nus-ntu astrochallenge 2008 day 1

today's the fateful nus-ntu astrochallenge we've all been waiting for for AGES. it's probably the last time we're taking part in astrochallenge, ie. probably last astro comp b4 we enter j2 life next year and officially retire from the astro arena (awwwwwwwwww. at least the competition arena lah, can still watch/help out T.T)

today's mcq was really bad. like really bad. i know it's probably the worst i've ever done in an astro competition, bcos it wasn't just that i didn't know how to do the qns, it was that i've read it somewhere b4, or studied it somewhere b4, but i JUST couldn't get the answer!! there were all sorts of qns i really nv seen before and it's really more killer than last year's!!! i feel sad that i mugged so much and so little of it even came into use ):

data response wasn't as bad as mcq, but it's still rather difficult, considering we are now in senior category, indeed the difficulty also increased proportionally. our graph this time isn't really good, probably can't save us this time T.T (the way the 200-mark graph saved us for data response last yr xD), but luckily we've got zeggy who's SO PRO! she's like the female amyas lah please! she actually studied the relativity equations! thankgoodness we had her, so for that relativity qn we probably can get some marks.

the rest of the qns we just crapped and anyhow do le, don't know how to do them anw T.T they are all stuff i haven't studied b4 like about moon rising and setting times?? or it's stuff i've studied b4 but just not in depth enough to be used in the qns! the qns are really super difficult and not simple calculations stuff that i can handle normally T.T SIGH.

project round was uh, boring. at first it was super amusing to see all the "mummified" ppl moving slowly around in their hot/unflexible/scratchy suits! haha and our team's suit, "L'espoire", is the prettiest! it's like super fashionable or something, with pretty much more flexibility than most other suits xD but i think it didn't score high with feasibility, unless the judges understood what we were actually working on T.T we had no qns at all lah please! it's so scary that they didn't want to ask any qns, it makes me feel very insecure, like they make assumptions about our suit and have deemed our suit as lousy ):

observation round should be fine, hopefully cx and co can own the round and do well!

i know sikai wanted both rj teams to get into finals, but it is unlikely we can get into finals alrd >.< we'll still try our best for special round on monday, but i doubt it would help much le lah. unless everyone else did badly in their rounds as well, we won't be in the finals haha. eh yah so we'll just jiayou and support the imba pro rj team 1 and all the best! you can do it! let's hope you win first this year!!! ^^ jiayou all the way to finals!!!

p.s. i think your project is pretty imba alrd lah, don't be sad u all didn't win project round! u all can own in the other rounds YEAH!

p.s.s. pictures coming up after i get them from blaws! ^^

plus i don't understand WHY astrochallenge is SO EXP, like $50 for what?? an imba champion prize or something? there was actually NO food provided at all, and we were expected to buy our own food from the canteen, which is pretty exp!! i feel cheated bcos i was wondering how come the canteen only had macs, subway, canadian pizza and old changkee. like no variety??? later on i found out there was much more food upstairs in the foodcourt xP

im so blur. let's just have fun for monday ok? it's probably the last chance as participants le lah, so don't be so sad anymore k? qw, don't worry lah, life isn't as unfortunate as you think it is, it's all just a matter of perspectives and coincidences. haven't you heard of the saying, when you believe in something, everything would seem to be related to it. so now u are relating all the trivial stuff that happens all the time to the superstition.

all the time we spent mugging was worth it. it made us feel proer and more satisfied, no? T.T