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.