Friday, July 13, 2007

Graduation


ps: I know this is kind of late, but I have actually written it on graduation day . I just did not publish it till now for whatever reason...



Four years after our formal inauguration,
we hereby gather here once again for our commencement.
Some of us may wonder why isn't it called convocation?
To put it simply lets just call it our graduation!

Over these years we formed many friendships,
with some even developing into romantic relationships.
Hope that our bonds continues to run deep,
as we leave with many wonderful memories that we will keep.

Funny stories to tell many years later,
us being part of the same alma mater.
To the real world now, let us prove our mettle!
Jobstreet here we come, don't forget your cover letters.

Monday, July 09, 2007

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

your future in your hands?

Is your future really in your hands? Hmmm... I would like to think so. However, at this point of time, this statement seemed to slowly fade away from the truth as I see my future slowly slipping away from my control.

Why? I feel very tired of playing this what do you want to be, what are your career objectives kinda game. What is wrong? Am i too weak, too sheltered, ignorant or afraid? Fuck I feel lousy.

I am applying for engineering positions not because I like/love engineering, but simply because I feel that I have no other fucking options. I don't like approaching people, being pretentious and try to sell them stuff. So sales-related jobs like insurance and financial planning is out for me. I thought of working in a bank but no-one would interview me. I think its because I have absolutely no finance or banking or what kinda business background or even general knowledge. What else can I do man. How?

Now I fear forever being condemned to a technical position which I won't be good at and suffering with a job that I will not like for the rest of my life. This sucks. It is destroying my life, robbing me of my sleep, and turning me into a moody, melancholic piece of shit that no-one likes to talk to.

ok I am ranting, shoot me.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

You might be an engineer if...

If you introduce your wife as " mylady@home.wife"

If your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner

If you can quote scenes from any Monty Python movie

If you want an 8X CDROM for Christmas

If Dilbert is your hero

If you stare at an orange juice container because it says CONCENTRATE

If you can name 6 Star Trek episodes

If the only jokes you receive are through e-mail

If your wrist watch has more computing power than a 486DX-50

If your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place

If you look forward to Christmas only to put together the kids' toys

If you use a CAD package to design your son's Pine Wood Derby car

If you have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts

If, at Christmas, it goes without saying that you will be the one to find the burnt-out bulb in the string

If you window shop at Radio Shack

If your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies

If you have "Dilbert" comics displayed anywhere in your work area

If you carry on a one-hour debate over the expected results of a test that actually takes five minutes to run

If you are convinced you can build a phazer out of your garage door opener and your camera's flash attachment

If you don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is

If you have modified your can-opener to be microprocessor driven

If you know the direction the water swirls when you flush

If you own "Official Star Trek" anything

If you have ever taken the back off your TV just to see what's inside

If a team of you and your co-workers have set out to modify the antenna on the radio in your work area for better reception

If you thought the concoction ET used to phone home was stupid

If you ever burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project

If you are currently gathering the components to build your own nuclear reactor

If you own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts

If you have never backed-up your hard drive

If you are aware that computers are actually only good for playing games, but are afraid to say it out loud

If you truly believe aliens are living among us

If you have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance

If you have ever purchased an electronic appliance "as-is"

If you see a good design and still have to change it

If the salespeople at Circuit City can't answer any of your questions

If you still own a slide rule and you know how to work it

If the thought that a CD could refer to finance or music never enters your mind

If you own a set of itty-bitty screw drivers, but you don't remember where they are

If you rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires

If you have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal

If you have more toys than your kids

If you need a checklist to turn on the TV

If you have introduced your kids by the wrong name

If your wife thinks your taste in ties is bizarre

If you have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work

If your I.Q. number is bigger than your weight

If the microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work and you rush up to the front to fix it

If you can remember 7 computer passwords but not your anniversary

If you have memorized the program schedule for the Discovery channel and have seen most of the shows already

If you have ever owned a calculator with no equal key and know what RPN stands for

If your father sat 2 inches in front of your family's first color TV with a magnifying lens to see how they made the colors, and you grew up thinking that was normal

If you know how to take the cover off of your computer, and what size screw driver to use

