Another week gone... another week to go...
Another week gone... another week to go... before I head home after more than 20 months away from home... and... again, it was 23rd yesterday... marking an exact 20 months that i'm away from home... pretty amazing... yes indeed... i'm not sure how i did that but i did it... it's crazy...
thinking how it will be like when meeting my parents and brothers after 20 months is just crazy... i'm so excited, but yet kinda anxious... i missed them soooo much... but to see them, first I have to endure the 30+ hours flight + layover... making the meeting them more the better...
so, last week was pretty much full of excitement... it started with the final for my Financial Economic (ECON 435) on Monday... the exam was pretty tricky... and i got the shock of my life right after the exam... as i met up with my friends talking about the exam...(sorry heah, i know this is not your thing), and we started comparing answers(from the top of our head) as paper were handed in... the conversation between us:
A: "So, what did you get for ur last question ar?"
B: "I got 40 something.... point 09090909... something like that...."
C & D:"YES... i got that too...."
Me: " Holy shit... you kidding me, i got 31.179... no way... i counted twice... eff... 12 points gone..."
A:"How about 2nd last question... you get 3/5 rite...?"
B:"0.6... yar..."
C, D :"yes too..."
Me:" NO WAY... i got 2/3... i'm pretty sure I got that one rite... damn... was I hallucinating and making up my own questions??" Another 8 points gone...
A:" OK... what about the 1st True/False question... the one about put option... False right???"
ME:" OK... something must be really wrong... i read it 3 times and checked it again... and it's definitely about call option...fuck it... there must be more than 1 version of the exam... no way I'm reading that many questions wrong..."
So, i ran to another friend of mine(another group) and ask her whether she knew there were several version of the exam... and she said... yar... got 2 versions... I went like... what the heck... scared the hell out of me... NOT FUNNY... my heart was beating all weird and all... i thought i was going to have a heart attack... and what not...(I found out later that there were actually 3 versions) what's the odd of 4 of my friends got the same version... while i got the different version...
after the exam, i went to the Student Actuaries @ Michigan (SAM) meeting where we had our election... funny.. the attendance was really bad... where only 17 members attended... among the 17 members, many of them are graduating soon... hence, not eligible to be board members... so, the election went on... and more like assignment instead of election... where professors/current board members just assign ppl to the board... as long as you accept it, the position is yours... i got the job as the Career Center chair... where my responsibility is to coordinate with the Career Center, and possibly companies to organize the on-campus presentation and interview...
after that, i attended a MAS meeting... and listen to a talk from a rep from CRUSAP... www.crusap.net ... got back to my room at about 8.45pm... went to the library at 9pm... to finalize on what we are putting on my UROP Symposium poster...
pretty tired... but i studied a little while more for the exam on Thurs...
Tuesday, worked, attended lectures... and met up to do the poster board... spent about 2 hours on it... and finally, completed the board, pretty professional looking board... :) using paper cutter and all... studied more for the exam...
Wed... lunch at the UClub with IAPA board... with many advisors... (Marty, Susan, Chris, Ching-Yune, Begonia, Andrew, Leslie) and the new IAPA06 (Victoria, Alice, Michelle, Omonya(not sure about the spelling), in case you haven't notice, i'm the only guy IAPA...
after the lunch, I went the UROP symposium... where I stood in front of my poster for an hour... answered a couple of questions, attended the Oral presentation, then walked around searching for interesting posters for about an hour... got back to my room at about 5.15pm... did the required assignment for UROP... and studied more at night... dozed off at 8.15pm... woke up 3 hours later... i'm screwed.. started studying til about 4 in the morning.. couldn't fall asleep until about 5am... wonderful...
woke up the next morning(Thurs) about 8.45am... sweet... did more studying... then, took the exam at 4pm... well, it's a pretty challenging one... so, the grade will be pretty surprising.. (one of those either very good or very bad paper, can swing anyway)
after the exam... went to dinner (Sang Woo's and Lynn's and Salim's grad dinner) at Noodles & Co... not too bad..had a mushroom stragonoff with beef... met other old time IAPAs... they are all graduating...i'm the only one left...
after dinner, we went to get dessert... at Za's... I had Coconut Cream Chocolate Chip cheesecake... it taste like Girl Scouts' cookie... don't think they will be happy if they find out about it... anyway... we waited til about 10 past nine... for Tina to call... but, well, we were all exhausted after the long day... and decided to leave her a msg and we called it a night... all the best to Sang Woo and Lynn and Salim!!! and great to see Viktorina too... she's working now... and just bought a car... how nice...
i went back to my room... pretty tired but not sleepy... i think i'm getting the insomnia thing... coz, well, i slept for about 3.5 hours... yesterday... (nap not included... ) but even if included, i had 6 hours... but, well... i just didn't feel like sleeping...so, ended up started cleaning up my room... and threw a bunch of stuffs... and started planning on what to pack and all...
oh yar... another thing... my stupid agent got my name on my boarding passes wrong...!!! i emailed him and he said only 1 letter off, nevermind... what the heck... he said he will contact Cathay and notified them about it... too late for me to change it now.. i'll see how things go... hopefully, it won't give me too much trouble...
so... slept at about 2am...
