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Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Disgrunted final year student...
Was forced to take a break of 2 weeks from FYP due to the CNY, and tons of FYP, Masters & PhD students waiting to use the 1001st milling machine in my lab.
I'm not sure if I'm mistaken or not but hey, NTU EEE school has got one of the largest student population in the campus, and there's only ONE freaking milling machine to cater to SO MANY people who need to fabricate their boards to save their lives?
Ok, for the record, there used to be 2 milling machines in my lab, but one of it was spoiled for 431 days (or maybe more than that) and I see no replacement for it at the end of the tunnel.
Is NTU really that poor to spend some money to buy just one replacement milling machine?
Recently, i have noticed that there are plenty of cute posters around the campus, trying to psycho people into believing that everyone should try to give (money) to their alma mater as alumini members.
The initial thought i had was:
How shameless can the school be? NTU had the money to blow on 300 Aeron Miller category chairs (worth roughly) $2200 each for the golden asses of the NBS staff, and now they are trying to milk the money from the alumini to fund excesses in the school? Well, everyone has their own definition of wat is excessive, and apparently i'm not on the same wavelength as the staff. Read the below url for more details.
http://app.mof.gov.sg/cutwaste/suggestionview.asp?id=27115
But after today then i realized, they REALLY NEED to get more money, cos poor EEE labs dun have the money to buy 1 more milling machine to feed the battalions of deprived FYP, Msc & PhD students.
For the record, we need more money to build more canteens in school, repair the NTUSU van that decided to take a stroll in our nice Yunnan Garden, more air-conditioned halls (well, they can recoup from the rental fees for this) and so on.
Oh ya, the school really badly needs a fresh coat of paint, which is ongoing now. (at least this is worthwhile)
(I heard from my fren that MAE has a lot of milling machines... )
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Anyway, back to my FYP.
Finally got to use the milling machine today after waiting for so long, and I spent the entire day in the lab to ensure that the milling machine works properly throughout the miling process, cos we only had 1 board, so must make sure its correct.
Stayed in the lab from 0930 to 1830 just for this, and to me and my partner's horror, the measurements of final output of the differs from the one that we had originally designed.
So conclusion: Gotta fight fire tomorrow morning. so sianz to have wasted an entire day like that. I even skipped 2 tutorials for this. Damned.
I'm not sure if I'm mistaken or not but hey, NTU EEE school has got one of the largest student population in the campus, and there's only ONE freaking milling machine to cater to SO MANY people who need to fabricate their boards to save their lives?
Ok, for the record, there used to be 2 milling machines in my lab, but one of it was spoiled for 431 days (or maybe more than that) and I see no replacement for it at the end of the tunnel.
Is NTU really that poor to spend some money to buy just one replacement milling machine?
Recently, i have noticed that there are plenty of cute posters around the campus, trying to psycho people into believing that everyone should try to give (money) to their alma mater as alumini members.
The initial thought i had was:
How shameless can the school be? NTU had the money to blow on 300 Aeron Miller category chairs (worth roughly) $2200 each for the golden asses of the NBS staff, and now they are trying to milk the money from the alumini to fund excesses in the school? Well, everyone has their own definition of wat is excessive, and apparently i'm not on the same wavelength as the staff. Read the below url for more details.
http://app.mof.gov.sg/cutwaste/suggestionview.asp?id=27115
But after today then i realized, they REALLY NEED to get more money, cos poor EEE labs dun have the money to buy 1 more milling machine to feed the battalions of deprived FYP, Msc & PhD students.
For the record, we need more money to build more canteens in school, repair the NTUSU van that decided to take a stroll in our nice Yunnan Garden, more air-conditioned halls (well, they can recoup from the rental fees for this) and so on.
Oh ya, the school really badly needs a fresh coat of paint, which is ongoing now. (at least this is worthwhile)
(I heard from my fren that MAE has a lot of milling machines... )
_______________________________________________
Anyway, back to my FYP.
Finally got to use the milling machine today after waiting for so long, and I spent the entire day in the lab to ensure that the milling machine works properly throughout the miling process, cos we only had 1 board, so must make sure its correct.
