Will Lim

06:06 pm: Thought of the day: Embrace and revile the paradox within you.

07:59 pm: UNSW Open Day Dilemma:

Medicine (faculty lecture - 1 hr) 9.30am - 10.30am Mat A

Engineering (faculty lecture - 1 hr) 10.50am - 11.50am CLB 7

UNSW Co-op Program 11.30am - 12.00pm Mat B

Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering 12.50pm - 1.20pm Rex V

Pathology: From Warzone to Medical Research 12.50pm - 1.20pm CLB 3

All about Biomedical Engineering 1.30pm - 2.00pm CLB 8

Medicine (faculty lecture - 1 hr) 1.30pm - 2.30pm Mat A

UNSW Co-op Program 2.10pm - 2.40pm CLB 6

What to choose... Who's doing what? Who's going?

11:48 pm: Hmm... Bombs going off in London.

Hopefully Duncan is somewhere in Eastern Europe by now, but as to Jono's whereabouts, I have no idea. Well, hope he's ok, ditto with the rest of his family...

Oh, for the heck of it, my risk assessment for my physics OEI:

Risk Assessment:

Capacitor Bank Risks
Risks of using a capacitor bank include electrical shock (ranging from a slight tingling to the loss of an extremity), burns (slight heating of area to 3rd degree burns), explosions (of either the capacitor bank or the extremity of a human) and scattering of biological material (human flesh being scattered as a result of severe electrical shocks and burns).
Thus, it is recommended that a chicken stick or similar is used to fully discharge the capacitor bank after every shot. In addition, it is recommended that the capacitor bank be disconnected from the power supply and shorted whenever charging is not required. Another human will also be present in the room, at a distance such that if something does go wrong, that first aid and other actions can still take place, as well as call for help, but also far away enough that any accidents do not affect said second person. Thus, the bank will remain uncharged unless required. In addition, it will be assumed that the bank is always charged, and thus the bare copper will never be touched with bare hands.
In the event anything goes wrong and an injury is sustained, the second person will administer first aid as required, and call for additional help if so required. In all cases, once the injured person is in a stable condition, the capacitor bank will be fully discharged and shorted.
In the very unlikely case that the electrical shock is administered across the chest and the heart and/or lungs cease to function, CPR or EAR will be administered as required.
If an explosion occurs, after the injured person has been tended to, the area surrounding the explosion will be cleared of all debris, and made safe again.
If biological material is scattered, the area will be cleared of all material, making sure that proper safety procedures are followed when collecting said material, and the area will then be disinfected thoroughly.

Accelerator Risks
The risk of using such an accelerator is that a misfire may result in a puncture wound being sustained by a human.
Thus, in addition to the above precautions that will be applied to the capacitor bank, the barrel of the accelerator will be subject to firearms safety rules, specifically, the barrel will not be pointed at anything that should not be shot at, when transporting the barrel, it shall be pointed in the safest direction possible, and most important of all, the barrel will not be loaded if it is not to be fired. If possible, a barrel plug will be used to ensure that even if the barrel is somehow loaded and the accelerator is fired, the projectile cannot go anywhere. Additionally, the target will be designed so that it can safely retain the projectile, to try to minimise the issue of the projectile ricocheting.
If puncture wounds do take place, first aid will be administered as required, once the injured person has been tended to, the area will be cleared of any biological material that resulted from the puncture wound, and if required, the injured person will be given a tetanus booster by a local doctor.

Well, I can say I have the most dangerous experiment in the year (although Chen blowing stuff up in chem may be getting close to it)

08:06 pm: 6 current favourite songs...
1) Rain Down in Africa (Can't remember who by)
2) Late Goodbye (Poets of the Fall)
3) Don't know if this really counts, but the soundtracks off moodflow.com
4) I'm stuck. I'll update this if I can remember anything else.
5)
6)

Bleh, really stuck.

6 people to tag... Well, friends list looking very blank at the moment, not sure if I can do that part.

