Proof that I’m at Pulau NTU

To be honest, this is the first time that i’m using something called Windows Live Writer. That’s why i’m posting this actually.

But of course that can’t be my only reason rite?? Since i’ve got a phone with a *decent* camera and since i had nothing better to do when i was at Pulau NTU during lunch time, i’ve decided to snap some stuff to share here about this very lonely place at the far west of Singapore.

 

There. This is the place where i actually worked. Codenamed SIMTech, and has been around for like centuries or something? You’d know why if you read on.

Out on the way to lunch there’s this very nice building (?) with like a garden going up the roof. I think is our equivalent of SDE department. But SDE where got so chio. 

Alrite on to my work. Above is the polishing machine, otherwise known as The Grinder. (I gave that name to it myself). Unlike those we use at the undergraduate lab in NUS, this one can mount magnetic polishing cloth, and if your samples are prepared to size using epoxy (which unfortunately cannot apply in my situation), you can just let the machine do the work.

So which engine will you join if you want to know more about polishing metals and polishing your boss’ shoes? Material Science Engine of course. After a half an hour job, you can see your face in the Stainless Steel. Tough job ok, you get blisters.

 

Research institutes are highly advanced place with sophisticated machine and top-notch technological advancement. NOOOT. The com I use runs on Windows 98, rendering my USB drive useless and the only way to extract data is to use FLOPPY DISKS!?!?!?! i cant even get them on the market. C’mmon man, i bet one bottle of chemicals in the lab can get you a better desktop.

 

And lastly, just some very interesting observations that an NUS student will always make when they visit NTU.

“uhh, soooo, how to name the halls arh?”

“ohh i know know of a super creative way!! why don’t we name them Hall 1, Hall 2, Hall 3 and so on!!! sooo easy to remember!”

“wah you so smart! how about the canteen leih?”

“uhhh, how about Canteen 1, Canteen 2, Canteen 3 and so on??”

“wahh you really smart and eciffient. just like the gahmen.”

September

September is quite a special month actually. Quite a number of songs being written on september (Greenday, Earth Wind Fire etc) and it's quite special to me too :D

coz der's 2 special person in my life whom i'll blog about in september especially towards the end. So here goes:

Dear Sis,

Thanks for the wonderful stay in Sydney, really enjoyed it. saw the reddish dust that you all are bathed in, and maybe this is indeed one of the most extraordinary birthday gift that you can ever have. HAHA! anyways, Happy Birthday and have more birthdays to come!!! can have more births also. HAHA!



From Your Ah Boy. *like the pic*

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The other person is none other than pretty girl herself :D went out to have a simple lunch together for our second year anni and the food was good!!

We ate some sashimi as you can see from below and the famous Black Pig Tonkatsu at the restaurant (unfortunately, it looked too good so we gobbled up before we remember to take any pictures). If we visit there again we'll take a good pic for it :)

Ayye :D

Feeling Blue

Nope. not because tomorrow is Monday. I think it's because of the impending doom that i'm going to graduate soon, and the nagging feeling of lousy FYP results coming up.

Since Friday i've been bugged by this feeling that the project is going to take a blardy long time to finish. rather agitated by it cos it's only 8 MC but i have to do the workload of a 10/16 MC. then there's the have-you-got-a-job nag.

It's really easy to say 'dont worry for tomorrow' but it's blardy hard to do it -.-

sometimes sighing is the only thing one can do. seriously.

User is Busy at the Moment

Term is nearly half gone, with term break coming up next week. have been really quite eventful and study has really been very hectic.

actually, i can't really say that it's HECTIC. it's sort of like a nagging feeling that you somehow know you're just delaying time for the really bad thing (exam) to happen. well, FYP is sort of like haunting my life now with my supervisor chasing my tail (it's actually a good thing). Studying has always been like this. sigh really miss my IA sem.. stressless siah...

But, still managed to steal some time for some social stuff... so here are some pics =)


Apparently, the Dead Sea Scrolls came to singapore. TBH, it's like 3 fragments and the exhibition really cost quite a bit. mainly it's cos of the venue larh. heard that it costs about 1.1 mil just to rent Arts House for a duration of 3 weeks. 1.1 MIL!!!! can get a house in bukit timah liao.


They don't really have that much scrolls (most are still left in Israel) and the rest are either Bible translations or really very old manuscripts like the one above. It's really very inspiring how people copied Bible texts last time. And for the particular example above, the fonts were sooooooo small they look like they're printed instead of copied.


Ok then move on to totally unrelated issues. TGIO was GREAT THIS YEAR!! i've never enjoyed it that much.. hahaha coz i did something really quite out of myself, as you can see from the pic. Did a tribute band to the King of Pop and the rest of the pics are all on FB.


That's me right there, grinding my sample to a mirror finish. in case you don't know, my FYP is on corrosion of stainless steel and this is one of the instance that i needed to grind and polish the surface of the steel to get a good SEM image. Actually this is one of the few times that i'm going to grind in NUS coz the rest of the time i'm attached to pulau NTU.

It's called Pulau NTU for a reason - no phone reception and takes a typical Singaporean about 1.5 hours to get there. But the equipments there are really much better (cos i'm attached to the research institute).

But well, i found out some motivation to go there since last week - nothing beats a good bowl of Sarawak Laksa at the end of a hectic day stuck up at NTU. this is one of the 2 branches which actually sells AUTHENTIC sarawak Laksa. miss it sooo much i've been having it like 3 times last week?? SHIOK!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTSSSSSSSSS~~~~!!!!!!!!@!#$!@#%!%~~~

Getting Old

Lately, i've found myself listening to old jazz and getting injured by doing minor exercises. That's surely a sign of getting old i'm sure, and i had to go for acupuncture and suction cups called Ba Guan. coz my back just sprained and it hurts quite a bit. HAHA

yes i'm getting old i think o.O

P/S i've decided not to post the video or photos here coz it might be a bit disturbing. but you can still watch it on FB haha.