So that's it

That's it, my last day of work has ended yesterday 31st of July 2009 in Chiyoda Integre, a Japanese company which I have worked for 2 months. I was quite frustrated in my 2nd last day due to some "external" environmental" reasons. Nevertheless, though my last day was rush, there was a tinge of sadness in my heart.

In my opinion, this part time job is more fulfilling than the previous one, which is about the same as what I am doing now.However, I learn about packing, counting involving greatly on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You have to have a calculator always on standby when retrieving and packing goods. Due to numerous faults, wrongdoings or carelessness, I have learnt to be very careful and prudent and also remind my fellow colleagues and packers to be extra careful.

I have learnt about coordination, to priorise things that need to be done. With helpful colleagues around to share the load, things are in better control.

Of course, there are things that I need to improve on. I need to have a better control of my emotions when I am under stress.

Anyway, it is left with only a couple of days before school reopens. I have to be mentally prepared for it with a more seemingly difficult modules.

A month after....

A month after my last post, I am still working part time in that Japanese company. Hmm. There are some changes though within this month. Many part timers have come and left within days. My fellow colleague has also left so I have to take over his responsbilities. My back has also been aching, a sign of excessive hours at work.
Time passes by very quickly at the workplace as I am rushing to retrieve goods, attend urgent shipment cases, helping the packers pack some goods and ensuring that the correct goods are printed with the correct labels. After about a month, I become adapted to the working hours although there was once I overslept on a service 858 bus and reached Changi Airport in the night.
School is starting soon as the atmosphere of bidding modules is arriving. Next week is my last week of work. It will be a lie to say that I will not miss the packers and my supervisor but when you got to go, you got to go. Runescape is still my game during my leisure time.

Just some updates

It has been a while since I have updated my blog. For these two weeks, I have been working in a Japanese company. The job scope is similar to what I have done previously as a warehouse assistant, picking and transporting goods. When I entered for my first day, I have heard that the warehouse computer system had only started just the day before. So, there were things that were needed to clear up.
The working hours are normal 5 day working hours but my colleague and I have been working overtime for these two weeks daily. As a result, it is very tiring till a point that sleep becomes a pleasure to me. Time simply just pass by when we are working.

One more month to school reopen.

Fantasy Route Extension of servic 146

Service 146 will be rerouted to go to Sengkang Interchange to reduce duplication with service 147.

New Extended service 284M

Servic 284M will be introduced with effect from 29th June 2009. The purpose of this amendment is to bring a closer link for residents residing at Clementi Ave 4 to NTUC Fairprice at Clementi Ave 3 which is quite a distance from Clementi Interchange. It operates during the off peak hours during weekdays and the whole day for Saturdays and Sundays and public holidays.

Experience of going to the market

I have gone to the wet market with my mum several times when I was young. However, yesterday was my first time going to the wet market alone to help my mum buy some groceries as she was down with a fever.
In my opinion, it is similar to playing in runescape, in terms of getting the items that I need from the shops. However, the problem is that I don't know exactly where to get the items if not the guidance from my mother.
Next, it was my first time that I cooked a simple corn soup. I have much difficulty cutting the corn. Somehow, I am really bad at using the knife. After twisting, pressing and bending here and there, I realise that cutting is a form of technique that needs to be trained and gained through experience. Perhaps, I should get more involved in cooking.

Back to runescape

After the exams are over, suddenly time seems to have slowed down a lot. I no longer have to spend 3 hours daily travelling to my school from now till August. The economy in my opinion, is still gloomy although there is news recently that Asian markets are started to get "heated up". I am still "jobless". Hehe. To make time move a bit faster, I have decided to play Runescape which I have not played for nearly 4 years already.

The word "Runescape" has led me to reminisce my secondary school days when it was my younger brother who had started playing first. After that, I continued from there and for a period, I feel really bored towards the game and have stopped playing ever since. Once in a while, I will visit its website to see if there are any eye-catching updates.

