exam is over

Had my last paper today, which means it's holiday for me.

I feel so... dead. No excitement, just relief. This semester has been very tiring for me...

Not much of a holiday, as next Monday I am starting my 12 weeks of internship....

For those who still have papers left, all the best!!

cowboy's father mother

Sometimes I wonder, other than kao beh kao bu, what else can I write in my blog?

Oh by the way do you know who's cowboy's father mother?

talking about the paper

I don't understand, why do people like to talk about the paper after the paper? Does it bring them an orgasm or something?

It's like the paper is over already, what can you do? Stop the blue NUS van and tell the invigilators you need to change the answer? What amazes me is people can remember every single answer they wrote, it's as though they press Ctrl + C everytime before starting on a new page in their answer booklet. (those people don't need helpsheet for sure) Then they can happily talk about which question what's the correct answer and blah blah blah. Hello, if you are so sure that's the answer, then why bother submitting your answer booklet and letting the examiner mark? Then they will go on and count how many marks they lost and stuff.. again why didn't you just write the marks on the coverpage of your answer booklet? Save the examiner's trouble.

If you have more papers remaining, why let the previous paper affect you and others? Oh yah, psychological warfare, make your opponents feel depressed.

I don't even think of the paper the moment the invigilator says stop writing. And please stop discussing exam paper with me. You'll get very boring answers.

catch no crap

My brother told me that while I was having fun in the exam hall this afternoon, a lady from MCYS (Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports) came to my house wanting to do an interview with me.

She could have fixed an appointment with me beforehand.
(now what have I done?!)

mohr's circle

Yesterday during ME2114 Mechanics of Materials II paper, I was plotting the mohr's circle, then this guy who was on his way to the toilet just had to squeeze his butt through the narrow gap in front of my desk.

What the, why couldn't he just go to the front (ie, in front of the invilgilator's table) where his butt could very easily pass through? Want to pee also must disturb other candidates...

If not, string is provided for him to tie his     (fill in the blank)     up.

lesson of the day

If they included a list of useful (and useless) formulas in last year's exam paper,
don't assume they'll do likewise this year.

worry, worrying, worried

What worries me the most
is that I'm not worried about what I should be worrying.

exam trauma

Yesterday at Computer Centre ground floor lift lobby, I saw this girl waiting for the lift. Or at least she looked like she was waiting for the lift, minus the fact that the button wasn't pressed and the lift was motionless on the second floor.

So I pressed the button and when the lift came, the girl also went in. (that strikes out the possibility of her waiting for someone instead of the lift)

Must be the effect of exam...

quote of the day 2

alea iacta est.
(The die is cast)
-- Julius Caesar

quote of the day

Cry "Havoc", and let slip the dogs of war
--Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I
William Shakespeare

My first paper today.
No I don't study literature.

instructions to candidates

If you are so well-prepared and confident about your exam, and you think there's nothing more you can do, try memorising this:

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
INVIGILATORS’ INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

1. You are not allowed to start writing until you are told to do so.
2. Please ensure that you do not have any unauthorised materials, audio equipment or handheld PCs with you. Any candidate found with unauthorised materials will be liable to disciplinary action which may result in your expulsion from the University.
3. Please turn off your mobile phones or pagers. You are not allowed to use these equipment during the examinations.
4. Put your matriculation card or identity card on the top right hand corner of your desk.
5. Do not write your name on the answer book. Write only your matriculation number.
6. You are not allowed to communicate with each other. If you wish to communicate with an invigilator, please raise your hand.
7. Please check that you have the correct number of pages in your question paper.
8. The colour of the answer books used in this room is (_____).
9. You are not allowed to leave the examination room within an hour of the commencement of the examination.
10. If you need to visit the washroom, you are required to sign out at the invigilators’ table before you leave the room, and to sign in upon your return.
11. At the end of the examination, please remain seated quietly while your answer scripts are being collected and tallied.
12. The time is (_____). You may start writing. You will stop at (_____).

This semester I have to listen to it 4 times. Are they going to tell us the escape routes as well?

free publicity

Just now I was kinda shocked when a coursemate of mine told me how she found out about my blog...

Her friend found a piece of paper in LT7 with my blog's addy on it...

I didn't do it and I dunno who did it...


Now did anyone find similar pieces of paper in the girl's toilet?

idiosyncrasies

arghh I got tagged by sylv! (fine, SMU has finished its exam)

RULES: Each person who gets tagged needs to write a blog post of their own 6 idiosyncrasies as well as clearly state this rule. After stating your 6 weirdness you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names at the bottom of the entry. Don’t forget to leave a comment on their tagboards that says “you’re tagged!” and tell them to read your blog for information as to what it means.

