are a great way of teaching yourself. :-)
and as for free software flashcards that don't have to make yourself, I recomend: http://www.byki.com/ (byki is short for Before You Know It).
It's not going to sink in over-night, but you'll understand it eventually.
Good luck!
- Ian.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
I'm thinking of dropping Linguistics ... so I've got more time for studying Korean.
When I first started at UNSW this year, I was lacking a fourth subject, but because of something the Korean lecturer said in week one, I was able to sign up to Linguistics before the first lecture had begun.
Anyhowz ... in the beginning we had one, rather entertaining person, as our Linguistics lecturer, and another, rather dull person, as our tutor. It has since come to pass that the entertaining person has received a summons from a higher power within the university to do some sort of double checking and signing off on paper work, leaving us with the rather dull tutor, as our rather dull lecturer.
And as much as I'm enjoying the content of the course, I probably didn't do myself any favours by holding off on not only buying most of my text books until I'd found somewhere more permanent (which I now have), thereby putting myself three weeks behind the work schedule.
And as much as I love Korean, it just isn't. Sinking. In! ... so I'm really going to try and put as much of my efforts as possible into learning that, as it's a subject I want to do really well at ... or at the very least, pass.
As good as the prescribed text book and accompanying exercize book are for the subject, I've been thinking about going that extra mile and purchasing a book from the on-campus book store called something like "Korean in Easy Steps" ... which I was going to link you to using my Amazon Associates account, but as I can't seem to find the book on Amazon right now (which may have something to do with not remembering its exact title) but as that is not currently not a possibility, you'll just have to wait ... because I really don't wanna have to go all the down to the bookshop just so I can find out the name of it, so I can look it up on Amazon, and then post the link here.
I'll just remember what it's called next time - heck, I might even buy it next time.
Anyhowz ... in the beginning we had one, rather entertaining person, as our Linguistics lecturer, and another, rather dull person, as our tutor. It has since come to pass that the entertaining person has received a summons from a higher power within the university to do some sort of double checking and signing off on paper work, leaving us with the rather dull tutor, as our rather dull lecturer.
And as much as I'm enjoying the content of the course, I probably didn't do myself any favours by holding off on not only buying most of my text books until I'd found somewhere more permanent (which I now have), thereby putting myself three weeks behind the work schedule.
And as much as I love Korean, it just isn't. Sinking. In! ... so I'm really going to try and put as much of my efforts as possible into learning that, as it's a subject I want to do really well at ... or at the very least, pass.
As good as the prescribed text book and accompanying exercize book are for the subject, I've been thinking about going that extra mile and purchasing a book from the on-campus book store called something like "Korean in Easy Steps" ... which I was going to link you to using my Amazon Associates account, but as I can't seem to find the book on Amazon right now (which may have something to do with not remembering its exact title) but as that is not currently not a possibility, you'll just have to wait ... because I really don't wanna have to go all the down to the bookshop just so I can find out the name of it, so I can look it up on Amazon, and then post the link here.
I'll just remember what it's called next time - heck, I might even buy it next time.
Monday, 22 March 2010
The Computer Fair! (Which was at the Roundhouse here at UNSW on March 21)
Yes, that's a Sunday!
I was after an extra gigabyte of ram for my netbook, so I asked one of the vendors there, and he didn't know, so I asked another one and he got me to open it up first, to check what sort of RAM it needed. After opening it, he noted it only had one slot, and that I would have to buy a 2GB stick of RAM to increase it to 2GB, which didn't bother me. He asked me to turn my computer on to see if it worked, and it did, with a marginal, but noticeable speed increase.
I gave him the $60, he closed up the computer, gave me a receipt and I went on my way.
Between arriving at the fair, and getting my RAM I saw someone I thought looked familiar, so I went out to check if it was them or not - it was. She hadn't gone into the fair, for not realising that students get free entry and leaving her student card at home. And she rather waited for her friend to go and do what he needed to do rather than pay the rather minimal entry fee ... was it $5 or less?
- Ian (the guy in the Mario hat)
p.s. Okay, so this blog is hardly written in chronological order of the events of the day, but ... meh! :P XD
(If you want me to write more coherently, please say so).
I was after an extra gigabyte of ram for my netbook, so I asked one of the vendors there, and he didn't know, so I asked another one and he got me to open it up first, to check what sort of RAM it needed. After opening it, he noted it only had one slot, and that I would have to buy a 2GB stick of RAM to increase it to 2GB, which didn't bother me. He asked me to turn my computer on to see if it worked, and it did, with a marginal, but noticeable speed increase.
I gave him the $60, he closed up the computer, gave me a receipt and I went on my way.
Between arriving at the fair, and getting my RAM I saw someone I thought looked familiar, so I went out to check if it was them or not - it was. She hadn't gone into the fair, for not realising that students get free entry and leaving her student card at home. And she rather waited for her friend to go and do what he needed to do rather than pay the rather minimal entry fee ... was it $5 or less?
- Ian (the guy in the Mario hat)
p.s. Okay, so this blog is hardly written in chronological order of the events of the day, but ... meh! :P XD
(If you want me to write more coherently, please say so).
First assignment of the year!
The first assignment of the year this year was the Korean one, which was a take-home, open book test, designed to encourage the student to study. Admitedly, I did use Google Translate to get some of the answers, but the imporant thing is, even if I didn' get 100% of the answers correct, that it was 100% of the questions that I answered. (This assignment accounts for 10% of the total grade).
