Bridge to Terabithia

Today's lunch(Again porridge. Gssssssssh. I better change my diet here. I lost like another 1kg already. Eeeeksss!) was accompanied by a movie called 'Bridge to Terabithia'. This movie was adapted by a book but it isn't exactly like Narnia where you have big battles and so. It is just 2 kids fantasying that they had a special place where there were trolls and magical creatures. Quite a sad ending. I'm a sucker for sad endings. Oh well, at least I had time passing by. Here is the poster and trailer. I won't really recommend it to those who wants action like Lord of the Rings or Narnia.

Trailer 'Bridge to Terabithia'

The Holiday

As you all know, I have been practically bumming around. For the whole day, I can be basically called a couch-potato for not doing any thing. Just sitting in front of my computer sorting out music and designing my blog which in the end turned out to be a disaster. So, I'm still sticking to the original template. Sigh. I need my 'sifu' la.

The trailer. I just loved the last part of this. Made me teared up. Laughing too much.

For tonight's selection of movies, I decided to see 'The Holiday' by Kate Winslet, Jack Black, Cameron Diaz and Jude Law. It is a very good show I must say. It has been a long time I have seen something this funny and heart-felt movie. There were some scenes were so funny I teared up. Man, that was good. Oh well, at least that made me laugh. Talking about holidays, I know I said it like 20000 times but I can't wait to go back to London. Going to see my little brother. Yay! And of course all the others. I need to make some appointments with them too.

But now, I'm back to being bored. I think I will have to play my online utopia game(well, I play it every hour) and get ready to attack at 9 a.m tomorrow. Going to crush this guy who is about 50% bigger than me. Muahahahahahah. I love violence.

At 7 in the Morning

Once again, I was woken up at 7 a.m. But this time I wasn't really pissed as I needed to ermmm attack for my online game - Utopia. As some might know(Concordians especially), I have been playing Utopia for 5 years and I retired last Summer. However, after some convincing from my old 'King' and since I was pretty bored sitting in front of the computer doing nothing, I decided to pick it up again. Either way, I made an attack and kicked that fella's butt. :)

I was surprised to get a message from little bro at time actually. I believe he was busy organising events however, he SHOULDN'T be up that late either. Kai, you better take care of yourself. Anyway, I presume he is nicely tucked in his cosy bed getting those extra z. So, seeing that everyone in London was still sleeping, I decided to go back to my bed and take a nap.

Man, what a nap it was. I had this weird dream. I dreamt we were having this year's Leavers Party in Genting Highlands. Quite a shocker. The 4th years - Charlotte, Tock, Yanti and me were in a room chit-chatting where Charlotte was using the internet on her bed. I suppose it is because Charlotte keeps telling me that she is on her bed with her laptop doing work(Charl, you know that is very very very bad for studying. That's rule No. 1 for the things not to do when studying :D). Anyway, we talked non-stop and somehow Yanti ordered specially for us kebabs from Taza to be flown in from London. I think it was about 100 kebabs for the 4 of us. We were all drooling when it arrived. However, suddenly I woke up feeling rather hungry too. It was rather funny I have to say. Though it would be GREAT to have the Leavers Party in Genting Highlands. *Hint Hint*

So, I cooked lunch(porridge again) and cleaned my room because I would be leaving for London on Tuesday and it was a bit messy too. I had my laundry done and dried too and now, I would have to do my sheets on Monday. Sigh, I'm going to be so bored now because I have really nothing to do now unless I start writing my report for my Final Year Project which I planned to do it when I'm back in London or getting going with a calculation for my trip rod. That would be another case for my project but too long for me to explain. Also, some of the juniors are going everywhere and my 'sifu' in blogging will be going away for her Scotland trip. So, my tutoring sessions with her will be postponed until I get back to London. Have fun ya Siew Ping and take tonnes of picture too. :P

Oh well, I suppose I have to tap in into my movie reserves and series which I have been keeping over for the past 6 months. I have 3 movies to watch till Monday. Oh well, the countdown is 4 days now!

