One Pass

Barely after a week my exams have finished, one of the results is out: System Modelling and Simulation. This was one of the courses that I felt I did badly, probably the worst exam I had for this semester.

This morning, I was quite suprised to see I got a pass, 62 overall. This exam was on the 1st July, and the results are published so quick. Not too bad I guess, considering I almost didn’t do 2/5 of the exam questions. I guess its pretty much helped by my coursework mark. Also, the lecturer David is a very nice chap.

Then after a while, I got an sms from a mate doing the same course telling me the result is already out. He hasn’t check his yet.

He’s so anxious that before he checks his result, he’s already told me. I know 62 is quite embarassed, well I did reply to him with my result. Guess what, he got 80, a HD. Not being bitter here, but he said that he didn’t expect this much as well as he just copied the solutions of similar questions in the exam.

I remember David said in the beginning of the semester this simulation course is an easy-scoring course, everyone should be getting a HD. This is basically a Math course with a group project of simulation during computer software. Because of that, I thought the exam wouldn’t be too hard so I didn’t study much for this course, only until a day or 2 before the exam. Then I found out it’s impossible to cover all the questions the night before, so I focused on just 2 questions hoping if I can get them right I can pass this course.

After the exam, I was terrified as I didn’t know how to do some questions at all. I was just hoping I can get 50-pass. Another friend Xiaobai didn’t tell me that for 1 question about the confidence level part, we can just copy from the notes from another course as it was taught before. I was quite pissed about this. He only said that after the exam. Fuck, with that question answered I could have got a credit at least, or even a distinction.

Nonetheless, I feel relieved as I expected to get a lot worse than this. But now, I started to worry about Heat Transfer and Combustion courses. These two caused a lot of headache too. Have to wait another week until the School publish all the Mech Eng results.

And…going to Sydney on Wednesday, hope I can really enjoy over there.

Awesome Rossi won MotoGP race in Catalunya

(taken from MotoGP.com)

Valentino Rossi once again shows the world why he is the best…although Jorge Lorenzo is excellent as well. One of the best MotoGP I’ve ever seen if not the best. Not that I have watched too many MotoGP, lol.

Lorenzo qualified first in his home ground with Rossi in second and followed by Stoner. In the first few laps, the first 3 remained the same until Rossi pulled the move and overtook Lorenzo. Some laps later Lorenzo caught up with Rossi’s slipstream and slotted in front of Rossi in the first corner. Up until this stage, both of them pretty much stayed half a second between each other throughout the race. Can you imagine that? They went all out.

Both Yamaha M1 are equally good, so as the riders. Since Lorenzo was racing in front of his fellow countrymen, he rode it at 100% and no chance for him to make any mistake.

The best part came in the last few laps. I think it was the last or second last lap Rossi overtook Lorenzo then a moment later Lorenzo regained the pole. I thought it was over when they were already approaching the last corner in the last lap of the race. Then came the surprise.  Rossi slided into the inner side of the right handed corner and sticked along the rumble strips to defend from letting Lorenzo pass him. His rear wheel was nearly nudged by Lorenzo’s bike.

Out of the corner and crossed the line. His pit crew was jumping like mad after he made his move. Definitely nerve breaking. In the end the time separates the winner and the second place was a mere 0.095second. Bloody hell. This is the reason I love watching MotoGP so much. Excitement along with surprise. Stoner finished 3rd in the race. Poor Stoner was not feeling too well today. All of them are now 106 points in the championship which makes it even more exciting for the following races.

Cmin

I had my Heat Transfer lecture this afternoon. The topic for today was heat exchangers. Then the lecturer was doing the example on the board. He was trying to explain to us one particular equation: the NTU (Number of Transfer Units) method. It goes like this, E is the effectiveness:

*screenshot from wikipedia*

C in general is the heat capacity. For some strange reasons, he pronounced ‘in’ as ‘en’, probably due to his accent. The fun came when Cmin appeared. So when you couple C with men, the end product very much sounds like semen. After a couple of times saying it, the class would laugh everytime he  said that word. Until he was pissed off and told us to stop laughing.

Champions of England!

After a 0-0 draw with Arsenal at Old Trafford, Manchester United successfully defended its champions title. And this is the 3rd time in a row, Man Utd’s 18th league title and Sir Alex Ferguson’s 11th. A remarkable feat for Ferguson and his men.

A great day none the less to seal the title race in front of the home crowd. This feeling is just so great. Next stop is Rome and hopefully we can bring it back again. The only worry is this might be the last home game for Tevez. I seriously want him to stay. He’s not having a great season but he is vital to the team.

*more images can be found here and here.

Now, Mr Benitez what facts are you on about this time?

When Love Story meets Viva la Vida by Jon Schmidt

Accidentally bumped into this clip in a forum. It seriously makes my hair stand. The combo between cello and piano is so great and so is the arrangement. Fucking love this shit. I prefer the Love Story part more as the Viva la Vida resembles the original. The cellist is kinda cool haha.

Very Nais, how much…

to have a house near the beach? So I can see it whenever I want to. I bloody love sunset. Seeing the sun goes down and it marks an end of a day. Took some photos when I was there last week with my trusty Olympus compact cam. The photos are not very good but came out alright than I expected.

There were many people walking their dogs. If I stay near a beach next time, I’ll get a dog.

Funny Quotes

Some of the quotes I saw in the forums after the Liverpool-Arsenal match which ended up 4-4:

1) EPIC in attack but EPIC fail in defence lol

2) This is their year. Year of 4 goals & year of epic match

3) 4 goals scored, only 4 shots at Reina, and they still don’t win.

Sunset in Glenelg

Went to the beach in late afternnon to see the sunset. Although it was cloudy today, still it was good. I just felt good seeing that. Didn’t bring my digital cam along, might go again tomorrow since the weather will be fine.

New Transformers Trailer

Looks pretty cool. Look for an Audi R8 in there. Now that i think of it, i have forgotten the storyline in the first one. All I can remember is the awesome machines and the special effects. Also the soundtrack.

22

I turned 22 today. Still pretty much clueless. Can’t someone knock some sense into me?