hi everyone...this week is a chinese new year period,so the first few days i am very bored at home...cuz me nvr go bai nian with my mum,so i have been catching a few movies these few days..... yup,2 more days(which is on this monday) to my cptc training le...so it means cannot slack liao....actually today i cannot slack oso cuz i have to work today. yesterday i went to a job interview at national service resort country club at tanah merah,its a waiter job. i got the job and today is my 1st day,so after this blogging i have to "chow" for work liao....
the person who recommend this part time job is my teens pan pal,Kevin.oh ya,when i reached his workplace i then realised his real name is David. i was wondering,was kevin his real name or not?...lol...i actually knew kevin back in 2004,but only to keep in touch with him again a few months ago when i found his letter to me and i wrote back to him lor...he says that his restaurant needs ppl urgently so he need my help and also ask me to ask my friend help him if possible...at first i dun wish to help him cuz tanah merah is too far away for me but comes to think of it,tanah merah is not as far as when i worked in loyang laundry factory last time so i just agreed to come for interview lor...so i have gotten the job after the interview with Rahman,my restaurant manager...although i have to travel all the way to tanah merah to work but i believe that if one day i like this server job i wont mind the long distance one..
aniwae,i am quite excited abt the coming ITP training at CPTC jurong island. although i have heard quite a lot from my seniors thomas and kelvin, i am still wondering how fun is it to be trained there...ok shall blog until here(me just dun have the mood to blog abt my feelings now...sorry)...when i have the time i will update my next entry,ok?(it's a pity that i can't take photos in cptc,or else i will sure upload the pics and blog them,haha...:-)
Friday, February 23, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
this week is my first week of my 9-week vacation. Well i was planning to find another part-time job during this holiday cuz my present part time tuition job earn very little money(got only two students at the moment),but now i have my 6 weeks long CPTC training at jurong island,then have another one week break b4 new sem starts. because of this attchment thingy,so i have no choice but to "enjoy"the 1st two weeks of this holiday before the 'battle' starts. well this week i have not been slacking cuc i am assigned to tutor my student(Edneth) almost everyday at his house. i was only assigned to teach him chemistry only,now his mother demands me to help him in his physics and e-maths homewrk as well...this tuition assignment is not recommended by the agency but self-recommended one thru Yahoo! ad,so i am subjected to the change in Edneth's tuition timing. sometimes,i have to switch over to coach him other sub cuz he might have the class test of other sub in nearer dates,so i have to teach him chemistry periodically.
luckily on my third week of my holiday, i can only commit to coach edneth chemistry during weekends cuz my CPTC training is from every monday to friday,afternoon shift,so won have time to tutor him. ya,that means lesser tution fee liao if i see less of him each week...haiz..:(
anyway, Chinese new year is coming soon(on 18th feb), so i wish to 向大家拜个早年，祝大家新年快乐，万事如意！！！ :-)
luckily on my third week of my holiday, i can only commit to coach edneth chemistry during weekends cuz my CPTC training is from every monday to friday,afternoon shift,so won have time to tutor him. ya,that means lesser tution fee liao if i see less of him each week...haiz..:(
anyway, Chinese new year is coming soon(on 18th feb), so i wish to 向大家拜个早年，祝大家新年快乐，万事如意！！！ :-)
Monday, February 12, 2007
Exam finally over!!! yes...i can finally enjoy my holidays.......the past few weeks i have been preparing very hard for my sem exam...now the 'battle' is over!
yup,before my first paper fluid mechanics A,i have gone for my wisdom tooth surgery. on that fateful day, i brought my fearful heart to the dental clinic. although i knew it was a minor surgery and would take abt 30-45 minutes to complete, i still haven overcome my phobia abt the dental visit,or rather the tooth extraction. the last i had my tooth extracted was when i was in primary school. that was abt 9-10 years ago. i remember that female dentist was very fierce,she just extract my milky tooth w/o hesistation and w/o injecting anaesthesis to my teeth. do u noe how painful it was to extract the tooth w/o anaethesia? that dentist was damn crazy lor! that's why until now i'm still having phobia abt visiting dentist...
