test over. report next.
dedicated post.
December 27, 2009I’m now in the final leg of my FYP module and I’m already done with my hardware component and it is already up and working. Shall take some pictures and post it in the future. So far we’re left with report, poster and then final presentation and exhibition. I don’t know how am I suppose to exhibit my project because the motor speed is damnnn sloww.. That’s what you get when you have a tight budget. Not exactly tight budget, but rather you just spend all your budget once which makes it seem like you have a tight budget.
Got an A grade for my Human Factors module which I’m quite surprised and really happy about it. I know I will do quite well in that paper and was hoping for a B+ instead of an A. But since I’m given A, so just take it! 😀 But the rest of my module… chui la. Still waiting for another paper’s result which I don’t really expect much of it.
Had a blast on my 21st! Thanks to all who came down and celebrated with me. Apologies if I’m a bad host. Was feeling quite sick that day so yeah. Didnt had the energy to go around entertaining people, but still, many many thanks! So what’s the deal of turning 21? Go casino? But I don’t gamble I don’t know how to gamble. LOL.
Went for my short getaway after that. Had a great time and really nice time over there. The scenery is awesome and thank god it didn’t rain that heavily throughout the entire stay there. 😀 Many thanks to that special one 🙂
Then comes Christmas which i spent it alone. Not much happenings, just bum and nua around at home. Start to play my Call of Duty (was a birthday gift actually) took me quite a while to get used to the graphics, makes me feel giddy after sometime. Toooo long didn’t touch on any RPG games already. I think after all these bumming around and nua-ing, my dark circles ain’t that dark anymore! 😀 Hooray~
looonggg time ago.
November 13, 2009It’s been donkey months, but don’t worry people, I’m not dead yet. School and FYP didn’t successfully make me jump off down any building yet. Infact, I’m still surviving quite well and I’m 90% done with my FYP ( time to shake leg in lab) and about 8 more academic weeks to the end of my tertiary education.
FYP assessment was quite a breeze (yeah, i know i talked about it on the previous post. now this is the 2nd assessment) and cool, this time round there’s self and peer evalutation. Time to do some backstabbing and self praise. Well, for all I know I might be the one being backstab at. Back to the presentation, at least, I did manage to understand my C codes and explained it in clear details which brings in a contradiction because I have clearly no idea what my embedded system module is all about (it is also in C code). I’m going to be so screwed for the test next week. FML.
Going through this period of time where I have 8 academic weeks left before I graduate also makes me think what I want to do in the future, many have heard my choice of being a flight engineer. But then I’m also thinking whether I should give a gamble for OCS cause you only live once (Well, I’m always contemplating between choices).It’s not that I’m fickle minded about my career but rather, you want the best for yourself and the people around you. After all, I’m still joining the force anyway so I’m not exactly fickle minded in a sense. But the question remains, how far can you go when you’re NOT a scholar. Ancient Generals aren’t that book smart, but they are able to make split seconds decision and convinced people of their decision, they don’t go to battles carrying writing pad and calculators and start to do equations on how the war is going to be fought.
To lead, to excel, to overcome. Let’s just start from the back for me to overcome myself and then to lead and excel.
HA!
August 12, 2009HAHAHA! It has been don’t know how many ungodly months since I updated this dusty blog    “As what Clement name it as”
Been very very busy with school, Final Year Project and final papers are coming in less than 3 weeks time. Saw my schedule and lucky I don’t have to be back on a Saturday for it.
FYP assessment on this coming Wednesday which is 2 more days and things are still quite messed up in all ways and just hope on the day itself it would be so messed up that it will become so beautifully in place. Afterall, the assessment is only 40 mins, just crap through the way!
NAPFA is also coming and my Mizuno had to die on me recently. All the sole is glued temporarily by me for now and I don’t know how long it can last. IÂ mean, some of the rubber soles are gone and left the cushion part to run on which provides no grip on the track and it’s raining and I’ve been eyeing on this AdiZero Mana :
hot eh?
