A Day In Library

1, 2, 3..... Yes today I was in my uni library for the 3rd time, in this academic year. 1st time, was to borrow books for geology project. 2nd time, was to borrow books for 2nd geology project. And here came the 3rd time today.

Staying in the library reminded of my first year in IC. The time I spent in library doing Basic Mechanics, memorising Materials, practising Mathematics and etc. I was also reminded of the days I stayed in South Kensington. Drooled in front of the Lamborghini show room everyday on my way to uni. Watched thousands of TVB series with WY and YC. Spent a lot of gay nights in WY's hall. LD call to Cheryl every weekends. Drinking in XQ's room. And etc.

Despite all the memories, I was able to regain my peaceful mind.

Except the fact that some fucking losers kept talking like nobody's business in the Quiet Zone. Geesh I was so pissed off. I switched to a place further to them. And guess what? I could hear them chit chatting again. *More Geesh*

Dinner in Paper Tiger recalled the conversation we had everytime:

Want la!
Don't want la!
Want la! Long time never go!
Don't want la!
Want la! Just go la!
Don't want la!
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The persuasion WY had to make on me everytime to go to Paper Tiger. Suddenly, 3 years has passed.

I have mixed feelings today. Nostalgic, and also, alarmed.

Day to exams: 26 days.
Level of preparation: HxiLxt. Extremely low, and slow.

The Warming Up

My life is boring. Study Study Study. Coursework Coursework Coursework.

Another freaking coursework day today. My brain almost burst!

However, I started my brain cracking day with a bit of warming up on a riddle today (thanks to Hiu Mun)!

Here goes the riddle:

There are 2 rooms. 1 room with 3 switches, another 1 with 3 light bulbs. One can only be allowed to enter each room once. How to differentiate which switch controls which light bulb?

Of course, its not challenging for me to reveal the answer now. It must somehow bothers you a while before getting the answer! Haha... I can boast about it because I got the answer correct! Nyeh Nyeh Nyeh~~~

Just when I thought brain storming was good to start a long day, it didn't really make my day easy. I suffered like hell for my coursework today. Maybe should stop studying and sell chu cheong fan! Hahaha...

Really want the answer? Scroll down loo...

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Never expect you to give up so fast.

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Seriously, try to guess la! Answer? Tomorrow. Or day after. Kekeke....

Be free to post your answer, although I don't think its that hard, especially for GUYS! =)

Joke Of The Day

Ah Yao and Jiao Jiao were very good friends, and they both enjoyed hunting very much.

One day, they made an appointment to hunt in Taman Negara. Ah Yao was early. He waited for 30 minutes, until he saw Jiao Jiao appeared within his eyesight, holding his favourite AK 47.

Ah Yao : Oiii why are you late? I am gonna kick your ass today by hunting more animals than you!
Jiao Jiao : Sure bring it on! I always pawn you in DOTA I don't think you can kick my ass so easily! Muahaha...
Ah Yao: See how...

So they walked, and walked, and walked, looking for their hunting target. Until, suddenly, Jiao Jiao fell on the ground having difficulties breathing. He was suffocating when Ah Yao was so panic becaused he didn't know Jiao Jiao had heart problem.

Jiao Jiao : Call 911 p...pll....pleease.... I can't breathe... erhh... *fainted*
Ah Yao : You ok or not? Oh no... *start dialing 911 with his K750i*

911 Miss Cheryl : Hi this is emergency line what can I help you? Ambulance or Police?
Ah Yao : Ambulance! But I scared too late... My friend is suffocating and I have no idea what to do to help him!

911 Miss Cheryl has a bit of medical experience (she joined St. John for 2 weeks when she was in primary 1). So she tried to give him direction to help the victim through the phone.

911 Miss Cheryl : Alright don't be panic sir! First of all, I want you to make sure whether your friend is dead or not.
Ah Yao: Ok hang on wait...

After few seconds.... 911 Miss Cheryl heard a loud BANGGGGGGGG!!!!! followed by Ah Yao saying this.

Ah Yao : Ok I am sure now.
911 Miss Cheryl : ............................................

*Thanks Wee Yow for sharing jokes in Hyde Park today*

Tell me if you are not laughing. I ll tell Wee Yow. Thanks.

hahahahahha... =P

A Special Dedication

This post is specially dedicated to my housemates, from me. As promised.

After the previous post, I have got harassment from my housemates forcing me to tell who I was referring to. Harassment. Seriously, I really mean it.