that day i really made a spectacles of myself(made myself malu)... the specialist dentist wanted to inject the 1st shot of anaethesia into my gum,but my whole body was shaking non-stop,so the dentsit asked me to relax for a while b4 continuing..but i still can't stop shaking no matter how i tried to relax. the assistant tried to calm me down by saying that this was just like a normal tooth extraction only and covering my eyes with surgery cloths and the injection proceeds. i thought it was only one shot only,but i was wrong. he continues injecting more anaesthesia to my gum. luckily my mouth was getting more and more numb,so i manage to relax. the battle began. lol... throughout the surgery my heart was beatting faster and faster,although i was on anaesthetic effect. the sound of sawing my wisdom tooth into halves was so scary. then followed by the extraction of tooth,lastly followed by the stitching of the wound.
the whole procedure was quite short la. if i was more relaxed enough,the surgery would hve been done much earlier. the more embarrasing things abt this surgery is that i still need my mum's company when i was in surgery coz i was too nervous. I'm 18 years old already yet in the dental room i behaves like a child... even the dentist and his assistant said that no matter how nervous are the patients,they have handled before, but never encountered such a nervous to an exaggerating extent patient like me... i was so malu lor....but when my wisdom tooth was extracted out of my mouth, i felt like i've given birth to a new born but decomposed baby..hehehe...cuz when i saw how decayed is my wisdom tooth i felt very disgusting and i promised to keep good care of my teeth after the surgery and visit the dentist every 6 months...i have learnt my lesson...
So after the surgery the assistant issued me the medication and the cotton gauze to stop bleeding of my surgery wound. Do u noe how much the whole surgery cost? $800 net, just for one wisdom tooth only lei! Very exp lor....during the recovery period i am not able to eat solid food,if not it will cause the stitch on my wound to loosen and crack open my wound...oh my god,that means i have to stay away from fine food for a few days..but nvm...i believe my wound will heal soon and i can revert back to my normal diet!
talking abt my recent sem exam, i have five papers to take this sem. luckily i managed to get sufficient rest and have some time to study for fluid mech A exam (i only spend two days study FMA). The fluid mech A paper was quite ok,but got one short question stunned me..abt the sentosa tunnel making site...this question was the same as what i encountered in the past year exam paper..but i wanted to ask kon but he mia the day before exam so cannot get him lor...maybe i was too confident that this question would not come out again in the coming exam,but i was wrong! this question is making use of bernoulli equation and continuity equation but i still cant do the question...besides this question, other questions were of no problem...
For bia(basic instrumental analysis) paper, as expected,topics taught by mr jeffrey whey sure come out "distinction" question...like on eof the short question asking about the solvent extraction. which two solutes will be extracted separately and only one solute remains in aq. phase. the correct answer should be the CHCl3 (chloroform) should be extracted first using basic buffer,followed by CH3COOH(acetic acid) extracted using acidic buffer cuz at basic pH, the acetic acid will not be extracted,only CHCl3 can be extracted. then CH3COOH can be extracted at acidc pH (using Le chatelier's principle to explain). another solute NaCl remains in aq. phase cuz it is permanently ionised so will not be extracted into organic phase....but my answer was the other way round. acetc acid first(acidic buffer),then chloroform(basic buffer)...not sure still can get marks or not...
there is another "distinction" question on the adsorption chromatography (one of the long questions), one of the sub question ask what happens to the retention time of the solute(polar in nature) if the column was slightly heated before use? this question was based on application. i thought the answer was the retention time will decrease cux the charcoal will decompose on heating so less polar stationary phase available to attract solutes,yet the correct answer is: the retention time will increase cuz the heated column contains less moisture,so the stat phase become more active(polar),so the polar solutes will stay in the stat phase. oh shit,i actually forget about this effect of water on active sites thingy....nvm....i have done my best le...
