Time Is Not Enough...

On 23 March 2008, Sunday, I had a project discussion with Ernita at the Civics Plaza, located opposite Woodlands MRT station at 3P.M. Initially she wanted to postpone the meeting because she did not prepare anything. She said she had not read the required reading. Anyway, I assured her that we should be able to get it done since I had completed some reading. We managed to find a place to sit and discuss at the McDonald's. We left the place at about 7P.M.

On 24 March 2008, Monday, we decided to meet up after school to proceed with the Field of Discourse analysis. Since she had to give tuition and the assumption that Bus 67 drivers that night went missing, we ended up meeting up at about 10P.M. and finished our discussion a quarter past eleven.

On 25 March 2008, Tuesday, we met up again at the Civics Plaza at 10:30A.M. This time, we had Ryan and Lee Ching. We started at about 11A.M. and ended at half past four. Ernita accompanied me to the Sony Style shop at Wisma Atria to get my Vaio carrying pouch.

It seems that we have spent so much time on AAE102 thus far. Actually, we started our project discussion early January and stayed rather focus until after the recess week, whereby we postponed for THREE weeks because of assignments! We are now catching up with the time lost. I hope we will be able to complete this project by next Wednesday because it is due for submission by next Friday. Enough said. Tired and got to get back to work. :(

Good Luck to Myself...

On Monday, 10 Mar, we finally saw through our ALS tutor.

First of all, during the recess week from 23 Feb to 02 Mar, when all of us were rushing to complete our assignments, we were utterly shocked to receive his last minute announcement via SMS. In his message, he wanted us to submit our progress reports to him on the following day! There was no any explanation provided. And so we naively thought that he was trying to find out our progress and perhaps, offer a helping hand. We thought that he would at least acknowledge our emails, but he did not.

So on Monday, a few classmates asked him for the reason. You know what he said? He said that he realised some of his students were clueless on what they should be doing, and hence he wanted our progress reports to ensure that we were all managing fine. Fine, a valid reason he made. But when we asked him why he did not acknowledge at all, he gave us two superbly lame and "out of the world" responses:

1) "On the other hand, when I sent out the SMS, most of you also never replied to me." (insinuating that he did that out of vengeance?)

2) "When I didn't reply you, it means that you could go ahead and carry on with your assignment." (insinuating that we should have taken the initiative to check with him?)

Anyway, one of my classmate sent him two e-mails regarding her assignment. All she got was endless waiting and the replaying of "I didn't receive it" from his mouth. She would probably prefer to hear it over the radio. You know why? Make a guess lah....

Recess Week Day 6...

I started my AAE102 response paper on Tuesday (late again!) and had it completed only on Thursday. How unproductive! My friend said she could just finish the assignment in a day!

 

And on Wednesday morning, I went back to SVPS to help my friend scan her OAS. It took us hours because there is only ONE functioning OAS machine in the school, and the pair before us made some mistakes in their scanning and therefore had to redo the whole process!

 

Anyway, I took an opportunity to mingle with ex-colleagues and April, who was there for her final year practicum.

 

On Thursday, other than completing the response paper, I also managed to submit my progress report for ALS101. Sometimes I really wonder if there is any relationship between my ALS101 tutor and the course coordinator, as both have the same surname. We were all very pissed off when the tutor sent a very late SMS on Wednesday morning to request us to submit our reports by the following day. Hey, he should have informed us earlier, not when we were all inundated with our own assignments! And that was not even the official deadline! I just hope that he will REALLY take a look at our progress reports and offer us some constructive advice. Some classmates lamented that he was not sincere in offering constructive advice. I guess you do not have to blame yourself if you do not get good grades because sometimes, how you perform depends on:

1. who your tutor is,
2. his/her expectations of you and the whole class,
3. his/her knowledge and skills, and
4. his/her willingness to help you achieve better grades.

Enough said.

Yesterday, I met up with Lydia at the NIE cafe at 11:30A.M. I was lucky to see Ludwig and ask him questions on AAE103 assignment. Lydia and I spent more than 6 hours at the library before leaving for Jurong Point.