Friday... nothing much... tried studying... but lol... ended up doing nothing...oh yar... i went running... to the Arb.. and did the weight machines at CCRB... felt really good after sweating because I haven't been running the weekly run for quite some time now... :)
went to the SAM meeting at about 6pm... had dinner at Good Time Charley's with the old board members and the new board members and Prof. Huntington and Prof. Moore... later, went to Bubble Island for Bubble Tea and popcorn chicken and also Jenga... after that, went hunting for beer and went to my friends' Jen and Lindsey apartment to party... fun... was sober and all, partied til 3.30am... and went back...
Saturday... didn't do nothing either... again, tried studying, again... failed... watched quite a number of episodes of Initial D... slept in the afternoon... went dinner with a whole bunch of ATU10 ppl...for Chye's birthday... wanted to catch a movie that night... but too bad, it was raining too heavily... went to my the Medieval party at Mike's place when the rain kinda stopped at about 11.45pm... dressed up as a Mage... (haha.. thanks to someone's graduation robe... wanted to wear a bathrobe, but too bad, i don't have one)... got totally wasted that night... pretty funny stuffs happened... but too funny to be disclosed here... i just found out that I can never play dice (Seven-Eleven Double) because I got effed up everytime i play the game... so, i will never ever play this drinking game again... beer pong yes... dice no...!!!
was really sick the next(Sunday) day... threw up a couple of times... skipped lunch... and only had light stuff for dinner... able to do some math that night... and then, family guy, popped a couple of Tylenol(R), and then, tried sleeping... but couldn't(well, i slept for far too long in the day)... so, woke up and did a bit more math... was kinda slow at it... but was doing it right... so, wait til i was really tired at about 1am... and called it a night...
and woke up this morning at 7.30am... went to Markley for breakfast... did laundry... and all... will be working 2 shifts later...
oh.. by the way... it's all warm and nice out... and the flowers are blossoming... and blooming
thinking how it will be like when meeting my parents and brothers after 20 months is just crazy... i'm so excited, but yet kinda anxious... i missed them soooo much... but to see them, first I have to endure the 30+ hours flight + layover... making the meeting them more the better...
so, last week was pretty much full of excitement... it started with the final for my Financial Economic (ECON 435) on Monday... the exam was pretty tricky... and i got the shock of my life right after the exam... as i met up with my friends talking about the exam...(sorry heah, i know this is not your thing), and we started comparing answers(from the top of our head) as paper were handed in... the conversation between us:
A: "So, what did you get for ur last question ar?"
B: "I got 40 something.... point 09090909... something like that...."
C & D:"YES... i got that too...."
Me: " Holy shit... you kidding me, i got 31.179... no way... i counted twice... eff... 12 points gone..."
A:"How about 2nd last question... you get 3/5 rite...?"
B:"0.6... yar..."
C, D :"yes too..."
Me:" NO WAY... i got 2/3... i'm pretty sure I got that one rite... damn... was I hallucinating and making up my own questions??" Another 8 points gone...
A:" OK... what about the 1st True/False question... the one about put option... False right???"
ME:" OK... something must be really wrong... i read it 3 times and checked it again... and it's definitely about call option...fuck it... there must be more than 1 version of the exam... no way I'm reading that many questions wrong..."
So, i ran to another friend of mine(another group) and ask her whether she knew there were several version of the exam... and she said... yar... got 2 versions... I went like... what the heck... scared the hell out of me... NOT FUNNY... my heart was beating all weird and all... i thought i was going to have a heart attack... and what not...(I found out later that there were actually 3 versions) what's the odd of 4 of my friends got the same version... while i got the different version...
after the exam, i went to the Student Actuaries @ Michigan (SAM) meeting where we had our election... funny.. the attendance was really bad... where only 17 members attended... among the 17 members, many of them are graduating soon... hence, not eligible to be board members... so, the election went on... and more like assignment instead of election... where professors/current board members just assign ppl to the board... as long as you accept it, the position is yours... i got the job as the Career Center chair... where my responsibility is to coordinate with the Career Center, and possibly companies to organize the on-campus presentation and interview...
after that, i attended a MAS meeting... and listen to a talk from a rep from CRUSAP... www.crusap.net ... got back to my room at about 8.45pm... went to the library at 9pm... to finalize on what we are putting on my UROP Symposium poster...
pretty tired... but i studied a little while more for the exam on Thurs...
