Hello! Haha! I just realised that i spelt Nyssa's name wrongly as Neesa. I better change it in my previous post.

I just edited my blog's template. Added 2 new links and 1 video. I was the editor and cameraman of that video. Those girls interviewing were my team mates. This video is not a very good video but nevertheless, its the content that matters and yea, its created using movie maker. Its about poor and needy people. How they survive and what the society thinks of them. We met with some difficulties when doing this video because of the different public responses. Most of it were negative responses but there were some positive feedbacks. I remember there was this part where we interviewed this old woman selling tissues at a MRT station. The moment we took out the video camera, the people around us went " How can like that?!" Its really the mixed views that really bugged us. Fortunately, most of the people we interviewed were very open and they were willing to talk to us about why they resort to selling tissue paper on the street to survive.

I really would like to thank my teacher, Mr Chiu, who guided us along while we were producing this short clip and spending countless hours on teaching us the techniques. I would also like to thank my wonderful team members and their courage to take up such a controversial topic as their video project.

Hope you guys would enjoy watching this video and feel differently towards those people selling tissues the next time u see them.

Hello! I went to Sim Lim today! Cool right? Okay maybe not so cool. So any way, I sort of followed Reuben and Nyssa and Christiana tagged along too. Xiang Jun also followed us "on the MRT". Meaning she took the MRT with us to bugis then took it back home. A little odd. Went there to get my components for my new amp. Finally decided to build my next amp but will most likely start work only in the june holidays cause obviously i haven't got the time with all the tests and assignments. Reuben brought the wireless RCA transmitter to complain to the shop owner that it cannot transmit as far as it stated. Haha. So he got a swap and he got a more powerful transmitter. Honestly, i think that even with a more powerful transmitter, the signal cant really travel very very far. If its open space like the hall, then its possible, but if the signal has to go through walls, then very very unlikely. The logic behind it is that because the signal is transmitted in analog mode instead of digital mode, it cant travel far. Think of it as this way, if there is no wall and u want to talk to a friend say 10m away from you, obviously ur friend can hear. But what if there is a wall just right in front of u and u try to tok to your friend at ur normal volume, your friend would not be able to hear clearly what you say. Thats why i feel that it will still not be very effective.

So after visit to Sim Lim Tower, we made our way to square. First stop at square was this audio shop. Reuben was looking for a flight case for his recording mixer. So asked around but could not get a suitable one. While at the shop, i was so curious about all the diffrent cables the shop had although all of them were klotz cable. After that i went to 4th floor, i think, to get my chasis mount RCA female connector. Met up with christiana and nyssa then we made our way to Bras Basah Complex, is that how u spell it? Reuben found his flight case there and Christiana got her pens there. As for me, i bought a CD. Its called "The Sun". Its a chinese orchestra recording by HUGO productions and i must say that the recording is extraordinary. From there i left for home while Reuben, Neesa and Christiana stayed for dinner.

I was on my way home when i walked pass this temple and saw this old man sitting outside eating his dinner. Fond memories flashed back. I did an interview with him a few years back about how he find his life. He sells tissue on the street and it sorts of makes me sad. Although he seems to be fit and strong, i think deep down in his heart, he feels lonely.

Hey! Recently have been really busy and this has been a hectic week. Very very tired after every school day till the point where there is almost no energy reserve left for me to do my own stuff. Everyday when i reach home, all i can think of is homework and more homework. Piles of endless homework seems as if they would never be completed.

YAY! I passed all my 3 tests! But im not so proud of them. Heck. At least i passed all of them.

MRC has been getting real fun for me cause we are learning soldering! Okay i already have learned most of the soldering skills and know how to apply this skills but well its something intresting to me. Reuben's method and my method is a little different cause i always like to use the whole reel of solder while soldering instead of using just a few strands. But anw, he thought us the connections and the techniques in soldering. Soldering is fun, REALLY! Its just a pity that we don't get go solder with good cables like Canare or Belden cables. We got some Maruni cables. The other time when i was soldering the laptop sound cable, it was a Canare cable. It was really easy to work with. Maruni cables just melt upon heating. Suck.

On Friday, we stayed back to help out with the Rock AC auditions. Reuben brought his "wife" along. It was a KORG Multi Track Recording Mixer. It was kind of cool. The bands were not so fascinating and there was actually 1 band that was having an arguement within themselves during auditions. There was this drum duet and GOSH! THEY ARE REALLY DAMN DAMN DAMN SUPER SUPER SUPER SUPER GOOD! Speechless is just the right words to describe their performance. After all the auditions, we had our own MRC audition. HAHA IT WAS SUPER FUN! I played Tong Hua on the piano and ZX was singing! Its really fun.

