Monday, March 02, 2009
@2:50 PM
FYP WOES
I've never burnt midnight oil for all my Econs projects. FYP is an absolute exception. I stayed up the whole of yesterday night rushing out the unfinished parts. Only managed to catch some winks of sleep this morning at 7.
We are supposed to hand in our draft today.
But! ARGH. Who asked me to spot a mistake in our data in the middle of of night, and realised that our significant regression results turned out to be a 'deceit'. It left Gaby and I pulling our hairs the whole night, trying to find a solution to the problem. OK. I have just worked it out. Not as good as the previous results, but..at least they are all presentable enough.
I asked my supervisor for one day grace. He is really kind enough to give us. But! We must really really hand it in tomorrow!
Can't wait.
I dont exactly like working deep in the night when everyone is sleeping, and the house is in dead silence. But fortunately, Joe Hisashi's melodious music of animes like Ponyo, Howl's Moving Castle, Mononoke etc accompanied me throughout the serenity of the night. In fact, I have been listening to the songs contains in "Joe Hisashi in Concert 2008" these days while I was working on my FYP. I was and still am totally swept by the beautiful seamless music made by the 600 strong musicians and the talented soloist singers on stage. The concert inspired me so much that I feel like taking up violin lessons and hopefully be pro enough to be part of a sumphonic orchestra. Hah. Wishful thinking.
I side-tracked too much.
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Speaking of FYP, I was rudely reminded of the double tragedies that took place in ntu this morning;
A final year Engineering student stabbed his supervisor and thereafter, slit his own wrist and jumped to his death at S1.
The incident left me dumbfounded, completely. I never expect such thing to happen in my own school and what's more, the student is also doing his FYP like I am. Though I know neither the student nor the teacher and that I was not in the crime scene, I remain ultra disturbed by the tragedies, probably bcos it's something quite close to heart.
FYP can't be that stressful to drive such impulses right?!
I sympathized with the family of the deceased and the injured lecturer.
Yearn for the days of innocence
