I went to the Careers Day at Auckland Uni yesterday.
(and apparently you were there Wibble? but I didn't see you)
It was good.
We saw lots of engineering stuff since I didn't really know what engineering was
it was really interesting
I'm suspicious that that's because they tried to make it crowd-pleaser though:
The chemical engineer did lots of experiments breaking stuff by putting it in liquid nitrogen, rapid heating --> rapid cooling, etc.
Software engineer guy sort of focussed on game design/SFX, and also facebook, google and designing the health system.
Civil engineering presentation talked about "where does your poo go" and the other stuff they do, and also all these crazy constructions like the bridge in France which is 240m above the ground (Sky Tower observation deck is 192m) and the 818m high building in Dubai (apparently, they kept the height secret til the end cos' they wanted to make it the tallest building in the world.)
In contrast, the mechanical engineering lecture was a video of a guy doing a mechanical engineering lecture - stuff about how wheels, engines and washing machines etc work.
(I don't think I'm a very mechanical type person. We have this book about a mammoth testing out all of these 'caveman' inventions. It gets really detailed about fulcrums and tension in springs and things.. the only reason I read it was cos' I wanted to see the mammoth. Anyway.)
We went to the afternoon medicine lecture
O_O the theatre held 570 ppl, there were two sessions, and they still had to turn people away. Competition much.
also
I went to the "learn how to read the Korean alphabet in ten minutes"
Korean is cool. So logical.
Now I just have to learn some words =]
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Fables
Recommendation! "Squids will be squids" by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
Can't remember who I told but anyway, nobody came to be read to on Tuesday
so we just spent the lunchtime waiting and reading sophisticated picutre books. This one is awesome. It's like, nonsensical adaptations of Aesop's Fables:
***
rock, paper and scissors
***
Rock, Paper and Scissors were assigned together to do the most important science project of the year.
Rock thought up the idea.
Paper researched and drew up graphs and illustrations.
Scissors was in charge of the presentation.
The idea wasn't very good, and they didn't work very hard at it, so they only got a C. All were very displeased.
"You should have presented it better," said Rock, hitting Scissors.
"You should have done more research," said Scissors, cutting Paper.
"You should have come up with a better idea," said Paper, covering Rock.
[moral: Rock, Paper and Scissors all say, "Shoot, it wasn't my fault".]
***
Straw and Match
***
It was the end of the summer holidays and Straw had nothing to do, so he decided to play with the one person he had been told never to play with.
"You wanna come and play checkers with me?"
"Okay," said Match, "I'll be red, I get to move first and for every move you make I get two."
"Never mind," said Straw, "What about ping-pong?"
"Okay," said Match, "I get the good bat, you stand over there, I get to serve first and you have to close one eye."
"Ummm.." said Straw, "Why don't we just watch some tv?"
"Okay," said Match, "I get the couch, you sit on the floor, I get the remote and we have to watch my favourite video."
"You know what?" said Straw. "I think I hear my mum calling."
[moral: Don't play with matches.]
***
Termite, Ant and Echidna
***
Termite and Ant had been best friends since they were little. They always played together and ate lunch together. Until the day that Echidna moved into the neighbourhood.
"Hi," said Echidna, "my name's Echidna. I'm from Australia."
"How exotic," said Ant.
"My family name is Tachyglossidae," said Echidna.
"Let's be best friends," said Ant.
And so Ant played with Echidna all morning and completely ignored Termite. When the time came for lunch, Ant took out his ham and cheese sandwich. Echidna slurped up a long stream of ants.
[moral: If you're going to ditch your best friend for a new one, you should know that Echidna is another name for Spiny Anteater.]
iono if you find that funny.
it's not word for word.
I find it funny though.
Calc test today was insane..
At the end, I had 6 minutes to do 3 pages..
and one of the questions was, "blah blah blah.... find d"
so I worked out that d = 1.68 cm (3sf)
and the next part of the question was sth like, "we have decided to assign d the value of 1.5cm..."
O_o
EXCUSE ME.
WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THAT WORK I JUST DID FOR YOU.
anyway,
didn't finish
another merit coming my way >.>
Can't remember who I told but anyway, nobody came to be read to on Tuesday
so we just spent the lunchtime waiting and reading sophisticated picutre books. This one is awesome. It's like, nonsensical adaptations of Aesop's Fables:
***
rock, paper and scissors
***
Rock, Paper and Scissors were assigned together to do the most important science project of the year.
Rock thought up the idea.
Paper researched and drew up graphs and illustrations.
Scissors was in charge of the presentation.
The idea wasn't very good, and they didn't work very hard at it, so they only got a C. All were very displeased.
"You should have presented it better," said Rock, hitting Scissors.
"You should have done more research," said Scissors, cutting Paper.
"You should have come up with a better idea," said Paper, covering Rock.
[moral: Rock, Paper and Scissors all say, "Shoot, it wasn't my fault".]
***
Straw and Match
***
It was the end of the summer holidays and Straw had nothing to do, so he decided to play with the one person he had been told never to play with.
"You wanna come and play checkers with me?"
"Okay," said Match, "I'll be red, I get to move first and for every move you make I get two."
"Never mind," said Straw, "What about ping-pong?"
"Okay," said Match, "I get the good bat, you stand over there, I get to serve first and you have to close one eye."
"Ummm.." said Straw, "Why don't we just watch some tv?"
"Okay," said Match, "I get the couch, you sit on the floor, I get the remote and we have to watch my favourite video."
"You know what?" said Straw. "I think I hear my mum calling."
[moral: Don't play with matches.]
***
Termite, Ant and Echidna
***
Termite and Ant had been best friends since they were little. They always played together and ate lunch together. Until the day that Echidna moved into the neighbourhood.
"Hi," said Echidna, "my name's Echidna. I'm from Australia."
"How exotic," said Ant.
"My family name is Tachyglossidae," said Echidna.
"Let's be best friends," said Ant.
And so Ant played with Echidna all morning and completely ignored Termite. When the time came for lunch, Ant took out his ham and cheese sandwich. Echidna slurped up a long stream of ants.
[moral: If you're going to ditch your best friend for a new one, you should know that Echidna is another name for Spiny Anteater.]
iono if you find that funny.
it's not word for word.
I find it funny though.
Calc test today was insane..
At the end, I had 6 minutes to do 3 pages..
and one of the questions was, "blah blah blah.... find d"
so I worked out that d = 1.68 cm (3sf)
and the next part of the question was sth like, "we have decided to assign d the value of 1.5cm..."
O_o
EXCUSE ME.
WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THAT WORK I JUST DID FOR YOU.
anyway,
didn't finish
another merit coming my way >.>
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Photo Opportunity~
Grammar ball today
and my mum, dad and I went along with my brother to the pre-ball that he was invited to, cos' we were all really curious XD there were only a couple of other parents there.
Anyhow, it was basically people taking heaps of photos with each other in front of this screen showing a beach. The music was like, upbeat love songs, and there was heaps of food there - curry puffs and sushi and chips and fruit and sausages and this giant bowl of stuff which my mum and I thought looked like cream. They had it all set out in the garage, but nobody was eating any of it, so as we left mum and I took a sushi lol
it was eeeeeel
i like eel :)
It was sort of weird though, being out-classed by every single girl in the room XD
And after that, we went out to dinner with our neighbours/godparents and family because my grandparents arrived from Malaysia today, and our neighbour was telling us about how pro the pre-ball that *her* son had been invited to - the host's house was real posh and they were going to the ball in taxis and it only costed $5, as opposed to the $25 that the partybus + food costed my bro.. and all the parents had been given pretty invitations and were videoing their kids etc etc
The host was European.
Mum was like: ...
should'a gone to a white person's pre-ball
hahahaha
and my mum, dad and I went along with my brother to the pre-ball that he was invited to, cos' we were all really curious XD there were only a couple of other parents there.
Anyhow, it was basically people taking heaps of photos with each other in front of this screen showing a beach. The music was like, upbeat love songs, and there was heaps of food there - curry puffs and sushi and chips and fruit and sausages and this giant bowl of stuff which my mum and I thought looked like cream. They had it all set out in the garage, but nobody was eating any of it, so as we left mum and I took a sushi lol
it was eeeeeel
i like eel :)
It was sort of weird though, being out-classed by every single girl in the room XD
And after that, we went out to dinner with our neighbours/godparents and family because my grandparents arrived from Malaysia today, and our neighbour was telling us about how pro the pre-ball that *her* son had been invited to - the host's house was real posh and they were going to the ball in taxis and it only costed $5, as opposed to the $25 that the partybus + food costed my bro.. and all the parents had been given pretty invitations and were videoing their kids etc etc
The host was European.
Mum was like: ...
should'a gone to a white person's pre-ball
hahahaha
Saturday, July 25, 2009
ORLY?
I discovered today:
that the middle of an orchid, which I always thought looked like teeth, is actually the pistil and stamens. GET READY TO BE DISSECTED YOU UNNATURAL GREEN FLOWER THAT BLOOMS IN WINTER
that the people at Star Cafe gesture towards a table of four when we walk in
that a bruise and a cut in the same place hurts more than the sum of a bruise and a cut in different places
that it's possible to run but not break a sweat when it's cold outside
that I'm more easily offended by what a person implies than by what they actually say
that writing letters is less of a hassle than I remembered it to be
that different postboxes have different mail collection times and days
and that my parents are right in saying that no matter how bright the day, in winter a ray of sunshine will never
fall
through
our
windows.
I got a new bed yesterday. It's pretty.
that the middle of an orchid, which I always thought looked like teeth, is actually the pistil and stamens. GET READY TO BE DISSECTED YOU UNNATURAL GREEN FLOWER THAT BLOOMS IN WINTER
that the people at Star Cafe gesture towards a table of four when we walk in
that a bruise and a cut in the same place hurts more than the sum of a bruise and a cut in different places
that it's possible to run but not break a sweat when it's cold outside
that I'm more easily offended by what a person implies than by what they actually say
that writing letters is less of a hassle than I remembered it to be
that different postboxes have different mail collection times and days
and that my parents are right in saying that no matter how bright the day, in winter a ray of sunshine will never
fall
through
our
windows.
