Oh yeah it means more of mugging and mugging, how boring can that be?
Revision is going on smoothly but slowly for biophysics, partly because Janaky's monotonous voice is echoing in my head.
Sometimes I just feel damned stupid, can't study faster and just absorb every shit thing then go to exams and do a decent grade. Or am I just lazy?
I am so bloody frustrated
Sunday, November 20, 2005
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
Quick break!
The weekend has passed in a flash! :(
Well the exams are drawing near anyway so its about high time to start mugging. Its also been weeks since I listened to Mr Brown's podcast on how to zhng your car and we're still laughing about it. So here's a few useless facts about the podcast and its contents~
1. The turbo sound that Mr Brown mentioned really does exist. I've personally witnessed the sound on a souped up Honda Civic before. Most hilarious in my opinion :p

2. The stickers that are meant for cars are all waterproof. For obvious reasons.
3. The blue neon undercarriage lights areillegal not standard.
4. Same goes for aftermarket retrofitted HID high intensity discharge jinon (Xenon) headlamps. Currently a host of cars from cars have them fitted as a stock option so they are allowed. Toyota Camry (facelifed version), Honda Odyssey(facelifted version), Mazda RX8 are some of the examples. Without proper alignment, HID can be very glaring to other road users. Faulty installation of the ballast may also result in a fire hazard.
5. Spoilers are not supposed to protrude from the car body. More info @ onemotoring.com.sg
6. Honda vehicles in general have a higher insurance premium compared to other Japanese makes in the same class. This is believed to be caused by Honda's bad reputation among insurance firms as a boyracer's car.
7. The loudest exhaust I've ever heard came from a Lamborghini Murcielago/Gallardo along East Coast Road (Katong). It was cruising at less than 60kmph I estimate. The 2nd loudest came from a bike's pipe. The sheer volume triggered 3 car alarms as the bike went past. Bloody fucker zhng so loud for fuck.
8. Lowering springs are available for lowering the car. Lowering the car brings benefits such as better aerodynamics (Ground effect) as well as higher stability due to the lower centre of mass!
9. DOHC stands for dual overhead camshafts. The camshafts are mounted on top of the cylinders and there are separate camshafts for inlet and exhaust vaults.
10. Changing an exhaust to a larger one (in diameter) does not necessarily mean better power. Most probably the low end of the engine's range will lose some power and gain some power at the high end.
Oh well enough of my boliao-ness. But ...
Mr Brown never include the following:
1. Add the dark dark ah beng tinted film.
2. Mugen sunshade sticker.
3. Change steering wheel to Momo 3-spoke steering.
4. Wide bodykit.
5. Huge sports rims. Preferably CHROME.
HAHAHAA!!
My personal opinion on zhng-ing your car. By all means do go and personalise your car but just keep it civil and don't zhng your exhaust until it wakes up the whole neighbourhood. Its plain fucking stupid and inconsiderate. Might attract angry drawings on your car paint anytime.
Zhng your car with HID, jolly well make sure your HID doesn't blind other road users. As for Mitsubishi Grandis' rear LED lights, I'm sorry jkaiser but it comes stock leh =/
Look fierce can, don't drive fierce except on the track.
Well the exams are drawing near anyway so its about high time to start mugging. Its also been weeks since I listened to Mr Brown's podcast on how to zhng your car and we're still laughing about it. So here's a few useless facts about the podcast and its contents~
1. The turbo sound that Mr Brown mentioned really does exist. I've personally witnessed the sound on a souped up Honda Civic before. Most hilarious in my opinion :p

2. The stickers that are meant for cars are all waterproof. For obvious reasons.
3. The blue neon undercarriage lights are
4. Same goes for aftermarket retrofitted HID high intensity discharge jinon (Xenon) headlamps. Currently a host of cars from cars have them fitted as a stock option so they are allowed. Toyota Camry (facelifed version), Honda Odyssey(facelifted version), Mazda RX8 are some of the examples. Without proper alignment, HID can be very glaring to other road users. Faulty installation of the ballast may also result in a fire hazard.
5. Spoilers are not supposed to protrude from the car body. More info @ onemotoring.com.sg
6. Honda vehicles in general have a higher insurance premium compared to other Japanese makes in the same class. This is believed to be caused by Honda's bad reputation among insurance firms as a boyracer's car.
7. The loudest exhaust I've ever heard came from a Lamborghini Murcielago/Gallardo along East Coast Road (Katong). It was cruising at less than 60kmph I estimate. The 2nd loudest came from a bike's pipe. The sheer volume triggered 3 car alarms as the bike went past. Bloody fucker zhng so loud for fuck.
8. Lowering springs are available for lowering the car. Lowering the car brings benefits such as better aerodynamics (Ground effect) as well as higher stability due to the lower centre of mass!
9. DOHC stands for dual overhead camshafts. The camshafts are mounted on top of the cylinders and there are separate camshafts for inlet and exhaust vaults.
10. Changing an exhaust to a larger one (in diameter) does not necessarily mean better power. Most probably the low end of the engine's range will lose some power and gain some power at the high end.
Oh well enough of my boliao-ness. But ...
Mr Brown never include the following:
1. Add the dark dark ah beng tinted film.
2. Mugen sunshade sticker.
3. Change steering wheel to Momo 3-spoke steering.
4. Wide bodykit.
5. Huge sports rims. Preferably CHROME.
HAHAHAA!!
My personal opinion on zhng-ing your car. By all means do go and personalise your car but just keep it civil and don't zhng your exhaust until it wakes up the whole neighbourhood. Its plain fucking stupid and inconsiderate. Might attract angry drawings on your car paint anytime.
Zhng your car with HID, jolly well make sure your HID doesn't blind other road users. As for Mitsubishi Grandis' rear LED lights, I'm sorry jkaiser but it comes stock leh =/
Look fierce can, don't drive fierce except on the track.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
It all goes up in smoke
PC Lee's seems to have won the battle against smoking, apparently he has been abstaining from cigarettes for quite a few weeks already so I thought most of the army guys would know and try to egg him on. (Not egg him on to pick it up again ok!)
