Project for other people

Its the first time I'm building stuff for other people instead of for myself. I was approached by Kin to build a external crossover for this person named Jia Ern. Well got to work and this is the final product.








This external crossover will be used to drive 2 pairs of GOTO drivers. GOTO don't come cheap. At least $7k a pair =/ So kind of nervous to know if the crossover i built will work out well. Gonna know the answer later this evening. Fingers crossed. Oh and i want to thank Kin for giving me the chance to build this project (:

402 Chalet

Woots! Had 402 chalet from Monday to Wednesday. Great time! Felt able to let my real self out again with 402 people. Such a great bunch.

Met at Tiong Bahru MRT station and we sort of stoned there for awhile to wait for Darran to arrive. During that time, I learnt how to solve a rubiks cube! yay! Darran came and we went off for pasir ris. Ate lunch at pasir ris then headed to Costa Sands resort. The place is ultimate. You have to pay to get into the chalet grounds. $1. ZZZ. I book a chalet inside the place and i still have to pay for admission fee. What a smart way to earn money.

Went into our rooms and began our Dai Dee, Bridge and Asshole Dai Dee session. The Asshole Dai Dee session was a big one with like 3 decks of cards together. Dylan was like going "WOAH i can have 5 of a kind man!" It was super funny, especially when Dylan could have got the king's seat if he did not kept on passing to let his allies to put cards. LOL

Had dinner at the Kopitiam just outside the wild wild wet theme park. Decided to eat kway chap with Clement, DAMN WRONG CHOICE! It was like the soup of the kway is prepared by pouring LARGE amounts of dark soy sauce mixed with water. WTF! Salty like nonsense. I was even more stupid to buy 2 kway for myself-_-. My taste buds sort of screwed up because of the saltiness. Had to compensate by having desert. Had chendol dessert which i eventually felt super cold eating it. After dinner, we went to play pool. Only played one game out of the one hour. Talked cock with Ronnie, Gavin and Darran. Talk about dunno wat ghost stories, economics and bla bla bla. But it was quite pleasing to get together and talk cock and catch up with friends.

After the pool session, Ronnie and me decided to play table soccer. Super fun game. I won him by one goal. Then after the solo fight, we decided to have a 2V2 challenge. Me and clement one team, Dylan and Ronnie another. The score was quite close but eventually, me and clement won.

Went back to the chalet and watched transformers. After that, i sort of like played cards a little and dozed off at a small corner. The place was frankly speaking, overcrowded.

Second day came. Me and clement was hungry so we went to KOPITIAM again to eat breakfast. Had peanut pancake and tea. Saw Tze Hui and Kah Hwee. They were going to Wild Wild Wet to play i guess. After that, we went back to the chalet and played cards. Played till about noon then went for lunch, at KOPITIAM AGAIN!!! Had Mee Hoon Kway this time round. After lunch, we went to escape team park! First time there for me.

I was like super scared cause i had fears of myself dropping down. First ride i took was this turning thing. It was mild for me la, so did not feel terrible. Then they wanted to go for this wild wild wet alike thingy. Sit in a boat and fall down a "waterfall". Quite scared for that too. Then we went to play pirate ship. I was scared la, so i sat at the centre. The feeling was already quite bad. Then they wanted to play inverter. I was like WTF GO AWAY!!! IM NOT GOING TO SIT THAT GAY SHIT THING!!! Its like it hangs u upside down for a few seconds la! siao! So decided to not take that ride lor. Went to BK with another guy who also did not dare take the inverter. So we sat outside BK cause we were all wet and cold. Talked cock and then went to find them again. They were still in the queue la... but nearing the start. So we waited for awhile and finally got a chance to see them go up. Seeing them only made me quite giddy, so not taking the ride was a good move by me. After the inverter ride, we went to play go kart. Aiyo, if not for jamming the brake so quickly ah, i would have got first place le... zzz. I braked so hard that i skid off the track. haha im still not the last, cause someone also kept skidding off the track. The track was very slippery cause it was raining. After go kart, we went to haunted house. Kai Jie was like WTF screaming non stop. I think 90% of the chance i got scared cause of kai jie and not the haunted house-_- Halfway through the thing, we decided to hide in the haunted house and scare the next group. hehe. So anw, after haunted house, we went crazy with pirate ship. Took it continuously cause there was a short queue. We got to jump queue cause no one wanted to sit in the center and there were empty seats. After first ride, we got off and almost instantly got on again. Then after we got off, we decided to wait till our turn to seat at the last row. Seating in the centre and at the last row made a huge difference. I felt real scared that my feat trembled when going down. Although scared, we still did all the guai lan stuff like faking to be scared and stuff. But im really scared!!! This pirate ship is not the most scary one that i had taken before. The scariest one i ever taken was at lotte world in Korea. Felt extremely terrible after the last ride. Almost vomited when the ship stopped. The rest of the people wanted to take that wild wild wet thingy again but i was feeling so giddy that i gave it a miss and sat at one corner. Dozed off while waiting for them.

