STJ

Hello 6K (3rd generation seniors and 4th generation juniors) :D


Thank you all for the enthusiasm during STJ yesterday..... I really enjoyed myself!!! It was a great beginning of March hols for me.... Thanks for all the fun, joy and laughter. It really cheered me up esp after all the stress I felt during (and even after) Talentime... haha..... it feels wonderful being part of 6K.... I shall continue indulging in this joy before I return to sch on Tuesday for Talentime meeting... which I fear will drag on and on and on and on.....

It was really amazing that 43 out of 51 ppl attended STJ! Best showing ever :)) Thank you 09s6K for supporting us!!! Despite the short notice and last minute changes, even when we were at Vivocity and the situation becoming chaotic at times, all of you remained upbeat and didnt complain. I really appreciate that... Sorry that you all have to bear with it.. cos we didnt have time to plan properly... haha too busy mugging for blocks. Nonetheless, thank you all for supporting us :)

Of course to the 1D/2D/3D loser aka Population No. 1 of Loser Land, thanks for bringing so much joy to everyone.... I'm sure your LOVELY ANGEL will dote on you even more :D dont forget to reciprocate your love for "HER" too....

Next, thank you 08S6K!!! Special mention to Zhi Hui and Jian Hua for making your way to Bugis after H3 Econs on Sat to check out the prices and places.... Sorry I couldnt help much bcos of Talentime. Also thank you Jia Guang for discussing with Zhi Hui online to finalise the details.... Sorry that I wreck your plans of having sushi buffet at Hougang due to the hefty price. Most importantly, thanks Jeremy for helping to relay the details to both the senior and junior class and collating attendance! Thank you Zhi Hui, Jian Hui and Sean for fetching the latecomers and sourcing for possible venues for angel/mortal revelation :)

Of course, to all those who came, thanks for showing ur support!!! esp those who decided to come at the last minute :) Isn't it also amazing that Zhao Dan manage to recover in time for the treat? haha, I hope all of you enjoyed the treat... I'm sure Shizhi did... He skipped breakfast and lunch just for the treat...

Some pictures here.... thanks juniors :) Watch it like a cartoon and observe how Jian Hua and Yi Sheng moved.. Look at Langston and Joel too...

Sorry to interrupt.... but if you examine the LHS of the photo above.... u realise that not all eyes are on the camera....

That's all folks!!! 09S6K, hope you all have fun with your crapbook... will show you ours soon... In the meantime, we eagerly await JTS :)

Happy hols!!!

08S6K's delighted welfare rep :P

STJ

Hey everyone,

His Supremacy has been resuscitated from the pretty long hiatus in his blogging activity and is now here to manifest his unflagging nagging:

This message is brought to you from the High Council of Inter-state Welfare and Trans-relational Well-being, Office of His Excellency the Supreme Dictator:


RE: STJ (Seniors Torture Treat Juniors)


Hi class, here are the finalised details for STJ:

Date: 15 March 2009, Sunday (tomorrow)
Time: 3:00pm
Meeting venue: Harbourfront MRT ticketing counter (Vivocity)

We will have senior-junior interaction at the Vivo rooftop, and if anyone needs to do last-min shopping for presents :D you can do so at Giant downstairs. After which, around 4:45-5:00, we will take a bus (Bus 80) to Bugis for steamboat dinner. $16+ pax.

Please bring along:
1. Your EZ-link card
2. Money ($20-25 should be sufficient unless you wanna buy other things like drinks blahblah)
3. Board games, if you have
4. Gifts/letters for angels and mortals

Please SMS me if you are attending! Indicate also if you're gonna be late. Do so by Sunday noon.

Thanks & see ya tomorrow!
JeremyL


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090309

Mmm nice date today, 09-03-09, and a slightly more eventful day, and plenty to talk/complain about, so your C-rep blogs again=)

Yes, I made it to school on time today! Tsk tsk all of you were so shocked that I was 4th from the left during flag raising eh? MUHAHAHA XD And to be honest I was shocked as well, there was no jam at Farrer Road, if there was I would definitely be late... Hmm I recall my 1st commment when I saw there was no jam: "Today Tuesday meh?" =P

GP not much to say la eh? Essay again... Hope we all do well for Block Test! I mean, Mr Wong has really been working very hard for us, we should try our best not to disappoint him... He's one of the few tutors in my whole life that gives me the feeling that I should work harder to improve! What a good tutor=) And speaking of GP tutors, I saw a certain ****** teaching today! Oops oops lemmeoffermydeepestcondolencesIpitythatclassalot hehhehheh... Ok I should apologize for that, I know ****** offended a lot of us but sigh, let bygones be bygones... so long our PW grade is A la=)

Maths lecture was boring! More or less because Fourier is what KZW and I have been doing for so many weeks during our holidays for MRP... And we're really sick of integration by parts. Or at least, me la, cos I calculated out the following by myself, using only a lot of paper and a desktop calculator:

Letting f(x) denote summation of n to the power of -x where n runs from 1 to infinity (integer values that is), we have...

