Saturday, October 14, 2006

A day in a word or two

Saturday, 14 October 2006

00.00 am -- still deriving equations for my PDE assignment
01.00 am -- start coding in MATLAB
03.00 am -- start with report for question 1, writing typing all the equations and their nitty-gritty derivation (only three pages but took bloody long time)
04.20 am -- start getting sleepy, fought to stay awake
04.44 am -- decided to sleep, after the last equation was neatly typed

-- SLEEP... zzzzzzzz --

09.45 am -- decided to wake up (not bad, 5 hours sleep) after kept on dreaming that I derived one of the soliton equation wrongly and it went haywire when run
-- Breakfast, listen to radio, coffee, novel, cold shower, reply SMS-es --
11.00 am -- summon all my soul to start working on my laptop
11.30 am -- still web browsing and blog walking. Then REALLY start to work on my MATLAB
12.20 pm -- The moment of the week. Finally I got the matrix that I have been waiting for, discussing about, dreaming over, for days. Sheer luck, perhaps. As when I really put all my heart and soul to get it, all I got was "almost there". This morning, when I didn't pressurize myself to get it, it just came. Really, like fated (apa seeehh??)
12.30 pm -- lunch
01.00 pm -- wrapped up my Numerical Simulation assignment, having found that long awaited matrix
01.30 pm -- felt rather sleepy, decided to take a nap
02.00 pm -- still couldn't sleep, with the jumble of solitons and optimization on my poor mind
02.20 pm -- jumped out the bed (so NO nap) as I suddenly remember I did one typo in my Numerical Simulation report
02.30 pm -- Started reading Optimization lecture notes
03.00 pm -- EXTREMELY HUNGRY, and bored to death with any kind of biscuits that I have
03.30 pm -- decided to go to Jurong East library, get changed and get ready
04.00 pm -- already in library (Cafe Galilee to be exact)
06.30 pm -- the 'library session' was concluded with one curry puff, one Vanilla Frappe with ice cream, one Cafe Latte, one Fish and Chips and two chapters of Optimization textbook.
Went up to the borrowing section, contemplating to borrow a new novel but decided otherwise
Called my sister to fix a lunch date tomorrow (after she protested as I cancelled our Friday lunch. She said "but I've postponed my drama club meeting..." oh well, what to do, my homework came first). Guilt-ridden, so tomorrow it is. Seah Street Deli, my fave and so near to Cathedral.
Went to Popular bookstore and bought some stationery.
07.30 pm -- waiting for the bus
08.00 pm -- took shower etc
08.30 pm -- read Optimization again
09.00 pm -- played Les Miserabes CD on my laptop. Only watched for some songs, the rest of it was just audio to me.
An SMS came in, invitation for Dim Sum tomorrow morning. Changed my Sunday mass schedule and called my sister to change the time (yes she was also invited, of course)
00.00 pm -- still reading Optimization, trying to really grab the concept of something that I have been only vaguely clear about

So that's Saturday for me. Tomorrow I have to be in Cathedral at 8 am and yet I can't sleep before 3 now, seems like.

OK, I'll go to sleep now. How's your Saturdays? Anything interesting?

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