If you can type 70 words a minute but can't read your own handwriting

If people groan at the party when you pick out the music

If you can't remember where you parked your car for the 3rd time this week

If people hound you for pocket protectors at Halloween time

If you did the sound system for your senior prom

If your checkbook always balances

If your girlfriend says the way you dress is no reflection on her

If your wristwatch has more buttons than a telephone

If you have more friends on the Internet than in real life

If you thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers

If you think your computer looks better without the cover

If you think that when people around you yawn, its because they didn't get enough sleep

If your wife hasn't the foggiest idea what you do at work

If you spend more on your home computer than your car

If you know what http:/ stands for

If you've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio

If you have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage

If your favorite part of the 6 o clock news is comparing their latest satellite weather picture with yours

If your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory

If your lap-top computer costs more than your car

If your 4 basic food groups are: 1.Caffeine 2.Fat 3.Sugar 4.Chocolate

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Transformers

Who's interested?

Friday, June 29, 2007

camera test






bored and decided to see if my phone camera really sucks that bad or not....


Monday, June 25, 2007

like a rolling stone...



How does it feel

How does it feel

To be on your own

With no direction home

Like a complete unknown

Like a rolling stone?

Saturday, June 23, 2007

sinking

I don't want to be mediocre....
The truth hurts...



finally.........................................................................................

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Brave New World

These guys rocked my socks off!!!!! 

Thursday, June 07, 2007

free bird



If I leave here tomorrow
Would you still remember me?
For I must be travelling on, now,
'Cause there's too many places I've got to see.
But, if I stayed here with you, girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.

Bye, bye, its been a sweet love.
Though this feeling I can't change.
But please don't take it badly,
'Cause Lord knows I'm to blame.
But, if I stayed here with you girl,
Things just couldn't be the same.
Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord help me, I can't change.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

finally exercising...

Ok, today I finally stop procrastinating, decided that my stomach is too big, ass is too heavy, and I am turning into a couch potato (Hey i finished 22 episodes of Prison Break in less than 2 days).
So...

I headed down to the gym.

So when was the last time? Ok. I cannot remember the last time. Better start now than never, I don't want to be looking like a 50 year old when I am 35.

Did my usual weights, only this time I have to take about 20kg off every station. Lost it. Hougang gym has very friendly staff, a lot of people, not many equipment and absolutely no babes. Being alone can be therapeutic sometimes. I do my weights, listen to my ipod, and observe the people around me (ya I am kapoh lah, whatever).

There is this nice young chap teaching an 40 year old auntie how to work the abdominal station. A old Ah Seng with damn damn alot of tattoos over his old body (Think Michael Schofield from prison break). He seemed to be a regular there smiling at the ppl around him, saying hi-s here and there, something like... Oei hor bo... Oei.... long time never see i tot u see liao. Judging by his looks and size... he is definitely someone you don't want to make enemies with. Then, there are the usual school boys and school girls which are fathom are the more sporty types. I mean I don't recall heading to my neighborhood gym during my JC days. I use the school gym not so regularly.

So after the gym comes the 2.4km run. The last time was back in NUS year 1? Gasp! I picked the stadium to carry out this dreaded deed as the treadmill makes me dizzy and I if (touch wood) i collapse, there will be a lot of people to help me (I don't need to mention that the stadium too, is crowded, do I?). And so the marathon, opps no, short run commences.

Round 1: I am starting to feel the strains of the inner systems of my not so yet aging body.

Round 2: Shuccckssss do i really have to do 4 more rounds. My legs are wobbly from the earlier workout. Yes, I like to work on everything in the gym including legs and not like most other people, focus only on they upper bodies

Round 3: Halfway there! Focus Focus...... Ipod is playing my favorite song. I am feeling much healthier now thank you. I just want to breathe.

Round 4: #$!#%@!%!!!!! I think my lungs have shrunken over the years.

Round 5: even more $%@%^#@!!!!

Round 6: Go go go go go .... even more #%@%!!! Sprint Sprint.... in-subordination of my two lower limbs. Lungs screaming for air. I refused to breathe through my mouth. Weather is HOT..... finishing line is CLOSE.

Stopwatch timing? OH MY GOD... it shall be my little secret. I don't want to have to disappear from the face of the earth with shame.

Ok my body is seriously screwed up.... Time for another session sometime later this week.





Saturday, May 26, 2007

Milo Dino


Ok so I got bored and decided to make myself a nice cup of Milo dinosaur. Basically, thats a huge, heap of Milo powder on top of your standard milo beverage.