18 SG for our conversation.

WY : (stomped into my room) Eh who the fuck are you talking about?
VL : Eh yalor, did anyone of us piss you off? Is it me?
WY : Yalor, is it me? Diu I think must be one of us, you see he mentioned about competition. Sure is one of us...
VL : Oh yaloh! -censored- <= (He doesn't like to be known he speaks this language)
YC : Wat happened? Wat are you all talking about? <= He nvr reads my blog. He wants me to tell him wat I write.
WY : Neh Ah Goo la! Write he dulan someone and someone made him dulan long time ago. But dunno who issit.

Finally, Me : Not anyone of you. Don't think too much.

WY : Lan Jiao! You think we are stupid ar? *and he pinched my nipple*
Me: Seriously not loh.
YC : Ah Goo tell loh! Don like tat! *more pinching and touching from him*
Me : Not la! Why don wanna believe me? *dodging all the pinching and touching*
WY : OK tell me who issit then we ll believe you! *harder pinching*
Me: You dunno him wan! Diu.... *fake a bit dulan to stop the pinching*
WY : Lan! I know you for 10 years I dunno?
YC : Yalor Ah Goo tell loh tell loh! *he didn't care, kept pinching*

So you see, they did harass me. T_T

Seriously, I couldn't stand anymore interrogation and harassment at that time. So I told them I will post the person whom I was referring to on my blog (promote a bit! lol) and asked them to read it.

WY : OK you say wan ar! Faster write! haha...
YC : *took away my notes, and switched my monitor on* Ah Goo you can write now! hahaha...
VL : Yalor I also wanna know!

So, as promised. I'll reveal this person in my current post. So WY, YC and VL, check out and see which of you piss me offfffffffffff!

Scroll down. He is down there.

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Somemore, since you all wanna know! More suspend in this way! Hahaha...

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Give up meh diu? Further la! We walk Hyde Park everyday 20 minutes ! Now scroll a bit tired?

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Scroll! Scroll more then will get first class this year!

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First class wor??! Don't want? Near already!

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There you go!

TADAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!



Hahahahahahaha!!

He seriously looks like this! Best picture I can find...

So now you all know who among you pissed me off, come and apologise to me! =P

*Read too much of Rojak, bad influence!* =P

A Short Note

I was once very pissed off at someone I have really been close with. Because of what he said. What he said disregarded my presence, my values, and my abilities.

Today, I am pissed off at myself because I felt I did the same thing to him. Not intentionally, not intending to hurt, nor disregarding. Things just came out so naturally from my mouth, when I didn't mean to disregard him at most. I wanna apologise to him here, Sorry.

Come to think of it, I think maybe he didn't intend to hurt my feelings at that incident. And I figure out, maybe, because we are so close, we tend to compare ourselves with each other, building the competition, or invisible rivalry between ourselves.

Competition brings improvement, but i think rivalry is bad for friendships. Rivals are not true friends.

Sorry, but honestly, I respect you highly.

I am not sure if frienship like this is healthy/positive, but I am very sure he will always be my close and true friend. Always.

DO you have friendships like this too?

My March & April

Life is unpredictable.

But at some point, life could be easily predicted as well.

Well, at least it applies for mine. The next month.

(1) No more watching TV. No live football, no MTV, no South Park, no wrestling.

Of course, my TV is not so high tech, more parlia one.


(2) No more Wilson House session. No football, no badminton.





















(3) No PS2, ie no Winning 11. No playing tag, no revenge.

Oh no, I have forgotten my PS2 was stolen 3 months ago. Damn!


(4) No more dining in and talking cock in Four Seasons.













Only take away.

(5) No more watching new TVB Dramas.
















(6) No more shopping. Not even Whiteleys.

















(7) No more talk cock sing song. No more fooling around.





















(8) No more good night sleep as well. =(














(9) Well, a little bit online can gua?

















(10) Finish studying the stack of notes for this academic year.
















Screw System Engineering!!!





















(11) Finish doing the past paper for at least 2 times (I wish).




















And more past papers!! (Kill me...)
















Coastal Engineering... Drown me...

















(12) Be ultra familiar when and how to apply these formulae.
















Please, kill me now.

Hopefully you still can recognise me after my exams. Bye.

Off to study. Urgh...

Old Hag Syndrome

So Wee Yow and I had our follow up talk about Old Hag Syndrome and he showed me "his" old hag syndrome.


This old hag doesn't look like a hag to me. Look like an ape to me instead. But look at the creepy evil look... Its like he/she/it just discovered that we (you and I who are reading) saw him old hagging someone, and try to send a message to us by his/hers/its ultra creepy look: Wanna be old hagged too? Yewwww...

But in another perspective, he/she/it looks lonely, which shows he/she/it maybe just want an accompany to play with, or talk to. Just wanna make friend. Not hurting.

About the horse, if you see it, I am still wondering its existence.

I, on the other hand, came across another related image.