Main Entry: id·i·o·syn·cra·sy

Pronunciation: “i-dE-&-’si[ng]-kr&-sE

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural -sies

1. a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
2. the physical constitution peculiar to an individual.
3. a peculiarity of the physical or the mental constitution, esp. susceptibility toward drugs, food, etc.

*scratch head* What am I supposed to write?

1. Lately I sleep at 9:30pm and wake up at 5:30am.

1. I'm very territorial. I can't stand people's arm resting on my desk during lectures. I also can't stand people's stuff crossing over to my computer table in the computer lab.

1. I can tolerate machine-made noise but not man-made noise. I can study right next to a colony of air-con compressors and workshops but I can't concentrate when someone click on his laptop's mouse in the library.

1. My yahoo mail is in Chinese. (a lot of people find this weird though)

1. I only do my tutorial questions during office hours. I slack during office hours.

1. My notes and text look new at the end of every semester.

Ok I'm done. Not weird enuff.
Ahem as a nice guy that I've always been, I'm not going to tag anyone. But if you want to volunteer to be tagged, do let me know ^-^

feeding caterpillar

I'm feeding 2 caterpillars now. (I don't mean the Caterpillar machines. That one need to feed diesel)

Somehow my pomelo plants attract a lot of butterflies to lay eggs there, and as a result there are a lot of worms eating up the leaves. I caught 2 fat ones and now keeping them in a plastic container, feeding them with those ugly leaves that they had eaten halfway.

Soon they will turn into this. I wonder what colour will they be this time.

edit: you can find the photo here.

earth day

Θ

Do you know that tomorrow (22 April) is Earth Day?

The first Earth Day was held in 1970. The origin of Earth Day was from United States Senator Gaylord Nelson, who was outraged by what he saw after an oil spill off US coast in 1969. Earth Day is now observed in 175 countries.

So what you can do to help save our Earth?
Quite a bit of suggestions can be found here.
Yahoo has quite a bit of info too~

Most importantly, if you are an examiner in NUS, please recycle/reuse your past semester's exam paper, and if possible, reduce the number of questions.

(by the way the green theta is the logo for Earth Day)

filler

『
can you actually spot this secret message?

This is a filler.

』

gunman in nus

Exam preparation has made me very edgy.

So don't piss me off (by kissing or shaking legs or smoking or talking loudly while sharing study bench with me), if you don't want to see this happening in NUS...

ok fine I know some of you want to see this...

kissing in engineering (or engineering in kissing)

Why must the couple sharing the bench with me have to kiss as if they will suffocate if they don't french kiss for one minute?

Let's analyze this scenario. Assume the mouth to be a spherical pressure vessel with radius r and thickness t. Due to the sucking action of kissing, the vessel experiences a negative gage pressure p. The stress experienced by the wall of the mouth will be

So, as the kissing gets vigourous, the magnitude of the stress increases and thus when yield strength is reached, your mouth will rupture. People with small mouth (small r) and thick skin (big t) will be able to kiss more vigourously.

But most of the time, people with big mouth also have thick skin.

question about question

Please refer to Figure 1.
A big hoohaa is going on in the ME2 cohort after the ME2101 Fundamentals of Mechanical Design quiz yesterday. To put it simpler,

should examiner directly lift previous semester's tutorial question as quiz/test/exam question?

Other discontentments include:
1) the unannounced shortening of test duration from 2hr to 1.5hr;
2) inaudible voice of the invigilator;
3) question asking for product name (trademark) presented by external speaker. (that one I should have written down "CamWhore", then the marker feels high and give me marks for that)

camwhores in engineering

After looking at the cams for so many hours, I'm just one of the many camwhores in mechanical engineering.

cam
–noun
1. Machinery. a disk or cylinder having an irregular form such that its motion, usually rotary, gives to a part or parts in contact with it a specific rocking or reciprocating motion.

trendy engineering

Actually engineering can be quite trendy. Don't believe?


Louis Vuitton






Yves Saint Laurent






Centre Line


Dunno who copy who...

boeing 777 wing ultimate load test

For those who are saturated with Mechanics of Materials II, let me make it worse.

This more than 10 years old video shows Boeing testing its 777 jetliner's wings for failure.

