tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-141445262024-03-24T01:49:28.762+08:00department of crappy engineering 05/06You think engineers can't write?
I'll prove you right.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.comBlogger647125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1157012096854465042006-08-31T15:34:00.000+08:002006-08-31T16:28:10.206+08:00nus freshmen recognition guide<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/freshpg.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/freshpg.jpg" border="0" /></a>1. Walk around in school wearing orientation t-shirt.<br />2. Walk around in school carrying orientation file.<br />3. Start waving for bus when it is still in front of the red light one junction away.<br />4. Press the bell when bus is just leaving the stop before OED. (the Sun Sports Club bus stop)<br />5. Start to shuffle to the exit door before the bus turns into NUS.<br />6. ______<u>(fill in the blank)</u>______<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(do<strong> not</strong> take this seriously)</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156950149278728412006-08-30T22:45:00.000+08:002006-08-30T23:05:18.750+08:00not a lighter noteSome of the lecture notes for ME2 are really disappointing. <br /><br />Take for example, ME2113 Mechanics of Materials I, every lecture the lecturer will show us the errata for the previous lecture. That means, for one whole week every week we have been believing in the wrong things. And when you look at the front cover of the notes, it has that legendary NUS logo there. I thought that old lion retired long time ago? Wow, so the lecturer didn't update his notes for <em>x</em> years already, or the module hasn't been taught for a long time?<br /><a href="http://www.cdnet.edu.cn/mirror/singap_college/www.nus.edu.sg/prose/NUS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://www.cdnet.edu.cn/mirror/singap_college/www.nus.edu.sg/ies/images/page1/nus.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><strong>hj</strong> was asking me in lecture something about the formula in the example. I told him don't bother, since the lecturer will be telling us it's an error next week. -_-"chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156921567043363022006-08-30T15:00:00.000+08:002006-08-30T15:28:51.043+08:00ain't no doubleback girl<a href="http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5256/climbergirls1pt5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5256/climbergirls1pt5.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>All I know about <strong>twang</strong> and <strong>chelle</strong> is that they are climbers (and they have Mad Rock) and they are in JC2. Now they are in the midst of preparing for exam (I hope...) and somehow thinking of them reminds me of myself the same time 4 years ago...<br /><br />I remember I was supposed to prepare for exam. (prelim or A-level?) But somehow I wanted to climb so badly, yet I scared climbing in school would get scolding from teachers. So, during the study break (or remedial week?) I went to the then still existing SAFRA Bukit Merah rock gym to boulder. Then I remember I did rush back to school for lesson... Somehow nowadays I'm less willing to sacrifice for climbing.<br /><br />Oh I had a weird dream last night. I dreamed of myself climbing with 2 girls, and I had crampons. Indoor ice climbing??? Eek.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156860357383465142006-08-29T21:57:00.000+08:002006-08-30T14:57:00.483+08:00trial lookhi people! I'm thinking of doing a major maintenance for this blog next month and was wondering if I should change the look as well... this is what I've got...<br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/blog.0.jpg" target="_blank"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/400/blog.0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>(can click the image to enlarge)<br /><br />Now, do you want the cool black one or the gay orange one(with NUS logo)? Comments comments comments!!chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156859038249555302006-08-29T21:35:00.000+08:002006-08-29T22:07:18.630+08:00quote of the day<blockquote><span style="font-size:280%;"><strong>你永远是我的小弟</strong></span><br />--School of Design and Environment photocopy shop lady.<br />(<strong>not</strong> said to me!)</blockquote><br />(translate: <em>you are forever my xiao di.</em> ok lousy translation)chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156772142129838962006-08-28T21:05:00.000+08:002006-08-28T21:52:07.503+08:00stim table<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/steam.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 0px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/200/steam.jpg" border="0" /></a><em>Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Fluids.</em><br />aka Steam Table.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">paperback.<br />below average quality paper.