dun liddat leh

from Mr Brown: "Someone made a BETTER version of SBS Transit's iris bus arrival web app called Nextbus, and now it seems the app cannot continue because it looks like SBS is blocking the app from making connections to its servers."

so if you block someone from tapping into your server who provides the masses with better services for whatever legitimate reasons or security concerns, why don't you approach the guy doing this, employ him or his idea on agreeable terms and allow this improved service to be available to the masses! this is so much more constructive. right?

but if you just block it, you're just denying the public of a good product(or whatever you may call it) and robbing ppl off of their ingenuity. dun liddat leh...

astrigue

hmmm, it feels good to see that you've left sth behind for your school during your time. Astrigue started of as a astro-learning camp for primary school kids when I was J1 back in Mount Sinai campus (RJ). now, through the work of batches of astronomy club members, it's both a learning camp and an annual competition for schools. so cool! =)

May

hmmm, the urge to blog has struck once again. lol

exam's over and now I'm taking a elective course in astronomy for special sem. oh well. I'm quite bored...but I like to stay home =)

3 weeks passed

haven't updated for 3 weeks. this period has been quite a challenge. tests to study for, assignments to complete, papers to write and, perhaps most of all, mom's operation on 17th March. shuttling between hospital and school, grandma's house and school is tiring and time consuming. but that's little compared to the pain mom's got to endure. thank heavens for a successful operation, thank the doctors, my aunt Sharon. thank heavens for it is contained in stage 1. thanks to grandma for taking care of mom's recovery. I just pray that mom's health will be better than before and that there's a smooth path to recovery. thank lixuan for being by my side.

in school, HW110 and AE1002 have come to an end. effective comm was okay. but I'm not confident of scoring an A, especially for my reflection papers, to boost my GPA. AE1002 end in disappointment of some sort. the glider didn't fly far nor did it land well. I guess that's what we get when we didn't do enough test flights/throws, no calculations and complicating the design of a simple glider. for this module, I feel most sorry for Tng cuz he's been spending sleepless nights just to get the control surfaces to work. I'm now so worried for my sGPA this sem.

S/U dateline is Sunday 10pm. right now, my mind is not made up yet. should I S/U CNYPR? and should I S/U Math1B or Phys1B.
reasons to S/U:
Math1B - I wasn't strong at Math1A, no cheatsheet, 30% on Linear Algebra although it's not very difficult, Fedor has yet to finish the syllabus (left with Stoke's law and Gaussian's divergence theorem, which is a special case of Stoke's law)
Phys1B - expect very tough paper, 10% on term paper, E and M are confusing - EM even worse
HMS2 - not confident of getting A
CNYPR - there has been little progress on this project - there has only been a small research on plane design and presentation of our findings, RC plane was set up but crashed - fixing in progress. so I don't know if all these can justify an A

Next week, 2 more tests coming up - physics mid-term 2 and computing 2. gosh, March is coming to an end soon...

some breather

phew!some breather at last!

physics test yesterday was okay. am confident of 7 questions. well, I hope I wont get any lower than that. skipped FE1008 lecture just now to finish physics tutorial and it's finally done. now, I can finally do what I want, as and when I want =)

there'll be NTU TKD photo-taking later

now to tidy up my room and see what I'll bring home tmr before a nap

soon soon

TOC is tmr. yay! can't wait for it to come and be over! ^_^

23

Just turned 23 on the 23rd. Feeling pretty old...It wasn't very long ago when I first studied in Singapore; it wasn't very long ago that I graduated from RI and RJ; it seems like I just ORDed last month and started uni life last week and the 2nd semester, yesterday...time, unrelenting, unforgiving, ever-changing...this year, I have only one birthday wish and only those who are close know...

the maid, JuJu, is leaving today as her contract expires. Yani has come to replace her. I'm not really bothered as long as she takes good care of my grandma and does the household chores properly.

on a lighter note, Li Xuan and I spent a day in town yesterday. I asked for a water bottle on my birthday and the sweetie customized one for me =)

at...guess where?

That's all for now, back to work...