Ribs Hunt

Can you believe it? I have been spending the past 2 days finding pork ribs for my Bak Kut Teh meal and I finally found it. But the hunt is over. I have never done such a thing before just for the sake of meal. Of course, it will be worth it I hope. Anyway, it isn't exactly pork ribs but spare ribs. I suppose I make do with them. I just find it weird that everything here is marinated for some reason. Every meat they have to offer, there is this Mexican or herb marinated meat. I think it is quite nice because some of my housemates roast/grill them and it smells good.

On the side note, I have settled every thing for this term with the fabrication of my vortex generators and I would need 50 of these small things and tape it to the wing. The manufacturers said I was a difficult person because I kinda gave them a tolerance of 0.05mm which is quite hard to do without precise machinery. Oh well, I was just showing that I'm from Imperial and I want the best. Muahahahha. Such a show off, huh? In the end, the tolerance got scrapped due to the technical issues. My professor has left me to do what I want to do with my project. Well, I suppose it is MY project but I would like some guidance too. I'm pretty sure at one point, he would say 'These are all wrong, sorry". I think I would have an heart attack and die. After sending how many hours just clicking and switching I would have thought that I would have 'better' things to do in life.

As for now, my bed is calling me and due to neighbours again waking me up at 7.10 a.m today, I better get some shut eyes. I would really ka put if I don't. Oh yea, I will be making spare ribs tonight. I want to try their 'good' marinated pork at least once. Wish me luck.

An Ending For Now

Officially, I already off. I have already completed everything(surprisingly) what needs to be done for this term. After endless hours of number crunching, I am definitely ready for this break. I am very tempted to pack my bags now and head off to good old London. Of course, I am suppose to get going with my report but that can wait till I get back to London since I will be Imperial most of the time. I'm still pretty bummed out from last week's experiment and need re-energising. I know definitely in London I won't be sleeping much either.

The day ended for me with the design of my vortex generators and I immediately headed home. To my amazement, I saw this line of cars in front of the bus stop. It was a TRAFFIC JAM! This hardly happens here or may be it is just rush hour. But I am certain I never seen a queue like this before. Instead of the normal 6 minutes to uni, it took about 15 minutes back to Moholt.

The jam was up to 700m. Quite long for Norwegian standards.

And it continued. That was the bus 5 I was going to take.

I was pretty happy since the day was nice and all work done so, I decided to go to the bigger grocery shop down the road where I stay. I began hunting for pork ribs because I wanted to make bak kut teh for some friends here. To my dismay, there wasn't any. Fine, may be instead of BKT, I could make Chik Kut Ket. AGAIN! They didn't sell any whole chickens. I am just totally speechless here. They sold just only breast meat and marinated chickens. You gotta be kidding me. I mean are they THAT lazy to even marinate their own chicken. By the way, they don't have the wings or legs. Such a waste. Such a waste. Anyway, I'm a bit stressed now because I don't know what should I put in my 'Kut Teh'. May be a mixture of both meat? Hmmmmm. That's going to be a bit out of its world but I think I might just go ahead with the pork shoulders they sold somewhere.

Although I'm done for this term, I still have to go to Uni tomorrow just to finalise my design of my vortex generators and they will be producing about 50 pieces for me. After that, I have to tape it(Oh wow, such accuracy and technology we have these days) on the wing. I already calculated that I need to do the experiment 15 times after I come back from Easter. It is sure going to be a hell of a week then.

As for now, time for me to relax and chill. Let the countdown begin. 6 more days till I go back to London. Just 6 more days.

A Week From Now

A week from now, I will back in London. AGAIN! Yes yes, I know. You guys must be thinking 'Is Cheng Chun really away?' or 'I thought I just saw you like recently?' I was back on the 1st and I already on the way back for the second time. I really can't tell you how excited I'm to go back to London. It is certainly the best place to be in. The best of it is having great friends there and also great food. It sounds quite greedy but hey, I don't really get Chinese food here and other types, so time to make up for time eating. I do hope I won't be a Michelin Man by the time this trip is done.

Actually, I was suppose to surprise everyone that I was going back to London for Easter but nearly every fresher was asking me 'Eh Cheng Chun, when are you coming back for Easter?' I gave up saying 'I don't know or I might not' and since I might be able to attend the Leavers Party(MSoc you better make it for me! :D) I had to tell. Oh well. No difference I suppose.

