2nd Quantum Chemistry exam

Just finished my 2nd exam of Quantum Chemistry yesterday.
In my uni's college of engineering, we have up to 3,4 exams a semester for the harder subjects.
The logic behind it is so that student don't have to crack their hard and study too much during the mid-term and final exams.

There are pros and cons to this tho.
Pro is that you have more time to prepare for the exam because you don't have any other exam during this period and the amount that we need to study per exam is less.

The cons however, includes spending too much time preparing for 1 exam and neglecting other studies, assignments, revisions etc.

So right now I have tons of stuff to catch up with in subjects like Biochemistry, Reaction Engineering, Biotechnology etc.

After having 1-hour exams for 2 years in Dongyang Technical College, I was surprise that the exams in this uni last is like other normal uni and M'sia, taking 1, 2, or 3 hours depending on the subject and professor.

So after the 2.5 hour exam last night went for a drink with 2 seniors and another of my friend who's taking the subject as well.

Spent nearly a week preparing for it. Though I know the result is not going to be beautiful, I'm glad that I put it a lot of effort^^

Played from 10pm till 2am ^^
Now I understand why Koreans drink so much and play so much.
There's just too much stress~~~

3 more weeks till final exams and 1 more month till summer vacation~~

1st Exam in Korea University

Had my first exam after transfering to Korea University last week.
All in all I sat for 6 papers in one week, which is very uncommon for most students in my uni.

Was quite nervous as this is the real challenge in Korea after 4 years.
The past 4 years was spent learning language and studying in a technical college, which relatively wasn't that hard.

Though I didn't expect some easy question, the test was far from what I expected, except for Marketing^^

Did quite poorly for my second paper, Reaction Engineering and last paper, Quantum Mechanics.
For the last paper, I was so tensed and pressured the previos night that I couldn't concentrate and study. So I slept early, woke up late and started preparing for the exam at 11am.

Thank God that the exam was at 7pm, which gave me about 6-7 hours to study for the paper.
Though I did quite bad for the paper, other students didn't seem to do well as well.

However, I think I'm the only one who did terribly for Reaction Engineering. 1,2 of the questions were't that difficult, but I was confused and counldn't think properly and solve it.

Well, it'll be an interesting week, seing my results come out one by one....

Korea University

3 weeks have passed since I came to Korea University.

I had a list of 5 unis to choose from after graduating from Dongyang Technical College, with Hanyang Uni and Korea Uni having the highest possibility.

Ever since my Korean Language Course I wanted to go to Korea Uni because it's one of the SKY university, the top 3 prestigious universities here in S.Korea. The other two being Seoul National University and Yeonsei University, which we couldn't go.

However, I had some dilemma last year due to this ABEEK thing, something related to engineering accreditation etc. Hanyang Uni promised us that we can complete ABEEK within 2 years, but there weren't much assurance from Korea Uni. Though later on they told us that they'll try their best and help us, I was a bit skeptical.

But finally I chose Korea Uni instead of Hanyang Uni due to its name value, though in general Hanyang Uni is recognized for the performance of their Engineering School.

When I made that decision, I had in my mind 70% of not doing ABEEK, because there was a high chance that we need to extend another year if we were to take ABEEK in Korea Uni. (it was confirmed to be so few weeks ago.)

I was excited about coming to Korea Uni and had lots of expectation. Enjoying uni life was part of that expectation: studying hard and play hard. I had in mind a picture where I study with a bunch of friends in the library till midnight on weekdays and we'd go lepak, go movies etc on weekends.

But....things didn't turn out exactly the way I expected...

except the part where I study till midnight.

Most of the time I was studying alone. Most of my friends don't go to the library, and those who goes prefer to study alone.

I don't mind spending hours studying if I understand the subject after putting in my effort.

But it's depressing when after hours of reading, I don't know what I read.

And finally there's no one to play with....most of my Korean friends either stays very far from school or they're busy on weekend as well..

Life is indeed VERY different from my previous college..

I thought I'd be very active in CCC, but I'm having some hard time adjusting to the difference between Seoul South CCC and Seoul North CCC.

C-mens here are very hardworking and they study a lot, compared to my previous college...

So after 3 weeks I haven't build any deep relationship with them..

On the other hand, I feel much closer to the other transfer-student, those transferred this year like me and other seniors who transferred 1,2 years ago.

Though it's still too early to make any conclusion, but in general everything is different from what I expected...

Exam~~ㅠ.ㅠ

Having an exam in 2 days time and I haven't laid my hand on it.
It's the exam that will decide how many points I can transfer to Korea University should I choose to take ABEEK.

In my heart I'm not so sure whether I want to take ABEEK.
On one hand there's this "it'll be very important in the future" "Your degree might not get recognize if you don't have ABEEK" etc
On the other hand I was thinking "I might not be doing engineering in the future" "I want a life in uni, not just study" "I'll be doing master so it doesn't matter" etc

Can't decide yet, but if I get less that 60% in this upcoming exam I will surely NOT take ABEEK^^

The uni told us about the exam 1 week before hand, and they don't even have a given range or scope of the exam questions. Just basic Maths and Physics question.

