Archive for October, 2005

唉,我病了

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

吃了几次药后,人也都变到昏昏沌沌了,昨天更是差不多睡足一天呢……不过比较幸运的是我这次生病不用赶assignment,真是不幸中之大幸。

前天终于装上好多人推荐的Ubuntu Linux Distribution了,感觉上操作和一些concept比其他的distribution人性化好多,至少我不必做什么都要login as root才能够执行。只是我装的这个版本apt-get内有的软件不是很多,也不是很新,好怀念FC3下的yum哦。

中文字还是Linux下的大麻烦,看了一大堆教学,也试过其中几个,但是都不是走到一半继续不下去就是太复杂。后来我放弃了,继续对着这样的中文字过日子,呵呵。可是刚才我装了Opera后看到它的中文字比Firefox下好,只是可能开启了模糊化的选项还是什么的,中文字有些blur。

这星期就是我国的双佳节了,不过很可惜卧病好了后就要开始整理这四个星期所学到的东西准备mid-term了,天啊,怎么时间那么快过的?不过至少学校假期开始了,巴生谷的塞车情况会稍有舒缓吧,但愿如此……

e-learning?

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Recently our English for Science unit’s lecturer posted an issue about e-learning at the college’s “e-learning” system (which is actually a blackBoard Learning System that is also used by many other colleges) and we are required to write a response to that issue. She also provided a link to a page that clearly explains about “e-learning”. Until now, I have really no idea on this issue since I am still reading that webpage while I am posting this.

If only looking at my college’s so called “e-learning” system, I really don’t like it much because it is not as useful as I expected. Blackboard Learning System is no doubt a good system handling “e-learning” things but it is not being well used at my college. I myself prefer looking for information at another websites rather than the e-learning system because there are almost nothing provided by our lecturer through the system except for some lecture notes / tutorial questions / assignment questions etc. I have a friend studying at another college and I heard from him that he can get a lot more things through their college BlackBoard System besides notes / assignments etc. And the participation of his lecturer is much better compared to my college. I found that sometimes it is very rare to see any lecturer to join in our discussion in the discussion board and probably this is why Blackboard System is not popular in my college.

But these are only some problems that only occur in my college, and this doesn’t mean that they will happen in other colleges as well. Therefore these cannot be the only points in my response to the issue, *sigh*. Now I would need to start thinking what to write and post them this Friday since I do not have much spare time because the units I took in this semester are quite tough (at least 4 credit hours) and I am definitely don’t wish the same thing happened as the “Introductory to Discrete Mathematics” unit last semester.

“有趣”的课

Friday, October 21st, 2005

直到目前为止,我的学生生涯中,很不巧的没有和太多老师有接触。不过其中几个令我印象深刻的,是我的英文老师们。呵呵。可能是因为要鼓励我们说英文吧,我发现英文老师们都很长气的。哇咔咔。

正因为如此,我并不太排斥上英文课,不过也没有为此改进了我的英文能力,呵呵呵。原因是因为在她们说她们的grandmother stories的时候,我总是把注意力投入到另外的地方。当然偶尔也会听听看她说什么,然后过后就拿那些故事来当作同学间的玩笑课题(很坏咧)。就拿我高中的英文老师为例,我们很喜欢上她的课(除非她有给功课,她是个很麻烦的老师……这是后话),尤其是她讲解文学(Literature)的那几课。她简直是做编剧的材料,因为从文学课的课文她可以扯到她的家人的故事。还要全部都是悲剧。不过先搞清楚,在当时我们是很同情她的遭遇的,只不过在她越说越多,而且越来越匪夷所思的时候,我们只好选择听过就算了。还有一点很特别的就是每当上文学课的时候,我们一大班都依她的要求全部集中在班内的中心点,然后好像小学生般围着她上课。呵呵呵。

想不到,上了学院,还是有类似的老师/讲师。为了引起我们对学习的兴趣,今天,我们一大班人在她的要求下全部到了图书馆的视听室观赏了一部又澳洲某机构看来是N年前录制的教育节目。节目是关于怎么做一个research的,呵呵呵。可惜,有一大半时间我都在猜测影片中人所说的字词(因为澳洲人的口音和我们平时听的英文不太一样再加上小弟的英文也不大好),只能大概知道内容罢了。不过总好过没有吧,之后,在我们眼里有些讨厌的Lecturer就三言两语帮我们重新整理刚才所看到的内容。

上了她三堂课,她给我们的印象是凡是都按照规矩进行,甚至被规矩所局限。你有听过一组人做assignment要签合约的吗?而且还要花一整个小时来解说简单的10条规矩(原因之一是因为她说话的速度,如果你看过The Matrix,她的速度就有如里面的所谓Program的速度,就是Oracle/Architect那一伙人的速度)。真服了她哦,而且看她不苟言笑的样子,很难想象如同猴子出闸的我们如何继续顶下去。

不过还好,这个学期还是有和我们类似的Tutor(助教吗?)教我们Windows Programming(VB),他真的很好笑哦,一整课都在强调自己有多么帅气,虽然我们没有一个有同感。很不巧的,第一课我就被他摆了上台,以达到活学活用的精神。他当时所要讲解的是Objects, Properties & Event在VB中的意思,所以把我搞出去后,指着我把我比喻成一个Object,之后我的身高体重等就是Properties。然后不知道他怎么扯的问我有没有洗鞋子(运动鞋),诚实如我当然很老实的说没有(因为银色的鞋子变成了黑灰色。然后他很做作的“弹开”,但是却说我其中一个”properties”是“鞋很干净”……最后到了event,当然,是说当某事件发生了,会有什么后果。他拍了拍我肩膀,并说“当我拍他的肩膀,他会说I Love You!”。好了,第一次就很应酬的照做。第二次又来,这次是I Love Mr. xx(他)。我开始Fed Up了,就直接说,I don’t Love Mr. XX(他),呵呵呵。

他真的很有趣啦,而且很了解我们学生的心声,所以他也没有cover太多Theory的东西,因为他知道我们会从讲师的课内知道,所以并没有花太多时间在内。反倒是Practical Part就花比较多的时间,因为班内很多人很明显Practical跟不上。如果这样的Tutor/Lecturer再多几个就好了,呵呵呵。

第二次过关

Friday, October 21st, 2005


Minesweeper

在等待上课时,百般无聊中终于完成的游戏,好幸运!

刚剪了头发

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005


My New Hairstyle

因为头发有些长了,一时兴起跑去剪头发打算修一修,接果变成这个模样,呵呵呵。