Thursday, 13 May 2010
I adore Hypocrisy =)
dun stoop to tt lvl tho... unhealthy. I'm always in the sadist mood for moments like these, whn everything seems irrelevant. Like, I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it doesn't even matter! These times, you embrace your alter ego, and let urself go a bit. The world becomes more insane than u last rmbred haha!... and everything you ever stood for falls to pieces. Just rmbr, thrs always one hand u can cry on: God's... *sobs
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Weekly Haiku IV
ok, i broke the chain for last week's, but here goes.
on distant dreams,
All around is white!
It's as peaceful as heaven.
...Nope, just the toilet.
on distant dreams,
All around is white!
It's as peaceful as heaven.
...Nope, just the toilet.
Monday, 10 May 2010
RoboCup 2010 Press Conference
Think RoboCup is about 11 robots from each team chasing a ball around a field? Think again.
At the RoboCup 2010 Media Conference held at SP Auditorium Reception Hall on 6 May 10, press delegates from all over the world were enlightened on what to expect from this year's 3,000-strong event.
To be held at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre on 19-25 June, local teams will be challenged by scientists and students from world-renowned institutes in Japan and Australia, who were previous host countries.
The competition will be tougher with a resounding 40 participating countries pitting their skills to secure top honours in the championship. And with 70% of local schools taking part, interest in the robotics-related event is expected to soar among our youths.
Director of Economic Development Board (EDB), Mr Jonathon Kua, was excited for the purpose of RoboCup in inspiring youths to be problem-solvers, 'challenging them to think outside of the box', and gain experience in building real robotics systems. 'Hospitals, for example, are using Artificial and Intelligent Systems solutions to conduct surgical procedures more efficiently and also aid patients in rehabilitation training,' says My Kua.
The EDB is supporting a dual degree PhD program recently initiated between Nanyang Technical University and Carnegie-Mellon University; the objective being to train students to be future leaders of Robotics and Intelligent Systems.
Likewise, the relevance of Robotics and Intelligence Systems are reflected in the competition categories, where the finals of the major competitions are on the last day (*hint hint). Categories like RoboCup@Home focuses on robotic solutions for society and domestic use; RoboCupRescue aims to provide search and rescue applications; RoboCupJunior inspires students to be interested in science and technology and RoboCupDemonstration hopes to develop emerging technologies for industry.
Under the RoboCupSoccer category is competitive football. The idea surrounding this hefty category is to advance so rapidly and develop off each others' innovations that we will be able to 'develop fully autonomous humanoid robots to beat the human World Cup Champions by 2050'! And having seen what Singapore Polytechnic and Nanyanng Technical University has put together during the demonstrations at the media conference, I'd say we're hitting the benchmark, no less!
Talk about SP's major involvement in the RoboCup as the organisor: our school would be mobilising all staff and students to help in the chaperoning our foreign counterparts, video recording for media , live coverage on SP Campus Radio, distribution of F&B supplies and performances for opening and closing ceremonies. So get into the thick of the action and volunteer already!
The event is open to public after the first two days of registration, from 21-25 June, 8am to 8pm. For more scheduled information, go to robocup2010.org.
See you here, at this other World Cup!
~written for the fullStoP publication.
Friday, 7 May 2010
ARGH! I'm gonna interview Mika!
Ok, so it's not rly confirmed or anything yet... but still, ARGHH!!!!
I mean, it would be so cool to meet him! I wanted to join the concert in Expo Max Pavilion on 14 June, but it is only a one-night event!... and the cost of the cheapest seats are 78 bucks!
My school, SP's publication, fullStoP magazine, might be arranging it and I jumped at the chance when it was mentioned... of course I shrieked in Esme's ears first. HAHA!
After staring helplessly at the ticket price online (www.last.fm/mika+singapore), I let myself be content with listening to his year-old albums on my laptop, Life in Cartoon Motion and The Boy who Knew Too Much. I like the 2nd album better as he starts to talk to teenagers more here and the beats are funkier.
It would be so damn cool to interview him! It would be like talking to Freddie Mercury hahaha! His music was what made me open up my mind to others around me, esp. Marcus, a good friend, tho weird...
I squealed at the thought if the very idea... *SQUEAL!!!!
I mean, it would be so cool to meet him! I wanted to join the concert in Expo Max Pavilion on 14 June, but it is only a one-night event!... and the cost of the cheapest seats are 78 bucks!
My school, SP's publication, fullStoP magazine, might be arranging it and I jumped at the chance when it was mentioned... of course I shrieked in Esme's ears first. HAHA!
After staring helplessly at the ticket price online (www.last.fm/mika+singapore), I let myself be content with listening to his year-old albums on my laptop, Life in Cartoon Motion and The Boy who Knew Too Much. I like the 2nd album better as he starts to talk to teenagers more here and the beats are funkier.
It would be so damn cool to interview him! It would be like talking to Freddie Mercury hahaha! His music was what made me open up my mind to others around me, esp. Marcus, a good friend, tho weird...
I squealed at the thought if the very idea... *SQUEAL!!!!
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
I couldn't believe this test!
I mean, just because I don't trust ppl much don't mean I'm self-centred!! Is the information even believable? -.-
| Disorder | Rating |
| Paranoid: | Low |
| Schizoid: | Low |
| Schizotypal: | Low |
| Antisocial: | Low |
| Borderline: | Low |
| Histrionic: | Low |
| Narcissistic: | Moderate |
| Avoidant: | Low |
| Dependent: | Low |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | Low |
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information -- | |
~Book review~Johnny Depp : a kind of illusion, Denis Meikle.
You can rely on Denis Meikle to pry out every inkling of Johnny's biography, from youthful rebel in The Kids rock band to the humourous-sad telling of Ed Wood's life, to the frisky Jack Sparrow. The book never fails Johnny or the reader.
