Never in my life had i been in such close contact with a macaque, let alone a group of ~25 macaques at close range. It's such a eye-opener to be able to see such stuffs, all thanks to my eco project. Well, maybe i shouldnt be thanking eco cause it has been sucking up most of my recess week. Had a hard time before our proposal was finally accepted. Had been wanting to do the white-vented myna but since they wanted quantitative data, there was nothing we could do but abundance or diversity; and after our recce trip to kent ridge park, due to the rain we missed the early dawn time and didnt manage to see any birds. but we had a pleasant surprise, long-tailed macaques feeding, fighting/playing etc. And so we thought of doing the monkeys instead. Timing wise was bad cause we needed to accomodate to their super early feeding time, but the sightings were wonderful.
Well, digressing, i tried my utmost best to study and understand the different probabilities and distribution but somehow, when i tried doing last year's stats midterm, i didnt know how to do at least half of them questions. Even those that i managed to figure out the answer, I'm not even sure if they are right. This is the 2nd time that i'm prepared for failure, the 1st being CM1401. As long as i scrape the module without having to repeat, i'm contented. But again, everything has 2 sides. Being able to scrape the module would mean that my already-not-so-fantastic CAP will spiral down like crazy. And there goes my honours. Again, I've learnt to 放开 already so i'm prepared for whatever that comes my way.
With that being said, I still need all the luck in the world for my mid-terms on tues and weds cause who wouldnt want a better grade?
HAPPY 2011 :)
15 years ago
