The happiness and sadness of a band 5

Today, I got my MUET results. In fact I knew the results at midnight today (1am something). I have received an sms reply stating that I got a band 5 for myself. For the first moment I felt surprised, I have never expected myself to get a band 5 after making so many mistakes in the reading paper. Imagine that you get more than 15 wrong answers when you normally get only 5 wrongs. This is the feeling I had before I knew my results. I was even afraid that I can't even get a band 4. However, it turns out great. I have achieved a band 5, although it is a super low one (225 marks in total).

Ironically, after thinking much, I started to feel sad. I am sad because those mistakes caused me to be unable to get a band 6. I am just a mere 35 marks short. I could have get a band 6 if I did better in reading and speaking component. It was my mistake. Now I am going to consider whether to retake the test again. I might get a band 6 by then, who knows?? Most of my friends are taking it again, why don't I take it again so that I can still join them while studying...hmm...this must be taken into serious consideration. One wrong move can cause my future to be wiped out...

This is the picture of my slip:

A New Start With An Old Classroom

It is now 3 January 2010 (Sunday), the first day of school. Today morning, I woke up happily. I was hoping to get a better classroom, talk to my friends and perhaps get to know a few more girls.

However, when I reached school, all my imaginations, my dreams, my hopes gone poof. The new building in our school is still under construction, so it is unusable. There are more form 4 students this year, causing the opening of 4tm3 and 4tm4 (I don't know whether 4tm4 exists, I was told about it by my friend). Due to the existence of new classes, the number of classrooms is not sufficient to cover all the classes. Therefore, as a measure, the school moved them to the going-to-be upper six's classrooms. We, as the new upper six students, have no luck to get what we supposed to have. We got asked to go back to the old classroom which we used when we were in lower six. You cannot imagine the condition of the classroom if you have not seen it before. It's a former toilet and it is small. It is a disgrace of the school that when there are guests coming to visit the school, they walk-by every classroom except ours.

We then tried to reason with the teacher who is in-charge. The teacher then told us to be patient and endure while the new building is being constructed. Once it is done, we will be moving to somewhere else (not a confirm answer that we will be using the new classroom though). I can't see any reason to ignore us, form 6 science stream physics class while attending to the condition of the other forms. Are we incompetent? They always say that they will treat us as young adults. But did they do it? Is this the place where young adults should be studying? A toilet?

Sigh...There's nothing we can do now, just hope that the building would be done soon...

Here comes 2010

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!

What's there to be happy about? There's nothing for us to happy anyway, other than more arguments, more money sucking events, more political issues...

First, let me make a wish. I'll write out this wish right here, so that him who grants wishes can see anytime he wants. What I want is something that can be seen yet cannot be seen. I want a good results for my STPM and my MUET. I want 4A (not A-) for my stpm and a band 6 for my MUET, then hopefully I can get into NTU or any prestigious university OUTSIDE of Malaysia. Please let my wish come true. I will be very very very happy for it.

Second, I would like to say something. Few minutes ago, I found out that I have to pay RM40 for a gathering thingy of my former class if I am to go. For a stingy person like me, RM40 is a big amount of money (for just 1 meal). If I am to choose, I will choose to spend the RM40 with my friends (you know who I guess) to eat something nicer in Penang Island or I will choose to save the money for future uses (e.g. buy something I like).

According to the intel I've gathered, the gathering is going to be a prom/ball-like. Personally I think that this is pointless. This is Malaysia. There's no point to make something like that, for teenagers like us. If I am to plan this thing, I will make it simple, e.g. eat at a normal restaurant that serves delicious food like Look Yuen which we only have to pay for about RM12++ each for a large variety of food.

Other than that, I've realise that the time-interval between gatherings is too short, thanks to Ivan who pointed that out and reminded me. I believe that gatherings should be done 5 years once, at least. However, this thing is an annual stuff, which is too frequently done. It will not be precious for some people as they might think that 'If I missed this one, just wait for next year's'.

After all that I've said, I hope that my opinions can be taken in as an opinion although I am nothing but a small pawn in their hands. However, when things get concerned about MONEY, I will get very serious and might rebel. That's all I want to say. Have a happy new year.

Rynn @ Queensbay Mall

Today is Christmas Day. I was thinking of going out to somewhere instead of staying at home for nothing. Then suddenly I heard my mother saying that we are going to Queensbay Mall. I followed without questioning. When I reached there, I came to a consent that Rynn is coming for a promotion of his new TV Drama 《高校铁金刚》 along with the other artists.

I bought a set of original DVD of that TV drama and obtained their signature face to face. I shook the hands of each of them. Rynn is very handsome, I'll have to admit that although I feel a little...jealous...LOL. 梁祖仪 looks very pretty, whether in film or reality.

Below are pictures taken in that event.

~My New Earphone~

I've bought the earphone as I said last time. It is Sony Ericsson HPM-82 Walkman Earphone.

>>HPM-82<<



Review:

The package contains the earphone, and 2 extra set of earbuds of different sizes. The regular sized (normal) is fitted on to the earphone by default. However there's a bigger set and a smaller set, for those who has big or small ear holes.

This earphone is basically the same as HPM-70. Contrast to its counterpart, this earphone comes with a remote control. It has 5 buttons with preset function (Play/Pause, Next, Back, Volume Up and Volume Down). The buttons are quite sensitive although there are some critics of it having a delayed response. This is the major advantage of HPM-82 over HPM-70. The remote control is also the reason that I chose this over its counterpart. Imagine you are doing something and you left your phone playing songs in your pocket. It would be convenient if you are able to switch between songs or turn up or down the volume without going all the troubles into you pocket for the phone.

The fast plug is quite easy to be plugged into the phone. However there is a small delay before it is detected by my phone. I wonder if this is a problem from my phone itself or from the earphone.