However he has had new issues so all the best to you brother!
Recently also watched on TV that 李铭顺and er forget it my Mandarin sucks. Quan Yi Feng and Huang Hui are pledging to quit smoking. No doubt some part of government awareness campaign. Well but I do applaud their first step in coming forward to try, especially Quan Yi Feng. Evidently her daughter is emulating her smoking at home, and she said she felt guilty and that she didn't want this bad smoking habit to pass down to her daughter.
Been reading a few posts from a fellow Phy major and feel that althought we don't really click/clique, I kind of share the same sentiments with him. That both of us don't really excel at studies, like spending power and being in control. Talk about finding a 知己 in the most unlikely places.
However he has had new issues so all the best to you brother!
Recently also watched on TV that 李铭顺and er forget it my Mandarin sucks. Quan Yi Feng and Huang Hui are pledging to quit smoking. No doubt some part of government awareness campaign. Well but I do applaud their first step in coming forward to try, especially Quan Yi Feng. Evidently her daughter is emulating her smoking at home, and she said she felt guilty and that she didn't want this bad smoking habit to pass down to her daughter.
Been reading a few posts from a fellow Phy major and feel that althought we don't really click/clique, I kind of share the same sentiments with him. That both of us don't really excel at studies, like spending power and being in control. Talk about finding a 知己 in the most unlikely places.
Monday, October 17, 2005
Of KFC and silly blunders
One fine day, my younger sis developed a craving for KFC. So we browsed through the discount coupons very happily and chose our meal.
Then we drove to BP plaza and I parked the car at the carpark opposite the shopping centre. As we were walking towards BreadTalk, Pei suddenly asked me 'kor where's the coupon?'
I went limp in the knees cos I thought she brought it. Dammit, We came without the fiaking coupons. Nb... so I ended up buying PIAC (Pasta in a cup) and she bought something else, oh I remember now. She bought the 4 piece devil drumlets from KFC. So we were both quite pissed at ourselves for being so damned forgetful while trotting out of the shopping centre when... WTF! The guy from KFC is giving out the discount coupons! KNN! Asshole why wasn't he there when we walk in. Damned suay man!
After cursing and contemplating whether to knock the daylights out of that bugger we reached the car and... lo and behold...
THE COUPON IS ON PEI's SEAT!
YYYAAAARRRGHHHHHH!!!!~~!!!
Then we drove to BP plaza and I parked the car at the carpark opposite the shopping centre. As we were walking towards BreadTalk, Pei suddenly asked me 'kor where's the coupon?'
I went limp in the knees cos I thought she brought it. Dammit, We came without the fiaking coupons. Nb... so I ended up buying PIAC (Pasta in a cup) and she bought something else, oh I remember now. She bought the 4 piece devil drumlets from KFC. So we were both quite pissed at ourselves for being so damned forgetful while trotting out of the shopping centre when... WTF! The guy from KFC is giving out the discount coupons! KNN! Asshole why wasn't he there when we walk in. Damned suay man!
After cursing and contemplating whether to knock the daylights out of that bugger we reached the car and... lo and behold...
THE COUPON IS ON PEI's SEAT!
YYYAAAARRRGHHHHHH!!!!~~!!!
Sunday, October 09, 2005
20/20 Vision...
What is 20/20 Vision?
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Visual acuity is typically measured with the use of a standard eye chart called the Snellen chart. It was devised by Dr. Hermann Snellen, a Dutch Ophthalmologist, in 1862. It was originally used at a standard distance of 6 meters, which is about...
Read more about it here
Scroll down until you see the Snellen chart. Yes, the one that you have to look at when your health booklet has to be checked in primary school.
Well at least its stuff that I never knew. "Godma" gave us this site for circular aperture diffraction stuff but well as you surf there are always interesting things that you find out!
:) (why am I smiling when I owe my godma 4 lab reports and a 45 minutes VIVA? ccb...)
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Visual acuity is typically measured with the use of a standard eye chart called the Snellen chart. It was devised by Dr. Hermann Snellen, a Dutch Ophthalmologist, in 1862. It was originally used at a standard distance of 6 meters, which is about...
Read more about it here
Scroll down until you see the Snellen chart. Yes, the one that you have to look at when your health booklet has to be checked in primary school.
Well at least its stuff that I never knew. "Godma" gave us this site for circular aperture diffraction stuff but well as you surf there are always interesting things that you find out!
:) (why am I smiling when I owe my godma 4 lab reports and a 45 minutes VIVA? ccb...)
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Insomnia?
Am I suffering from insomnia? I told JK I was going off at 1:30. Until now still unable to sleep, damn it!
At this rate I won't be awake in time for solid state physics. Freakkkk!!
Gah! Gdnite all.. my neighbour's rooster is gonna start crowing in 1 hour's time.
At this rate I won't be awake in time for solid state physics. Freakkkk!!
Gah! Gdnite all.. my neighbour's rooster is gonna start crowing in 1 hour's time.
Saturday, October 01, 2005
Lingering thoughts
Been thinking quite often these days, one is about a letter to one of the local paper's forums. Actually it came out from Jingkai's mouth lah but anyway this person was suggesting a death sentence for hit and run criminals. Most probably the idea came to him for the recent case of a taxi hitting someone or some vehicle and didn't stop.
As I watched the news where the one of the local vehicle repair workshops got a plaque from the SPF for being an alert and vigilant citizen blah blah .. it just came to my mind, what would I have done if I hit someone and there's no one around and the person I just hit is confirmed dead. It would be a farking dilemma wouldn't it? I would surely be in one, now does that spell any troubling traits about me I wonder. As Jingkai told me he would surely stop since he didn't want to be forever haunted by this incident, I also searched my mind for a piece on conscience.
What if you surrendered and admitted to running that person over? If this law is passed then you'd better be prepared for a noose around your neck. Well that just means game over right?