It reads almost as an entire narrative, barely chaptered tho, and in chronological order of Johnny's line of work. From on-screen movie synopses to off-screen snippets of conversations between famed director Tim Burton and him, read this edition like a book and Johnny, his own protagonist.
The author digresses once in a while and leaves you hanging tho, but he makes up for it in his intricate research and spontaneous comments. I rate this book: Only for Johnny Depp fans! Woots!
It is available in SP Main Library, Main Colours Lending (lvl 1)... reserve it, grab it, drool all over it!~~
Monday, 3 May 2010
The Power of Nuclear--written for SP Environment club
By: Chia Kylie 21 April 10
The news in recent days has had its fair share of issues on nuclear power potential; from exploitation of nuclear power for weapons of mass destruction to research for clean energy in power plants.
Obama held the Nuclear Security Summit 2010 last week in order to expound on the dangers of nuclear threats. ‘Today, we are declaring that nuclear terrorism is one of the most challenging threats to international security,’ said President Obama on April 13.
Following that, the Iran Disarmament Conference extended publicity on a worldwide policing of nuclear-armed countries.
Just five days before, after the Summit, PM Lee even played with the idea of Singapore turning to nuclear power to reduce reliance on foreigners in empowering our economy.
So what’s the big deal about nuclear power?
Here’s the low-down: it replaces coal and natural gases in power plants from a ratio of 20 metric tons of nuclear fuel to 2 billion metric tons of fossil fuels! That’s a lot of CO2 to almost no CO2 and little radiation released into the atmosphere. Plus all that steam used to rotate turbines which generate electricity are re-used. The rest of the steam that are released are non-pollutant.
A very clean fuel indeed.
It works using multiple Uranium atomic particles being split into halves by a Uranium neutron approaching at high speeds. And upon impact, this Nuclear Fission releases approximately 200 MeV (million electron volts).
That is not much. The splitting of an atom releases an incredible amount of heat and gamma radiation, or radiation made of high-energy photons. However, packing 0.45 kg of Uranium together would provide the desirable result you see in the bombs when they were dropped over Nagasaki and Hiroshima (or, in a less crude fashion, it is equal to the energy of a million gallons of gasoline).
On the other hand though, building a nuclear power plant and to keep it air-tight from within would mean lots of cash, more than it takes to have a coal-fuel power plant. Also, the effects of a Chernobyl accident could mean lose of countless lives through exposure to high-level radioactive waste and cancer. Thousands died while 30,000 became homeless when it occurred in 1986.
Radioactive waste stored in power plants will have to be decayed till their radiation emissions reach safer levels, but that would mean tens of thousands of years. And until then, they have to be sealed away and not be let fallen into the wrong hands: nuclear fuels can be re-used in warheads.
The gravity of the downside to nuclear energy is hefty, and consequences are long-term.
And so, when it comes to clean energy and saving the earth, now that you are that bit more knowledgeable on nuclear power, would you peruse it? Is it really worth it to have our very own nuclear plant right smack in our island because everyone else has it? Where do you stand on this when it boils down to us to decide? It might not be long now.
The news in recent days has had its fair share of issues on nuclear power potential; from exploitation of nuclear power for weapons of mass destruction to research for clean energy in power plants.
Obama held the Nuclear Security Summit 2010 last week in order to expound on the dangers of nuclear threats. ‘Today, we are declaring that nuclear terrorism is one of the most challenging threats to international security,’ said President Obama on April 13.
Following that, the Iran Disarmament Conference extended publicity on a worldwide policing of nuclear-armed countries.
Just five days before, after the Summit, PM Lee even played with the idea of Singapore turning to nuclear power to reduce reliance on foreigners in empowering our economy.
So what’s the big deal about nuclear power?
Here’s the low-down: it replaces coal and natural gases in power plants from a ratio of 20 metric tons of nuclear fuel to 2 billion metric tons of fossil fuels! That’s a lot of CO2 to almost no CO2 and little radiation released into the atmosphere. Plus all that steam used to rotate turbines which generate electricity are re-used. The rest of the steam that are released are non-pollutant.
A very clean fuel indeed.
It works using multiple Uranium atomic particles being split into halves by a Uranium neutron approaching at high speeds. And upon impact, this Nuclear Fission releases approximately 200 MeV (million electron volts).
That is not much. The splitting of an atom releases an incredible amount of heat and gamma radiation, or radiation made of high-energy photons. However, packing 0.45 kg of Uranium together would provide the desirable result you see in the bombs when they were dropped over Nagasaki and Hiroshima (or, in a less crude fashion, it is equal to the energy of a million gallons of gasoline).
On the other hand though, building a nuclear power plant and to keep it air-tight from within would mean lots of cash, more than it takes to have a coal-fuel power plant. Also, the effects of a Chernobyl accident could mean lose of countless lives through exposure to high-level radioactive waste and cancer. Thousands died while 30,000 became homeless when it occurred in 1986.
Radioactive waste stored in power plants will have to be decayed till their radiation emissions reach safer levels, but that would mean tens of thousands of years. And until then, they have to be sealed away and not be let fallen into the wrong hands: nuclear fuels can be re-used in warheads.
The gravity of the downside to nuclear energy is hefty, and consequences are long-term.
And so, when it comes to clean energy and saving the earth, now that you are that bit more knowledgeable on nuclear power, would you peruse it? Is it really worth it to have our very own nuclear plant right smack in our island because everyone else has it? Where do you stand on this when it boils down to us to decide? It might not be long now.
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Weekly Haiku III
on good books,
Words leap out at you.
Dreary weather keeps you in,
snuggle into books...
Words leap out at you.
Dreary weather keeps you in,
snuggle into books...
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