I AM BACK

So so so happy today....hehe words cant describe...thank God for it =p. Just met the right people when i went back to office today =p. Just a few minutes chit chat, all the months of problem solved, no matter how tough the engineering problem is. haha think contacts is very important. Schools should have more chit chat point , think thats why schools and uni overseas can get work done so fast and they dont need to slog so hard in books, cos they interact so much during their free time and information just passed to each other so fast rather looking in tonnes of books. I am not saying that we should not do that, in fact we should to get the basic foundation right and to verify what other has said. In fact, books are records of what people had found out in a formal way. Before paper are found, think things are communicated through words of mouth too.

So in conslusion, education should give student more time for interaction and not mugging in books =p. And all the students here say "HURRAY". =p.

Chat with one guy from CMU , cool man, to get to know the things they are into there...think my uni still have a long way to go. I am jealous, impressed =p. Think i really laughed at my response now to a scholarship interview last time on why i choose local uni instead of oversea uni. My naive answer of saying that education here and overseas are NO different =p. But still thank God that i am in local uni =p. Also mange to understand why education in local is as such though i hope it to be otherwise.

Anyway was so happy that i put away my work for time being to celebrate a happy long weekend by blogging first...haha....

人逢喜事精神好！！

Really thank God for the good news all these while while i am struggling through my project. Have been having splitting headache with my project for past few days moreover down with flu =(. Always thought of giving up on my project, moreover, my friend also ask me some "difficult" chrisitianity questions and trying to grapple with it and the resurrection. Like what paul has say, if Christ has not resurrected, we really believe in vain.

Despite a lot of thing still need to be done tonight..hehe might not sleep liao...but thank God for the good news which really help me to move on. First, Wei Lit got admitted to NUS for master...haha a friend of mine who has gone through "thick and thin" in my NUS study life. Really hope that beside encouraging one another in our research work, lets us also encourage one another in our walk with the Lord and keep one another in check if we makes our work our idols...which might be possible since we all can go crazy and engross in research =p.
Thanks God for 2 FYP students who are interested in such tough projects...now at least with wei lit coming in, we will like to ensure that the fyp students have a fun time learning and researching in the lab and can share knowledge and pushing the project to a greater height. Thank God for my sup to support in the prosposal for volunteer in project =p. Also thank God that some of my ex students are interested in helping out in projects...but so sorry to them that currently this proposal is meant for undergraduates ....i still have no time to implement it to students outside uni....but still hope to rope them in =p.

Moreover, going to be an uncle in 3 months time...hehe...seems like i am getting older liao ...haha. Quite excited for myself and family when my sis going to give birth to a baby. Humm is it boy or girl huh?

A lot of things will be happening in the months to come, pray that i will not be "troubled" by all these things and forgotten about God , in which i have the tendency to. Pray that i will be discipline in my walk with God and i will find rest in Him despite all the "commontion" happening around me. By right, this master suppose to be my physical and more important my spiritual sabbatical....hopefully i wont forget that and at the end of the day, becomes so exhuasted with my project.

My first plane

Some pics of my newly bought plane.....=p. My boss asked me just to buy any place and start flying just to have a feel of it and thus can appreciate my project better...hehe EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING =p....
This is the first ever plane which i bought and not design by myself. Suppose to be able to fly once assembled but me hand itchy, go and modify the engine to a electric motor....humm according to specs can work but when u look at a motor...its just like a small boy pulling a lorry. Now keeping my finger cross and really hope that motor is good enough...if not....humm i dont dare to think of it though my boss "give" me the plane. But he said once i learnt how to fly, go and teach him....humm, what would he say if i change the engine back to combustion one....oops...now really must make it work.

Will update my first flight again...and hopefully i can modify the engine soon...now trying to think of designing the new mount for the engine.

Just trying to surface before submerging again for quite some time.

Was in no mood to blog for the past weeks...cos busy thinking of plans for my projects. A lot of things need to consider...cos think i am a perfectionist =p. When my boss ask me to search for some device, sometime i will literally search till "the end of the world" ...sometimes if can "the end of universe" to cover every ground and make sure there is no loopholes in it.

Thanks God that learnt from it liao...so now life slight better..=p. Trying to do my best in searching and leave with whatever imperfection it may be and if one day someone come along and tell me a better solution, will just humbly accept the suggestion and learn from it =p.

