Siu Hang’s blog.. again?

At my workplace I think I’m the spoil-market of all the interns: I report to work at 8:30am and leave at 6pm. Some interns come at 9:30am and leave at 5pm. -_-” (btw the contract says 8:30 to 6)Remember the shh-shh guy? Thursday was holiday right? So on Wednesday he started shh-shhing and humping the back of my chair in office and suggested we go off at 5:30pm. I ignored him and continued working on my SolidWorks. So when it was almost 6pm I asked him if he wanted to go off, then he started grumbling say what he was waiting for me and stuff. The annoying thing he said was “I dunno what were you doing lor, drag the thing move here move there” (he was referring to me working on SolidWorks) So I turned on my sarcasm mode and replied “if you know what I was doing, then they wouldn’t need me here liao lor.”I mean if he wanted to go off early he could have just gone early by himself right? Want to “break law” also don’t dare to “break” alone…

Other than doing pole-dance, some commuters really can do other amusing things in the MRT.Some passengers just like to spread their legs wide wide while sitting. Are they giving birth or are they following what’s shown in sex education clips? And those who spread their legs are usually males. Do males need to spread legs?Others are better still, they can stick their legs to over half the width of the train. There was once I saw this man sticking his legs to in between the feet of a standing passenger. (didn’t check if he had installed a camera on his shoes) And of course the other reason for slouching is purely mathematical…Then some just like to cross their legs while others can spread open their newspaper (not legs this time) to in front of the passenger beside him/her. So cramped already still want to act seh. And you know what’s the most ridiculous thing? Someone’s fat butt/thigh crossed the boundary and crushed my MP3 player’s screen.Not only do people ride train, I’ve seen people riding each other while riding the train. Once I saw a guy really onto the girl at the 2-seater, another time was a girl on a guy… eek and those were during peak hours!Now we know there are many positions available at SMRT Corporation Ltd.

There’s this intern in my office, everytime he wants to ask me to go coffee break with him, he would try to attract my attention by making that “shh-shh” sound. I ignore him everytime.You know it’s like calling out to dogs. Am I supposed to feel insulted? No, cos I refuse to acknowledge him. Want to ask someone to slack with you, just ask properly lah. There was once he made that “shh-shh” sound and another engineer thought he was calling him, after that few seconds of embarrassment the guy resumed to shh-ing again.Not only that, he likes to stand behind me and look at my email screen, then I would just alt-tab to the boring solidworks screen (he’s from NUS EE3, knows nuts about solid modelling). I’m sorry, no kinky mails in my inbox. Respecting others is to respect yourself.

For those who are so eager to know my exam result, it’s here. Or you want the university administration to send my result to your home address?GEK1520 Understanding the Universe BMA3501 Mathematical Methods in Engineering B-ME2101 Fundamentals Of Mechanical Design B+ME2114 Mechanics Of Materials II B-ME2135 Fluid Mechanics II B-ME2142 Feedback Control Systems CCAP: 3.4If you feel that my heroic self-sacrificial act of staying at the bottom has raise your grades up, you can always sing “you raise me up” in front of me.Okay lah, it’s not fantastic result, the CAP has taken a little dip, but for someone who was expecting some failures, it’s a heavy load lifted. Actually I deserve worse. Expected myself to have done badly because this semester I have been blogging like I never blogged before (if you are so free you can count my number of posts), and at the forum side I was promoted… so now I’m like moderating 9 boards (although there are more than 9 moderators under me, but…).Conservation of energy: you gain some, you lose some. It’s how you make the gain useful.

wah MC king!a PhD candidate at my workplace exclaimed after knowing I took 23 MC (modular credits, not medical certificates -_-”) last semester, and that my lowest number of MC per semester was 19. Isn’t that the norm for engineering fac?Like I said, 6 modules really felt like 6 modules last semester. But looking at the recommended semester schedule, the hardest part/bottleneck/watershed/whatever-you-want-to-call-it has passed, so I can forsee things will be better from next semester onwards. Somemore specialization will kick in in semester 6 so we will be able to choose our favourite modules.Things look bright.

For those maths type, electrical type and control freak engineers, MATLAB & Simulink Day’07 is here. Date: 15th June 2007Time: 9:30am - 4:40pmVenue: Biopolis@matrixDetails can be found here.

or is it PS x 4?

liau: Hi can ask you how much you get for feedback? I got a b.siu hang: C.liau: Ok. Sorry. Think a lot of people did better for feedbackTo be honest I wasn’t very pleased with the SMS exchange. Firstly, I don’t like to compare grades. Secondly, if he had said “a lot of people did worse than you”, maybe I would feel better. C’mon it’s a bell curve! If I sit at the mean, there are always people to my left and to my right.But I ain’t angry at him, cos I have known him for more than 5 years. He meant no harm I’m sure.Oopz did I just disclose his grade?

After the bitching, it’s time for some fun moments for Legs & Paddles 2007 (LNP2007).So I was stationed right at the far riverbank opposite Clarke Quay. In the morning there was some photoshooting going on with a girl posing on the bridge and a swarm of photographers around her. She was like doing all sorts of seductive postures like lying on the bridge or hugging the lamppost… then when the male competitors came their eyes were glued to the model, all heads 45 degrees right. -_-” I wonder did their legs go numb…The runners in the morning were more fun. We were like crapping and joking with one another, things like bargaining for shorter distance… got runner hugged me, got runner pat me, and when I cheered them on some would return friendly gestures. One asked me where’s the water point which was at the next bridge, then he said he couldn’t wait already and ran into 7-Eleven and came out with 100 Plus. -_-”Oh, a lot of tourists asked me for direction! The foreigners were quite interested in the race and asked me about the distance, the conduct of the race and so on. And smartass me brought along a field-chair, and attracted quite a lot of attention cos I was sitting in the middle of nowhere guiding traffic. I think had I imitated a chimp and started dancing there, people would toss money to me.

Went to help out at Legs & Paddles 2007 (LNP2007) today.I’m not going to slam NUS Canoeing Sub Club, afterall every organization may make mistakes, but I just wish to share some areas of improvement.Everything started late. Imagine we were deploying the road marshallers halfway when the first runner caught up, and the road marshallers had to run in front of the competitors. Lunch was late, I had mine at 2:30pm. Ended late, I only left at like 7:30pm when the event was supposed to end at 5:30pm.There was clearly a shortage of manpower. I didn’t go to the toilet for 12 hours because my station was critical and noone was available to stand in. We couldn’t even refill our water. Some volunteers also left early, and the vacuum wasn’t filled. Some runners ran all the way to Robinson Quay when they were supposed to U turn at Clarke Quay. I had competitors coming to me saying they ran 3 rounds instead of 2 because there were no marshallers guiding them. One of them was even crying, while a few scolded me like free when I clearly didn’t and couldn’t do anything wrong. I could have just left my station early and let the station behind me get the scoldings.Talking about abuse, a female marshaller had verbal abuses just because the logistic people delivered the water container late and the first few runners had no water at the designated water point. The poor girl had to note down tag numbers on a clipboard, had to fill cups with water, had to pick up the used cups on the ground, and the organiser refused to resupply paper cups. One of the worst things that can happen to a volunteer is to be scolded, unreasonably.On the part about people running 3 laps instead of 2, did the organiser brief the competitors properly or not? And the competitors, did you study the routes before coming? This is not like climbing competitions where you don’t know the routes beforehand, in this case the map was emailed to you! So you would happily run 42km instead of 10km if noone stopped you?Enough of bitching, maybe I’ll post the funny stuffs during the race another time.