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public waning system 2007-09-15 01:09:00 There was an island wide Public Warning System Exercise today. So did you turn on the radio when you heard the "Important Message" signal at 1205hrs?
If you didn't, then you should think about this: when a real threat comes, it's not going to tell you it's not just an exercise or a once a month affair like pms.
Now let me play you the different signals:
"Alarm" Signal. This is sounded when
selfish brother 2007-09-14 19:46:00 I think in my brother's eyes, his brother is a selfish
person.
Today my brother is taking the level 1 climbing course. He asked me to lend him my pair of climbing shoes cos he doesn't want to wear the ones at the climbing centre (that have been worn by hundreds other users). I refused, cos climbing shoes are not like normal shoes, they actually grow into the shape of their owner's feet. So if
excavator does the rowing 2007-09-13 18:35:00 Although I'm not a civil engineering student, I always find construction equipments very cool. Even my desktop wallpaper is full of bulldozers and excavators.
Now have you seen how people in China use a excavator?
To row a barge on the river!
stocks 2007-09-13 01:58:00 Lately my family is into buying stocks. It's like every other minute they are talking about stocks, the only topic during dinner is stocks, during office hour my mother would call my brother on the phone to check on prices, even when I'm doing lab report my mother also wants me to check the prices... it's kinda sickening.
I don't really participate in such discussion. But being an engineering
laughing at old technology 2007-09-12 09:02:00 Yesterday someone was laughing at my 5 years old Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera.
I'll bring you more laughter.
My Osprey Helios 20 backpack is 2 years old; My Nokia 3120 mobile phone doesn't have a camera and is 3 years old, and so is my pair of Brooks shoes; My Teva sandals are 5 years old, and so is my beloved Nalgene bottle; My Casio fx-991s scientific calculator is 14 years old; All
fair and not square 2007-09-11 22:14:00 Ok I have a Non-Disclosure Agreement with the company, so all I can say about the indsutrial design project is the picture above.
There are 3 groups doing the same project, and the interesting thing is, my group is quite closely-knitted, Titus' group is also quite closely-knitted, and both of our groups are quite closely-knitted too~ We were like saying we should combine our fundings and do
canteen observations 2007-09-11 00:00:00 1) Had lunch with Alvin just now. When I returned with my food, I saw a stranger sitting beside Alvin and our bags stacked up on one chair (orginally they weren't). I glanced at Alvin, who gave me that "what-to-do" look. Immediately I understood what had happened: another case of sitting down without asking. So with the plate of rice in hand I purposely asked Alvin if there's anyone taking the Read more:observations
business card 2007-09-10 21:10:00 Last week I went to the supplier's office to self-collect my birthday present and chat with the sales representative there. (Man, my birthday present from Japan was huge~)
I still can't get used to formalities like shaking hand. Yah so I shook hand with the sales rep, he gave me his name card and we talked business. Can't really expect a schooling kid to have a business card to exchange right?
quotes of the day 2007-09-10 09:07:00 Where got people do lab report themselves one?
-- samI realize I have been quite stupid for the past 2 years and 5 weeks.
If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month — get married.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else
-- ricky saw it
world suicide prevention day 2007-09-10 08:52:00 Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. In Singapore, suicide is one of the top three causes of death among youth aged 15 to 35 years.
Some of you may remember having watched my live webcast of someone wanting to jump down from the flat opposite mine a few weeks ago. I guess the thought of committing suicide must have occurred to most people at least once in their life. (I may be wrong though)
I Read more:prevention
smoking nuclear fuel rod 2007-09-10 00:50:00 The other day I was walking home when I saw this old man at the foot of an overhead footbridge, wobbling with plasitc bags in hand. Then suddenly he lighted up a cigarette and I saw him running up the flight of stairs... Wow~
I think nicotine is the answer to energy crisis.
That reminds me of a little chat I had with a friend. I was telling him how I can't stand people blasting music in the
har.....vard 2007-09-09 18:08:00 Suddenly I'm wondering, why on earth is a NUS engineering student (aka me) reading a Harvard Business Review?
Sometimes I really just don't see the point in reading cross-faculty modules.
pingsters got stranded on creamery island 2007-09-09 07:58:00 This afternoon a group of bloggers from ping.sg got stranded
on Creamery Island where there was frozen desert (and hidden camera).
I mean Island Creamery and frozen desserts.
Who were there? rinaz, attilio, paced, dhope, malique, claudia and bf, ntt, arzhou, aaron84z, ethan and chillycraps. Did I miss out anyone?
So we ordered 4 tubs of ice creams and shared among all of us. Teh tarik, reverso
tamagotchi is 10 2007-09-08 07:24:00 Do you know that Tamagotchi (たまごっち) the Japanese digital pet is 10 years old? Coincidentally this week during ME3101 Design lecture, Prof Lai mentioned about Tamagotchi's success.
When this plastic tamago (たまご) was released in November 1996, it was just nice for Christmas. Within 3 days, 80,000 were sold in Japan and 40 million worldwide by mid-1998. (Prof Lai said they had to use armed escort
singapore blog rank 19 2007-09-07 21:12:00 If you have noticed (and if the picture manages to load properly) I'm ranked 19! If I'm not wrong, it's the first time I break the 20-barrier. (who knows, maybe while I was offline it skyrocketed to number 1 =P)
Actually don't take the ranking too seriously, I've seen better blogs with "high" ranking (in terms of numerical value), and of course vice versa =P. Dunno how they rank. And I'm sure
what tap-in-tap-out 2007-09-07 08:07:00 I was on the way to school this morning. About 2 stops before reaching NUS, this girl boarded the bus and moved in towards the exit. Then suddenly the bus driver peered back and shouted: 小姐. 大小姐!!
