My Pets

I have lotsa pets…all aquatic ones. ^^ I have guppies, swordtails, shrimps and terrapins. Interesting rite. You would be asking why I keep aquatic animals. Reason is that I find them quite easy to rear. There’s no need for clearing their shit and pee daily >.< just change water once in two weeks to keep the fish tank in tip-top condition, occasionally adding in anti-chlorine, anti-bacteria, small amounts of sea salt (fishes like slightly salty water) and feeding them thrice daily. Keeping pets is a good way for me to alleviate stress especially when im feeling emo. I will just go to the tank, sit and watch the many lives swimming freely. Sometimes I may even sit there for hours. It’s really addictive and fun. In fact, I like cats. ^^ but my parents find cats troublesome to rear as they shit and pee as and when they like. What a pity. My father once had a cat that knew how to shit and pee in the toilet bowl. Sadly, it died of a car accident before I could see it… The best way to relieve stress-rear pets.

Thoughts on HCI SMB

Obviously, the good points first. The SMB is good in the way that students only need to access the portal for new info and updates. It’s a really easy way for students to know what events are round the corner and what teachers need them to do. Students can even post lost items on the lost board. This lost board will ease the hassle of students who found items and have difficulty tracing the owner. Definitely, you have to try ur best to find ur lost items b4 posting on the board. There’s also I safety board where students can post about precarious or poor conditions of facilities around them. Those in charge will just need to access the SMB and read the message and they can instantly fix the problem.
Now for the flaws. Actually, there’s only one main problem with the SMB. It is that the SMB is very lag. Many students have difficulty accessing it at home and that results in many serious problems. I am the perfect example. This Tuesday, Mr Tan, our Sci teacher posted an SMB on the topics that we would have to study for the upcoming test (which is already over). As usual I would open the SMB portal to view messages. Usually it would lag a lot but that fateful day was worse. It took me half an hour to log on successfully but the messages just couldn’t load. Thus I couldn’t open Mr Tan’s SMB message and couldn’t read it!! If the SMB had not been laggy, I would have already read his message and studied on density. Now I screwed my science test, sad…

Sci test Reflections

I studied so hard for my sci test but eventually screwed it, I think. Its crap…I revised measurements but missed density. That’s the area I screwed. And the SMB is so laggy that I couldn’t open the messages. Haiz…couldn’t see Mr Tan’s message, otherwise I would have studied on density. Pity the SMB lags. Mayb it was bcoz of my carelessness? It’s always like this in tests, I always carelessly fill up the blanks with answers that come to my head…end up wrong answer, soon after I realize my mistake and find it so silly. After comparing answers with the pros, I found out that I had so many mistakes sia… Then I felt so emo ^.^ Last term I got A1, this term I guess I may fail. How sad. Hopefully there’s a retest or I can travel through time and redo the paper. ^^

Proj Day Prelims

My group’s presentation was quite satisfactory but we had a problem when it came to the Q&A session. One problem was that one of the judges mentioned that there was probably a similar model on the market. We did not research much into current products, thus we had a problem with answering that question. As of that, the judge seemed to be unhappy with us on the fact that we researched too little on current products. She feels that we are making everyone assume that our innovation will work. We were stuck, thankfully Jason proved that our innovation was better. The current product on the market could only cater to people who wanted to cook with one pot, one wok and one pan. What happens if someone wants to cook with three pots? Thus, he concluded that stoves with adjustable pan supports would cater to almost anyone who cooks, making our innovation better than current market ones.
Next the same judge asked how we would build our innovation. Making a stove with adjustable pan supports proved to be an arduous task. As for that question, we were no able to answer it as we had not taught of how we will make the prototype, only a rough idea which we did not include in our slides. Sad sia..
Another question was whether our group had tested on how much electricity was cooked on our current stoves and how much time was used. We had practically forgotten about doing so, doomed I thought. No choice but had to admit our flaw… I thought that our group had failed. That judge was really frightening in the way which she shot her questions at us. We were the few ‘unlucky groups’ who had to endure her lashing questions. But her questions helped make our group realize our flaws and change for the better. Every cloud has a silver lining. xD. This isn’t defaming ar.. don’t get the wrong idea. Overall, it was fun.