Tonight was something different I did. I went out for the first time to meet a half Norwegian/half Bangladeshi, Daniel, in Prestekrageveien 4 (PK4). Don't ask me what it stands for but words here are super long. We chit-chatted for 1 1/2 hours about life in Imperial and Malaysia. And this is for sure, we both agreed that Norwegians are very hardworking people. They wake up at 7 a.m for their 8 a.m lectures(which I'm certainly most of you won't be able to get up. I know my little brother won't :P) and stay in uni till 7-8 p.m every day. After that, they don't go to the pubs like the English do but more like going back home to continue/finish their tutorials/homework. Basically, they are very consistent with their work. They are the creme de ala creme of the students in Norway and they are here in uni to be the best. As for us, ahem ahem. Procrastinating all the way until the dateline or till the exams are near. Oh well, so different. Stress only seeing them working so hard.

Well, it is quite interesting to see what kind of people there are in university in different countries.

But as for now, London here I come in a week's time and I can't wait. I hope to see everyone and I hope they are excited to see me too.

To Town

Well, the beginning to a new week was a crap. All the data I processed yesterday were screwed and apparently I'm defying the rules of physics here. Talking about being a genius here! Being stressed out, I took half the day off and I went to town to get some chinese groceries like some vegetarian tin food to go with my porridge(don't know why I'm crazy with porridge over here and I know my Mom will kill me if she found out I have been eating so much tin food), bitter gourd(I know many will not eat this but hey, it is good for health you know) and a big box of Yeo's soya bean drink. I felt a bit rich today because I found out I just used up about 35% of my funds after being 2 months here which I think it is quite okay.

After a 10 minute shopping-spree in the chinese shop, I went around to the centre of town to get some pictures since the day was perfectly clear. So here are some shots I took.

Statue of the first king of Norway. A big Viking I have to say.

City square. Actually, there is a skate rink around there but it was being demolished. I was surprised that the rink was naturally frozen in winter for the ice skaters.

Town hall. About 600-700 years old. Trondheim is the first capital of Norway in 999.

And the church where the king gets coronated all the time until today.

After that, I continued work at home and now I'm just hoping that I get things moving again since as I mentioned before the wind tunnel is being used by someone else. As for now, I will be designing the vortex generators for the wing to delay the separation. Hehehe. Once again, I'm talking all these aero jargon. Oh well, I hope it goes well tomorrow with I see my Prof.

Fingers crossed.

A Personal Bet

I know I shouldn't say this out loud but after yesterday night after pondering for a while, I decided to make a personal bet. I can't really tell you all what the bet is but I can tell you this. If I lose this bet by the time I get back to London in April, I will lose about £600.

So, I'm just seeing whether I will win or lose this bet. Sadly, I believe I'm going to win this bet. A bit crazy right, saying sadly that I will win a bet and I prefer losing my £600 rather than keeping it. Simply crazy!

The worst part is that I never lose a bet.

Prove me wrong!

Improvements

Ahhhhh... Finally, after spending about 3 hours trying to customise my blog, I think I'm quite happy with this one for now. Actually, it started yesterday since Siew Ping went gila-gila making a new header for herself with photoshop and the header turned out to be nice. I just tried something simple at first since it was 3 a.m in the morning. So today, since it was a totally free and boring day as usual, I continued trying to play around with the codes. I suppose it was kinda fun trying to change some of the codes and seeing what the results would be. You gotta love programming huh EE freshers. I know Heng Kai 'LOVES' it. ;)

Oh well, I hope you spotted what the new changes are. Nothing to spectacular of course. But I feel a mini sense of achievement here. Hehe. The changing of the codes was a bit frustrating at times. Before changing anything to your templates guys, ALWAYS save the one before. I learnt it the hard way.

I have to say thanks to Siew Ping for her patience in helping me. She found some codes for me because Firefox doesn't support some of the plug-ins and tested my music for me which kept hanging her computer. Eeeekkssss! (Sorry ya, I just don't get it why the others work and just that one didn't) Her blog is now nice of course with my help. Hehe.

Please feel free to comment. It would be greatly appreciated.

End of the Week. Finally!

