Gas turbine

M15 gas turbine exam in 2 hrs time.

Cant imagine this man knowing all abt the gas turbine stuff. I mean, all my life, we only spoken abt fairytales, barbie dolls, lightbulbs, hammers and stuff, nothing much indepth.

I wish u were here.

I want to know what u knew because i'm pretty confident that u're always gonna be a greater man than I can ever imagine, surprising me with ur ingenuis ways of expressing ur passion for aircrafts and repair works.

Feeling abit tired and abit stressed, just like the ram air thats gg into the compressor section, getting pressurized and unnecessarily heated up at each stages before getting burnt and thrown out of the combustion stage. 

Who's then gonna open my surge valve to relieve all the excess air before i disintegrate and die?

Ahas ok la. Not that catastrophic actually. Its just its v unforgiving with just 7days to complete everything thats unseen. Just discouraged that we dont have enough time to understand and appreciate this manmade marvel that can transport hundreds of people across borders.

Commando Challenge 2014

3rd awesome wkend in a row.

15 November 2014

SRU Club 10s in the morning, then

Commando Challenge in the evening.

video with nice bg music that cannot be played  on mobile because of copyright issues:

ok, this same vid, w/o the music so it can be played on mobile phones. hahas.
for the most epic station + the super girly shriek, fwd to 9:07.




let's start with the awesome run first.
hahahs. probably the best and most fun obstacle race i've done.
our wave officially flags off at 5pm; everyone released in batches of 20... so we started running at about 5.30pm. the weather was kind. was stormy and drizzling here and there. made everything more epic. ahhahas. a big improvement in the organization and obstacles as compared to last yr's. more challenging too.
the most epic station i must say, is the last electric shock one. (9:07 of vid)

ran with james' collegues and friends. funny how we clicked so quickly towards dinner time. hahas. also ran with my SJ4000. tried to take photos and vid of all the obstacles and parts of the run too. covered everything but i dont have vids & photos of everything. they should make it like the samsung camera.. can video and take photo at the same time.
with the rugby matches in the morng, my legs were alrdy feeling nua before the run. so i'm glad i did it. though it was just 5 k, but the hills were quite a terror. ahaha. ok. let the photos do the talking!


before the race. all clean and green.

after running lots and lots of hills.. we finally reached the first obstacle... actually most of the obstacles feels somewhat like bouldering... the jumping from heights, the climbs and so on... hahas

this one quite memorable coz it was quite challenging as it requires u to leap with faith. plus the colllddd water. ahhahs. actually felt really good for my aching legs. saw a girl cried coz she cant feel her legs... felt bad coz i wanted to laugh. hahahas. then again, well, i've ever cried because it was too cold too. ahahahs #mtrinjani hahas. aaron's gopro sank down into the bottom after it got hit by the panel. hhahahs. no worries, its being retrieved on the next day. hahas. #epic

next quite cool. didn't know the existance of such places in Sentosa. somewhat like the battlebox. as we run, there's like an audio of guns firing / war scenario. ahhas. i think its specially installed for this event. coz after running out of the.. erm... shelter or smth, we saw the DJ outside. hmm. yea.

 next up is the last leg of obstacles along the beach. have done some of them before... but some new ones and pretty challanging

 

this one. 

honestly, after briefly watching some of the sasuke (ninja warrior) shows, (because they usually show the finalists) i thought i could clear it since it is (looked) relatively easy. but no. hahahs. with the water and the sand at the sole of the feet, it was slippery. and ya, u need the upper body strength to muscle urself up. so thanks to ah huat and team for literally pulling me up. they had lotsa trouble doing so coz i kept laughing and laughing instead of trying to step up or smth. ahhahs. so with brute force, they had to literally pull me up.

ya. then this one. thanks.

ok. and so, with the music, strobe lights and all, i thought its just like u know.. a finale kinda run-through-an-artistically-epic-looking-course. ( was busy trying to take this photo, so i didn't take note of the runners infront of me.)  ran to the first few strings, touched it.. nothing. ok. no prob. then when i started to runnnn. omg. SHOCKED sia. hahahahhas.

