a boring day today... haha supposed to be my badminton day, but the bad luck of this week continues... haha francis got bitten by his neighbour's dog... got fever liao... take care dude... weiquan got essay ta finish and got test tmr... haha all the best man!! haha my last hope... spencer got project discussion cos deadline approaching... haha so cannot play also.. haha so all in all i wasted 7 buck booking the 4-6 slot at jurong sports hall.. haha but nvm... haha play next week i guess... tot i'd spent this time revising my metric spaces but wat do i do? haha i sleep and blog.. haha how utterly unproductively.. haha

hmmm sis playing kings of convenience cd now... haha they are damn good... haha listening to misread now... seriously... those of u not really into pop and hard rock... give them a try... they are seriously not bad... haha dun believe ask gerri... hmmm frankly i really dunno wat genre of music they belong to.. haha

anyway singapore open tickets are on sale liao.. haha i think i shld go get the season ticket... haha cos it's cheaper if i buy it b4 31 oct.. haha waaah i'm taking a big risk.. cos got exams on the 19th... hmmm but nevermind la.. complex analysis II and biophysical... haha think study too much also no use... haha oh well... oh oh jamie's back online.. haha think she shld be going to watch too.. but she sez she prob can get in for free... haa i'm amazed at the number of connections this girl has lor... haha pei fu pei fu!! haha

hmmm for those of u who knew me for a while... remember this UROPS project i ded last sem... on sylow 2 subgroups of the symmetric group? haha yeah and that eventually this recursive popped up and that wuz where i concluded the paper being unable to simplify it to a closed form? haha well during the period where i wuz trying to manipulate the formula... i read up on difference equations which is more or less the discrete form of differential equations.. haha then suddenly something struck me... haha if u have heard of string theory rite then u would noe that it tries to unify the 2 major theorems in physics... einstein's general relativity as well as quantum theory (mechanics)... but the mathematics involved in this is too tough for any mathematician and physicist to handle at the present moment... haha in fact they cant even get approximate solutions for approximate equations!! which really illustrates how difficult it really is!! well i wuz just wondering... the mathematics used in physics nowadays is generally continuous rite... well i'm not a physics major but i believe that in most cases physicists use mathematics on a continuous domain.. does this imply that they are assuming that on the quantum level that everything is continuous?? i mean if string theory dictates that everything can be reduced to strings of finite dimensions then in actuality, we dealing with a discrete structure rather than one of continuous form rite? i mean no doubt approximating it into a continuous form may simply certain initial calculations an computations, but perhaps that also provides more errors that eventually turn into the problems that that face now... so i wuz just wondering if more effort shld be placed into the development of discrete mathematics and it's application into physics... haha i guess these are some of the thing ya think abt randomly.. haha but of course my opinion doesnt really have much basis cos my physics knowledge is limited to year 2 undergraduate physics as well as literature meant for the general public like books by stephen hawking and brian greene... haha

haha wah a reflective day i must say... haha oh terence has helped me conduct my reconaissance... haha aparently... haha KHM IS intending to ask TKM to be his supervisor!! even though he may or may not do it next sem!!! i gotta ask tkm first so at least i would know if a rejection would be due to my inability rather than my RELATIVE inability... hahaha ok ok 3201 test coming up soon... haha shall ask him right after that... haha... no no shall mail him this thurs... haha then i wun be paiseh if he tells me during tut on monday... haha... fingers crossed... pple pray for me!! hahhahaa j/king!!

haha ok la... going to forage for food.. hahahaha...

