Photos for Dec

2	Pula	Croatia
3	Ljubljana	Slovenia
4	Ljubljana	Slovenia
5	Ljubljana	Slovenia
6	Budapest	Hungary
7	Budapest	Hungary
8	Visegrad/Esztergom	Hungary	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096501347
9	Eger	Hungary	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096500437
10	Eger/ Miskolc/ Kosice	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096500318
11	Kosice	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096500150
12	Kosice	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096500031
13	Levoca / Spis	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096499835
14	Bratislava	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096499450
15	Bratislava	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096498673
16	Bratislava	Slovakia	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096497966
17	Salzburg	Austria	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096497777
18	Salzburg	Austria	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096496993
19	Salzburg	Austria	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096496419
20	Vienna	Austria	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096496076
21	Vienna	Austria	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096495831
22	Brno	Czech	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096495586
23	Brno	Czech	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096495257
24	Prague	Czech	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096495019
25	Prague	Czech	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096494753
26	Warsaw	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096494655
27	Gdansk	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096486997
28	Wroclaw	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096485800
29	Krakow	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096485457
30	Krakow	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096485009
31	Warsaw	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096484288
1	Warsaw	Poland	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096484050
2	Berlin	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096483182
3	Berlin	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096437549
4	Munich	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096438564
5	Munich	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096438340
6	Munich	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096436359
7	Frankfurt	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096435666
8	Frankfurt	Germany	http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2096435449

Jokes

Why Engineers Don't Write Recipe Books
Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Ingredients:

1. 532.35 cm3 gluten
2. 4.9 cm3 NaHCO3
3. 4.9 cm3 refined halite
4. 236.6 cm3 partially hydrogenated tallow triglyceride
5. 177.45 cm3 crystalline C12H22O11
6. 177.45 cm3 unrefined C12H22O11
7. 4.9 cm3 methyl ether of protocatechuic aldehyde
8. Two calcium carbonate-encapsulated avian albumen-coated protein
9. 473.2 cm3 theobroma cacao
10. 236.6 cm3 de-encapsulated legume meats (sieve size #10)

To a 2-L jacketed round reactor vessel (reactor #1) with an overall heat transfer coefficient of about 100 Btu/F-ft2-hr, add ingredients one, two and three with constant agitation. In a second 2-L reactor vessel with a radial flow impeller operating at 100 rpm, add ingredients four, five, six, and seven until the mixture is homogenous. To reactor #2, add ingredient eight, followed by three equal volumes of the homogenous mixture in reactor #1. Additionally, add ingredient nine and ten slowly, with constant agitation. Care must be taken at this point in the reaction to control any temperature rise that may be the result of an exothermic reaction.

Using a screw extrude attached to a #4 nodulizer, place the mixture piece-meal on a 316SS sheet (300 x 600 mm). Heat in a 460K oven for a period of time that is in agreement with Frank & Johnston's first order rate expression (see JACOS, 21, 55), or until golden brown. Once the reaction is complete, place the sheet on a 25C heat-transfer table, allowing the product to come to equilibrium.

Cookout II

Back

I'm back to Cambridge!!! Yay!!!

Plan for dec

Town Country
2 Pula Croatia
3 Ljubljana Slovenia
4-5 Ljubljana Slovenia
5-8 Budapest Hungary
8 Visegrad/Esztergom Hungary
9 Eger Hungary
10 Eger/ Miskolc/ Kosice Slovakia
11 Kosice Slovakia
12 Kosice Slovakia
13 Levoca / Spis Slovakia
14 Bratislava Slovakia
15 Bratislava Slovakia
16 Bratislava Slovakia
17-19 Salzburg Austria
19-21 Vienna Austria
21-23 Brno Czech
23-25 Prague Czech
25-26 Warsaw Poland
26-28 Gdansk Poland
28-29 Wroclaw Poland
29-31 Krakov Poland
31-2 Warsaw Poland
2-4 Berlin Germany
4-6 Munich Germany
6-8 Frankfurt Germany

Update for the past month

Where did my month go?

Can't remember. I think was just working for the May ball launch, doing supervision work, and coping with life in general. sigh.

Formals:
1. Trinity Hall 23rd Nov
- fantastic
2. Peterhouse 26th Nov
- leaves much to be desired

AFF: 25th Nov
Finally over! Did tangyuan and sushi and all the rice. Logistics disaster.

Got drunk: 17th Nov
Drunk for the first time in my life, so drunk I had to puke, so I didn't get a hangover after that actually. And I could remember everything that happened and I didn't really do anything stupid except that I couldnt get out of Vanessa's room. Am not going to get drunk again.

Sick: 28th Nov
Fell ill due to no apparent reason. Got rather tipsy and bloated and felt like puking during peterhouse formal, but that was no reason for a fever of 38.3 degrees that followed last night. odd.

Alton Towers

Went to Alton Towers today! Decided that today's events deserve a full-fledged post.

Rides we took today:

1. Oblivion
- vertical plunge of 3 or 4 G I think, can't remember. But the first time I played it I was so scared, especially when the cart has dropped midway. I already had no more air in me to scream and all I could feel was myself trembling and my stomach somewhere near the region of my heart, which was palpitating so rapidly. But it felt so good! I felt that I could conquer anything after that.