Stayed in the lab from 0930 to 1830 just for this, and to me and my partner's horror, the measurements of final output of the differs from the one that we had originally designed.
So conclusion: Gotta fight fire tomorrow morning. so sianz to have wasted an entire day like that. I even skipped 2 tutorials for this. Damned.
Friday, February 03, 2006
It is CNY… again
In the past, I had never really enjoyed having a crowd over at my home on Chinese New Year. Had always felt it was troublesome and noisy. But my mindset has changed a bit this year.
Went to Dilong’s place on the second day. It was really crowded with his relatives, and our guys (though we all cramped into Dilong’s room and they gambled their time away).
Spent the 3rd day afternoon at Mrs Yeo’s place again. But I brought along dear to let my 2nd mum give her stamp of approval. It was quite a crowd over there too. With the usual suspects who turned up every year, plus the few gals who were also quite attached to “mum” too. Adrian and me were the only ones who brought along their significant others, with Hua Qiang promising to do the same the next year.
Then as usual, YQ, JS, Bek and XL moved over to my place for “Fo Tiao Qiang”. It felt better to have some frens over at home to liven up the place. Otherwise to have an empty home full of untouched new year goodies really feels quite bad.
Be Thankful that you have to clear up the mess after a party, for it means that you still have friends celebrating with you…
Guess I’m really getting old….
Went to Dilong’s place on the second day. It was really crowded with his relatives, and our guys (though we all cramped into Dilong’s room and they gambled their time away).
Spent the 3rd day afternoon at Mrs Yeo’s place again. But I brought along dear to let my 2nd mum give her stamp of approval. It was quite a crowd over there too. With the usual suspects who turned up every year, plus the few gals who were also quite attached to “mum” too. Adrian and me were the only ones who brought along their significant others, with Hua Qiang promising to do the same the next year.
Then as usual, YQ, JS, Bek and XL moved over to my place for “Fo Tiao Qiang”. It felt better to have some frens over at home to liven up the place. Otherwise to have an empty home full of untouched new year goodies really feels quite bad.
Be Thankful that you have to clear up the mess after a party, for it means that you still have friends celebrating with you…
Guess I’m really getting old….
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Jolted into action
It’s the 4th week of school already. We are at tutorial 3 today yet I barely even done one tutorial. Wasn’t getting nervous about it earlier until today, when I sat with the ‘wrong crowd’ in the tutorial, then I realise almost everyone around me had done their homework. Damned. I had been too lazy and slacked off. If I dun start to catch up now, i probably never will. So its back to my usual routine of staying back in school to catch up on my work till late at night before I return to hall.
Dun put off what you can do today till tomorrow.
Well, what I wanna yell at myself is, dun put off what you should have done YESTERDAY till NEXT WEEK!!!
It’s a nice wake up call. Albeit a terrifying one.
Dun put off what you can do today till tomorrow.
Well, what I wanna yell at myself is, dun put off what you should have done YESTERDAY till NEXT WEEK!!!
It’s a nice wake up call. Albeit a terrifying one.
Monday, January 16, 2006
Officially Retired from TITANS
Played my last ever Rugby match last sunday in midst of the never-ending rain.
Won 10-0 against Hall 10, then lost 15-0 to Hall 1 in the quarter-finals.
It was my first and last ever game against the defending champions whom had been keeping a clean sheet for the last few seasons. Their superior technique and teamwork had won them the game but it was our gamesmanship that has really won us the day. We almost broke their clean sheet when we went beyond their tryline, only to be denied by a last minute tackle which prevented our guy from touching down the ball. It was fun playing against the Hall 1, at least we gave them a run for their money.
As for the game against Hall 10, it was déjà vu for me again. I would always have a near miss in scoring every single year, only by a distance of 5 metres, and it was the same against this year. This was the 3rd time this season that I had beaten 3 men and only to be denied by the 4th opponent coming in.
Well, my final statistics for rugby as I retire: 13 caps, 0 goals.
This is the only regret I have for playing rugby.
Won 10-0 against Hall 10, then lost 15-0 to Hall 1 in the quarter-finals.