What happens now is that unlike being in a coffeeshop, I have no luxury of a straw. So what I did was to put my lips on the edge of the cup and duh, tried drink my milo the traditional way. What happened next was that I need oxygen and my nose happens to breath in as well and before you know, I was choking with milo dust. Cough......

I can tell you, that was the most unpleasant experience ever. To have milo in your lungs! Chough...wheeeze... choke.... breahhh...
Why do I have this feeling that my life is turning into a comedy sitcom.

Monday, May 21, 2007

Mayoniase
















Fool enough to almost be it
Cool enough to not quite see it
Doomed
Pick your pockets full of sorrow
And run away with me tomorrow
June

We'll try and ease the pain
But somehow we'll feel the same
Well, no one knows
Where our secrets go

I send a heart to all my dearies
When your life is so, so dreary
Dream
I'm rumored to the straight and narrow
While the harlots of my perils
Scream

And I fail
But when I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will

Mother weep the years I'm missing
All our time can't be given
Back
Shut my mouth and strike the demons
That cursed you and your reasons
Out of hand and out of season
Out of love and out of feeling
So bad

When I can, I will
Words defy the plans
When I can, I will

Fool enough to almost be it
And cool enough to not quite see it
And old enough to always feel this
Always old, I'll always feel this

No more promise no more sorrow
No longer will I follow
Can anybody hear me
I just want to be me
When I can, I will
Try to understand
That when I can, I will

job interview

Going for another job interview tomorrow: Prudential Management Trainee. Wondered what would the job specifications and requirements be? Got to find out tomorrow! Wish me luck!

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Waking up to a kaleidoscopic mind,
a heart of emptiness u will find.
With every hour the clocks chime,
sometimes i felt really lost in time.

Come on does it really matter,
when everything seemed torn and tattered.
A lonely soul in a group of endless chatter,
always tasteless although from the same platter.

Clinging on to that little hope,
something small but it helps me cope.
Fear engulfs everytime I probe,
it felt like being on the wrong end of that breaking rope.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Monday, April 30, 2007

Bored....

Boring boring boring boring boring....

Its 1.39am and yet i can't get to sleep... too much on my mind...
Seems like nature has a way of throwing shit at me...

Its late into the night.
Sleepless despite trying with all my might.
Is it really worth the fight?
Or is there nothing i can do but to take flight?

Saturday, April 28, 2007

yay!

Yay!!! I have finished my final exams. Bye bye NUS, I will miss you, i think. Four years of Uni-education over, past, just like that.
Met up with the RH gang yesterday. We had great steak at Black Angus followed by some coffee at the Starbucks beside the resturant. Black Angus still has the greatest steak in town. Noone else beats them i guess. Si bei bestest!
Spent sometime catching up and talking about the good old freshman days in RH. Pretty funny when we look back on our past "exploits". How time flies, it had been 3 years?!! Kinda miss those days... Its funny how much of a coincidence the four of us got together. I know Eugene from Sispec. Actually i only got to know him because both of us recoursed BSLC and we ended up in the same section, sharing our stupid nonsense. The "must be us" syndrome. I never knew I would still be in touch with him after army, so its kinda amazing. Then, Engkiat was my JC classmate. One of the dudes I can talk to. Oh yeah we both share the same love for the band The Smashing Pumpkins.
So the story starts off with Engkiat and I planning to be roommates in RH. Somehow he got in and i didn't. So Kiat is left without a roommate and me without a room. Meanwhile, Eugene got a room too and was basically spamming the whole NUS freshman community looking for a roommate. I saw the mail and go hey... isn't that my sispec buddy eugene. So i arranged for Kiat and Eugene to be roommates. Both of them got a room in RH and their neighbour so happened to be Rayner, Kiat's army camp-mate. Ray got a room, but did not have a roommate. Meanwhile my appeal was successful and heyo, Kiat suggested why not Ray and I be roomates. Ok so we ended up as room mates. The rest, was just history....
Looking forward to the next meetup.

Monday, April 23, 2007

A Certain Romance



You know, oh it's a funny thing you know

We'll tell 'em if you like

We'll tell 'em all tonight

They'll never listen Cause their minds are made up

And course it's all okay to carry on that way

I said no Oh no!