The volume of music of this earphone is quite loud. I have to put the volume to a low level (3 bigger dots from the left) compared to without it (1 dot from max).

The bass is not bad (tested with Black Eye Peas' Boom Boom Pow), especially when the equalizer of the phone's walkman player is set to MegaBass (only available in Walkman series, try flash it if you want, and if you dare). Clear voices can be heard with an acceptable quality (try Celine Dion's Beauty And The Beast). Overall the sound quality is not bad. I have never tested the other good earphones ($$ factor), but I can assure that this earphone worth the money spent for it.

Something about physics

Few days ago, my friend asked me a question related to normal force:
Is it R cos Ө = mg or mg cos Ө = R
I'll post a picture here


After thinking and asking here and there, I have come to an understanding that it is mg cos Ө = R

Here is my explanation. Tell me if I am wrong.

when no other external forces are acted upon the object, R can only be less than or equal to mg, but not greater than mg. Am I correct?
Therefore when considering the equation
RcosӨ = mg
cosӨ = mg/R
since that mg>R, mg/R > 1
cosӨ = 1 would be impossible
Therefore this equation is wrong.
However when considering the equation
mg cosӨ = R
cosӨ = R/mg
since that mg>R, R/mg < 1
cosӨ < 1
Therefore this equation can be used.

However, under different situation where R is not dependent only on mg, the equation might be different.

A lot has happened...

"A lot a lot has happened..." This sentence can be very very very very familiar to those who has read 'Rosario + Vampire' manga or watched the anime before. I used this word because it certainly happened to me. I did a lot of things in this year-end holiday.

First, I have changed my phone. Well, to be precise, I changed the firmware of my phone. I can't afford to buy a new phone. I wonder why phones are so expensive...I flashed my phone's firmware from K550i to a walkman phone W610i which the sound quality is improved by a lot. The music player also upgraded to walkman player 2.0 which has many new functions compared to the one k550i has. The acoustic driver has been changed, I did not use w610i's original acoustic driver. Instead, I used the one from w880i. It is much much louder and clearer, I am so glad that my phone's speaker can support this strong driver. However, my camera has lost its Cyber-shot logo while engaging the camera function. Although the camera quality is said to be the same as the one before flashing, I changed the camera driver to 'Most High Quality (MHQ) 2.39' driver, hoping to become better. However, I did not find any difference. Maybe it is because I have a bad photo shooting skill, so no matter what camera I use, the photo still is lousy... I plan to change the housing of my phone to w610i's housing, which will then look completely the same as a w610i. Then I will change my earphone to HPM-82. Which should be changed first depends on the price, if you ask me, I will change the earphone first, for better sound quality.
Quality > Appearance

Talked so much, I am not thirsty, better get myself some water. Gulp...So refreshing...okay, let's continue

Then, I went to Genting, for a music party of Rynn - All About Rynn. It looks fun to go to Genting right? wait till you see my schedule...
11/12/09 10.30pm Get on bus (from Kulim First Travel Agency)
12/12/09 2.30am Stop for coffee (drink coffee in the middle of the night?)
12/12/09 3.10am Continue heading towards Genting
12/12/09 5.X0am Reached Genting (First World Bus Station)
12/12/09 6.00am Get queue number and deposit luggage and wait by a bench for 7am
12/12/09 7.00am Take breakfast at First World Cafe (buffet, not bad)
12/12/09 8.00am Go to Arena of Stars' booth but find nobody there, guess have to wait till later
12/12/09 8.20am Do nothing but walk here and there
12/12/09 11.30am Go to the booth again, queued for 30 minutes and got the tickets
12/12/09 12.10pm Buy lunch near the lobby and then eat in hotel room
12/12/09 12.45pm Sleep like pig
12/12/09 6.30pm Wake up and take dinner
12/12/09 7.30pm Heading towards Arena of Stars
12/12/09 10.30pm Music party ends and head back to hotel
12/12/09 11.30pm Too bored, then go for video games
13/12/09 12.20am used Rm10, simtia(心痛), go back to sleep
13/12/09 7.30am Go eat at McDonald (the waiter there can't speak English, wtf)
13/12/09 8.30am Buy newspaper and head back to hotel room
13/12/09 10.00am Watch Tom and Jerry, then Barney and Friends (too bored)
13/12/09 12.00pm Check out and take lunch
13/12/09 1.15pm Get on bus to go home

Very boring right? However the music party was fun. Too bad the people who sit behind me was talking loudly from one end to another end. In between were at least 5 people. Annoying...other than that, it was great. I even registered for Rynn's Official Fan Club. (funny though)

Now I am back in Kulim, hoping to buy the earphone and the housing as soon as possible.

Btw, I forgot to post a new post on 6 Nov 09. I bought a new computer. Here are the specs:

CPU : AMD Athlon II x4 620 2.6GHz
Motherboard : Asus M4A77TD PRO
RAM : Kingston DDR3 1333MHz 1x2GB
HDD : Western Digital 500GB SATA
GPU : Sapphire ATI HD4670 1GB
Optical Drive : Samsung Super Writemaster DVD-RW
PSU : Cooler Master 500W Extreme Power
Chassis : Cooler Master Elite 310
Monitor : Samsung SyncMaster 2243SW 21.5" Widescreen 1920x1080
Speaker (old) : Logitech R-20
Mouse : Logitech Gaming MX-518
Keyboard : Logitech Internet Pro Desktop

Logitech never fails me, mouse, keyboard, speaker (might want to buy a webcam if $$ is not a problem)...even Logitech MOMO Racing Force Feedback.
Samsung monitor is awesome, I love Full HD...
Sapphire ATI HD4670 is cheap while having a moderate gaming graphics capability. This is all I have to say, I LOVE MY COMPUTER!!!!!