However if you ran, well you would probably end up hiding for the rest of your life, probably in any country if you can really get out in the first place. And being haunted by that incident forever. I don't know which is better but both options aren't that good in the first place.
I also realised that my studying pace is so freaking slow compared to my peers. Most of the time JK can finish revision way ahead of me while Zeff can really chiong last minute and yet know his stuff much better than me. So now really quite worried about this, I mean this isn't just about acadaemia but part of a life-long process. Learning self improvement is very important and I also realised I have quite a lot of other flaws. That day while I was revising M&C I realised there was a mistake in one of either JK or KC's drawings/workings/explanation. Though I knew it, I just didn't open my mouth to spit it out. Weird right?
So after a day of thinking the next day I forcefully made myself explain how a circuit worked to KC. Hur hur.. that was really silly and yet enlightening. Machiam doing a mini presentation.
So much for weird traits about me. Have you searched your soul today?
As I watched the news where the one of the local vehicle repair workshops got a plaque from the SPF for being an alert and vigilant citizen blah blah .. it just came to my mind, what would I have done if I hit someone and there's no one around and the person I just hit is confirmed dead. It would be a farking dilemma wouldn't it? I would surely be in one, now does that spell any troubling traits about me I wonder. As Jingkai told me he would surely stop since he didn't want to be forever haunted by this incident, I also searched my mind for a piece on conscience.
What if you surrendered and admitted to running that person over? If this law is passed then you'd better be prepared for a noose around your neck. Well that just means game over right?
However if you ran, well you would probably end up hiding for the rest of your life, probably in any country if you can really get out in the first place. And being haunted by that incident forever. I don't know which is better but both options aren't that good in the first place.
I also realised that my studying pace is so freaking slow compared to my peers. Most of the time JK can finish revision way ahead of me while Zeff can really chiong last minute and yet know his stuff much better than me. So now really quite worried about this, I mean this isn't just about acadaemia but part of a life-long process. Learning self improvement is very important and I also realised I have quite a lot of other flaws. That day while I was revising M&C I realised there was a mistake in one of either JK or KC's drawings/workings/explanation. Though I knew it, I just didn't open my mouth to spit it out. Weird right?
So after a day of thinking the next day I forcefully made myself explain how a circuit worked to KC. Hur hur.. that was really silly and yet enlightening. Machiam doing a mini presentation.
So much for weird traits about me. Have you searched your soul today?
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Photos!
Section analysis of a standard 10 micron grid. You can see clearly the recesses every 10 microns.
A 3D image derived from contact mode AFM. This means that the tip and sample are actually "touching" each other.
Power spectral density image of contact gold. This time I'm using a picture derived from the phase difference between some signals. (I also blur) Don't ask me what is PSD, it just gives a lot of information.
A flattened image of the standard grid. Look at the phase picture on the right. It provides fricking accurate pictures of the surface characteristics. In this case, you can see the roughness on the surface.Since these experiments were all performed by me, please do not infringe copyright laws. MY VERY FIRST OWN COPYRIGHT PICTURES!!!
Arrow from Hai~Ren, nearly forgot about it!
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Nothing to blog about :/
Recently really tired and busy. More busy than tired actually but well I'm fighting the good fight. Been downloading some songs from The Carpenters and they really have soothing songs that never fail to make me... drowsy? SHIT..
Anyway I'll upload pictured from AFM soon. Just to make you people even more bored. Hur hur hur~~
1 lab report/viva and biophysics test to go!
Anyway I'll upload pictured from AFM soon. Just to make you people even more bored. Hur hur hur~~
1 lab report/viva and biophysics test to go!
Friday, September 02, 2005
Faraday's effect explained..
Warning: The below entry is full of technical and weird physical nomenclature so if you find Physics a turn off please look away from your monitor screen. LOL~
What is Faraday's effect?
One observes that when a plane polarised light passes through a magnetized medium (eg: a glass cylinder subjected to a B-field), the plane of polarization is rotated and this is known as the Faraday effect. Michael Faraday discovered this in 1845 and this is one of his more 'unknown' discoveries relative to the discovery of the transformer.
Basically we start off with a 50W halogen lamp and then a the light beam passes through a filter, hereby filtering out all but a particular wavelength of light. This filtered light goes through the first polariser, set at 90 degrees before passing through the glass cylinder. Note that the glass cylinder is placed in between 2 poles of an electromagnet such that direction of the B-field is parallel to direction of irradiation. The light then passes through a 2nd polariser (analyser) before a focusing lens is used to focus the image of the cylinder's image onto a translucent screen.
Procedure: Since polariser is set at 90 degrees, we would expect extinction to be at 0 degrees. However the plane of polarisation would be rotated by the B-field and hence we would expect some non-zero value of delta phi. We do this by adjusting the analyser to find the point of maximum extinction.
The B-field values were also varied by controlling the DC current supplying power to the electromagnet, and we find that the greater the current the greater the Faraday's angle. So delta phi is proportional to B.
I won't go into detail about the Verdet's constant, because its just mathematical stuff. Lazy me wahaha!
Why does this effect occur? This is pretty interesting stuff at least to me. What do we mean by plane polarised light? We are essentially talking about the direction of electric field when we say plane polarised light. Plane polarised light can be visualised as LCP and RCP light. LCP = left circularly polarised and RCP = right """
We can consider it like this because if we consider light to be circularly polarised, the 2 circular vectors always have a resultant which is along the plane of polarisation. For normal materials, the refractive index varies proportionally with wavelength (the lower the wavelength, the higher the index of refraction)
For most materials, there is a UV resonance frequency or associated wavelength, such that peak resonance is reached when this particular wavelength of light passes through. Refractive index is a maximum at these points. When these materials are subjected to a B-field parallel to direction of irradiation, something occurs and its known as the Zeeman effect. Nabeh, I also dulan at this point.