<br />size of an exercise book, even thinner.<br />less than 30 pages in total, inclusive of a few "note" blank pages.</span><br /><br /><br /><li>Lecturer's price: S$3</li><br /><li><strong><em>n</em></strong>th hand's ancient NUS Co-op pricetag: S$4.90 (where <strong><em>n</em></strong>>1)</li><br /><li>NUS Co-op's current price: S$7.90</li><br /><li>Amazon.com's price: US$28.95</li><br /><br />inflation.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156721775721679992006-08-28T06:58:00.000+08:002006-08-28T07:36:16.796+08:00transparent people in the parkWent to Botanic Gardens to listen to Singapore Chinese Ochestra's concert. Ended up when we reached Symphony Lake we heard western music and a banner that said "SSO in the park". Ermm, SSO(Singapore Symphony Orchestra) isn't quite the same as SCO... seems like the newspaper made a mistake again. Tsk.<br /><br />Anyway since we were already there, might as well sit back and enjoy the music. At least they catered for non-hardcore-classical-music-listeners like me, other than a few classical pieces they also played a medley of pieces by Beatles! <span style="font-size:80%;">(these few days there were lotsa musical coincidence for me. Eg, Saturday I was thinking of Eason's song, then ended up the radio played it, then yesterday I was really thinking of Yesterday then SSO played part of it too... maybe I should have thought of 4D numbers.)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/pline.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/200/pline.jpg" border="0" /></a>The grass patch around the stage was quite packed with picnic mats and people relaxing and enjoying the music. And then I saw lots of freaks who really thought they grew up eating glass <span style="font-size:80%;">(my brother said this)</span> or their flesh was transparent. C'mon there were people behind you and you still stood right in front of them blocking their view? I saw another group even better, they set up beach chairs right in front of someone else's mat. On the contrary there was this Caucasian lady who pulled her daughter to one side and apologised to the group behind when her daughter just blocked their view for that split second.<br /><br />Why can't people be more thoughtful?chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156594667399945922006-08-26T20:11:00.000+08:002006-08-26T20:17:47.480+08:00song of the day<a href="http://new305man.wapai.cn/member/new305man/mnjr.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:130%;">明年今日</span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"> by Eason Chan 陈奕迅</span><br /><br />No thanks, next year's today I don't want to be like this year's today...<br /><span style="font-size:85%;">(明年今日: next year's today in Chinese)</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156582637140397032006-08-26T16:50:00.000+08:002006-08-26T20:19:40.690+08:00toxic pictures<div align="center">My happy meal. Big huh? No toys included.<br /></div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/happymeal.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/happymeal.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">birthday boy busy drinking, Alex busy posing.</div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/sake.1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/sake.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Meder: Nicholl you look awesome(lonesome) tonight!<br /></div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/meder.2.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/meder.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Meder: why you poke my strawberry?<br />Alex: have you heard of <em>"flying elephant crosses the river?"</em><br /></div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/fondue.1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/fondue.1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center">Meder: what is CB?<br />Chow: Charlie Bravo.<br />Nicholl: ... (hears no evil)<br /></div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/cb.1.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/cb.1.jpg" border="0" /></a>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156578135270001742006-08-26T15:40:00.000+08:002006-08-26T16:17:18.896+08:00toxic birthday<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/200373095-001.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/200/200373095-001.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Yesterday was my birthday. Today I have less than half a life left.<br /><br />Had dinner with Alex, Nicholl and Meder at Ichiban Boshi at Esplanade. There seems to be a trend that the 4 of us climbers like to celebrate birthday at Japanese restaurants. I had a very big happy meal served on a very big tray =) <strong><em>3 cups of sake.</em></strong><br /><br />Then we went to Max Brenner Chocolate Bar which was quite cosy. They served nothing except chocolate (minus the mineral water) <strong><em>No alcohol here.