Challenging week..

Yeah.. what's done is done..

sat for Credit Suisse aptitude test in SMU diz morning.. Well, the test wasn't tat hard anyway, it's just tat I wasn't fast enough to whack everything.. Perhaps.. I'm just not used to it.. hahaha.. Well, we were given 100 questions which should be finished in 50 minutes time.. in average, each question takes ard 0.5 mins (yeah, the truth was, some numeracy problems demanded more than 0.5 mins huhuhu). Too bad, I wasn't fast enough and thus I didn't manage to finish all the questions..

-> Juz wait.. time will tell.. Come wad may.. :)

Barclays capital's phone interview comes next.. this Thursday !! I feel so awkward wif tat Investment banking thingy.. Yeah, I've done an intensive research of coz.. but still.. hahaha.. Why investment banking? perhaps it's just an unexplainable passion :P Why Barclays? of coz because the starting salary *rolling eyes* :P hahahaa kidding2.. look beyond the salary.. what lies ahead.. your future... I heard it once: "Money will come to you if you are passionate enough with what you are currently doing.." haha.. stg lyk tat..

-> Wish me luck k ? :)

*still reading some articles abt current Asia market conditions @.@

-Im out-

Sunshine after rain ? XD

Hoho.. as you may realize tat it was raining almost the whole day yesterday.. and as you can see, today is brighter than yesterday.... The good thing is, Barclays finally invited me to the phone interview stage LOLz.. yokattaaaa nee.. It's on 25 Oct, Thursday next week at 13.30 (UK Time) LOLz.. I din even know that the time slot is in UK Time until I got the confirmation email hahaha.. they din state there when I was choosing the time slot weww.. So, 13.30 UK time is supposed to be around 20.30 here in Spore ^^;; hahaha so late :P luckily I din choose 16.00 haaha.. sooo latee alr.. XD

What to do today ? erm.. of course continuing the training of tat 20 stupid artificial neurons.. You want to know more? I'll associate it wif "students" den, so it's easier for you to digest XD Now imagine you are trained with 12000 maths problems and tested with 6000 questions. LOLz.. huahahaa this is what really happening here at the Learning and Validation stage. hahahaz I train the neurons using 12000 data and validate them with 6000 or so data. Root Mean Square Error is then calculated to get the "grade" of tat particular neuron XD I'll pick the top three "students" to go for another training, namely Testing stage wew.. and those three neurons have to undergo training with 18000 or so data, and tested wif 2000 or so data.. The winning neuron is the neuron wif the smallest RMS Error Hahaha.. Now you know how tedious it is... wew.. haha XD

Perhaps.. tonite I'll go mugging at Canteen A (as usual :P) .....

-em out-

Savoring the flavor of final year...

Aaaaaargh its d end of week 9 alreaddyyyy... And.. recess week was too fast to be savored bit by bit... Haha.. I only managed to revise few things during recess week (well, maybe I shud be grateful alr :P) and do Comp Archi assignment, due on 1 Oct. My FYP (Finding Your Partner Final Year Project) progression is damn slow! No idea, my supervisor is kinda slack too, but of course I can't follow his example :P Slacking will ruin my FYP for sure o.O" and I don't wan that to happen XD How about pestering him ? Yeah, we have done that, and we decided to do the FYP in an "unsupervised" manner, meaning nt too dependent on him hahaha.. Now that we have finished the input part and have sent him the algorithm for our next step last week, he hasn't replied til' now.. weww.. We plan to integrate our code by ourself, according to our own algorithm XD

Sigh.. all assignments due in ard 2-3 weeks time and diz Neural networks assignment demands almost my whole day to finish each training of neurons wew.. very2 tedious one.. By week 12, all assignments should have been submitted :D and I can focus more on my exams. My first (and the hardest as well) paper is on 15 Nov and coincidentally on 13 Nov there will be Linkin Park LIVE Concert! I wanna watch them LIVE !! Haven't bought the ticket thou.. heuheue.. Phew, need to prepare the paper first of coz..

Job hunting? Yeah I've applied for 7 companies (all of them are investment bankings LOLz) in total and currently waiting for the invitation for interview. All online tests required in order to be considered for interview have also been completed.. facing some problems thou.. When I have finished the Barclay's online numeracy test, the system wasn't able to retrieve the test result, hence I din know whether I was qualified for the next stage of online test or nt. It was 8 Oct, and the deadline for the test was 9 Oct (5 days after I submitted the app form).. Heck! I have emailed the technical support ppl, asking for assistance but I have never received any reply from them until yesterday (11 Oct and obviously I was late), they finally replied me and told me tat the result for the numeracy was ready. Fortunately, I was qualified to take the verbal test and in d end my application was still under consideration, meaning I have successfully completed all online testings and waiting for the phone interview invitation. Hopefully my application is really under their consideration, thou I was late in finishing the test..

Last week, me and Jaq were having our dinner at Canteen 4 and planned to go back to hall with shuttle bus. The funny thing was, when we walked to the bus stop, there was this one bus passed us by and we thot it was the last shuttle bus (it was ard 9pm alr). We ran for the bus and finally managed to get in. Once we have sat down, the conductor mumbled stg about JP and suddenly we realized that we took the wrong bus !! Hahaha... so stupid LOLz :P we had to pay of coz, it's nt a free shuttle to JP anyway o_O Well, actually it's quite cheap compared to SBS transit but the thing was we din need to go to JP at all hahaaha.. In d end, we met up wif Dela and had a chat in Kopitiam while eating desserts.

One long entry huh.. hehe.. Thank God it's weekend.. but I got loads of things to be done T_T hueheue..


-I'm out-
"savoring the weekend.."