Week 5 Part 2

don't you think the civil service is guilty of the above mentioned? so if they send in external validators to validate the organizations

1) who validates the external validators themselves?
2) and erm.. who validates the guys at the top? lol. voting? yeah rite.

Week 5 Part 1

I dropped my Lebesgue. So no more shit anymore.
Left with only algebra and complex analysis.
Now. I feel more like a tourist again. Lol. Ok time to watch more videos.

Week 4 Part 4

going to chilliwack tomorrow.
a maze full of maizes (corn)
some farms.
countryside.

ok. nothing much. just updating my location. haha

Week 4 Part 3

my measure theory prof was talking abt there's a possibility that the planets in our solar system might be thrown out of orbit due to the possible unstable nature of the orbital patterns that might take place in the next billenium. and a mathematician almost proved it, until he realized that some of the divisors were zero. dynamical systems for you.

Theorem 1.1

If you understand UBC Maths, then you will find NUS Maths horrendously easy.

Direct Proof

Let any x in UBC be a Maths student.
Buy him a air ticket to undergo a one semester exchange in Singapore
4 months later, he skips all his classes and he attains a A for MA3111 and MA3218.
Then x finds NUS Maths a breeze.

Proved.

Sorry i'm talking shit. Astro a bit boring today.

Week 4 Part 2

argh. i failed my second algebra assignment. ok.. maybe partly cos i completely forgot to do one question. but that doesn't discount the fact that if i got 10 marks for that question, i would still only have just passed my friggin assignment.

anyway, complex analysis just got easy again. gee. cauchy goursat theorem and fundamental theorem of calculus.

but i'm getting partitioned into many pieces again by measure theory. sigh. hope i pass this assignment.

aiyah i resign to fate already. if i screw up the measure theory module, then so be it. do special sem lo. sibei sian.

Week 4 Part 2

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Check this website out. This person owns the blog, where he collects postcards from all kinds of people from all walks of life, from all corners of the planet. The postcards? People write their darkest secrets on them, relating the background or image of the postcard to the content on the card. Some entries are great, some sorrowful, some sick. Well... I read it every week. Kinda interesting.

Hey don't look at me. If I did that, most of my postcards would be lamenting on the existence of Cauchy and Riemann.

Damn. If I reckoned if I master Measure Theory, wow I can possibly do FM, Probability Theory and lots of other stuff.

Oh well, I'm talking gibberish that only a few readers of my blog will most probably understand.

Hmmm, I ate my lunch an hour ago. Then I decided to play a bit of the piano below the cafeteria. After hitting a few notes, the alarm bell rang.

I didn't know fire alarms were allergic to Hanseltonian music.

You are The Emperor

Stability, power, protection, realization; a great person.

The Emperor is the great authority figure of the Tarot, so it represents
fathers, father-figures and employers. There is a lot of aggression and violence
too.

The Emperor naturally follows the Empress. Like an infant, he is filled with enthuiasm, energy, aggression. He is direct, guileless and all too often irresistible. Unfortunately, like a baby he can also be a tyrant. Impatient, demanding, controlling. In the best of circumstances, he signifies the leader that everyone wants to follow, sitting on a throne that indicates the solid foundation of an Empire he created, loves and rules with intelligence and enthusiasm. But that throne can also be a trap, a responsibility that has the Emperor feeling restless, bored and discontent.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

huh??? dunnoe. no comments. at least i'm not the jester, that's for sure.

Week 4 Part 1

Urgh Grouse Mountain. One shagedelic climb of a mountain. I started as a rear scout and ended being last of the friggin pack. haha. weak man.

Huh? I didn't know the founder of Scouts had a trail named after him. But the one we took was the Grouse Grind.

looking peeved at the 1/2 way mark. just when u thought u were there, u're only HALFway there.

yeah. it's darn steep.

view from the top. well if you haven't noticed, i didn't take much pictures along the trail because... i figured it made more sense conserving the energy used in depressing that camera button and diverting it to my legs, which didn't really work very well though. lol.

woohoo
one wicked falcon. it gobbled up a chick WHOLE.

growl. a grizzly bear grizzling on grass. apparently him and his sibling were orphaned from young, hence they were bred in captivity ever since.


foggy sunset
i wonder whether there's actually UV inside this picture. looking at it seems to reproduce that eye piercing glare.



the sun went beneath the mountains in like less than a minute. you could see it descending bit by bit, which was brilliant man.

ok that aside. i spent abt 5 hours doing my complex homework last night. i have 5 homework sets to complete every fortnight, which translates to 10 percent of my grade per homework set. so exam is 50%. urgh.

ironically, even lebesgue seems much easier than complex at the moment. screw the putnam. i need more free time to slack.

ooo, i roughly know how to play boston on the piano. i shall try it at the rundown piano at the commonsblock some time soon.

Week 3 Part 3

fucking pissed with blogger. i typed one long chunk of shit, and it erased everything for no reason.

ah heck la. i give up comparing ubc and nus maths. i wrote one long list of stuff, so screw it.

here are the victoria pictures. the capital of british columbia. blogger lost some of my pictures also. knn.

the view from the ferry

butchart gardens. some mega botanical gardens. entrance free was 24 CAD. but it was a visual treat man. i became a camera whore. took over 200 pictures.

trying to make that bouquet of flowers my headgear.

err what's this leaf?
i also dunnoe what is this
kek hui? hahaha
the bees are pollinating!
rose!
cirrus clouds. you can't see this in singapore man. damn cool the formation.

some japanese samurai gate. i found it amusing, cos this is the symbol that my dad longs for in his favourite jackpot game. oh that's joel, me, lynn and aaron.

got more flower pictures but i'm damn lazy to upload again. i took 200 of them. and all of them are different. yeah. so that's the amount of flora there.

ok here's downtown victoria. some guy busking with his set of drums.

unicyclist balancing while juggling torches

whoa this guy is solid. he uses acrylic spray paint cans to make pictures.

the picture that i bought for 30 CAD.

ok that's all. i gotta do work now. will add more pictures when i have the time.

