For the fun of it I shall attempt to type something in code.

"rtygvbn ygbnjuy cftgbhujm ytfvbhg 6yn. tgbnm ygbnjuy tgbnm 6yn." says ZOMG! LOL!

What does

"thun ygbnjuy tgbnmju. vgyujmh bgtyujhm tyughjbnm. vgyujmh. tgbyujhjmn vgyujmh tgbyjnb. tyujhgb tyughjbnm bgtyujhm uytghjmnb ygbnjuy bgthmju 6yn."

say?

Phew, the second physics paper wasn't too bad after all. But then, everyone thinks so too, so I can't say too much.

It's kinda strange that in most cases, where a large group of people compete, it's nice enough just to be able to do well on absolute terms; as long as I'm satisfied with my performance it's likely that I'll be able to get a grade that I'm happy with. It is not so immediately obvious that we are actually competing with one another to get grades higher relative to one another. I mean, we are all aiming for A's, something that can be judged absolutely, and it is not necessary for some people to do badly in order for others to do well, so we can selflessly help each other to achieve their personal best.

However, when 14 people vie for the top 8 places, it starts to become noticeable that in order to be the top 8, there needs to be at least 6 people who are not doing as well as you... the prospect of that is really scary, especially when you've seen all the people following the lesson and knowing how to do every question that you can do.

But oh wells! The selection is over! I'm quite happy with my performance so far, but I don't know how I'm doing relative to the rest. Wish me lots and lots and lots of good luck.

"I can measure it. I can see it. I believe it. Can you?" - Zhang Zi Yi, in a Garnier advertisement.

Realism.

I shall type a random post, and unleash my subconscious thoughts. Well, maybe I'll restrain a little.

Time really goes past like humans eat giraffes. As we all know, replications of humanoids have caused great pains in the cleaning of bathrooms. Generally speaking, things tend not to work in a way, so as a minimise the amount of available green. Mushrooms like the dark; there's no doubt about it. Hunger drives the gastric faculty so peacefully, that no other faculty may compare. Indeed, as free Kois become more readily available, generators will jump around with quibbles in their tiny little carbon brushes. Extraordinarily outrageous, you may say, and I am completely prepared for that. You see, as more dreams get conjured by the proletarian masses, the great pyramid shall reign once again.

March holidays seem so short, especially when you spend most of your time awake doing physics with a bunch of people equally or more enthusiastic about physics problems, with a trainer who is very knowledgeable and interesting.

As a group of about 11, we explored how 3 balls connected to each other would oscillate, the equation of motion of two swinging rods, how heavy a fly must be to walk from one end on a straw to the other so as not to fall off the edge of a table, and the equation of motion of a boy chasing after his girlfriend. We marveled at the expanse of Ricardo's knowledge, the elegance of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian, and how useful complex numbers are. We groaned as we were solving problems that require l33t integration, manipulation of messy trigonometric functions (and their inverses and square roots), and numerous back substitutions. We laughed as we took many simplifying assumptions ("for simplicity, let L=m=g=1"), and abused the differential signs("d(x²+5) = 2x dx"). We've (supposedly) been through 30 hours of physics together just during this holiday. Seriously, it was rather tiring, but fun.

And among us, 3 will have to leave. The rest will spend more time together doing physics.

I must work harder!

One master equation:


It's just a fanciful way of stating that "energy is conserved".
BWAHAHAHAHA.

No ma'am, it isn't what you'd think it is... it's, erm, a Roman play entitled "Thirty".

As if people don't hate me enough already...

Come on let's integrate
Like we did last summer
Yeh, let's integrate
CT one is here!

Random thoughts:

I saw a chicken cross the road yesterday. It's a beautiful rooster. It managed to cross the road safely. As it crossed the road, I wondered: "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Though a more relevant question would probably be: "Why is there a chicken crossing the road in an HDB estate?"


"Du."
"Du Hast."
"Du Hast Mich."

Sounds like a lesson on German grammar, no? Sia lah, subject-verb agreement!

Thou shalt not bash through a math book and expect to learn anything out of it.

Random thoughts:

Imagine asking an online person someone if he or she is a girl in real life. He could ask, "Are you a Girl In Real Life?" No wait, you always use acronyms online. "r u a Girl IRL?" No wait, that can be abbreviated even further, "r u a GIRL?" w00t, so "girl" could be a recursive acronym.

Term 1 is ending soon; I shall rest and sleep like a sleeping bag.

I don't understand why like poles repel and unlike poles attract.

Some chinese children's songs are stupid once they are translated into english. Like:

Two tigers,
two tigers,
[they] run fast,
[they] run fast.
One has no ears,
one has no tail.
So strange,
so strange.

A certain song can be completely expressed in two sentences:

A little mouse climbed up the oil lamp to eat some oil, but it couldn't climb down after that. "Meow meow meow!" The cat arrived, and the mouse tumbled down.

Actually it's pretty sad, 'cos we all know what's going to happen to the mouse after that.

I wouldn't be surprised if english children songs sound stupid when translated into chinese.

But hey, there are songs which have been successfully translated, albeit with some change in content. These include "twinkle twinkle little star" and "old macdonald had a farm".

You. You hate. You hate me.

I'm starting to get angsty. Beware.

I am a bad person. People don't want to talk to bad people. Maybe I should start being a good person. But I don't know what is good, and I can't be a good person because I am actually a bad person. I'm also not sure if I'd like to behave like a good person because people would be talking to the good person instead of talking to me. Perhaps, it's better than having no one to talk to. But of course, I would predict that once I have people to talk to, I would be greedy and want people to sincerely say things I want to hear.

But then, I can't blame anyone. Personally, I'm also not really interested in knowing about other people, and if I were to clock the amount of time I have spent talking to other people, it would probably be less than 5% of my time when I can talk coherently. How can I expect to know people like that? When I think about myself as one of the people in the environment, how can I expect other people in the environment to know me?

Sometimes I see people doing things for each other. I'm envious. Yet at the same time, I don't know what they have sacrificed for this. It seems that one can only take but don't give for a very limited period of time. I don't know if they are happy. They probably won't know if I'm happy either. I don't know who is happier, and I can never know, because once they becomes me and I become them, nothing would have changed at all.

I wonder if I want to be powerful. If I could become more powerful than anyone, there would be no one I can share the joy of being powerful with. But if there is someone else as powerful as me, I would inevitably want to compete with him, and some stress would arise from trying to keep up.

To think of it, the process of keeping up and competing is actually quite fun. Like, what good is a game if there are no adversaries? But it's also not a nice feeling if one is unable to keep up.

No... I don't like this feeling now. Oh noes. Nose. Sone. Snoe. Enos. Eson. Eons. Nsoe. Neos. Ones. Oens. Osen. Onse. Eosn. Seno. Soen. Sneo. Enso. Nseo. Oesn. Osne. Esno. Neso. Seon. That's 4!!