WHAT DOES THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN??????

I donno. And I have an backache that if I sit for more than 1 hour it starts to hurt.
And I had such a packed schedule throughout the whole week.
And I'm busy preparing for my trip back to M'sia this week~~~

ARRGGHH~~~~~

Well, whatever will be will be^^

Another AI gathering

We gathered last night at SoJeong gsn's house yesterday for our official AI AFTER GATHERING
In Korea there's this "AFTER" gathering after every camps, training, workshop etc^^

Had dinner, something like Curry Chicken and Andong Steamed Chicken. Then chatted till late at night, had some bossam and then watched a movie before falling to sleep.

Think they're going to go skating today and would've love to join them if not for my part-time job.

Well, commitments are commitments.

AI Gathering~^^

Some of you might asks (which I doubt it cause I haven't been updating my blogs and no one has been reading them anyway) what AI is？

Well AI= Asia Impact

It's the name of our short term mission trip group to China.
Actually we're AI 2, cause there was a team who went during summer and we're the second team.

Anyways, we met up yesterday, 5 of us (4 Koreans and me) who didn't pulang kampong or who've came back from kampong met up at 9am yesterday for a movie.

In Korea, there's a Morning Ticket, which costs 4000 won, compared to the normal 7000, 8000 won. So usually poor students like us would rather wake up few hours earlier just to save a few thousand wons~

It was a Korean movie, "The Man Who Was Superman". When I first heard the name I didn't think that it'll be a worth watching, but turns out that it has a lot of things for me to ponder after watching.
Hope you all won't miss it when it's in DVD~

I thought that we'll only be watching movie, have lunch and go back home, but turns out that we lepaked the whole day together^^

From Yongsan we went to Myeongdong where we had lunch and went to a Boardgame Cafe for 2 hours, then roamed the downtown of Seoul (cause one of our member wasn't familiar with Seoul so we decided to show him around).
Walked from Myeongdong to Cheonggyecheon (Cheonggye River) to Insadong and then to Jongno.

It was fun meeting them again (though it's only been a week), and brightened up my otherwise lonely New Year.

BBQ on CNY^^

Went to my senior's house near Korea University and had indoor BBQ there^^
I must admit that it's my first time having BBQ on the 1st day of CNY~
It's much easier to prepare than Chinese food where you need to buy lots of ingredients.
For BBQ, all you need is a just meat~~~ and probably some kimchi and garlic and bean paste to go with it^^

But again, spending CNY eating BBQ is an interesting experience, but not one that I want to have every year.
Hmm....is it the type of life I'll be living if I stay here and work after I graduate?
I prefer the visiting type of CNY back in Msia~~

Anyway, going to my senior's house again after nearly 2 years brings back a lot of memories.
The 1st time I set foot on their house was Feb/March 2006 on the day they just moved to the house.
The 2nd time was about a few weeks later when they had house warming.
And this is the 3rd time...
2 years gone..
Just like that..

Happy CNY 2008~ ^^

Came back from China on the 2nd.
Spent the last 4 days meeting friends and juniors.

Though this is not my 1st time spending CNY overseas, it's some how very different from the previous few times.

In 2005 and 2006, all my friends from my Batch couldn't go back so we ate together, played together and visited each other.

This year however, all my Batch's friends are back in M'sia except for a Malay and an Indian. Haha, guess we're representatives for each of our race^^

Kindda miss the happy joyous Chinese New Year atmosphere back in Malaysia.

Here in Korea though they do have celebration, they celebrate by going to their granparents house, eat there and talk there.
No visiting culture like what we have in Malaysia.

But still, glad that I have juniors and seniors who didn't go back to M'sia.
Spent last night eating "Reunion Dinner" with them and going to my senior's house later today^^

Boasting^^

something that i've come to notice:

I'm right most of the time^^

but the way i convey my thoughts makes people do not believe in me.

and at the end of the day I say "I told you so~"

and I hurt their feelings...

Fast & Pray Training Course

well, actually the name is just 금식수련회, fasting camp/training,
but to me fasting is meaningless without praying, and the whole theme of the camp was more on praying than fasting.

It's a annual camp by Korea CCC.
3 regrets I had last year was
1. Not joining the Fast and Pray Camp
2. Not joining Gideon's Training
3. Not joining 순장 Training

So the main reason I stayed back this winter is to participate in all 3 camps, and STMT as well.

The camp was from Dec 26-29, with a total fast of 7 meals.
It was indeed a great time for me, being away from my normal daily routine and just spending time talking to God and to hear what He has in store for my future.

1 Challenge I had was to start a OCF, Overseas Christian Fellowship in Korea Uni next year.
I'm quite certain it's a task God wants me to do, but well,
if it's not God's will it will just not come into being right?
So no harm in trying~ ^^