Mid Term

Its the mid term week!!!!

For sem 2 i only have 3 subjects to take care of : English for College Studies 2, Introduction to Information Technology and Malaysian Media History...

ECS 2 test was on Tuesday and boy! We sucked in it! It was quite tough and we only had 1 hour to do the reading test and to write an essay... I think i would flunk miserably :(

Today, we had IIT... For the first time in my life im actually speaking geek language (anything regarding to computer: GUI, OS, URL bla bla bla) with my geek! haha... I concentrated more on the tips our lecturer, Mr Julian gave and only one of the tips he gave was in the short answer part! The others were in the MCQ part.. Geez... Can you believe it?

1) the difference between a modem and a NIC.
- we were so shocked when we read the question paper and we asked Mr Julian wth is a NIC and he, being so kind, told us that NIC is the acronym for Network Interface Card.. screw it, i wrote crap for this question XD

2) describe the 5 parts of an information system
-I memorized the whole thing so it was ok for me.. hope i can get full mark for this.

3) Describe the 3 categories of Operating System and name 2 examples for each category.
- Darn it! i know this but i didn't memorize the examples! Alot of my classmates were confused but i had the slight idea for this : embedded OS, standalone OS, Network OS. In the middle of the test, our kind Mr. Julian gave us some tips: what is the difference between the OS in your Iphone and your windows? and some of us started saying handheld, open source bla bla... I was confused again cuz i forgotten that open source OS is one of the categories... I wrote something extra at the bottom of my answer and i screwed it! i hope Mr Julian doesnt deduct any mark.. Just read my original answer XD

MMH is on friday and its about history!!!! urghh.. our lecturer said she will mess up the dates in the true/false section.. guess i think i'll spend the whole night today and tomorrow chewing the notes... wish me luck folks :)

XOXO

p.s. i'm saving money to buy a new phone. I hvt tell my dad about my plan cuz if i ask him to buy a new phone on my bday he will say, " buy one when you work next time" :( so much of being the only child huh.. But i got a car and a laptop on my 17th bday so my coming 18th bday should be grand-er right? haha...
Yesterday while i was trying to sleep, i brainstormed on how to save money to buy my new phone:
PLAN A: work my arse off during the 6 weeks break before i proceed to sem 3.
PLAN B: CNY is around the corner and ... Duh, get more angpao during CNY! this means i need to do alot of visitings!!! muahaha.. im so clever right.. haha

*im still hesitating whether i should buy a nokia n97 or an iphone XD*