2nd Blood~

So my new pair of running shoes, the adizero breeze beijing olympics version cost me a mere S$42. Thanks dad for the $80 adidas voucher and the $30 old shoe trade in promotion by adidas, which will last till the end of the month. So those who wanna get adidas running shoes, go get it before September ends! Haha!

F1 Cham Shiong~

We went down with the intention to hear. But we got so much more than that. 4 brave souls and 2 more that endured the ear drum shattering sound waves and the earthquake like vibrations of the passing of each F1 car. It was beyond amazing. It was REVolutions-nary.  

Fernando Alonso

Kimmi Raikkonen

Lewis Hamilton

** The pics were taken with 1/2000s shutter speed with f/2.5 aperture, and I think 1600 ISO. And the cars are still blur.....

The day I spent 6 hours walking~

Went to check out the Singapore Biennale with Kianboon yesterday, and took the opportunity to test fire the lx3 again and learn some photography stuff from Kianboon. Photography is a hobby that when you start picking up, u can't stop. The only thing that can stop you is the lack of financial resources to fund the equipment that would give you visually stimulating pictures that you wouldcrave and keep coming back for. Anywayz, we walked for about 2 hours plus at the South Beach development. If ya want to see everything for the SB, I think you would need an entire day cos there's just so much to see. After having dinner and parting ways cos he had tuition, I went down to the City Hall part of the SB and peeked my way through the exhibits, as the numerous dark rooms used for the exhibits, some of the wierdass exhibits themselves, the spooky corridoors and the lack of life at City Hall just gives you the creeps. Before the SB volunteers could involuntarily lock me inside City Hall cos they were closing, I headed down to where the day was eating the night and just immersed myself into the tranquil states of the brightly lit F1 track with scattered sounds of other lingering tourists and last minute works that are being done to the track. The streets won't stay silent for this long. I guess what I felt standing in the middle of an empty race track is tantamount to what Dr Robert Neville felt standing in the middle of a deserted NY city. Standing amidst the silence of the tracks, you just know that something big is coming. Something either really big, or something really loud. Haha...Here are some of the more interesting photos I took yesterday. Enjoy!

Its been a long time~

The last week of Sch, the hols, and the 3 days tt Sg would be awakened~

Woo hoo!!! Next week's the last week of school before term break, a well needed one after the 1st exhausting half of the sem. Can't wait man...but kns...got 3 quizzes next week.  The school certainly doesn't let us go off easily. Heat transfer, french and Are you ok mental health. Can't wait for the quizzes to be over man. Looks like this term break's gonna be an exciting one with fun filled activities lining up like badminton chalet, Glenn's welcome back dinner, MRO workshops, and the 1 day Singapore Biennial day trip. Not to mention F1. Still trying to think of a way to hear the cars revving at over 19000 rpm. but im sure at tt kinda rotating speed, we can hear it from quite a far distance. Anyway, 5 interesting facts about f1 cars below. Enjoy!

1. An F1 car is made up of 80,000 components, if it were assembled 99.9% correctly; it would still start the race with 80 things wrong!

2. An F1 car can go from 0 to 160 kph AND back to 0 in FOUR seconds!!!!

3. An average F1 driver looses about 4kgs of weight after just one race due to the prolonged exposure to high G forces and temperatures for little over an hour (Yeah that’s right!!!)

4. The amount of aerodynamic downforce produced by the front and rear wings and the car underbody is amazing. Once the car is traveling over 160 kph, an F1 car can generate enough downforce to equal its own weight. That means it could actually hold itself to the CEILING of a tunnel and drive UPSIDE down!

5. When an F1 driver hits the brakes on his car he experiences retardation or deceleration comparable to a regular car driving through a BRICK wall at 300kmph!!!

Photos~

Nothing But the blood~


One can have the greatest talent, but without the right attitude and focus, he can't achieve anything.

"Oh what can wash away my sins, what can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood, nothing but the blood of Jesus."