Oh this old hag is really an old hag and look at the evilness of her face, we know she is intending to harm by old hagging the victim. Its as though she finds joy hurting someone. Scary shit.

Whatever it is, I read that when you feel you are old hagged, stay clam and if you are religious, say some prayer and the old hag will disappear.

Bear in mind, stay calm doesn't mean trying to communicate with the old hag and ask: why you old hag me?

A more scientific term for this is Sleeping Paralysis. No old hag. No evil. Not laid. Not scary. It happens due to body fatigue, or in the dream-awake transition state. Experts explains it here.

Sleep Paralysis or Old Hag Syndrome, I think the feeling sucks when it happens to someone (eg Wee Yow, 3 times in a year).

Meanwhile, still in the process of finding the scientific term for the iTunes case. Hahaha...

Freaky

Today 8:30 am:

When we were about to leave our house to walk to uni, Wee Yow told me and Yinky Chau that he was laid by ghost the last night. The consequences was that he wasn't able to move, or make any noise because physically, the ghost was supposedly laying on him, causing the movement difficulties. And ermm, well maybe kissing him causing him couldn't make any noise. lol.

Although this phenomena has been scientifically proven that the reason behind it is majorly due to fatigue, I haven't actually (and I would not want to) experienced it before, so I can't really share my thoughts or experience. But I think this was Wee Yow's 3rd time being laid since last year. So we thought he was making some morning jokes. We entertained him with "Oh", "Heehee haahaa", "Really ornot?" while on our way to uni.

Later at 11:30 pm:

I was arranging my notes, clearing my table up so that I could study later. Was on my way to shower when I suddenly remembered I haven't collected my washed clothes, so I PAUSED my iTunes, walked down to the washing machine and picked up my clothes back to my room.

So I was hanging my clothes, with both hands on my clothes; while Yinky Chau was reading his notes, also with both hands holding the notes. We were both far away from my computer.

At an instance, my iTunes started playing again, when both our hands were still on our clothes and notes. No 3rd person (not that I could see) in the room. Kelly Clarkson's Walk Away was being played, when it was supposed to be PAUSED. We looked at each other, our eyes were filled with fear.

We quickly went off the room, still looking at each other, then we shared the freaky incident with Wee Yow and XQ, and started laughing. Although we laughed it off, but let me say this, it really freaked our ass off at that moment.

Can someone, anyone, tell me that this kinda malfunction does exist in iTunes?

Auuah, feel a bit tight on my chair wei, oh no... am I not alone on the chair now?

Costly Mistake

I was extremely, utterly shocked when I watched the American Idol results show. Ayla was voted off from being the top 12. The first thing that came to my mind was: Are Americans Blind or Deaf or Nuts? How can they not vote her? I was in that moment of shocked....... until I remembered I actually haven't watched the latest episode which the girls performed.

Hence, I restored that episode from Cheryl's recycle bin to watch again. I couldn't believe, after 2 stunning performance from her, I actually thought it was more than enough for her to sail through the top 12. The moment when she sang "Reflection" by Christina Aguilera, I could not stop but playing that part of the episode again to watch. Honestly I think she sang, if not better, as good as Christina. Not to forget to mention, look at her, man... She looks so pretty and gorgeous!!!!!!! And tall, yeah I know. Think she is younger than me but ermm....the height differ by too much that I could imagine. *shy*

Look at her... My heart is melted...


I didnt skipped to the part which she performed only. I watched the whole show (well, except Kennik Sky after the moment she sang =P) to see how everyone performed, and the actual reason why she didn't outshine. After the whole show I kinda got the idea. Maybe it was the song, that she sang, that didn't show off her vocal. She showed off her powerful singing skills and ability from the previous 2 episodes and this one was just, ordinary.

But still...................... She was so so good and why didn't the audience remembered the good part of her? Why was she penalised for one, just one mistake on her song choice? Moreover, she wasn't lousy in the performance, it was just not superb. I particulay think Paris wasn't performing well enough but she wasn't voted off. Well, guess I have to take it easy.

But still.......................?

That shows how costly a mistake can be in our life. Making the right decision ain't easy at all. Sometimes the difference between the decisions is just one line apart, however, the outcome could be extremely different. Some people are lucky, they are still able to succeed, or escape from the bad consequences eventhough mistakes have been made. Nevertheless, some people are not. One mistake is enough to kill them off. Their chances, their opportunities, their performances, and their achievements vanish, just by one costly mistake. Ayla is one this time.

Come to think of it, people learn and grow from mistakes they make. A costly mistake could well bring a big lesson to someone, however the impact is significant as well. Some people are so much influenced by the impact, that they cannot let go, cannot learn, never grow, causing the mistake to be an even more costly one.