Runescape has certainly advanced throughout the years. Its graphics has been enhanced tremendously and numerous features have been added to ensure a fair gaming experience for everybody. In its infant stages, or in the period when my brother had just created a runescape account, the walls of a house for example is just a white patch while the ground is a green coloured patch. The facial features of a typical character looks similar to one another in such a way that one cannot tell whether it is a he or a she. After a couple of years, runescape had improved the graphics by adding more finer details to the ground and the virtual buildings in the game itself.

After the period of 4 years that I have not played, runescape has changed its trading system to make trading processes fair and square. A grand exchange system is introduced that acts like a massive virtual market. Instead of typing texts to indicate the person's interest to buy or sell wares, utilising grand exchange is certainly a more efficient way to acquire what we want at a price that we desire. However, in my opinion, due to the new grand exchange system being introduced, the "personalised" trading system or p2p trading has been imposed a maximum net asset transfer. P2P trading cannot exceed the maximum net asset transfer of 5000 runescape coins.

Meanwhile, I am still updating myself about the runescape new features while time is passing by.

Fantasy Route Amendment of service 43

At last, I have found some inspiration to amend service 43 betwen Punggol and Upper East Coast. Service 43 is introduced in around year 2005 or 2006. In my opinion, this service seems to be a combination of service 156 between Sengkang to Yio Chu Kang Rd and 76 from Yio Chu Kang Rd to Marine Parade. After about 3 - 4 years since it was introduced, the demand is heavy in peak hours since it can be light in off peak.

With the fantasy route amendment of service 43 passing by Marine Terrace and Marine Crescent, residents residing there can have a direct link from Marine Terrace and Marine Crescent to Paya Lebar and north-eastern areas.

Amendment of Service 882

Service 882 will be amended to link up various areas in Sembawang town to Sembawang Park. In this case, Sembawang residents will have a direct bus from thier doorsteps to the Sembawang Park. Perhaps, hopefully, this will boost the demand of 882 and hence reduce its (cui) frequency.

New blog dedicated to listing out remainder tests of numbers

Numbers are intriguing, fun to play with. They often have pattern between each of them but it takes time for us to find out the exact pattern. Prime numbers are numbers that are very popular as they still remain mysterious as of today. How do we look at first glance that it is a prime number? Hmm. I don't know either. Hehe.

This blog is more of a self research of the remainder tests of several numbers. The aim is to know the remainders when a very large number is divided by another number or called a divisor and the methods to do it. With these methods, the remainders can be calculated even without a calculator with about 10 - 20 digits of numbers. Unfortunately, I don't know how to prove algberically why it works for all numbers. I hope this blog can influence more people to discover more about the world of numbers not only in the decimal systems but also in other conventions like binary systems.

A blog about remainder tests.
2 - 10 is currently up.
http://remainder-test.blogspot.com/

Continued

Left with two more papers. They are my hopes. lol

Mathematics II (MA1506) aka Engineering Mathematics
Living with Mathematics (GEK1505)

Both are mathematics. Have to depend on them to pull up my grades le.
I just realise that I am very bad at looking at statics and structures.

Sigh!! Swine/bird flu is like spreading like wildfire. I hope somehow the virus can be contained. I hope human immunity is able to overcome this menance.

I am really grateful to be healthy.

Inspiration

Ideas flow when I see the question that I can't do the second time.

Instead of that, I hope in exams, I hope ideas flow when I see the question for the first time.

Sem 2 Thoughts

Before I have known it, it is coming to an end.
This semester is a fast and furious semester. I have learnt a lot of new things and have even fell down while studying the new things that I am learning.
Luckily, I have learnt to get over it but the mistakes that I have made still linger in my mind like a nightmare. I hope that I will not make the same mistake again.
I have asked less questions to the lecturer partially due to the fact that many people will be thronging around him after the lecture to bombard him many queries that they have. I do not wish to add on to his burden.
I have spent more time playing casual dota while less time on my hobby.
Studying is actually quite an enriching experience but the fast pace of it is making me breathless. I am rushing for either my tutorial or catching up my work every day. I am just feeling mentally strained for the fact that we are constantly pursuing for something.
However, I still treasure the times that I have now as life will be totally different in about 5 years time.
I am grateful that I am still healthy but the swells on my upper and lower extremities have not totally recovered. Perhaps there is some underlying allergy that my body have but I have not known about.