Oh you won't get me to go!

Anywhere, said anywhere I won't go

Oh no no!

Monday, April 09, 2007

melancholic raphsody

Pictures the world forgets...

Why does my heart,
feel so bad?
Why does my soul,
feel so sad?

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Phone prank

This is hilarious! This guy, fed up with calls from telemarketers, decided to play a prank on the next guy.

Poor dude over the phone. =) happy april fools!
http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

Saturday, March 31, 2007

rain

Lets go out and sing in the rain
amid the torrents we might just forget our pain
don't live your life trapped by a chain
throw out all your feelings of disdain

Raindrops platter
platter flatter platter flatter
nothing else matters
heavy rains drowning out the chatter
oh winds blowing, rivers flowing what a hassle

Open the umbrellas, find some shelter!
run run run!!!! Beware of puddles
Oh you forgot your umbrella, what a muddle!
its there somewhere, he cries as he fumble

Up above, the clouds huddle
Booming thunder as the heavens grumble
under the shelter the people jumble
with cold winds, they all cuddle

Friday, March 30, 2007


A printer consists of 3 main parts:
The case, The jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

damn the thesis!

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Very Nicceeeeeeeee!


Hey Clarance!!! Veryyyyyy NIceeeeeee.
Of cos mi want mi Borat movie. He my favourite hero. I hope his gahmen no execute such nice man. Veryyyyy funnnyyyy Veryyyy niceeeee.
Fyp no nice so mi need some funny humour. Mi so many stress mi feel like sinking into the toilet. There are no goats here....

Sunday, March 25, 2007

THEY'LL TELL YOU THAT YOU NEED SIX HOURS OF SLEEP A DAY.
WE SAY THAT SLEEP IS ONLY FOR WUSSIES.
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM N'US.

Technical paper

This is what is supposed to be on the bottom left corner of my technical paper.

A. Leong is a defunct final year student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Singapore. (email: sianz@nus.edu.sg). He is a former active member of the CCE club, a voluntary information sharing organization of academic materials within campus. Currently, he has scraped through his final year project and is actively looking for his direction in life while struggling with unemployment.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

one fucking thing after another.....

Alright.... just when i thought i finally had a gadet that is going to last me more than 2 years.... some mother fucker son of a bitch assholic wanker stole my ipod while i was in the toilet.

Ok i admit, i am eyeing on that cute red nano... but to get it stolen is too much. Don't let me catch your ass, i swear to god i will make u feel sorry.

May your hands rot and ears bleed. Cross the road with my noise isolating earphones and get hit by a bus, then fly to the other side of the road and get run over by a lorry. Pedestrians walking past will laugh at your sorry pancaked ass.

Argh... ok thats cruel. but the world is cruel anyway and i am just being consistent.

Now i will have to waste my time on every single ipod lucky draw in the world.

Thursday, March 22, 2007

What is research?


Well... it is just one fucking thing after another.

Yes thats what it is!

First, you do something like literature survey. This is a painsaking process of deciphering all the crap shit other researchers have published over the years ever since the scientific community invented something called the Nobel Prize. These research papers include fanciful photographs and other complicated mathematical models or simulations. Sometimes it is highly suspected that these papers are written for the sake of giving out phDs or for the university to become so called "world class".

Next, you need to do experiments. These experiments sometimes consists of replicating experiments that had been done by other researchers to see if they are cheating, faking results, manipulating data, very lucky, or the more probable reason, to see if u are just plain stupid. Most of the time, you get wierd data. If u are a scientist, then great... you could have discovered something new, something that will contribute to mankind and you might just win the nobel prize. BUT if u are a fyp student, most probably its because the equipment u are using has its limitations (in layman's term: Fucking lousy) or that you are just not blessed with good luck.

Then u write your thesis, 100 pages of nonsense that your prof most probably won't be interested in. Why? Because it is full of procedural elaboration, failure descriptions, non-conclusive analysis and maybe lot of ideas in the future work section.

What to do with unaccomplished objectives?! Simple,
Step1: Remove them from the first chapter under the experimental objectives list.
Step2: Put them under the future work list.

Get the idea?!

2 more weeks!!! Cheers to the end of torture... welcome to exams and then unemployment...

Well, it really is ... one fucking thing after another.....