</em></strong><br /><br />Next we went to this nice pub at Boat Quay called Actors. It's very cool cos there were customers jamming oldie songs. They even played birthday song for me =) <strong><em>2 submarines and about 2 glasses of beer.</em></strong> This was where Nicholl wet my pants when she held my glass in front of me and drop the cup of vodka into the beer and it overflowed.<br /><br />I tell you those guys were all out to make me drunk. Next we went to Sahara. <strong><em>2 graveyards, a few sips of Alex's white russian, and a few puff of shisha</em></strong> That's it, that's when Merlion shifted indoor and the water jet got half-digested food inside. Everything was fine until I had to hold my breath to pose for a photoshot with the shisha smoke, and I choked... then my stomach turned upside down... then I told Alex I needed plastic bag. Vomitted.<br /><br />I think they will kill me with alcohol poisoning before I even got drunk. Very funny, when we were leaving Sahara I said to the waiter "sorry leh, have to make you clean up" Went to Riverwalk's toilet to continue puking, and Alex seemed surprised that I took the toilet paper to clean the toilet seat... surprisingly sane, surprisingly conscious. And Alex sent me home by bus. (and I knew where to alight) Sorry to make him take cab home.<br /><br />Today... I only stopped puking at 12noon.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156432204147245302006-08-24T23:08:00.000+08:002006-08-24T23:21:31.673+08:00solidcraps 2006<div align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;color:#ff0000;"><strong>**for mechanical engineers**</strong></span></div><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/solid.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/solid.jpg" border="0" /></a>What 3rd angle projection?<br /><em>Pang jio</em> also need to measure angle <em>meh</em>?<br /><span style="font-size:80%;">(pang jio: verb, hokkien dialect for urinate)</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156384426743360162006-08-24T09:51:00.000+08:002006-08-24T15:59:23.816+08:00experimental errorOne experiment was enough to spoil my honeymoon week 2.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/venturi.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/320/venturi.jpg" border="0" /></a>The experiment was on Flow and Energy Loss, in which we got to play around with sophisticated <strong><em>un</em></strong>clear reactors. The procedure itself was very straight forward, the main course was actually the questions that followed. First you had to fill up 3 data tables, over 200 boxes to fill in total. Next you had to plot 13 graphs. And as if that's not enough, they gave you 4 discussion questions, in which you have to research on the internet to find the answers. All within 24 hours.<br /><br />The most ridiculous thing is, we haven't learned all those stuffs. I flipped my notes, and found this part at the very end of my notes. Wow. So what is the purpose of having lab sessions when we are doing everything more-or-less-blindly? At least at secondary and college level the experiments were quite closely linked to the pace of the lessons, but from year 1 onwards things are quite crappy. You can be doing the experiment for stuff that they are going to teach half a semester later. (I can understand the logistic part, cos they don't need to prepare so many set-ups all at one time, and idling them the rest of the time, but still...)<br /><br />Many more weekly experiments to come...chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156373098125038942006-08-24T06:19:00.000+08:002006-08-24T06:51:09.350+08:00redhanded<a href="http://midi.i010.com/uploads/files/38.4d40b69d45.mp3" target="_blank"><em>Song for whoever</em></a> by <em>The Beautiful South</em>.<br /><br /><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://cassiopaea.xmystic.com/images/redhanded.gif" border="0" />One innocent year 2 engineering boy and <strong>four</strong> dunno-innocent-or-not year 1 business girls were caught redhanded at a quiet corner of NUS.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Tsk, must find quieter spot to have lunch next time, thought Grinning Gecko quiet enough. Ended up the moment my lecture gang came out from Co-op and first thing they saw was me....</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156222103076128672006-08-22T12:41:00.000+08:002006-08-22T12:57:40.516+08:00ear ring binder<img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://forum.howdesign.com/upfiles/29/E53EC712AE9F4D8AA38AB8724348DAD8.jpg" border="0" />That day I was asking Alex, those office ladies when they run out of ring files or paper fasteners, do they use their gigantic ear rings to bind paper?chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156173893729633742006-08-21T22:59:00.000+08:002006-08-21T23:29:36.250+08:00chasing bus<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/run.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/200/run.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>On my way to school I saw something I wanted to term as miracle.