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Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 6 /6

24th Dec Sunday- The days just seem to pass by faster and faster, this is the last day in Medan, Indonesia, also our rest day where we get to do sightseeing and shopping. Got out of bed 8am local time which means about 6 hours of sleep from the last night (where many got less having BBQ...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 5/6

23th Dec Saturday - It bag packing time and we are heading to Brastagi! We were told to split our bags into 2 sets, one to bring up, the other left at home so we can pick it up on our way back tomorrow (& it beats carrying all our luggage up there too). Breakfast this time,...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 4/6

22th Dec Friday - Today would be the mental hospital day visit, for many it will be a first time experience stepping into one, coupled with all kinds of freaky stories Ning told us the day before. Breakfast was hokkein mee on banana leaf before embarking on about an hour's long journey to the hospital which is...
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Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 3/6

21th Dec Thursday - Woke up early in the morning, then it's an hour plus trip out of Kota Medan to another neighboring smaller town where we encountered rather interesting padi fields and cow crossings upon reaching the rural area. Where the old folks home we are visiting for the day is located. Old folks home visit We were...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 2/6

20th Dec Wednesday – 8.30am (Medan Time) Woke up with feeling very sleepy after last night's meeting, had only 6 1/2 hours of sleep. Recapping on the meeting from last night we tied down and finalized the tasks to do. The plan is to do origami & balloons for the primary school students chaired largely by the...
Polytechnic

Rotaract Medan 2006 Trip Day 1/6

19th Dec Tuesday - 7.50am (SGT) Flight from Changi Airport to Medan International Airport. It had been raining the last whole days, but that didn't drench our sprits nor delay our scheduled 1 hour flight to Medan. We landed and cleared customs, little do we know we “brought the rain over” from Singapore as well. We were...
Gadgets

Eten glofiish M700

Though this might not be the latest of news, but hey had been researching on this phone for a few weeks now and it would actually be out mid-end this month in Singapore as said by an ETEN carrier here. Yes though it won't have a 5MP camera with VGA 30fps video, a keypad and funky looks...
Polytechnic

3D Stereolithography Printing with Stratasys FDM & Z-Corp

Met up with Angelvin this morning to discuss NYAA Gold matters, it turns out that alot of my daily activities actually accomplished almost all aspects of NYAA, it's just all about writing and putting it into report... whee! Headed down to the Rapid Prototyping Center to meet KM thereafter. This semester's product design and development will see...
Polytechnic

Medan Indonesia Community Service Trip

Alot of stuffs have been happening lately, namely in preps for all the events next week - the week before christmas. While most the limelight is on Christmas shopping for PS3 and Nintendo Wii, there's chalet planning on my side, ironically for only one day as I would be flying off to Medan for a volunteer community...
Blog

Dinner with Primary School Classmates

Just as Geoff flew back to Melbourne last Thursday, it's another reunion with my old primary school classmates. Had dinner at Suntec's Country Manna where I had the chefs recommendation of the beef cubes on pasta and the usual set, all for $27 including the extras. Ironically this outing was planned 6 months ago, but last minute...
Blog

Geoff’s Singapore Visit

It's time of the year again where my old SAJC classmate Geoffery comes by from Melbourne to Singapore for a visit. Well, he's not exactly Australian if you are wondering, just an undergrad studying there, based largely in Singapore and Hongkong. Sunday was the intended day for the outing. But most of the gang couldn't make it...
Sports & Runs

SCM 06 Timings and Results Out

:mrgreen: The Standard Chartered Marathon results & timings are out on runpix.com. And check out the headlines on the Straits times today, the Marathon Tire Lady is on it! Whoa! Shaun's SCM 06 results: Overall Result: 1761st of 7214 who finished (top 24th percentile with 5453 finishers behind) Gender Placing: 1580th (top 25th percentile with 4745 finishers behind) Age Division (20-24): 251st...
Sports & Runs

Post Standard Chartered Marathon 06

RACE REPORT You've finished, we see a Winner! As anticipative as I was last night trying to sleep at 10pm, the next moment it's already time to wake up at 4:15am. Left the house at 4:50am for hawker breakfast. Disappointingly, most breakfast stores, though open had not started selling yet (I remembered eating there at an earlier time...
Sports & Runs

Standard Chartered Marathon (SCM) Plans

Bags packed and ready for the big event tomorrow. :mrgreen: With some new found time this afternoon while loading up songs into the MP3 player, (mmm 5hrs of songs should be enough...) let me just get on with sharing my marathon plans. PRE RACE Will be doing some slight stretching later before bedtime (target 10pm as any earlier, I...
Interesting Stuffs

Bicycle Outruns Cops On Highway

Can't believe it? Well watch it, show from a overhead patrol helicopter, so video can get rather shuttery at times. All thanks to 18 wheelers.
Sports & Runs

More Adidas Adizero Tags

Just a few more ideas down the road... Right Race Orientation Eminent Fart Boost Current and Past Perfect Tense Please overtake on the right... Runner on steriods I am on Reserve! It's a Thurday! Finally, 3 dreaded tests are cleared early-week and reports handed up. So it's a clear and a peace of mind for me this coming Sunday's Marathon without any outstanding work to...
Sports & Runs

SVM 2006 SportphotoX photos

The Swissotel Vertical Marathon 2006 photos are out! (Search for yours at sportsphotoX) whoa haha and there is no stinky watermark placed over the photos this time on... Just search as usual using your name or Bib No, then all your photos will show... save! save! save! Whee! Its Wednesday, 4 more days to Mara-day. Will be pasta-fying...
Polytechnic

SP Bookprize for outstanding performance?

I've always longed for some sort of "monetary award" one can always get from being just the plain top few in class. Not that I've ever been the top few in class but it's definitely something to look forward to when you know you are doing well and not too hot headed about it. Moreover, I've applied...
Sports & Runs

SCM Race Expo, Adizero Motivation Tags

Collected my SCM Race pack at Suntec today. Meeting my trackmates at Suntec itself (Weiwen, Xiaoqiang, Elrick, Youboon, Alex), after being 1hour late as I've to help Sheena with some photography works at the esplanade drive park. My Bib no is 3392. The race pack collection was fast, professional and a breeze. Just hope this year's baggage...
Polytechnic

Honesty, the best policy

My classmate JB today found a plastic file folder in the library when using the free access computers. Later do he showed us the contents of his find - Lecture pad, Singapore River Raft 2007 donation card and misc. homework inside - No tell tale sign of it's owner. Initially we thought of returning the folder to the...
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