Helo Helo Bintan

Us teachers try to 'stretch' our student's whenever possible to lead them to greater heights, at the same time I'm 'stretching' myself a lot too... I'll be happy if I can find time to blog in the near future (i.e. 3 months), presentation, exams, renovation, banquet, shifting, reservists x2.5 weeks (in my holidays too!), and many other stuff to do at the same time on top of my day job as an educator.


Outside of the Indra Maya Villa where we stayed in Bintan

I'll have to prioritize and manage my time very well... which means the occasional posts here with less photos and little photoshopping. Maybe 10 years down the road I will look back at today and wonder how I managed to balance so many things so well at the same time... Ah well, that's the price for DIY approach in so many things in life...


Dragonfly inside the villa (100mm macro)

This is such a busy year for me and yet there's so many things I have to do to serve the nation. It's not as if I'm not serving the nation in my current job. Some times I just wished I'm 40 years old so I don't have to be 'forced' to serve the nation. It does leave a foul taste to my mind whenever I look at the enlistment act, especially for personality types like me who would strongly protect our independence.

Ah well, anything for Singapore.

Ok.. another child story but this one got to do with physics.. it's a story about a freak accident that happened recently and my research project supervisor's crazy ideas to solve the problem.

Well, my supervisor have 3 kids, 2 of them boys and he went into the lab today to share with Sucre and the rest about his latest achievement as a father... The story goes like this...

His sons were playing with a container which had a 5mm big ball bearing in it that made loads of noise when they shake it. Some how, they managed to get the 5mm ball bearing out of the container and started to play with it using a table tennis racket. And quoting Murphy's law, whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. The boy manage to hit the ball bearing, rebounds off the wall and into the ear of his brother.

Being a Physicists, particularly an experimentalist, my supervisor started to devise different experiment using physics concepts to remove the foreign object from his child.

1. Cotton bud with double side tape - stick a double side tape on the end of a cotton bud and insert the cotton bud into the ear to stick the ball out - failed
2. Cotton bud with stickier double side tape - see 1 - failed
3. Pressure via suction method - using a thin straw, insert straw into ear and aimed at the ball bearing. Suck out the air to create a vacuum between the straw's thin opening and the ball bearing to lift it out of the ear - failed, ended up with too much air in ear
4. Impulse momentum method - grab head with 2 hands and shake it out - failed, stopped after 1 try for fear of injuries (note, physicists are expected to repeat their measurements just to make sure that the readings are right)
5. Gravity method - Tilt head horizontally on bed and let gravity pull the ball bearing out of the ear. Give gravity some help by slapping child with a pillow - failed again

Oh my... how fast she have grown (and how fast I have aged). She's now 4 years old. It seems like yesterday that I saw her in the hospital as a newly born, so tiny and fragile that I refuse to carry her for fear of injuring her. She seems like a 'toufu' then. 4 years later, my niece celebrates her birthday and I think she is very happy with the party. Because of all the gifts, all the food, the birthday cake and most important of all for her, is the family gathering. She is growing into a young Idealists (xNFx) pretty well... exhibiting all the traits expected of an Idealist child, including an imaginary friend, and a love for stories to build into her imagination and her desire for a happy family.

Anyway.. here's some photos of the day.

A quick shot taken while on the hunt for lightings, kitchen sink and all those stuff to go into a kitchen (and bathroom)

I wish I could find the time to give a full account of my life adventures so far in the following...

• Getting a new home, from HDB to Renovations and Furnitures..
• Bridal Studio, the commercialize practices I faced
  
• Overseas postgraduate education in Singapore
• Getting married in Singapore - Doing it your way
• Sony A700 - Best value for money
  
• Inspiring the future of the nation
  

Saw quite a few blog shops set up recently where young teenage girls sell/exchange their unwanted clothes so they can buy more clothes to sell them again at a loss. What a way to do business. Whatever happened to yahoo auctions or flea bay? And why can't they take a proper photograph of their products, at the very least, get the focus right.. many of them have poor eyesight that they can't see that the photos they took are not focus at all. No wonder they buy so many things they don't need later... cos their eye sight poor mah...

Haha... maybe can earn $$ by setting up shop to help these ppl take a proper photo of their products... but then again, can't charge much if they are selling at $5 in the 1st place... maybe I should do my own blog shop to lelong my unwanted stuff since I'll in a long process of packing up and moving house in the next few months.

It's about time to move on... last wave of photos...


Not going to tell you who's arm is this.

EDS night commercial


More dancers posing...

150 degrees

Hunks


Dancers group photo


Charlotte, Jeenise and Super Chatty





More of the crazy masks group... Sure Can Make It.. this time make it for physics test liao.. all pass with minimum Cs... more than half the class got As... congrats!


Orange among the dark blues


Just heard on the radio today about dark handsome guys and gentle fair ladies...


Peijean, Wynne and Yann Chyng doing the 'Edward Scissors Hand'


Kebab mania


The taller and tallest


The tall, taller and tallest..


This is the point where the 'carrot leg' theory came in about choosing an angle to take pics


Time for some manhood, Yuanwei and Wanting <- not man


Joshua


Sam C.

Yeah... if you know that I took your photo but didn't see it online and wish to appeal for its appearance, please submit the I12C form to my locker by end of the week...

I don't think my skills are good enough to be called a photographer but heck this comic is funny...


Visit What The Duck here.

From this place...


Actually back for one day but had to rush my work yesterday... plenty of marking to do... got new house to work on... plus need to rush for class soon... missed 2 lectures because of the wedding photo shoot overseas... hehe... later...

Man... my posts are so predictable nowadays... more of that day's photos


The wushu team