for PI(process instrumentaion) paper, overall the paper was quite easy cuz the question format was similar to the past yr exam papers. just that one question on derivation of hydrostatic pressure equation for level measurement question(long question) was very tricky and difficult.
next paper is the engineering maths 2A paper. for sect A,i was quire confident of getting full marks. just that ther's one question on solving the differential eqn using lapalce transform method was quite tricky. i can do this question but my final answer looks very weird,it contains the trig function that is not used in this syllabus, i think it can only be due to my carelessness baa..but luckily i got do all other questions as backup...and there's one long question on step-function. So far the past yr exam paper doesnt have that question as long question. the 2nd part i was quite stunned cuz u have to evalute the unknown values from the step function graph,but i can do the 1st and the last two parts of this long question cuz its laplace transform question and sketching of step-function graph. before the exam i was quite worried about Fourier's series topic. To me it was the most difficult question but to the DCHE 2A21 ppl it is like chicken feed to them as they are CEM(cert in engrg maths) students, but at the very last min i am quite confident of this killer topic and i even attempt it for the short question although it is optional.(short question got 6 questions u need to do 4qns will do)
And finally the heat transfer paper,our very last paper(last sem,thermodynamics was the last paper and the lecturer teaching this module was also miss ST Phua). To many of us(including ashik and gerald the slackers),the paper is like a chicken feed lor,no challenge at all. instead the past yr exam paper we have been doing was very challenging...the feeling of taking this last paper before going to CPTC for our attachment training was like...SHIOK ah!!! so now i'm taking 2 weeks break before the CPTC attachment(6 weeks) begins....the feelings of having a long holiday(9 weeks) after the exam has nvr been so great,man!!! :)
yup,before my first paper fluid mechanics A,i have gone for my wisdom tooth surgery. on that fateful day, i brought my fearful heart to the dental clinic. although i knew it was a minor surgery and would take abt 30-45 minutes to complete, i still haven overcome my phobia abt the dental visit,or rather the tooth extraction. the last i had my tooth extracted was when i was in primary school. that was abt 9-10 years ago. i remember that female dentist was very fierce,she just extract my milky tooth w/o hesistation and w/o injecting anaesthesis to my teeth. do u noe how painful it was to extract the tooth w/o anaethesia? that dentist was damn crazy lor! that's why until now i'm still having phobia abt visiting dentist...
that day i really made a spectacles of myself(made myself malu)... the specialist dentist wanted to inject the 1st shot of anaethesia into my gum,but my whole body was shaking non-stop,so the dentsit asked me to relax for a while b4 continuing..but i still can't stop shaking no matter how i tried to relax. the assistant tried to calm me down by saying that this was just like a normal tooth extraction only and covering my eyes with surgery cloths and the injection proceeds. i thought it was only one shot only,but i was wrong. he continues injecting more anaesthesia to my gum. luckily my mouth was getting more and more numb,so i manage to relax. the battle began. lol... throughout the surgery my heart was beatting faster and faster,although i was on anaesthetic effect. the sound of sawing my wisdom tooth into halves was so scary. then followed by the extraction of tooth,lastly followed by the stitching of the wound.
the whole procedure was quite short la. if i was more relaxed enough,the surgery would hve been done much earlier. the more embarrasing things abt this surgery is that i still need my mum's company when i was in surgery coz i was too nervous. I'm 18 years old already yet in the dental room i behaves like a child... even the dentist and his assistant said that no matter how nervous are the patients,they have handled before, but never encountered such a nervous to an exaggerating extent patient like me... i was so malu lor....but when my wisdom tooth was extracted out of my mouth, i felt like i've given birth to a new born but decomposed baby..hehehe...cuz when i saw how decayed is my wisdom tooth i felt very disgusting and i promised to keep good care of my teeth after the surgery and visit the dentist every 6 months...i have learnt my lesson...
