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[ Thursday, July 20, 2006 ]
5:58 PM
the ra-re rare day
i got 19/50 for my GP essay, but i wasn't really affected by it
coz i got 9/30 for my content for obvious reasons :o
den my compre was 26.5/50
and it totals to 45.5 and rounded up to 46/100
which is
such a familiar number
if the passing mark was raised by 5 marks ie raised to 50
i would have failed 3 subjects o.O
O.o
o.O
still got phy paper 2 haven get back
but its probably going to be a marginal pass anyway
i was thinking
wondering wad will Miss Yow(CT) remark on my report slip
usually its quite cliche
like "zw has done ok for xxx but needs to improve on xxx"
this time
my marks all in the 45-50 range
smth different
lol
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i was
late for school today
they cut off the latecomers at around 7.25
which is quite rare
they usually do at ard 7.27 to 7.28
if you underestimate the power of 3mins
try to picture a scenario of ppl walking into the gates at a rate of 1 per second
3min = 180s = 180ppl
but anyway
being marginally late
usually wun be punished
is those who come after the national anthem
will dio dai ji
anyway
i was feeling quite unlucky
normally come at this time wun late one
then i realise i forget to bring the sch belt
which occurs abt 1% of the time
ahhh
if the prob dat the teachers cut off latecomers at 7.25(and before 7.25) is say, 0.3
(btw i write this according to the time on my hp, which is faster by a few mins)
assuming that i come everyday at 7.25
den that prob that i will be late and caught for my attire is 0.01 x 0.3 ie 0.003
which is otherwise 0.3%
pretty low huh
so dats wad made me feel so unlucky
but
wad made it so rare was
they din check our attire
and this occurs like...huh?
i don't know...its the 1st time it has happened
surely a day dat consists of 2(or more) rare events would be rarer
and the 2nd one was
...
after tuition, yh had to buy butter, so we went to cold storage
den a woman was very kind to let us go first cos we only had an one item
after that i walked to the MRT station
and i realised that i missed the train
would have caught it if i was 20s earlier i guess
juz as i thought i was suffering from a karma deficit
(the way i meant it to be : a deficit when the amt of kindness i receive > the amt of kindness i show to other ppl, and vice versa for a surplus)
i saw
the nx train was
2mins away
assuming that the interval between two trains follow a poisson distribution of mean 6mins
the prob that the interval is 2mins is
wait where's my calculator -_____-
errrmm
0.0446
or 4.46% of the time
but i tink its less than dat in reality ba
cos the train usually very zhun de
anyway
i juz realised that i unknowingly corrected my karma deficit juz now
when i held the lift for a guy checking his letter box
of coz
you may think dat its not right to expect to be repaid for yur act of kindness to others
but dats wad's told to me - about the cause and effect thingy
and i actually do believe in it o.O
O.o it happens
o.O maybe it doesn't for you