<br /><br />I was walking towards the bus stop near my house. There was a bus already at the bus stop about to leave, then this lady with heels started running 100m at right angle towards the bus.... and she got in. <br />-_-"<br /><br />By the way I don't really believe in chasing buses.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156143796695778712006-08-21T15:00:00.000+08:002006-08-21T15:03:16.776+08:00closed path<img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/200/road.0.jpg" border="0" />ARGHH!!! Why did they replace the nice foot path outside LT6 with grass???<br /><br />Hong Jun said it's for Singapore 2006. Road improvement?chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156120043673964422006-08-21T08:23:00.000+08:002006-08-21T14:44:30.626+08:00four million smiles and one indirect kiss<a href="http://www.dreamstime.com/thumbimg_16/1122060648YC9ebx.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.dreamstime.com/thumbimg_16/1122060648YC9ebx.jpg" border="0" /></a>Had lunch yesterday at Imperial Treasure at Marina Square. Realise bad service can really spoil one's clear judgement.<br /><br />Waited at the entrance for about 3 minutes and noone bothered to attend to us. Then when I requested to change to a quieter table (the one we were at was facing the concourse with electrical goods roadshow), the waitress stared at me. While taking the orders the manager looked at my brother as if he was speaking some new-found language. And when my glass of tea came, it came with a complimentary lips mark. <span style="font-size:85%;">(er perhaps even if there wasn't a mark, it may not necessarily be clean too)</span> With our mood spoilt, how to enjoy the food?<br /><br />Geographically, Marina Square is just beside Suntec where the Singapore 2006 meetings will be held. It won't be surprising to have some of the visitors spill over to Marina Square, I suppose? <b>Maybe</b> they discriminate against locals, I don't know.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1156077481845414672006-08-20T20:23:00.000+08:002006-08-20T20:40:16.220+08:00my new rockport<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/B000CF32P8.01-A3UCC8ULL18KE5._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64681364_[1].jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 180px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/B000CF32P8.01-A3UCC8ULL18KE5._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64681364_%5B1%5D.jpg" border="0" /></a>I got a new pair of shoes today!<br /><br />It's a pair of Rockport. Actually I was choosing between Caterpillar and Rockport at Royal Sporting House, I like both brands quite a bit, the Caterpillar looks damn macho, but then guess it would be baking my feet in this climate as well. Wanted to try the Rockport, but no staff attended to us, so we didn't make any purchase at RSH.<br /><br />Then we went to Rockport's own store (which is managed by RSH as well) The staff there was really helpful. Not the smiley type, but he was really patient and sincere in explaining the feature of the shoes, then made an effort to look at my foot shape. To be honest I felt like it was my first time buying shoes.<br /><br />Feel a bit heart pain that my mother paid for it. My birthday present. <span style="font-size:85%;">(no no no I'm not hinting to you guys!! I don't have a wishlist anyway)</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155975572066035562006-08-19T16:10:00.000+08:002006-08-20T17:51:31.893+08:00looking for belay slaveSaw this email from the climbing club's yahoogroup:<br /><blockquote>Hey dudes,<br /><br />I'm looking for a climbing partner. Generally to climb WEEKLY at the vertical walls over at Climb Adventure and also to alternate between natural rock climbs over at Bukit Timah dairy farm.<br /><br />A bit bout myself:<br />I'm just an average rock-climber lookin to improve my rock skills and yeah, need a partner to climb with <strong>and belay</strong>. I'm not competitive. I have my own full set of equipment.</blockquote><br /><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/200/slave.jpg" border="0" />I can't help feeling that he just wants a belay slave. <span style="font-size:85%;">(if not he wouldn't have mentioned the word "belay")</span><br />Err, can always hire a social escort and pay for his/her sports climbing level 1 course.<br /><br />I think I got it wrong, cos climbers are nice people.chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155973058736577472006-08-19T15:34:00.000+08:002006-08-20T17:52:20.783+08:00pop the olive<div align="center"><a href="http://www.unileverna.com/Images/ExtraVirgin_tcm23-14508.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.unileverna.com/Images/ExtraVirgin_tcm23-14508.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:170%;">Can someone please tell me</span><br /><span style="font-size:190%;">what does <strong>extra virgin</strong> mean?