Monday, March 19, 2007

I-Rack

Introducing the all new I-Rack!

Sunday, March 18, 2007

anger sadness anger sadness...
what is this madness?

labouring emotions...
and just going through the motions...
will i ever find my happy potion?

I am morphing into such a horrible person,
soon no one will tolerate my nonsense.
when that day comes i will be all alone,
having no way where i can atone.

I am angry and sad,
worried and mad!
I close my eyes but cannot sleep.
I sit around and my thoughts run deep.

I tell myself that it is just me.
why don't i just let it be?
but deep right down i lack belief.
I hope that someday i can find relief!

I am just here to say my piece
I really do hope that its not just a tease.
But i know i am hard to please
and maybe till death will i finally find inner peace.l

Thursday, March 15, 2007

sickfar

Its seven plus and i am still here, at my cicfar lab. I am feeling tired, brain dead, sian, hungry and questioning my miserable existence in this world. Ok, i am exaggerating. There are only two words to describe my predacement.....

FUCKED UP!!!!!!

Sorry for the vulgarities. I am trying hard not to swear on my blog as from the time it got re-vamped. (In case you never noticed, the new blue background?!) But sometimes, there is just no better word.

Stuff i did today....

  1. Clean wafers
  2. Spin resist - have to redo it 2 times because somehow the coating turns out uneven. Redoing step 2 requires step 1 to be repeated as well.
  3. I-V measurements at the probe station - have to redo it 1 time because the PA did not register my values on the disk!!! %@$%^@^!!!
  4. Annealing of nanowire at the furnace.

The only consolation is that i am able to get some results from the annealing step which i did yesterday... :) So life ain't such a piece of **** after all.

Ok, crossing my fingers!!!! Let me have sufficient results and success by this sunday so that i will be able to wrap my FYP up!!!

GO GO GO !!!!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

The feeling of dread


Monday blues on a Sunday evening? This is something that I had not have for some time now. Its kinda strange. I am dreading something, but WHAT?

It must be the thought of having to spend another day at CICFAR (read SICKfar) lab again tomorrow.

The thought of having to drag myself out of bed at 8am.

The thought of having to plan my tasks and experiments and trying to be as productive as possible again.

The thought of sitting through lectures listening to things that i have no interest for.

The thought of needing to go through corporate pamphlets and websites to look for suitable jobs.

The thought of needing to submit my CV online with no confirmation of even being eligible for an interview.

The thought of the sick, lonely, boring and mind-numbing life of an engineer that awaits me in the next few months.

Sometimes you want to be alone, yet sometimes you can feel alone in a crowd...

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

melancholy


to be disappointed or to disappoint?
lost hope or false hope?
the delivered or the deliverer?
to die or to suffer?
the convicted innocent or the guilty escapist?
the outcast or the lonely jester?
to cry or to hold back tears?
the condemned or the executor?
the hospice or the mortuary?
the alone or the lonely?
the ill-fated or the guilty?
the receiver or the deliver of sad news?
the pain or the wait?

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Downtown

are you feeling sian/sad? pox this is for you.



When your alone and life is making you lonely you can always go,
downtown.
When you've got worries all the noise and the hurry seems to help I know,
downtown

Just listen to music of the traffic in the city.
Linger on the side walk where the neon lights are pretty.
How can you lose?

The lights are much brighter there you can forget all your troubles forget all your cares so go downtown
things will be great when your downtown no finer place for sure downtown everythings waiting for you

Don't hang around and let your problems sorround you there are movie shows,
downtown.
Maybe you know some little places to go to where they never close,
downtown.
Just listen to the rythm of the gentle Basa Nova ,
you'll be dancing with 'em too before the night is over.
Happy again.

The lights are much brighter there you can forget all your troubles forget all your cares and go downtown where all the lights are bright downtown waiting for you tonight downtown you're going to be alright now.

And you might find somebody kind to help and understand you.
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to
guide them along.
So maybe I'll see you there,
we can forget all our troubles forget all our cares.

So go downtown things will be great when your downtown don't wait a minute for downtown everythings waiting for you.

