Friday, April 23, 2004

So sorry...long time nvr blog liaoz...too busy wif work and tests..
Wow....wat an eventful week....
Firstly it was the micromouse competition...we got fourth...haiz....but we arent really happy...we could haf gotten better results...we just did not had the luck..
Secondly it was the hot weather....its so hot...one can get roasted..then these few days suddenly rain..funny weather....at nite it gets so hot tt i cant sleep...
Becos of the hot weather all the mosquitoes came..was bitten so many times lor..haix...
Thirdly there was the Enthuse week...a week where we play alot of games to promote eng...quite fun...Our sch even held AHS Idol..haha..but i didnt really watch becos i was in class during 1st recess...the time when it was held..
This week one of the worst disasters happened in singapore....nicoll highway collasped...this nicoll highway was sitting on reclaimed land, and they were building a mrt tunnel below it...becos the wall could not support the soil, one part caved in...
Surprisingly no vehicle was passing by at the instance it collasped..which is a relief becos it kept casualty rate low...and luckily many workers were having teabreak at tt time so not many pple at the site..
But still...3 died..haix..trapped under all the metal stuff..
And now the entire nicoll highway is closed..pple living in the east cant go into the city though this way..so now the other roads into the city are getting congested..
I tink perhaps singapore engineers are getting abit too over confident..maybe they tink they haf done so many tunnels b4 so they tot this wun be a prob...
But perhaps they haf overlooked the fact tt tt is reclaimed land and there is the sea just nearby..the soil is too soft liaoz.
Hope this will be the last incident tt happens...
One terrorist organisation sent a letter to the south korea embassy saying tt they are going to launch an attack on 8 countries...singapore's on the list!
I haf trust in singapore's security agencies but i tink its beeter to be careful..
But now dunno issit true or not..cos the south koreans say they nvr heard of such a terrorist organisation b4..hmm...
Oso just heard tt beijing got sars cases again..Is sars coming back again?Let's hope not....the last one was horrible....
Tml got eng oral..and wat the heck, its prelims oral!ARGH!!!
Haix..

Saturday, April 10, 2004

Hey~
Todae went for micromouse(again)..do from morning right till evening...at first i tot do until noon, cos the company closes at 1, but becos competition is near so they open it till vv late..so we stayed until 5++..haha...
Our mouse is performing vv well...if nth goes wrong we should haf a place in the finals?haha....lets hope so...
The sec3s only started preparing todae...but wif the help of gibson they advance quite fast too...by the end of the day they had some remarkable runs too...
Becos todae was sat, many pple turn up too...so made the place crowded and stuffy...got victoria, springfield, woodlands ring, junyuan and others which i dun recognise..Actually most of them are all in home clothes, but the reason i can recognise them becos many of them took part in the robogp competition back in feb..so all quite familiar looking..
Many of their mice ran vv well too...hmm...but as long as they not in same division as well we are quite safe..haha...
But there was this guy(dunno wat sch)..he likes to suan us...yesterday we took the same lift as him, then he asked:Which division are u in? we replied division3, then he said:hmm, vv gd...
-.-''' Hello?Wat's so gd being in the lowest division?(we got relegated becos we nvr won last yr)..he so sarca...
Then todae he saw our mouse running(it was VERY fast) then he said:aiyah division3 no need so fast la...
WE really feel like beating him up...
Actually his mouse oso quite fast la, but tt doesnt mean he can anyhow suan pple right?grr...
Haiz..dun talk abt him..
So all these ends the day...after this blogging i going to do some hw..haiz...
Now i find all these robotics so fun..maybe i will continue all these when i go to jc/poly/ite..hmm...
Anyway for those of u(if there is any) who dunno wat the hell i haf been talking abt all these while, i haf some links to the relevant websites(alpha innovations is the company tt makes the mice, its oso the place we haf been going to)..=D

Thursday, April 08, 2004

Todae is an unforgetable day..really unforgetable..wat happened?
Well..One of the worst things tt could happen to any person on earth almost happened to us todae...
As usual, we went to AI to do the micromouse..we took mrt to aljurned, then take bus, alight at siemens there, then we walked towards the AI company..
While walking we realised.......we left something on the bus...


Not just anything...but its a micromouse...


Not just a micromouse, but its a $1000 micromouse..


All hell broke loose as we desperately tried all kinds of ways to get back tt thing...we had to get it back, or u can forget abt seeing us in sch anymore....


