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    Thursday, May 14, 2009

    Taming Chaos

    First lesson on how to tame chaos started this week.
    I must say that the lecturer is pretty funny and is really quite interesting.
    An Italian, hes pretty passionate about the chaos theory and all that, he takes quite a great deal of pains to explain the ideas and i guess it is really quite interesting to listen to it.
    On the whole, the lecture is quite Philosophical, Mathematical and involves a fair bit of physics as well.

    Of course he brought up the ever famous butterfly effect...
    "A butterfly flaps its wings... a hurricane strikes miles away"
    Contrary to what a lot of people think, the idea is that the flap of the butterfly wings, will cause different situations to take place which finally leads up to a hurricane,
    NOT that the wings of a butterfly will cause a hurricane directly.
    I mean, if youre samuel or mg of course thats no problem, but we're talking about a normal butterfly here.

    Anyhow, its really interesting to be taking lectures with samuel again, it been about 5 years since I even studied anything with him?
    So I think it should be quite interesting, especially since he will be one of the very few people I can study with who actually lives in the WEST..
    Gosh ... all my other engin friends that I meet all live in the EAST or the NORTH....
    I think once youre a westie, you dont really wanna turn back anymore.



    On to another topic, since its the "holidays", i have FINALLY started and i realise i have A LOT of stuff to do.

    For one, ive gotta continue to try and finish modding my computer casing.
    Ive already bought my new com parts off the forums, which saved me quite a huge bundle, think it was a bout $100 or so...
    But unfortunately I still have to modify my casing to take in new air ducts as it currently doesnt have sufficient airflow...
    Ive pushed it aside for so LONG already, prolly about a year?
    I finally gathered sufficient willpower to pull my lazy butt off the bed to start drilling holes and spray painting everything.
    Thank goodness i already sanded down my casing last year, so all i have to do now is spray up the casing..

    Another thing i gotta do is to repaint my room, its really due for a new paint job, but THIS is so much work, i think it take me another year just to get my butt of the bed again.. haha..

    Another important thing is of course Dota. Cant forget that i have to play that.
    Which of course I have already been playing quite a fair bit of, but as i did sound off the koh before, and i think we both do share similar sentiments - Dota brings out the worst in people.
    Gosh I think I hardly ever get as agitated as when im playing that game.
    To be more accurate, its only when you play against your friends where you get really agitated.
    But at the same time, when you play against real humans, it also can be very very intense and exciting.
    My andrenaline is ALWAYS pumping without fail everytime i get into battle...
    Against AI ?? seesh ... thats easy cause they are predictable..
    Anyhow, after a week long worth of dota campaigns, I think its nice to take a break for a day and skip dota-ing...

    On to the next important item! DRAMAS....
    I have to catch up with a lot of them and so far, I have been doing quite a good job!
    Finally finished akaiito and meichan no shitsuji.
    Started on bloody monday now, and its pretty exciting too..
    One great thing is that now, with slightly better japanese, I can actually understand some of the things they say in japanese.
    Yep, Ok back to Bloody Monday..........


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