The Charge Up
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Y’know, it’s nice to hear from people who you think don’t read your blog. Xian Ming did that, Jennie too! So once again, thanks for all you guys who do read my blog. Leave more comments lah..
I’m putting the grudge with my roommate aside. It’s time I learn how to be emotionally affected by little things like it. It’s time for me to charge up, to fuel up for the challenges awaiting me this semester.
Me and s00kwei went Mid Valley on Sunday. As a matter of fact, it’s the first time I went there since coming to study at TARC. Haha.. my main purpose for going that far was to get a book on design patterns. I tried searching for “Design Patterns in C#“, but turned out they don’t have stock. So I saw this one, Head First Design Patterns. Fliping through it will give you a little surprise. It’s unlike any professional book I’ve come across. I mean, it doesn’t contain pages and pages of small words. Instead, it uses a fun, conversational style with plenty of diagrams, illustrations and pictures to explain design patterns. I asked s00kwei’s bro to check it’s rating: 4.5 stars, 150 votes. That was all the convincing I needed :p
Another surprising thing at Mid Valley was GSC. The last time I went there, the queue for tickets were so long, I couldn’ even see where it ends.. but guess what, we managed to get tickets (for Rob-B-Hood, 4:40pm) at around 3:30. There were only like, 2 dozen or so people queueing up. As for dinner, every restaurant there seems to be packed to the brim. s00kwei had an ulcer, so KFC and McDs were a big no for her. Ended up at Kenny Rogers, and the bill came to 41. Ouch, no more going out for the month.. haha..
Semester’s started now.. already have some assignment papers, notes etc. And like every semester, the dilemma is whether or not to buy the text books. You see, there’s quite many factors to consider: the price of the textbook as compared to photocopying the entire book, how much of the book will the syllbus actually cover, is the lecture notes enough, is the lecturer good or not, and whether I will actually read the extra parts myself. So right now, I’m considering buying only one textbook: Software Engineering. The others under considerations are Operating Systems and Database Systems.
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