Hey! Sunday already! And another week is going to start. I so hate GP now! The teacher sucks, FULL TIME! First day of new term, she claimed that she is not the kind of person who really likes to mark assignments but now? SHE IS GIVING US LIKE SO MUCH WORK! Last week, almost all of her GP lessons are dedicated to us doing assignment and she not teaching during lesson. What kind of teaching is that?! If we go to school to receive education in this manner, i rather stay at home and study by myself.

All right, anyway, yesterday was guitar's Ritmous Acousticos. MRC had to help them with the sound thing again. Good thing is we did not screw up (: Somehow after the performance, i felt that guitar is really an instrument that is very very soothing. Or maybe its just the way the guitar people played it and their choice of songs. But really it was not a bad performance by them. Stayed in school till like 11+pm before i went home. I brought my laptop to school thinking that i will be bored while waiting, but in the end i only turned it on for like 30+mins? Played O2 jam in the room and when Reuben saw it, he was like "I want to play!". Funniest thing is that he only plays one song, Fly Magpie. He is not that lousy actually.

Next week there is like a GP package test and maths test. GP package test is more or less done last week all thanks to that GP teacher telling us wrong dates. Maths test is really quite bad. I haven't got a single clue what is MI and what is AP and GP and Sum of a Series. I really need to go mug now.

Hey guys! Well after the bad episode with MRC, things are starting to look better for me. Afterall, the people in MRC is all right to hang out with one. It has always been me and myself thinking too much and suspecting too much. Well now im starting to like MRC more and more.

All righty, yesterday was celebrations for international friendship day in ACJC. MRC had to tend to the back stage and overall i felt that it was quite okay with some minor errors. Tomorrow will be Movie Under The Stars (MUTS). Hope it will not hang and screw the whole event up like the other time.

Went to the Jurong Medical Centre yesterday to have my eyes checked up again. The doctor dilated my eyes and i so hate that process. I cannot see properly for a few hours after the dilation process! But anyway, the doctor said that there was nothing wrong with my eyes and the blood test indicated that there was nothing wrong with my blood too. He was pretty sure now that i was suffering from migrane. Well, I don't really know if that is true or not but i just hope that it will not strike as often as everytime it strikes, it really isn't a nice feeling.

Had OG outing yesterday to Five Star Chicken Rice 0_0?! HAHA! We were celebrating calvin's birthday! All of us were suppose to meet at 7pm but guess what, the latest person arrived at 9.30pm! Well that person is Amanda but hey, we can all understand why she is so late. So anyway, i arrived at 7.30pm and wow, only Dantong was there. But at the moment i sat on the chair beside her, Jessica arrived! So the three of us went to find a cake shop to buy a cake. I brought them to Mykes Oven and we bought this cheese cake. It was really very very very delicious! Yummy! So at around 8+pm, most of us arrived and we ordered the food. Calvin was a little crazy cause he wanted to eat 2 chickens. Of course that is insane so in the end we only ordered 1 chicken. amazingly, we finished all the food plus the cake. Shu Ying was there too with some guy whom i think is her boyfriend. But im not very sure. We were talking some random stuff and Jessica was saying something when suddenly *POOF* she disappeared. Upon further investigation, she was found on the floor laughing at herself. She fell off her chair! The people in the restaurant was like trying not to laugh at her! HAHA it was really very funny. Ohh how i miss the orientation times when all of us are just so playful and cheerful and need not worry about exams and studies.

Hello! Mugging week it shall be for this week. So many tests! Tomorrow, i will be having Chemistry test and friday and maths pre test and on next monday, its the real maths test. This is so horrible! Anyway, i returned Jade's laptop already and she sent an army to come and collect it with her. Woah, almost the whole family appeared with the exception of her father and her second sister. Well got her laptop back up but her keyboard is sort of screwd up now and i swear that its not caused by me.

