Work: Day 3 + lunch alone

After 2 days of immersing myself into world of technical manuals, today got a chance to clarify any doubt with boss. And also got to know need to take safety course - can't wait to get to practical! Sitting at desk alone whole day could be quite mundane. There were occasions that the sleepy feel was getting on me. Must get something to do or move about, then I won't feel sleepy.

Finally got talk a bit with colleagues, but lunch still alone bxds. Lunching alone isn't an issue, lunching together is all the more better coz can interact and bond with colleagues mah... These two days went outside for lunch around the kopitiams opposite to office. Portion not very geneous but at least is much more reasonably priced and is enough for an office worker, but not manual labourer.

Morning and evening sagged. Took 1.5 hours to reach office from home and home from office. Is there a shortcut to get home? I badly need new ideas to travel in the best way where a balance is striked perfectly between speed and cost. 8.30 am start work and 5.30 pm off from work works best for me ds, a habit that is carried on from the K9 days, though work always start at 8 at that time. Maybe Friday can try 8 to 5? Jin yang!

While taking 157 home, saw this guy wearing smart 4 and he got off at 347 bus stop whom I find very familar. After a few moments, I recognised him because he got visit the JE gym one. 難怪那麼面熟！最近老是碰到一些不是很認識卻有見過面的人, aigoo...

Har, simi?! NTU Electrical and Electronic Engineering programme is in the top 10 programmes around the world?!

Source: http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/three-subjects-ntu-rank-among-worlds-top-ten


Three subjects at NTU rank among the world’s top ten

SINGAPORE — Three subjects offered at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have ranked among the world’s top ten — a first for the university.

According to the 2014 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings by Subject, NTU’s Communication & Media Studies is ranked 6th in the world, Materials Science at 8th position, and Electrical & Electronic Engineering is ranked 10th.

NTU said the subject Communication & Media Studies jumped an impressive 17 positions within two years since QS started ranking this subject, to become No 1 in Singapore and in the Asia-Pacific.

Subjects Materials Science and Electrical & Electronic Engineering are also among the star performers with the biggest improvements over the last three years.

At 8th place, Materials Science has vaulted 33 places since 2011, while 10th-placed Electrical & Electronic Engineering has leapt 26 places within the same period.

NTU President Professor Bertil Andersson said, “The result for Communication and Media Studies is an affirmation of the international standing of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information.

“NTU’s global reputation as one of the world’s biggest engineering university which produces top quality graduates is validated again in the high rankings of its engineering subjects, with Materials Science and Electrical & Electronic Engineering rubbing shoulders this year with the big boys such as MIT, Stanford and Cambridge in the top 10.”

The QS Subject Rankings were launched in 2011 and provide a guide to a range of popular fields of study in universities around the world.

The rankings were based on the combined responses from academics and employers around the world, as well as citations measures.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2014 evaluated 2,809 universities and ranked 1,344 institutions in total.


This is totally unexpected. For a moment I thought it's a joke (or April Fool's joke) or a mistake. Those who went through would know what am I talking about. I mean comparing to the top US/UK universities like Havard, Oxford, Caltech, Cambridge, etc., we are not in the same league. And also look at the subject modules we take, it's kinda not very in-depth, but broad because the course is Electrical AND Electronic Engineering! So have to study both electrical (e.g. EE2001, EE2005, EE3001) and electronic (EE2002, EE2004, EE3003) modules and sometimes even a little bit on programming (EE2008, EE3002)! So all bao ka liao! But nonethless, the experience was definitely worth reminiscing, regardless good or bad. I guess I didn't really have a lot of bad moments during uni. Hohoho...