quote of the day

Can be exam question.
Nah I'm joking.
But joking doesn't mean cannot come out in exam.
-- Prof Wong YS
Department of Mechanical Engineering
NUS
during ME3261 Principles of CAD/CAM lecture

So, is it going to come out in exam??? -_-"

vulgar quote of the day

Wednesday, 2:30pm, gum lan.

There is a cafe in the faculty called Olive Cove, which has somewhat become our project group's meeting place. One groupmate asked what is olive, another replied "橄榄", which is the Chinese word for olive.

橄榄 is pronounced as gan3 lan3 in Mandarin.

Then the groupmate asked what is gum lan.

quotes of the day

Hey what's that!!?
-- Danny, Chief Barista of Geek Terminal

I was wearing my Starbucks T-shirt.
*shrug* I do wear NUS t-shirt into NTU.

笑, 笑多一点
(Chinese, "laugh, laugh more")
-- A girl at the bus stop who was also wearing a Starbucks T-shirt.

Her friend kept giggling after they saw me.

Had a very satisfying Saturday today. In the morning met up with the tech65 crew and fellow bloggers nicole and dk at Geek Terminal. Their funny conversations could have filled up one blog. Then in the afternoon, had some shopping and dessert with hot blogger girls rinaz and mintea. Happening huh, Monday went out with 2 engineering girls, Saturday went out with 2 blogger girls.

quote of the day

Don't worry about the expression here.
It will come out in the tutorial problem.
-- Prof Wong YS
Department of Mechanical Engineering
NUS

You know, when you spend too much time working with metals, you get a lot of ironies.

quote of the day

Project is very important.
It is the difference between A+ and A.
-- Assoc Prof Naresh Kumar
Department of Industrial & System Engineering
NUS

quote of the day

me: ooi, I tell you first hor, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to chase you.
cute NTU girl: why won't I think of that?

Let's just say that the 2 of us talk weirdly all the time.

This time round, we met behind bars. At the MRT station.

Should I have tapped my card and take the train with her?

quotes of the day

nadnut: (at chillycraps) I'll fork you!

nadnut: Where's Jean?
dk: I'm wearing it.

Had a very fun time with blogger friends at El Sheikh, a Lebanese restaurant at Pahang Street. It was my first time trying Lebanese food and it was very special, especially the appetizer.

The non-alcoholic Bavaria beer was a bit disappointing though.

quote of the day

Adam and Eve were nanotechnologists, they created everything from sperm, from DNA!
-- Physicist Andre Geim

quote of the day

nicholl: you very the pv leh!
chow: pv?
nicholl: perverted.... pressure volume!

pressure volume as in the famous ideal gas equation PV=nRT, or the PV diagram.
Nicholl graduated from NUS Mechanical Engineering, specialising in Energy and Thermal Process.

See that's the kind of conversation you have when you put 2 mechanical types together.

(had a great coffee session with Meder, Alex and Nicholl, my climbing gang. Meder just came back from Zurich and is here for a conference. Alex and Nicholl are still Alex and Nicholl. Nicholl kept staring at me. And call me perverted?)

3.14 quotes of the day

chillycraps: I don't like to work with π (pi)
mr fong: Why? You not hungry?

mr fong: I know why they put pi already.
It's food for thought.

mr fong is a maths tutor.

quote of the day

Or you can give your classic WTF face, the one you always give at project meetings.
-- yk

So that's how my project groupmate views me.

quote of the day

... everyone knows how to BS. BS is making stuff up, telling stories, trying to amuse, and is definitely irreverent. BS knows no decorum, no bound, no fear, and no respect. We all do it. BS is fun, BS is playful, BS is creativity without constraints.

Do rocket scientist BS? They sure do! They love to do it and they love to hear it. Why do they like sci-fi so much?

-- Jim Longuski, Ph.D.
The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist

quote of the day

m says:

bee kay is dee kay sister is it?

BK = Burger King
DK = [for me to know, for you to find out]

Was having fun playing with acronyms like Ant Yew Ass, Pea Eye Eee and Kay Eff See.
(dk: no offense ok!)

quote of the day

We design a jet engine with 100 million parts, zero failure rate, in 18 months.
You take 6 years for a chair?!?!?!
-- Assistant Professor Matthew
Pennsylvania State University

quote of the day

people stop buying your product
cos they are dead
-- Assistant Professor Matthew
Pennsylvania State University

Talking about product safety.

quote of the day

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
-- George Bernard Shaw

quote of the day

Yesterday is History.
Tomorrow is a Mystery,
and Today is a gift.
That’s why we call it the Present.
-- anonymous

Treasure your gift.

quotes of the day

yk:(via sms at 11:38am)
u want ur notes back? If not I recycle already :-D

yk:(via msn at 6:40pm)
lol ur hr notes can sell for 10 cts
hahha
to karang guni

(actually he sold it together with his own notes)

I passed my HR notes to yk since I took the module last semester and yk is taking it this semester.

"HR" is not some sophisticated acronym for some engineering stuff. If it was my engineering notes, I would have wanted them back by hook or by crook.

quotes of the day

power and greed are the worst things in life
-- Prof Liew talking about Power Grid (Greed)

Don't go and kill your mother unnecessarily.
-- Prof Liew talking about wiring up the live wire and neutral wire wrongly
Do you know that if you connect these 2 wires wrongly, your appliance can still work, but when there is a leakage, hoho...

quote of the day

hindsight is always 20/20
-- chillycraps to self