Elliott Tan's Birthday 11:17 AM

Elliott Tan's birthday today, sent an ecard. Dun wanna say goodbye.

Last Day of IP Symposium 12:27 PM

Today is the last day of IP Symposium.  The whole thing was pretty fun, quite sad today is the last day :-(

Moot parliament was quite an experience today.  It seems that many people use it as an excuse to hurl insults at each other!  Lots of comments about zoos and monkeys as we were debating whether to allow condos to be built in nature reserves. :-)  It was fun actually.  Can't quite imagine paul as the Sergeant-of-Arms, going around, whacking people with a mace! :-)  Cannot understand why Prop won though. :-(

So fun, I'm so doing this again next year!

Alternative Energy 12:20 PM

Today is presentation day!  I had to do three rounds for three different groups.

It was overall quite fun and interesting.  There was a question about the drop in efficiency when placing a wire mesh around a tidal generator, to which Jonta replied "There are two types of fish.  The big fish and the small fish", to the roaring laughter of the audience! ;-)

I think it was pretty educational, getting people to conserve energy and our earth.  We only have one home.  It was fun I guess, and I hope I have made a difference today.

Alternative Energy Prep 12:14 PM

Today was prep for IP Symposium paper presentation.  To remind myself again, I am doing on alternative energy.  The whole day we stayed in school to do the presentation.  "Law" was in charge.  There were a lot of funny comments.  We had to skip the electives though, so sad! :-(

Anyway I am using Keynote from iWork'08, because iWork + Mac rocks. :-)

Singapore Science Centre 10:17 AM

Today was very interesting.  We went to the Singapore Science Centre, to see the climate change and water conservation exhibits.  BTW, their new logo looks awful.  They should stick to the old one, I liked it.

There was a short briefing before we started, and it was quite weird.  The woman who was giving the briefing had really, really odd pronunciation.  She pronounced "schist rock" as "cheese rock".  And said literally about 250 "Okay"s.  We counted.  I really had to try to stop laughing.

We went to climate change exhibit first, and there were quite a lot of interesting exhibits.  I like the animation for the ice cores exhibit, must make it a point to find out how it was done.  Also, I got the company name for the semivirtual-reality exhibits.  The energy saving home had a lot of interesting devices like the power aware cord which glows brighter and blinks faster as more power is used.  And the flower light, which blooms when less power is used.  (Above)

Wanted to see the Genome exhibit, but no time, so sad! :-(

I tried to find all these at the things at the gift shop; I had made a note to myself to buy them, but I could not find them.  How upsetting.

The water exhibit was quite interesting.  I liked the exhibit where they projected an earth mapped to a sphere.  Need to find out how that was done!

Lunch was a quick one, at a cafe at the back, had popcorn chicken and a ham and cheese sandwich. 

Went for the IMAX movie about the colorado river after that.  The movie was good.

After that went for the gift shop, where I bought a tube of touchable bubbles, blue topaz and 3 packets of freeze-dried ice cream.  Andrew says that the ice cream was very nice, raving about it!  It is nice by the way.

Took MRT to Eunos back, then bus 13.  Very fast.  Need to prepare for alternative energy presentation, but all in all nice day.  Good retail therapy! :-)

Desktop Garden Doing ... 3:47 PM

Doing desktop garden today.  Met up with Winata and Koga at my home.  Quite fun, but very messy! :-)  Potting material all over the floor.  Kept needling Jonta about not appearing for our meetings. :-)We went to Parkway Thai for lunch buffet.

Desktop Garden Stuffs 3:31 PM

Today was fun.  I went to nursery today to get plants for desktop garden.  It seems that I have very conflicting senses of design with other people.  The selection of plants is quite amazing.  Also the pre-made desktop gardens were actually very nice, should buy one. :-)  

Got an Airplant too! Yay ;-)

The Day After Tomorrow 8:31 AM

Today was the first day of IP Symposium.  The opening address was from some PUB person.  Lucas and her argued about the amount of clean energy used in Singapore.

We watched The Day After Tomorrow after that, "Law" chose the movie.  But it was very good, trying to get the movie from Jonta Koga.

twentyfour advert 8:29 AM

The twentyfour ad was shown today, good comments.  www.twentyfour.co.nr.  Maths presentation today also, went quite well except for one slide where the animation went awry.