benefit of the doubt

 

In 5 semesters, I have taken (jarp bud lung..) classes from:

Course 1     Civil and Environmental Engineering x n (my major)

Course 2     Mechanical Engineering

Course 3     Materials Science and Engineering x 0.1 (audited ‘modeling and simulation’)

Course 4     Architecture

Course 5     Chemistry    x 1

Course 6     Electrical Engineering and Computer Science x 2 (i’ve actually taken 2 course 6 classes!)

Course 7     Biology    x 1

Course 8     Physics    x 2

Course 9     Brain and Cognitive Sciences    (maybe i would take a psycho class at some point)

Course 10     Chemical Engineering

Course 11     Urban Studies and Planning    x 2 (my 2 UROPs are with course 11)

Course 12     Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences   x 2 (my undergrad seminar + an energy class in IAP haha)

Course 14     Economics    x 2

Course 15     Management    x n (my major)

Course 16     Aeronautics and Astronautics

Course 17     Political Science x 1 (so-called japanese politics)

Course 18     Mathematics    x 4 (!) (taken all 4  that could be waived = =)

Course 20     Biological Engineering

Course 21    Foreign Languages and Literatures    x 3 (probably more coming up)

Course 22     Nuclear Engineering

Course 24     Linguistics and Philosophy    x 1

 

  • 在讀type I error type II error 的時候,原來電視劇裡常常有說的“疑點利益歸與被告”statistically 是這個意思。
  • 其實讀marketing courses 應該挺有趣的~at the end of the day Advertising/PR/branding/reputation/credibility 才是皇道。這個marketing-driven的社會,沒有暴光率沒有知名度沒有brand value就沒有client。吸引不到人去invest去sponsor就一切等於零。但呢d野都seems幾common sense ?只要可以brainstorm同pitch到正idea的人就可以做得好好。(我好像(直頭)講緊廢話hahaa。但seriously,由sale自己,sale一個product,一個idea,一間公司,要突圍而出談何容易。代言人賺gum多錢不無道理。)
  • 有云”女子無才便是德”,但小女子乃無德亦無才。這個秋冬終於realized到我是
    • (1)無德無品
      (例如:喜歡主動幫人?有愛心?準時守信? 有耐性?有交代?誠信? 有口德,不說三道四?做事光明磊落,不得過且過?責任感?專一?有情有義氣?勤奮?不會不擇手段不功利主義?嘩 真係一樣都無。)
      (有云”朋友是一面鏡子” 。因為一樣quality都想不到。於是鼓起勇氣問了幾個可信賴的朋友。大家都巧妙曲線回答:“跟你做朋友就不是單單因為你的人格。”  “你不是壞人就好了。”   )
    • (2)無才無天分
      (例如:學業就不在話下,體育?音樂?寫作?琴棋書畫樣樣“叮”。)
    • (3)無興趣
      (unless中意有型o架仔都算係興趣)
    • (4)無樣

BBC bookworm quiz

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
(i have read 11 of them ..7 of them are required texts in eng lit / chin classes..yeah i am literate! )

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen   (movie only)

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (first chapter, haha)

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (first chapter, haha)

5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte (SAT Kaplan version + chinese version)

8 Nighteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger (Can I double-bold it? read it 3-4 times already)

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger (movie only)

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens (movie only)

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini (thanks Hayley!)

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Berniere

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden (This is good)

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel

52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen  (movie only)

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children– Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (chinese version)

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Every Step Counts

  • 今天香港學生會的活動,undergrad竟然是majority,時代變遷喔。
  • are we all subconsciously motivated by fear?
  • after failing my PE classes every year since primary 1…i finally finished all PE requirements in my life!! oush
  • 無得唔gur,DGS d alumni真係個個都gum犀利同有氣質。//中國來的同學都係個個都gum厲害同有野心。暫時找不到任何counterexample。
  • 周公是我的第一號情人,也是我第一號敵人。因為你,我每天都活在不同時區
  • 方皓玟的新歌wont you stand很好聽。是新港產片婚前試愛的主題曲。垃圾片卻配上這麼有情調的歌,浪費。
  • from MITFML: “As an underclassman, I regularly pulled all-nighters to get work done and study. As an upperclassman, I involuntarily pass out each night by 10pm and have to seriously bust my balls during waking hours to get stuff done. FML and FMElderlyCircadian Rhythm.” ….this is exactly my problem =_=
  • shy, lazy, socially awkward, incompetent. : <

香港卡通:3

    你識幾多套? 

  • Sailor Moon
  • 小丸子
  • 忍者亂太郎
  • 為食龍少爺
  • 伙頭仔昆布 (played in 1992!!)
  • 叮噹
  • 毛查查
  • 皇家雙妹嘜
  • 飛天少女豬事丁
  • 怪盗st tail (yeah x 6~ ♪)
  • 幽遊白書
  • 不思議遊戲
  • 幸運超人
  • 咕嚕咕嚕魔法陣
  • 晴天PigPig
  • BB保你大
  • 四驅兄弟
  • 華納動畫天地
  • 中華一番
  • 反斗小王子
  • 哨牙超週記 (おそ松くん!!!! 超難找!)
  • 娛樂金魚眼

//到了此時此刻我還是真的想親手把你煎皮拆骨,替月行動、警惡懲奸!

//my 24.9oo TA: “asking a linguist how many languages he could speak, is like asking a doctor how many diseases he has.”

//my stat professor: “if you don’t want to know what ANOVA is, you can just stand up and leave.”  …
“so why do I have to derive this? (silence..) Well, can you people just not look at me with such blank faces and eyes that say  ‘i jus dont care’ ?”

//a chinese MBA girl next to me in the canteen..:”i am pretty sure New York City is in New Jersey, you don’t believe me? I will google it now for you.”…i hope her interviewer would ask her this question first before anything else……….= =….it’s like saying “u know, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is indeed not in Massachusetts.”