08:09 pm: Well, handed in one picture book today, rather stressful load lifted. Rather stressful load also added, waiting for marks. Not made easier by our teacher saying he'll probably read them out to the class... Not good. And then I handed the mathsearch comp in. Part A, all except only 1 or 2 things, Part B, about 3/4 of it. Part C, non-existent. One big question: how did everyone else go? I spoke with the guy who helps with Ascham maths, who is also a professor at USYD, and marks Part B. He said that last year, he only handed out about 4-5 full marks. I still don't feel good about it.

On a different note, I've finally been pranked in the library. For reference, last Friday, Marcus, Duncan and I pranked Tom by taking his student ID card, and pretending that Marcus didn't have it, that I had it, or Justin had it, or that we'd hidden it somewhere in the library, and at the end of lunch, it appears in his pocket. Well, today Tom put a library book in my stack of books, so when I walked out, the beeper went off. I returned the book, went to my locker, and found another library book. So I had to go and return that one. Oh, I have to return those Romantic poetry books I accidentally borrowed, the really old books don't have tags.

Maybe I'll upload my visual representation if I have time

07:37 pm: Hmm... This will be a busy weekend. I have to finish off my picture book (translation: start on the "picture" component of "picture book"), and my visual representation (translation: start on speech, and find poems to go along with said visual representation). I'll be busy all weekend.

06:50 pm: Well, a cautionary lesson about the at the newsagents on the bottom floor of Macquarie shopping centre:

We went to get some supplies, including some science books. When we went to the counter, the lady checked the price tags, one said $5.25, the other said $2.95. She tried to make us pay $5.25 for both, despite the whole stack on the shelf (which, by the way, were taken down and put under the counter once this was noticed) saying $2.95. In the end, dad said that the law said that (shut up, it's not hearsay) he only had to pay what the price tag said, so we paid $5.25 for one and $2.95 for the other. As I said to Duncan, greedy capitalist f**ks.

Apart from that, Parade of Remembrance, commemorating Scots old boys who served/died in war. As usual, the stands were positioned so that one side of my face was hot, and the other was relatively cool. And that caused one of our Latin reading comp training sessions to be cancelled (yes, we have them on Sundays, specifically 4-5 PM).

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08:18 pm: Bad Luck Streak is OVER!
Well, I think it's over. Today, I got my Latin results back (3rd in the class, behind Geoff and Ed). Marks spread was Ed: 94%, Geoff, 91%, Me, 84%, the other four in the class: 60-70%. On top of that, my leave's been approved by my English teacher, and I got him to sign my request note, so if anyone asks, I have physical proof. Woohoo! Although there is one slight down side: Ed decided it would be quicker to get home from Scots, and Geoff isn't going to the trouble to write up a note. Apart from that, I think my bad luck streak's over. Unless, of course, I've jinxed myself by writing this.

07:46 pm: As I write a 2 page... something... on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", I get the feeling that it all comes down to his quote "Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"... I can't tell whether my mind is giving me error messages or words of insight. Urgh...

06:37 pm: Well, some good news, I came second in the year in the physics test (along with about 4-5 others), and retain my rank as 3rd in the year. Well, could be much worse, now for my math results...

08:17 pm: Latin Reading Comp
Yippee, Latin reading comp.

(probably going to make a few errors here)

Year 10 Latin (Why am I adding this?) Virgil, Aeneid 2, 281-286 (we already did this earlier in class for Latin)

'o lux Dardaniae, spes o fidissima Teucrum,
quae tantae tenuere morae? quibus Hector ab oris
exspectate venis? ut te post multa tuorum
funera, post varios hominumque urbisque labores
defessi aspicimus! quae causa indigna serenos
foedavit vultus? aut cur haec vulnera cerno?'


Year 11 Latin: Virgil, Aeneid 2, 201-211

Laocoon, ductus Neptuno sorte sacerdos,
sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras.
ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta
(horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues
incumbunt pelago pariterque ad litora tendunt;
pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque
sanguineae superant undas, pars cetera pontum
pone legit sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
fit sonitus spumante salo; iamque arua tenebant
ardentisque oculos suffecti sanguine et igni
sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora.

As for Greek, "This passage may be found in Athenaze Book 2, p. 161

kat j aujton....th''' zwh'''."