End of the World? ~

What would you be doing on September 10th? Whatever that you may be doing, it may be the last thing that you may do. For on September 10th, the scientists at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research) would be running a particle beam through the Large Hadron Collider,the world's largest particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. Sparing you the scientific theories and nitty grittys, a mischap in the experiment could lead to a creation of a black hole, and wala, we have one big vacuum cleaner, that would suck the earth of all it's matter. Ok I think I'm exaggerating, but does it matter? But wait! There's more. If they happen to succeed at making the particle run the full 27km circumference of the particle accelerator, they'll be attempting to conduct a high energy particle collision test on the 21st October 2008. 

Its time to start waking up everyday and thanking God that you are still alive, and appreciating all the small little things in life that we overlook everyday. 

Enfin!!~

Finally, after a long gruelling wait, I have finally gotten hall. My distracted and wandering mind during Heat Transfer lecture would aptly decribe my mental and emotional state when I got the news that I've been offered a place in Hall 12 on Wednesday. I couldn't wait to go collect my keys lah. Unfortunately, I had to wait a leetle teeny bit longer because I had to account to people who had helped me or attempted to help me to get hall. Namely Albert, the Hall 2 officer who up a good word for me to SAO and Guojian who had been annoying his Hall 3 sports sec about my case. Once the Hall 12 officer gave the no go to transfer of Hall on Thursday, I moved. So, Hall 12 seems like a nice place to stay. It's pretty near school, and located in the Hall 3 and 16 cluster which makes NTU looks like a nice place to study in. Thankfully, my roommate is Singaporean. Hope to strike a good chord with him in our future times together. 

Finally, after 1 long week of work, I've completed my Flight Mechanics CA assignment. So much for just 15% of my final grade. But I have to say that through this assignment I have learnt so much more, and am still very approving of putting more weightage for grades on assignments than exams because the learning value is just so much higher. Ultimately, we are preparing ourselves for the industry, where we would need to learn to use the tools given to us to solve problems, to identify problems, to provide the solution. 

Finally, I've signed up as a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. I was considering to sign up for it while I was in the States, but just didn't gave it enough thought to do so. Anyway, I guess the reason why I signed up as a member was because of the vast amount of educational resources they have on their site, and discounts you can get if you want to buy books by the AIAA which would justify the annual 20USD member fee.

Finally, my eyes are gettin better. In no less than a week, I'll be having perfect vision again(both inward and outward). I'm gonna miss my weekly dates with my opthomolgist, who will definitely miss me considering I pay her 45 bucks for 5 minutes of her time. 

Mannerism~

Driving on the roads in Singapore just makes me disappointed and frustrated. Although we are an affluent country and are relatively well developed, we lack the basic courtesy and manners that people of affluence should have. Drivers signal late and they don't give way to others. They also attempt to "cut" into filter lanes that have long queues. More often than not, when they want to change lane, they would do it with such speed and suddenness that the car driver whois in the lane just behind them might get a cardiac arrest even if they don't have a history of cardiovascular disease.

I was on the train the other day, and was preparing to exit at the next mrt station. As I was standing somewhere in the centre of the train compartment, I gestured my way to the train doors. When the doors opened, this SINGAPORE AUNTIE standing at the back of me gave me a nudge on my back, sidestepped me and cut me before I could even put a foot forward to get out of the train. (She can go play for Singapore Sevens liao)

I think we need to learn from the Japanese, who do not push and sidestep people deliberately in the trains and train stations just because they are in a hurry. I think we need to learn from the Americans, who do not horn and flash at drivers who are slow on the overtaking lane, but overtake take them on the non overtaking lane, or just be patient with the driver. The point is, if u want someone to show courtesy to you, you must show courtesy to them. If everyone acts considerately, no one will act inconsiderately.

Check out the vids on Singaporen Aunties at Youtube and have a ball of a laugh.