Below are the pictures of my FYP that I’m not so proud of cause it’s not beautifully set up yet and it’s half done, still have whole lots of features that are not integrated into yet.
that’s alot of money
July 24, 2009| July 24, 2009 |
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Pay, perks of new SGX chief
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| He will also get $4.8m as compensation for loss of incentives at Nasdaq |
| By Gabriel Chen |
| SINGAPORE Exchange (SGX) will pay incoming chief executive Magnus Bocker a guaranteed base salary of $750,000 a year and a minimum variable bonus of $933,000 for his first seven months.
The bourse operator announced on Thursday that Mr Bocker, who is currently president of Nasdaq OMX, will also get $4.77 million over three years as compensation for loss of long-term incentives and bonuses from the job he is leaving. Of this amount, $2.63 million will be paid when he takes up the SGX top post. Mr Bocker, 47, is replacing Mr Hsieh Fu Hua as SGX CEO, and he will take up his new position from Dec 1 for an initial three-year term, the company announced earlier this week. His other perks include a housing allowance of $300,000 a year for the first two years, relocation costs of $100,000, a club membership, a car and a driver. These extra benefits are not unusual for CEOs. Apart from pay, other common perks include a car or car allowance, and country club membership – a relatively insignificant portion of the full package. Mr Gary Lai, manager for financial services search firm Robert Walters, said that Mr Bocker’s base salary of $750,000 and anticipated annual bonus of $1.6 million (pro-rated from the $933,000) is a ‘fair amount’ when compared with other company chiefs. Typically, head honchos here have a basic salary of between $200,000 and just over $1 million a year, usually making up 30 per cent of their total package. Mr Lai noted that Mr Bocker’s $4.77 million compensation for loss of long-term incentives and bonuses is somewhat high. As president of Nasdaq OMX, Mr Bocker earned US$3.2 million (S$4.6 million) last year. Mr Hsieh was paid $7.18 million in the year ended June 30 last year, of which $5.3 million was bonuses. |
sundown
June 3, 2009
After 1 whole day of eating bananas, it was Race Day. Damn I still think I look gay in their event tee.
Flagged off at 23.59 from Nicoll Drive, we decided to start from the back because this is our virgin marathon so as to let the better runners start off first, after bout 5 mins of walking from the back to the start line and upon hearing the beep sound (meaning the sensor started clocking our timings) we started our long and winding 42km run.
Riduan broke away from us within like the first kilometer of the run to enjoy his breeze and his music behind and left the 3 of us running together pacing each other not long after that we ran our own individual pace.
Skip the first water point because it’s simply too crowded and went on to the 2nd one and FWAH the crowd is even bigger. Saw Mr Ng (marathon guru), my DnT workshop tech and manage follow his pace from Changi Airport all the way till East Coast Service Road. Stop at the 6th drink station (14km) to adjust my shoe and give my ankle a massage cause I’m feeling the ache already continue to push myself further all the way till the 21km mark and saw that freaking bridge that we have to cross, that’s when I started my run and walk journey. The U turn at Big Splash was the most demoralising one. You’re running towards the U turn and people ran pass your opposite direction cause they have finished. Of course many cheated by crossing over the opposite direction but all 4 of us thought there’s a check point at the U turn so we didn’t cheat =.=
Somewhere along the 25km mark I start to feel hungry and I didn’t bring my PowerBar and the PowerBar at those drinks station were all snapped up! You only see empty paper cups, banana skins and packaging wrap all around the side of the running path. Ran around Bedok Reservoir (another mind challenge route) and then I started to pace with different random people, I overtook them they overtook me, enjoy the breeze, enjoy the scenery and finally I see Hendon Camp! 2km more to finishing line! Start to pick up my pace and there were random cheerleaders from some running club =.= and at this point my ankle is hurtly badly already but I don’t know why I started sprinting back to the finishing line but yeah I did.
Oh! I saw someone popped his knee! Not exactly I can do anything to help him but yeah, my knee feels very loose and needed some screwing up. Didn’t manage to finish within my 6 hours target but heck. At least I didn’t hop on to a cab and cab it to the finishing line 😀
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