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Another week has passed. Very very quickly, as usual. And so I’m entering week 11 in NUS’ academic calendar.. merely about a month away from exams. A lot of people here has entered their busiest period, with project, presentations, final reports, etc deadlines approaching at lightning speed. As for me, my commitment in NUSHO is still pressing me hard even though it’s already late in the semester (and I’d expect the commitment to at least decrease a bit), though so far my academic workload is still manageable.

Progress

I haven’t done anything for my CS2103 and CS2102 project this week, after being quite enthusiastic and pushy about them last week. This week, I concentrated mostly on catching up and revising on my other modules, along with meeting with groupmates to discuss LAC2201 project.

Productivity

I’ve tried to be as productive as possible this week, but now, looking back, I can’t really recall what I’d done this week, and thus, I feel kind of guilty. The kind of guilt that you feel when you don’t make best use of your time. But it may be (and hopefully) just because I didn’t focus on remembering them (hmm why should I, anyway?).

Regret(s), Hope(s)

I’m also feeling bad for my performance in LAC2201 (Chinese 2) module so far. I’ve done well in the character quizzes, I believe, but I sucked in the mid-term test and the (supposedly graded) conversation homework. And it was not because it was that hard. Not at all. It was because I simply, but regrettably, performed badly. I don’t know why I performed that badly. Made some really silly mistakes… arrh… I hope it’s not too late to make up for it in the final exam. Otherwise I may end up S/U-ing this module and not taking Chinese 3 next sem.. but I really wish I won’t need to do this..

Anyway, I’ve been kind of slacking the whole day. Well perhaps not really, since I attended CFA’s Production Management Workshop during the day, but still, I didn’t do any other productive tasks today. Feel guilty for this too but I really don’t feel like working today - needed some rest.

Alright, I guess I should just call it a day and have a good sleep now. I need to do lots of things tomorrow to make up for my zero-productivity level today.

Oh yea, I’m having an interview for SEP (Student Exchange Programme) on Thursday next week. I’m not setting high hopes for this since I applied to competitive universities and even more. On the bright side, that means I have no burden, nothing to lose. Hopefully everything will turn out well.

I’ve been thinking of once again putting some effort to write things into this blog. Hopefully writing here can help me be more organized (since I plan to write summaries of what I do everyday.. or at least quite often), and hopefully the thoughts I at times have during my idle times in the bus don’t just go into thin air as they usually do.

So… today’s summary:

1. Set up Subversion repository in my Dreamhost account for my CS2103 project. Didn’t realize they actually have this feature until very recently -,-
2. Installed TortoiseSVN to go with the repository, set everything up, created the first few revisions of the code (for my part of course).
3. Tried to set up PHP 4 instead of the default PHP 5 in a subdomain I just created in Dreamhost. Spent a lot of time on this because some links in the installscript file given in Dreamhost’s wiki are broken. And I didn’t realize that those links are accessed many times in the installscript. Gah. Another thing, the script set up some common PHP libraries too and this setting up takes a loooong time! Well of course I didn’t just stare at the console and wasted all my time waiting, but still…Erm, what’s more, after spending too much time on this, I decided to go with PHP 5 anyway. My initial reason of wanting to use PHP 4 was because I heard that PHP 5 doesn’t work that well with MySQL. Too bad I didn’t spend reasonable time to research more on this to confirm the fact. After researching a bit, I found out that PHP 5 does just alright with MySQL. As in there’s no major problem. Oh well. At least I learnt some things in the process.
4. Didn’t manage to focus again in CS2100 lecture. It was a short 1-hour lecture but I slept for like 10 minutes at least.

For tomorrow:

1. Got LAC2201 (Chinese 2) midterm test! I’m so not in the mood to study for this. For, like, yet another midterm. But uh, ganbatte!
2. EE2009 lecture. No sleeping!!! Full concentration required!!!
3. Should study for my 2nd attempt at EE2009 e-test. Still got several weeks to go but time passes really fast especially with some projects at hand like this. So yeah should start studying.
4. Code for my CS2103 project.
5. Review CS2100 and write the report for assignment 2.
6. Take some money from the ATM… gosh, judging from the money I have in my pocket, I’m so poor right now… can only buy lunch and that’s it +_+
7. Start nagging my groupmates (and myself) for CS2102 project.. should really start working on this too!