The Heartlander
The obligatory semester report on market index SimCAP.

SimCAP has certainly seen rougher times. In recent market movements, the Engin index rose a mere 0.05 points from last trading season's 4.35 to close at 4.407. Business index dropped a huge 0.05 points from 4.5 last season to 4.45 this morning. However, investors were generally pleased with this turn of events as most investors were long in Engin. The Engin index broke further away from the support level of 4.0 and now teases the resistance level of 4.5. Considering Business trades comprised only 17% of this season's trade volume, confidence in a bullish outlook for the next 2 seasons is running high.

With that said, markets will be closed for a long vacation to Japan. Markets will reopen in August 2012. Historical data are as follows.

09/10 Sem 1
MA1505 Mathematics 1 B
IT1005 Introduction to Programming with MATLAB A
MKT1003 Principles of Marketing A-
MNO1001 Management and Organisation B
MLE1101 Introductory Material Science and Engineering B+
(Workload = 20 MCs)
09/10 Sem 2
ACC1002 Financial Accounting A-
CM1502 General and Physical Chemistry for Engineers B
CN1111 Chemical Engineering Principles A
EG1413 Critical Thinking and Writing A
MA1506 Mathematics 2 B+
(Workload = 20 MCs)
10/11 Sem 1
BSP1005A Managerial Economics A
CM1501 Organic Chemistry B
CN2121 Chemical Engeering Thermodynamics A-
CN2122 Fluid Mechanics A+
DSC2003 Management Science B
LSM1401 Fundamentals of Biochemistry A-
(Workload = 24 MCs)
10/11 Sem 2
CN2108 Chemical Eng Lab 1 (2 MC) A
CN2116 Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Design A-
CN2125 Heat and Mass Transfer A-
CN3124 Particle Technology A
BSP2001 Macro and International Economics A-
DSC2006 Operations Management A+
(Workload = 22 MCs)
11/12 Sem 1
CN3108 Chemical Eng Lab 2 B+
CN3121 Process Dynamics and Control A
CN3132 Separation Processes A-
CN3421 Process Modelling and Numerical Simulation A-
CN3135 Process Safety, Health and Environment (3MC) A+
DSC3203 Service Operations Management B+
(Workload = 23 MCs)

perfect living on 2011-12-20, 8:05 a.m.


Hi, semester ends. I'm back. Have my current favourite song.


perfect living on 2011-11-11, 3:25 p.m.


I know this place still exist. I have no time to update.

I just felt I deserve a short break after churning out 12 pages of nonsense for the rab repork.

Before I start marking 22 lab reports.

It's like a continuous relay for the next 10 weeks with mid-terms, projects, exams etc as hurdles.

bye.

perfect living on 2011-09-04, 5:10 p.m.


Just felt like doing it. I'm writing this in office.

I can't use Excel. Either I'm limited or Excel is limited. I crunch the numbers in MATLAB, plot the graph, then display in Excel.

perfect living on 2011-06-23, 11:03 a.m.


summer watchlist

usagi drop
morita-san ha mukuchi
kamisama dolls
Mayo Chiki
r-15
ro-kyu-bu
kami-sama no memochou

and what, noto is voicing in some anime about big breasts -_-

i'll maybe even time one of them ;)

perfect living on 2011-06-16, 3:20 p.m.


just finished typing a letter to my japanese teacher in japanese. want to puke blood already.

zzz time. transfer onto the letter paper tmr.

perfect living on 2011-06-15, 2:26 a.m.


Was watching some clips of The Noose on youtube. some comments complained that accents were to exaggerated or fake or wrong.

of course they're fake and exaggerated! it's slapstick comedy, of course there will be exaggeration.

perfect living on 2011-06-14, 8:09 p.m.


wah, hidan no aria 09 was total waste of time. i feel cheated anticipating it so much. =3=

perfect living on 2011-06-11, 12:15 p.m.


received my teaching feedback for it1006. seems like i performed better this semester compared to it1005. received 3 nominations out of 13 students compared to 2 nominations out of 19 students.

the prof taught me how to view my own feedback in the SoC system so i took the liberty to check out some fellow TAs score. I realised one big conclusion about my teaching. I tend to focus on a few very good friends in the class who (I suspect) eventually nominated me for best teaching. My overall score is low compared to other TAs who may have received only 1 nomination or none at all.