As you can see, I'm pretty bored. No one is around. I don't blame them. Most of the freshers must be out celebrating the end of term. Seniors must be also celebrating because they don't need to attend any more dreadful lectures and tutorials ever in their lifes. I know that feeling since I didn't need to attend lectures since last term. Kinda sad and happy at the same. Though I have to admit, I definitely had so much fun the last week before Christmas. Anyway, I presume that they are all going to get drunk tonight to enjoy their freedom for now. And after that, into the 'mugging' mode as the Singaporeans put it. Some also planned to camp in the library. It was the good old days for me then but now, HA HA HA. TOO BAD SO SAD for you freshers. You have another 3 more times to do so. :)

As for me, I'm pretty bummed out as this week has been quite tiring. Since the beginning of this week, I have repeatedly rambled on and on and on about my wing. Repeating the experiment 3 times a day can be quite stressful if you don't get the results you want. Oh yea, it is a health hazard apparently to hear so much noise in a day. Luckily I wore them from the start. If not, I might be deaf in 20 years time. Hehehe.

Anyhow, today's results was a bit crappy because my wing was stalling(meaning no lift) at very low speeds. Therefore, I would need to change the angles. Sure not a problem. BUT, the setup is a nightmare. Unscrewed and screwing back into the wooden panels is a killer ass job and I need to get help every time I do it because it is impossible to hold 8 kgs on one hand and the other, drills it into a wooden wall. Not to mention my prof wants me to do like 3-4 various angles. How la I can do that. Siao man! I'm not an octopus you know.

Next Monday, I know that I will be off because someone is going to use the tunnel. But, I'm not too sure when will I get to use the tunnel again. This is going to be very crucial because my prof is going away for the whole April and I will be all alone for this project then. Sure I can e-mail and all but it is still not the same as sometimes you want to ask simple questions and it gets replied the next day. Well, I really hope this goes well next week.

It is also time for me to catch up on my rest. I don't think I haven't been resting enough and if not, I might just faint at any time. I planned to go in tomorrow actually to follow up on the different angles but I can't really be bothered too much now since I need someone to help me. So, I suppose I have to leave it as it is for now. Just process all the data I have now and just hope for the best(though I know already with initial figures and plots, it is stalling).

Oh well, just wanted to say Happy Easter to everyone in advance since I know you guys will be off to somewhere by this weekend and all the best for the up-coming exams. I'm sure you all will do well one la. No need to be overly stressed out okay. :)

Talking about cranky last weeks of my university life, here are some of the best old pictures which I will remember till I die.

Ho ho ho. Getting into the Christmas spirit.

I love you. I was quite turbulent then.

Hmmmmmm. How nerdy can we get these days. Hahaha. Don't disturb us when we study! :)

Tender love from Tigger. Quite a modern Tigger I have to say with his mobile. :D

Bear hug too.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. It is sumo time. You gotta love this.

This is a very good friend of mine, Changyong. He felt like he was going to die with the amount of paper load we had for materials.

What did you expect after sitting for an hour lecture on Computational Fluid Dynamics. It still gives me the chills saying that course out loud.

At 6 in the Morning

You gotta be kidding me. I had already an early night last night at 1 a.m and thanks to my house mates, I was forced to wake up at 6 a.m. I know I'm suppose to be tolerant because I sometimes sleep at 4-5 a.m but I'm certain I do not talk or drag the chairs around at that time. One thing I have learnt to live in apartments since a few years back is to never drag chairs around. Not only they make one hell irritating noise but it disturbs the people above and at least 2 floors below you. Trust me. It is not the best sound to hear in the morning which wakes you up and it is definitely one of the causes of the 'Waking up on the wrong side of the bed' mood.

To make things worse, the sun was already up and shining through my stupid thin curtains. And as some of you have seen my wall, it is white in colour. Obviously, it isn't the best colour to absorb light but REFLECTS it. I still can't believe that they actually painted the walls white here. It is like a solitary confinement jail prison. Gssssssssh. Anyway, I was totally blinded. Being pissed, I found a semi solution for these curtains. I decided to take the curtains from my kitchen(which no one draws it because we're on the top floor. Hehe. I know I should ask the others first but I couldn't be bothered since they were the cause of my 'Waking up of the wrong side of the bed' mood) and doubled my curtains. So now, it is kinda darkish but still not pitch black as I would like it to be. Already the sun rises at 5.45 a.m now, I'm just wondering how am I going to survive during the actual summer when you actually don't see the sky black or the sun down. Going to be a good experience for sure.