 

after the brief washing off...with the remaining camo left on the eyelids made us look like heavy metal rocker. hahahs.





after that, it was WHACK-THE-FOOD session at ABC brickworks hawker centre at alexandra.
the foooooddd so good. and since its so good, was surprised that it was my first time eating there.
ok, probably the whole day's of epic events, weather, activities made me v v hungry.



hahas. homed at abt 12 am. and slept through Sunday b4 bringing mother poon out to turf city to eat atas seafood at Ah Yat seafood. a treat from me and james. wanted to do so since my first new pay. hahahhas. total bill $343. coz i wanted to let her try the Geoduck clam thing which constitutes half of the bill. mad. but the seafood really fresh.

crazily, we abolished the waffles-icecream supper plan, and went to mustafa instead. its like mother poon's first time there. still a big wrong move coz we left there at 3.30am on a Sunday night, as if there's no work tmr. but ok la. she's fascinated that we could be shopping at everything at 3am in the morng. from see-see-look-look, we bought 1 trolleys full of groceries.

ok. back track abit, Sat morng.. 

SRU Club Rugby 10s.

have no idea why i said yes to playing; because of M11, i haven't really been trng for 3 wks. no contact no gym. apart from the happening wkends, i was studying alot during the wkdays. so 1 word.. brave.

hahahas. bu ok la. 10s not too bad. 

played for Bucks; coz i haven't been going to Blacks' trng at all. it felt abit wierdd initially coz while walking in, instead of turning left to the team where i've been playing for yrs, i turned right to another team. okok. i dont really have the time to blog this part of my life in detail coz now its 2:26am. but i'm just really glad to be playing with this bunch of girls again. have played with them before when they're down in numbers and have played against them on many occasions too. 

yup. and glad that i survived coz we played with rolling subs. 10-2-10 format. we won 2 out of 3 games, marginally losing the first one to Kings. we're gg to blame it on the morng. coz it was the first game at 8am. systems not fully booted up yet. hahahhaas. but yea, in faith, we really could have won that game though.

(photo credits to: Erwin Soo & Simplemiso)

 

:)
Thank God for yet another awesome wkend.

Batu Caves & Camp5!

had another weekend getaway to KL on 8, 9 Nov.

main purpose was to climb... and many first for me!

first time at Batu Cave

first time climbing natural rocks

first time at Lead climbing

first time at Camp5

first time watching movie at an IMAX theatre

first time eat this super duper awesome cheesecake

first time missing the bus back home and literally went on a speed chase for it.

hahas. as usual, whenever i travel with Dickson, its bound to be an epic adventure. 

hahas. especially on Sunday because so far, everything was gg well plus the weather was too 順 (smooth-sailing), we knew something had to happen. but didn't expect it to be that epic. whahahs. 

ok again, let the photos do the talking!

supposed to go up on a friday night by train / bus, but both no tickets. so its 7.15am at beach road.

supposed to be a 5hr journey... but it took about 6.5hrs due to the wkend jam at kl.... plus the bus was travelling relatively slowly.

was studying halfway using downloaded materials into mother poon's ipad... until i discovered the vid system. hahas. watched the hk laughing哥 police movie. been wanting to watch for so long. finally! hahas

settled the accommodation that's about 15mins walk from Camp5, located at 1utama - the freakin hugeee mall.

but first... LUNCHHHHH :) really good jap-pasta food. and and and.. the store sells lotsa matcha stuff. really can go crazyy. thank God i no $$$. hahahas

and HERE I AM! helloooooo CAMP5. everyone's been talking about the best climbing gym in Asia. the routes are fairly more difficult thatnsg's gyms. ahahs. really struggled with their 5c walls. but its a different feeling altogether. though the routes were more challenging, they were some how achievable. hence, that really shiok feeling. we started climbing at about 4pm...... till it closed at about 8pm.

here's stanley at his fav mad lead wall.

played around the artifical natural wall. ahhahas. left so stupid coz it was soooo difficult. so difficult that i think i dont even need a harness coz i wouldn't climb more that 2m off the ground. ahhahs. ah huat and i was like.. "shit. tmr (at batu caves) how sia".. thinking that natural rock gg to be this tough. hahhaas. thankfully its not.

  

after that. it's dinner. ate lotsa random stuff. but the best of it all is THE CHEESECAKE. and its freakin freshly made from the oven. its like newly opened. long queue. and 1 customer can only buy 1 for 19rm !! i can really consider riding down 5 hrs just to eat this and ride back. ahhahas. though i was still coughing and all, i just had to eat the green tea ice cream. :D

then its movieeee time at an IMAX theatre! hahas. (with all our climbing gears and stuff

INTERSTELLAR

awesome movie. another of Christopher Nolan's great making.

honestly, its sooo chim that i didnt quite get it though i really like how logically factual all the sci-fi stuff sounds. hahas. dont mind watching it again!

approx 3 hr movie. started at 10.30pm. so we ended at about 1 am. ahhas. totally lost in the mall coz all the doors were locked. so we ended up exiting via the carpark. supper after that at our hotel downstairs!