Gib went back to the bus depot to see if he can get any help there, i crossed the road to the other side to wait for the bus(it was a loop service), and yufeng went after the bus...
In the end, yf managed to catch up wif the bus and luckily, one kind soul passed it to the bus driver...
PHEW~
Actually while i was waiting for the bus to loop back i was thinking:wat if a kan cheong person sees it and tot it was a bomb, and keeps up a huge fuss?Hey i'm not joking, esp when the micromouse looks like one..can see the circuit boards, LEDs and wires all over....Luckily none of this happened...or we will be in the headlines tml..(Todae, the mrt signboards just started running the words: If u see any suspicous articles, pls tell the smrt staff or call 999..wow..)
Anyway thks to the kind soul who passed it to the bus driver....its pple like this tt makes the world goes round...
So after this incident we continued to do our micromouse....the boss of AI, a mr yong, actually gave us some tips on how to improve our performance...he so pro lor..he see our mouse's movements n he noes our speed profile liaoz...CoOl MaN..
He oso not bossy...he was the one who leaves last, closing the doors...nvr bai jia zi one...
So reached home at 8 lor...tml no sch, but got tuition in the afternoon...had to turn down a lan game offer...haiz...
Nxt wk got a whole string of tests....mon chem, tues amaths, thurs ss...and wed is my big day...argh.....

Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Haiz...now everyday is micromouse...everyday go to this same ulu place in the middle of an industrial estate where even going there is so ma fan...must take mrt, then walk to bus stop take bus, then walk again..
Reached there liaoz will eat roti prata b4 going up...see the same old pple there...Now we even made frens wif ppkle from other schs haha....
Do all the way until 6++, then reached home at 7++, eat bathed read newsppers, b4 i can start any hw i will fall aslp on the bed..all the way until 1++ then wake up to do a little bit of hw..haiz...
No choice..sch no money, cant get us a gd maze board...so gotta go tt place lor...
Except for todae, i nvr sleep...maybe after this?
Now i really think taxi driving is the job for me....i want to do bio, but my bio not gd, i want to do computer, but my computer oso not gd...maybe taxi driving is the best for me..hmm...
Added a website link to my blog....an introduction to Nitrous Oxide..hahaha...N20...wat's so special abt nitrous oxide?Nth much actually, it just makes cars go faster...
Sometimes in movies u see pple racing then they press this 'turbo' button which makes the car goes V-R-O-O-M..................................................................
its nitrous oxide...
But the introduction quite chim..only abit understand...ahh...just treat it as crap...
Btw i'm not a computer nut tt some pple refer to me as...i only lan yu cong shu...there r tons of pple out there who are better than me..

Saturday, April 03, 2004

One week's over...
This week is rather ordinary...nth big happened...
Wed was the 2.4km actual run...last three yrs we haf been running at east coast and we were cheated....east coast is shorter...so now we go bedok stadium run actual distance...previous sessions had me clocking 12 mins plus...on wed the actual run i run like maniac to clock a 11.48....quite a gd time for me...at least i got a C....
Fri last 2 periods my class was supposed to haf the ne quiz...to play a game..but the tcher nvr came(dunno how many times liaoz), so in the end nvr do the ne quiz...as my fren says, we are almost forgetting wat is the meaning of cme...haha....
Then as usual, cca...haiz...cca is so boring nowadays..haiz...no choice..they got a lousy leader..Cant wait for handover....
After cca saw the ice cream man outside sch again....he seems to noe our sch timing liaoz....everyday after will see him outside sch one...maybe he got a son or grandson who studies there...haha..his ice cream still vv nice....
Then todae had bio test...it wasnt too difficult...some of the qns were even repeated...asked the same things...but i still made quite a few mistakes...
The micromouse competition's coming....we the sec4 team more or less are prepared liaoz...after last 2 weeks almost everyday go AI or stay in sch to prepare...so tired and go home so late....then my mother will scold "why so early come home?still early mah, do summore la"..haiz...
Everytime we go AI we will eat roti prata at a coffee shop nearby b4 going there...we go there so often, now the AI pple noe us liaoz....i tink even the roti prata man oso noes us le..haha..
But there's sumting strange abt our micromouse...it keeps crashing into the wall...dunno why leh...other schs' micromice can detect walls a distance away..ours always touches the walls....the AI pple look so many times still cant find the prob..but nvm la...can win can liaoz..haha..
Hey man...Singapore really ROX~ i watched them playing against japan...first half watch them play i was tinking, singapore no hope liaoz..u can see the japanese keep attacking and attacking...singapore almost cant hold them liaoz...but second half singapore suddenly so hiong, keeps attacking...Last few mins when noor ali came in i tot singapore got hope liaoz...but haiz...nvm..in the end although we lost but it was still a gd match...i tink credit goes to indra sandan, S. subramani and the goalkeeper hassan sunny(all the names dunnoe spell correctly or not)...but tan kim leng abit rough...he always gifs tt bu shuang face...
So now after blogging i gotta finish my hw so i can dedicate tml to chi test..haiz...so scared...later i get class lowest again...