After that, went to play this wheel of fortune thingy and out of the 4 tickets we used to spin, we only got 2 consolation prizes :( haha. Bad luck i guess. So after that, the rest of the people went to play rainbow but i really could not take anymore so just sat at one corner and wait.

Went back to chalet and by then it was like 8 plus. Showered and went out for dinner. KOPITIAM AGAIN!!!!! ZZZZZZZZ

After dinner, back to chalet and more dai dee. At around 12, we gave winston a birthday surprise. It was his birthday! Happy Birthday Winston!!!

Went out later to cheers to get instant noodles. Ate it at the chalet and i went to sleep. Tired...

Had a really good time with them (:

everything i have not blogged about

on monday, there was MRC bbq. Kind of low turn up rate but still had quite some fun. Met Shermaine and ZX at around 1pm then went to eat lunch and buy stuff for the bbq at Giant. Reached Miss Tay's house at around 4.30pm. Got a chance to go up to her house cause only got 3 of us. hehe. Her house looks very beautiful. Very contemporary looking. It was like drizzling and raining so heavily in the afternoon so it was kind of looking bleak. We decided to continue BBQ in the end. The weather was quite kind to us cause it only drizzled halfway through our bbq. Our seniors came and just ate lor. Then Miss Tay was kind again and let everyone into her house. We played with her dog and her dog kept peeing. Miss Tay says that she does that when she gets excited. haha. So anw, Christiana was scared of dogs, so we sort of made the dog run to her and she climbed onto Miss Tay's dinning table. Crazy...

So BBQ was fun. Then came tuesday. Helped Reuben to solder cables he needed for his church camp. He came to my house at around 12 and be began soldering and testing so many cables. Ended the soldering session at around 3pm. So we soldered for 3 hours and i breathed in about 3 hours of lead too...-_-

Wednesday. BORED TO DEATH DAY.

But received a phone call from my father to ask me go work at his office.

So did it and on thursday, i went to his office. First task. Repair a computer. Took me like 10 mins-_-. Fault, spoilt graphics card. Plugged out the graphics card and used the onboard graphics card and wala, a useable computer which was originally intended to be scrapped. Then i sort of stoned around and waited to get more stuff to do. My father brought me to meet with Leon, my boss for the next 2 days. The whole office were like "upgrading" their burn in section's equipments thus they needed this parallel cable. So for the next 2 days, i will be sitting at a table during office hours soldering and producing this special cable.

The cable was a video splitter thing. 1 In, 4 Out. 1 male RCA head and 4 male BNC head. Took me like 1 hour? to produce my first cable. But after that, i improved in speed. It consisted of this metal bracket which held the 4 male BNC heads and the cable. I had to use the cable to parallel to the 4 heads. Too bad i did not take a photo of it. But basically what it does is that instead of using the normal 4 cables for the input of their equipment, they now only need 1 such cable for 4 inputs for their equipment. The idea is good. But the way it was implemented is quite bad in my opinion. The design of that cable is quite flawed. The person designing this cable obviously did nto consider it for long term usage. By the looks of the cable, i have a very strong feeling that this cable would need to be repaired every 2-3months? cause its really quite weak despite using 3 cable ties at different positions to secure the cable from moving.

But anw, i was given this to make so i had to make it lor. During lunch time on the first day, i went out with Dad for lunch. We drove to this industrial place to buy screws. The story behind why we need to buy screws for the company is really toot. I also nothing to say. The screws are for the chairs. Amazingly, their chairs need to buy screws cause its missing-_- I mean like if the chair you are sitting on dropped a screw, won't your immediate reaction would be to pick up the screw and put it back in place? So weird la. They have missing screws cause their screws dropped and they lost it. The screw is like damn big.

We had lunch first and my lunch was only $2. Very cheap. Then we walked around the area to look for screws cause the first shop we visited did not have this kind of screws. The screws we needed used the imperial units for measurement whereas the screws that the first shop we visited only sold screws that followed the metric units for measurements. As we walked around the area, i spotted alot of shops that did all sorts of things. Metal welding, glass cutting blah blah blah. We arrived at this shop. Found it, bought it and left. Went back to the office and continued soldering. Managed to create 13 of this cables on the first day in about 7 hours.

Second day, went back again to the same spot and continued soldering. My brother also went to the office as no one was at home to help look after him. He did some assessment books first then came to help me abit. I got him to help me mount the 4 BNC heads onto the metal bracket. He did 8 of them. Changed the method at which i produced the cables and managed to create more cables in a shorter time. Managed to make 16 cables in 5 hours.