So, that about it. The process of mugging has to be started once again. Sigh!! The cycle repeats and it is going to repeat for another 3 years.

A Week full of downs.

It was a week full of downs. Rainwater leaking on top of my head today while taking bus 151 plus the fact that I have waited for that bus for about 20 minutes. I have also screwed up one test last saturday due to probably the dearth of practice.
My health is going down now while I start to have sore throat and a "feverish" feeling.

In addition, my sandflies sores have not healed since November 2008 despite the application of several creams and other methods.

So, hopefully, the next week will be a better week for me.

Recycling of Printer Cartidges

I went to Canon Digitalab to drop my used printer cartridges but ended up rather disappointed. There is a special bin to drop the used printer cartridges but the bin contains things that are not related to used Canon Printer's cartridges like used Paper Cups with coffee stains and plastic wrappers.

Disappointed.

My Hour instead of Earth Hour

I went to Singapore Flyer to participate in an event dubbed as "Earth Hour Special" by the organisers. Hmm, frankly speaking, they kept the event like quite a "low profile" with no glamorous countdown to 28th March 2009 2030 hrs.

I will like to thank my friends who have gone and have spent their Saturdays nights with me (ks, kj, yc) enjoying the night air with the burning of candles. This year Earth Hour has gone a bigger scale as compared to 2008. Many buildings have switched off their lights for an hour. (but not the streetlights that we are having the event)

During the Earth Hour period, suddenly many childhood memories flood in my mind. The luminous flame burning the candle seem to mirror an image of myself in the past, playing with them on the roadside, while lighting the candles to put in the lanterns. Time seem to have slowed down for that particular night. Somehow, I feel more relaxed emotionally.

Yay, I have saved the electricity from playing my computer games from the laptop for like 3 hours plus 2 hours of travelling. Lol. Kinda lame!! What is important is that the idea of saving the unnecessary consumption of resources is practised. Lights that are not used should be switched off.

Different Feelings

How will you feel if you know that you spend a couple of days working on a report and maybe one of your friends spend only a couple of hours finishing the report?

How will you feel if you know someone is in distress and asks you for help?

How will you feel if that same someone eventually scores better than you when the results are out?

How will you feel if you have made a lot of careless mistakes in exams or at work?

How will you feel if you are standing on top of a tall building, looking at the scenary below?

How will you feel when you are browsing your childhood photos or photos with your friends that you have met along in your life?

Life is certainly simpler without any feelings.

Fantasy Amended Service 172

With the implementation of service 164, it duplicates 172 at Boon Lay and Jln Bahar. In addition, Pioneer MRT station has opened for about two weeks and hence, with the amendment of service 172, there is a link from Pioneer MRT station to Jurong West St 91, and 92. Besides, it also provides a link from Pioneer MRT to NTU and NIE. NTU and NIE staffs and students can now have another choice of taking 172 back to Choa Chu Kang interchange for transfer.

New Fantasy nService 164 and Withdrawn Fantasy Service 974 and 974A

Wtihdrawal of Service 974 and service 974A is due to the implementation of a new service 164. In my opinion, I think that a new service 164 from Boon Lay to Lim Chu Kang area will be better becuase it is nearer and hence more cost savings. People who are residing at East-West MRT stations can take a direct bus at Boon Lay to Lim Chu Kang areas with the implementation of service 164 instead of switching lines at Jurong East.

New Service 241 and Amended Service 242

The poster is obtained from SBS Transit official website.
New service 241 will be implemented and service 242 will be amended with effect from this Sunday 15th March 2009. This implementation is meant to complement with the opening of the new Pioneer MRT station in Jurong West.
One benefit of this implementation is that residents staying along Jurong West St 91 has a direct link to Pioneer MRT station and time is shortened to Boon Lay interchange since 241 is taking a more direct route as compared to 242.

In my opinion, though I think is not possible, I still prefer service 172 to be amended instead to ply Jurong West St 91, NTU, Jurong West St 63 and then continue on to Jalan Bahar than to implement a new service 241 and shorten 242 to loop at Jurong West St 71. In this case, residents have a direct bus service to CCK and to NTU plus there is a link from Boon Lay to Jurong West St 91.