{4:57 PM}

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Blardy Hell!! Set Theory test wuz damn easy... I HATE HATE HATE such easy tests cos i have a knack for making really really dumb mistakes of which i did today... haha oh well i guess i'm not the sorta person who can do 50 easy questions in 40 mins... I'm more the sort of person who can do 5 tough ones in 2 hours... arrrghh... well it's only 20%... i'm gonna crush the opposition for the exams!! mark my words!!! MUAHAHA... ok... i'm crazy... cos it's late at night (early in the morning to be exact) and i've just finished a nice concise proof that 1+1/2+1/3+...+1/n can never be an integer... hahaha using bertrand's postulate... for those who noe that's the harmonic series which can be extended and proven using some euler thing... haha can't remember...

anyway waaah been a very weird few days... haha hmmm ex students quarrelling cos a guy... specifically the guy with the same surname as me said something apparently not so nice... haha well... i guess guys are liddat... haha well i'm def guilty too... haha hmm maybe it's the SIM clan... nah.. i doubt it... it's a guy thing... haha so girls out there... we're really sorree but we can't help it... we genetically pre-disposed to say such mean things... it's in our blood... JOKING... haha (oh gosh... i sense some very violent protests coming from gerri... hahaha)... it's really human nature la... we want to make pple feel bad but not THAT bad so we utilize sarcasm... which in some instances is more brutal than sticking a knife in someone's chest... haha... oh well... all i can say is... sorree to those i have ever offended but i can't promise i wun do it again cos it seems to be a rather intrinsic part of me... desole...

listening to this farnie album i haf no idea why i bought at dunno where... haha i remember francis laffing and laffing when i purchased it... it's called... beautiful asia... haha kinda fusion music... i've always loved chinese orchestra music along side the conventional phillharmonic sounds... haha so i really dig this fusion thing... haha very soothing... sadly in our culture today... pple usually listen to either one or more often than not... NEITHER... haha it's quite sad actually...haha music without words... (and no... soreee... techno doesnt really count as music in my dictionary... haha) so cool... i miss performing... mengfai just returned me my flute... i haf the urge to take it out and play now... but sadly... air con down... so will be disturbing my neighbours if i do that... i still remember in RJ... i used to practise b4 i sleep around 12 at night and after i brush teeth in the morn at arnd 6... yes yes cos i suck big time so gotta play more often to keep up with the zai pple in my section... haha... loved band sooo much... haha

hmmm supposed to go for quek's lecture tmr as well as to's lecture too... but i think i will skip both and stop mr copier from copying my solution.. haha will meet terence earlier to discuss solutions though... haha hai... bad bad habit nicholas... oh ya.. i really REALLY hope that tkm will accept me as his honours student... i noe i dun really haf da talent... especially if KHM is gonna be asking him as well (pls pls pls dun ask... pls ask ur previous UROPS supervisor.. pls pls pls) *fingers crossed*... praying very hard... seriously i gotta admit... khm is good... be def not as goot as KJ... haha ou xiang!! haha well i'm kinda still thinking if i shld do masters... dunno if i got da calibre... haha dun wanna siah suay in front of those ang mohs in their home ground... haha... oh well settle this sem first then say la... haha

haha ok la... shld be turning in.. haha maybe will go for to's lecture afterall... ok then... bonne nuit!! a bientot!

{1:33 AM}

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i'm amazed!!! haha i got 38/50 for my number theory test... lost to kayjin who got 47!! and this super qiang girl who got 42... haha but the next person behind me got 33 followed by terence with 31... haha so woo hoo!! and to treat myself for a job well done and many more to come this academic year... i have with me now... ta da!! a pint of delicious HAAGEN DAZS strawberry ice-cream... arguably the BEST icecream in the world... yupz... my favourite... haha...

but can not rest... got set theory on monday... hope to do well there too... haha must buck up on number theory too... haha second place is still not to far away... in sight... not like first place... haha...

anyway as preperation for my test on monday, i shall using very basic and non-technical axioms, try to prove the commutativity of the addition of integers... which wuz of course taught to me in this form by monsieur jean-pierre masson... but of course i wun be writting my proof in french even though i did it on the board in french... haha but that will come later.. prob tmr.. haha too tired to think now... haha

okie... saving da rest for tmr!! haha

{9:14 PM}

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hey ya... to 3a1 and 3d1!! all the best for upcoming exams... ace them all!!

