My neck and arm hurts. We had our exam in Linear Algebra today and I am glad that I was able to answer all the items. I always like it when I do so, even if my answers are not all correct, as long as there are no items left blank. Another thing that really made me happy this time is the fact that I was able to answer the proving item. :cheerful: After the exam, everyone was asking each other what their answer in this item was and all those kind of stuff. I kind of cannot relate so I merely walked away. 😆
As I passed Landbank (it happens to be situated at school), I noticed that it was already online and many were queuing. I saw Ariel, my roommate in first year, who was already three (or so) persons away from the ATM. I then requested my classmate Lairy, who’s also close friend of Ariel, to go near him and pretend to whisper something but actually pass my ATM card and PIN. Mission Accomplished. 😎
Edit [020108]: Our topic in Statistics today was Analysis of Variance. We were given an exercise to be submitted by the end of the subject. It turned out fine and fun, really. We were tasked to check whether there really are differences in the means of the different samples given. However, we realized that some of the SPSS outputs differ from computer to computer. :faint: In CMSC127 (Database Systems), the exam blew my head away. Like the usual, it was “open-notes”. But because of it, it was really time-consuming answering the essay Q’s. A classmate wasn’t even able to answer the construction of an Entity-Relationship Diagram for an Art Museum because of it. Our teacher already told us in advance that he will not allow any extensions. I myself wasn’t able to successfully finish everything. Nevertheless, I feel very satisfied. No class in Software Engineering because two other groups still need to conduct their interview and in Programming Languages, because all of us were already done with our Prolog exercises. Played Tennis with Bernard, Jan, and Redd. I was pretty dam tired in the end. Another weekend ahead!
Projects in Statistics106 were returned today. Our scores were 24.5/25 and 19/20. I was surprised by the second one. It was on Linear Regression and our model turned out not appropriate, so why is it that it only had a single mistake? Turns out that the item was 30. :faint:
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Last Saturday I attended the Opening Ceremonies of the UP Centennial Celebration in UP Visayas. It was together with the Panay’s annual festival, the Dinagyang. A parade that lasted for about an hour and a half started the event. We walked the streets of Iloilo City under the sun with gigantic speakers on both sides of the road banging different music. For our academic group, I was one of the people who took part in holding the bamboo sticks that in turn hold the cloth tailored with the Centennial colors that, as two groups, read “UP” in aerial view. The parade concluded at the city campus. A program followed. There were UP President Emerlinda Roman and Senator Francis Pangilinan. I was jokingly yelling, “Sharon-ian here!” 😆
At night, I went to SM to watch the first Dinagyang Pyrolymics. I was actually just surfing the Internet when I fatefully realized that there was little signal in my spot and received my classmate’s message about the start of the contest. After maneuvering from a sea of people, I was just in time for the first contender to color the nightsky. The second from the last of the first batch of contenders was the one that really made the most “Wow!” and applause from the audience. Maybe I’ll post a video of it next time. After it, we learned that the next batch will start at 10:00, so we left the carpark to have dinner. We ended up in Jollibee after walking some miles. On our way, I had this conversation with a man:
Man: Does your cellphone fail?
Me: What?
Man: Does your cellphone fail?
Me: (getting the point of “Message sending failed”) No. Are you SMART?
Man: Yeah.
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Man: Do you have extra load?
Me: No. (lie)
My classmate called at my back and motioned who the man was. Then, another from our group who was walking ahead of me came to me and told me that I shouldn’t have talked to the man. I told them about the conversation. My friend said that it’s their modus operandi and that when you give your cellphone to them, it’s sorry for you. True enough, I didn’t think about that possibility. Good thing I was fast in lying. :tongue: If I think about it, I wonder what would have happened if I gave the man my cellphone and he actually ran. 😯
Edit [2008-01-29 14:16]: Holy freak I feel supah light! :angel:
