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Passed Oral Test for Driving License

I passed my Oral Test! It was damn easy 😛

You are showed the questions on a television screen and a voice reads it. You then have 30 seconds to shade the appropriate circle in your answer sheet with the marker they provide.

There are 40 questions in all. The first 5 questions are NOT counted for markings. They are just to make you feel comfortable with the system. You are therefore allowed to make 6 mistakes in 35 questions.

In the middle of the test, the television became extremely loud for sometimes. I don’t know if it’s done on purpose just to panic people or it was a genuine error somewhere. I was shocked a bit but calmed down quickly though 😀

It went very fine overall. Stupid me that I wanted to postpone the test because there was database lecture today. I managed to do the test and still able attend the lecture. I’m soo relieved now 😉

Time for me to learn how to actually drive a car now and do the practical test 😛

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First Week at University of Mauritius

Author’s note: The article is being published 8 Years after occurance. Yeah. I procrastinate a lot

Day 1:

Our first class was on Formal Logic. The lecturer simply told us to write this sentence and asked us to think about its meaning.

I saw John going up the hill with a telescope

No one volunteered to give an answer and the lecturer told the guy sitting at the back to answer (i.e. me xP). I was like “damn, wth i’m gonna say”. I finally said that first, there is John going up a hill and secondly, he has a telescope with him. Another said that it could mean that You are looking John going up a hill through a telescope. The lecturer also added that it could mean John is going up a hill which has a telescope on it 😛

The moral of the story is that in a natural language, one sentence can have multiple meanings. Therefore it cannot be used with a computer. A computer needs a language in which statements can have only ONE meaning 😉

Day 2:

We were supposed to have a practical lab class but it was not held because lecture was due first.

Day 3:

Once again, there was no practical class in the morning. But we were not sure about it in advance. I rushed on the road for nothing to arrive in time. I could have slept till 11 o’clock. 🙁

I then went to the library and worked a bit on my website.

The afternoon lecture was Digital Logic. It damn crowded: 102 students in one crappy room. As always, i got a seat at the back. Had to do lots of effort to hear the lecturer. The course itself seems quite bulky. We studied Number system such as Decimal, Binary, Hexadecimal etc and how to convert them into different number systems and do some basic arithmetic calculations using binary numbers.

Day 4:

I decided to leave home early so that i could get a seat infront in the class. But there was a huge traffic jam and i reached late for class. I had to sit in the last row again 🙁

But one hour later, another lecturer came and said that the lecture room was allocated to him and we had to shift to another room. I was able to get in the new room first 😛

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TGIF!…uhm,Really?

It’s Friday, Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend, weekend

Everybody loves Friday. Contrary to popular beliefs, Friday is not a public holiday. It is just a very exciting ‘working’ day after which comes Saturday which is the starting of the week-end 😛

Fridays are no more Fridays!

At University, Fridays lost this magical touch. You have to go to University on Saturdays too. You don’t have a ‘week-end’ :-/

However, i’ll be able to sleep till a bit late on Saturdays though as my course starts at Noon 😀

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Forward Your UoM Mail (University of Mauritius)

All University of Mauritius students are given an email address like below.

yourname@umail.uom.ac.mu

You might think it’s a crappy mail service by just looking at the very very ugly domain name. But it is powered by Google Apps with a huge storage capacity of 25 GB 🙂

To access the mail account, you will have go to either http://gmail.com/ or http://mail.umail.uom.ac.mu/ and enter your Username*1 and Password you were provided with. You will receive messages, lecture notes and circulars into it. Therefore, it is obligatory for any student to check this mail regularly.

The PITA can be much reduced if you already have a GMail account. You can forward the UoM mails to your regular GMail account and also send mails from your regular GMail from the UoM address.

Forwarding UoM Mails to your GMail:

1. Sign in into your UoM Mail account

2. Go to Mail settings >> Forwarding and POP/IMAP >> Add a forwarding address

3. Click Next button then press OK. Save all changes.

4. Log out then log in into your personal/regular GMail account and click on the link to confirm the forwarding request.

5. A confirmation screen shall appear

6. Log out and log into your UoM Mail account again

7. Go to mail settings >> Forwarding and POP/IMAP

8. Configure the settings so as the mail are forwarded to your personal/casual GMail account and the mails in the UoM account are not deleted

9. Save the changes.

10. Test if everything is working alright by sending few mails to your UoM address and see if you get them in your personal/casual GMail inbox.

11. Done! 🙂

In Part 2, i will show you how to send emails using your UoM address from your regular GMail account. Stay tuned!

Important Notes:

*1 If you are using http://gmail.com, you will have to enter your full email address as Username.

*2 I cannot be held responsible for anything if it goes wrong. I recommend you to occasionally check your UoM Mailbox in case something goes wrong.

*3 If you did everything correctly and still you are not getting the mails forwarded, check your Spam folder and whitelist the emails.