the things swimming in my brain

Thermodynamics
Fluids
Sources
Sinks
Doublets
Complex potential
Potential function
Velocity potential
Tangents
Heat transfer
Thermal resistance,Thermal conductivity
Pipes
Cylinders
Heat exchangers
Cross, parallel, counter flow
Log mean temperature difference
Effectiveness NTU
Reynolds
Nusselt
Prandtl
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Black body
Emmisivity
Effeciency
Fouling factor
Effectiveness

Do you get it?
I don't.
Hope you do then at least one of us does.

I just want to curl up in the corner.

+ Flisha spoke @ 5:28 pm

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This is what happens when I study alone in the Eng library

Suddenly I feel so alone.
Nobody's doing Manufacturing Studies with me.
So I have to study it alone.

And it's a really weird feeling...
Think I've officially spent too much time studying with Justin, Ryan and Daniel, that it's just a horribly weird feeling now that they're not around me while I study, or to teach me when I am confronted with a dumb question.
Need to read the textbook and find out the answers for myself.

And I have a feeling that what I am going through in this subject this semester, is a tiny part of what the people on the other side of the study-spectrum go through -
They go to lectures alone and say hi and sit beside a few acquaintances who sometimes try to be friendly, but they put a wall around themselves anyway.

They do their assignments and tutorials alone throughout the semester.

And when it's study time during the Swot Vac, they take the books, notes and tute sheets out and attempt to do all of them, all by themselves.

Finally on the day of the examination, they go to the exam venue alone, take their one seat in a midst of three thousand others (people and seats), do the paper, go home, relax(?) and wait for the results to be posted.

If the results are good, there is nobody who did the same paper to do well with and share the joy with. If they turn out to be bad, there's nobody who knows the paper well enough to say 'I sat for the paper and it was really hard'.

As I think about it, I realize that I am surrounded by my friends all the time.
I don't even study alone (till today).
If I am too dependent on others, I am defintely enjoying it, and I thank God for these people in my life.

I thank God for
Diane -
For being me when I lose myself.
For loving me the way I want to be loved.
For just being the way she is.

For Amelia
Who always seems pop out with most fitting things at the most fitting times.
And who is just so easy to be with.

For Ryan, Justin and Daniel
For caring even though they don't have any reason to.
For making me study and helping me pass the exams since last semester.
For answering every stupid question of mine - be it to do with work, life, boys, girlfriends, or the Defence Force of Singapore,
And for being the big brother figures to the (pesky) tomboy I'm supposed to be.

Christine,
For the presence and the consideration,

And for my Someone Special
For whom I cannot do without.

+ Flisha spoke @ 4:09 pm

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On Studying in the Baillieu...

So many things can happen while one is studying (at the Baillieu)...

Daniel, Justin, Ryan and I were preparing for todays (Tuesday's) Design paper.

This is one Daniel-Ryan interaction I happened to overhear.

Daniel: Ryan tonight you do past year papers is it?
Ryan: (in all honesty and innocence) should be Tuesday I do this year's paper.
Felicia: WAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA (and she tries damn hard not to die laughing)

And Daniel just didn't get it.

I burst out laughing every single time I think about my 2 dear friends.

And I couldn't help but remember this while doing the paper today.

+ Flisha spoke @ 10:08 pm

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I hate winter, I hate studying, and I love Diane

You'll suddenly see the difference between this entry and the latest entry I read from Mandy's blog.

Contrary to her positive wintry sentiments, I HATE WINTER!!!

I haven't seen the beautiful bright warmth radiating sun for more than a week!!
How screwed up is this??!!
*boo hoo hoo*
It's such a depressing time of the year when you can't even trust the weather forecasts.
(and even if they're right you still cannot trust them)
It's like 13 degrees in midday and 7 degrees when we walk home from the library at 7pm.
And I never noticed what time the sun sets but it's pitch dark by 5pm.
The day is always grey...
And the night sky is this sickening shade of pinkish purplish brown.ARRRGGGGHHHHHHH

Only good thing about it is that I wouldn't be so distracted had the sun been out.
No more classic 'it's too sunny to be studying' excuse for me.

My studies are coming along really really badly.
Pure frustration.
:(

WHY why why do I never learn...
(heehee you don't have to answer that)

Oh I've spent 3 entire days with Diane.
I even get love notes...
*hee!*
Jealous jealous?
:P

+ Flisha spoke @ 5:25 pm

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