Distracted… Friday, Nov 20 2009 

It’s almost 2 a.m. Examinations in less than 2 days time… Yet all i can think of is…

muse concert @ BIG NIGHT OUT 2010!!!!

woohoo i’m finally going for their concert after totally missing them back in 2007. i got jeron to go with me and i am now hoping he will agree to buy the mosh pit tickets instead of the balcony seated tickets.

it’s a long way to go still. but tmr i am going to prepare myself by blasting the two muse albums on my cd player continuously while studying for my exams. woot.

Not Much Updates.. Thursday, Nov 12 2009 

Yea, that’s because I’m really busy the past few weeks. FYP I HAVENT TOUCHED IN WEEKS. (i hope my prof doesn’t read this, nah i know he won’t.)

Rushing project presentations and reports due next week. Studied for project engineering test. (Although i still could find time to keep up with Big Bang Theory and South Park.)

The only exam I have this semester is engineering professionalism. But that doesn’t mean I’m free during december. Gotta rush FYP, and BEGIN THE REPORT since my friend is submitting the report first draft tomorrow and I haven’t even started zzzz.

Yup, busy. And kinda stressed.

Oh yes, and I tried Left 4 dead 2 demo on my comp. New maps, new characters, new monsters, new items. But basically gameplay is not changed at all. There is a new scavenger gamemode that reviewers rave about being the element that makes l4d2 worth buying. But that is not available in the demo. And I wonder why they allow campaign in demo and not scavenger, since the bulk of us have tried l4d before, and would have expected to play something new and different in l4d2, so logically speaking, they should let us try scavenger right?

yea, this post is absolutely unnecessary and disjointed, much like my brain thought process right now ahaha.

Ok back to completing my optimization of healthcare locations in singapore presentation slides and basis of design for infant milk powder storage tank facility. zzzz.

L4D2 Sunday, Nov 1 2009 

Is that it? I hope not! This certainly doesn’t warrant a sequel!

Time Management Saturday, Oct 31 2009 

One thing’s for sure. No more appearing online / busy / away until I have done what I need to do. MSN is itself an inherent great time-waster. And now you get people msg-ing you to go out spontaneously, at night. Ok I don’t mean this is a bad thing, I used to love being called to go out for supper / drinking at night. But now it seems I can’t reject even though I have so much work to do, even though I have to wake up tomorrow morning. There is always a reason to go out. And when I say no they will always say “wah lau you not brother enough la…” But I”m pretty sure if I call them up to meet up early morning at 8 am they will also say no. II only have one request, don’t call me up at night while I’m in a sleeping mood and ask me to go out drinking, and especially not on a damn Saturday night because Sunday, for me, is a long day. Sigh. There are always reasons… And I am so sleepy now but I am waiting to go drinking with them until 1 am. It’s so unnecessary. But I can’t tell them that because one of them always reply “I also got a lot of work to do, I also wake up very early”, i.e. he doesn’t really listen to whatever I say anyways.

So the only way to avoid this is to avoid being online. Right? I hope none of the people involved reads this lol. We’re still kind of good friends but sometimes some things should really take higher priority. Erm. Like my project engineering report which I HAVE DONE ALMOST NOTHING AFTER ONE DAY OF GOOGLING RESEARCH ZOMG. Ok they’re calling me now i shld go down now k bye.

How to understand Batch Scheduling Thursday, Oct 29 2009 

This fairly good analogy was coined by the PPG.

Ok now. Imagine there are 4 of us who need to go to the toilet. We must pass through 3 steps, opening the door, using the cubicle, and washing our hands. Only one of us can occupy a step at any point in time (since the toilet only has only one door, one cubicle, and one sink).

We all spend different amount of times opening the door (some are stronger than others), in the cubicle, as well as on the sink (some are health freaks while others wash hands for procedures sake only.)

Also, some of us can spend a long time in the cubicle, but a very short time washing hands, while others can use the cubicle in a very short period of time but take a long time opening the door, for example.

If you succeed in opening the door, but the cubicle is in use, you are stuck in the door stage. If you finished using the cubicle but someone is still washing the hands, you must remain in the cubicle since there is only one sink.