It was my first and last ever game against the defending champions whom had been keeping a clean sheet for the last few seasons. Their superior technique and teamwork had won them the game but it was our gamesmanship that has really won us the day. We almost broke their clean sheet when we went beyond their tryline, only to be denied by a last minute tackle which prevented our guy from touching down the ball. It was fun playing against the Hall 1, at least we gave them a run for their money.
As for the game against Hall 10, it was déjà vu for me again. I would always have a near miss in scoring every single year, only by a distance of 5 metres, and it was the same against this year. This was the 3rd time this season that I had beaten 3 men and only to be denied by the 4th opponent coming in.
Well, my final statistics for rugby as I retire: 13 caps, 0 goals.
This is the only regret I have for playing rugby.
Friday, December 23, 2005
It ain't a merry x'mas for me...
Received my exam results a few days back. Felt really depressed for a couple of days. This is one of my most "hardworking" semester, but the results i have got doesn't commensurate the amount of effort, sacrifice and time i have devoted to my studies. Kinda spins me off my track, cos i have always tot that if i have put in more effort into my studies i would naturally get better results. Now i have been proven wrong.
Law of diminishing returns: if one factor of production is increased while the others remain constant, the overall returns will relatively decrease after a certain point
I’m fearing the worst that I might not get a 2nd upper Honours after so much effort, cos my results for this semester just warrants a bottom 2nd lower… The only consolation is that the system that I used to calculate this is not applicable to my batch, so there is still some respite and leeway I can work on.
A brief recap on the stuff that I have done during this short ‘holidays’ :
FYP…. (super sianz already, really no life doing this every day n night)
Went for TMS 25th anniversary dinner (nice catching up with teachers n old frens)
Completed my 3rd SC Marathon. (still recovering from a creaky knee now…)
Played my last 2 Sepak Takraw game for Hall 15.
Had a BBQ and Camp at East Coast Park with dear!
Rejoined Titans after some consideration…
On rejoining Titans:
I was pretty disappointed with the players’ commitment to Titans last year. I was willing to make the effort to travel from Tampines back to NTU for every training. But to see only abt 3 or 4 players present for every training really puts me off. The fact that we were almost not able to field a playing team (no reserves or subs!) on match day really pissed me off. So I wasn’t really keen in returning to the team this year, unless I see proper attendance and commitment in the training sessions.
Call it coincidence or whatever u want, but somehow I would always have something on everytime when I wanted to go to the field to check the team. Until last week when I finally found the time to go down by cutting back on my FYP hours.
I’m not sure whether I mistaken or wat, but the attendance on the session when I first returned was unbelievable. However, the subsequent training on Monday had only 6 players around doing nothing much.
Hopefully we’ll get better commitment next training. Our first match day is on the coming Friday. Praying hard that nothing cocks up.
My thoughts for Sepak Takraw:
Been playing this sport every year since I joined Hall 15. one of the primary reason that I liked this sport more is that nobody is really proficient in this game until that it was quite a level playing field, so unlike soccer, one doesn’t need many years of experience to pick this up. With some efforts, I managed to develop quite some decent skills. However, it will always be a regret of mine not to have won any regu in my time. I admit i wasn’t good enough in my 1st 2 years, but I’m sure I could have won some matches in my senior years had I have had more dedicated team mates. There’s only so many points I can score or save individually. But if the ball doesn’t come to me, there’s nothing much I can do about it.
Oh well, not that its going to haunt me for life anyway. Retirement from sepak takraw for me…
Finally I’ll going for a holiday in Malaysia this coming weekend with dad, mum and dear. We’ll be spending X’mas eve at KL and x’mas day at Genting. It’s the first time I’ll be spending my x’mas out of sg. Think it will be nice!
Law of diminishing returns: if one factor of production is increased while the others remain constant, the overall returns will relatively decrease after a certain point
I’m fearing the worst that I might not get a 2nd upper Honours after so much effort, cos my results for this semester just warrants a bottom 2nd lower… The only consolation is that the system that I used to calculate this is not applicable to my batch, so there is still some respite and leeway I can work on.