08:40 pm: MSN problems
Well, MSN isn't working for me. It works for my sister, but not for me. In fact, Hotmail is stuffing up as well, every 3 pages or so, it tells me to re-enter my password. This all happened after I changed the password. F**king hotmail. So, I'm not on MSN for a while until I figure this out.

Changed password back, everything's back to normal

07:46 pm: More Kwotes

Kowalski: Don't stare at me, I am not as pretty as a picture
Nick: I wasn't, I swear

Augustus was very young when he came to pwer, he was exactly 17 or 18

Kowalski: And I
Gabriel: Ahh sir?
Kowalski: Have I finished talking?
Gabriel: Yes
Kowalski: Have I?
Gabriel: Uh, no, sir...

(After Nick got a question right)
Nick: Gee I'm good
Kowalski: I will get you next time. Eo, case and erason.

The society was rottening

Out of the laurel tree they used to make wraths (Note: wreathes). Seriously, his pronounciation turned it into wraths.

In regards to the Greek word for marriage
Kowalski: Polygamy, marrying many women, in Saudi Arabia they should tell you about this
Some year 8 kid: Can it happen the other way?
Will (slowly): It can happen the other way, but not very often
Kowalski (replying to me): Yes, unfortunately
Will/Geoff: Unfortunately?!?

Your pen should be on fire from writing

In regards to Latin, specifically parentes, Parents are usually of masculine and feminine gender

And you want to be articulated well

We've been constipating 43 pages this term

07:32 pm: The following courtesy of Ed because I went to the 9th circle of hell and back, AKA year 7 camp.

Kowalski: I must be mad
Geoff: Yes, you are

Kowalski: I speak very bad English and I'm proud of it. It's a trademark

When I don't know what I'm doing, you can burn me alive

Poor boy from the country, like a yobbo

I spoke Latin as a little boy (points at Gabriel, a student from Italy, here for a term), a little boy.

And from today

It will exercise your brain, or lack of

Is that active, or passive? Both. No, either

Who wants to be abused on the blackboard (first of all, we don't even have a blackboard)

I have more copies than you are, and you still don't have one. Go and photocopy it

(In reference to a test) It will be like the HSC, words will be underlined, and silly questions asked

You get some sentences, and you start constipating your mind on them

This is going like a nosebleed, blood, blubbering...

A civil war is where a country fights itself, where there are two fractions

Kowalski: Most nouns have one gender, some have two, dog, for example. Do you know how to tell whether dog is is male or female?
Various students: "Stop there sir" "That's disgusting" "Oh God..."
Kowalski: No, look it up in the dictionary. What were you thinking?
(Now, about the mental state of our class...)

(In reference to audeo) Audacity came from it, badly spelt, and badly written by me.

08:41 pm: See http://www.livejournal.com/users/stella8h8chang/256298.html for details.

Specifically,

[01] Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
[02] I will then tell what song[s] remind me of you.
[03] Next, I will tell you who you remind me of, celebrity/animated or otherwise.
[04] Last, I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
[05] Put this in your journal.

Reply was:
Ok...Please do not take offence.
1. You once had the ability to scare everybody off, but are now growing out of it.
2. Unwell by Matchbox 20.
3. ...this is hard...I can't really think of anyone who sort of reminds me of you...I think in year six I somewhat associated you with Harry Potter, because of glasses and black hair. No wait, could I say...a cross between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. AHA! Here we go, Christian Coulson. Well...kinda close...
4. One word...volatile...but not in a particularly bad way.

08:10 pm: Kowalski's Kwotes
And more:

(When we didn't open a door for him, specifically, the fire door that says that we shouldn't open it unless it is an emergency):
Kowalski: You gargoyles, you didn't open the door for me
Me: Uhh... Sir, judging by the sunlight, I don't think we're gargoyles
Kowalski: Fine, gorgons
Me (to another student): (points to hair)Do these look like snakes, not to mention the insult on our gender?

(When a student did a question and went "Yes!!")
Kowalski: Don't be so happy, I will get you in a minute...

(About the good doctor's English)
Kowalski: My English is good. I just need to work on my pronounciation

(In Greek, about someone moving slowly)
Kowalski: Walking slowly, like a slug on a street
Note: Due to his accent, we are not sure whether he said slug or slut... Choosing between disturbing and more disturbing, I'll choose disturbing.

