Recess? Wat recess?

This week is supposed to be the recess week. To take a break, have a rest etc etc. But instead, i find myself having to do up Solidwork models of the suspension, meetings and rushing MP3001 assignment.

Tough... very tough. Hope i get to understand 3001 before the exams. =P Right now is to concentrate on completing the assignment before moving on to learning/revising on Maths 3 (2006) and Fluids (4005). At least the GE on 'Mental health: Are you OK?' quiz should not be that much of a problem. And it would be next week on the 5th of Oct. Maths 3 on 18 Oct, 4005 still unknown. Lets hope i didnt miss out on any quiz.

Swam with the guys this afternoon, was rather fun. Still wondering if i should go swimming tomorrow or Taiji... hmmm.

Should be heading home tomorrow night. Thinking of spending more time with family, feel that i stay in hall too much. i guess thats the sagittarius in me. Freedom and independence!!!



Here's a picture you may see in 20 year's time? Where going to pee will cost you 1,10 EUROS!! Yes!! This is from Berlin, Zoological Garden train station's toilets. If you really need to pee here, it will cost you ... S$2.20. So lets stop complaining that that 20 cents toilet in Singapore is expensive.

Btw, the toilet at MacDonald's close to this place also needs payment when i was there back in 2002. Didn't check it out this time round though. =P

How to make time?

I went swimming on Wed morning, and again this morning. Actually just back from SRC swimming pool. Realised that it is only in the morning where swimmers can actually swim lengths, as they installed ropes for swimmers to swim breaths at about 830 in the morning.

Waking up early and going for a swim, abeit a slow one, actually gives me more time in dwelling in my thoughts. Did 20 laps, but wasn't concentrating on swimming, but rather letting thoughts swim about in my mind. Thinking about what i want, what i feel about stuff. So many different thoughts swam in my head as i stroked across the pool.

It feels good to be able to think, without much interuption. Feels that i have more time. Is that the reason behind meditation? hmmm...

On my way back, i spied a group of elders practising Taiji. On an impulse, i trotted over and asked about whether they have a course of something. Well... its $50/3 months, every Friday and Sat at 7am. I will be heading down tomorrow morning to learn ba. How about that? making more time? =)

Fate| Stay night - Excellent anime + thoughts

Recently came across the Japanese anime: Fate| Stay night. Excellent anime. 24 episodes in all, fast paced, but i would had preferred slightly more episodes to show more character background. Had been quite some time since i was so hooked onto watching anime. Somehow the storyline got me hooked.

The ending would be ... well.... *warning-might be a spoiler-avoid reading the fine print at the end of the post!!!!*

The picture is one of the main character:- Saber. Maybe i would be buying a figurine of it to place on my desk, that is, until i see the price tag for it. heh. Esp since i dont think it will come cheap, and plus the fact that i am rather cheapo. hmmmm.

Some thoughts on life, perosnal but also wish to share with anyone who reads this... unfortuately, it includes spoiler to the anime. So skip it if you wanna watch the anime 1st. =)


*Felt that the ending was rather sad, but can understand the reasons behind their actions.Although frankly speaking, deep down inside, i wanted them to be together. Why? Maybe cos i am rather sentimental? Used to cry in some sad movies, but after my brush with cancer, i cry when watching NOT that sad movies and even MTVs (Cried the 1st time i saw 童話 MTV, my eyes still tear when i think about it; Maybe it reflects how my life could have ended, maybe not as dramatic, but just as sad. Luckily only get to see it after i recovered =P ) . Losing someone you love is painful, the one who dies loses everyone he/she loves, wouldn't that be even more painful? Thus i feel that by knowing that the love for one would forever live in others' hearts, one would bravely pass on and face death peacefully. By facing death with a smile and a contented expression, wont that be the best gift you can give to your loved ones as they have a last look at you? A skill which we must learn is to know when to let go; to let go of wants, desires, anger, sadness, everything. Life goes on, do not carry any baggage, smile and move forward. Cherish the memories and the person shall live within you.

To my friends n family who read till here: Just to let you wonderful people know, i love you guys n gals!*

Balancing studies and exercise...

Having been staying in hall for quite some time, getting down to exercising liao. Need to build up my body stamina, which has been rather disappointing low recently. I guess being PES F, which means that i am not required to pass IPPT, has made me rather lazy. How have a ring of 100% fat around my waist. heh heh

Need to add some exercise time. Played frisbee yesterday, and plan to swim early tomorrow morning. lets hope i wake in time. =)

Now drawing conceptual design for MP4011, where we are tasked to design a complete massage chair!!! Sigh ... though the grass is aways greener next door, other projects really sounds a tad simpler than mine. tsk tsk ...

Well, at least i can listen to 9.33 while and draw on CAD. And croak along with the songs. =)

Today's picture of the day, arrr... a politically correct sign in Prague, Czech Republic on no smoking within the cafe. Aroma protection. Not bad. =) You can learn czech language too! On the right of the thank you is its translation.

Time to get back to work..... =)

Feel like a year 4 student

Did 2 things yesterday I never done before in my 3++ years in NTU which made me feel like a year 4 student. First, I stayed at CAD CAM lab at N3 till 8 pm!! Woo hoo!!! Yup. My first time. =) Second, I borrowed 3 thick hardcover books for reference for the suspension design. =P

Surprisingly, it made me feel like a year 4 student. About time too! Glad to have done up the conceptual design for the wheel, hub and some linkages with help from YX. Thanks! Moving on to more stuff, hopefully can do a mock-up next week for our driver's safety cage.

For today, did a bit of searching for information, still have a lot more to find. Now doing an Industrial Design assignment, which is to draw out a photograph 2 times the original size of 3R. To be completed by next week so .. rush rush rush... cos still have the powerpoint for the other class project still not completed.