So total damage to myself is like 2 very very sore hands from using the pliers to tighten the nuts and bolts and strip the wires and ALOT of lead fumes into my body. Best part is, I am probably not going to be paid. But maybe this time i will be (: i hope.

Class Outing (or should i call it my wallet?)

So Thursday, we sort of had a class outing. Such a sudden thing. I only got to know that i am supposed to provide the venue like on Tuesday night. Anw, me and JinZhe were late la cause of JinZhe's perfect timing =X. He was supposed to reach my house at 11.30. But end up he called me at 11.30 telling me he was only at clementi-.- By the time he reached my house, it was like 12 noon. I got changed then we left. Damn i should have wore short pants with sandle instead la, although like uncle... BUT STILL, IF I WORE SHORT PANTS, THE LIKELIHOOD OF ME LOSING MY WALLET IS NEAR 0....sianz...But anw, met up with everyone at like 1.25, so we were like 55mins late. Sorry.

Then the details i lazy to blog... But then i lost my wallet after playing Daytona la....Cause my pants quite tight and if i put my wallet in the pocket, i cant even sit properly. so i put the wallet on the top lor. play until so high that i forget to take my wallet. 5 mins later when i realise it and go back there to find, its GONE.......!!!!!

Tried searching for it high and low, but it was really gone. Can only blame myself for being so forgetful. Thanks to those people who helped me find. Cynthia, Derrek, Bong, JinZhe. Thanks to you all (:

End up only JinZhe sleepover at my house cause vivian last minute pang seh. So me and JinZhe only become gay party-_- Lucky he come over to my house, if not my parents would like nag at me more. hehe. So we stayed up till like 2.3o then i knocked out. JinZhe was happily playing dota.

Then next day came. We played CS over lan. Quite fun la. One on One.

We left house at around 1.30pm then went to chua chu kang to make my new EZ link card. Wah damn it need to take photo, then create that card need 19 bux. On hand, i only had 30 bux. Still had to feed myself and my brother. So end up after doing everything and getting my card, i got $5 left for myself and my brother. haha.

Thanks to JinZhe for following me around to assist me in making my card.

This event of me losing my wallet, somehow made me feel for a moment that the world is dark cause the person who found my wallet never return but then it also made me feel that this world has a bright side cause there are so many people who are willing to help me find my wallet. Thanks everyone (:

Seniors Night

One word. Tiring.

Well funny shit happened too. haha. On Sunday, we wanted to go back to school to run last checks before we headed down to shangri-la to do our setup. We also wanted to do a mock setup to ensure that the sound would be sufficient. We were in school at around 10+am. Started doing our checks till like 12+ then we went for lunch outside. When we came back to school, much to our horror, the school was locked. Shit was the first word that came to everyone's mouth. The security guards were so evil. They just refused to open the gate to let us back in. All our valuables were in MR room and some even had our house keys in there. For me, my laptop was inside, so no laptop for one day :'( But well its at least better to be locked outside than to be locked inside :P

This was a big problem cause our stuff was scattered around in the hall. Terrible situation. The guards refused to open the doors and OM just hanged up on us leaving us with a note of "don't disturb my holiday" -_- So end up, we went over to Zhong Xian's house to stay over and go back to school early in the morning. Did just that and headed back to school on Monday at 5am. Reached school at 5.30am and we were also still quite worried that the gates would be locked and the guard would not open it. But hehe, when we reached there, i asked the guard "Is the school opened already?" HE SAID YES!!!!!!! AHHHH!!!!!!!! That kind of happiness and feeling of being relief is just great. We were so happy that we RAN into the school. I think the guard would be thinking whats wrong with these 5 people, open school only mah. Haha.

First stop was MR room. All our stuff was like frozen. Super cold cause the aircon has been turned on for like 8hours and the thermostat is set at 16 degrees :x We put our stuff down and then me and KD went to LT4 to collect the snake from Faith Methodist Church. The rest went to the hall first. We started to pack everything into our flight cases and just prayed real hard that we would not miss out anything. Fortunately, we got everything ready by 6.20+am. All of us supposed to meet at 6.45 so we were kind of ahead of time. We started playing badminton in the hall but with squash and tennis rackets. Everyone arrived and had a short briefing with them. Shifted everything down from the hall and began the wait for the lorry. The lorry was LATE. zzz. When it came, we went OMFG WHY THE LORRY IS LIKE THAT ONE!? It was like those sing chinese opera show kind of lorry with no aluminum tail gate which made it really hard to load up heavy items! And we had 4 of them. Our amp rack which was super duper heavy cause of the 3 amps within it, and the other 2 flight cases which had almost all of our cables in there from our room. haha.