So after the surgery the assistant issued me the medication and the cotton gauze to stop bleeding of my surgery wound. Do u noe how much the whole surgery cost? $800 net, just for one wisdom tooth only lei! Very exp lor....during the recovery period i am not able to eat solid food,if not it will cause the stitch on my wound to loosen and crack open my wound...oh my god,that means i have to stay away from fine food for a few days..but nvm...i believe my wound will heal soon and i can revert back to my normal diet!
talking abt my recent sem exam, i have five papers to take this sem. luckily i managed to get sufficient rest and have some time to study for fluid mech A exam (i only spend two days study FMA). The fluid mech A paper was quite ok,but got one short question stunned me..abt the sentosa tunnel making site...this question was the same as what i encountered in the past year exam paper..but i wanted to ask kon but he mia the day before exam so cannot get him lor...maybe i was too confident that this question would not come out again in the coming exam,but i was wrong! this question is making use of bernoulli equation and continuity equation but i still cant do the question...besides this question, other questions were of no problem...
For bia(basic instrumental analysis) paper, as expected,topics taught by mr jeffrey whey sure come out "distinction" question...like on eof the short question asking about the solvent extraction. which two solutes will be extracted separately and only one solute remains in aq. phase. the correct answer should be the CHCl3 (chloroform) should be extracted first using basic buffer,followed by CH3COOH(acetic acid) extracted using acidic buffer cuz at basic pH, the acetic acid will not be extracted,only CHCl3 can be extracted. then CH3COOH can be extracted at acidc pH (using Le chatelier's principle to explain). another solute NaCl remains in aq. phase cuz it is permanently ionised so will not be extracted into organic phase....but my answer was the other way round. acetc acid first(acidic buffer),then chloroform(basic buffer)...not sure still can get marks or not...
there is another "distinction" question on the adsorption chromatography (one of the long questions), one of the sub question ask what happens to the retention time of the solute(polar in nature) if the column was slightly heated before use? this question was based on application. i thought the answer was the retention time will decrease cux the charcoal will decompose on heating so less polar stationary phase available to attract solutes,yet the correct answer is: the retention time will increase cuz the heated column contains less moisture,so the stat phase become more active(polar),so the polar solutes will stay in the stat phase. oh shit,i actually forget about this effect of water on active sites thingy....nvm....i have done my best le...
for PI(process instrumentaion) paper, overall the paper was quite easy cuz the question format was similar to the past yr exam papers. just that one question on derivation of hydrostatic pressure equation for level measurement question(long question) was very tricky and difficult.
next paper is the engineering maths 2A paper. for sect A,i was quire confident of getting full marks. just that ther's one question on solving the differential eqn using lapalce transform method was quite tricky. i can do this question but my final answer looks very weird,it contains the trig function that is not used in this syllabus, i think it can only be due to my carelessness baa..but luckily i got do all other questions as backup...and there's one long question on step-function. So far the past yr exam paper doesnt have that question as long question. the 2nd part i was quite stunned cuz u have to evalute the unknown values from the step function graph,but i can do the 1st and the last two parts of this long question cuz its laplace transform question and sketching of step-function graph. before the exam i was quite worried about Fourier's series topic. To me it was the most difficult question but to the DCHE 2A21 ppl it is like chicken feed to them as they are CEM(cert in engrg maths) students, but at the very last min i am quite confident of this killer topic and i even attempt it for the short question although it is optional.(short question got 6 questions u need to do 4qns will do)
And finally the heat transfer paper,our very last paper(last sem,thermodynamics was the last paper and the lecturer teaching this module was also miss ST Phua). To many of us(including ashik and gerald the slackers),the paper is like a chicken feed lor,no challenge at all. instead the past yr exam paper we have been doing was very challenging...the feeling of taking this last paper before going to CPTC for our attachment training was like...SHIOK ah!!! so now i'm taking 2 weeks break before the CPTC attachment(6 weeks) begins....the feelings of having a long holiday(9 weeks) after the exam has nvr been so great,man!!! :)
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