Falling monkey
So the last week was pretty intense in the sense that I was getting used to the high workload which I subjected myself to.
There’s a CS programming project due Monday and I haven’t really started on it yet. Whoops there goes my weekend.
There are many interesting things which I went through and thought about blogging them out but every time I return back in my dorm the urge to get my assignments and homework done surpasses the will to blog.
Nevertheless, remember that high school Physics question?
You are a vet trying to shoot a tranquilizer dart into a monkey hanging from a branch in a distant tree. You know that the monkey is very nervous, and will let go of the branch and start to fall as soon as your gun goes off. On the other hand, you also know that the dart will not travel in a straight line, but rather in a parabolic path like any other projectile. In order to hit the monkey with the dart, where should you point the gun before shooting?
A) Right at the monkey
B) Below the monkey
C) Above the monkey
Yeah, you think. High school Physics only mar. So the answer after some calculation on the blackboards (yes, we all use chalk and blackboards here unlike in Singapore) is to aim directly at the monkey. But the astounding thing was that Professor Speliotopoulos conducted a demo with a pressure gun and a soft-toy monkey during the next lecture! sorry about the bad quality picture :(
The pressure gun even had a laser pointer to aim at the monkey, but after 3 tries the ball still did not hit at the monkey due to some alignment problem. Nonetheless it was amusing 
Cool stuff happens here.
Ahhhhhhh there are things I would like to blog and cry out about but then again it would not make any difference.
Later.
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