How do we land?

(photo from Tumblr) The landing gear. 

One of the most impt part of the plane. I mean like, so what if we can takeoff but can't land. 

3 crashes in a week is indeed hard to swallow for the Aviation industry. This is probably the saddest of years, not just for the industry, but for the world. When people don't make that effort to pay that extra effort and be abit more cautious and detailed, we allow that kind of gaps and then human errors set in. Near misses are probably just reasons for us to credit 'luck', but it's the most irreversible of changes that are the most painful. We can look back and regret, but more imptly, let's all rmbr these hard lessons to fuel our motivation and drive to do a better job in keeping air travel safer. We don't need such reminders to work hard, work smart and work safe.

ytd, I signed the bond.
quite funny coz i didn't know that the sureties for the bond-signing had to be present, thought only those 21 and below needed them to be present. heing that my 2 sureties are my current colleagues, who had a meeting 1 level up. so i just had to call them to come down. my mum and sis couldn't qualify coz 1 is over-aged and the other is not having a stable employment at the moment. almost thought of asking you but it was irrelevant. one of my surety joked that if i do runaway, can he pay the bond back in installments. ahhas. jokes. 5 figure sum yow.

so i guess the runway for the next 3 yrs is more less fixed.
this is quite impt to me and i hope i make the best out of these years. may i not get distracted and stay focused.

they asked a qns during the interview the other time round, "b1 or b2?" (mechanical or avionics)
i've always wanted to be B1 trained; not because i think its more important, but i find myself reading more about the structures and like how physical things can be tangibly fixed. i think its quite satisfying to see something broken getting fixed because of your time, effort and expertise.

however, i rmbr hesitating before answering the qns. didn't expect that, but that's probably the kind of effect you've had on me; unfocused, distracted and almost confused; willing to give up things things that are important to me when in the process, they can cause me to loose my focus.
i still rmbr how i enjoyed watching you work, and would subconsciously secretly write down your schedule on my little hydraulic-stained notebook for the day so i could find ways to learn more from you. it was a bit of a challenge coz at the same time, i wanted to make full use of my time while learning from a B1 engineer/technician. i mean, u were very helpful also because u were the rare few engineers who was willing to spend time explaining things to someone who's got like super basic levels for the understanding of flights. ur ability to make complicating systems seem so straight forward was really amazing. and even though u've been going through similar routine processes of daily checks, u still do them diligently w/o compromising on the checklist. i guess that's how people should be; always wanting to give, share, improve; hopefully to effect a positive change to things. haha, perhaps u should consider lecturing though it would mean 1 less good engineer. part-time perhaps? hahahs. anyway always appreciated u, and thank you for giving me hope.

of course at the end of the day, i have to rmbr that my interest still lies in the mechanical aspects and that i was just interested and almost enjoying the process i could be clear with the Avionics stuff because of you. from young, it always took me abit more time to understand electrical systems. i rmbr in physics class, i hated the topic about electricity and calculating the ohms and currents. its actually quite straight forward with the diagrams, but i just didnt like it. even with the correct formulas and information that i know, i just couldn't be confident with my answers in the exam, always having to painstakingly spend extra time to go through the whole thought process to check the answers again. even though i'm relatively good in numbers, wires and numbers dont seem to be a good combination for me.
generally, i take more time than an average educated person to grasp concepts as i always want to go to the depths of it coz that's when i can fully understanding. also, i'm really a hands on person because i only get it when i spend time doing it.; visually seeing and hearing wont be that impactful for me to learn. but just for consolation, at least once i grasp things, i do well coz i always strive to make the best out of it.


in the end, the answer was still B1, with subtle confidence.
haha. i thought it was just an expression of interest which wouldn't have any impact on anything until i saw the bond with all the subjects in it. haha! so thankfully, i'm glad they took that seriously and primarily, training days won't be that painful while secondarily, i can grow more in this function with my passion. haha, and i guess since my dad spent his whole life as a mechanical technician, perhaps i have the blood to understand this things clearer. he was really a talented mechanical guy who totally sucked when using the computer. i mean it was to a degree that i needed to teach him how to reach the "it is safe to turn off your computer" when i was 10 yrs old.

perhaps the entrepreneurial spirit within me is from him. always wanting to fix and invent thing, always wanting to improve. from young, while other kids played with plastic hammers and colourful plastic 'wood', my dad was teaching me how to knock a nail straight into the wood just outside the house at the steps. more often then not, i would hit his fingers while he held my hand to make the nail straight. of course like any human, he felt the pain and would shriek out in pain since i was superly (and probably overly) excited about hitting a nail with the heavy hammer. ahhahahahs. i still rmbr how he would say like "u trying to kill ur father ah". and i would say "ur fingers so fat... can't see the nail". hahahahas.
and yes, all my primary sch science electrical projects where done by him, and they are often the best in class. i mean like, who's circuit board would be made of actual wood with nails fixing the components being secured by highspeed aviation tape? ahhahahhas.



sorry that i gotta keep posting repetitive photos. wished that i had more photos but camera stuff weren't very affordable then.

taken at the steps where inventors and aircraft mechanics were born. ahhahahahahs

taken with my most favorite play partner during a visit to australia. mother poon says that i always loved using my spoon to violently hit things around me.

on his birthday, always wanting to blow his candles, cut the cake and play with the paper umbrella.

climbing to my sis' dressing table (via the bed beside, and to the open drawer) which would shock mother poon since its quite an elevated distance to the ground.

because drinking milk from the bottle was too slow.

and at changi airport T1, picking him up from work and always going to swensens.

definitely, i will always miss you and feel sad coz we can't be doing the same thing together, now that i'm dealing with the real deal and would be asking u more intelligent/relevant questions about things u're always passionate about. hope that i'm able to carry ur bright spirit where i go and be proud for you. may ur colleagues be proud of u as well as how i know u'd be proud of me.