What Zeeman effect does is, it shifts the point of resonance in different directions for LCP and RCP. So what sense does it make? Ok imagine LCP and RCP passing through the medium but LCP experiences a lower index of refraction while RCP experiences a higher index of refraction. When they recombine again after travelling through the medium, add up the 2 vectors and you get a new plane of polarisation. Cool..
So this BRIEFLY explains what the Faraday effect is about. Hope whoever is reading this understands. If don't understand, don't find me wahaha! Kidding. :)
What is Faraday's effect?
One observes that when a plane polarised light passes through a magnetized medium (eg: a glass cylinder subjected to a B-field), the plane of polarization is rotated and this is known as the Faraday effect. Michael Faraday discovered this in 1845 and this is one of his more 'unknown' discoveries relative to the discovery of the transformer.
Basically we start off with a 50W halogen lamp and then a the light beam passes through a filter, hereby filtering out all but a particular wavelength of light. This filtered light goes through the first polariser, set at 90 degrees before passing through the glass cylinder. Note that the glass cylinder is placed in between 2 poles of an electromagnet such that direction of the B-field is parallel to direction of irradiation. The light then passes through a 2nd polariser (analyser) before a focusing lens is used to focus the image of the cylinder's image onto a translucent screen.
Procedure: Since polariser is set at 90 degrees, we would expect extinction to be at 0 degrees. However the plane of polarisation would be rotated by the B-field and hence we would expect some non-zero value of delta phi. We do this by adjusting the analyser to find the point of maximum extinction.
The B-field values were also varied by controlling the DC current supplying power to the electromagnet, and we find that the greater the current the greater the Faraday's angle. So delta phi is proportional to B.
I won't go into detail about the Verdet's constant, because its just mathematical stuff. Lazy me wahaha!
Why does this effect occur? This is pretty interesting stuff at least to me. What do we mean by plane polarised light? We are essentially talking about the direction of electric field when we say plane polarised light. Plane polarised light can be visualised as LCP and RCP light. LCP = left circularly polarised and RCP = right """
We can consider it like this because if we consider light to be circularly polarised, the 2 circular vectors always have a resultant which is along the plane of polarisation. For normal materials, the refractive index varies proportionally with wavelength (the lower the wavelength, the higher the index of refraction)
For most materials, there is a UV resonance frequency or associated wavelength, such that peak resonance is reached when this particular wavelength of light passes through. Refractive index is a maximum at these points. When these materials are subjected to a B-field parallel to direction of irradiation, something occurs and its known as the Zeeman effect. Nabeh, I also dulan at this point.
What Zeeman effect does is, it shifts the point of resonance in different directions for LCP and RCP. So what sense does it make? Ok imagine LCP and RCP passing through the medium but LCP experiences a lower index of refraction while RCP experiences a higher index of refraction. When they recombine again after travelling through the medium, add up the 2 vectors and you get a new plane of polarisation. Cool..
So this BRIEFLY explains what the Faraday effect is about. Hope whoever is reading this understands. If don't understand, don't find me wahaha! Kidding. :)
Monday, August 29, 2005
Ttangchili & His Friends
Its just a name of a very small notebook I had when I was a young boy. One day, we went to an excursion to the zoo and the teacher told us to bring along a notebook to take notes so I took this little notebook.
(Sun Bear) crawls, have fur, black colour, have four legs.
(lama) 4 legs, brown colour, have fur, doesn't have tail, eats grass.
(polar bear) it swims, can stand, can crawl, have fur, bigeg colour (biege), 4 legs, eats bamboo poles. (??? confused with panda?)
(Rhino) 3 horns, 4 legs, a tail, dark brown, eats grass.
(zebra) black and white stripes, 4 legs, a tail, 2 ears, a head.
(ostrich) has feathers, black in colour, 2 legs, 1 leg (Guess I was seeing things), 1 head.
(leopard) have spots, black in colour and some orange in colour. 4 legs 1 head.
(python) biege in colour, 1 head very long.
(King cobra) very very long, black in colour, scale's colour (gold) 1 head
(Giant turtle) very large, has a shell, 1 head, 4 legs.
(penguin) has 2 wings, 1 tail, has feathers, 1 head.
(elephant) 1 trunk, 4 legs, 2 ears, 1 head, 2 horns, 1 mouth, 2 eyes, 1 body.
(Sun Bear) crawls, have fur, black colour, have four legs.
(lama) 4 legs, brown colour, have fur, doesn't have tail, eats grass.
(polar bear) it swims, can stand, can crawl, have fur, bigeg colour (biege), 4 legs, eats bamboo poles. (??? confused with panda?)
(Rhino) 3 horns, 4 legs, a tail, dark brown, eats grass.
(zebra) black and white stripes, 4 legs, a tail, 2 ears, a head.
(ostrich) has feathers, black in colour, 2 legs, 1 leg (Guess I was seeing things), 1 head.
(leopard) have spots, black in colour and some orange in colour. 4 legs 1 head.
(python) biege in colour, 1 head very long.
(King cobra) very very long, black in colour, scale's colour (gold) 1 head
(Giant turtle) very large, has a shell, 1 head, 4 legs.
(penguin) has 2 wings, 1 tail, has feathers, 1 head.
(elephant) 1 trunk, 4 legs, 2 ears, 1 head, 2 horns, 1 mouth, 2 eyes, 1 body.
Friday, August 26, 2005
Faraday's effect
Made me so damned tired, everyday have to type report and research dunno what Zeeman effect. Jesus, enough of electron orbitals and energy gaps!
Just finished typing my report, it sounds damned intellectual when its not and it even talks about pupil dilation as an error source. Haha, Beng should know about that!
Basically this semester seems to be quite packed for me, haven't had dinner at home for a long time already! But strangely, I haven't really been missing it. I really hope this momentum can be carried on (conservation of general momentum) hur hur...
Its a wrap!
Just finished typing my report, it sounds damned intellectual when its not and it even talks about pupil dilation as an error source. Haha, Beng should know about that!