(A student translating)
Student: "Quintus, busy with affairs..."
Kowalski: "What?"

(About emphasis on the wrong syllables)
Kowalski: (Ok, I can't remember what he said)
Student: Sir, you're putting the emphasis on the wrong syllables.

05:41 pm: Kowalski's Kwotes
And more quotes

During some grammar
Student: "I'm lost"
Kowalski: "That's ok"
Note: He did not help the student afterwards, either

During translation
Kowalski: "You can use me gladly"
Note: Actual translation was something along the lines of "You can use my help gladly"

Kowalski: "When I was at school"
Student: "Long time ago"
Kowalski: "Don't look at my wrinkles"

When reading this, bear in mind that I have over 60 quotes from him, it puts the following into context better
Kowalski: "I know exactly what I am asking for. I am a very clever man"

About the fact that he can't remember a student's name after a whole term, and 3 terms of sports training
Kowalski: "I have taught a boy for six years and whenever he asked a question, I had to ask 'What is your name?'"

09:07 pm: Kowalski's Kwotes
When asked why he came to Scots
Kowalski: "I have to repay the community"
Student: "Was he in jail?"

When talking about the fact that we're young, and that he still has a young mind
"I would like to be your maid"
Note: We are not sure whether he said maid or mate, but either possibility is disturbing. Greatly.

04:48 pm: Start of School
Usually, I find school to be ok, first days a little less than ok. However, today was an exception.

First, at the train station, I realised that I'd forgotten all my train and bus passes, and I wasn't sure whether we had to use our old ones. Second, we were meant to get our yearbooks today, but we didn't, due to printing problems. However, Latin did provide some comic relief in the form of the good Dr Kowalski and his quotes (to be added once I've dug them out of my bag). Then, coming home. Two buses and a train, looking at the incoming rainstorm, I decided to phone mum to decide if I could get a lift from Gordon station. No answer. So I caught the bus to the bottom of Horace St. Enter the uphill walk from bottom of the street to my house, with an umbrella too small (Note to Lillian: here is an advantage of being small). And to finish it all off, when I got home, mum was already at home and said that she hadn't been able to get to the phone. All in all, a lovely first day.

Edit: Kowalski's Kwotes

In reference to learning "And learning a lot of bikkies, big bikkies"

In reference to one of the guys saying he was looking at entering the Iron Man competition "Well, he has already achieved half of it, the man. Now he has to achieve the iron part"

When getting some students from another room "I need to collect people from that hole"

When we noticed that he was a bit sunburnt, and everyone started singing the song from the Banana Boat sunscreen ad "Am I missing something?", followed up with me saying "Yes, you are"

When the class was misbehaving "I have been warned about this by the people who have looked after you for the past few days". Note that this is on our first day back, and he said he did mean days after questioning.

09:32 pm: Computer Upgrade and trebuchet launch
Finally installed the new motherboard and new case in my computer. Before, one PCI slot fan for ventilation (that didn't always work), one PSU fan and one CPU fan. Now, 2 fans in the front, 2 in the back, 2 PSU fans, and the regular CPU fan. No more icepacks sitting on the computer! Not to mention the 250 watt PSU has now been upgraded to 450 watts, before the system was making it overheat. Thanks to Marcus and Duncan for the help during installation

Second, fired the trebuchet again. It's still creaking, and still rocks (as in movement). The sling also needs repairing, given that the stitching I've done has failed, except for the edges where it's still holding. Fired rocks (as usual), 4 heavy bolts (with nuts attached), a tennis ball and a golf ball. Got several backfires, one with the bolts, which was worrying (4 bolts, straight up, +/- 5 degrees, at high speed). Oh, first injury with the trebuchet! Only my thumb getting scraped by the trebuchet though. I thought it would have been something worse, given the fact that it is a siege weapon 2.15 m high with a counterweight of 30 kg. No interruptions, except for one human playing around with a soccer ball, but said human stayed out of the launch area

Edit: In reference to the computer, we also found out that all the thermal paste on the CPU was gone, there was a thin layer of black stuff which you could read the numbers that were stamped on the CPU. No wonder it was getting hot.