I got a new bed yesterday. It's pretty.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
12/07/09
Hahaha well you know what I'm talking about
It went well, I agree ^^ heaps of fun
<-- those two--> have already summed it up
Thanks so much for coming everyone
and the presents
unbelievable generosity
Finally got to meet Will XD although it was a weird convo.. NCEA debate hahaha
and friends I hadn't seen in aaaages
lolz I fell twice:
one was pretty much a bellyflop *winded* haha
and yeah.. same as Yujie, I think everyone saw the other one
Bruuuise
XD
Photos:
Most of them are all dark and blurry lol
Hard to take pictures in an ice skating rink
So I'll try to get them to a reasonable standard tomorrow
We should do something like this again~
It went well, I agree ^^ heaps of fun
<-- those two--> have already summed it up
Thanks so much for coming everyone
and the presents
unbelievable generosity
Finally got to meet Will XD although it was a weird convo.. NCEA debate hahaha
and friends I hadn't seen in aaaages
lolz I fell twice:
one was pretty much a bellyflop *winded* haha
and yeah.. same as Yujie, I think everyone saw the other one
Bruuuise
XD
Photos:
Most of them are all dark and blurry lol
Hard to take pictures in an ice skating rink
So I'll try to get them to a reasonable standard tomorrow
We should do something like this again~
Friday, July 10, 2009
Puzzle special
"I often hold your hand,
but I have no hand with which to hold.
I often sleep in summer,
but I'll do my best when it gets cold.
I often lose my mate,
but I feel no sorrow, truth be told."
~Null scanlators (who probz stole it off somewhere else)
I went to the optometrist today.
And apparently, my eyesight has not gotten too much worse.
So that's okay.
But she saw something on my retina that was suspicious.
So she put in eyedrops that dilated my pupils so that she could see better.
And it was still suspicious.
She got a second opinion.
That lady agreed that there might be something wrong with it, and that the problem could range from nothing to a tear in the retina.
Went to retina specialist.
Specialist told me that it was a unusual but natural discolouration that was nothing to worry about but he wanted to be sure so I had to wait for a second opinion.
-Half an hour later-
That lady agreed that there was nothing wrong.
O.o that used up a few hours.
but I have no hand with which to hold.
I often sleep in summer,
but I'll do my best when it gets cold.
I often lose my mate,
but I feel no sorrow, truth be told."
~Null scanlators (who probz stole it off somewhere else)
I went to the optometrist today.
And apparently, my eyesight has not gotten too much worse.
So that's okay.
But she saw something on my retina that was suspicious.
So she put in eyedrops that dilated my pupils so that she could see better.
And it was still suspicious.
She got a second opinion.
That lady agreed that there might be something wrong with it, and that the problem could range from nothing to a tear in the retina.
Went to retina specialist.
Specialist told me that it was a unusual but natural discolouration that was nothing to worry about but he wanted to be sure so I had to wait for a second opinion.
-Half an hour later-
That lady agreed that there was nothing wrong.
O.o that used up a few hours.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Unhappiness
I has caught the unhappiness bug... This week's been a mixture of good and bad, with the result that I only focus on the bad:
Bad:
- Metaphorically failed both calc and latin for the first time ever
- Got too nervous in the music school concert that my piano teacher runs every year to do Debussy justice, and parents think it's cos I didn't practise enough
- Dying in swimming relays 'cos I haven't been exercising lately
- Tired headaches
- General sense of bleakness
- Et cetera
Good:
- Holidays
- Hair cut back to how it was before I grew it out (cbs taking photo, you can see on Tuesday)
- Report so good its like the week-old urine of red headed little boys
- I have things to look forward to
- Mum got me a polarfleece-y bathrobe
- Et cetera
You know, apparently humans find losses twice as painful as gains make them happy.
E.g. Some Americans did a study:
You pay me $100.
I flip a coin.
If it lands on tails, you win $X.
How much would you like X to be for you to take the deal?
The average amount is $200 - that is, the potential gain has to be twice as big as the loss before people will be happy.
*sigh*
Bad:
- Metaphorically failed both calc and latin for the first time ever
- Got too nervous in the music school concert that my piano teacher runs every year to do Debussy justice, and parents think it's cos I didn't practise enough
- Dying in swimming relays 'cos I haven't been exercising lately
- Tired headaches
- General sense of bleakness
- Et cetera
Good:
- Holidays
- Hair cut back to how it was before I grew it out (cbs taking photo, you can see on Tuesday)
- Report so good its like the week-old urine of red headed little boys
- I have things to look forward to
- Mum got me a polarfleece-y bathrobe
- Et cetera
You know, apparently humans find losses twice as painful as gains make them happy.
E.g. Some Americans did a study:
You pay me $100.
I flip a coin.
If it lands on tails, you win $X.
How much would you like X to be for you to take the deal?
The average amount is $200 - that is, the potential gain has to be twice as big as the loss before people will be happy.
*sigh*
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