hypocrisy, because I know there are always people out there who are panicking more than me, so what gives me the right to whine?
This is just freaking unfair. When I'm stressed out, I can't even talk to people about it, because maybe they are in worse stress than me and I can supposedly just take stress like nobody's business.
Okay venting done. Back to cramming information.
10:05 PMで、風に刻む．．．
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
|| Comparative Advantage
10 points for guessing what this is.
Well, this is:
Increasing opportunity cost.
Factor immobility.
Transport cost.
THE LIMITATION OF THE LAW OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE!!
Figure out why because there is a story behind it.
Okay I'm desperate now.
11:56 PMで、風に刻む．．．
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
|| Optical illusion
Oh my god I came upon this optical illusion through some Facebook newslink from a friend, and I thought that it is very cool!! Some of you may have already seen this before:
How many colors do you see? Blue, pink and green? Nope, because the blue and the green rays are of the same color. The only difference is that the orange stripes go through the 'green' one, while the magenta stripes go through the 'blue' one. So by comparing between the two colors our brains perceive them as being different color.
The obvious conclusion is that our perception is subjective.
The other more pessimistic conclusion is that we do not have control over ourselves. I cannot will myself into seeing the green and blue as the same color even if I know that they are supposed to be of the same color.
SIGH.
8:50 PMで、風に刻む．．．
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|| Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics. Checked.
11:33 AMで、風に刻む．．．
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
|| Memory trick
I've discovered a cool way to memorize the entire lecture note, and wonder if this works for anyone else.
It's really simple. Just open your lecture note, stare at the page, and try to memorize the
overall look of the page — the indentations of paragraph, the highlight colors and positions, the diagrams.
DO NOT pay attention to the words. Imagine yourself to be a humanoid scanner.
Stare at it for 10 seconds, and then flip — and in your mind's eyes imagine the page flipping as well. You might be thinking "how the hell can I memorize this", but ignore this nagging feeling, and just continue.
Rinse and repeat.
When you are done, try flipping through the entire note in your mind again, recalling the overall look of the pages. Then flip the imaginary notes in reverse order. I call this the Flipping Rehearsal.
Chances are that you can recall at least some portions of it, but yes you are getting there, in less than 5 minute. Do that a few times and the lecture note will be literally in your mind!!
If you have trouble, try to spread out your notes and memorize 2 pages at a time. Continue SEVEN times. Stop and do the Flipping Rehearsal. Okay now forget about what you have memorized up to now, and repeat for the next seven page pairs starting with a new reference point.
This is based on my research that our memory works best in chunks of seven. (Wiki up George A. Miller, and his theory of memory chunking.)
It has AMAZING effect for me, because it's as though I have a carbon copy of the notes in my mind, and I can simply "zoom" in to the individual paragraphs, and sometimes even WORDS!! I can then lie down there, touch the imaginary lecture note with my imaginary hands, scripple imaginary notes all over it and draw imaginary wiggling all over the pages.
Pretty abstract way for me to memorize stuff, but hey it's hella fun!!
What I am doing is to condense an entire topic into a series of 30 discrete images, instead of hundreds of decontextualized words and concepts. I can even flip the entire lecture note in reverse once I have imprinted this sequence of images into my memory!!
The power of visual memory. Works better than mind-maps in my opinion. Ha.
Or maybe it's just me...
8:40 PMで、風に刻む．．．
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
|| Stupid finance
I'm posting in the wee hours of the night again. This reminds me of some stupid Facebook quiz I took recently that asked me at which time of the stupid day do I feel the most alive, and expectedly I thought it is the night. I think I really am biologically, mentally and physically a night person.
So I did end up reading a bit about finance and economics for that stupid economics competition on the coming Tuesday (oh I wrote Monday in my previous post, damn). There are stupid stuffs like the difference between the Supplementary Retirement Scheme and CPF Investment Scheme; the different return-risk tradeoffs between securities, futures, shares, bonds, stocks, unit trust; the difference between current account and savings account and fixed deposit; and what is revolving credit facility and installment credit facility.
It's quite mind-boggling, but yes I'm trying to cramp these information down on top of the very stupid block test coming up soon. Everything is just plain stupidity now seriously.
Finance is stupid. Economics is stupid. It is just pointless wealth creation that adds no value to life other than hedonistic pleasure. How can a person live with himself when he sits around whole day doing nothing but calculating shares dividend and capital appreciation, and finding out how many years he would take to double his bank savings given a certain interest rate? There are even guides out there teaching people how to compute all these statistics and I'm reading these stupid things for a stupid competition.
But yes since we need our robust finance system to support the economy and provide for other more productive stuffs like healthcare and education, we need a huge army of money-face to do the dirty job. What's more they are happy just sitting around and making money; dogs are happy chasing bones too. I'm definitely not going to work in the finance sector (not that I have the business-savvy mind anyway, because that is reserved for evil and opportunistic people who know how to exploit and find loopholes in the system. Bless them). Who cares if financial consultants who coach people how to make wealth for themselves just sit around earning 10 times more and start earning 10 years earlier than doctors who actually save lives. The world isn't fair anyway.
Okay I shall end my stupid day here and go sleep.
2:12 AMで、風に刻む．．．
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