train door not closing Yesterday I was in the first car of the MRT train, standing next to the very first door and facing the direction of travel. The train was about to leave the station. The station doors closed. The train doors were still wide open. -_- I was like what the... I didn't take out my camera phone, cos it was the perfect chance to fumble and drop your phone into the tunnel. So don't complain NPNT. But iphone 3g viewing session Was invited to the iPhone 3G viewing session organized by BLOG2u. By right the iPhone 3G is not available in Singapore yet, but by left they are here! Feeling high yet? That's just the box. Even the accessories inside are shiny. Argh my eyes! Alice testing out if the iPhone 3G is chillycraps-friendly, or is chillycraps.com iPhone 3G friendly? The 2 cute security guards hired by paddy. Malique expiry date for gift It has been more than a month since I came back from my Hong Kong trip, and there's a gift that's still lying in my room. I don't usually buy gifts back from trip. But before my trip, this girl kept asking me to buy things back for her. Even during the trip when I logged onto MSN, she also reminded me not to forget about her present. Fine, so during the last few days there I went around hunting modular dream Recently I keep having funny and interesting dreams. A few nights ago while sleeping I was calculating how many modular credits (MC) do I have left, and it was quite accurate. I have 32 MCs left. Then last night, I was dreaming of taking some disgusting mechatronics modules. MECHATRONICS!!! What a nightmare. There is a Chinese saying "日有所思, 夜有所梦", meaning whatever you think of in the day time, gecko's foot The other day I was preparing for dinner when a house lizard crawled onto my hand. I can say the feeling was quite "eew", but I'm kinda used to it. That reminds me of the gecko's foot that I read about a few weeks ago. How many of you still think that the house lizard can stick onto the wall cos its feet have suction cups? WRONG! The gecko's toes have tiny bristles called setae, which exert van mr torimoto vs solidworks Man vs machine, who will win? You have seen IBM's Deep Blue play chess with Garry Kasparov, now how about designing a robot? Received this newsletter talking about origami master Norio Torimoto challenging SolidWorks into creating a robot. The conversation between Torimoto and SolidWorks in the video is quite funny. Go to their website and watch it. Honestly nowadays I'm quite rusty with omy email interview Oh my, I only realized my email interview was published when MissLoi told me about it. "好 Cool 喔" *blush blush* It's at http://blog.omy.sg/sgblogawards/archives/113 Anyway have you voted? fireman dream Last night I had this weird dream. I dreamed of myself signing on as fireman, undergoing trainings, and this instructor told me he reads my blog. -_-" Yeah yeah, thanks to my overdose of Hong Kong dramas. What 烈火雄心, 十万火急... When I was a kid, I did dream of becoming a fireman when I grow up. In fact, I used to stay near a fire station and grew up hearing the siren. Guess that kind of dream is when crossing the road Yesterday I was crossing the road with my brother when he suddenly said "watch out". Seeing that there was no traffic, I told him, "no car leh." He replied, "watch out for traffic police" =_= So next time when you teach your kids to cross the road, must look right, look left, look across the road. hong kong trip photos done Ah, finally I have posted the final photoblog entry for my Hong Kong trip, you can find all the entries HERE. It has been a very tiring process, with 300 over photos to edit, to write, to crap. Ever since I came back from my trip I have been spending whole morning or whole afternoon each day writing the entries. A 14-day trip took more than 14 days to blog about. It's like a dried up sea garang guni is the next top spy I'm not trying to say garang guni (rag and bone) men are baddies, but there is no reason to let down our guard either. Within the short period of this morning, this garang guni man popped by my house 3 times, each time stopping at my house and asking if we have any old newspaper to sell. Maybe cos the whole corridor only my door was opened, I didn't hear the garang guni man asking my neighbours hookean experiment If you are feeling bored sitting at your desk, here is a little mechanical engineering experiment for you. Take out a normal paper clip, like the one shown above. Make sure it is perfectly flat. Now clip a piece of paper. By right, the paper clip isn't flat anymore cos the paper has thickness. Remove the piece of paper, and the paper clip goes back to its original shape. Why is it so? This is china is in north america This morning I was reading the newspaper and this Tanyoto (谭鱼头) advertisement caught my eyes. That map in the background sure doesn't look like East Asia. In fact, it looks like North America! I digged out my atlas and also Google Map, and viola, I was right. China is sitting on North America, Australia is on Brazil, and Singapore? Singapore is on Honduras! I didn't know the tectonic plates this pole cannot grab I noticed a potential hazard on the SBS Transit's Scania bus. Due to the low floorboard design of the bus, the step at the exit is gone. And with the step gone, it's easier to alight, also easier to stand there when the bus gets packed like sardine can. When you stand in a bus, you grab a pole or hold the handgrip for stability. When you grab, you grab anything you can grab onto (except the fyp allocation Aite, FYP allocation was out yesterday and I got allocated to... Studies of Sustainability for Biodegradable and Non-Biodegradable