Tomorrow (23rd March, 2010) I have another test, and this one is a vocabulary test, which I must once again study the text book for (but I only have to study "Unit 4").
I hope I do well.
Wish me luck! XD
- Ian (the guy in the Mario hat)
Tomorrow (23rd March, 2010) I have another test, and this one is a vocabulary test, which I must once again study the text book for (but I only have to study "Unit 4").
I hope I do well.
Wish me luck! XD
- Ian (the guy in the Mario hat)
"uniwide" down again. -_-;
"uniwide" is the name UNSW give to their university-wide wireless internet network. It allows freedom from having to be restricted to a computer in the library for the duration of an hour - you can be on your own computer for as long as you like! (Class dependant, of course).
Unfortunately, a few weeks ago it was down for about two days total, and it seems to be down again.
I went to the IT crowd to see what they would say, and they said there us maintenence being carried on uniwide today, which would hopefully be resolved "soon" (by the end of the day).
So I hope that when I come to universtiy tomorrow that the problem has been resolved.
Unfortunately, a few weeks ago it was down for about two days total, and it seems to be down again.
I went to the IT crowd to see what they would say, and they said there us maintenence being carried on uniwide today, which would hopefully be resolved "soon" (by the end of the day).
So I hope that when I come to universtiy tomorrow that the problem has been resolved.
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Sometimes it's hard to be alone ...
These are the lyrics of the song "In My Heart" by "Three Dog Night", and here is the film clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvuJRz8CAw
In my life
I've had to try to make it on my own.
Sometimes it's hard to be alone.
In my mind,
My loneliness would never seem to end.
Something is happening that I don't understand.
(Chorus) In my heart, I feel the heat
Of something burning deep inside of me.
I'll be the man that I could never be,
Now that I've found you.
In my heart, I realize
You are the light that opened up my eyes.
You are the answer and the reason why
I'm living my life for you.
Through my eyes,
I've seen a world that no one's ever seen.
Seems like I've lived inside a dream.
In my dreams
I never thought I'd have someone who cared.
Then you walked in my life, and made me so aware.
(Chorus)
And if my world should fall apart,
I know that you will be there... In my heart.
(Chorus, repeat)
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And it is with by far the first verse of this song that I can relate to the most, for that just seems to be the path of this student; wondering down this lonely path all by myself, wondering if anyone will ever care to join my journey with me.
As for the minute, my classmates and I are just ships passing in the night, sailing down a common stream.
I sometimes wonder if any of my classmates will, over the years, become a bigger, more important part of my life than they at the moment.
Sometimes I feel like I connect with people, and then a time comes when you and that person are no longer a part of one another's lives, and I just ... find it so hard to let go ... while I watch our two, once parallel paths, divide as I go one way and they go another.
But I j want to let it be known, to all of the people who have come into my life and gone ... I Will Remember You (By Sarah McLachlan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHooH4464dQ&feature=fvst
I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard
But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light
And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories
... I'll keep you posted.
- Ian (The guy in the Mario hat).
In my life
I've had to try to make it on my own.
Sometimes it's hard to be alone.
In my mind,
My loneliness would never seem to end.
Something is happening that I don't understand.
(Chorus) In my heart, I feel the heat
Of something burning deep inside of me.
I'll be the man that I could never be,
Now that I've found you.
In my heart, I realize
You are the light that opened up my eyes.
You are the answer and the reason why
I'm living my life for you.
Through my eyes,
I've seen a world that no one's ever seen.
Seems like I've lived inside a dream.
In my dreams
I never thought I'd have someone who cared.
Then you walked in my life, and made me so aware.
(Chorus)
And if my world should fall apart,
I know that you will be there... In my heart.
(Chorus, repeat)
=====
And it is with by far the first verse of this song that I can relate to the most, for that just seems to be the path of this student; wondering down this lonely path all by myself, wondering if anyone will ever care to join my journey with me.
As for the minute, my classmates and I are just ships passing in the night, sailing down a common stream.
I sometimes wonder if any of my classmates will, over the years, become a bigger, more important part of my life than they at the moment.
Sometimes I feel like I connect with people, and then a time comes when you and that person are no longer a part of one another's lives, and I just ... find it so hard to let go ... while I watch our two, once parallel paths, divide as I go one way and they go another.
But I j want to let it be known, to all of the people who have come into my life and gone ... I Will Remember You (By Sarah McLachlan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHooH4464dQ&feature=fvst
I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard
But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light
And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories
... I'll keep you posted.
- Ian (The guy in the Mario hat).
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Teacher's Strike!? LOLz!!!
After the past few weeks, people have been standing at the various entrance ways to UNSW handing out leaflets fore telling of the upcoming teachers strike (Today - Thursday, March 18, 2010).
The leaflet had brief sentences on it stating the reasons for the strike (something about fairer conditions and more money).
A few days ago, I, and the entire student population of UNSW received an email stating the University's fear of the upcoming strike and the confidence that it would not go ahead.
Given the severely large number of people that are here, I dare say the few teacher's that did strike - if any - are feeling rather foolish for themselves right now.
The leaflet had brief sentences on it stating the reasons for the strike (something about fairer conditions and more money).
A few days ago, I, and the entire student population of UNSW received an email stating the University's fear of the upcoming strike and the confidence that it would not go ahead.
Given the severely large number of people that are here, I dare say the few teacher's that did strike - if any - are feeling rather foolish for themselves right now.
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