Week 3 Part 2

wow now i understand how nuclear physics work. when uranium gets hit by a neutron, it splits into barium, krypton and 3 neutrons, which will then further hit 3 uranium, causing 9 neutrons to form.

can you see the geometric progression?

so.. err.. total number of neutrons = 1 + 3 + 9 + 27 + .... = many many uranium getting split = a lot of energy released all thanks to Einstein's equation of E=MCsquare.

one kg of uranium produces 12 billion big macs. so if have 10kg of uranium, you'll have erm.... a mushroom cloud of big macs. lol.

whoa i found another NUS exchange student who's studying maths also. turns out that both of us are the only clowns in UBC, doing maths, and doing lehhhhhbig, cockplex and algaybra. and we're both lost in mathematical Riemann space.

i mean what the crap. Mobius transformation of a complex number and the transformation being a Group in abstract algebra? SMLJ!!! woohoo. don't understand what i'm saying right? i doubt anyone doing Complex Analysis 2 in NUS will understand what i'm saying either.

okok. time to pay more attention to astrology. damn interesting this module.

Week Three Part 1

There's this Maths undergraduate Olympiad in the whole of America and Canada called the Putnam. Well you're competing against people from 500 universities, with heavyweights from Berkeley, Yale, Cornell, Ivy League shit.

Here's the sample paper

Thing is. The median score is 0 out of 120. Yes no shit. 0. Zero. Kosong. Zilch. Nil. And apparently, a Harvard Maths Professor got zero for it too.

So in an attempt to prove a point, I shall try the paper and attend the practice sessions (hey hell, there's free pizza and pop), and attempt to score a single digit score (other than zero), so that in all eventuality I know, I'm smarter than a Harvard Maths Professor. Well, even if I get a zero, I've achieved parity with a Harvard Maths Professor. LOL.

Errr, well, if I'm in the top 100, my lecturer said that you're as good as king anywhere. haha. Cool. So... errr... try a bit la ah? hahaha. maybe i can get into Harvard or MIT with this. LOL.

Damn Astronomy's pretty interesting. Polaris, the North Star right? Suppose you see it during the night, it's actually 430 light years away. So... the light from Polaris actually left in like.... 1478 A.D, just to reach your eye on that very starry night. Ok. I sound bimbotic.

crazy right. come UBC to become a mathematical rubbernecker. more pictures on Butchart gardens next.

Day 12

My lecturer said something in my Lebesgue lecture today.

Suppose God is the supremum of all living beings on Earth. Then in order to prove the existence of God, you'll need to find the supremum in the universe. So then, is there an existential supremum in this universal set?

What the fuck?

So he related it to sigma algebra and he was talking about whether it was possible to find the smallest possible family of sets which still remains a sigma algebra. and erm.. well, it exists.

What the fuck x two?

You know, I'm really hoping i'll pass. Even complex analysis is getting slightly ridiculous. Transformation of multi layered Riemann surfaces into a singled valued function for Logz, sqrt(z(1-z)) and whatever not.

But well at least, astronomy and geography is really interesting. with great lecturers of course. so... there's still some consolation

ok mahjong in one hour time. time to gamble.

Hostel Interior

I realized I haven't uploaded any pictures of my room yet.

the tons of brochures and pamphlets that i've collected. there's also a fixed deposit brochure. wow fixed deposit here is 4.1%

my humble bed, long enough to fit me. i think it has to be long la. so many tall ang mohs around here.
my workspace
my freaking gigantic wardrobe
my clothes. please rotate your head 90 degrees to the left.

trying to iron my clothes but like shit. apparently, i used the divider from the cupboard and placed it on the chair as a backing, hoping it will be a good ironing board, but............................ haha let's not go there. i gave up and threw everything into the dryer instead. -_-

8th october (thanksgiving)
9th october (algebra mid term)
10th october (lebesgue mid term)
12th october (atmospheric mid term)
16th october (atmospheric lab exam 1)
19th october (astro mid term)
november 27th (atmospheric lab exam 2)

my exam timetable. zzz my birthday is the mean. lol!

Day 9 (Death By Lebesgue)

Huh. Axiom of Choice? Ok. I'm absolutely clueless.

I think life's going to be tough shit man.

And guess what, the ang mohs are freaking smart. hahaha

Day 8 (Death from Abstract Algebra)

sian. first lecture and the maths professor, who's a she, went at bullet train speed, giving out an assignment that's due in 2 days time. and i doubt she even covered enough material to complete the assignment.

thank goodness for gordon's notes. or not i would be pretty screwed.
but i think i'm rather screwed at the moment. cos i don't quite know how to start the questions most of the time. hahaha.

kkk i will post pictures of my room tomorrow, when i finish my 9am - 2pm lesson, without a break in between, that is.

Day 7

I'm a bit shagged from blogging so much. Breakfast is darn good. Scrambled Eggs. Pancake with maple syrup. French toast.

Then afterwards it was time to go to North Vancouver. Via public transport, the only way was the seabus (i.e. the ferry)


Arrival at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Entrance fee was about 20 CAD.




Yes. My expression says it all. I don't really like high places.























ok la. enuf. i can't iron my clothes properly because i don't have an ironing board. so i gave up and threw everything into the dryer. zzz. gotta get my arse to seattle chop chop and get all the cK and levis