f(2) = (1/6)pi^2
f(4) = (1/90)pi^4
f(6) = (1/945)pi^6
f(8) = (1/9450)pi^8
f(10) = (1/93555)pi^10
f(12) = (691/638512875)pi^12
f(14) = (2/18243225)pi^14
f(16) = (3617/325641566250)pi^16
f(18) = (43867/38979295480125)pi^18
f(20) = (174611/1531329465290625)pi^20
f(22) = (155366/13447856940643125)pi^22
f(24) = (236364091/201919571963756521875)pi^24
f(26) = (1315862/11094481976030578125)pi^26
f(28) = (6785560294/564653660170076273671875)pi^28

TA-DA! All my blood and sweat=)

Oh yes, I must not miss out the most important point of this post. (Sorry for the sudden change in tone) I don't quite care if I get demerit points for flaming lecturers here, but I MUST say that today's physics lecture is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME!!!

Just think: It's the last physics lecture before block test. The physics department has been complaining about how many students are weak in their concepts. I step into the LT, expecting at least a review of past lectures' work, if not another lecture on electric fields.

AND YET, some IDIOT by the name of R_ _ _ _ _ Q_ _ _ decided to waste this valuable 1 hour and show us a video instead! On resonance, I heard? But it's 5 mins of resonance and 55 mins of irrelevant stuff isn't it?

So, when the BT1 results come out, physics department, please DO NOT complain about how students "cannot grasp their concepts properly", and if you have to, please make sure you all know WHO should be the 1 that is partially, if not largely, responsible.

Because a certain SHIT of a lecturer wastes our time with all kinds of silly scams like lighting a light bulb with your hair just by rubbing it (you still DARE to say a student actually cried in front of you because she believed it but found that there's no such thing?) and confuses our already messed-up concepts...

And, worse still, it is SOLELY thanks to all the extra time gained from rushing through important concepts instead of using this time to teach us more thoroughly that we get all this rubbish in lectures.

Also, I would like to highlight that my parents did not pay my school fees to let teachers READ my notes out to me. If I require someone to do that, I think my parents can do it, because they are literate, thank you very much. And to the relevant department: YOU PAY THIS GUY A SALARY JUST TO READ NOTES? I'll show you how to get rich by washing toilets...

Oh, and before I forget, let me state that I WALKED OUT DURING THE VIDEO TO STUDY ECONS. (don't worry, I was just outside the LT between the 2 doors all the while, if that warrants demerit points, I have nothing much more to say)

And it has been a most fruitful hour for me, because I felt that my time is NOT wasted memorizing my NIA notes.

Ok, must end on a more un-serious tone. Got back H3 test today. And sigh... 49/50. Missed out on full marks due some little thing I didn't state down. Ok la, 49/50 sounds crazy to you, and you may think I'm crazy, but that's the expectation I set for myself la=) O yes, and THE LYQ (not the chem O champion) got full marks. Ta-da, 6K still owns!

Lastly, like father, like son. Like mother, like daughter. Like seniors, like juniors. 09S6K, you know what to do... jiayou! XD

DK

"Quantum Economics"

Sigh, been slacking too much over hols and past few months of this year...trying to get microeconomics back into my head is kinda proving to be quite a handful, and driving me crazy...all those concepts seem so distant... :(

Perhaps I've been addled by the attempt, but some phenomenon in the economy that I shall term "quantum economics" suddenly popped into my mind...so I shall briefly discuss it for fun. Prices, unlike that espoused within standard economic theory, be it the demand-supply model, AE-Y model et cetera, are not continuous. They are, I theorise, discrete, and come in 'quanta'.

A good example of this phenonemon would be that of hawkers (those at hawker centres, not just any hawker on the street). Over the years, even as general price level (and thus their costs of operation) rose, their prices tend to remain stable. However, once the government made the decision to increase GST, one finds that the prices that they charge immediately jump a notch up by 50 cents typically eg. from $2.50 to $3.00. Did the 2% increase in GST warrant such an increase? One could argue on the grounds of consumer exploitation, but given the wide availability of close substitutes (unless the food is like exceptionally good), this is unlikely to be the case. What of inflation over the years - why have they not taken it into account in their pricing? The answer would be that the mindsets of individuals are inevitably wired up by the notions of 'round figures' and convenience. It would be unduly troublesome for both the hawkers and consumers to deal with small denominations of money eg. a rise of 12 cents. Thus, only a sufficient increase in costs would precipitate an increase in price, somewhat analogous to the photoelectric effect whereby only a photon of sufficient energy would be able to liberate an electron.

Similarly, when pay rises are sought, they are usually in multiples of $100s - no one requests for a $63 increment for example; they would perhaps wait a few more months or so and then request for a $100 increment instead.

What impacts would the 'round figures' mindset of individuals, and consequently the quantisation of prices have on economic analysis? That, I leave to the readers to develop. That being said, it appears to be time to get back to trying to recall my microeconomics concepts...

~Fight

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