However, if someone was able to learn from a costly mistake, I think he/she will grow to be wiser, and tougher. No matter in what aspects in life. Because he/she learn something that lucky people don't learn. They are more likely to be still able to stand up from failure, because they stood up before.

Lucky people? I think luck is a very uncertain uncertainty (looking at my bet365.com account). Lucky people, one day when their luck runs out, only they realise how costly a small mistake can be. Then only they learn. But someone who is used to being lucky, is it easy to learn and grow?

Lucky or costly mistake. If I get to choose, I wish I can choose both.

Hahahahaa....

But life is never easy, sometimes we don't get to choose to be lucky, or to make costly mistake. Sometimes you choose to go for luck, but end up you make a costly mistake, or vice versa....

No matters what our decisions end up to be, the most important thing is, we learn. Learn from mistake, or learn to appreciate.

I hope I'll remember this, always.

Ayla is a winner to me too!

Beam oh Beam

A week, again, full of coursework. But this time not so much on submitting them, but more of receiving them marked.

Yeah after all the hard work (which you all have heard me complaining about).

So we had grades given for our courseworks, with comments and remarks. There was a Structural Mechanics group project which we had to produce a design of beam, to sustain a loading of 16 kN, but had to fail before 20 kN. So basically we had to have an optimum design which would not suffer any form of buckling modes under the required loading. There came the calculation parts which almost blew my head off.

But the great part of this project was that we had the opportunity to build and test the beam we design ourselves. We were given the individual parts of the beam to "assemble" by drilling and bolting them. My practical knowledge was zero because I didn't even know how to use an electrical driller (honestly, I only learned how to saw wood in my KH class). Hence, most of the time during the lab work session, I was only supervising, or more appropriately, observing.

The worst part was, after finishing constructing the beam, the feeling actually sucked big time when my intuition told me that the beam was highly unlikely to sustain 16 kN. I had so much bad dream that my beam would fail at 2 kN. -_-

Here came the day of testing. We were the 4th group to perform the testing. We felt the pressure because there were beams from 2 other groups which had passed the required loading. So here were the lab assistants placing our beam on the loading machine.


Our wonderful beam, which seemed a bit buckled even before the loading was being applied. Not a good sign. =(


Look carefully. There was actually a small chip on the top of the beam due to imperfection in construction. We planned to blame on this tiny chip to be the major cause, if our beam really failed at 2 kN (CHOIIII!!!!!!!!).


Time to start increasing the loading. I didn't think I could withstand the SHOCK if really, really my beam would fail at 2 kN. I have weak heart. Hence, Matthew went for it and start turning the wheel of the machine to increase the loading.

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Passed 2 kN! AAAAAhhhhhhhhh, what a relief! (I think at that moment I actually forgot the required loading was 16 kN)

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Don't be so gan jiong! Hasn't failed yet! =)

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Well I think I should stop typing the dots so that no one would get the false impression that my beam actually didn't fail. Hahaha... Sad to say, it failed at 9.5 kN.

So here are the snapshots of our beam which died in dignity.

The photo shows the buckling modes of the beam at failure: Plate Buckling and Lateral Torsional Buckling.


More plate buckling and lateral torsional buckling.


See! Our beam wasn't that bad afterall because many people were taking the photo of the beam at its very moment (during failure). Hahaha...... =)
Ok that's because they needed the photos in their individual report. =P


And more discussion carried out to explain the possible reasons which lead to the failure modes.


See the 4 in the graph? That is the stress strain curve of our beam. Errr... not those high flying one, ignore those. But in case you didn't notice, there was one group which failed before 9.5 kN (the curve below our curve). Hahaha... we were not the last.


So after the testing for 8 groups, 3 groups passed the required loading. 5 groups failed to. We were glad that we were the second place in the "Failed" category. Not something to be proud of, I know I know. But its important to seek for these facts to console ourselves, plaster the wound of our hearts, and try harder (and smarter) next time. Kakaka....

The funny part was that, during the feedback session for this coursework, our bubbly Dr. Wadee arranged a few awards based on the performance of all the beams.

We were lucky we didn't get the "Weakest Beam" award. *Feeling Relieved*

But we were extremely jealous seeing 2 other groups being awarded the "Strongest Beam" prize. *ARRrrrggghhhhh*

Well, its better not to mention the grade we got for this coursework because it is dispressing. But it is certainly a happy thing to hear that my Fluid Mechanics coursework got an A*. =)

Please do not misunderstand that all my courseworks are so fun and challenging. They are not. This is only an exceptional one. What our other courseworks about are only write write write. Technical technical technical.

And still write and technical. Extremely boring. Hence the complains I have made throughout the whole academic year.


P/S : To learn more about buckling modes, you can contact me. But guess you wouldn't because my beam failed at 9.5 kN. *sob sob*