Thursday, February 01, 2007


Last night I had a dream about you
In this dream I'm dancing right beside you
And it looked like everyone was having fun
the kind of feeling I've waited so long

Don't stop come a little closer
As we jam the rythm gets stronger
There's nothing wrong with just a little little fun
We were dancing all night long

The time is right to put my arms around you
You're feeling right
You wrap your arms around too
But suddenly I feel the shining sun
Before I knew it this dream was all gone

Ooh I don't know what to do
About this dream and you
I wish this dream comes true

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Never Without You

Thanks to Arpan, i finally got hold of this song, Never without you.

For the sake of non-beatles fans, this song is written by ex-beatle Ringo Starr in tribute to his good friend and ex-bandmate, George Harrison who passed away in 2001 from cancer.




Here's an undated picture of the duo: George playing the guitar with Ringo on drums.

The lyrics for this song is simply heartwarming, touching and at times, kinda sad.

Rest in peace George,
your song will play on without you and this world won't forget about you.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Prison Break

This is an ultimately cool and dangerously addictive tv series since LOST. In fact, I am so totally addicted to it that I had finished the whole of season one in a matter of days. Yeah baby, once u press that play button, you just can't stop.

Michael Scofield is such a genius, planning his escape in minute detail. All the painstaking work he did just to get his brother, Lincoln Burrows out of death row. Every character has got their little history, everybody who wants to get out have their own personal reasons.

For LOST, i like the mystery and the suspense. For Prison Break, i love the action and the ingenuity. One thing about Prison Break though, i would prefer it to have a little more character development. Somewhat like LOST. But, then again, every TV series has its own unique draw. Whatever it is, i just can't wait to start watching Prison Break2 and Lost3!!!


This show really makes me feel like robbing the 7-11 store in my neighbourhood with my electric shaver and do my little own prison break out of this place.....
Of course, i will need to google the blueprints for this facility first!!! On 2nd thought, maybe not! Cause i hate needles and probably can't stand tatooing my whole body if, i mean IF i managed to get the blueprints off the net.... Furthermore, there is no Abruzzi in Changi.....

Blah.... Looks like i will just have to be contend with my unexciting life in reality and just continue working on that CV of mine and searching for potential employers on JobsDB.com

Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Tale of Peter Rabbit


I must say i really like the movie Miss Potter. This movie is about an author of children's literature from the early 1900s. I particularly like the sets and the costumes in the movie, very Victorian.

I am sure most of us have at least some memory of Peter Rabbit back from our childhood days. Be it our daily reading books or our bed time stories, its nice to see them back in this movie. Its hard to believe that the first edition of this book is actually published in 1902!!!! Yes.... and its published in colour! Very cool.....

Anyway, the original 1902 copy is now a collectors item and the last time i checked it out on the net, it is worth more then US $8000.

For those without deep pockets, there is a movie commemorative version selling for about SDG$14. It can be found in MPH or Kinokuniya bookstores. This commemorative version is a hardcover copy made to look close to the original 1902 edition with its small size.

Monday, January 22, 2007

HP4155A Parameter Analyzer

At last, my spoilt Parameter Analyzer is replaced. It had been down for about 3 weeks?! An awfully long time considering that you have fyp stuff to rush. Hell am i gonna treat this one with extra care! I can't believe that that ancient looking box cost $17,000 in repairs the last time it broke down! $17k!!!! I bet that machine cost more than my BEng if you count in monetary terms.

This is the 3rd week of school and i am still in a vacation mood with a vacation daily schedule. I am currently having 8 hours of sleep everyday, about 3 hours of tv/movies and 2 hours of gaming per day. Well, how about the rest of the 24 hours? Ok sadly to say, it is being spent at CICFAR (my fyp lab) For the record, for every 2 hours spent in cicfar, there is maybe about 20mins of productive work. The rest of the time is spent waiting for equipment, kpohing, surfing the net and well... failing experiments. Maybe thats why everybody in cicfar is so helpful. Not sure about something? Someone is there to help u. Why???? Ohhhhh maybe because there is nothing else to do anyway.......

So go figure....

Some morbid thoughts....

There seemed to be many ways to get killed in cicfar.

1. Vaccuum chamber implosion
2. Kena burned by HF acid... (very deadly, someone died of this some years ago)
3. Fluorine or chlorine gas leak....
4. Furnace exploding due to overpressure...
5. Hydrogen gas accidentally mixing with oxygen gas.... boom!!!
6. You giving a karate kick to the thermal evaporator and Mrs Ho sees you.. (ok jus kidding)