DAY 2!

happy that it's all bright and sunny. initally worried coz it has been raining for the past few days. 

initial plan was to go Batu caves on Sat. but since we're late, and the weather didn't look too promising, Camp5 was first on the itenary.

but first.. breakfast! ahhas.

and my very first climb!

looking back at the quote at the walls of Camp5. true that.

climbing natural rock is really different. its not just about he adrenaline and outdoorsy feeling, but its because of the all the possibilities of the climb. really. each time u climb, once u've found a good grip of the rock after struggling abit, u really get that when-theres-a-will-theres-a-way feeling. hahas. somehow, it really feels refreshing and to some extent, therapeutic with many life lessons to learn along.

never been so high up before. i dont really have much fear of heights, so it wasn't really terrifying until i tried Lead climbing.

and its ah huat's first time at lead climbing tooo!

all thanks to stanley shifu for teaching and guiding me.

hahas. lead climbing is v different from the usual top rope. coz generally, this time, u are securing ur own anchor points at each 'check point' so when u fall, u really fall to ur last check point. and it can really be v scary. hahas. with that thought and notion, it started to get more fearful.

but really, the main lesson learn was to : 

Keep calm and climb on.

(got this online)

hahas. just like swimming in the ocean, once u panic, u sink. as for climbing, once u're not relaxed, u'll find the climb really straining and difficult.

first time at Lead.

one pic with the both of us. initially wanted to set up 2 routes so as to help take cool photos.... ahas. but we didn't have the time & space.

and soon, it was about 5pm and time to leave. :(

(btw, the walls are FOC. just need to bring ur own gears & at ur own risk)

took a cab down to berjaya times sq to take the bus back to sg. 

ahhahs. for once, we're early for the 6.30pm bus. so we decided to grab some dinner. and then we ended up... being late!!! ahhas. omg.

the bus showed no mercy and left at about 6.35pm.

stanley and ernest were alrdy up the bus and they couldn't do much to stop the persistant driver. hahahas. so we literallyy rannnn to chase for the bus a few streets down.

just then, we saw 2 girls running after us. they told us that the bus is alrdy on the highway as their friend (whom they were sending off) was in the bus.

so, they FREAKING OFFERED US TO DRIVE 30km down and chase it to the next stop (at TBS bus terminal). ahahs. reallly kind souls coz they literally ran with us all the way back to the Times Square to get the car in the carpark. then, they zooom zooom the traffic and its only then we allowed to reach the bus on time before it abandoned us again.

really super duper thankful for them if not we wouldn't have made it back to Sg on Sunday. hahas

last supper at Arab st before we ended our wkend adventure. ahhahhas.

and so.. it went viral.... ahhahhas. (one of trailblazer's friends wanted to do an article.ahahhs)

anyways. so that was the awesome wkend. definitely want to go back again and spend more time at Camp5 + eat all the good food.

and on Tues, i recieved good news!

hahahhs. I WON THIS from a staff lucky draw of the SIA Charity Run.

hahahas. i have never won any lucky draw b4, so initially, i thought it was a scam until i saw the legit email address. ahhahs. so i'm really pleasantly surprised and thankful. (secretly checked out the cost.. its about $1.5k for 3 nights with agoda rates, can be lowered till about $500. not sure which is which, but still cooool.)

very thankful that its the 7th prize also coz its at Kota Kinabalu... somewhere more affordable... ahhahas. coz other prize were like a few nights stay in japan/ australia / philippines and so on. cant afford the airtickets. and and.... this means.... Mt Kinabalu is calllinggggg. ahhahas. :D

probably plan smth out to bring mother poon and sis out to nua in the atas hotel while i go climb with my friends or smth. have never stayed in such an atas hotel b4 man! (other than a few year back at Genting with the bowlers coz there werent any other rooms left)

so yea. this week. didnt do anything else after work but STUDDYY. M11 paper this fri. 1382 pages in 4 volumes coz there's no binder big enough for everything.

hahhahas. really so much to study that  i tried so many ways of studying this.  from notes to ipad to writing to mindmaps and all sorts. thank God for the 'revision', but i hope its enough for the 108 qns coming up!