Asian Aerospace 2006

Here are some pictures I took during the air display.

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The Airbus A380


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Airbus A380 boasting its maneuverability


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F-15 Eagle


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The F-15E doing a vertical climb (from 1000ft to >10 000ft)


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Aeroplane (top of pic) compared with a bird. Quite a nice perspective picture.


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A training helicopter


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F-16D on static display


The exhibition was very crowded today. Security was very tight and everyone had to pass through metal detectors before being allowed entry into the area. I went together with my Dad and brother.

I wanted to enter the Gripen Fighter Jet cockpit, but the queue was far too long. By 11.15am, there were still at least 30 people infront of us. Thus, we decided to go to the airshow viewing area to wait for the air display to start at 11.30am.

It was cool to see so many fighter pilots walking around. They were in their flight suits which made them look even smarter. It's my dream to be able to wear a flight suit, with a golden wing under my name.

Anyway, the weather was very hot and humid. How nice it would be if the weather here in Singapore were to be cooling. It'd certainly make the exhibition a lot better.

I was also expecting to meet some of my coursemates from SYFC, but I only managed to meet one of them. Probably the others are in other parts of the exhibition area.

The next aerospace exhibition will be held in 2008 by Singapore. The organiser of Asian Aerospace, Reed, is moving to Hong Kong already. Hopefully the Singapore guys can make the Singapore Aerospace exhibition better than Asian Aerospace. :D

I've not been updating the blog for the past few days, just couldn't find the time and was partly lazy as well.

School has been routine, nothing special happened.

I've heard in the newspapers and forums that a girl from NYP had sex with a guy and recorded the process using her handphone. Her friend stole her handphone and published the video online. The video is now floating wild and freely around. I'm sure it'll be a hot topic among students for the next few weeks, even the newspapers have started publishing articles on it.

Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day, a day when lovers celebrate their love for each other. Unfortunately for me, I do not have a valentine to celebrate this special day with. But anyway, it was still a fun day for me.

I was back to school today after being sick since Saturday. I had a really bad sore throat and had to visit the doctor a second time to get a stronger anti-biotic. I feel much better now. After joining to class lineup for assembly, Alicia walked towards me and passed me my first valentine's day gift. I was quite surprised but very happy. Later on during lecture, Doreen gave out candies to all of us, it was very sweet of her too. Jamie then gave out Valentine's day cards to everyone too. Later on in class, Kelvin distributed more chocolates to us, and Yvonne wished us a happy Valentine's day with a pack of porkey choc biscuits. It was really fun collecting gifts. Thinking about it, this will be the last Valentine's Day spent together with girls, after that it'll be an all-male affair in the army, and hopefully I'll get into a University later on.

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Visit to teacher's house

My Chemistry tutor invited my class to his house this afternoon. He lives in a condo-like estate near RJC in Bradell. One of my classmates lives there too, and everyone was making fun of her, calling her my tutor's daughter, maid etc. It was really funny. The route from the entrance we used to his house was long. We had to climb several flights of stairs before finally seeing his block. It was a 2-storey apartment.

I love the design concept of his house. It was like a cottage, and even his bedroom was furnished with wooden furniture. The most surprising thing of all, he did not have a television in his house! He only has 2 laptops to do his work, and probably surf the web for news and entertainment. We played a game called "Split" at his house, quite an interesting game as I've never played it before. He showed everyone some card tricks which were very interesting too.
After that we went to my classmate's house at Hougang for PS2 gaming and mahjong. We stayed there till about 8.30pm before leaving.

It has been a fun day, and with the A levels approaching, I'm sure we'll seldom or never enjoy such moments again. The O level results was released today too, I was not too concerned about it as I've no relatives or friends receiving their results.

There're lots of activites tomorrow, with a tutoring session in the morning to start with, and probably going down town to buy a new pair of sports shoes.

Valentine's day is approaching too, and it doesn't really mean anything to me as I'm not attached... I'm really a lifeless person. Looking at several couples in my class, and many around the college, I just feel that I'm missing something... Hopefully I'll find one soon.