Basically this semester seems to be quite packed for me, haven't had dinner at home for a long time already! But strangely, I haven't really been missing it. I really hope this momentum can be carried on (conservation of general momentum) hur hur...
Its a wrap!
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Argh..
Basically the last week (this was supposed to be a National Day blog), I've been working as a general helper for the Singapore open shooting championships. So much stuff to blog about.. don't even know where to start..
The wiry issue..
We worked at score-takers at the shotgun range and for the skeet event, the referee will have to walk around with a hand-held wired remote that activates the skeet 'house' to shoot out a clay pigeon. So the problem came when the referee has to walk all around the range and the wire would get tangled up IF the referee zig-zagged in between the range's pillars.
Well in my opinion, this type of thing is really very simple, just that I kept quiet but JK did not so he politely suggested to the referee that perhaps he might want to stick with walking in front or behind the pillars, but not both at the same time. Which kind of got us into a "pep talk" from TP, the overall IC (OIC) for the general helpers.
As we both agreed, its a waste that people like TP don't sign on in the army because he's so bleddy kanchiong spider.
TP: "No matter what, he's still the referee and because he's a nice guy, that's why he didn't say anything. If its other refs, he sure 'kan' you upside down."
How stupid can you get man, this type of thing is called initiative and JK tried to convince him that suggesting this to the referee would only make everyone's life easier but he 'eh xi' refuse to listen to us. Duh! Stuff like we are here as general helpers and we're being paid to help etc etc.. really dumb shit in my opinion.
Even if kena fuck by ref, I always have the option to just go home lor.. like this is a permanent job.. anyway JK made a good point about the job being a short 6 days assignment and it wouldn't be worth making an enemy over this type of crap. Couldn't agree more about that!
Oh btw, happy belated birthday Buddy (I wished you already though :p)
The wiry issue..
We worked at score-takers at the shotgun range and for the skeet event, the referee will have to walk around with a hand-held wired remote that activates the skeet 'house' to shoot out a clay pigeon. So the problem came when the referee has to walk all around the range and the wire would get tangled up IF the referee zig-zagged in between the range's pillars.
Well in my opinion, this type of thing is really very simple, just that I kept quiet but JK did not so he politely suggested to the referee that perhaps he might want to stick with walking in front or behind the pillars, but not both at the same time. Which kind of got us into a "pep talk" from TP, the overall IC (OIC) for the general helpers.
As we both agreed, its a waste that people like TP don't sign on in the army because he's so bleddy kanchiong spider.
TP: "No matter what, he's still the referee and because he's a nice guy, that's why he didn't say anything. If its other refs, he sure 'kan' you upside down."
How stupid can you get man, this type of thing is called initiative and JK tried to convince him that suggesting this to the referee would only make everyone's life easier but he 'eh xi' refuse to listen to us. Duh! Stuff like we are here as general helpers and we're being paid to help etc etc.. really dumb shit in my opinion.
Even if kena fuck by ref, I always have the option to just go home lor.. like this is a permanent job.. anyway JK made a good point about the job being a short 6 days assignment and it wouldn't be worth making an enemy over this type of crap. Couldn't agree more about that!
Oh btw, happy belated birthday Buddy (I wished you already though :p)
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Promotion!
Saintvida.com has opened shop! Set up by a friend of mine, it offers a range of stylish wear for the fashion conscious crowd. Do pop by and take a look, personally I'd recommend the ladies' tees..
PS: Princess, anything caught your eye yet? :p
PS: Princess, anything caught your eye yet? :p
The Sixth Tuesday
Excerpts from a book I read in ICT.. quite a meaningful book by Mitch Albom. It was a bestseller and a very popular book read by millions of people around the globe. It belongs to the 'self improvement' genre of books I'd suppose but the author writes this book with a unique way, kind of like a recollection of accounts. Go read it if you haven't!
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The small horrors of his illness were growing, and when I finally sat down with Morrie, he was coughing more than usual, a dry, dusty cough that shook his chest and made his head jerk forward. After one violent surge, he stopped, closed his eyes, and took a breath. I sat quietly because I thought he was recovering from his exertion.
"Is the tape on?" he said suddenly, his eyes still closed.
Yes, yes, I quickly said, pressing down the play and record buttons.
"What I'm doing now," he continued, his eyes still closed, "is detaching myself from the experience."
Detaching yourself?
"Yes. Detaching myself. And this is important - not just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach."
He opened his eyes. He exhaled. "You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."
But wait, I said. Aren't you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?
"Yes."
Well, how can you do that if you're detached?
"Ah. You're thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."
I'm lost.
"Take any emotion - love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails."
"But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognise that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.'"
Morrie stopped and looked me over, perhaps to make sure I was getting this right.
"I know you think this is just about dying," he said, "but its like I keep telling you. When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
---------------------
The small horrors of his illness were growing, and when I finally sat down with Morrie, he was coughing more than usual, a dry, dusty cough that shook his chest and made his head jerk forward. After one violent surge, he stopped, closed his eyes, and took a breath. I sat quietly because I thought he was recovering from his exertion.
"Is the tape on?" he said suddenly, his eyes still closed.
Yes, yes, I quickly said, pressing down the play and record buttons.
"What I'm doing now," he continued, his eyes still closed, "is detaching myself from the experience."
Detaching yourself?
"Yes. Detaching myself. And this is important - not just for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach."
He opened his eyes. He exhaled. "You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."
But wait, I said. Aren't you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?
"Yes."
Well, how can you do that if you're detached?
"Ah. You're thinking, Mitch. But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."
I'm lost.
"Take any emotion - love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails."
"But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognise that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.'"
Morrie stopped and looked me over, perhaps to make sure I was getting this right.
"I know you think this is just about dying," he said, "but its like I keep telling you. When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Greatday.com
I was reading this particular day's quotes and it talked about suffering setbacks and encountering low points in life. Well to most, that's just all that meets the eye..
Apparently the sooner we accept that these challenges and obstacles are part of life itself, the sooner we will quit whining about them and get over these difficulties. That life itself matters in the journey, not the current nor the end point.
