spot your faces here (from the talk by local DJs)
Not you
Not you either
Is that you?
Everyone has the same pose?
Have you found yourself?
not to do work... haha... but the work will get pilled up if I don't recover soon. 2 tests, 2 presentations and 1 proposal waiting for me on top of regular post exams teaching work load. I don't understand why I keep falling sick lately... maybe I can't live without my daily dose of Jia Jia Liang Teh. Darn them for increasing the price.
Saw this in the HOD staff room... always wanted to blog about it but gotta wait till now when it's comparatively stress free to put it up in case someone really follow the prescription during their stressful period. I for one was tempted to use it in more than one occasion.
I have so many things going on concurrently, it's not easy being a student but it's not exactly easy to be a teacher too.. Images of the recent Nanoscience electives.
Very important figure, sucre's boss, my HYP supervisor, Dy Head of Department, the guy who made all these possible in our school behind the scenes.
The wayang bit
I love that expression, like watching horror movie. But more like the horror of insects up close and really personal.
Working in the dark
Portraits from a bright fast lens
"You are not a [insert religion], you don't need so many crosses" - Teacher
"I'm getting drunk with all the XO (read cross then 0 marks) I'm getting" - Teacher
"Hence the speed of the cue ball is 5000 m s^1" (breaking the sound barrier) - Student
"Sadistic Exam Setter" - Student (in reference to questions adapted from 'A' level examinations)
"Tick Tock Tick Tock" - Student (doodles on the paper but couldn't finish it, Foxtrot style?)
We should start a collection and sell it somehow...
Just for laughs
If you are looking for your scanning electron microscope photos, they are in ask and learn now. Just download and execute the file to unzip everything and take your photos out.
I will extend the dateline for the report till this coming Friday 12/10/07 instead.
Reflective surfaces + Female = Check your appearance
Cloudless sunset
No choice, wife shy shy
Don't come too near or you will be punished
Happy?
What am I up to lately? Check this out
Getting that piece of plastic during teacher's day means I got to live up to the expectations too. sigh... And I have to pick up some basic LaTeX just for it, about 4 years too late for my thesis though.
This is a line found in an article from ST online today
MRT standards are not under the PTC's purview, but SMRT claims that its trains are rarely more than 80 per cent full at peak hours.Full article can be found here too
I really hate it when people use statistics to twist facts. Anyway, we can deduce 3 things from this line.
1.) That 80% is the baseline that SMRT use to gauge whether they will consider to increase the train frequency
2.) That nothing will be done to improve our MRT service in terms of train frequency
3.) That either SMRT is overestimating the total number of passenger their train could take or is trying use a statistical mean over all train stations to get what they want (more earnings)
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the majority of the commuters will be travelling towards the city area during the morning peak hours. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that there will be a lot more people travelling from Boon Lay to City Hall and Tampines to City Hall than City Hall to Boon Lay and City Hall to Tampines.
If we simply assume a 7:3 distribution in the direction where commuters commute, i.e. for every 7 people going towards City Hall, we have 3 going to Boon Lay/Tampines, to get to the 80% average mark, city bound trains will be 112% full while the rest are 48% full only.
The only way for the 80% average to make sense is when the distribution is about 6:4. Then we have 96% full for city bound trains compared to 64% elsewhere.
My assumptions in this estimation is that 50% of the trains are city bound while 50% aren't. This is of course not true due to the North-South line. I won't consider the stretch between Kranji to Woodlands to be city bound in any direction! Hence I am already underestimating my calculations. Of course, SMRT does take that into consideration as the trains frequency for that stretch is much lesser than the rest.
What do you think? Should I be the CEO for SMRT? I must be dreaming.
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