Thursday, August 19, 2004
hmmm very sian now... gonna skip set theory lecture later at 4... haf only finished 2 out of 7 tutorials for next week... better start on the rest esp analysis on metric spaces... arrrgghh...
the confusion has begun... complex analysis is abt to kill me again... even though TWK is teaching i still have a bad feeling abt it... can't remember anything abt it... all the Cauchy Goursat Theorem, the Cauchy Residue Theorem, Cauchy Integral Formula, singlarities, pole etc etc... arrrggghh... wat have i gotten myself into?!?! number theory doesn't seem to be much easier as well... luckily i bought the reference text today... hopefully will be able to catch more material tmr...
rings wuz pretty ok today la... except there were quite a few mistakes in TKM's notes... haha but i can really understand... and relate... afterall i too prepared notes that had lots of errors in them... haha... well algebra seems to be going along just fine... which affirms that my decision to remain in pure maths and in particular, abstract algebra, was a right one... well i guess i shld also start thinking abt wat to do for my honours project... shld i approach TKM now? or maybe lang mong lung?? hmmm the pple who end up doing algebra for their honours or masters research seem to be the creme de la creme... rest end up doing either analysis or OR... decisions decision... shld speak to TKM after the first mid term... hopefully i will do well enuff to convince him that i am a suitable candidate to be his student... haha
hmmm oh speaking of which... he mentioned today that when he wuz in Cambridge, the tutor-undergrad ratio wuz 1:2... that's soooo cool... if only they could have it in NUS as well... i sure dun mind paying more... haha after all MOE's paying for my education... haha... well if i do well this sem... i think i will try for ISM in group theory next sem... hopefully also with TKM... that way i will be able to get more out of the lessons since i think my interest lies in abstract algebra... haha...
terence sez he prob be applying to Imperial to do graduate studies... so i'll prob apply there too... arrrghh.. but i need 2 recommendations... 1 from TKM and another from some other prof who i haf to get to know soon... haha deciding between CHH and KKM... TWK would have been a good choice if only i had not skipped his tutorials in sem 3 and did badly for complex analysis... oh well... shall leave that till later to decide... for now... need push myself ahead of the lectures... lagging behind liao...
oh oh... condolences to ronald... he din exactly play a good match against boonsak yesterday but well i can understand the immense pressure he was probably under... good job of reaching the quarterfinals anywayz... hope 2008 will see him making it to the finals... haha... oh and congrats to mia for reaching the finals too... haha hmmm henin-hardenne seems to be back from time off the courts too... maybe this olympics will be like her jumpstart to claiming the us open grand slam next... hee... oh ya... got this really nice poster of her... from adidas... cool...
ok ok time to do a bit of reading up for set theory since i will not be going for his lecture... haha ciao!!
IA IA!!
yes yes still going for the gold...
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