Confusion of All Sorts

Apparently I'm not so worried about the upcoming Steel Design Quiz. With the quiz being an open book one, all I'll need is my Red Handbook, BS59590 Code, some worked examples, a pen and a calculator and I'm ready.

Speaking of the BS5950 Code, it has been dubbed the BullShit Codebook. I guess it's because it is ridiculously heavy and as undergraduates, we are only using a small portion of the code book. And for that small portion required, it can be found in the Red Handbook.

I guess I must give a big thank you to the school for "strongly encouraging" us students to get our hands on a copy of it.

All 300 odd pages of it.

I had to print that monstrous thing. To avoid crowds and to get my printing done more quickly, I went all the way from my "home" at the North Spine to the Chinese Library to print it. And it has only 2 printers.

Imagine the long queue behind. All the frustrated Chinese students breathing down the neck of the engineering undergraduate for taking up their precious time.

I can almost hear them say, "Does that guy know there are almost 15 printers in the LWN Library next to the College of Engineering?"

I'm sorry guys.

Those 15 printers are serving the rest of the engineering schools.

I just have to be a little unique. Besides, please give me due credit for making the effort to travel all the way down to print my little precious notes.

And the best part? We'll be dumping the British Standard (BS) Code for the Eurocode in a few years' time.

Now I'm worried about my Foundation Engineering And Mental Health in Singapore Quiz.

I'm real worried about my mental health.

By decree, Shaun has decided to make Thursdays "Cartoon Day". So we are supposed to wear cartoon-y shirts on those days.

This will be fun.

But what can be more fun than Mervin finding out that he has a Human Resource Management Quiz today. The quiz will cover 4 chapters from the textbook.

I told him to just forget and go get a MC.

He decided to press on.

Halfway through the day, I asked him about his progress.

"I'm almost done with Chapter 1."

So I told him to just forget about the examples given in the textbooks and just read the explanation parts. Even with that, it took me 1.5hrs on average per chapter.

It was 3pm by then and his quiz was at 5.30pm.

He gave me a blank look.

I told him to just go get an MC.

He decided to persevere.

I can't wait to hear about his quiz on Thursday.

Anyway, it's a True/False kinda quiz. So theoretically, he has a pretty high chance of getting 50% of the questions right.

This is gonna be fun.