Monday, October 11, 2004
hmmm havent wrote here for more than a week... welll i'm kinda on a delf declared holiday now... after 2 horrible tests last week... metric spaces wasnt that bad but complex 2 wuz... disasterous... haha anyway tmr vice dean wants to see terence and i... for something regarding honours project... haha i seriously hope it's not abt the fact that we are gonna complete the programme next sem... haha i hate all the nagging abt how i shld go slow and not sacrifice my grades... haha i mean 2nd uppers aint that bad considering i'll be doing masters rite?
oh well.. on a happier note... i talking to tkm last monday... regarding him being my honours supervisor... he provided me with 2 projects one relating to group theory and the other ring theory... guess which i chose... if u guess ring theory then... haha u oughtta go bang ur head on the wall... hahaha that wuz something abt how some rings haf ACC instead of ACCP and how some have DCC and some kinds of rings with some kinds of residue... haha din really pay attention... haha cos i already half decided then to do the groups one... he walked over to his book shelf and picked out a book... "Relfection Groups and Coexter Groups"... haha that wuz to be the topic of my honours thesis in time to come... haha yesh i readily accepted it and he started to explain abt it... he aslo asked other stuff relating to my academics so eventually he found out i wuz trying to comploete the course in 3 yrs instead of 4.. haha he wuz well... frankly a little amused... he kept saying "3 right not 3 and a half rite?" haha... oh well... most pple think terence and i are nuts anyways... oh then i proceeded to ask him abt studying in UK since of course he got all his degrees including his PhD (waaaaahhh) from Cambridge... haha yeah he asked if i am on scholarship and when i sed yes he sed pity cos they prob wun allow the cambridge course... haha so he recommended Oxford and Imperial... when i asked abt Queen Mary he sed it's also in the tier one band of maths depts in UK also... haha but he strongly recommeds imperial cos the person who influenced his research interest the most is apparently lecturing there... haha he then kindly offered to look thru the courses available at both imperial and queen mary and see if perhaps i could do an honours proj relevant to these courses... haha well a few topics came up... lie algebras, representation theory, etc... oh he also offered me a topic on young tableaus... haha... anyway he eventually found out that his "SHI DI" wuz lecturing at queen mary... haha shi di being the PhD student of his supervisor right after he got his PhD... yeah anyway it's prob not that impt for me to decide now... haha must mainly get thru this sem first... haha
anyway, yesterday we went to pasir ris park for some silly mangrove thinggie cos i'm taking thsi SS module on biophysical enviroment of singapore... haha i wore army boots cos i tot it would be dirty and wet but sadly the main mangrove wuz closed... and the pple wearing sandals and slippers got away... haha but i decided to my it worth my while so i grabbed yongqiang and we treaded in to the mangrove swamp by climbing thru fallen plants and uneven grounds... haha took quite a few photos... haha quite fun i must say but rather tiring... havent done something liddat for a long while... haha felt like i wuz a p1 kid on excursion again... haha
haha okie.. gonna have dinner... prob gonna watch wimbledon tmr... haha okie.. tilll i'm more free... and less lazy... haha
{6:28 PM}
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