Pretty useful stuff for a troubled mind anyday~
Apparently the sooner we accept that these challenges and obstacles are part of life itself, the sooner we will quit whining about them and get over these difficulties. That life itself matters in the journey, not the current nor the end point.
Pretty useful stuff for a troubled mind anyday~
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Public outrage!
Phew.. just finished reading todays papers and 1 whole page was dedicated to the NKF/TT Durai affair. Which was the Forum, only 1 article called for level headed thinking, the rest were more or less from angry/irate/irritated/disturbed readers.. *shakes head*
10-12 months of performance bonus.. that already is terribly uncommon in the public sector. 25K/month and add the bonus in, up to 600K per year.
Mrs Goh said it was peanuts.. sure it was peanuts if NKF was a profit-making outfit but it relies on public donations man. Anyway I think she did the right think by publicly supporting TT Durai because if she also condemn him, then NKF might really cui..
I saw the online petition's link yesterday but didn't sign it because I thought it was kind of bo liao.. I always thought that online petitions can't be taken seriously. Why?
The following is an illustration only..
99. Mr. A (TT Durai has tarnished the reputation of NKF and therefore his resignation is only rightful such that public confidence can be regained)
100. Ms. B (We will not continue to donate until TT Durai resigns and the $ is properly taken care of)
101. Mr.C (F*** you KNNBCCB you LIAR I HOPE U HAVE GONORRHOEA AND UR MOTHER FATHER AH KONG AH MA *****************************************)
Well at least that's what I always see in online petitions. But what to expect, when thousands of people are physically marching in the Philippines to demand President Arroyo's resignation, we can only switch on computer and sign petition. What? Better than nothing what..
Mr X and FKN are fictional characters as below hehe...
Now I'm just wondering, is there any law that governs non-profit organisations on transparency etc. Like at this point of time, would Mr X get into trouble with the law? From the way I see it, that we have decided to donate our money to FKN, we have a right to know where our money has gone. Since FKN's CEO hasn't been accurate about how the money has been spent, would that count as fraud or breach of trust? The public's trust that is.. well that's a question I've been pondering.
10-12 months of performance bonus.. that already is terribly uncommon in the public sector. 25K/month and add the bonus in, up to 600K per year.
Mrs Goh said it was peanuts.. sure it was peanuts if NKF was a profit-making outfit but it relies on public donations man. Anyway I think she did the right think by publicly supporting TT Durai because if she also condemn him, then NKF might really cui..
I saw the online petition's link yesterday but didn't sign it because I thought it was kind of bo liao.. I always thought that online petitions can't be taken seriously. Why?
The following is an illustration only..
99. Mr. A (TT Durai has tarnished the reputation of NKF and therefore his resignation is only rightful such that public confidence can be regained)
100. Ms. B (We will not continue to donate until TT Durai resigns and the $ is properly taken care of)
101. Mr.C (F*** you KNNBCCB you LIAR I HOPE U HAVE GONORRHOEA AND UR MOTHER FATHER AH KONG AH MA *****************************************)
Well at least that's what I always see in online petitions. But what to expect, when thousands of people are physically marching in the Philippines to demand President Arroyo's resignation, we can only switch on computer and sign petition. What? Better than nothing what..
Mr X and FKN are fictional characters as below hehe...
Now I'm just wondering, is there any law that governs non-profit organisations on transparency etc. Like at this point of time, would Mr X get into trouble with the law? From the way I see it, that we have decided to donate our money to FKN, we have a right to know where our money has gone. Since FKN's CEO hasn't been accurate about how the money has been spent, would that count as fraud or breach of trust? The public's trust that is.. well that's a question I've been pondering.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
2nd week continued..
The 2nd week was by far much xiong-er than the previous week. And with that comes more 'legendary and breathtaking moments' with the men of signal platoon..
I remember that we didn't have much to do on Monday because as usual the officers are planning and planning. So it goes without saying that the guys tried to gamble themselves crazy with bouts of in-between and blackjack~ By then WWM was attacking Digital Fortress and I was finishing up Tuesdays with Morrie.
Outfield!
Well we moved out at about 10 or 11am on Tuesday, not that sure of that timing now but I remember we went out before lunch. Oh well, Willis gave me a little priviledge for my bad back so I sat at the vehicle commander's seat in front. Ahhh~ air con just before moving out.. what a godsend!
When we reached the concentration area, it was so damned familiar and I remember this was the conc. area that 42 'pioneered'. Perhaps for ATEC or one of the countless full troop exercises but who can remember? Well as a welcome gift, the jungle soil had a stranglehold on the tonner and we got stuck in the mud. So well, we just stopped and deployed there and then. Haha!
The worrst thing was that, we were beside a swamp and we were damned sure it was like the mother of all breeding grounds for those sickening mosquitoes. Bloody hell.. thank goodness PC gave me some mosquito coils to use and WWM had a lighter so we smoked a lot there.. oh by the way the lucky ass PC didn't need to move out at all because he was attached to PNR platoon and so he was dead bored in camp and could sleep till dusk till dawn till dusk till dawn.. Arghhh..
We got ready, camouflaged our vehicles, did our line-laying job and then just waited. There wasn't much to do but to wait for lunch and when it came, it was almost 2pm. Freaking hungry if you ask me..
For those who had been through countless outfield exercises like us probably finished our job quickly and thought of little else as we waited for the dark of night. For people like BSO who had only been through AOAC, well he was forever a kanchiong spider and kept asking us to tidy up this and tidy up that. Fark man, be lucky we still know how to operate our equipment, it was nice and tidy everything was up and running so why you just go find something more constructive to do?
Ughh, bleddy replacement..
Deep in the dark..