Now finally got a office in my company ..with all the IA students from NUS. Initally quite reluntant to go back cos i will lose my freedom of roaming around in NUS or home or any place that i can do my work. But today its my 3rd day there, enjoy it as i get to know more people...and enjoying the accompanying of the IA students there, so much better than being alone in my lab =p. Get to share ideas and things really get done faster..information sharing =p. Think thats why my boss ask me to go to office =p. Really like this working style ...so that will have a gentler learning curve. But still got a lot to learn =p

Got submitted a proposal to my sup to initiate some ideas in the lab..trying to raise awareness and interest in UAV project. I was saddened and fustrated since my undergraduate days about certain things being done and school was just based on grades,grades and more grades. No life for students, no fun in learning for them, so pragmatic, miss those students who are capable but yet cant do well in exam (humm dont know why..good example is myself vs Wei Lit =p...he is so much better than myself and taught me and yet exam result turn out the other way...must be my handwriting too "nice" that they cant understand and think its a genius work..so must be right without seeing my answer) . Ever since my teaching experience in PRCS, now trying to revive the joy of learning among undergraduates, giving people who are genuinely interested in airplane a chance to work with projects, expose them to overseas competition, and bringing UAV project to a greater height by the systems proposed. But hopefully by God's grace and providence, that wei lit can come back and help me to fulfill it...as i am totally exhausted liao and got so many things need to be done....gots ideas but cant implement...need Volunteers for project too....Just to emphasise.... ITS VOLUNTEER who truly has a passion for planes, i dont want students to work for credits nor for any tangible incentives....I believe that if you have the passion for something, you will just do it. The intangible incentives are something that will last..hehe at least for this life. There might be tangible incentives such as going for competition in US and others. Its quite sad to know that we do something just for the sake of doing something but not for the love of it. Grades are NEVER a pre-requsites to volunteer in the project, just need a love for it and willing to learn and share in knowledge, the door is always open.

Seems like quite a long blog ..hehe no choice lah, hiding in the ground for so long, so must get the chance to write more =p. Humm not sure when will i blog again. Hope this time round will not be too long.

DEAD...trying to revive

Wow...times really flies when one is dead =p..haha brain cell dead...use too much liao. More than 13 days did blog liao, cos was busy planning and using too much brain to think of project and stuff need to be done, cos it concerns the fate of 5 people...haha.

Still in the midst of doing it and should be done soon and need it for meeting next tue. Hopefully will be better by then. So now just to reassure that i am still kicking alive, rose from my "grave" and try to blog a bit and then need to dive into my works =p

Oh tomorrow will be a day of a more committed sat liao. Cos tomorrow will be my official first day as a OCT in 14th BB singapore comapny as an awards officer. This also give me a lot of thinking and planning to be done too. Still trying to learn from others and especially CC =p. Realise how easy to just so engross in awards and forgotten the MISSIONS of awards officer =p and also touching the lives of the boys =p. Need to engrave it in my heart...=p...but i wrote it in the BB senior programme book liao....need to look at it every time b4 going for BB less i forget what i there for =p. Hope i have a fun time there too and be a living testimony for Christ.

Tomorrow i also got IPPT...hope i can get silver...also think going back to TJC for open house..=p..

ok blog here for now cos need to do a few thing b4 going for "early" rest

So sweetz....

Its really comforting and having a feeling of satisfaction when u know that your ex students still remember you =p. Its really sweet for a student to sms me today and she told me she look high and low for my hp no to keep in contact. Also receive a few appreciating calls and sms from another group of students who asked me out to study with them during exams. Although didnt help much, really hope that they dont study at last minute. Knowing that they are young and impressonable at this stage, hope i can live my live in par excellence (hehe for those who heard P. Chris sermon...) to be a good influence to their lives =p

Quite confused with all the things that i have been doing for my projects...sometimes seems so near and yet are times...dont know where i am heading. But thank God that today when to see my sup, and he explain to me and help me to refocus and now i see THE BIG PICURE!! So now trying to digest this big pics and then break the project to small and managable ones for this year FYP students....now hoping to get some flash out to "entice" them to join my group and hope i can collaborate well and give them the big pics and also to spur them on. I am really excited about this project but i can see tough roads ahead...披荆斩棘 =p...hopefully b4 the fyp sutdents coming in, i will get everything ready for them and ready to guide them through..one thing for sure: IF they die, I will die double by thrice =p...so must really guide them through. Hehe now a student upon seeing my nick in msn willing to help me in the flash...thanks man =p

Good news....

Also received a call from student that he was so happy with his math exam just now as he can do most questions....knowing that since young he didnt do well for maths. But i wasnt too happy as i know he study at the last minute and didnt put in good enough effort (for my standard =p). I hope that this incident wont send him the wrong signal but hope that he will find more interest in math and be consistent in his practices. All the best for your Maths Paper 2.

Tutoring MOM....

Just received a phone from my ex lecturer that i was recommended by my sup to tutor a module for next semester..MOM : Mechanics of Machines. Really thank God for His providence and can earn some extra $$. But hope that I will teach well and hopefully be a good influence to the students too =p. Although not really comfortable teaching "adults". Think i will get my old tutorial and start to prepare answer and some notes for them =p. Since i am helping my ex-lecturer with the class, can ask her if i am not sure since she taught me in that subject too and i did very well =p cos she taught me well too =p.

But today i almost spent the whole day trying to solve a truss problem with using the software as the software gave me very very wierd result and now i still stuck. Oops although this problem is an advance module of MOM, i think i better start revising.

Managed to finish half of what i set off to do...think once my engine warm up (better be fast) will have to catch up the lost time.

Have not really revise for my Japanese lesson later.....