We got the void decks benches and tables to form a stair case thing so that we could load it up easier. Thanks to the councilors, we were able to load everything up. We brought along 11 speakers for this whole event cause shangri-la was really just very big. When we reached there, we begin our setup. Set a target for every section of the setup but we did not meet it. Well cant really blame them cause the scale was rather big and the helpers we got were lacking in technical experience. Well thats the exact reason why we brought them along, to let them learn, make mistakes and gain experience. I had to setup the console and lay the snake and that itself took quite some time. Even me myself did not meet my own target of 30mins. Had a prime location of having the console at the centre and back of the whole hall so that i could monitor the sound better. The ballroom was on the wide side so we had some problems with laying the speakers in that manner. We were rather unsure too of how to place the speakers cause totally no experience with wide venues. Initially, we started off with a plan of having improvised subwoofers cause the school did not have any. We took the EAW speakers and passed only the low frequencies into it. We wanted to use the DIY speaker done by our dunno how many great grand senior but sadly, it doesn't work. But then, i spotted the subwoofers that came with shangri-la's ballroom and decided to ask their sound crew if could we tap into their subs. They were great people. Kind of funny too (: At first when they saw the amount of equipments that we brought in, they asked Zhong Xian "I thought u only asked for projector screens?" Haha. I guessed that they did not expect schools to have such stuff la.

Tapped into their subwoofers and the sound was just really great. We used our DIYed kick mic, and it got broke after that. Some KUKU person went to pierce the woofer cone :'( But anw, with this DIYed kick mic and coupled with the MD421 and the subwoofers, the kick sound was just SUPERB! Their subs were some good stuff. 18" woofers with integrated crown amp inside. Really can shake the whole place. I played some bass music from my computer and from far, i could feel the ground shaking if i pushed it real hard. I walked around to check the sound pressure level and when i got close to the subs with our speakers at the corner, wah almost died. The bass makes u feel as if u are going to have a heart attack but it felt good for me:p Decided that i shall not have to much bass after all.

Got everything up and running at around 11am and the SCs were kind of surprised with the sound cause it was way better than expected i guess. Cause got subs mah...lol. Did sound check till like 1pm then had my lunch while the rest went on to duct tape the cables. Seriously, the back stage was like wah lao damn messy with all the cables. First time i see so much cables too.

Had Macs for lunch and really gobbled it down very quickly as soundcheck for the bands was about to begin. After lunch, the morning crew was dismissed.

The bands started coming in to rehearse. I was on board that day so i did sound check for every single band and recorded the settings down. First time i did it this way. Kind of fun too.

Finished sound check for everyone and then we began our lazing around session. As we lazed, Shang's sound crew came down and said that our duct tapping of the snake was kind of messy and it would fall out very soon. He gave us a few rolls of duct tape which was wider and better quality and that allowed us to duct tape the WHOLE snake. THEY ARE JUST GREAT PEOPLE TO WORK WITH! Their personality are also very good. There was this uncle in the sound crew, he joked alot la! When i asked him what tape he giving us, he said video tape -.- very lame but still... haha. Then we wanted to borrow an XLR cable cause ours was not long enough. Then he cracked a dirty joke saying that his longer, if u get what he means.

So anw, got ourselves ready for the night. We were kind of bored at first cause nothing was happening. Ran my last sound check before the actual thing began then we went to pretend we are J2's and joined in their cocktail session. haha.

FINALLY, the event started. The J2's started entering the ball room and the dinner started. My seniors came and find us at the console and Reuben kept taking food from his table to give us. haha Thanks man! But in the end, we didn't really eat finish everything and the waiter cleared it away for us :x

The bands performed and the whole night just went on quite smooth la. Got a few feedbacks here and there and its actually caused by the subwoofer and not our speakers. Thats how amazing their subs are. haha. I heard that the backstage had a few problems or two but from where i was at the console, it seemed like nothing went wrong.

The whole event sort of ended with the emcee's saying good night and me playing some rock music which many say that i have a bad taste for rock music -_- But quite rock mah, so much bass. It was supposed to make people dance but no one danced -_- SO SAD LA!!!! zzz

Everyone sort of wanted to stay on but the councilors had to make them leave. They had to resort to turning off the lights to make people leave. But still they were staying. LOL. But slowly they left la. Began our pack up and aiyo so many cable to pack. ESPECIALLY THE SPEAKONS AH! DAMN JIA LAT. RGB CABLE ALSO QUITE JIA LAT. Loaded everything back into the flight cases and loaded it onto the truck. Took the truck back began unloading.

Slept over in school cause it was so late already.

Overall, i think the sound was quite good and it went on quite smoothly. Hoped all our seniors had a great night yesterday. (:

Tuition

Wah almost got a shock from today's tuition. Reached there at around 1.20 and when i went in, omg no one except the tuition teacher! I thought i would be having one on one tuition with him this time round la! That would be quite scary cause i have never had one on one tuition before. But then, i heard the all so familiar clacking of crystals slippers and i breathed a sigh of relief. Wah felt better after that. Then slowly everyone strolled in. It was like almost full house today.