Still didn't have much to do since CO gave instructions that external lines were not needed except for BnSA and mortar. And when we did reach mortar platoon, they were going back to camp. Paradise liao, nabey... lay so long for f***! Not to mention Ong WK gave us a lot of problems dunno chut what pattern. We were on a land rover and then he opened a dispenser pack, ran the line through the roof of the rover and then gave it to me and Willis to do rift knot. And I think everybody doesn't know how to do a rift knot except for the 2 of us. LCP K Lim is automatically striked off so that only leaves 看医生 and 贼神, with the former leaving for Canada permanently and the latter still in polytechnic.
Anyway I could see the exasperation in the brigade "pui-gade" guys and they were really quite dulan with Ong WK. Well which is no big surprise hahaha..
In the end go back to conc. area, TK and Chin had invaded the line tonner and were sleeping on the benches. K was sleeping in a weird position as usual and Willis was sleeping on the bench too. Leaves no room for me so I went to find WWM and talked kok with him until I got hungry. That's when I collected my ice-cold popsicle.. hur hur!
Weird sleeping positions..
LCP K Lim wasn't nicknamed "All Terrain Sleeping Machine" for no reason. He has the ability to doze off standing up, in superman position, seated on a chair and head on shoe cabinet as well as.... upper half body on tonner bench, legs on the ground sideways. Its hard to describe but he's sort of like doing the twist but with his eyes closed.
Well Chin went back to his BX to find a spot to sleep so that left G, me, Willis, K Lim, TK Tan(sleeping like no tomorrow) and Ong WK. With an army of mosquitoes to fight off as well as the midnight heat. Its a wonder how TK, Willis, Ong and G could actually fall asleep. The air wasn't even moving and Ong could bloody SNORE. KNNBchao turtle..
Suddenly, K went like "阿!! 我的背!!" A few seconds later amidst some struggling there was another "阿!! 我不可以动!!" The silly ATSM had finally found a position tough enough. Although he was able to sleep, he was finally awoken by the pain caused by sleeping in his ultra funny position.. -_-"
That would be the joke of days to come.. as well as TK ooh-ing and aah-ing at around 4 or 5am.. Almost like he was having an orgasm.. wahhaha!
Paradise now OUT!!
WIth the orders to RTU, we quickly packed up our stuff and kept the camou net back into the tonner. We were never happier to see the clean white sheets of our bed and plop onto them. Not before having an ultra long shower though! We reached camp at around 2pm I suppose. GX didn't come back till 5 odd and he was cursing and swearing at his commander.
None of my fucking problem!
CPL A was about to mount up his rover when his commander asked "Eh, how come don't have water? No jerry can?"
A: "Nobody asked me to draw"
Commander: "Where is my container? Don't have container how to drink water??"
A:..
Commander: "None of my fucking problem!"
His commander then went outfield WITHOUT him and left him stranded in camp, without a vehicle, without anyone to follow and he had to draw jerry cans himself. WTF! This type of shit coming out of an officer's mouth, I think we as ORD NS men deserve better than this type of shitty commander. Can tell him to go back to OCS or wherever he came from. Even if we did kok up, which we didn't, he could have treated his men in a nicer way. Bloody big fuck, I'm quite tempted to scratch his car. But nevermind ICT is over. That was one big boo-boo of ICT anyway..
Those of you who know who his commander is, just keep it to yourself. Later I kena sued ah.. then I really chao turtle liao.. appointment same as per 42SAR lor.
After the exercise, we didn't have much except for handing/taking over and some maintenance to do. Dismounting of signal sets etc..
The next few days were some lectures, talks about MIW websites and their services and another IPPT test on Thursday. 看医生 got a silver timing, bloody bugger I think he was engineered to run. (His best timing for 2.4km is about 8 minutes odd, he ran about 11 minutes odd that day)
Well we had a fabulous dinner the night just before battalion cohesion night where we played some really kok games, tug-o-war which HQ won and had some beer. As usual CO downed jugs and cans of beer like no kick. His belly really gives it away.. -_-" but at least he has slimmed down compared to the first time when we saw him.
Later on in the night, I told PC I wanted to download a song from Michael Jackson. He helpfully offered the following..
1. Jillie Bean
2. Save the world
Wahahaha!
Out-processing
We thought that it was over but it wasn't. Somehow the CSM arrowed us to go tidy up the washing bay just as we were about to fall in at parade square with our gear. We made our way there and cleared the washing bay and kept the fire hose back into its holder.
PS: The head of the hose resembled part of the male genitalia. Wahaha and the head squirted some water on Chin. Needless to say, Tk joined me with his cackling laughter wahaha!!
Back to our bunks, this guy from the next bunk nicknamed "Steamer part II" because he always looks super blur is still running around in smart 4. He doesn't seem to have any idea that we are about to out-process and the goon is dunno doing what. Really a steamer.. oh and if you were wondering who's steamer part I, its K Lim.
That's about it for the ICT.. bleah!
Oh and for those who want to cut their GIRO arrangement with the NKF, you can do it via Internet banking.
I've already decided I won't donate to NKF anymore, other TRANSPARENT charitable organisations could use my money.
I remember that we didn't have much to do on Monday because as usual the officers are planning and planning. So it goes without saying that the guys tried to gamble themselves crazy with bouts of in-between and blackjack~ By then WWM was attacking Digital Fortress and I was finishing up Tuesdays with Morrie.
Outfield!
Well we moved out at about 10 or 11am on Tuesday, not that sure of that timing now but I remember we went out before lunch. Oh well, Willis gave me a little priviledge for my bad back so I sat at the vehicle commander's seat in front. Ahhh~ air con just before moving out.. what a godsend!
When we reached the concentration area, it was so damned familiar and I remember this was the conc. area that 42 'pioneered'. Perhaps for ATEC or one of the countless full troop exercises but who can remember? Well as a welcome gift, the jungle soil had a stranglehold on the tonner and we got stuck in the mud. So well, we just stopped and deployed there and then. Haha!