Just checked online and found out that it was 4.5G. wow, aint i proud of myself. But the ride was short though, I might not have survived if the roller coaster was this fast. We did hang over the top for a while for us to get freaked out by the height and the plunge, but that wasnt really long enough for us to get scared so it wasnt too bad. And besides, it was over even before we know what has happened.

2. Submission
Spun us round and round, wasn't really much of a challenge because there was no feeling of free fall. Just had really painful thighs after that as we hung upside down in mid-air.

3. Queued up for spinball wheezer but didnt manage to get in in the end as there was a technical fault and it got closed down.

4. Cockscrew
Can't really remember much about it, just that it is a roller coaster ride, so it must not have been superbly fun then. There were a couple of parts which were quite exciting.

5. Took a cable car south to get lunch

6. Lunch at a Mexican cafeteria
Not too bad, had a steak fajita which was surprisingly delicious.

7. The Flume
Roller coaster in the river. The people in front got thoroughly soaked, aka Chris and me, erhem, and the people behind were dryer. The water made it fun, and the drop was quite scary too.

8. AIR
My favourite ride after the Oblivion!!!!! It wasnt scary at all hence it was very enjoyable, just feeling the world rush past. The wind, the rain and the cold added to the experience. We were literally in a 'superman' position, flying in the air throughout the ride. It was so fun we played it twice in a row.

9. Ripsaw
Similar to the one at Pasir Ris theme park, so I wasn't too worried when I got up. It was also very fun, and the guy even restarted the program and used a more intense one for us when we didnt feel that it was exciting enough. Being spun to and fro and up in the air and upside down was a great feeling.

10. The blade
Mini version of the Pirate ship. We amused ourselves by 'screaming' with the kids, who also didnt feel that it was scary.

11. Nemesis
SHIOK. Nothing else that I can say. SOrt of prefer FLY though, but this one was much faster and there were more turns and spins and rotations. It was so disorientating that most of us came out slightly giddy. Couldnt really walk straight properly for a while.

12. Gloomywood
A roller coaster ride in a haunted house, where we get to shoot the ghosts! We aimed laser guns at the yellow and green lights at our sides to get points. My daughter so has to potential to play CS, as she got quite a good score. =P Interesting twist to a normal scary ride, so I'm quite impressed.

13. Hex
A haunted house setting too, but here, we walk instead of taking a cart. The front part was quite scary but it sort of ended in an anti-climax. We sat in rows of benches facing each other and there was a simulation where the benches and wall started to rotate in opposite directions to give us a feeling that we have actually rotated 180 degrees. Quite interesting.

Life in Cambridge

Came back to Cambridge on the 29th of Sept for my second year. It has been a couple of hectic weeks ever since.
Took Qantas here, and was thoroughly bored to death. There is no entertainment on demand and even the service and the food was lousy. I miss SQ.

1 Oct 2006 (Sunday)
Went for Matriculation dinner. Met my college kids - Neranjana and Guy, and the juniors from Singapore. There are so many of them this year!

2 Oct 2006 (Monday)
Corpus Mayball meeting.

3 and 4 Oct 2006 (Tues, Wed)
Hung out at the freshers' fair manning a couple of stores and talking to everyone.
Joined a couple of societies too. Am motivated to be more enthusiastic this year.

7 Oct 2006 (Sat)
CUMSA Freshers' Squash - met even more people.

8 Oct 2006 (Sun)
CUMAS Freshers' Squash - haha...now I am a loyal member of CUMAS.

11 OCt 2006 (Wed)
Sidney Formal with Vanessa, Jac, Michelle, and a few other people. Food was great and the formal only cost 5 pounds!

15 Oct 2006 (Sun)
Dinner at Nandos with Yaoyu and Aloysius.
Went to Funkyard - music wasn't great at the beginning and the place was overbooked, but it got better towards the end and I quite enjoyed myself.

17 Oct 2006 (Tues)
Freshers' Formal at Pembroke - 4 courses!
The food was quite nice, so was the company. But this formal was super tame, no one got drunk, no one was pennied. So unlike last year's, which I didn't attend though.

20 Oct 2006 (Fri)
Preethi's Deepavali celebration party.
She made an indian cuisine which I can't remember what it is called, but it was sweet and very delicious. There were random people, whom she had invited coming into and going out of her room. =)

21 Oct 2006 (Sat)
Oxbridge Games at Oxford.
Took the bus at 10am to oxford and the whole journey was 2.5 hours long. Won netball 18-0 but lost pretty much the rest of the sports.

Oxford is pretty much like Cambridge in terms of the colleges, but it is a much bigger town, more urban and less eccentric than here I suppose. But I do prefer Cambrdige. haha.

Crabs

Yay, went to eat crabs today at Ang Mo Kio Ave 3 Blk 232!!

The crabs were so good, and everyone there was just eating crabs, making the crabs seem doubly tasty. Though I must admit that I find eating crabs rather troublesome, so much inconvenience for so little meat. But for the tastiness, the work was definitely worth it. =)

There was a queue for the whole time we were there, all the way till 9 plus, which is rather surprising and is an evidence of their great popularity. We had a reservation so we didnt have to wait too long.

The food was quite expensive though and each of us spent 35 bucks, but again, totally worth it. Would be brilliant if the place wasn't so warm though, not too uncomfortably warm, but still warm nevertheless. Go on a cooler night. =)