"154..." BANG!
Did I see a yellow rubber duck?

engin guy in science

An Engineering student was sipping coffee and revising at a bench in Science Faculty. Along the way at different time, 2 cute girls sat down at the bench and study, and many more pretty girls came to ask the guy for direction to Level 1 Physics Lab (which is situated at Level 4, Block S12. Diao~)

Now which faculty should I go next?

today in history

On April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of Soviet Union became the first person to travel into space and the first person to orbit the Earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.

салют!

quote of the day

zhang minghui: 为什么她没有回你家?
me: 为什么她要回我家?
-- while alighting from bus 95 at Central Library

(chinese,
z: why aren't she going back to your place?
c: why must she go back to my place?)

engin snapple

ACHTUNG!

those who took the Engin club Welfare Exam Pack yesterday:

Remember to check the expiry date on the cap of the Diet Snapple from your Welfare Exam Pack. My bottle can't even last till my first paper...

Did they say "diet"?

toilet roll

Someone was commenting on how special the 3-ply Beautex tissue paper is.

Next, another person said his toilet paper is 3-ply as well, if not he may end up making a hole (in the toilet paper) when he wipes his ass.

Then, another said he usually covers the water surface in the toilet bowl with toilet paper to prevent splashing, and he lines the toilet bowl with toilet paper so that his poo won't stick to the toilet bowl.

We were talking about these during lunch at Arts' makeshift cafe.

the pay gone hiking

I just realised there are so many versions of the header pic...





Look at their smiles! (and best to be accompanied by this song)

This is like how George Orwell described the pigs increasing their own power, authority and benefits in Animal Farm.

Oopz I didn't say who's pig!
(pic from dk and snoookems)

童子尿 water bomb

When you were a kid, (or if you are a parent of a kid) have you experienced nature calling (aka high tide) and the toilet is nowhere near?

That day I went to Tampines Giant (no I couldn't find Ultraman or Godzilla) and near the toys section, I saw this family of 3 doing something at the corner. Curious me went to take a look and what I saw, the kid had just finished shh-shh-ing! Ok the mother was holding those fruit-&-vegetable section plastic bag with the golden liquid inside... at least they didn't let the kid pee in those drainage hole. -_-"

If the water bomb dropped onto the floor.... that's it.
(童子尿, Chinese for "virgin's urine")

tripping fluid mechanics

Q: What happens if you trip a laminar boundary layer at the leading edge?
A: You immediately get turbulent flow.

Q: What happens if you trip your fluid mechanics lecturer at the lecture theatre?
A: You immediately get into trouble.

4 billion years of evolution

NOTE: This video may be offensive for some people.

Late astronomer Carl Sagan talks about 4 billion years of evolution.

I thought some people look like baboon.

greetings from earth

各位都好吧, 我们都很想念你们,
有空请来这儿来玩
a message to extraterrestrials,
on NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1970s

(Chinese, "Hope everyone's well. We are thinking about you all. Please come here to visit when you have time")
Listen to it here. Now don't blame the aliens when they come visit Earth.

Listen to the other 54 greetings in different languages here. I tell you the Hokkien one is the best.

Got a feeling NASA bluffed Chinese women into saying those greetings without letting them know about the mission.

debu note 死肥笔记

disclaimer: I have nothing against fat people.
Now whose name should I write on lecture note?

soft drink for thought

If a famous soft drink can reach the most remote, far-flung corners of the world, how is it that basic medical supplies can't?
--- Dr Margaret Chan
Director-General, World Health Organisation

and last year before Dr Chan took over as director-general...

If a soft drink can get to the farthest corner of the world, why can’t we get our drugs and our bed nets?
--- Dr Margaret Chan

ok she doesn't like soft drink.

the jet engine

Muhahaha, I just got my hands on the 5th edition of the book The Jet Engine by Rolls Royce. It has my favourite Trent 800 engine! (I'm talking as if it's some toys that come with the book)

According to the introduction,

This book has been written to provide a simple and self-contained description of the working and underlying principles of the aero gas turbine engine. The use of complex formulae and the language of the specialist have been avoided to[...]

I love engineering best when there's no equation. But doesn't the essence of engineering lie in the equations?

There are some pretty neat animations in Rolls Royce's site, such as flying through a meat mincer jet engine.

stroking a condenser mic

Some people just like to play with the microphones at LT7A.

So after Maths lecture this morning, hj's itchy fingers tapped on the tip of the mic but there was no sound. There was a red light on the mic though. liau with his expertise in AV (adult video audio visual) told hj that it's a condenser mic and then he demonstrated by stroking the shaft of the mic to and fro very much like... eek.

There was sound.

who the *beep*

Who the *beep* keep going to google and search for my name?

Don't hide, I know who you are.

(did I just contradict myself?)