</span></div>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155804134455929372006-08-17T16:29:00.000+08:002006-08-20T17:53:23.976+08:00retro bus ride<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/u31rcn.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/400/u31rcn.jpg" border="0" /></a>Today I came home on this retro Nissan U31RCN bus of SMRT service 852. The vertically opening windows, the sliding exit door, the rubber floor mat with circular pattern...<br /><br />Reminds me of Iijima Naoko (飯島直子)'s Japanese drama <em>Bus Stop</em> (バスストップ)<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">(photo from </span><a href="http://tib1208u.fotopic.net/p13051452.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:78%;">http://tib1208u.fotopic.net/p13051452.html</span></a><span style="font-size:78%;">)</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155806670589659052006-08-17T16:13:00.000+08:002006-08-20T17:54:19.220+08:00playing ps<blockquote><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">you can't be a peasant in Singapore</span></strong><br />Dr Sridharan</blockquote>PS: Play Station, Plaza Singapura, Political Science<br /><br />If my ME lectures are saturated with male hormones, then my GEK1003 Introduction to Political Science lecture is the direct opposite. Somemore most of the students are year 1. How to tell? Somehow the year 1s like to proudly display their freshman folder. And the year 1 girl beside me seemed shocked to see me copying down notes.<br /><br />And we had a welcome tea session somemore!chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155719808855179292006-08-16T17:04:00.000+08:002006-08-16T17:16:48.913+08:00cranes for charity<a href="http://www.kirby-smith.com/images/manufacturers/manitowoc_crane.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;" src="http://www.kirby-smith.com/images/manufacturers/manitowoc_crane.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Hey people from NUS, although I don't really like NUSSU, but there is this tiny thing which we all can do for charity. Just drop by any NUSSU booth you bump into in campus and fold a crane origami, SongHe will donate a bowl of rice to Red Cross! The record breaking challenge (which includes the Milo truck challenge~!) is on 22th August (next Tuesday)<br /><br />(content may differ from cover illustration)chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155718474885209272006-08-16T15:59:00.000+08:002006-08-16T16:54:35.553+08:00books and bookieThe first half of my honeymoon week 1 was busy with selling textbooks. So far I've sold 5 textbooks, not bad huh?<br /><br />Can't help feeling a bit sad, cos all my books are dear to me. I kept them in the condition as though they just came off from the bookstore's shelf. But I know they are slowly on the way to the rubbish bin too, I remember how I felt when I threw away my primary school textbooks. Anyway most important is the books can help other people.<br /><br />Want to hear my 5-books <span style="font-size:85%;">(the oldest book is 5 years old)</span> successful story? No. Commercial secret =P But I do provide after-sale service too <span style="font-size:85%;">(learned from my temp assignment with HP)</span> There was this yr 1 Science Fac girl who bought my physics text, she asked for my MSN so that she can ask me if she doesn't understand anything... with my grades not like I can help her much though...<br /><br />The thing that troubled me a little was that the Physics department has decided to change the main text for Physics I. That means, my Physics text had devalued, in a way. So I was quite pissed off when on the day of transaction the guy SMSed me saying he didn't want to buy the book anymore. I was like, what the, a book thrice the thickness of a yellowpages, I carried around in school whole day and then you said dunwan... But if I was in his smelly shoes I would have done the same too. Anyway some potential buyers sound like big shot in their messages. Nevermind, they are noobs.<br /><br />I did something bad, went to Buybackasia's sale at YIH and approached anyone who seemed interested in the text. Anyway the price set was ridiculous: $56, when a brand new one cost less thant $50.<br /><br />Worker's Party said, "You have a choice."<br />No?chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14144526.post-1155637781771358982006-08-15T18:19:00.000+08:002006-08-15T19:51:58.046+08:00iconic figure<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/1600/icon.0.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2247/1271/400/icon.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13689803" target="_blank">currytan</a>: <blockquote><span style="font-size:180%;"><strong>Are you Siu Hang?</strong></span></blockquote><br />I thought I could hide my identity and get past him, but somehow he recognised me.<span style="font-size:85%;">(from that profile pic? Oh aren't I cute?)</span>chillycrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00364275163064391252noreply@blogger.com4