Polymers In Product Design Today's products use various polymer materials. They can be made into product components with the same material or mixed with other type of materials (e.g. metals). With the increasing concern on sustainability, the treatment of products fyp FYP: officially stands for Final Year Project. Unofficially stands for Final Year Punishment, Find Your Project, Find Your Professors. Fxxk you, pervert. A few weeks ago some of us were busy looking at the list of projects, tossing coins or otherwise to pick our choices of FYP. Some even suggested writing a C programme with sorting algorithm and what-not. What some of my coursemates said about " support our local products Support our local economy. Support our local products. Vote for our local blogs. crap's feet tuition Last night my "tuition boy" messaged me, saying he has gotten back his maths paper and he scored 78/100. So I asked "then how? must retake?" "Why retake? I'm 2nd in the level leh, the 1st scored 79." Erm, ok... He isn't really my tuition boy, cos I ain't really his tuition teacher. Our sessions are mostly ad-hoc basis, as and when needed. The evening before his maths paper we had a 3-hour osim singapore international triathlon 2008 day 1 Went to help out for the day 1 of OSIM Singapore International Triathlon 2008 as a safety canoeist and thankfully it was quite eventless. When there were no competitors in the water, I could sit there in my kayak, chew on my biscuit, and admire the airliners cutting through the clouds and leaving a visible trail behind the wings (trailing edge?). The current was quite strong, so the swimmers had staying afloat Recently there was this case of an undergraduate drowning during yacht training, and a debate on why he wasn't wearing life jacket, why he didn't know how to swim, etc. Some time ago, there was a case of man drowning while kayaking in the reservoir, and he was wearing a PFD (personal flotation device). I can hear a bell ring in me, cos this weekend I will be in the sea as lifesaver for a busier than you It only took one phrase to piss me off. I have this friend who studies abroad, and is currently back for holidays. So that day I was doing stuff on my computer and he msned me. He was asking if the few of us would want to meet up or something, and I said I might be busy, then he popped me this line, saying another of the friend is busier than me. I was like, what the? What makes you think that skuuma soft surface design competition 2008 I just submitted my design for Skuuma soft surface design competition 2008. Skuuma is a Dutch furniture brand which takes in design ideas from people around the world, through design competitions. Winners in the competition get royalties for the winning entries while their designs see the world in people's homes and offices. I think this is a very cool concept, as it helps budding designers into attachment This morning I went to the wet market. At the meat stall, had a little chat with the stallholder auntie. She asked me about my university life and said "it's time for attachment." Thinking that she meant industrial attachment, I told her I have attached already. She let out a loud laughter, it was then that I realized her version of "attachment" could be different from my version of "attachment" self(less) registration at polyclinics This morning I went to a National Health Group polyclinics. Something is different. Previously you had to go to counter 1 to get a queue number from a staff. Now they have 3 "self registration" machines, and 3 staffs standing beside the machine. At first I thought, the 3 staffs were there to guide patients to use the machines, as the implementation should be quite new and people may not know mopster A while ago I received a notice from the town council, saying that the way I placed the mop on the bamboo pole holders was dangerous. I looked at the setup, the bamboo pole holders are inclined at roughly 10 degrees from the horizontal, and the mop was supported laterally by a row of 5 holders along its length, parallel to and close against the wall. Intuitively I think it's a stable position. quote of the day Adam and Eve were nanotechnologists, they created everything from sperm, from DNA! -- Physicist Andre Geim hello modo Because of a design work on hand, I'm trying out Luxology's modo 302. When I fire modo up, the strange new interface is impressive (and complicated). I guess anyone new to SolidWorks would feel the same way too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but since SolidWorks is more for solid modeling while modo is like surface modeling, it isn't that fair to compare the two. I always find self-learning to be chillycraps is 3 On 3rd July, chillycraps (the blog, duh) turned 3 years old! I don't usually care about dates, but recent events kind of make me look back at what I have done in the blogosphere. 3 years is not long, neither is it short. I know blogger friends who started blogging since 7-8 years ago. I know friends who still don't blog. This stupid blog started out as a personal diary, recording stuff like how 吃屁 The biggest blog war is here - Red Cliff Shit! 348 nominees, 10 finalists. 1 winner. You can change the tide of war everyday. Vote. picnic at haw par villa Went picnic at Haw Par Villa with fellow blogger friends yesterday and it was great fun! For the high tech movable statues we have rinaz, mintea, arzhou, chillycraps, mr & mrs malique, dk, xizor, nicole and endoh. We walked around the villa, took pictures, fed turtles and screamed at giant catfish, had great food, played Indian poker in which the one who lose had to finish one curry puff (I