Monday, April 30, 2007

monday!!!

woke up at 7am today... cos every monday school starts at 9.10am, so can sleep abt 1 1/2 hours more.. thr journey to school was rather routine.. stand all the way from Sengkang to Khathib and then from there to Bukit Batok. the bus to school also need to stand, cos no place to sit. GP today was rather boring... 2 lessons and 2 lectures.

for break went for Lunch Time Training (LTT). this is something extra for the students who cannot pass all the items in the NAFA test. so i went to do pull up today.. the teacher was quite nice, very encouraging.. of course i cannot do normal pull-up. need help one. so shawn help me up and i think i did abt 10 lidat...

so for physics also very boring.. cos was feeling very sleepy. nothing much happened in physics... so after LTT, my wrist began to feel like no strength lidat.. carry bag also feel hand like wanna break.. so sad..

anyway tomorrow's a public holiday.. YAH!! in keeping with the tradition with this blog (i try), here's a pic of the sun setting... can see the moon.. :D

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Holy shit...

was watching tv just now in the hall... den wandered into the yard for a look see. my mom told me that the dryer and washing machine suddenly stopped working. so i went to check.. and detected a burnt smell!! like got plastics melt lidat. the only thing that will melt there is the plug or fuse, so i pulled it out...


looks like any other ordinary multiple plug.. can plug 3 appliance into it right?


this is wad happened to it after the melt down.. one pin totally melted away... and the fuse went with it..


had to use a pair of pliers to pull this out of the socket...


the fuse is 'fused' to the plug le..


mess of melted plastic..

i think the plug overheated due to the fact that both the machine and dryer are high voltage equipment.. and it has something to do with the I2R heating effect? lol.. tomorrow ask Mr Chang..

new thumbdrive

i think i had lost my trek 1 GB thumbdrive 2 weeks ago.. i guess i plugged it into the sch com and forgot to remove it... $59 down the drain... go home that time wanna use cannot find.. @#%!$#@%$#!

went with Cedric to Sim Lim on thursday to get his RAM. was at the shop where he bought the ram and decided that i ought to get myself a new thumbdrive.. since the 1 GB one had proven to be inadequate sometimes, i decided on a 2 GB one.. Cost me $35...


the USB port can keep inside one...


port extended..


plug into com got red light one!!! haha..

the interface is rather unique.. i'll liken it to a 2 GB hard drive. can install programmes inside one!! damn cool.


when plug into com, they will request password. if not cannot access the drive.


i have Xfire, Firefox, WinRar, a mahjong game as well as a programme somewhat like MSN installed on the thumbdrive. they occupy abt 90Mb. so now got 1.88+Gb lift for other stuffs...

Saturday, April 28, 2007

something extra..

was just reading through my past entries... den i remember that the P said that our sch did very well in the marathon last yr.. we got 2nd for the distance challenge!!


haha.. we are the only A Level institution.. beat that Hwa Chong and RJ!!!

hmm...

hmm... from wad blogger shows, i haven made a post for 1 month le... well.. anything that i say will just be excuses and more excuses.. haha.. quite a few changes in the past month...

for my CCA the infoComm club, we have 13 new yr 1 members. this is quite a big jump from 4 yr2s and 8 yr3s. i'm quite pleased with this new lot as they are still very bubbly and fun loving.. very willing to do duty and learn.. they still have a long way to go.. 3 more yrs and i hope that they dun lose this zeal..


went for my BTT on 20th april last wed... was full of hope that i'll pass the first time and can start learning driving asap. i guess i was hasty and when i saw people leaving, i also want to leave. so i faster do finish and i failed la... i had counted 7 questions that i got no confidence of confirm correct. so wasn't really a surprise la.. den went to book another date. 28th june. 1 day b4 my birthday and smack in the middle of the mid-yr exams. i'll just have to see if the dates clash anot. ronald took his BTT this morning. he also fail. haha... his date is 7/7/07. LOL..

went over to princess elizabeth pri to teach the P4 infocomm students how to set up an email acc and how to send email, upload pics etc. the school is very kiddy and reminded me of my pri school days... it felt like those days were eons ago... to be precise, abt 11 yrs ago.. how time flies.. when you are young, wanna grow up fast. old le wanna go back to last time.

anyway, there were abt 20 of us VS 30+ to 40 of the P4 students. mix of boys and girls. most of them were rather well behaved. only a handful were quite mischievous. so we taught them wad was on the notes and i have to say that things went quite smoothly overall. the yr2s were the trainers and i'll say that they were too soft. cannot hear them over the din. i think i would have done better, after got louder voice. but its time to let the young ones take the stage and strut their stuff. so the session ended on a ok note with the students being quite enthu abt the upcoming session on blogging..

the GP mid yr is drawing near and i'm feeling some of the jitters already. had to hand in my GP essay yesterday after sch. GP teacher made it compulsory such that we face a fine of $1 and 1 detention if we din hand it in yesterday. i wrote on whether the world is too dependent on oil. well.. GP demands that we present 2 sides of the view, else we will never pass..

so for the side of being too dependent on oil, i said that yes b'cos:
1) countries have been to war over oil. Japan in WWII cos the US cut its oil shipments.
2) when oil price rise, people panic and it affects everyone. like 91' gulf war that time.
3) if no oil, everything grinds to a halt. cos most power stations burn oil to boil water and drive the steam turbines which generates electricity. no oil = no electricity = nothing. no lights, fans, water pumps or MRT.

as the the opposing view saying that we are not reliant on oil:
1) got alternative forms of energy like water (hydro) or wind. no oil still can use wind turbines to generate electricity.
2) scientists and companies have come up with devices to save energy. means need less electricity to power. this would mean that the demand for electricity would be reduced and there won't be a need to burn so much oil.

hope can get a high 30s for this essay..

i think my room is situated in a very good position... can see the moon at nights and the sunrise in the morning..


taken at night..


another one taken slightly earlier on another day.. moon slightly obscured by the clouds..


i remember this photo.. taken on a monday morning just before i went to school.. was looking out of the window and saw this view.. i think the colours are very nice and the texture of the clouds with the light shinning through them.

this about sums up this long post. i'll make an effort to post more often..