I must learn to become very good friends with a whole class of 15 students. it1005 next semester will have 16 classes. instead of 14. lower student:TA ratio is good.

perfect living on 2011-06-10, 6:20 p.m.


didn't want to start a wall of comments on facebook. hence decide to vent my thoughts here.

the guy is probably right on many things. he has identified the short-comings of public education and its inability to follow with the changing times. I do agree with his point that public education may be stifling creativity or "divergent thinking". I prefer to see it as becoming more reasonable and realistic though. A paper clip made of foam? really? He could have picked a better example, that might have crossed the line between creativity and plain nonsense.

but my main point is that while the current "assembly line" education system may have its shortfalls, is the system to be blamed for stifling creativity? he should be advocating for public education to be optional. there are many people in less fortunate countries who would probably lie, cheat and steal to have a chance to be part of this monotonous and boring assembly line. this assembly line has brought about more opportunities for the masses than the creativity that is destroyed in the process.

probably it depends what state the economy is at for one can definitely not eat creativity. or maybe he can?

it is no surprise that music/arts(as in painting etc) students come from more well-to-do families.

even if public schooling is optional, would the society accept this change? from an asian perspective, most parents would find their children dropping out from the assembly line to be a shameful affair. would you want your children to go through "special" schooling?

i'm not denying the possibility of success without going through systematical schooling. it's just that if you tally the score, it's not hard to see that boring education than... no schooling? I'm not even sure what he is suggesting. probably none as he merely points out the flaw but drops short of providing alternatives. while he may be in the right direction, simply pointing out the need to reform without actual recommendation makes the whole piece feels... "whiny", like how someone who failed to succeed in the system would say.

when you can't do well in it, blame the system?

as the speaker has rightly pointed out, the education system is shaped for the need of the economy. more specifically, the industrialised sector of the economy. as someone who is heading in that direction, i cherish the privilege of being in boring assembly lines.

perfect living on 2011-06-07, 9:31 p.m.


Weeaboo moment

/counter staff bags the burgers
"Double cheeseburger and McChicken?"
"hai"

on my way back from japanese class stopping by macs.

perfect living on 2011-06-05, 9:27 p.m.


among the list of prospective TAs for it1005 and it1006, i see a student from my it1005 and one from it1006 class. so happy.

i have now become grand-TA. looking forward to see my students and grand-students.

perfect living on 2011-06-04, 12:12 p.m.


あの日見た花の名前を僕達はまだ知らない
Forget-me-not

perfect living on 2011-06-04, 9:23 a.m.


yes, jinguan. right side Titech, left side food. open 24 jam.

but I won't be staying at the dorms at ookayama. it will be some other dorm about 40mins away specially for exchange students. can't find the dorms on google maps... don't know where to walk around yet.

perfect living on 2011-06-03, 12:38 a.m.


mapping for sep.

going to map all 8 MCs of GEM out to titech. 12 more MCs to map... hopefully I can get 8 from engin and 8 from biz, effectively still overloading 1 module.

must chiong now for a relak yr 4.

i might really have to run all 3 campus of titech haha. google maps tell me it's 40mins by train from ookayama to suzukakedai and about 20+mins to tamachi campus. so I suppose it's still possible if I'm spending the whole day at one particular campus.

was walking around ookayama station in google maps and found my saviour. mcdonalds. at least i know i won't die of hunger. saw the 120yen burger poster on the glass windows =D

perfect living on 2011-06-02, 12:04 a.m.


I am bored to max.

since I'm going japan, was checking up on what my name reads in jap.

This is what I've been using all the while
Sim Wei Jian
沈伟健
シム・ウェイ・ジェン
(Shimu Uei Jien)

This is using japanese pronunciation
チン・イ・ケン
沈偉健 (偉 is the 繁体)
TinIKen (Chin Yi Ken)

which is rather interesting cos YiKen puns with 意見.

and my surname means sink. not far from the chinese meaning actually.

perfect living on 2011-05-31, 2:38 p.m.


half time!

4 semesters have passed and the scores are as follows. The first number is that semester's SAP, second number CAP.

Sem 1 Engin 4.0 4.0 Biz 4.33 4.33 Overall 4.1 4.1
Sem 2 Engin 4.375 4.1875 Biz 4.75 4.5 Overall 4.4 4.25
Sem 3 Engin 4.375 4.25 Biz 4.25 4.43 Overall 4.33 4.28
Sem 4 Engin 4.71 4.35 Biz 4.75 4.5 Overall 4.73 4.395

tldr Current Engin cap 4.35, Biz cap 4.5

I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of Bs in the SMS received this morning.

CN2108 A
CN2116 A-
CN2125 A-
CN3124 A
BSP2001 A-
DSC2006 A+

This marks the halfway mark of uni education. My second A+ in nus. and 4.71... I've never imagined it's possible for someone like me. I was burnt out in week 13 from the workload. 2 projects (2125 and 3124) were due, assignments (2001, 2116), lab report in reading week, and TA-ing for IT1006 at the same time. I totally switched off after submitting the lab report in the reading week and only studied a little bit every day. cheatsheets were all finalised a day or two before the exams. not motivated at all, just wanted to get over the exams.

It's been quite a journey so far, pulling my cap from 4.0 to 4.35, every semester's result better thant he previous.

It will be hard to maintain this trend in the upcoming semester with 5 CN modules.

perfect living on 2011-05-30, 10:53 a.m.


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perfect living on 2011-05-24, 4:15 p.m.