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Friday, Aug 24, 2007 - 01:11 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

Week In Brief

Update for the week so far: Brought some of my old textbooks to Buyback Asia for sale on Monday, like last year. I don't particularly like to sell my books, at least not unless I have a digital copy conveniently at hand. Hurry up, Google Book Search Library Project's successor!

The books not covered in last year's list are:

[PC1144] University Physics with Modern Physics 11th Edition by Young & Freedman (almost totally unused)
[CS2105] Computer Networking (3rd Edition) by Kurose & Ross
[PH1101E] Reason & Persuasion by Holbo
[PL1101] Psychology by Ciccarelli & Meyer

Psychology, which was my favourite university text so far, was immediately sold as a "popular" title. Darn.

Tuesday saw me having four hours between one lecture and the next, so I packed my swimming stuff and had a dip in the SRC pool. Surprisingly there were maybe two dozen people who had the same idea despite it being 1 p.m. Mindful of the risk of getting sunburnt, I didn't dally.

The 4 p.m. lecture ended up cancelled (should have suspected something when the prof organized an extra session last week), but there was some unexpected cheer back home as I received an email informing me that my NUS scholarship application was approved, essentially a tuition waiver for this semester. Must thank edchong for this, I didn't realise such a thing actually existed. Hmmm, I feel slightly more obligated to study somehow. Should be a good thing.

Wednesday saw my timetable confirmed after my attempts to swap my MNO1001 tutorial timeslot were in vain. Not completely what I had hoped for, but quite ideal nonetheless:


The Monday free day is very useful when it comes to late Super Sunday EPL matches. The three-hour break on Tuesday is the only disappointing feature, though I guess I can utilize it for a weekly swim. The tutorials are sited quite nicely, so I skip home early if there happens to be no tutorial scheduled for the week, instead of having to wait on campus because they were sandwiched between lectures. The lack of an 8 a.m. lecture is also a welcome first - waking up at 5:30 a.m. is a royal pain.

Thursday saw coincidental participation in NUS Breakers, after I missed last year's event due to a lecture. Slotted in as part of a paper crane-folding assembly line, and did some 15-20 of folds 9-13 as shown on this page. The free wasabi ice-cream after that wasn't appetizing, unfortunately. Give me free iced Milo anytime.



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