Finally, we are not allowed to skip stages or do the stages in different orders. There is no way we can wash hands first before using the cubicle, or using the cubicle before opening the door.

So based on the data of the time each of us take to open the door, use the cubicle, and wash our hands. We must sequence the order of using the toilet, (i.e. who gets to go first, who gets to go next etc.), such as to minimize the total time spent using the toilet.

Actually I think only engineering students can understand and appreciate ahaha.

Count thy blessings Tuesday, Oct 27 2009 

A totally screwed up exxon interview, being in a project group where you hardly get noticed, an FYP that is far from finished………………….

But yea, it can be a lot worse… right?

What God Wants You to Know… Friday, Oct 23 2009 

Wow… really? By clicking on the facebook application, you receive a message from God? Seems like it is just a horoscope application masquerading as a religious one. C’mon, read the Bible, what God wants you to know is all written inside there.

So, let the waters rise Tuesday, Oct 6 2009 

Don’t know where to begin
Its like my world’s caving in
And I try but I can’t control my fear
Where do I go from here?

Sometimes its so hard to pray
When You feel so far away
But I am willing to go
Where you want me to
God, I trust You

I will swim in the deep
‘Cuz You’ll be next to me
You’re in the eye of the storm
And the calm of the sea
You’ll never out of reach

God, You know where I’ve been
You were there with me then
You were faithful before
You’ll be faithful again
I’m holding Your hand

There’s a raging sea
Right in front of me
Wants to pull me in
Bring me to my knees
So let the waters rise
If You want them to
I will follow You
I will follow You
I will follow You

God Your love is enough
You will pull me through
I’m holding onto You
God Your love is enough
I will follow You
I will follow You

Let the waters rise – Mikeschair

Lame. Saturday, Oct 3 2009 

Guess the following MRT stations:

1) Z Y X W V ???
2) I got $1, you got $1, he got $1, she got $1.
3) Was once a teletubbie.

(Ans: Yew Tee, Commonwealth, Expo)

Three 24 year-olds spent half the journey home trying to figure these out and another spent half the journey trying to think of new ones. What’s going on man??

FYP Blues Wednesday, Sep 30 2009 

I think I have never felt this helpless regarding studies ever. My FYP is seriously stuck. Never foresee this problem to come when I signed up for it.

Using some really $@#*()&*()@#% software that is supposed to make simulating fluid flow easy. But it is ANYTHING but easy. Numerous issues, like convergent problems, unexpected trends, inconsistent results, occur ALL THE TIME. And the thing is it seems like no one can help. Everyone forgot about fluid mechanics, since it is like the most difficult module in chem eng, my mentor is busy with his work, my prof ask me to read textbook, and I did, and spent countless hours searching through journals after journals for any, ANY relationship between pressure drop versus flow rate. I found NONE.

And 10 weeks have passed. I am still stuck at the very freaking beginning. My prof has told 4 other people what they have done is enough to let them get an A, 2 of them he spoke to them IN MY PRESENCE. One of them offered to do extra, the prof says oh it’s ok, no need to do so much and she actually commented “Hurrr.. really… but it’s soo interesting..”… IN MY PRESENCE. My mentor himself got worried and offered to do for me because he knows if by next week it’s not done, I will never have enough time to finish.

And because this software uses up so much memory (quad core 16 gig ram can take 1 hour to run) I have to use a private workstation to run my simulations and it has been occupied since monday morning.. until now. Wednesday afternoon. Meaning I can’ t do ANY simulations, except for really really coarse rough ones in my comp which is of almost zilch use. In my frustration I asked my mentor if it is possible for one person to use this computer for 3 days in a row, his reply is simply everyone has his or her own urgent job to finish there is nothing my fyp prof can do. Zzz. I’m not even complaining, but he apparently perceived my question to be a complaint. Wth sigh.

I am so annoyed and helpless now. My FYP really may just be the one module that fails me after four years of study.

Praying to God to enable me to wait on Him. I should know that everything is under His control. I can find peace with this thought knowing He is always with me. But sometimes storms like these can just drown out His presence in my life. Still, just knowing Him makes a difference.

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