1000: Started dismantling my bike so I can load it up the car and bring it to school.
1030: Preparing to leave, then received information that the advance party has been activated for mobilisation (meaning so will I at 1400). Crap!
1045: Started packing and loading my personal equipment.
1120: Left for school.
1200: Reached school and started assembling my bike.
1230: Lunch.
1300: SPS Physics Journal Club. Discussed this rather interesting paper in Physical Review Letters on flying carpets. Sounded dubious to me.
1415: Journal club ended. SMS from MINDEF received. Speaking of timing!
1430: Went back to my lab and surfed the net. Received message to report by 1700.
1530: Left my lab and went to the car to change.
1600: Drove to Clementi MRT station and boarded the shuttle bus to the mobilisation centre.
1630: In-pro. Followed by the SAF standard task: wait.
1830: Final man in company arrived! Yay, out-pro!
24 August 2008
19 August 2008
The Finality of Another Chapter
Just last weekend, the SPS Newbie Orientation Camp soared through pages of fun, laughter and joy. Perhaps it is never an exaggeration to say that this was the most ambitious and successful orientation camp organised by SPS, and I think it is a safe bet that most of the newbies had loads of pleasure and sweet memories of the camp.
From the organisers' point of view - I wasn't an organiser; I was merely a kay-poh senior - everything went smoothly enough, and it was a relief and pleasant surprise when some problems that cropped up during the camp self-resolved: missing handphone and glasses were found (and in a rather fortunate manner, I must add). The temperamental bouts of rain did add a bit of disruption to Saturday's activities, but at least it wasn't those kind of long periods of downpour that would certainly ruin the camp itself.
Personally, this is probably the last kind of these camps I'll be so involved in. Maybe I'll drop by next year's NOC, but it will be quite different. Well, life's always moving on, and with the final year of my undergraduate time fading into history, I suppose I'll just have to hold on to the memories while I move on to the next phase.
From the organisers' point of view - I wasn't an organiser; I was merely a kay-poh senior - everything went smoothly enough, and it was a relief and pleasant surprise when some problems that cropped up during the camp self-resolved: missing handphone and glasses were found (and in a rather fortunate manner, I must add). The temperamental bouts of rain did add a bit of disruption to Saturday's activities, but at least it wasn't those kind of long periods of downpour that would certainly ruin the camp itself.
Personally, this is probably the last kind of these camps I'll be so involved in. Maybe I'll drop by next year's NOC, but it will be quite different. Well, life's always moving on, and with the final year of my undergraduate time fading into history, I suppose I'll just have to hold on to the memories while I move on to the next phase.
14 August 2008
In the Name of the Country
About a year ago, NUS decided to upgrade some really rotten LTs in Science, namely, LT26 and LT21. Well, now it's much better, but they have yet to fix one minor problem in LT21: it is a Faraday's Cage to handphones. That is to say, the handphone signal is shielded inside the room and there are no relay transmitter inside. Essentially, handphone signal is nil in LT21.
I have a lecture every Monday and Thursday morning in LT21. That means I'm out of contact with the rest of the Universe (in terms of microwave connection). But for the next few weeks I'm on ops manning. That means I have to be contactable at all times by my handphone.
...
Does that mean that, for the sake of my country, I cannot attend lecture? So perhaps I'll have to skip the lectures. It's not my fault or under my control. It's for the country. What if one day Singapore face some terrible crises and can't find me simply because I'm learning how to compute the errors in numerical simulations? No way! I shall have to skip lectures in the name of the country.
The fact that the lecturer is boring is irrelevant.
I have a lecture every Monday and Thursday morning in LT21. That means I'm out of contact with the rest of the Universe (in terms of microwave connection). But for the next few weeks I'm on ops manning. That means I have to be contactable at all times by my handphone.
...
Does that mean that, for the sake of my country, I cannot attend lecture? So perhaps I'll have to skip the lectures. It's not my fault or under my control. It's for the country. What if one day Singapore face some terrible crises and can't find me simply because I'm learning how to compute the errors in numerical simulations? No way! I shall have to skip lectures in the name of the country.
The fact that the lecturer is boring is irrelevant.
10 August 2008
Here We Go...
With somewhat a sombre mood, my fourth and final year in NUS will commence tomorrow. It's kinda depressing to me that my undergraduate life will be over soon, and to be honest I still haven't had enough of them. Well yeah, never mind the lack of sleep and anxiety over school work, the undergraduate life is one hell of an experience, and it's all gonna end soon...
But never mind about that. Despite this being my fourth year, I'm still somewhat "overloading" myself: 22 MCs worth of modules; or four regular modules plus one honours year project which is worth 6 MCs. It's gonna be a step up from my previous semester, and it shall be kept in mind that I have other duties like SPS mentorship and lab demonstrator for the first year lab.
On the bright side, the huge amount of CORS bidding points which I've amassed over the semester didn't go to waste last week. I threw in 3600 points into a maths module and got it for 900 points. That's an amount well spent!
But never mind about that. Despite this being my fourth year, I'm still somewhat "overloading" myself: 22 MCs worth of modules; or four regular modules plus one honours year project which is worth 6 MCs. It's gonna be a step up from my previous semester, and it shall be kept in mind that I have other duties like SPS mentorship and lab demonstrator for the first year lab.
On the bright side, the huge amount of CORS bidding points which I've amassed over the semester didn't go to waste last week. I threw in 3600 points into a maths module and got it for 900 points. That's an amount well spent!
03 August 2008
Geekiest Restaurant Name
Okay, this one nearly murdered me by laughter:
(from DrNO's Fun Site)
If their signboard reads "404 Not Found", that'll sure be a classic like the infamous Windows 98 demonstration.
(from DrNO's Fun Site)
If their signboard reads "404 Not Found", that'll sure be a classic like the infamous Windows 98 demonstration.
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