| | back in the first tute i ever had for this certain subject, we were working in groups to figure out the calculation of some ratio thing. So anyway, i thought and worked it out logically and when i was suggesting it to my group everyone was like.. "oh yeah.. that makes a whole lot of sense" so i taught them all my method. Except that the tutor comes later on and tells us, nope we've got it wrong we're supposed to flip it the other way round (supposed i calculated it as A divided by B, she tells us the correct way is to divide B by A). And so i'm like.. hmmm i don't get the logic behind this, and neither did a couple of the guys in my group. So when we ask her to explain why it's B over A and not A over B, she just goes "just trust me on this one". and we're all.. hmm... okaay..
that was 6 weeks ago. Today, she was revising with the class on the whole topic (of which the ratio calculation thing falls under) she mentioned in the passing that she might've taught it wrong in the first tute, and basically she implied it was A over B, just need to look at the answer in a diff perspective. I'm like.. gaah! I've spent the last 5 weeks trying to condition my mind that B over A is the correct way eventho A over B makes more logical sense and now you tell me i was right all along and i was teaching myself the wrong method?! and all that time i spent trying to find the logic behind B over A rather than A over B (cuz i just can't simply accept a fact without understanding the reason behind it!). Sigh. But she's a good tutor and all, just wished that she didn't make that mistake to begin with and now we have to un-confuse ourselves from the confusion she created for us to begin with!
And i decided to join a different tute group today so that i could go to the market in the morning. This will serve as a reminder to NOT join that tute group again! This random girl that sat next to me (whom i don't even know) saw that i brought my lecture notes along to class and proceeded to ask me "can i see?" *pointing to my lecture slides* Thought maybe she just needed to see something briefly, but NOO.. she takes it from me and starts to copy down ALLLL my notes for the entire lecture. By this time i'm giving her a "what are you doing?!" kind of look, and she just goes "oh, i didn't attend this lecture *giggles*" I was really ticked off cuz i brought my lecture notes so i can refer to the graphs and stuff and scribble down any extra notes that comes up in tute and all. So at a point i reallly needed the paper back to refer to a graph so i can follow what the tutor was saying. barely 2 minutes later when she sees i don't seem to be using my lecture notes anymore, she just takes the paper again and resumes copying down my notes. this happened 3 TIMES until i had to continue scribbling unnecessary notes so that she doesn't snatch my notes away from me again. i mean SERIOUSLY?! i don't even know her name and i can assure you she doesn't know mine. what gives you the liberty to just copy off all my notes?! i'm not your secretary who goes to the lecture and does the hard work to listen and take down notes for you. half may be stuff that the lecturer wrote/drew for everyone to take down, but some of it is my own personal notes too. If you were my friend and asked me nicely of course i'd give it to you. But today, i honestly have nothing good to say about that girl who was leeching off me. gosh i really can't believe the nerve of some people!
anyway, one of my best-est childhood bestfriends, Miss Kelly Tan is getting married in uhm.. 39 days? and Miss Lydia here is still unconfirmed and working thru the possibilities of attending the wedding. sigh. the plus points is my visa to the States is still valid and the wedding falls at the beginning my study break. However the timing of getting there and coming back is a head -scratcher. I've also done so much flight research i could possibly name most if not all of the airlines that have either direct or not-so direct routes to getting to Houston. Direct route would cost abit but save time, then there's another possibility of a much cheaper option but time-wise will be longer, and that also depends on certain other factors. Then there's finances..if any of my job apps don't fall thru sometime soon then i'm quite stuck. But yeah i'm utterly determined to try my very best to make it to the wedding. I've already been studying real hard so that i'm ahead of my game in terms of exam preparation, can't say i'm ahead yet. probably just at par.. but i'm getting there! hahhha this has been a pretty good motivation to make sure i study hard ever since day 1! ah well we'll see how it goes. and on that note, i should go get some studying done!!
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