woke up this morning with a dream... a dream on the biophysical enviroment of singapore... yesh.. i dreamt of mangrove swamps and seagrass... but more importantly, i dreamt of the fact that i wuz supposed to declare this module as S/U... so i woke up... in the morning and proceeded to log on to declare... and to my horror... i wuz close to 7 hours past the deadline!! and to think i wuz online at midnight last night... sigh... well been msging terence and yongqiang to WHINE... haha but well guess it must haf happened for a reason... maybe i'll get an A+ for this module... fingers crossed really tightly now man... hai... looks like it's gonna be a tough 8 weeks ahead for me... haha... anyway i admit... i'm skipping metric spaces and complex now... feel bad cos i end up leeching on pple like terence limin and hoinam... haha but... gotta go library now to study for set theory on monday... a module i cannot leech off anyone... haha so apologies to all...

okie... gonna eat macaroni for bkfast and go science library to mug MUG MUG!! oh happy bdae to aloysius and lim ting... haha will be eating dinner later with the latter and yongqiang... haha...

okie... mugging time!! cya!!

{9:38 AM}

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haha waaah... another week without updating this... haha clearly i dun haf much discipline... haha speaking of which... i din do much studying even though i have 2 midterms next week and 3 the following... hai... played badminton with francis today... at jurong east sports centre... haha won the first game convincingly lost the next narrowly an lost the decider by quite a bit... pissed with myself when i lost the first game of the next match to 4 i believe... then won the next 2 to 8 and 12 i think... haha overall... tiring... very... and i'm like injured everywhere... right heel hurts when i press it... right knee hurts when i walk... right shoulder dunno wat ligament hurts when my arms is vertically upwards... haha i've a wasted body liao... haha speaking of which... someone... *ahem* just called me a skinny boy... haha which i must admit... i look quite malnourished... haha but it aint my fault... i eat tons!! haha

too bad i wuz born into this era of intense scrutiny on fitness... haha where are the pple i used to eat watever they want whenever they want... haha ok la.. healthy also good i guess... haha go gym 3 times a week?? plus personal trainer... nah... dun wanna spend that kind of money to bulk up and look better... haha ok fine i'm a sore skinny boy... haha but well i think with the sports i play i'm getting enuff exercise.. haha

went for xuanjun's bdae party on sunday after playing tennis in the morning.. haha red but according to ignatius not as red as i wuz in sec 3 during some camp we had... haha i think i really looked like a nice succulent lobster then... haha... welll still going with my plan of tennis on sundays to make sure i'm as tan or a bit tanner than gerri by my birthday... haha

speaking of bdaes... haha just celebrated francis' bdae... haha at starbucks-cafecartel-starbucks... haha had bbq ribs which wuz quite nice... haha and a nice cafe latte after that... run'er and her man were supposed to get francis' presents... haha in the end... she bought him loads of dark chocolate... haha LOADS... haha and guess wat... the 6 dollar topshop skimpy-spaghetti-top that he casually commented that he would buy if he were a girl... haha think he gave it to marie who apparently... haha can wear it... haha... not bad... quite funnie... haha waiting to see the card that marie gave him... supposed to be damn farnie!! haha

hahah my ex ctss students had maths test today... wonder how they did... haha shld be good i guess.. but they got exams starting this friday so good luck to all of ya!! haha well i need some luck myself for lets see... complex analysis 2 and analysis on metric spaces... haha think i can cope with set and graph theory by myself... haha



haha look at that pic... haha i looks so red... that's xuanjun's bdae pic with nus peeps... haha look all with specs except me and the girl in the front... haha... haha there is a farnier pic where i look like chu chu from wu tou gong gong cos of the lighting and the red patch on my face... haha but i aint gonna put it up here... haha...

okie okie... amazing race in 5 mins.. haha going to prep myself for kim and chip's victory... haha yeah!!! hahhahaha... woo hoo... pity the bowling mums got kicked out... i realise that the teams i like usually get kicked out in 4th/5th position... haha... oh well...