Well, off to college now to continue my experiment. My brain feels very heavy now. May be I might do 2 experiments this time around and come back early for a tiny nap later on. I hope my day will be better.

A Journey Back Home

After a long day's work with my wing, I decided(with Arne - my Norway colleague) to walk back to Moholt. This is would be my first walk back from college because I usually take the bus. To tell you the truth, it is only 4 bus stops away. Yes yes. I know. It is absolutely lazy of me not walking to college every day since it is about a 15 minutes walk but hey, it is very slippery since there is always snow on the ground. So, since I haven't 'explored' the entire NTNU after my department building, I gave it a try.

Quite an interesting name I must say. It reads 'Realfagbygget'. No idea what that means but it sounds ermmmm nice. Me dunno.

I think this is their Mech Eng building because there are some heavy machineries in the left building.

And this is the hill I was going to walk up.

A view of Trondheim.

But to all of that, I saw a bus coming and took it home. Opssss. Journey back home was kinda cut short. Next time in the summer I suppose I will be making the full journey home. Besides, I'm very tired today. I over slept by 2 hours. Eeeeeeekksssss. Rushed like mad to uni because I had so much things to do. Do note that the hill is a steep one. My ears get blocked when the bus goes over the hill. So it would be an extremely tired walk! :)

All Over Again

Once again, boring me had to run the experiment and this time with a little twist. As you can see, there are some additional wood panels at the side of the wing. This is to make the aspect ratio infinite to reduce the 3-D effects on the wing. Sorry about the aero jargon, but there is a purpose for everything. Engineer in the making you know. :D

This time I had to use some proper ear-silencers because I would be running the wind tunnel at very high speed. So, of course the faster it goes the noisier it gets. Though of course during the experiment, I couldn't stand the 'no-sound' environment. So, I called in Mr iPod to entertain me.

Nowadays, I can't live without my iPod. My little little baby. My precious baby is of course my laptop.

Anyway, this is what you get when you keep repeating the experiment for nearly 6 times.

Let The Experiment Begin

So, it begins. This is why I'm here in Norway. To do an experimental study on high lift airfoils. Sounds canggih right. But let me assure you, it is one crazy experimental study. As starting from today, I have full access to the wind tunnel here in NTNU(the Norwegian University I'm currently in) which means I can run the tunnel at 0300 in the morning if I wish to. Well of course I'm not that crazy or kiasu to do so but the idea sounds cool!

The wing which I'm testing.

To most people, they might think that this is nothing special, it just a tunnel which blows air? But to us, Aeronautical students, this is like playing WoW or dotA all day long without feeling guilty not going for lectures. The amazing part is that I am now IN CHARGE of the tunnel so I can do as I please with it. MUAHAHAHAHA! Though of course, I better don't do anything funny because it cost about 250,000 pounds. Don't think my parents would appreciate if I went destroying something that expensive and adding onto their bill.

Anyway, I was quite excited to get going. I was given the green light to start testing the wing at 10a.m. However, being totally new to all these equipments(transducers, amplifiers and goodness what - you EE people should know) I had to play around for an hour to get all the settings right. And then it started, the first time I switching on the wind tunnel. The roaring sound of the motor sounded great and turning the nob to increase the speed was fun. It gave this wheezing sound.

The wind tunnel I'm in control of. MUAHAHAHAHA.

Round 1

Once I set the wind speed I wanted, I had to manually clicked, pressed and switched 66 times on the machines because I had 66 pressure tappings in the airfoil. Sorry if this gets a bit technical but hey, it is all about aero stuff :). Not knowing what I did for the next 45 minutes, I decided to make a graph and the plot was a straight line. My heart fell because it wasn't suppose to be a straight line but more like an airfoil shaped-like. I decided to fidget the other pressure tappings and yes, it was the one wrong into the transducer. Sigh. All that work took me nearly 1 1/2 hours to get the measurements so I had a quick lunch and went back for round 2.

Round 2

I knew that I was right this time and ran the experiment again. Now, my graph wasn't a straight line but more like what I expected to be. And here I thought that I would be done and moved on to the next set of measurements(i.e. a different angle of attack). However, when I showed my results to my Prof, he was like "This is wrong. Something is wrong with your stagnation point." I felt like running into a wall. I already spent another 1 1/2 hours doing the same thing(yes - another 66 clicking, pressing and switching) and the results are still wrong. Both of us tried to find what the problem was and it turned out to be me NOT using the right pressure tappings. I felt like an idiot then. Oh well.