A brief recap on the stuff that I have done during this short ‘holidays’ :
FYP…. (super sianz already, really no life doing this every day n night)
Went for TMS 25th anniversary dinner (nice catching up with teachers n old frens)
Completed my 3rd SC Marathon. (still recovering from a creaky knee now…)
Played my last 2 Sepak Takraw game for Hall 15.
Had a BBQ and Camp at East Coast Park with dear!
Rejoined Titans after some consideration…
On rejoining Titans:
I was pretty disappointed with the players’ commitment to Titans last year. I was willing to make the effort to travel from Tampines back to NTU for every training. But to see only abt 3 or 4 players present for every training really puts me off. The fact that we were almost not able to field a playing team (no reserves or subs!) on match day really pissed me off. So I wasn’t really keen in returning to the team this year, unless I see proper attendance and commitment in the training sessions.
Call it coincidence or whatever u want, but somehow I would always have something on everytime when I wanted to go to the field to check the team. Until last week when I finally found the time to go down by cutting back on my FYP hours.
I’m not sure whether I mistaken or wat, but the attendance on the session when I first returned was unbelievable. However, the subsequent training on Monday had only 6 players around doing nothing much.
Hopefully we’ll get better commitment next training. Our first match day is on the coming Friday. Praying hard that nothing cocks up.
My thoughts for Sepak Takraw:
Been playing this sport every year since I joined Hall 15. one of the primary reason that I liked this sport more is that nobody is really proficient in this game until that it was quite a level playing field, so unlike soccer, one doesn’t need many years of experience to pick this up. With some efforts, I managed to develop quite some decent skills. However, it will always be a regret of mine not to have won any regu in my time. I admit i wasn’t good enough in my 1st 2 years, but I’m sure I could have won some matches in my senior years had I have had more dedicated team mates. There’s only so many points I can score or save individually. But if the ball doesn’t come to me, there’s nothing much I can do about it.
Oh well, not that its going to haunt me for life anyway. Retirement from sepak takraw for me…
Finally I’ll going for a holiday in Malaysia this coming weekend with dad, mum and dear. We’ll be spending X’mas eve at KL and x’mas day at Genting. It’s the first time I’ll be spending my x’mas out of sg. Think it will be nice!
Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Exams
Exams from 2 to 21 nov. Won't be updating in this period.
Interesting quote: The higher your expectations, the greater the disappointment when it fails.
My words: no expectations = no disappointment!
But its really tough to exercise this in exams... i always set high standards for myself
Off to "maintain" the high standards...
Interesting quote: The higher your expectations, the greater the disappointment when it fails.
My words: no expectations = no disappointment!
But its really tough to exercise this in exams... i always set high standards for myself
Off to "maintain" the high standards...
Monday, October 10, 2005
Chicken Pox...
I’m really unlucky! Down with chicken pox at this critical period. Exams are going to come in 24 days time and I’m stuck at home. Why can’t the stupid virus choose a better timing.. Must have caught it from some bugger in NTU who is sick and still went about in school. Damned. Curse him/her get constipation and cannot shit forever.
Burnt about $200 to buy the strong medication which will let me recover faster. Really expensive. But no choice since exams are so close. Half of my IPPT money is gone. Crap.
My temperature keeps going up n down like yo-yo. Sometimes I feel very cold, sometimes I feel very hot. Highest recorded temperature is 39.3!
Luckily for the past few days my dear has been taking good care of me. Wet toweling me when my temperature goes up. Helping me get all my stuff when I’m too sick to go about. Buying all those food and fruits for me to get well faster. Accompanying me to the doctor. There’s too many to state! My dear is so nice to me! I love shan!
Burnt about $200 to buy the strong medication which will let me recover faster. Really expensive. But no choice since exams are so close. Half of my IPPT money is gone. Crap.
My temperature keeps going up n down like yo-yo. Sometimes I feel very cold, sometimes I feel very hot. Highest recorded temperature is 39.3!
Luckily for the past few days my dear has been taking good care of me. Wet toweling me when my temperature goes up. Helping me get all my stuff when I’m too sick to go about. Buying all those food and fruits for me to get well faster. Accompanying me to the doctor. There’s too many to state! My dear is so nice to me! I love shan!
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