okie okie... ciao for now!! hee

{9:35 PM}

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haha ... u red lobster .. yes yes .. we have maths test tdy .. think i can pass la .. heh .. u look so diff with out specs .. ur eyes look small no .. shld be very small ... haa .. anyway .. good luck on ur test/exams wadever tht is .. haa .. *ahem* .. when u going t teach me more french? .. after exams kayy?? need t learn more .. haa .. ciao!

btw: wad is "cest la vie?"
p.s. u so badd ah .. got blog dun tell me .. make me go find myself la .. u gd ah u ... heh .. btw my blog's add is: www.esther-xinyi-me.blogspot.com

By  Esty, at 2:28 AM  

haha... sorree sorree... haha anyway c'est la vie directly translated is "this is the life" but occasionally in french-english translations the "the" becomes redundant... so u get "this is life/that's life" i suppose depending on the context ur saying it... haha

By  20 sec interval... fire!!, at 9:37 AM  

haha... tanner than me?? trust me... it wun happen... besides, i'm going to wild wild wet on saturday!! tt means i'm gonna haf a real good tan!! haha!!

eat whatever they want? whenever they want? sounds like me anytime man!!

com'on! such a memorable chu chu-like photo... u should put it here for remembrance! tt's wat a blog's for ma!! (hiakhiak... of course for us to laff too...)

By  Gerri, at 8:44 PM  

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woah.. been a LONG LONG time since i last wrote... haha... inspired to write now cos i'm eating tau huey... raining outside... and i'm on my bed with a strained cord dangling down ouside my room to the cable modem downstairs... haha

hmmm got a mid-term on friday... on analytic number theory... dun think i'll do well... in fact, CHH sed that usually the highest in class would be around 32 or 33 out of 50... and the rest would either be a borderline pass or an outright failure... haha oh well... time will tell which category i will belong to... haha either the second or the last one... cos the first one should probably be taken up by KJ... haha no doubts abt that...

speaking of number theory... haha terence wuz quite pissed with someone on friday... haha well cos the person blatantly copied his assigment last week... so he refused to lend him his work... haha well i did... haha and that person compied wholesale again... haha terence kept insisting i not lend it to him... but aiyah... it's not in me to reject such a request... haha... plus just b4 we submitted it, i realised my qn 3 wuz sort of wrong so... haha terence wuz saying that now... i'll do worse that that guy cos i let him copy the qns i got correct... haha... no diff la... imho... haha

oh man... it's been such a long while since this topic of copying crossed my mind... haha besides the blatant copiers i managed to discover from ctss 3d1... haha quite a few of them actually... haha... the issue has never popped up for the past 3-4- years? haha... well i guess pple dun even bother to copy if they dun do their tutorials i guess... or worse still.. dun bother to go for tutorials... haha and i am def guilty of skipping classes... haha HEY!!! haha 7 modules a sem is tough ok... try doing it urself... haha well... as long as it's not research papers... i'm quite ok with the copying la... CHH told us there wuz this prof in the states who had this curtain on his whiteboard... he would draw the curtains everytime he left his room so that no one could see the proof he wuz working on... haha well he wuz doing something on the reimann hypothesis or the goldberg conjecture so i guess since 1 million dollars is at stake, the necessary precautions are necessary... haha

well... been a rather lazy week for me... no badminton... no tennis on sunday cos had to go kreta ayer cc for this chinatown heritage food trail or something liddat... haha had loads of fun... running around with my ex students... but felt a little out of place cos the rest of the pple there were so young... haha... nvm... next time nus or whoever organises an amazing race... haha shall go join... haha oh we won 5th... which equates to winning 80 bucks amonst the 4 of us... haha too bad we din take taxis more... if not we may haf won the top prize of 600 bucks... haha

hmmm okie.. like yongqiang sez "hang in there.. one more week to the short break" haha yeah must certainly hang on... cos follwing that will be a sequence of mid terms... set theory followed by graph theory followed by analysis on metric spaces followed by complex analysis 2 followed probably by algebra 2... need to score a perfect score for algebra 2... haha then will go ask TKM if he is free next sem to be my honours supervisor... haha really hope to be able to do a research based project on groups rings or related algebras... haha... hmmm if not then i may consider asking CHH if he think i am suitable of which i think i am not haha) for doing his research project on quadratic forms... haha sounds interesting and requires a little bit of knowledge on principle ideal domains and stuff liddat... haha cool...