The worrst thing was that, we were beside a swamp and we were damned sure it was like the mother of all breeding grounds for those sickening mosquitoes. Bloody hell.. thank goodness PC gave me some mosquito coils to use and WWM had a lighter so we smoked a lot there.. oh by the way the lucky ass PC didn't need to move out at all because he was attached to PNR platoon and so he was dead bored in camp and could sleep till dusk till dawn till dusk till dawn.. Arghhh..
We got ready, camouflaged our vehicles, did our line-laying job and then just waited. There wasn't much to do but to wait for lunch and when it came, it was almost 2pm. Freaking hungry if you ask me..
For those who had been through countless outfield exercises like us probably finished our job quickly and thought of little else as we waited for the dark of night. For people like BSO who had only been through AOAC, well he was forever a kanchiong spider and kept asking us to tidy up this and tidy up that. Fark man, be lucky we still know how to operate our equipment, it was nice and tidy everything was up and running so why you just go find something more constructive to do?
Ughh, bleddy replacement..
Deep in the dark..
Still didn't have much to do since CO gave instructions that external lines were not needed except for BnSA and mortar. And when we did reach mortar platoon, they were going back to camp. Paradise liao, nabey... lay so long for f***! Not to mention Ong WK gave us a lot of problems dunno chut what pattern. We were on a land rover and then he opened a dispenser pack, ran the line through the roof of the rover and then gave it to me and Willis to do rift knot. And I think everybody doesn't know how to do a rift knot except for the 2 of us. LCP K Lim is automatically striked off so that only leaves 看医生 and 贼神, with the former leaving for Canada permanently and the latter still in polytechnic.
Anyway I could see the exasperation in the brigade "pui-gade" guys and they were really quite dulan with Ong WK. Well which is no big surprise hahaha..
In the end go back to conc. area, TK and Chin had invaded the line tonner and were sleeping on the benches. K was sleeping in a weird position as usual and Willis was sleeping on the bench too. Leaves no room for me so I went to find WWM and talked kok with him until I got hungry. That's when I collected my ice-cold popsicle.. hur hur!
Weird sleeping positions..
LCP K Lim wasn't nicknamed "All Terrain Sleeping Machine" for no reason. He has the ability to doze off standing up, in superman position, seated on a chair and head on shoe cabinet as well as.... upper half body on tonner bench, legs on the ground sideways. Its hard to describe but he's sort of like doing the twist but with his eyes closed.
Well Chin went back to his BX to find a spot to sleep so that left G, me, Willis, K Lim, TK Tan(sleeping like no tomorrow) and Ong WK. With an army of mosquitoes to fight off as well as the midnight heat. Its a wonder how TK, Willis, Ong and G could actually fall asleep. The air wasn't even moving and Ong could bloody SNORE. KNNBchao turtle..
Suddenly, K went like "阿!! 我的背!!" A few seconds later amidst some struggling there was another "阿!! 我不可以动!!" The silly ATSM had finally found a position tough enough. Although he was able to sleep, he was finally awoken by the pain caused by sleeping in his ultra funny position.. -_-"
That would be the joke of days to come.. as well as TK ooh-ing and aah-ing at around 4 or 5am.. Almost like he was having an orgasm.. wahhaha!
Paradise now OUT!!
WIth the orders to RTU, we quickly packed up our stuff and kept the camou net back into the tonner. We were never happier to see the clean white sheets of our bed and plop onto them. Not before having an ultra long shower though! We reached camp at around 2pm I suppose. GX didn't come back till 5 odd and he was cursing and swearing at his commander.
None of my fucking problem!
CPL A was about to mount up his rover when his commander asked "Eh, how come don't have water? No jerry can?"
A: "Nobody asked me to draw"
Commander: "Where is my container? Don't have container how to drink water??"
A:..
Commander: "None of my fucking problem!"
His commander then went outfield WITHOUT him and left him stranded in camp, without a vehicle, without anyone to follow and he had to draw jerry cans himself. WTF! This type of shit coming out of an officer's mouth, I think we as ORD NS men deserve better than this type of shitty commander. Can tell him to go back to OCS or wherever he came from. Even if we did kok up, which we didn't, he could have treated his men in a nicer way. Bloody big fuck, I'm quite tempted to scratch his car. But nevermind ICT is over. That was one big boo-boo of ICT anyway..
Those of you who know who his commander is, just keep it to yourself. Later I kena sued ah.. then I really chao turtle liao.. appointment same as per 42SAR lor.
After the exercise, we didn't have much except for handing/taking over and some maintenance to do. Dismounting of signal sets etc..
The next few days were some lectures, talks about MIW websites and their services and another IPPT test on Thursday. 看医生 got a silver timing, bloody bugger I think he was engineered to run. (His best timing for 2.4km is about 8 minutes odd, he ran about 11 minutes odd that day)
Well we had a fabulous dinner the night just before battalion cohesion night where we played some really kok games, tug-o-war which HQ won and had some beer. As usual CO downed jugs and cans of beer like no kick. His belly really gives it away.. -_-" but at least he has slimmed down compared to the first time when we saw him.
Later on in the night, I told PC I wanted to download a song from Michael Jackson. He helpfully offered the following..
1. Jillie Bean
2. Save the world
Wahahaha!
Out-processing
We thought that it was over but it wasn't. Somehow the CSM arrowed us to go tidy up the washing bay just as we were about to fall in at parade square with our gear. We made our way there and cleared the washing bay and kept the fire hose back into its holder.
PS: The head of the hose resembled part of the male genitalia. Wahaha and the head squirted some water on Chin. Needless to say, Tk joined me with his cackling laughter wahaha!!
Back to our bunks, this guy from the next bunk nicknamed "Steamer part II" because he always looks super blur is still running around in smart 4. He doesn't seem to have any idea that we are about to out-process and the goon is dunno doing what. Really a steamer.. oh and if you were wondering who's steamer part I, its K Lim.
That's about it for the ICT.. bleah!
Oh and for those who want to cut their GIRO arrangement with the NKF, you can do it via Internet banking.
I've already decided I won't donate to NKF anymore, other TRANSPARENT charitable organisations could use my money.
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