Talk at HCI

I attended a lecture/talk on protein chemistry at Hwa Chong Institution, together with the Science Society today. The journey there took longer than I had expected, probably the bus driver took a longer route. Upon reaching the college, my friends and I were awed by the huge size of the compound. The sports complex was probably half the size of NYJC. The field and track were in very good condition, and everything just amazed me. They had an air-conditioned cafe for students to chill out, and they had a huge range of CCAs like tennis, air-rifle and baseball. But I cannot imagine the amount of competition a student would face in a college where everyone has a perfect score in the O levels.

My friends and I were joking that students could just train for their cross-country by running round the school compund once, haha.

The talk was alright. Students from various schools like CJC, NJC, NYGS, ACJC, SAJC attended the talk. The lecturer was boring. He spoke about his personal life and how people researched on proteins. He could have cracked a joke or two to get the crowd alive, but he didn't. It was still an experience for me though, and hopefully there'll be more of such talks so that I can not only learn but also explore other colleges. :D

Campus Superstar kick-out condemned Weilian in blog

Campus Superstar kick-out, Samuel Tan, condemned Project Superstar winner Weilian in his blog. According to Lian He Wan Bao, his blog has since been removed.

Click here for the scan of the newspaper article

Here's the English translation of his blog entry as written by the Lian He Wan Bao:
The world must be blind, anyone can be superstar.
It's already a mistake to let Weilian take part in the superstar contest.
The aunties and uncles were simply taking pity on him.
Tan Weilian will not able to step out of Singapore, he will only bring shame to Singapore.

Source: HardwareZone forum entry

Another boring day

Lessons ended at around 3:30pm today... it was yet another routine thus boring day. There was a maths lecture test in the morning, the questions were challenging but I managed to scrape through it.

Economics is getting more interesting as the lectures are now touching on macroeconomics such as interest rates, inflation, national income etc. I finally get a better picture of how the banking system works, and how the government formulate statistics such as the consumer price index and inflation rates.

I'm posted to play tennis during PE. I finally get the chance to learn the sport of tennis! :D Only four of us in my class got posted to tennis, the others got posted to soccer.

I'm also attending a talk by a nobel laureate on protein chemistry. Even though I do not take Biology at A Levels, it'll be interesting to learn more about it. As it will be held in Hwa Chong, I'll get the chance to tour the huge school compound.

Nothing much to say already... here's a very beautiful picture of a Boeing jet doing a crosswind landing at dawn.

SYFC Pics

These two pictures were taken after my first solo flight. I did not take other pictures such as after being drenched by mud water as I wasn't prepared with a camera. These pictures were taken by another student there who had a camera. My pants were actually blue in colour, but the water drenched it and it became black.


The instructor who sent me solo


My very tall primary instructor

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Saturday...

I went for a tutoring session today at Yangzheng Pri school. So far I've done 1 tutoring session, this is my second one. I tutored one P6 girl today, and taught her some maths and science. She did not bring her textbook so I didn't really know what to teach her. Oh well, nothing I can do too, hopefully she'll bring textbooks for the next session.

Later on in the evening, my family and I went to my Dad ex-collegue's house, a condo in Bedok. There was actually a tennis game, but it was cancelled due to rain, sad. When the rained stopped, there was BBQ. I ate mostly chicken wings, bee hoon and prawns. I wonder why there was no satay... And yep, collected several red packets :D
I've been drinking some beers this CNY. I drink at least half a can of beer at every house I visit.

I've yet to watch I Not Stupid Too, heard it's a really nice show, hopefully I'll have time to catch it.

I also found out that one of my YFC coursemates got into the PPL course, I'm really happy for him. I think he's the only person from 139 who got into the PPL course as the JC students cannot make it due to A lvls... Hopefully someone from the remaining 4 or 5 in the course will get into PPL, especially those from Poly and Uni.