Here's a look at my fridge in my room. Full of magnets and signboards which I bought in Venice, Italy. This would be the last year I would be using this fridge. All thanks to CBT who donated his fridge to me, together with some textbooks and stuff. =)

Well, it has been a long while since I, or rather the group of us, had seen CBT... Eh ... you too busy liao lah. If u see this, contact us for coffee leh. =P

<-- At least i know some Italian words liao ... i think ... =P

3001 tutorial understood !! But only 2 chapters.

Woohooo!!! Understood 2 chapters of 3001 !! Borrowing the textbk from Dawn. THANK YOU DAWN!!! Time to chiong liao. Tomolo getting suspension txt from lib 2. Need to come up with a double-a suspension for our car.

I realised that there are many stuff to think about as the project manager, from timeline, to different requirements, ways of integrating different systems AND have to calculate for my part, which is suspension. Been thinking of integration so much that i now lag behind in my own part. Should had proposed system integration as my FYP. Heh.

That's it ba. Nothing much happened today. Have to manage my time more wisely ba.

A break from the Europe pictures, here's one of my room in Hall 3. Snoopy and Ee Or holding hands on the TV in my room. =)

Trying out tutorial today

Sigh ..... All the tutorials so cheem. Going to sleep liao. Need to be more productive soon. Now still laggin behind tutorials, as usual ba. Happening since year 1. But it is time to set out to clear the back log and move ahead before the start of term break.

Hope to settle with a more detailed FYP timeframe and a set of deliverables to be done for a meeting end Sep or early Oct with our tutors. Time to sort out quite a few issues, on weight, motor, power and solar cells requirements. Time to do CAD and if only we can pop over the lab at night.

Jia you ba. Seng. =) Looking forward to frisbee on Friday. Which reminds me of the pain in my left foot. Accidentally dropped a hardcover 1 kg book onto my foot. Impacted on my 2nd and 3rd 'metatursal'. Pain. Should recover in time for frisbee on friday. Must remember to bring googles too! Then can go swimming. Time to get fit and trim those fats.

Heres a picture of fresh cherry tomatoes at Campo de Flori at Rome. Looks fresh and good too! Had blueberries there. Fantastic. Does anyone know where can i buy 'fresh' blueberries in Singapore?

Lobo-ed for 2 days liao

2 unproductive days passed. Nothing much done. Sigh. Have to start doing stuff before they pile up sky high. At least i packed up my table, tested out the 12" ibook G4 by running it 24hours. Should be ok except for a latch problem, which is more of a slight inconvenice.

Will have a presentation this Friday with Butler to the profs and the Solar car team. hmmm... still wondering what will be happening. Oh well ... heh .. sourcing for funds will be next ba.

Ar!!! have steamboat up at Blk 3C, heading up to forage for food... getting hungary liao. 1st supper in a very long time. =)



Here's a picture of St. Peter's Square. Taken on top of the dome of Vatican City. =)

Moving forward !!

Today was yet another step forward !! Having tied down the design parameters yesterday, today moved on to designing driver's safety 'cage' and aerodynamic profile. These small steps are the start of the journey of 3000 kilometres .. literally. =)

Well.... nothing much today, happy ba. Esp having won 3 games of Winning 11. Thank goodness i have a good neighbour who is kind enough to lend us his PS 2 while Yong Xi's PS 2 is under repair. Else... i would die of boredom. Heh.

Speaking of journey of 3000 km, they say all roads lead to Rome. Here's a picture from Rome, Italy. Since am already in Rome, it shows the main road leads to Vatican City. Yup. The 'fortress' with the light orange walls in the background is the Vatican City.

Got a chalet !! Thank you very much ex. XO 93 !!

Well. Gotten some good news today. Had asked ex XO 93 to help me get the SAF chalet for my birthday, very lucky to get balloted for it, and even luckier to have wonderful friends like cl. Thanks a lot!!

Hopefully won't clash with FCP? if i remember the term correctly. And you navy people can pop over for a BBQ and wine if you guys are free cos it is a tuesday. Though organising will be tricky, esp when my fluids dynamics paper ends at 1130 in the morning at NTU !! Although not the last paper, but *sigh* the next 2 papers both on 1st Dec.

Had thought about holding a birthday celebration for quite some time, considering my exam papers and it is a weekday. But yet again reflected on the fact that i 'graduated' from NUH last year, and that life is pretty unpredictable, so.... what the heck! Lets do it! Will get a chance to catch up again.

As for my FYP.... the lab closed at 1700 today, apparantly it closes slightly later on other weekdays. So will only be able to arrange and clear up the lab on Mon. Thinking on agenda and wat is crucial at this stage... hmmm...

So ... here's the picture of the day: U singaporeans out there think that being fined and jailed for vandalism is rather harsh in Singapore? If you try it in the world's smallest country, which is the Vatican City, you would be fined AND expelled from the country. =|

Yeah !!! Got the lab liao.

Good news today. Finally got our lab, though smaller and less accessible then i thought. But, it is still something to cheer about.

Tackling the tutorials one by one. Manage to understand PLCs, phew! Maths 3 looks ok so far, though have to work on probablilty as i skipped all of Jacob's lectures. Now is Ang on linear algebra stuff.. bascially big big matrixes.

Have lots to catch up on 3001 though. Controls are tough, esp when i am supposed to linearise non-linear systems. Theory is easy to understand, but application with maths = die liao lah. =P



Yet another picture from Rome, Italy. Singaporeans always think that we are a FINE city with lots of NO signs(No smoking, No littering)? Well, Rome have them too! Lots of instuctions on what NOT to do while on an escalator (No dogs, No sitting, No barefoot, No smoking, etc). Just wondering why no smoking on the escalator.... hmmm....