ok no proof from me this time... must take a break from studying... oh ya... well... federer thrashed hewitt to take his 3rd grand slam title this year DAMN!! and kuznetsova beat dementieva DOUBLE DAMN to take the ladies title... haha... she really shld not stand beside dementieva... dementieva will prob make an good looking girl average, an average girl look ugly and well... not-so-physically-appealing ones look really really horrendous... haha...



okie nuff sed... for those having exams soon all the best get ur A for maths... haha for those having to write patient writeups and having tests everyweek BON COURAGE!! haha and for those like me slacking... GET OFF UR TUCKUS AND WORK!! haha

ciao!!

{5:34 PM}

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hmmm busy week... busy with work and busy with watching the US open... haha well this week shld be worse... anyway realised that i haven't blogged for sooo long so decided to pop by... yeah... pretty boring day for me... haha oh but kinda fruitful today cos went to study with yongqiang at the hon sui sen library... very good... think i will go there to study more often... haha... need to polish up my ring theory... oh and i have recieved word that i will have graph theory mid term on the 2 oct and set theory mid term on the 27 sept... kinda close... it's only around 3 weeks... but the closest one will be next friday... 17th... analytic number theory... haha sooo gonna die for that one...

very tired after today but still got 2 more tutorial ta do b4 i sleep... haha so shall keep today's short... haha

{8:55 PM}

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busy busy week... me too!! jiayou jiayou all the way!!
to ur midterms n to ur ouxiangs in US open! haha!

By  Gerri, at 10:29 PM  

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Ahhh... the nice wind... the rain... heaven on earth... haha no not the tea... hahahha darn... that wuz really spastic... haha anywayz i confess... I SKIPPED SET THEORY lecture today!! haha i mean the sky wuz beckoning me to return home for my slumber... haha... ok fine... i have a weak mind... haha i'm a sucker for temptations like this... haha

anyway, haven't really blogged for a long while... actually, haven't really come online for a long time... so here i am... trying to write something... haha oh oh US OPEN is currently in progress... so far hewitt nalbandian davenport and of course HENIN HARDENNE is on track to progress thru the ranks... AND!! amazingly henman beat karlovic in the first round!! excellent!! i wuz sooo sure henman would be out since karlovic is renouned for causing upsets... haha way ta go tim!! wooo... haha just hope he doesn't lose steam... haha

hmmm proof for today arr... hmmm nothing much... so i guess i'll resort to give a rather over used and common proof that the collection of all sets is not a set... haha

Claim: The collection of all sets is not itself a set.

Proof. Assume, for the sake of contradiction, that there exists a set of all sets we call A. Now, by the axiom of comprehension, we define another set B:={x ε A : x NOT ε x}. But B ε B iff B ε A and B NOT ε B. Since A is the set of all sets, clearly B ε A is always true, and the statement reduces to B ε B iff B NOT ε B which is a contradiction.

hmmm... i feel so cheapskate after giving such a simple proof but then again.. haha i dun understand the proofs in number theory yet... haha especially those heavily involving dirichlet products and big Os... haha

ok la... enuff for today... gotta rush to produce QTS and KKM tutorials... b4 taking a book at set theory again... haha ciao...

Rain Rain Rain... so hopefully sunday will be bright hot and sunny!! tanning time!! haha

haha quite healthy except for some oily foods here and there... haha like KFC... haha oh oh had Genki Sushi today... not exactly healthy but at least i confessed... haha...

{9:08 PM}

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