Tuesday, worked, attended lectures... and met up to do the poster board... spent about 2 hours on it... and finally, completed the board, pretty professional looking board... :) using paper cutter and all... studied more for the exam...
Wed... lunch at the UClub with IAPA board... with many advisors... (Marty, Susan, Chris, Ching-Yune, Begonia, Andrew, Leslie) and the new IAPA06 (Victoria, Alice, Michelle, Omonya(not sure about the spelling), in case you haven't notice, i'm the only guy IAPA...
after the lunch, I went the UROP symposium... where I stood in front of my poster for an hour... answered a couple of questions, attended the Oral presentation, then walked around searching for interesting posters for about an hour... got back to my room at about 5.15pm... did the required assignment for UROP... and studied more at night... dozed off at 8.15pm... woke up 3 hours later... i'm screwed.. started studying til about 4 in the morning.. couldn't fall asleep until about 5am... wonderful...
woke up the next morning(Thurs) about 8.45am... sweet... did more studying... then, took the exam at 4pm... well, it's a pretty challenging one... so, the grade will be pretty surprising.. (one of those either very good or very bad paper, can swing anyway)
after the exam... went to dinner (Sang Woo's and Lynn's and Salim's grad dinner) at Noodles & Co... not too bad..had a mushroom stragonoff with beef... met other old time IAPAs... they are all graduating...i'm the only one left...
after dinner, we went to get dessert... at Za's... I had Coconut Cream Chocolate Chip cheesecake... it taste like Girl Scouts' cookie... don't think they will be happy if they find out about it... anyway... we waited til about 10 past nine... for Tina to call... but, well, we were all exhausted after the long day... and decided to leave her a msg and we called it a night... all the best to Sang Woo and Lynn and Salim!!! and great to see Viktorina too... she's working now... and just bought a car... how nice...
i went back to my room... pretty tired but not sleepy... i think i'm getting the insomnia thing... coz, well, i slept for about 3.5 hours... yesterday... (nap not included... ) but even if included, i had 6 hours... but, well... i just didn't feel like sleeping...so, ended up started cleaning up my room... and threw a bunch of stuffs... and started planning on what to pack and all...
oh yar... another thing... my stupid agent got my name on my boarding passes wrong...!!! i emailed him and he said only 1 letter off, nevermind... what the heck... he said he will contact Cathay and notified them about it... too late for me to change it now.. i'll see how things go... hopefully, it won't give me too much trouble...
so... slept at about 2am...
Friday... nothing much... tried studying... but lol... ended up doing nothing...oh yar... i went running... to the Arb.. and did the weight machines at CCRB... felt really good after sweating because I haven't been running the weekly run for quite some time now... :)
went to the SAM meeting at about 6pm... had dinner at Good Time Charley's with the old board members and the new board members and Prof. Huntington and Prof. Moore... later, went to Bubble Island for Bubble Tea and popcorn chicken and also Jenga... after that, went hunting for beer and went to my friends' Jen and Lindsey apartment to party... fun... was sober and all, partied til 3.30am... and went back...
Saturday... didn't do nothing either... again, tried studying, again... failed... watched quite a number of episodes of Initial D... slept in the afternoon... went dinner with a whole bunch of ATU10 ppl...for Chye's birthday... wanted to catch a movie that night... but too bad, it was raining too heavily... went to my the Medieval party at Mike's place when the rain kinda stopped at about 11.45pm... dressed up as a Mage... (haha.. thanks to someone's graduation robe... wanted to wear a bathrobe, but too bad, i don't have one)... got totally wasted that night... pretty funny stuffs happened... but too funny to be disclosed here... i just found out that I can never play dice (Seven-Eleven Double) because I got effed up everytime i play the game... so, i will never ever play this drinking game again... beer pong yes... dice no...!!!
was really sick the next(Sunday) day... threw up a couple of times... skipped lunch... and only had light stuff for dinner... able to do some math that night... and then, family guy, popped a couple of Tylenol(R), and then, tried sleeping... but couldn't(well, i slept for far too long in the day)... so, woke up and did a bit more math... was kinda slow at it... but was doing it right... so, wait til i was really tired at about 1am... and called it a night...
and woke up this morning at 7.30am... went to Markley for breakfast... did laundry... and all... will be working 2 shifts later...
oh.. by the way... it's all warm and nice out... and the flowers are blossoming... and blooming
posted by Voon Seng at 9:07 AM
2 Comments:
i like i like!!! the picture.
:( i hate it that everyone's summer start so much earlier than mine. Except the UCD ppl.
have fun in malaysia.
Hell.. Even I didn't know that tree right outside my window had so much life.. And guess what colour are the flowers? @#$#@&(!*@&^)*&@#^$&^%@#*$@ #$ PINK!!!!! ARGH!!!!
And serves you right for discussing answers after your exam.. I told you it was pure evil..
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