SPM SPM where art thee going?

New SPM Record Likely

..........is likely to get 19 1As in the examinations and replace Nur Amalina Che Bakri, who obtained 17 1As in 2004, as the country's top scorer.

Once again I have to salute the top scorers for doing something I can't even do, scoring in SPM. Anyhow as I'm trained as a statistician, I can't help but wonder why the term "is likely" is used.

What is their basis on the claim of "likely"? None. Zilt. How can the mainstream media make such an irresponsible claim? It can be potentially misleading and truthfully, they are quite lucky that this is not a very important matter.

Think about what if they make a claim that "The Bursa is likely to gain......". I would be so pissed off by that, and how many people would be deceived in this false perception? This is exactly one of the problems journalists face. I bet my lecturer would be happy to comment on these kind of misleading statements, he had come accross many misleading statistical statements made in COURT, no joke.

Anyhow, back to the topic of the day. Dude, I plead to thee the Education Minister. Please, I don't really wanna see another few thousand straight A1 achievers. Raise the standard of the exam when you see students getting smarter and smarter. Reserve the straight A1s to a few of the REAL elites. I dream of a day when students getting straight B3's or A2's would be just as proud of their results.

Isn't it better this way? Don't you think so?

Nail this Shit

Support aisehman's plead, nail this MUTHA F**KA!!!

Seriously it makes me sick.

Fire Fire

OMG, I can't believe my luck today. I actually set on the fire alarm, and it's not a false alarm, it nearly did turn out to be a fire. Well the story goes like this......

I was heating up some soup on VERY LOW fire in the kitchen and came back to my room. Soon, I forgot about it and when the fire alarm rang, I could see smoke coming out of the kitchen door. Then I remembered!! SHIT!!! I forgot to turn off the fire. The kitchen was filled with smoke(windows shut) and visibility is nearly zero. At that moment, I took a deep breath and rushed into the kitchen to turn off the fire. It was an absolute disaster.

Soon, everybody was out of their bed and outside in the cold. It was 4.30 in the morning!!! In the morning!!! The soup was boiling for more than 3 hours. Sigh....... bless me. Even the fire brigade came and the whole waiting period lasted for more than 20 minutes. As expected, at the end of it I received a lecture from the security people and they even took my name down, presumably to report it to the University office. Guess I'll be expecting a hefty fine there and what makes matter worse is that it's gonna be in pounds. I so wanna cry now sigh......

Oh well, I just finished typing an apology letter to be sent out to residents of other flats who were forced to evacuate. Hopefully I don't get a backlash, at least not a big backlash for that. I mean it's an accident right? Or actually more like a careless mistake? Soon, I'll be the black goat of this flat. Pretty unlucky huh?

What have I got to say? I just feel terribly sorry.......

Burning Midnight Oil

It's been my favourite activity for the past few weeks. I can bet none of you work at odd hours like me. My normal working time is between 8.30 at night to 6/7 in the morning. I find it easier to work in a quiet environment when nobody's in the computer centre.

Just a clip of what I'm working on today. Yup, you bet, my dissertation. Now I have to freaking find a way to draw out all the triangles, all these just to make the animation nice to the eyes. And of course allowing one to understand what my function does. Halfway there now, hopefully I can get it done by tonight.


So any helpers? Anybody out there who is fluent in Mathematica? Please...... pretty please......

Job to do:

1. Arrayplot of the Potts model


2. Plot of barycentric coordinates


3. Combine both side-by-side


4. Explain the whole method out(typeset in TeX)
   

Chap Goh Meh

My flatmate came in to ask me what should we do for Chap Goh Meh(well, I've actually forgotten about it but luckily he reminded me) today. Maybe I should cook a feast? It's really funny because what's the point of cooking a feast when there's only 2 person eating, namely me and my flatmate. Pointless really......

Anyway, Chap Goh Meh is the last day of the Lunar New Year. It's really amazing why the chinese has 15 days of new year. It doesn't make much sense but I guess it really meant a lot to the chinese back in ancient China.

I realise that in Malaysia, we also take Chap Goh Meh as the Chinese Valentine's Day. So now we have 3 Valentine's day in a year in Malaysia, namely 14 February, Chap Goh Meh and Qi Xi(7th day of the 7th Lunar month). Correct me if I'm wrong and left another Valentine's Day out ok? The point is today is rather bleak for me, since I've just gotten into a fight with my girlfriend and we're still mad at each other. Silly reasons to argue really, but it just escalates, I'm sure most of you would understand how things can get from really small to really big.

Back to Chap Goh Meh, I believe in Penang, ladies would throw tangerines into the river/sea and guys in their sampans with nets would go net these tangerines. One question I would like to pose to Penangites though, how in hell would a person knows that a certain person picks up her tangerine? Or am I missing the point that all these should be random, and let fate decide for her? Weird eh?

Anyway, to all those couples out there, yet another Happy Valentines Day.
To all the bachelorettes out there, Happy Fishing-for-Future-Husband.
To all the married couples out there, Happy Bai Tou Xie Lao(白头偕老).
Now, faster FedEx me those Ang Pows before Chinese New Year ends.