Currently, my brain is being filled with chemistry formulaes which are hard to digest. Hope that they can diffuse into my brain tonight when i sleep on them (: Well today, i tested out my car batter powered CD player concept. I discovered something about that battery. It is acting abnormally which i do not know if it is right or not. The voltage is unstable and it does not have power. At first, the voltage of the battery was only 10+ volts. Under load it falls to below 9volts. Then i connected a super tough load, a 7.5ohm resistor across the terminals, and after awhile, the voltage returned to around 12V. It really is strange as i thought battery should always just give me a certain voltage and the power it can output should be a constant. Perhaps the battery is really spoilt. So in the end, i had the 7.5Ohm resistor connected in parallel with the CD player so that the battery is able to provide the right voltage for the CD player to work. I did some listening test. Background noise has significantly went down quite alot but there was still some hiss and buzzing when the music is of very soft levels. I was not very happy with the results as i had expected something better. So in the end, i scrapped the idea and thought "Dang this stupid idea, go get a proper DAC and a Transport or just a good CD player"

Woah i better blog today if not it will be at least a week since i last blog. Well did not really blog this week due to some emotional reasons. Loads of things happened last week and some of them are really not worth mentioning at all. Wanted to blog on Thursday, but after reading someone's post, it made me change my mind totally about it.

So last week. Went to Sim Lim Square with Jade! We went there to get her hard disk which she needed to replace the spoilt one in her laptop. We got a 80gb one and it costed her $93. I could not believe the price, it is almost a dollar to a gb now for laptop hard drives. Perhaps it is time for me to upgrade my laptop's hard drive to something that will last me long. Perhaps i will wait for the price of 120gb hard drive to drop to around $1 a gb. Then thats around the right time for me. So got Jade's laptop fixed and actually managed to retrieve her lost data in her spoilt hard drive. Im such a kind person la. Do all these for her. She wanted to treat me to something but i was like "NO~~~". How can a guy be treated by a girl? So totally wrong! Then we negotiated and stuff. But end result was still no. haha!

I got my PI back. It really is so stupid. I did not know that i must define difficult words in the PI and i did not really know that "attenuation" is a difficult word. Is "attenuation" really a difficult word? So any way, my PI needs to be improved on but i have totally no idea of how to.

OH OH! I got my gigantic battery charged already! But both me and my father gave up the idea of using our circuit to charge cause it was too much a hassle. He brought home a laboratory power supply from his office and we used it to charge that big big battery. We used constant current to charge it at 2 ampere. Took like erm 20+ hours to get it fully charged. And the 20 hours is because we could not take it anymore to wait for it to be charged so we increased the current to 2.5amps. Now i got a super big capacity 12V car battery and hmm whats in my mind? A amplifier running from it? Not likely cause 12V is seriously not enough to provide enough voltage swings for loud music levels. Preamp running off battery? Possible but i don't need a preamp. CD player runnign off battery? Most likely!

Next week and the week after is the full of test week. Total crap. Taking a break now from all that reading to blog. Okay, i better get back to mugging.

Aha! Back with blogging. Damn I have got this project work thing and i have this Prelim Ideas (PI) thing to settle by wednesday. Thats like so fast! The bad thing is that i have not even started on it although i have some idea of who am i going to do about. The problem is that i don't know how to write a PI report! ARGH! Stupid Project work. If i can remember, okay i will try to remember, to go to the library tomorrow and take a look at past year's project works.

Saturday and Sunday are the usual stuff. But hey! On sunday, my father and I embarked on a project to build a battery charger. It all started with my father and his flat car battery. One day when he woke up and decided to drive his car, his car decided not to start. So he called some number on his mobile, yada yada yada voom and WHALA! There is a car battery in my room! But then it was flat. I tried running a 12V computer fan and the fan spinned very slowly and the battery only read 9.6V with the fan load. So my father came up with this circuit which i could only manage to understand roughly how it works after my father explained like 3-4 times.

So we gathered all the components and started to burn solder! After around 1 hour plus, we came up with this. We only did the logic circuit part where the hysteresis was concerned. The big capacitor is used to simulate a battery.

The back side of the breadboard.

My workspace after a few hours. Very messy right!

Tested and fine tuned that logic circuit for very long. Changed a few components here and there and thankfully, there was this great software called LTSpice and it is free for download. Used it to run many simulations so that we did not need to keep changing components to get the logic pattern we wanted. By the end of the day, we got it ready and the next thing to do will be to add on the remaining part of the circuit.

So today there was chapel. A external band was here again. I so love external bands cause they really can play good music. I'm not saying that AC's Christian Fellowship is bad but its just that they keep singing the same songs until it starts to get a little bit boring. Setup, lay cables, connect this and that. Done. After chapel, keep everything. Intrestingly, the piano girl said thanks to me! I was quite shocked when someone actually thanked MRC for helping them.

Anyway, a long day awaited me and by the time it was halfway through, i was already half dead. Did not have a good sleep the night before. For PE, we had gym lessons. Jin Zhe was like "YAY!!!!!!" when the teacher announced it. Did some machines but there was very little time to go through the things i normally did.