...The girl acted blur at first, then walked back to the front of the bus, slowly took out her wallet and put the coins into the box.
The fact that she didn't re-tap her ezlink card was clear evidence
quotes of the day 2007-09-07 07:14:00 matthew: how come I always see you wearing the AJ jacket?
siu hang: cos you never see me wearing my underwear.
(during lecture)
jianxiang: eh Jack 沒有來呀?
hong jun: orh 他沒有空
(jx: eh Jack didn't come ah?
hj: orh he's not free)
sh: you know there's a 9 year old undergrad in Hong Kong? On his first day of school he said the maths lecture was too easy. He's a pedigree lor! I mean prodigy...
double glazed window 2007-09-06 17:49:00 That day I was on the bus and gazing at the double
glazed window. It's quite easy to spot it cos it's generally quite thick compared to normal windows. (i didn't test it out with the red emergency hammer though)
If we use the Fourier Law of Conduction (Qx = -kA dT/dx) and Newton's Law of Cooling (Qc = hc A dT), assuming the glass is 4mm thick, the air gap is 5mm thick, outside temperature is 32
mech and mechan 2007-09-05 20:45:00 Last night I had dinner with a girl from Hong Kong who's here on business trip. While chatting I realized there are some interesting differences in the way they call engineering. The shortform for engineering is still "engin", but what we call mech engin (not mad engin) or ME they call "mechan", our EE or triple-E they call "elect". (who got elected?)
Two of her brothers are engineers over there
trapped in the toilet 2007-09-05 06:39:00 Was having lecture in LT7. Then during the break I went to the toilet at Block E1A. After I finished emptying my bladder, washed my hands, and was about to leave, to my horror I saw the toilet door's handle on the floor...
I was trapped
in the crappy toilet.
The only (sensible) way of escaping was to wait for someone to push the door open from outside (and get trapped himself),
or to break
a380 low fly-by 2007-09-04 19:19:00 Any A380 fans here?
An Airbus A380 did a low fly-by at 400m above Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Monday. Another clip from TV station which shows another stunt at Hong Kong International Airport. This one can see belly somemore =)
So many geeks were waiting for its appearance at the harbour side, I think if I was in Hong Kong I would have done likewise =P
Now, how come "that airline" which
wiping where the ass goes 2007-09-04 00:30:00 You are on a bus. It's raining heavily outside. You are sitting on the aisle seat. The window seat beside you is already wet when you board. The bus gets crowded. Would you take out a piece of tissue paper, wipe the wet seat dry, shift in, and let other passengers take the dry warm aisle seat?
There was once I saw a girl did that. Should everyone do the same?
*sidetrack*
Yesterday I offered my
bra in canteen 2007-09-03 04:47:00 This morning we were discussing about our HR2002 project at the NUS Business canteen but I just couldn't concentrate, cos I saw..... bra hanging from the ceiling!
Yes bra as in brassiere that bra. (can't remember red or black) Think it has something to do with the Bizad Club exco election. =P Tsk tsk tsk... but anyway I couldn't concentrate cos I was hungry (for food) =P
hj was daring me to
quote of the day 2007-09-02 23:46:00 at the canteen...
sh: (snatching the Business Times from hj) 吃饭不要看报纸!
hj: 为什么你跟我爸爸说的一模一样?
sh: 因为我是你爸爸. (sh: don't read the newspaper when you are eating!
hj: why do you say the same thing as my father?
sh: cos I'm your father)
driving under influence 2007-09-01 17:50:00 They say when you are under medication or not feeling well, you shouldn't drive. I think it makes sense. I hit someone yesterday.
I was just entering the supermarket when my trolley hit my mother's heel, then I got lectured by my brother with things like "always come to supermarket still blah blah" or "never maintain safety distance blah blah blah"...
It's not uncommon to have a few decades Read more:influence
9 sigma for finding girl friend 2007-09-27 19:56:00 There was once I was chatting with a Vietnamese engineer about finding girl friend
, then I told him I adopt a 9 sigma test. He was like, wow, 6 sigma is already like 99.9997%, then 9 sigma would be... 100%?
I don't really know much about process engineering. The sigma test is a way to quantify defects in manufacturing process and sort of help to monitor quality. The sigma is the same sigma we
quote of the day 2007-09-27 18:35:00 (over MSN)
titus: are you specializing?
siu hang: nope
titus: you have no interest?
siu hang: i want to generalize
I feel like I was lying to others.
And to myself.
I'm going to make my own magic potion.
when famous japanese comedian bumps into chillycraps 2007-09-26 19:12:00 Famous Japanese comedian Zenjiro (ぜんじろう) and robot PaPeRo from NEC Personal Robot Research Center was in NUS for a public lecture and demo on Tuesday.
PaPeRo is a prototype personal robot designed to communicate with humans and is the first robot that can translate Japanese to English. Its development has the intention of it living together and interacting with human beings in daily life. Read more:bumps
logo of technologies 2007-09-26 00:19:00 |
I realize that Singapore Technologies' logo is quite similar to United Technologies'.
UTC is one big company that is parent to other big companies such as Carrier, Otis, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky. Otis is the person who invented the elevator in 1853; Carrier invented modern air-conditioner in 1902; Pratt & Whitney started making aircraft engine in 1925; Sikorsky built his first Read more:technologies
project freakout 2007-09-25 23:53:00 Some weird things are happening to me recently.
Yesterday after project meeting, I was walking towards the bus stop when I found my right hand dripping blood... I still dunno where I got the wound.
This morning before project meeting, I was walking to the project meeting place when I saw bird shit on my shirt. Again, I dunno where I got it from. The shit was dry.
Then after project meeting,
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