Round 3

Still determined to finish this experiment for today at least, I ran it again with all the proper tappings. And victory was mine. I managed to get the results I wanted. It all looked fine and I was too burnt out to continue the next set of measurement. Well, actually it was more of atechnicality issue. But I think I have been rambling with my jargon and I think most of you here must be thinking 'Uh huh, what is Cheng Chun talking about. Nevermind, it sounds cool'.

Ahhhhhh. The day was over for me. After a long day's work where sitting there clicking, pressing and switching, I know this wasn't a brainer job but it is definitely quite sian to sit there for 5 hours worrying about your results being right or wrong. Oh well, day 1 using the wind tunnel is over for now. As for now, I'm back in my room waiting for my kiam chai soup to boil. I really need something soupy to calm my nerves.

Oh yea, here are some of the pictures of my experiment.

The pressure holes in the airfoil. Inside those holes are tubes linking to a computer. This is where I get to calculate the pressure.

Pitot tube - To calculate the total pressure in the wind tunnel. From here we can get the true wind speed of the wind tunnel.

Me doing work. Serious. :)

Feel free to ask me anything about the project though I think you all will run away. Hahaha.

By Popular Demand

Well due to popular demand (well more of complaints), I decided to write on snow again after coming back from University. This time, there were quite a few people passing by me and kept looking at me thinking about this sua ku that hasn't seen snow before. Man you see, the things I do for my juniors. Aiseh. Hahaha.

Anyway, here are the better versions of the names in the snow. The snow was perfect. Not too hard yet not too soft to write.

Meow meow. The so-called cat from Birmingham.

This one should be much better than the Cindy. Told you that Syn-In was a better name.

Ping Pong. I added a big dot to give it an effect. Hmmmmm. May be not.

Ahhhhh. Finally, I remembered about Tock and gave him one big name. I hope you like it Tock.

Little bro. You know who you are. Eh, where have you been leh? I want to pass something to you la. Quite special I think.

And this one, I really had no idea. But it looks like someone I know. :)

Oh yea, those mentioned above, your names are all along the pathway to my hall. Oh well, I suppose you can be famous for a little while since the snow is going to melt soon.

For The First Time

This shows that I'm extremely bored on a Sunday afternoon and I have nothing better else to do. So, I'm going to give blogging a try and hey, who knows? I might be an addict like you guys out there. Well, of course I have to give thanks to Ping Ping for persuading me to give it a try too.

So to start off with this blog, I'm going to post up some pictures what happened this morning.

When I drew my curtains, I saw the entire area white. I was like 'Oh my. It is snowing again.' It was kinda surprising because it is quite late in winter to be snowing. Oh well, I like snow, so it was fantastic. And as I went out to use the washroom, something else greeted me in the kitchen.

I couldn't resist taking a picture of it. I was quite sure it wasn't there at 3.30 a.m. It must be from my drunken housemate who forgot his keys to his room. I still remember those days when I was like 5-6 years old seeing those cartoons and glued to the TV. The good old times.

Anyway, the day started rather slowly and somehow or another, Ping Ping and Meow asked me to go out and take pictures since it was snowing quite heavily. Not to mention, Heng Kai ffked at that time so, I decided to get some pictures. Ya, you better watch out Heng Kai. :D

I wrote some names in the snow but it was too soft to write in it. I did my best to get some nice ones. I hope you guys like it(those in the snow).

Ping Pong!!!

Even though he deserted me, but oh well I couldn't resist writing his name.

Sorry ah Cindy, your name a bit cacated. Hard to write.

And Jo Jo. I wanted to do 'Meow' but somehow it turned out cacat too.

And more pictures of the student accommodation I'm living in. I love it when everything goes white.

Moholt blocks from 1-14.

I'm sure you can notice why I took this picture. Why is it weird to see a black strip in the walkway when you see everywhere is white?

My room is somewhere there la.

You gotta love this country where you can just ski everywhere.

Some berry in the snow.

Last but not least, this is my name. CCC - Chee Cheng Chun.